The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-20
Nationals Slug the Ball Hard
and Turn in a Victory
by II to 6.
BOEHLING ALSO BUMPED
Southpaw Joe Hammered for Eleven
Swats-New Outhelder Barber
in the Game.
BY CHARLES w. SWAN.


Cleveland. Aug. l9.-Joseph Battle-1Ne
Boehling got away with II to slaugh-
ter this afternoon before thousand fans
at Somers Park. but he was given reg
ular Detroit batting order to help him
along, for Joseph was raked for eleven
safe blows and they were not slams at
that.
The Indians showed trio of fingers
to the hill, said trio being manhandled
in a most certain manner by the aggre-
cation of young men hailing from the
city of frock coats and plug hats.
, Fifteen smashes. four of them propell-
ed by Chick Gandil's mighty stick, were
amassed by the Nationals who looked
like a regular ball club today.
Pilot Griffith rejoined the club and the
athletics went to it with a vim. They
climbed ell over Jones, Hagerman and
| Coumbs and the result was never in
doubt.
! Boehling was wild, fearfully SO. but
| he could not have passed enough men
| to equal those eleven markers chalked
up by the Grffmen. Grin benched
Acosta in the sixth and sent Barber. the
| Tennessee recruit. to right field. Barber
| famed once, walked once and scored
run. He didn't have a chance in the
! field.
Jones started for Cleveland. but
| triples by Moeller. Milan, and Gandil,
| with a sacrifice fly by Acosta and a
| single by Foster. gave the visitors a
four-run lead at the start, and tina,
| finished Bumpus Sam. The Indians
| got TO Boehling for one in the first
on passes to Willie and Turner, Chap
| mans sacrifice, and a hit by jack
son.
Hagerman entered the box in the
second and was punched for a run
on a walk to Boehling and singles by
Moeller and Foster.
After Milan famed in the fifth.
Shanks pumped single TO right That
was a clean blow. but Graney makes
catches of the drives sent out by
Gandil and Acosta. which went as hits.
because of Smiths slowness of foot.
These bingles filled the sacks with
only one down. and Rip wasn't good
enough to balk the Nationals in the
pinch Eenry's double to right scored
two and McBride's double to right
scored two. and McBride's infield ou,
scored another. Joe Boehling cut in
with a single, and the fourth run was
showed across.
Coumbe Gets His Bumps.
Coumbe followed Hagerman. In the
seventh Gandirs triple and Henry,
double gave the Nationals one more
run. and they got their last in the
ninth on a pass to Barber. who had
replaced Acosta, and Wilie's tumble Of
Henry's one-base blow.
In the ninth came the real excitement.
Evans batted for Coumbs and singled.
reaching second when Milan booted the
pill. Evans took third on Will les sim
gle to left and held the bag as Turner
beat out a slow one to McBride. That
filled the sacks with one. down. Chap
man hoisted a fly hack of short. looked
like an easy one and no more. but Nc
Bride lost the ball in the sun, reeled
around drunkenly and finally fumbled
when he did get under the pill. Evans
scored. hut Mcbride, making a quick
recovery, hustled the ball to third ahead of
Willie and Shanks got it to second ahead
of Turner. who had left first It was
a double play. with Willie forced at
third and Turner forced at second,
Evans scoring on the two peg killer. But
meantime there was a plenty of excite
ment. Umpire Silk declares he decided
it this way from the start. but from
the stands it appeared he had ruled Tur-
ner the only man put out and the
actions of the Washington players bore
out this assumption. Washington and
Cleveland players swarmed around
silk
The Cleveland players claimed Hide
brand had called the ball an infield fly,
buI tneS were not so rasn IN this state
ment when it was determined what the
umpire had really done, thus the WISH
tors had triple play in their grasp. For
with the ball called an infield fly, Chap
man the batter, would have been out;
Turner would have been out for run
ming out of line, and Willie, who was
on second, would have been out for not
returning to that base before chasing to
third.
After several minutes of argument, the
field was cleared and play resumed
Jackson singled to right, Chapman chas-
ing to third. Mcbride kicked Kirkes
grounuder. Ray scoring, but Smith ended
hostilities with a foul to Henry Score: