The Washington herald., 1915-07-28
Turner'S Single in Eighth
Spills the Beans Grifmen
Win Out by | to 0.
MILAN STEALS HOME
Tennessee Flyer Takes Advantage of
Hagerman's Wind-up to Put
Over Needed Run.
By WILLIAM PEET.

When the veteran Terry Turner scat.
tered single to center field in the eighth
| inning. with two hands out, Bert Gallia
saw his opportunity to carve a niche for
| himself in the hall of fame, go up in
smoke.
This tantalizing single was all that
stood between Gallia and a no-hit, no
run game on the Florida avenue plateau
yesterday.
Clyde Milan. taking advantage Of Rip
Hagerman's crazy one arm wind-up. made
a clean steal of home plate In the first
inning. providing Washington with the
run needed to win the first combat of the
Cleveland series.
The crowd was a small one, but there
was plenty OF enthusiasm shown and
everybody was pulling like mad for Gal
liza to come across with the stuff that has
made Cy Young. the late Addie Joss and
others famous, viz. a no-hit. no-run
game.
HaEerman Also In Form.
Opposed to Gallia was big Rip Hager-
man, who was also doing a few fancy
stunts in the box. Henry's poke to right
field in the second was the only hit the
Griffmen obtained off Hagermans assert
ment Of curves, although many thought
Moeller entitled to a base knock in the
first inning on a ground ball which was
poorly fielded.
For seven innings not a-member Of the
visiting band reached first base. To be
correct. it was not until two were out in
the eighth that Turner came along and
spilled the beans.
Brilliant fielding by Foster, Mcbride
and Sherrod Smith made the crowd gasp
and robbed several batsmen of well-in-
tended hits.
Ray Morgan was not used at second
base yesterday, and Eddie Foster con-
WINGED the fans that he is just as much
at home on the keystone sack as he is
around the far corner. Tommy Connolly.
on third, handled cleanly the only four
chances which came his way, and was
cheated out of a two-bagger by great
catch on the part of Smith, the Indians
right fielder
Ga1lfa Fans Seven.
In the matter OF atrike-outs, Gallia had
seven to his credit, while Hagerman
famed one less. The last-named issued
three walks against one by Gallia.
Washington won the ball game in the
first inning, thanks to Milans speed.
Moeller started by rolling a grounder
the first base line. Hagerman gathered
up the ball but tossed wide to Kirke.
ana DefOre the pail COulO De recovered
Danny was on second base. Hagerman
threw out Foster, advancing Moeller to
third. Milan grounded sharply to Kirke.
who slammed to Turner and Moeller was
fairly caught on the base paths between
third and home. While almost the entire
Cleveland infield was busy running Noel
Ter to earth, Milan sneaked around to
third base The count was one strike and
one ball on Shanks when Milan dashed
for the plate while Hagerman was wind
ing up. The ball came high to O'Neill
and Milan hit the dirt before the Indians
catcher could tag him. This was the only
run of the afternoon and enough to give
the Griffmen the verdict.
Henry Gets Our Hit.
John Henry gathered the Nationals
solitary bingle off Hagerman in the sec
ond inning, when he dumped the ball
over Wamby's head with one down. John
swiped second, but watched the next two
hatters die in turn.
In the Nationals half of the third. after