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foul The change from Brown to Bender
seemed to nave considerable erect on
Gandh; That ~, schaefer did d.. not , tie the
nothing more than hard luck He GER
tainly hit the ball hard enough to have
deserved the honor. His foul drive
bounds Just a few inches, and nothing
but a remarkable catch by Barry pre-
vented him from getting single. which
would have tied the score.
There might have been a different
story TO tell of the game If Alva Will
IN the second inning, when, after reach
ing third base on his pass and Mc1nnis
wild throw, he foolishly tried to score
on Shanks' tap to Collins. when there
was no one out. AS is usually the case
when such carelessness occurs. Nc
Bride followed with long fly to Daley
and scored Williams. Then in the ninth
inning but a single run would have been
needed. and, naturally. the system OF
play would have been materially
changed.
Moeiler made beautiful play on
Daleys single in the fourth, on which he
threw Baker out at the plate. Baker
Innis' sacrifice and his steal. with but
one out Daley hit short fly to right.
1t looked as il Moeller could reach the
ball on the fly and naturally Baker held
MS base. But MOener IeII SSNeTdl lHCHcS
short in his reach, but managed to pick
up the ball on short bound and then
without any hesitation threw home in
time for Williams to catch Baker.
The most remarkable feature of the day
was in the fact that neither Collins nor
Baker got a hit off Mullin, though this
pair walked three times. AS a rule
the Nationasl pitchers do well enough
with the other members of Connie
hut oil live nd okor
usually prove the stumbling blocks. To-
day. however. Mullin seemed to have
them sized up well. and neither one of
the members of Mack's wrecking crew
got anything that resembled base hit.
II is more than likely that Groom and
Hughes will pitch the double-header on
Monday. while Bender and Bush are like
" to oppose them. For the double header
Tuesday. Griffith will more than likely
then be asked to repeat Wednesday, which
would give him three days rest
Brown is one of the several young
pitchers Mack is carrying for whom he
always has some other pitcher ready to
take his place. All the time that Brown
was working today Bender was ready to
take his place and yet he was not needed
until the ninth, when the Nationals be-
gan to solve Browns delivery consecu-
lively. and Bender had to be hurried to
the rescue. Brown. in fact. was in luck
10 last as long as he did. He was in sew
eraI ticklish positions. but managed to
get out of them for some unaccountable
reason.
There were two occasions when
Howard Shanks displayed his wonder
ful throwing arm. In the fourth, with
Daley on second. Barry hit sharply to
left and Shanks threw to the plate
with such speed and accuracy that
Daley. who had turned third. had to
camper back to the base or he would
have been out by yards. In the sixth
larry hit similar single and Shanks
sgain prevented more than one run
from scoring by remarkably good
throw TO the plate.
When there were three on and but
one out in the ninth Griffith dragged
Walter Johnson out from the dugout
and had him warming up. If the score
had been tied or the Nationals had Sc
cured a lead in the final round John
son would have finished the game.
There is one advantage in pitching
Mullin, in that he does not weaken
the teams batting. but adds consider