The Washington herald., 1913-07-19
by WILLIAM PEET.

st. Louis. Mo-. July 1s--Those pesky
Browns made our noble young athletes
20 twelve innings to win a ball game
this afternoon while the Thermometer
registered 107 in the shade, one degree
hotter than yesterday.
The final count was 5 to /, and Walter
Johnson, who relieved the dropping
Groom when the enemy came up in the
ninth, gets credit for the victory, which,
incidentally, is Walters twenty-first win
Of the season.
That the Climbers were able to gallop
home in front with the third win in
row over the Mound City gang was due
entirely TO the good Judgment OF clark
Griffith in the matter of handling his
pitchers.
Bob Groom Weakens.
Bob Groom pitched swell ball until the
terrific heat finally got to him in the
eighth, when the Browns swept away the
Climbers one-run lead and pulled up on
even terms.
Stovall made a couple of errors. His
one big blunder was in permitting George
4, Baumgardner to remain in the box when
it was plainly evident to the fans that
"Baumie" was all in after the ninth
and had absolutely nothing on the ball,
which later developments showed it to be
only a question of time before the Climb
ers would ride him.
The fracas itself abounded with the
spectacular and the slovenly. Washing
ton was guilty of lot of feeble-footed
and wet-brained base-running ON several
occasions, these lapses from the straight
and narrow of baseball, etching trouble
for Bob Groom when he needed all the
old oak11 support he could gather.
MoelIer's Error Costly.
Gu hall hx-
Danny Moeller in the Browns eight
paved the way for the run which sent
the combat into extra innings. Fool
hardy chances which resulted in sure
death nipped Gandil and Morgan off
first base when good old-fashioned rallies
seemed imminent.
While the Nationals tossed away
chances to win with reckless abandon the
Browns likewise erred in one inning, the
eighth, for with the bases full in this
frame, the score tied, and two gone,
Manager Stovall, Bobby Wallace, or
some other pinch hitter might have been
sent up instead of allowing Pete Comp
ton to bat. who on three previous occa-
sions had demonstrated to the satisfac-
ton of the crowd that Bob Groom had his
goat" A safe wallop at this stage would
have spelled defeat for the Climbers,
but, praise be to Allah, Compton was
permitted to bat and he made the third
out with a feeble tap which Morgan
gathered in |
Morgan opened the game by drawing a
walk, and then falling asleep on first
base, where a quick chuck from Baum |
gardner killed him. Gandil was safe |
in the Nationals second inning on |
Lavan's error. ana he. too, allowed him |
self to be picked off by the Browns
finger.
GandiI Gets TRIPLE.
After Morgan and Foster had gone In |
the Climbers fourth. Milan dumped |
Texas Lacquer back Of Pratt. and scored
on Gandirs savage triple between Comp |
ton and Shotten-
The Climbers missed a chance to score
in the seventh, when with Gandll on
third and Mcbride OH first the old de-
laved double steal was attempted. Mac
drawing Baumgardners throw. Gandil
was blocked off at the plate by mar
row margin for the final out
Groom was touched up freely during
the early stages, but bang-up heidlng
kept the enemy from scoring. In tne
eighth, however, the tying marker COUNT
ed when Baumgardner singled after Ag-
new had gone, and pulled up at third on
Shotten's drive to the right field renee
Brief gave Danny Moeller short ny,
which Danny muffed. and on the error
Raumgardner crossed the plate. HAD
Moeller held tight to the ball Baum
gardiner never would have attempted to
come home, and Pratt's grounder 10
Mcbride would have made the final out.
Sbotten moved up to the far corner
and Brief to second when Mcbride threw
out Pratt. Gus Williams was purposey
passed, filling the bases 1t was mere
that a pinch hitter who could hit might
have raised cain, for Compton was the
third out, Morgan to Gandil.
johnson Goes In.
Groom complained Of the intense neat.
and indeed he looked wcbbly. Grin sent
him to the shower bath after the eighth,
and Walter johnson entered the fracSs
during the final half of the ninth. After
Walter jaunted into the game, the
Browns were stopped as IL they had
been hit by an injunction warrant. Not
a safe blow was registered off Johnson's
dileyery in the four innings, and not
c,ember of the enemy saw second base.
A double in the ninth and pair OF
singles in the tenth by the Climbers inoi-
Gated that Mr.. Baumgardner was not fool
ing anybody, but it was in the twelfth
that Milan touched the match to the fuse
which set off the final fireworks and
packed the game away for the GriffmeE
in moth balls and camphor.
After Clyde had reached first, Can