Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-21
WHITE SOX PLAY
VERY POOR BALL
CaIIahan'S Team Is in Bad
Shape, and Series Should
Help the Nationals.
CHAPPELLE MAY NOT
BE WORTH BIG PRICE
Seems to Be a Hitter. But Is
Only Mediocre in Other
Departments.
BY j. ED GRILLO.
Special Dispatcb TO Tho Star

O4 u. Ell G611LO.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, July Elf the National Is
play up to their standard the series here
should prove a profitable one. The six
games which the White Sox had 10 play
IN four days with the Athletics seem
to have taken much from the team. In
the first place those games exhausted
Caiiahans pitching staff and left his
team In none too good shape as a result
of the strain With the first game in
the bag and Johnson slated to pitch to-
day, the prospects for two straights here
are decidedly bright, and after that 1t
Will be question of how we'll the other
members of Griffith's staff can pitch.
The Sox did not look very impressive
yesterday. Boehling held them in check
nicely and their fielding was not even
as good their hitting. In fact. the
teams showing in that one game was
not as good as that of any other of the
western teams the Nationals have been
up against.
There may be brace during the re-
mainder of the series, of course, and
there will have to be, or the Nationals
should be spanked if they don't make a
clean sweep of the series.
The work OF the Nationals, on the
other hand. was brilliant The team g
fielding called for frequent applause. and.
while the hitting was not as hard as ii
should have been. some of 1t was timely
enough to give them a good lead, aided
by numerous misplays of the opposition.
One game of ball is not enough to Judge
a player by. but If any one watching
Chappelle in yesterdays game had been
asked $4,000 for his release the PROPOSE
ton would have been turned down. Chap
pelle may he a good hitter. but that
seems to Let him out. He cannot field
and is anything but fast. He had but
one chance in the field yesterday, and
that was when Moeller sent a liner into
that territory. He foolishly came i'm for
the ball. which was impossible to reach.
and the result was that Moeller got
home run.
At the bat he got one clean single His
other hit was a Texas Lacquer which fell
out OF Moeller's reach. He demonstrated
absolutely lack of speed when he hit
grounder to Gandil. who handled it slow
ly. then tossed to Boehling at first. and
got Chappelle by yards. The impression
is becoming prevalent that Chappelle will
not live up to the great rerItation he was
given by those interested in selling him.
Joe Boehling has equaled the consecu-
tive winning record of johnson and Falk-
enberg. His victory over the White Sox
Yesterday was his tenth straight, and he
did mastery piece of work When
Boehling started he did not seem to have
much, and in one inning. the third he
was really in serious predicament, but
after that he seemed to gain his stuff
and held the Sox In check with ease He
allowed but five hits. three of which were
scratches. and issued but a single pass.
incidentally he helded his position like a
veteran and was cool in every one of the
trying positions in which he found him.
self.
Dan Moeller's home run. which virtual
ly cinched the game for the Nationals
came In the fourth, with two out, one
run In and one man on the bases Ordi-
narliy 1t would have been but single
but Chappelle played the ball poorly. it
got through him. and allowed Moeller to
make the circuit Shanks had started
TINS round with drive through Chase.
out in trying to make two bases on it
was thrown out at second. Mcbride then
drew pass and Henry singled to left.
white threw poorly trying to catch Henry
mapping and Mcbride went to third.
When Chase threw poorly after Henry
was caught off first by White. Mcbride
scored. Boehling famed. but Moeller
came through with the home rum
Doc" White seems to be seeing the
end of his pitching days. The former
lert-handed star has little now with which
to fool the batters but his knowledge
OF the game. His game against the Ma
uonals Yesterday was his first in long
While: He was pitched because Callahan
was forced to use all his other pitchers
IN the series with the Athletics and wants
to rest them now as much as he can, so
that he will be able to put up a good
fight against the Nationals. White got
away much better than ne would have
done ordinarily. but he had little support
and this. too. was badly off color White
and walsh. who a few years ago ranked
with the best pitchers in the country.
both seem on the wane. Big Ed" is
just about through pitching unless he i'm
proves after long rest. The former
workhorse of the SoX seems to have lost
his arm. He no longer has that terrific
speed with which he baffied all batsmen,
and has been hit hard In nearly every
game in which ne has been asked 20
work. The going back OF this pair of
Soxs chances this season.
Eddie Foster was remembered by his
chicago friends by present of big
no luck, for on two occasions he was
retired on line drives to the outfield.
Griffith reconstructed his batting or
DER again yesterday, replacing Moeller
at the top OF the list and putting Nor
gan back under Gandil. The change
proved beneficial; Moeller got on twice,
while Morgan was hitting in hard luck
all day, having all OF his hard-hit balls
caught There is not apt to be any
further change In the batting order
unless something goes wrong with one
OF the regulars
The White Sox had a peculiar expe-
rience with pinch hitters, two of the
three striking out. Bodie did the trick
with the bases filled in the third and
Schalk, who batted for Easterly in the
ninth. duplicated this performance
Lang, who batted for White in the sew
enth. hit weak grounder to Boehl-
ing, on which he was retired
clarence Smith a young pitcher who
mas been on the Sox's star all. summer
took Whites place in the sixth, and for
the next four innings did not allow a
nit or a run and struck out four men,
smith is tall. rangv fellow, and the
Nationals could do little with him. so II
Is likely that he will be used in one of
the games.
George Mcbride gave an exhibition at
short field yesterday which was moth
ing short of marvellous. He made ali
sorts of stops and throws and was cas-
lily the star of the day. One-handed
pickups over second base and stops
nearly behind third were his favorite
stunts. and the crowd had numerous
opportunities Of showing it's apprecia-
ton OF his wonderful work. Mcbride is
playing better ball this year than ever
before in his entire experience. bail
has to be hit mighty hard for 1t to go
through on the left OF the diamond
stead The tighter the pinch the cooler
H.