The Washington herald., 1912-05-28
NATIONALS DROP
FOURTH STRAIGHT
TO THE YANKEES
Tom Hughes Fails to Stop Wolver-
toms Mishts-Final Count
Is 10 to 5.
sCHAEFER ON SECOND BASE
nv WILLIAM PEET.

New York. May 27.-Au Of the Ma
tionals' pitchers seem to look alike to
the rapacious, bloodthirsty New York
Yankees, for wolverton's misftI
jumped on Tom Hughes to-day and
batted him for eleven hits, incIudins
home run, two triples, and a double
The Yankees won, 10 to 5. making Il
four victories in a row, and tonight
Clark Griffith is frantic.
To run up against such a stumbling
block as New York on the first stop OF
the circuit jaunt was unexpected and
tragic. An even break at the most
was figured, but now the Nationals
will be lucky II they win a game here
To-day's combat was but a repeti-
tion of the others played in Gotham
The team proved equal to the task OF
scoring runs, but the Washington
pitchers were unable to stop the lively
bat music played by Wolverton's band
Griffith Shakes Up Team.
Grin shook up his team for to-day's
battle, playing Shanks in left field,
Germany Schaefer on second, and
knight on first Shanks pulled down
one linezdrive that looked good for a
pretty single in the sixth, which
paved the way for a run spasm. I'm
fortunately these spasms were con-
fined to but two out of the nine in
nings. During the other chapters Ray
Caldwell, who was knocked out of the
box when the Yanks played in Wash
ington, held the Nationals at a safe
distance.
George Mcbride and Red Walker did
most of the hitting for the Grifites,
pulling down a pair Of safe swats each.
Jack Knight inserted a ripping single
at a timely moment, but the other
members of Griffs flock could do little
against the human telegraph pole, Ray
Caldwell
Tom Hughes was constantly in hot
water. In the first round he gave two
bases on balls and was reached for a
couple Of singles, but a dandy double
play engineered by Mcbride held the
Yankees run total down to one. The
Nationals got this tally back in the
second, when Red Walker doubled 20
right and counted on McBrfdes single
through Simmons.
New York slipped over two tallies In
their half Of the fourth, and in the Ma
tionals' half OF the sixth Griffs athletes
came through with a rush. sending four
runners around the sacks and assuming
a comfortable twO-pOint lead. The runs
came as follows Shanks led or with a
single. Foster drove the ball through
Chase. Milan grounded to DOlan, who
let the sphere filter through his legs
Shanks scored on the error. Red Walker
smashed one through Caldwell. scoring
Foster. Milan sneaked to third on the
play and Walker pulled up at second.
Jack knight shot a single through Hart
zeIl. sending in Milan and walker.
Yankees Open Fire.
With this comfortable lead Grih
thought that Hughes would be able to
hid up under fire, as the veteran looked
mighty good in the preceding chapters,
but alas, no such luck. The Yankees
opened fire on the veteran from the start
Three singles, a double and a base on
balls netted four runs, putting the
Yankees in front by a couple Of notches
and entrenching them so strongly that
they could not be dislodged. The fact
that New York collected three more tai
lies in the eighth meant nothing, as
the game was won in the sixth. for the
Nationals could not touch Ray Caldwell.
Grin started to warm up Walter John
son when things looked shaky for
Hughes in the sixth, and it seems a pity
that he did not send the big fellow
back at the New Workers, for the
chances are, that Walter would have
held them in check and the Nationals
might hive pulled out with a victory.