The Washington herald., 1912-04-26
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Boston. Mass, April S.-After pulling
the Red sox out OF first place the Ma
tionals found 1t impossible to send them
any further down the line to-day. Tom
Hughes. the crafty veteran, meant all
right. and he started out as though he
intended to make 1t three straight for
Washington. But his support failed him
at a criticaT moment, ard Toms best ef-
forts were in vain Boston won. to !.
Then, too. the Nationals found them
selves up against a pretty stif propo-
sition IN Charlie Hall. The Californian
had won two games previously this sea-
son after being hurried to some one else's
relief To-day he started out for himself
and finished as well as he started. Grif-
fith's men were able TO sneak in but four
scattered singles and the Sea Lion was
never in trouble
Had both pitchers received errorless
backing up, the score would have ended
i to 0. IN Boston's favor. Hall surely de-
served to get away with a shutout, al
though slow handling Of the ball allowed
a rather dubious steal home IN the third.
and Washington's only score Boston
should have scored but once, although In
the six hits CLEANED on old Tom, two
cluded. There was just one earned run
in the whole shooting match, and that
was a combination OF single, a sacrf-
bce. and two-bagger in the third that
sent Leslie Nunamaker across the pan.
Foster Again shines.
Foster played another fine game at
third to-day. He got half of the hits
made by his side. George Mcbride was
back at short, but did nothing sensa-
tionaI. and was weak at the bat. Moeller
made one bad error that gave the Sox a
run, and helped to send Hughes into the
air for while, but Knights bad mum
that was directly accountable for two big
scores was the prize miscue of the day.
Henry was robbed Of q three-bagger by
one Of the greatest plays that Boston
fans have ever seen. In the seventh the
Washington catcher drove a long liner to
far left field, Lewis starting with the
crack Of the bat and turning just be-
fore reaching the banking He STUN
bled at the foot Of this hil, but before
he fell stuck up his gloved hand, speared
the ball and then rolled over on the
field He came up with the ball in his
mitt Just as the surprised Henry had
rounded second on his way to third.
Neither side scored in the first, although
Speaker raped out a savage three-bag-
ger after two men were out. In the
second. both teams went down in order,
but in the third session. the Red Sox as
well as the-zNationaIs broke the ice.
NationaIs' Only Tally.
Henry drew pass in this spasm with
one down. Hughes spanked a screaming
single TO right and Hooper shot the ball
back sharply toward third. Hall inter-
cepted it, seeing that he could not pre-
vent Henry from getting to third and |
then nailed Hughes. who had kept on to |
second. Moeller drew a pass. was nailed |
fifteen feet on the bag by Hall, but in |
the meantime Henry, who had started |
home, kept on going. Wagner was so |
surprised that he held the ball, the run
ner scoring and Moeller getting safely |
back to first, but this was Washington's |
only run, and although a pass to Moeller |
and Fosters second safe drive put men |
on third and first in the ninth with none |
down they could not register again.
IN the third for Boston, Nunamaker /
started with hit to center, took second |
on Halls sacrifice and scored on Yerkes'
hard double.
The run In the hfth was a very cheap1
one, Hall being hit by pitcher, taking /
second on. sacrifice and staying there /
while Yerkes whitfield. but Speaker was
purposely passed and when Moeller made
a giaring nun Of Bradley's puny nv,
Hall came home.
Two were down in the sixth when Nun