The Washington herald., 1913-04-19
&. By WILLIAM PEET.


New York. April 1s-The Grifmen made
il two in a row over the New Yorks
here today, but were forced to night hard
for the victory, and but for brilliant
defense behind Long Tom Hughes, the
Highland ladies would have danced on
the field with the big end Of the score.
The count, z to s, does not begin to tell
how perilously near lurked danger.
Double-crossing the newspaper boys
again, Manager Grifith sent Tom
Hughes to the mound when everybody
supposed johnson would do the honors,
and while the Chance gang only hit
Long Tom safely five times. the veteran
recklessly handed out passes and hit OPP
posing batters so often that he was al
ways in a hole. On two occasions dou-
Bile plays kept the bean pot from being
spilled.
Had the game been played In wash
ington numerous deaths from heart fall-
ure would surely have been recorded.
There were SO many chances for New
York to win the combat that the alibi
writers here are perfectly justified in
going the limit in describing the game,
but when all is said and done, Hughes
came through with victory, as the
Highlanders lacked the knockout punch,
and the game counts in the percentage
table Just the same az If Washington
had won 70 to 0.
Real Seventh Session.
1t was in the seventh inning that the
real bright red scare appeared. Up to
that period Hughes had managed to pull
himself out of troublesome places but
in the seventh the Yankees greeted Long
Tom most cordially and started punching
his slants here and there careless-like.
Runs appeared in punches, and the Ma
tionals five-tally lead was pulled down
to single figure. Even Griff began to
suffer from frigid feet and sent Walter
johnson down to the bull pen to warm
up.
With two gone, the bases full, and
the count 6 to in favor of the enemy,
Ray Caldwell. a VIGOROUSLY heavy hitter.
was sent in to bust up the game, and
right here Tom Hughes displayed real
nerve by shooting three straight balls
over the plate. He had outguessed Cald-
well, who was ordered to wait 'er out"
The chances are that had Caldwell Of
fered at any one of the strikes Hughes
shot over. he would have knocked the
ball Sout of sight.
While the Highlanders were making
things uncomfortable for the Nationals
in general and Tom Hughes in particu-
lar. the young athletes under Clark Crit
fifth were also wrecking the winning am
billions of Pitcher Ray Fisher, scoring
a couple of runs in the second, three
in the fourth, and one in the sixth.
Heating pitched the eighth, and he. too,
was not allowed to escape unframed.
Timely swats by George Mcbride, who,
single handed, drove in a trio of Wash
ington runs, and the base stealing of
Ainsmith and Milan, together with four
ringing singles by Griffs young catcher
out of five times up. proved the fea-
lures from a Washington standpoint.
Morgan Miscues.
A glaring error by Morgan, with a base
on balls from Tom Hughes, gave the
New Yorks a run in their half OF the
second they never should have had, but
the Nationals grabbed this marker back
with interest in the other half Of the
round.
Gandil opened with a single to center;
Morgan forced Gandil. Hartzell to Chase,
but in trying for a double play Chase
threw wild to first, and Morgan went
all the way to second Ainsmith beat out
slow roller to Young, Morgan going
to third. Ainsmith promptly stole sec
ond. Shanks rolled to Fisher and Nor
gan was out at the plate, Ainsmith go
Fisher held the ball. George Mcbride
unloaded a pretty single to left, scor-
ing both Ainsmith and Shanks.
In the Nationals fourth three more
runs came over, and it looked as if the
game had been packed away in the ice
box Ainsmith led off the fourth with
single to left and Daniels camped
under Shanks' long fly. Ainsmith stole
second and crossed the plate on Nc
Brides second timely single to left field,
and while Hughes was taking three
swings, Mcbride stole second, scoring
minute later on Moeller's single. Eddie
Foster doubled to left center, and
Moeller raced in.
Fisher blanked the Griffmen in the
fifth, but was touched for a run i'm the
sixth, when Shanks singled through the
box. Fisher captured the ball and
foolishlv pegged to Sterrett. but the
sphere rolled to the stands, and Shanks
pulled up at second, going to the far
corner on McBride's neat sacrifice. Tom
Hughes sent up long fly to Wolter, and
Howard scampered home.
Some Big Inning.
The seventh New York chapter was a
spasm, and the crowd
made more noise than a brass band in
an alley. Tom Hughes only slipped the
Yanks four tickets to first and filled the
bases as quickly as they were emptied.
A long-drawn out sigh came from the
vicinity Of the Washington bench when
the dust settled and the home team had
only tackled up four runs.
AS Chance had sent i'm a couple of
pinch hitters in the New York seventh,
the Nationals faced a new pitcher in the