The Washington herald., 1915-06-12

st. Louis Wins
From Griffn1en
Browns Capture Final Game
OF Series by the Score Of
By WILLIAM PEET.

! "asnlngton's victory string was
| snapped in twain by the ST. Louis
| browns yesterday. who presented Bill
James. lanky slabman, able to hold
our boys to five scattered hits. James
effectiveness is shown by the 5-to-l
| score.
Bert Gallia was on the hiIlock for
grim young men and was batted just
twice as hard as James. Bert until
the eighth twirled good ball, but 1t
was on the cards for Rickey's gang
10 win at least one game of the series
ana the visitors vented their spite on
the Texan in the two last innings.
! smashing out five clean hits including
double and triple, compiling a quar-
tet of runs
The breaks of the game went to St
Louis Just as these same breaks went
to Washington on Thursday. The
tscore would have been much closer
had not several vicious clouts landed
kerplunk into the hands of some
| rival fielder.
Double plays early in the game
spilled the beans for the Nationals
upsetting welI-laid plans for gathering
! runs. The one tally the Griffmen did
hnally manage to collect was very
much of gift and obtained withoG~
the aid of safe hit.
"Tiumen " eak Win SUCK.
In five out of the nine innings the
hrst Washington batter managed to
reach first base, but in only one case
was the runner able to score.
Johnny Lavan and Bert Shotten
were the demon sluggers for the in
vaders, Hank Severoid also drove in
couple of runs with timely singles.
Danny Moeller walked in the first
inning and on the hit and run signal
was almost down to second base. when
he looked up in time to see Walker
camping under Fosters fly. Danny
turned back and had raced ten steps
when he saw Walker drop the ball.
the result beiLg that Danny was
saved an error.
Gandil opened Washington's half of
the second with a single. but Morgan hit
into double play and Henry flied to
Pratt
Double Play Hurts Nationals.
Mcbride got a life on Lavan's tumble
TO start the Nationals half of the third,
and chased to second on Gallia's sacra-
flee. Moeller coming up behind with a
walk. but once more a two-ply killer
was put into effect by the Browns when
Foster grounded to Pratt.
Henry singled to start the Nationals
fifth and Mcbride advanced the catcher
to second base with bunt. but there
was nobody able to score him.
The Griffmen avcrted shut-out in the
seventh when Gandil. the first man up,
was hit by a pitched ball. Morgan
grounded to Leary. who threw to Lavan
for force play on GandiL Lavan drop
ped the ball and all hands were safe.
Henry's bunt advanced Gandl 10 third.
and Morgan to second. Mcbride gave
Walker a long fly. scoring Gandil but
Gallia famed for the final out.
This run tied the score, as the Browns
had previously counted in the second in
single.
Browns Win the Game.
st. Louis won the ball game in the
eighth when Gallia weakened percept-
IDLY, u walk to Pitcher James proving
fatal as Shotten came across with
triple to left and Howard singled over
McBride's head. This bombardment pro-
duced two runs
Just for good measure the visitors
scored two more tallies in the ninth on
singles by Walsh and Severoid and La
vans double past Foster.
Chick Gandil nearly ripped a leg off
Pitcher James to open the Nationals
half of the ninth. but the ball bounded
dill was cut down at first base. Morgan
followed with single to right. but Hem
~ flied to Lavan and the game was over
when Mcbride forced Morgan. Howard to
Pratt. The score: