Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-16

uniform, c~riy until late, and lie IS
never. idle. He pitches to the batters
morning and afternoon. and when he
is not hitting flies to the outtielders he
, is bunting to some of the pitchers. who
want to become more efficient in the
fielding of their positions. Incident
for the few spectators during the
games. and keeps every one on the
team in good huEoc throughout the
resting periods.
Eddie tinsmitI is ou; With pre-
diction for Harry Harper. While Henry
! has been handling the deliveries OF
most of the Young pitchers, including
Harper. AiiIsmith bases his judgment
Oh what ne saw OF Harper while facing
him with q bat. Harper is going TO
make great pitcher before the year
is out. or III miss my guess. He has a
world OF stuff, and it is no easy mat
ter TO hit him Furthermore he has
learned how to field his position and is
improved in watching the bases. 1t
would not surprise me to see him win a
whole lot of games this season, and he
is stili in his teens at that"
cidedly faster his feet than he was
last season. viii show even more speed
when the training season is over. for
he is now burdened with three or four
heavy undelshirts. besides having his
abdomen wrapped in heavy red flannel
IN order to reduce his weight This
naturally makes it cumbersome fo,. him
to move about. yet he is covering a lot
of ground in the field and running
well OH the bases.
Considering that the Regulars have
peen II training but a week, their
htting is most encouraging. True,
only a few or the pitchers are mixing
up their deliveries to fool the barsmen,
but for al that the batting is stronger
tRan II has been at this time of the
year IN any former spring. IL the i'm
proVement is permanent 1t is sure to
be of great help to the Nationals in the
coming race.
Most of Griffith's pitchers are good
hitters, which gives a team great
adVantage- Johnson, Boehling and
hentIey probably lead in this respect,
out Jun Shaw and Harry Harper, too,
are dangerous. Bentley undoubtedly is
hitter of much more than ordinary
ability. He hits often and hard while
boehllnS and Johnson are real slug
gers.
Weak-hitting pitchers are a great
come up at critical stages when a
base hit or even a long fly will win
a ball game For years Connie Mack
had Jack Coomhs and Bender to help
MS team with the stick in their games
and many victory can be traced to
the fact that these two veteran pitch
ers were not weaklings with the bat
Eoole roster is sure to have another
good year. While still a few pounds
overweight he is gradually rounding
into form and already is ayine a mar
Vicious game in the field. while his hit
.lns improves with every game. Foster
Is easily the most competent third base
man holding down the position who Is in
the same class. This has been demon
s'rated on severa! occasions since Foster
mas been with the Nationals, and this
COG not r. H.
The Colts scored victory in the aft
ernoon by last-inning rally, the re-
suit OF some lucky hitting The Regu-
iars held a iWo-run lead up to the sixth
when the Colts tied the score, and in the
seventh they won.
The Regulars got under way in the
first round. when. after Moeller had
bases. scoring when Milan singled. They
got another in the third on Moeller's
hit. an error, Fosters single and an in
held out The Colts also got one in this
throw to second to catch him mapping and
single by Massey.
Doubles by Shanks and Ainsmith
brought the final run to the Regis in the
!puF.h. was not until the sixth that
the score was tied Bentley opened the
inning with Il hit. Massey flied out ind
Nef forced Bentley at second. Acosta
came through with double to center and
Johnson dropped high fly over Morgan's
head, which was good for two bases,
tying the score. In the seventh Williams
started the inning with a hit only to be
retired by Gandil on the hidden bal
TICK Brown also hit safely. as did
Henry. Brown took third when Ainsno:tL,s
throw to second to catch him Mapping
got by and then Massey dropped a Texas
Lacquer into left. which Shanks could
not quite reach Brown scored and I'm
pre- Grifhth then called the game. The
score: