Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-22
NATIONALS VICTORY YESTERDAY
SHOWED JOHNSON AT HIS BEST
Walter Gives One of the Best Exhibitions Of
His Career. Being Good In Every
Particular-Other Gossip.

ing hitter. He started in the game
in left field. but after the contest had
run into extra innings Griffith did moi
want to lose 1t by taking any chances
on Picks ability as an outfielder, sc
he took Pick out and put Shanks il
left as protective measure. But Pick
had shown up well at the bat in the
meantime. The first time up he walked
The next time he drove a liner to Ief,
center, of which Roth made gooo
catch. and just to show that he car
sacrifice he moved Gandil up In the
seventh with as neat bunt down the
, first base line as one would want tc
see. Gandil walked in the ninth and
! Pick came through with a base hit
| through third He Is fast on his feet
and gives indications of being u good
man on the bases.
Had luck been with Chick Gandil yes
terday he would have had five hits in
as many times at bat to his credit As
ut was, he had three singles and a
home run, but his drive in the twelfth
inning was the hardest OF the day. 1t
was liner TO deep left. but for some
unaccountable reason Demmitt was
playing remarkably deep, and after a
run pulled down the sphere.
Gandil has just begun to hit lately
and he is now going at a clip which,
II he keeps it up, is sure to give him
a 800 average, where he belongs.
Weather permitting. a double-header
quandary what pitchers to use, but it
is sure that Bentley will work one of
them, and either Ayers or Shaw the
other. Bentley was not satisfied with
his showing against the SoX the other
day and he has asked Griffith to give
him another chance against the Gala
nan cian-a request which, under the
circumstances. is apt to be granted.
Because of the victory of the Ma
tionals they are but half a game behind
the Tigers. Both teams will most likely
play a double-header today, and much
Will depend on the outcome of these.
In order to prevent long delays when
ever team finds it necessary to
change pitchers, President Johnson hal
notified all clubs that in the future. if
the relief pitcher does not come to the
rubber when the umpire orders him to
do SO, the umpire shall call balls until
such time as the pitcher takes his po-
sition.
johnson says he is in favor of having
the worlds series start October 8. the
day of the closing of the season. He
says there is no authority for the
sta tement that the series will open Oc-
tober 10.
Ray Morgan has a badly wrenched
wrist and was forced to retire, Wally
not so very long ago. Smith filled Nor
CANS shoes, and he made such a favor
able impression in the games he played
that there was some surprise expressed
when Griffith reinstated Morgan when
the team got home Smith gave re-
markable exhibition of fielding behind
Johnson. He had but two grounders hit
INTO ms territory. but both of them
came to him on difficult bounds. vet he
handled them cleanly. There was danger
OF the Sox scoring at the time
Schalk is catching wonderful ball for
the Sox right now, and he is by far the
most dangerous of the Callahan batters
He got two of the hits off johnson
yesterday. walked once and was hit by
pitched ball on another occasion.
What is more, his throwing is splendid
In the event that today's game should
be prevented by rain the Nationals will
remain over to play Wednesday, which
is ap off day in the schedule