The Washington herald., 1915-08-29
Doc Ayers Twirls Fine Ball,
but His Brilliant Work
Goes for Naught.
HAMILTON THE MASTER
Young Southpaw Stages Perfect
Comeback and Holds Grif-
men at His Mercy.
By SID kEENER,


: BY SID KEENER,
Sporting Editor ST. Louis Times
ST. Louis, Aug. SITS the same stor,
with those Nationals-beautiful pitchinl
and fielding that is good enough to wiz
worlds series, but, then. what good i.
pitching and fielding il you have not Tho
batters to score the runs to win with thi:
combination? Doc Ayers fought il Out
with Earl Hamilton today for twelve in
Eings, and at the finish il was 10 l fol
the Browns. with Del Pratt delivering the
hit that broke up the old ball game.
Inning after inning there were chances
for the fourth placers to stow away the
contest in the victory column. If you
doubt IT, listen to this:
There We're men left on bases in every
inning but one Of the twelve, and then ii
took a wild pitch to score the only mark
er of the afternoon for the Griffiths
showing that eleven hits were wasted
and were only used for the batting av-
erages.
GriGmen Fail in Pinches.
Time and time again some one was on
second or third waiting for the hit to
win the game, but Clyde Milan had one
out of five and Gandil none in five.
George Mcbride too. went hitless in five
swings, and they were the ones who had
the chances to win.
When il came time for the Browns. the
d'spised seventh placers. they were there
in the pinch. Doc Ayers carried a / to
lead to the seventh inning and gave but
four hits. But Ivan Howard, who is the
Browns Handy Andy athlete, caught one
on the inside and lifted it over into the
right-field bleachers for a home-run. That
tied it at to l.
Then came the twelfth and Ayers
retired Lavan, Agnew and only had
10 get rid of Hamilton 10 force the
game into the thirteenth inning. And
you wouldn't pick out Hamilton to
beat out an infield roller. but that's
what he did. being declared safe on
a close play at first. Docs control
had been perfect all afternoon, issu
ing hut one pass to Austin in the first
inning until Shotten came up. Bert
drew four wide ones and trotted to
first. Austin took a mighty swing
and dropped a slow one down the
first base line which he beat out That
filled the bases. Pratt came up. Del
fouled off two and then caught a
beauty lining n single to center scor-
ing Hamilton with the winning run.
Hamilton Comes Back"
Earl Hamilton pulled perfect
come back Against the other East
crn clubs. the southpaw was bonn
barded Today though he used slow
ball and curve that fooled the Ma
tionals in the pinch. In the third
Ayers opened with single but was
caught off first on Agnew's quick
throw to Howard. Moeller popped 20
Pratt Foster walked and stole secona.
A wild pitch shot past Agnew and
Foster scored before the ball was re-
turned to Hamilton on the plate. That
was the total of the Nationals runs
during the matinee.
''Tillic' Walker was an important fig
IRE in the Browns victory. and the s0r-
reI-croNned f1ychaser nippcd two trying
10 score from second on line singles to
centerfed. Each throw was n perfect
one. In the sixth one was down when
Sandil was safe at first on Pratt's FUN
bic. ACcsta singled to left, Gandil stop
ring at second. Henry singled to center.
but Walkers great throw straight to
Agnew caught Gandil, who would have
been safe had he attempted to slide. but
was tagged on the foot before he touched
the rubber Acosta stopped at second.
why, we don't know. Henry didn't sight
the Cuban. and raced for the bag. Aus
tin received Agnew's throw. and with
Acosta and Henry on the sacks. tagged
out John for double play. which can
be- listed lin the bones.
In the next inning Walker threw out
the second one at the plate. Mcbride was
thrown out by Austin and Ayers singled
to right. Noellers out. Pratt to Howard,
put Ayers on second. and Foster singled
10 center. but Doc was trapped. Walker
10 Agnew.
peculiar play came up in the eleventh
and prevented the Nationals from win
ming. Acosta opened with a single and
Henry sacrificed. Mcbride was thrown
out by Pratt and put Acosta on third. |
With two strikes on Ayers. Acosta tried
TO stea home. The ball slipped past
Agnew and Acosta scored. but Umpire
Evans ruled that Agnew interferred when |
Ayers swung at the ball. He sent Ayers !
to first on Agnew's interference, and |
Acosta had to return 10 third. Williams |
batted for Moeller, but fouled TO Austin |
Score: