The Washington herald., 1913-06-20

trying conditions the youngster'
was able to gain the upper hand
shows Mr.. Boehling's middle name
to be Nerve"
The Climbers victory was quite salts
factory to the Old Fox. for his judg-
ment in Boehlings ability to come
through has been indicated, and the win
gives the Nationals the series by three
out of four. Up to date Washington and
Cleveland have met eight times, each
team winning four games.
Boehling did not pitch the best game
of ball ever seen in the concrete coliseum.
He had one bad inning. the fifth, and
walked an even half dozen, but he only
yielded five hits. and when Larry came
up in the eighth with the bases fun
and the Nationals only two runs behind,
the southpaw was good enough TO re-
tire the Frenchman for the necessary
third out.
..Biriny' Plays Trump Card.
Birmingham. the Maps boy manager,
was determined to humble the Nationals
at any cost and flashed his ace in the
hole-Fred Falkenberg. the human string
with ten straight victories to his credit
but who recently has found the going
rocky.
FaIkenberg had no fade on his IA
nous fade-a-way, and every time his
curve broke il bumped up against a
Washington bat. and the ball usually
landed where it would do the most good.
Falkenberg did not survive the third
inning. He was taken out after the
Climbers had placed him on the rack and
chicken five runs out of his system with
the aid of six hits. Blanding relieved
FaIky and had us guessing until the
ninth when one run breezed across the
rubber.
Howard Shanks. who is going like
house afre these days, putting up sensa-
tional ball not only in the field. but at
the bat was directly responsible for all
but two of the six runs scored by the
Climbers. Howard came through with
pair of triples and sacrifice fly, in addt-
ton to handling four hard chances in the
left garden patch.
The Climbers started to ride Falkenberg
from the start. Danny Moeller opened
the first inning by drawing a walk and
stealing second. and scored when Milan's
smash got away from Larry.
Falky began to totter in the second.
Only a lucky double play. when the Ma
tionals started to run wild on the base
paths hoisted him out Of the deepest kind
of a hole.
Shanks banged over Graney's head for
a triple to start the second. Mcbride
scored Shanks with a double. Henry
beat out a swinging bunt, advancing Nc
Bride to thiId, and when Boehling
grounded to Larry and Mcbride at
tempted to score the Captain was safe as
Catcher Land missed him while George
was six feet away from the plate. When
Moeller swung for the third strike Henry
attempted to steal third was turned back
and the side was retired when Falkeh-
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..FaIky'' Is Knocked Out.
Milan started the Nationals third by
drawing a walk. stealing second and
sprinting over to third when Land threw
low to Turner. Gandill famed but Nor
gan walked. Shanks rumpled one of
Falky's offerings for a peach of a triple,
the ball rolling to the jury box. This
welt scored Milan and Morgan and also
sent Falkenberg to the shower baths. |
Blanding appeared on the scene and
stopped the slaughter.
Boehling sailed along nicely until the
fifth. when the visitors made three runs
on as many hits, base on balls, and a
steal
The eighth inning saw the crowd very
much excited and on pins and needles. |
It was no place for a nervous man. |
Boehl;ng had retired both Johnston and
Turner after walking Blanding, when he
suddenly developed a wild streak, passing |
Olson and Jackson, filling the bases. |
Larry Lajoie was up, and a saft hit would !
have tied the score. A long fly to Shanks |
for the third out made everybody breathe |
easier. The youngster had climbed out |
of a hole of his own digging. |
During the last four innings Southpaw
Joe was generous with his transportation, |
but when he did put the ball over the |
visitors could not touch him.
Blanding was also the alright pitching |
kid until the Climbers eighth, when |
Chick Ganiil nicked him for a triple and |
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