The Washington herald., 1917-03-25
Waite Hoyt, New York Giants
Recruit. Pitches Good Ball
for Two Innings.
By JOHN A. DUGAN.

Memphis. Tenn, March 2L-Mike Dool
Inns Chickasaw tribe from this maj
Southern Association town gave cIarld
Griffith's Nationals quite a battls 81
day in the second exhibition game "A
the Washington transforming trim th1
american Lacquer winning by a scors
to l.
Waite Hoyt, the schoolboy phenom a
the New York Giants who was sent 49,
last week by the Little Giant for r,orl
seasoning. was Manager DonIIn's selsxl
ton for the mound duty, and for two
innings this kid set the Nationals down
| In one two three order but in the third
his wildness coupled with a timely bas(
blow by Clyde Milan, the Tennes.e
Flyer, gave the Washington club a tvol
run margin.
This lead proved 10 be enough, but Rod
Fentress, who has habited this sectIon|
Of the country. doing mound duties forl
quite a long while. was greeted with n
bombardment and two more counters|
were added TO the NationaIs' total
Doc. Handwerker. who finished the
final three inning for the home club,
was found for but one safe knock and
looked to be che best bet that the Na-
tionals have faced to date.
MoIlie Craft. Of Virginia League fam.
toed the slab for the Nationals during tb.|
first four innings. The Norfolk Strinf1
bean pitched great ball In shots but ~
was liberal with free transportation Id
the initial sack and time and again had
himself in the hole.
Lefty" Claude Thomas went the hrs&
five inning route and was touched foI
two hits, each OF those being doubIesI
Thomas had quite q busy fielding day cd
the mound and his inability 70 handlX
the ball cIeanly had base-runners on tn
paves during his reign in the center q
the diamond.
The Nationals got TO Hoyt in the a.
session. when Henry was issued a pass
| Craft attempted TO sacrifice but force
Henry at second. The schoolboy won
der then made things easy for the Nal
tionals by issuing a pass 70 Leonard
| When Foster was retired by the Hoyrl
Donlin route. Craft and Leonard moved
up a peg. Claude Milan then nut
through his timely punch 70 right field
and Doc Cook booted the ball long
! enough to allow the base-runners TO cross
J the pan.
Fentress was sent to the mound in IN.
fourth. and Henry started his troubles
| with a scratchy blow toward third. but
"Kok" Jameson, who batted for Graft,
forced the big receiver at the midws VI
/ station. Jameson reached second when
/ Leonard went out on an infeld tap. Fos-
ter then looked over four wide ones and
Milan sent Jameson across the pan with
another run when he pOled his second
hit OF the day TO right field. Elmer Smith
then caught hold Of one TO his liking and
sent il down the right field foul line.
scoring Foster.
The Nationals threatened TO pile them
up in the seventh. but a fast double play
killed their chances for any further
scoring
The Memphis Chickasaws earned their
run in the fourth of the delivery o.
Craft, when the Ianky hurIer issued
Dobard a base on balls and Donlin Or
tained a scratch infield tar Doc Cook.
who formerly PLAYED the outer garden
with the New York Yankees. came
through with 4 timely single scoring
DObsrd. Mollie then filled the BAGS. but
RUel's slow EroInder with three on
ended the tallying for the Southkfn
Leaguers.
Thesheavy rainstorms that have been
frequenting this section during the past
ten days made the field q sea OF mud
and IT was almost impossible 70 field
ground balls, the seven errors in the con-
test coming as a result OF boots The
score: