Evening star., 1912-06-27

Eddie Foster gave as clever an exhlbi-
ton Of base ball YESTERDAY as has ever
been seen on the local field. 1t was his
cleverness at the bat which won the f1rs1
game. ard his fielding in the third inning
of the second game was of the most SEN
satonal order
With Walker on first base in the tenth
inning and none out, it was naturally fig
ured that with but one run needed to wiz
the game, Foster would sacrifice. He
went through all the motions Of doins
that very thing, and on the first, bal
pitched had Gardner and the other in
fielders running in on him. But just wher
he looked as if he was going to bunt ht
actually lifted the ball over Gardner:
head. The play SO surprised Lewis in lef
that he allowed the ball to get through
him, and thus enabled Walker to score
all the way from first with the winning
run
In the third inning of the second game
Foster gave marvellous fielding exhib
ton. Wagner. the first man Up, hit {
slow bounder past Johnson, which Nc
Bride could not possibly have made {
play on Foster cut across, got the bal
and. with perfect throw, got his man
Cady. the very next man up, laid one
down along the foul line. Foster came ir
on a hard run. picked the ball up with
one hand. and, without looking, hall
jerked, half threw it perfectly to Gandil
retiring the batter.
The one weakness charged to the Bos-
ton team when its chances were sized uI
early in the spring was its pitching staff
and yet there has been no evidence in the
games played here that there is anything
lacking In this respect Three of the Red
Sox twirlers have performed here, and
every one Of them has pitched gilt-edged
ball, and Hall. who has done better thar
any of his team mates, is yet to be
rH /
the visitors were lucky in catching the
Nationals in batting slump. but that Is
not likely. for the work Of Bedient
O'Brien and Wood was Of the highes,
class and should have won games any.
where.
It Will most likely be Tom Hughes and
Charley Hall for the final game of the
series today. The game will be called al
} o'clock.
Dan Moelier is out of the game again
with his dislocated shoulder. The acci-
dent happened in the first inning of the
opener. Moeller had singled and OBrien
made an effort to eaten him mapping on
of first Moeller turned quickly and slid
into the bag. and in SO doing threw his
Rradley and Moeller ran all the way to
third with his shoulder dislocated. and
then retired from the game. 1t Will be
cayaraI days before he Will be able tC
play again. and in the meantime '"Tilie
Walker will hold down right neld. Noel
ler,s weak shoulder Is a great handicaI
to him and the team, because ne loses
many DAYS during a season because o.
this. Griffith proposes to have the WeaH
member operated on this winter IN tne
hope OF making its dislocation Impossible
One thing that the second game proved
was that Walter Johnson is in good form
again He did not win, but that wa.
largely due to the fact that he was III
against a pitcher whom the locals could
not hit and some faulty support which
was responsible for all the Red Sox runs
Walkers boot and wild heave gave thu
visitors their first run. Then johnson
walked Cady and struck out Wood
Hooper got hit through Foster which
the little fellow would have handled nin'
times out Of ten. and after disposing o
Yerkes Speaker hit the first ball pitched
for three bases. scoring two runs.
Johnson struck out ten men anG
seemed to have all his stun, and, In fact
gave a very creditable performance, con
sidering the fact that he has not worked
In a game for two weeks. He is sure t
do good work from this out
There is no getting away from the fac
that Boston has a team which Will either
win the pennant or come naighty near II
The fact that the team seems to hav,
gathered together q strong pitching stan
has plugged up the only hole that seemed
mo greater outfield in base ball than th'