Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-09
Special Dispatch to The Star.

| CLEVELAND, June Eff 1t had not
been for our merrymaking in the first
McHale and Bagby would have been
credited with pitching no-run, no.
hit game" said George Mcbride after
yesterdays frolic. And it's true, fans
If that first inning had never been
down in the book, Cleveland would
have won the combat to 0. The last
half of the ninth wouldn't have been
necessary, but as it was the Indians
| tionals at all.
| The Washington players were unable
to connect safely against McHale in the
three innings he pitched, Coveleskie
going to the shower after the first in
ming. McHale issued three bases on
balls, two to Moeller, the first in the
second and the other in the fourth and
one to Milan in the third. The first
time Moeller was doubled at third,
when he tried to go from first to the
three-quarter station on Judges sacri-
flee to Turner. 1t was a good play for
Danny, third was left uncovered
when Turner dashed in, but he reckon
ed without Steve O'Neill, the Indians
catcher. dashing down the line and ar
throw and put the ball on Moeller.
The first six innings that Jim Bagby
was on the firing line the Nationals
were helpless before him. Henry was
hit in the sixth and he was the only
Washington player to say "howdy"
to Gandil up to the eleventh round.
during Bagby's regime on the mound.
After pitching the fifth inning Bagby
complained to Manager Fohl that he
/ had a sore arm, but Fohl told him to
toll ic foc n
the result that the fadeaway artist
showed a classier brand Of goods than
at any time this season. Some OF the
Nationals who have seen Christy Ma
thewson pitch insist that Big Six
never showed better fadeaway in his
palmiest days then Bagby had on tap
yesterday. IF he had sore arm, yes
terday, ! hope we never draw him when
he has two lame WINGS" was the apt
way in which one of Griffs boys put it..
"It's broken, boys" 1t was the voice Of
Clark Griffith, manager of the Wash
ing Nationals, that gave utterance to
the foregoing. OF course, he meant the
Nationals losing streak, that had at
tanned the unusual proportions of sew
en- consecutive defeats, four in Boston
and three at Detroit.
The Nationals had just finished their
turn at bat in the first inning and had
rolled up five runs. That quintet Of
tallies looked like mountainous thing
to the Washingtonians, and it is little
wonder that Griff gave voice to his
feelings. And every member of the
Nationals. and all of the Indians, for
that matter. to say nothing of the 1000
odd fans, felt just about the same way
about it. But a ball game Is COM
prised of more than half inning, and
Griff. the Nationals. the Indians and
the fans were to find that out before
the sun set. The Indians contested
every inch of ground after that open
ing stanza. managed to score one run
in the second, another in the fourth
the ninth. four successive hits and a
sacrifice fly ~enabled them to tie the
score. Even then the pastiming did
not end. for Mel Gallia and Jim Bagby
ming and the curtain did not go down
on the pastime that looked to be prac-
tically decided at the end of the first
half of the inning until fourteen full
innings had been completed. and then
the two teams were just as they start
ed-that is. neither had won nor lost.
Each had scored five runs, and the only
gain was from financial standpoint,
rather than from the artistic. The
10000 odd had paid something like $1,000
into the Cleveland club box windows,
s240 of which went into the league
treasury. $3.50 to the Cleveland club
and the balance to Secretary Will Fow-
Ter of Washington.
But the Cleveland club also gained
another point. 1t proved to the base
ball world in general and Sixth city
fans in particular that Cleveland Is the
game can be played when it rains prac-
tically all the time from noon until
game time and for twenty minutes dur
ing the contest. The immense tarpau-
protected the diamond in such a man.
ner that when it was removed the dia-
mond was actually dusty. And the
men got the covering back in place
during the rainfall in time to protect
it from the greatest part of the down
pour. and it was an easy matter to re-
sumo play after the shower.
nervous anxiety while the men were
replacing the covers on the diamond
but make a high dive from the upper
deck of the grandstand. Griff had Wis
ions of that losing streak being smash
ed to smithereens and he did not want
the elements to work hand in hand
with his opponents after his boys had
a five-run working margin. The show
er came up just after the Nationals had
batted in the second inning. For TWEEN
ty minutes Griff's face was darker than
the darkest cloud but when the storm
broke the suns warm glow was re-
fiected in Griffith's smile.
Ana Grln commence STUCK Win MIN
until the ninth, when every break of
the game seemed to go against the Ma
tionals. and 1t was really surprising
that the Indians did not win out. The
Nationals never had a look-in from
|, the first to the eleventh inning. They
had hammered out five hits in the
opening session. which had consider
able to do with scoring those FIVE runs.
But from the first to the eleventh they
not only went runless. but hitless as
well. Marty McHale held them without
hit for three innings. while for six
innings after McHale retired only one
Griffite reached first base eff Jim Bag
by, Henry getting on in the sixth when
Bagby hit him in the ribs with the
ball.
Cleveland on the other hand had
innumerable chances to score, having
, two and three men on the bases on sew
| eral occasions. but the Nationals' de-
Tense always frightened up until the
ninth and then a fuke bunt hit and
| two fiukier hits to the outfield enabled
| the Indians to tie the score. They had
other chances in the remaining innings
to count. but the needed punch was
never forthcoming.
Just when Grifith had made up his
mind that the fates had decreed his
team should lose its eighth straight