The Washington herald., 1912-08-28
By WILLIAM PEET.

As the crowd filed out of the Concrete
Coliseum last evening. no arguments
arose as to which pitcher should be
charged with the defeat of the Climb
ers: there was no ''if' chatter, no post
mortems; the lowly Browns had simply
mopped up the ground with our ball
club. The score, 9 to 3. does not begin
10 describe the carnage.
Young Mr.. George Baumgartner. who
had made several starts against the Ma
tionals since the season opened and
never finished a game. was very much In
evidence yesterday. Up to the ninth in
ming, when he shut OF some OF his
steam. not 4 member Of Griff's bunch
reached third base, and only one of cur
gallant clan saw second. A belated bat
ting rally in the final frame netted three
markers and ayerted a shut-out.
The visitors took kindly to the brand
of pitching offered by Jay Carl Cash
ion. the well-known Carolina curver,
and after they lad caressed his shoots
for ten hits and four runs, the curver
was yanked and Lefty Schegg, a young
idea just learning to shoot, made his
debut-one he will likely remember for
some time.
Schcgg Stays to Finish.
Griff allowed Schegg to stick it out to
the bitter end and the youngster proved
ages. Scnegg was raked for seven hits
and five runs.
Nobody ever suspected the Browns OF
having concealed about their persons so
many safe hits; in fact, II had been
hinted that one reason why the Mound
City bunch was so low in the race was
because of poor pitchers and weak swat
tiers. Evidently 1t is not safe to be-
lieve everything one reads in the papers,
for the way st. Louis hammered our
pitching talent yesterday was downright
shameful. All told, the Browns collect
ed seventeen safe slams for a total Of
twenty-eight bases. Sounds almost like
a cricket score.
The only pleasing incident during the
entire game was the Nationals ninth.
when Baumgartner, with nine-run lead,
did not seem to care whether he put
anything on the ball or not. Five hits,
an error, a stolen base, and a sacrifice
fly netted three runs, and the whole
thing happened as follows:
Foster opened with a pop fly to Austin.
Milan singled and stole second. Schaefer
scored Milan with a double to left. Nor
gan scored Schaefer with a single to the
same territory. The ball got away from
Compton and Ray pulled up at third.
Shanks gave Shotten long fly, scoring
Morgan. Mcbride singled, Henry dou-
bled. and Laporte. batting for Schegg.
walked, filling the bases. Danny Moeller
might have caused the Browns little
uneasiness with a safe drive, but Danny
flied to Compton. and 1t was all over.
Browns Score Two Runs.
Up TO the fourth inning Cashion man.
aged to worry along. Although the
Browns hit him hard. no runs turned up.
In the fourth, however, Pratt and Kutina
tripled in succession, and Wallace gave
Shanks a high ny. Result: Two runs.
Shotten opened the fifth with a single
and Compton scored him with triple.
Willimas singled and Grif decided that
Cashion had been in the box long enough.
Schegg was plainly nervous and un-
corked a wild pitch. then he threw wild
ly to Foster to catch Williams mapping
and Williams scored. Schegg settled
down after this and retired the side.
The southpaw was hit hard in the sew
enth and nintl, St. Louis scoring two
runs in both innings.