The Washington herald., 1913-04-24

tnatCn. Only one man, Mr.. Carr1-
gan, as mentioned once before, got
to third cushion.
While all this was going on Collins
was being licked with great regularity.
The Boston big left-hander put little on
,he ball except motion, and when Il hoa:
ed over the Climbers whaled away at il
sS il they were in the habit Of batting
Collins every day.
In nine innings johnson pitched but
50 balls, while in eight innings Collins
pitched los balls, which shows in a sci
entific way the actual comparison of the
work of the two. Yet johnson gave two
teses on balls.
johnson, the perfect baseball pitcher
that ne is. was the feature predominant
OF the game. Unlike many twirlers, this
big fellow does his work with a.: ease
that seems devoid of the semblance CT
effort His so-called slow ball, of which
the spring baseball writer's rave, seems
never to be in evidence when he gets in
a game. He puts something on it, al
Ways puts it over and defiantly seems to
say. Hit it if you can" This is all
he dld yesterday, and few hit it where
'thC! amt"
Big Crowd on Deck.
Almost as large a crowd rs welcomed
yesterday - see conditions reversed.
About 10000 persons packed the stands
and had their inning in the game of yell
ing. President Wilson was not present
yesterday, nor were there as many OFF,
Gals in the stand as on Tuesday, but still
the Congressional Directory was repre-
scented. One Can recall a year ago when
the late Vice President Sherman used TO
go regularly and see his baseball idol
Il.
of sadness In the fact that he is not here
and could not have seen Johnson at his
best So big was the crowd yesterday
that, unprepared. the management ran
out of score cards and more than one
was compelled to keep tally on the back
Of envelopes and on newspapers.
Not the least of the fireworks of the
game was the wallop of johnson in the
seventh inning Mcbride beat out one to
Wagner. and then johnson caught curve
on the seam and drove it over the head
OF Lewis. just as some sweet young
thing back of the press box cried: Swat
il, sweety," and "sweety" did.
Another of the features was the field
ing of Morgan around second. On two
occasions he ran back of the bag and
smeared smashes that looked good for
hits. Yerkes also broke into the hall of
fame when he took liner from the bat
of Milan, catching the ball above his
head with his gloved hand. Still an
other feature was a throw to the plate
by Hooper, on which Morgan scored, but
which was the real beacon light of the
contest.
How Washington made its six runs is
so pleasing that * don't matter much.
Hitting did t. And last night in Boston
Mayor Fitzgerald refrained from singing
Sweet Alkaline"
There was only one regret-that OPP
20 sed to Walter johnson yesterday could
not have been Smoky Joe Wood, the
Boston speed boy, for the Griffmen were
in a savage hitting mood, and the chances
are that he would not have escaped uin-
jured.
Laporte Plays Third.
Eddie Foster. suffering from mild
attack of malarial fever. was given
vacation. and Frank Laporte played
third base The veteran only had one
chance in the field. but was terror at
the bat. connecting for triple and
pair of singles out of four times up.
Walter johnson also welded the ash
with telling effect, ramming clean
single to left in the NTH. and sending
Duffy Lewis on a long chase to the
stands with a smoking triple in the
seventh.
lot harder than the box score shows
and was mighty lucky to hold the Griff-
men to half dozen runs. In the Ma
tionals third, for instance, Laporte led
off with a rousing single, but was
thrown out trying to steal, and Gandil,
the next man up, banged the ball up
a gainst the right field scoreboard,
smash ordinarily good for triple, but
with lightning work on the part of
Sneaker, Yerkes, and Gardner, Chick
was snuffed out at the far corner.
In only the fourth and sixth innings
did the Griffmen fail TO connect for
one or more hits A sensational one
hand catch of Milan's line drive by
Steve Yerkes, in the seventh. choked off
a Washington run, and brilliant bits of
fielding by the men behind Collins at
other stages of the combat held down
Washington's ambitious youngsters.
With two gone in the Nationals open
err. Laporte tripled to deep center. but
Gandil could not score him. Hooper made
a fancy catch of Chicks short fly.
Ray Morgan ripped open the Nationals
second with single to right. Ain
smith hit to Gardner, who fumbled. All
hands safe. Shanks dumped a pretty
sacrifice, advancing both Morgan and
Ainsmith. With the count two and
three on McbTlue, the play
ing close, the Nationals dandy captain
crashed to deep left over Lewis dome,
scoring Morgan and Ainsmith. The blow
was good for three bases. Johnson
popped to Gardner, but Moeller picked
up a bat with. hit in il, and a nifty
single to left counted Mcbride. Milan
made the third out on a grounder to
Collins.
The Red Sox southpaw held the Ma
tionals runless until the seventh, when
Capt Mcbride singled and waltzed all
the way home from first, when Walter
johnson knocked the ball to the jury
box in left field Walter did not stop
running until he reached third, where he
watched Moeller, Milan and Laporte die
in turn. Score: Washington, 4; Bos-
ton, Q.
Ray Morgan Triples.
Chick Gandil led of the Nationals
eighth with a single and Ray Morgan
scored him with a triple the ball landing
a few inches the right side OF the left
field foul line. Ainsmith grounded to
Eneel. but Shanks gave Hooper q long
ny and Morgan upset Catcher Carrigan