Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-08
iona1s Hope to Win Majority Of Games Series With Champions
CONNIE MACK'S PITCHING STAFF
DOES NOT LOOK FORMIDABLE
Youngsters Are Erratic and Bender Appears to Have
Lost His observation-disclosures to Be Pitted
Against Champions Today

! game with the bases full and none out,
and having struck out Henry the first
| man to face him in the fourth, the crowd
naturally figured the Nationals chances
slim. for Bender was giving every indica-
| ton that he was in form. But after the
disposal of Henry came five straight hits,
two of them doubles. and four runs we're
over the plate. All during the remainder
OF the game. no inning excepted. Bender
was hit safely. though he managed to
prevent scoring in all but the sixth.
| Joe Boehling was not in his best form
yesterday. In fact. he has not shown
| his usual effectiveness in either of the
games he has pitched against the Ath-
letics recently. Yesterday he gave six
passes and hit a batsman, in addition
was brilliant in spots, fact which
saved him from defeat. In the ninth it
| looked for a moment as if the Athletics
We're to make another one of their famous
| finishes and pull the game out Of the
fire. With two runs over the plate.
Oldring and Collins on the bases and
Baker up. the stage was surely set for
one of those disheartenng finishes. But
Baker swung on the first ball pitched
and sent nice bounding grounder of
the Bill Hasalnar type to Morgan, who
did not have to hurry to throw the great
siugger out at first. ending the game.
| There was more real base ball displayed
yesterday than has been seen here in
any of the other games this season. There
was constant interest and the tension on
the dyed-in-the-wool enthusiasts was Sc
we're 1t is such games as the one of
yesterday which have made base ball
the most popular of sports. There was
plenty of action. and the fact that the
Nationals came from behind and did the
unexpected against a pitcher who in
former Years has always proven Stumb-
ling block against them created lot Of
enthusiasm There is every reason for
believing that the present series will
draw the largest crowds of the season.
Griffith had Walter Johnson warm up in
right field when Boehling was threatened
in the NINTH but fortunately he was not
needed.
Chief Bender did some remarkable
backing up of the inf1eld which saved
his team lot OF trouble In the fourth
inning Shanks went from first to third
on Morgan's single to center Days
throw beat him to Baker, but the bail
took a bad bound and hoped owe
Bakers head 1t looked like SURF
thing for Shanks to score but Bender
was planted behind Baker and caught
the ball. holding Shanks on third.
Several innings later Orr made wild
throw over first in trying to make
double play and again Bender was back
ing up and caught the ball. holding the
base runners on their bags. The value
of having pitcher know how to back
up his infieiders is great. and Griffith's
young pitchers should learn a lesson
! from Bender.
When SchanG got in the ninth with
one out he was not held on the base and
stole second and third. scoring when
Murphy hit for three bases There was
considerable complaint among the spec
tators that no precaution had been taken
to catch Schang stealing. but with the
Nationals leading by two runs and one
out it was good policy not to weaken the
defense by having Gandil hold Schang
on first base. As 1t was. Schang would
have scored on Murphys triple, regard
less of what base he was
Milan attempted to steal home in the
sixth inning, and would undoubtedly
have been successful had not Shanks hit
was running on. AS there were two out
at the time Milan's splendid effort did
not count for anything.