Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-12
BY j. ED GRILLO.

! Since coming off of their last trip the
| Nationals have played fourteen games at
| home, only five of which have been won,
| one tied and eight lost, a showing which
| is one of the worst the team has made
| at any time this season. BY a victory
today the Nationals would win the series
from the Maps counting the game played
in Cleveland last Sunday, but even this
victory would still make the teams
showing at home a rather poor one.
1t is not likely that the team will make
SO poor showing Oh the trip on which
it starts tonight. Up to date the games
played away from home have Melted the
Nationals majority of victories, and
Griffith hopes that this performance Will
be continued on the next trip. The first
games will be played in Detroit. Then
| Cleveland will be visited for two days,
|. after which St Louis and Chicago will
be played. From Chicago the Nationals
jump to Boston and Philadelphia for
series and then return home TO play the
western teams.
Griffith hopes to win a majority of these
games, and predicts that the team will be
In second place when it returns here.
Something like fourteen games will be
played in the west, providing the weather
does not interfere and six games will be
played in Boston and Philadelphia In
order to advance in the race the Ma
t1OnalS would have to win tWO-thirdS of
these games and Cleveland would have to
have another slump at home for GrifIith's
prediction to be realized
The chances are that Johnson and Kah-
Ter will be the opposing pitchers in the
final game of the series with the Maps
today.
If Joe Engel would get into a game
in n f.lpr toe
would make few runs he would have
chance occasionally to win. But for
some unaccountable reason Snsel breaks
into games in which his team does little
or no hitting, and the result is that one or
two runs made off of him are sufficient
to cause his defeat.
Barring that first inning yesterday,
when Engel got himself in bad by making
foolish throw to first base, the young
ster gave an excellent exhibition against
the hard-hittng Maps. but the two runs
the visitors got iii the opening round
gave Willie Mitchell the kind Of lead he
needed to let him win
Mitchell was in perfect form He was
d trifle wild at times. but when a hit
was needed he was master of the situa
! ton. Though the score might not in
dictate it. it was a close game. in which
! the result was in doubt right down to
| the finish. So long Engel worked the
| Maps had their troubles, but when he
| was taken out to let pinch hitter bat
I
| four more runs.
| The rumor that there is deal on
| whereby Mcbride is to manage the Bos-
a dispatch purporting to come from Mil
waukee gave the information that Nc
! Bride had written relatives there telling
I of the deal.
Il never wrote line to any one
| about this alleged DEAL" said Mcbride.
I'm fact l never heard anything about it,
only what l have read in the papers.
| You can say for me that l have no de-
sire to leave Washington. even to
manage Boston. But there is not a
| word of truth in all these rumors.'
| Manager Griffith was decidedly en-
phatic in his denial of the deal.
| absurd to talk about it,. said he,
Il have never had any one speak a
word to me about it, and l never eN-
pect to- Mcbride is pretty sure to be
found q member of this team just as
! long as he wants to play hllL
| BY a peculiar coincidence the Maps
heat the Nationals yesterday by lden-
tically the same score that the Ma
| tionals won on Sunday. The series
| now stands. tie, each team having
won two games, and it depends on the
outcome of today's game which one OF
| the two rivals will make it three out
| of five ;.oh
| TO-DAY and it is most likely that kah-
Ter or Cullop will oppose him. Falk-
| enbcrg is not apt to pitch here because
he IS suffering from a lame neck re-
!! sulting from a wrestling match he IN
| dulged in with Vean Gregg before the
| game Friday.
| A base hit at any one of several occa-
| sions would have changed the result OF
the game But it was when Mitchell was
! i'm a hole that he seemed to nave all the
breaks Bases on balls seemed enn TO pc pc
| Mitchelrs only failing, yet none OF the
six masses he issued had anything to DO
| with the Nationals lone tally. Inc only
run scored off of Mitchell came In the
ninth after he had comfortable lead and
| could afford to let up
1 Eddie Foster hit in decidedly hard luck
YESTERDAY. He walked the f1.st time he
| faced Mitchell, and the next time up
was robbed of probable three Dagger
when Turner leaped into the air and
! pulled down a Hne drive. In the eighth
| Foster came near breaking up the game
| Schaefer was on second with one out
| when Foster drove sharp liner between
Johnston and Lajoie. Johnston, however,
! mode rn,rarkahle e-hand"d stop of