Evening star., 1914-05-29
LOOKS FOR
VERY HARD SERIES
Manager and Men Realize
They Must Hustle to Win
in Boston.
PLAYERS ARE CONFIDENT,
READY FOR REAL WORK
All Ere Encouraged by Good Show
ing Of the Team in It's Recent
Games on the Home Grounds.
BY J. ED GRILLO.

| SO
| BOSTON. May 2o.-The Nationals do
not expect any easy travelling in their
| games in Boston. Judging by the quality
| of the pitching the Red SoX have been
| having of late no team is likely to have
| an easy time getting away with the
series. Manager Griffith, while he natu-
rally feels optimistic over the fine work
| done by his men of late. is not figuring on
| anything easy here. He realizes that
| the team will have to hustle for every
thing it gets, and ne means to keep his
! men in the game for all they are worth.
| Griffith said this morning that he would
probably work Engel ana Johnson today,
| Engel having been slated for the first
| and johnson for the second game. Grif-
fifth generally makes it his policy to pitch
f! johnson in the second game of every
double-header in which he is used, be-
| cause his tremendous speed makes the
| pitcher who follows him look easy if he
is started in the first. Griffith says that
! his selections for tomorrow will depend
| upon circumstances.
i The team arrived here shortly before
noon today after an uneventful trip The
players. though rather tired from their
/ long ride. are ready for a hard SERIES
| While all the Nationals are confident
they realize that they are going to have
TO hustle to get the games here, and
none of them is overconfident One OF
the players said this morning: I'VE are
not going to have any cinch with those
| fellows: they have beer hitting fairly
well and their pitchers seem to be going
along in good shape. l would not be
surprised if it proves the toughest series
| Of the whole trip especially as all these
games come right together"
Two brilliant defensive plays featured
the final game with Detroit in Washing
, ton yesterday. 1t is a question if two
better pieces of work have been done
this year by the Nationals. despite their
remarkably consistent defensive play.
The score was to ;, favoring Detroit.
! The first came in the second inning
after Crawford had led off with a triple
| Crawford held on third when Nc
Bride picked up Veachs grounder and
| threw him out at first. Burns was walked
and. with men on first and third, Mo-
riarty hit sharp srounder to Mcbride
| The Nationals captain made the play to
Morgan. and Morgan really executed a
! very difficult throw to Gandil. He was
/ somewhat blocked by Burns going into
the bag, but managed to get the ball
away from him well enough for GandiI
! to make the play by reaching well out
/ to his right.
The other play came in the third period
when Bush was walked and went to third
on kavanaughs hit to right With two
/ balls and no strikes on the batter, it
was figured that the next ball would be
over. giving High chance to hit with
! the runner The calcula ations went astray
! though as the pitch was wide of the
plate. Henry made the throw to second
and Mcbride made great return Henry
| had Bush blocked off so that he could
i not possibly score.
Jim Shaw was not right at any time
! Though he got away well in the first
| few innings he was wild and had a lot
| of trouble putting the ball where he want
| ed IT.. He was saved from possible scores
| by brilliant defensive work in the early
! innings. and it was in the sixth that Jen-
| ninss' bunch got to him for total of
| five talles.
! Bush led off for the Tigers with a
walk He went to second on Kavanaugh's s
sacrifice and scored when High doubled
to center. Crawford followed with an
other hit for two bases scoring High.
Neach walked, and then Burns singled to
right. sending Crawford across and
Feach to third Here Moriarty came
through with triple to the right field
fence, which cleared the bases Al this
point Shaw was removed and Bentley
sent in. The latter retired the side with
out further scoring.
Crawford had an exceptional day at
bat yesterday. When the big fellow is
going right at bat there is nobody that
looks better, and yesterday he seemed
to be at his best Out of four times |
up he hit safely on each occasion. Two
of his walops were for extra bases, one |
a threebagger and the other Ia two
bagger. 1t looked very much as if
Crawford had started something in the
second when he led off with a three-base
hit to the right center field fence, but
an out and double play left him
on third.
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possible that the Nationals would have
won. They began to hit Dauss hard
in the eighth, and four runs We're scored
in that period. Just 1t looked as
though there might be chance to win
the contest, though it was called,
owing to the agreement which had been
made in order to allow the Nationals
, time to catch the train for Boston.
Ray Morgan was largely responsible
for the three runs made off Bentley in
the seventh inning. Bush again walked,
but Morgan booted KavanauShs ground
er. High then hunted and beat 1t out.
Williams threw TO second in an effort
to make play on Kavanaugh. but Nor
| gan let the throw get by him. Bush
scored and kavanaugh moved to thiId.
| High stole second. and then Crawford
came through with wallop which sent
! both men across.
| Mcbride made rather sensational
! play when, after he had started over to
| second to cover with a man coming from
| first on a hit and rum the ball was hit
| through the position he had just left.
| Mcl3ride threw himself backward, grab
bed the sphere In his bare hand and re-
| covered in time to throw out his man
at first.
| Mcbride did some very remarka BILE
work at different times during the con-
| test. He had eight chances in the way