Evening star., 1912-07-16
By J. ED GRILLo.

Anxious to win q Majority Of the games
OF the present series with the White Sox
Manager Griffith proposes to send Walter
johnson back against the invaders, con-
fident that he can win his game.
johnson pitched the game Saturday
and won 1t with ease. He did not have
to exert himself to any extent, and with
q two-day rest Is expected to be in good
form for the struggle today.
Walter, in fact, is to be worked more
often from this out than he has been.
He seems to have recovered from his
| recent illness and the work will not
hurt him. Griffith will give the other
members of his pitching staff a chance
against the Browns, who open here to-
morrow with double-header.
It Is likely that either Benz or Peters
will pitch for Chicago today, though it
goes without saying that Ed Walsh will
be kept in readiness in the event that he
Is needed during the latter innings of the
game.
If SILK O'Loughlin erred in calling
iMilan's drive over first base foul in the
fifth inning, it was this decision which
lost the game. There were two men on
at the time, and both would have scored.
Milan contends that the ball was safe by
| at least foot. Billy Sullivan. who
was catching, says that he could not tell
whether it was fair or foul, but that he
was sure 1t was foul after 1t got over
the bag. O'Loughlin. however. said it
was a foul ball. and though Milan sub
sequently walked, no runs were scored In
this inning, as Rath made splendid
catch of Gandiis Texas Lacquer over sec
ond.
Had Groom continued for the plate in the
fifth instead OF stopping after turning
for home. the game would have been won
there and then.
| Collins throw to the plate was fumbled
by Sullivan, and he could not have made
la play on Groom. though it seemed good
Judgment not to come home on the play,
as the ball seemed destined to beat the
runner there by yards.
| Moeller, thinking that Groom would
continue for the plate. ran all the way to
third. causing the mix-up which resulted
in no runs being scored on three safe
hits and q base on balls.
Barney Petty has not had a good break
the hits made of him yesterday was
of the scratchy variety and gave the Sox
| the runs which won the game. mas
much as the score was tie when he went
into the contest the defeat is charged to
Petty.
Doc White went six innings and got
away with it. Just how he managed to
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! enough stuff to get the ball to the plate.
Doc can no longer rely on his arm. to
| keep him in the game. He pitches ex-
| clusively with his head now, and, being
what is termed wise pitcher, he may
| occasionally fool team, though, as said
before, he seems to have but little.
In the hope that he could delay the
fere. shortstop Weaver deliberately
kicked the second bag loose during the
sixth inning. There was a ten-minute
delay while the bag was being replaced.
vet the umpire took no action in the
matter. When player resorts to such
tactics 1t should be good reason Tor
throwing him out OF the game. An Of
fense Of this kind is whole lot worse
than to object to some of the decisions
| that umpires make.
| No victory that the Nationals have
gained recently would have helped them
as much as one yesterday. because Bos-
ton for the first time in days was beaten
and there was a good chance for the Ma
tionals to cut down the margin between
them and the leaders. But team which
has everything break against 1t cannot
win and that Is what happened to the
Grimthites yesterday.
Ed Walsh looked none too impressive
fduring the closing innings. When he
| took Whites place in the seventh ne
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ter but this was due to the fact that it
i was 80 dark at this time that it was i'm
possible to see the ball. When it bright
! ened Walsh was not near so effective
up In the ninth when shanks singled and
Moeller hit for two bases. Foster also
hit the ball hard. but it curved so that
ICoalins was able to reach his drive. Had
| Fosters hit gone safe there would have
been different story to tell.
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In order to allow Chicago to make an
early train for Boston this evening. where
the Box are scheduled to play double
header tomorrow, today's game Will De
called at 8 o'clock.
While the Nationals are playing the
| faa1al game Of the series with the White
| Sox today Cleveland and Philadelphia will
be hooked up in double-header If
| Grif|ith's team suffers another defeat and
| the champions take couple from the
Maps there will be very little margin be-
tween the locals and Mack's team. On
the other hand, II the Sox can be beaten
| and the Maps should get as good as an
even break with the champions the Ma
tionals' hold on second place would be
materially tisftened.
Browns come here for a series of five
games. On form the Nationals should
not lose one Of these, and while so
| engaged there is good chance for Bos-
ton to be beaten. for Chicago is apt to
slip q game or two over on the leaders,
| while Detroit and Philadelphia will also
| be hooked up. It Is to be hoped that the
! Nationals will take the games with the
| Browns seriously and not consider 1t
| foregone conclusion that there are five vic
/ tories in store for them. 1t is policy to
| hustle as hard against the weakest team
| as against the strongest.
| Alya Williams is showing that he can
| take care of the catching end during the
| absence Of Henry and Ainsmith. He per-
formed splendidly yesterday, throwing
| we'll to bases and incidentally getting
three clean hits, one of which was
double
Ping Bodie had a perfect day at the
bat, getting four hits. triple and a
| double included. Incidentally, Ping hit
the bull sign. a feat for which he will re-
ceive 80.
A pass to Moeller,e his steal Of second
| and Fosters hit gave the Nationals their
| frst run in the opening inning. They
held this advantage until the fourth,
when the Sox tied the score In one OF the
most peculiar innings ever witnessed dur
round with 4 triple over Shanks' head.
and scored when Lord sent long fly to
| Moeller. Collins singled, but was out
! trying to steal. and Bodie followed with
/ . triple TO the bull sign. Fournier was
walked, but Weaver struck out, so that
two triples, a single and base on balls
n4ttsd only one run. u.
i The Sox took the lead In the seventh.
| BOdie rot q scratch double to begin