The Washington herald., 1913-08-03

Walter johnson. in his anniversary bat
tie. did not twirl up to his standard a
record Of each ball thrown by him dur
ing yesterdays game. During the nine
innings he twirled he was forced to pro-
pei III pitches plateward, an average OF
u 80 per inning. OF these pitches, SO
were strikes, % were fouls, while 80 did
not come up to the strike standard.
Dauss. who twirled eight innings only.
pitched 96 balls, of which there were IS
strikes, 10 fouls. and Al balls, an un-
usually large number in comparison with
the strikes. His average of IL balls an
inning was a trife better than John
sons record.
First ball hitters were much in evil
dence yesterday. no less than eighteen.
nine on each team trusting to their abil-
ity to solve the initial pitch. their
chances OF making a safety. or this
number, seven Nationals reached first
base. Gandil twice. with a single AMI
double. Foster and johnson on single.
Milan and Moeller on errors, and Nc
Bride on a sacrifice hit. But two De-
troiters were successful. Crawford and
Moriarty banging out singles.
In the opinion of many fans Harry
Harper would not have been scored on
Friday il the best laid plans OF mice,
men. and a baseball pitcher had not
gone amiss. Harper passed Cobb. figur-
ing that he would get the crack De-
troitan out stealing. This Harry did,
though Ferguson refereed adversely.
This unsettled our nether-winger's spinal
cord. and Veach smacked out a hit
pulled off a steal, and the inning ended
with two extra scores for Detroit
Twenty-four balls pitched the two re-
manning innings sufficed to retire the
Jennings clan hitless. Fandom is anx-
ious to see how well young Harper will
perform for nine innings. This oppor-
No longer are the Pirates trying to gain
first place in the National League.
Neither are they after the runner-up
position. The best that Fred Clarke's
men can now possibly hope for is third
place, and from present indications they
will have the time of their lives to gain
even that goal. In fact, il looks more and
more as II they will have to fight hard
to even finish in the first division.
Friends of Manager Clarke are hoping
that he will at least be able to hold
fourth place, for in the fourteen years
that the Pirate chieftain has been at the
helm Of the local team he has not yet
finished out of the first division.
w. r. Blackwood and ]. O'Neil. secre-
taries Of the Cleveland club and the
White Sox, have a big league system in
giving the boys in the newspaper world
advance information en- route. The day
before the clubs are due to arrive each
paper receives blank with list Of the
names of all players, the time that the
team will arrive, the new men with the
club. and the newspaper men. Then
there is q probable lineup of the first
game. It is surely business-like and
greatly appreciated.
The fact that the American Davis Cup
team receives something like $4,000 as
its share of the receipts proves that the
lifting of the cup is a good business prop
osition as well as a delicious athletic
enterprise.
The "games-won-and-los column
showing the. pitching averages has been
unceremoniously canned in the American
League. William Harridge,, the secre-
tary Of the league, Is keeping the Official
on the earned runs only and
in this way the pitchers rating will be
established. Winning streaks will be
recorded as Of yore. but they will be un-
ohicial. The earned-run ratings are con-
sidered much more Just to the pitchers