Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-01
'OLD INFIELD" IMPROVES PLAY.
BUT HANDICAPS ARE TOO HEAVY
Errors by Smith and Gallia Hurt, and GriAGf-
men Fail to Take Full Advantage of
Their Opportunities to Score.

on view. but he did not shine. His
pass to Nunamaker in the tenth paved
the way for the winning run and his
wild chuck to second in an effort to
force the runner when Shocker hunted
further aided the opposition. After the
neat play engineered by Morgan had
sent Nunamaker to third, Gallia, with
two strikes on High. instead of playing
the corners in an effort to induce High
, to bite at bad one. put five or six
| them in all directions and then met one
sauarely and sent it like a rifle shot
over McBride's head. scoring Nuna-
maker with the run that won the ball
game.
Two comparatively newcomers on the
team. Rice and Smith, also figured
prominently in the matinee. but in diff
ferent ways. In the seventh Rice came
through with a timely hit that scored
Foster. the same one on which Milan
| died at the plate. In the next round
| Smiths bad playing of Maisels hit and
the awful throw to the plate he fol-
lowed 1t with let in Gilhooley with the
Yankees third run. Menosky or
Shanks probably will play left today.
George Du Mont deserved q better
fate. The Minneapolis dude allowed
only five hits in the eight innings he
worked before being Withdrawn in
favor of pinch hitter, and on at least
two occasions a good, clean base hit
would have put the game on ice for
him. On five other occasions a safety
would have scored at least one run. 1t
was the third game he had started for
the locals. In the first, in New York,
his team got only one run for him off
Caldwell. while he held the Yanks to a
single tally until the tenth. when he
was replaced by Johnson with two on
base, one as the result of an error. On
his second start he held the Mackmen
to four hits and two runs. both due to
errors. while his teammates failed to
score for him until the eighth. when
he was taken out to make way for a
pinch batsman.
Wild Bill Donovan was expected to
mound today. Harry Harper was down
to make his long deferred debut for
Washington, but both Shaw and Ayers
had plenty of rest and were ready in
case Harper failed to show properly in
the warm-up.
Under the heading. The Difference"
the following item appeared in the
Daily Progress, a Charlottesville (Va.)
newspaper, the other day:
The Washington ball club, which
this year passed up Charlottesville as
in the standing of the American League
clubs. while Newark of the Interna-
tional League, which trained here this
spring, is now leading its league"
Babe Ruth apparently cannot be stop
ped Yesterday he pitched and won his
NTH successive game of the season, the
Athletics being the sufferers this time.
AS in all his other contests, yester-
days victory was scored in the first
game of the series. He continued his
Walloping. too, cracking out two hits
in four times at bat.
It would seem that there Is an or
ganized effort on foot to prevent horse
racing in this country by means of put
ting the plants out of commission by
burning them down. The three fires at
Belmont Park, in which the stables and
stands were partially destroyed and
many horses killed, and the fire last
night at the Pimlico track, which RACED
some of the stables and destroyed If
teen valuable animals, hardly can be
the result of accidents. Only a shift
In the wind saved the grandstand at
the Baltimore plant
bellef that incendiarism was the
cause or these fires is strong, and sus-
picion that the horse breeding Industry
Is the real target of the plotters is
6rowfng. There is every reason WHY
the latter should be fostered in this
country, particularly at the present
TIME, and there are agencies which rec
ognlze Its Importance to a nation at
war. This may be the explanation of
the mysterious CONGREGATIONS.