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Show - rT.M Freak Plays fr 00 mad loat Harvey, ft haaded to flrat base but was free to rewaa eompellad to play third ptlrhr, turn to second If ne rould escape be. hat bcau of the badly rripplfa Ing touched, aa no runner la out on the bases unless touched or forced condition of hla taam and In th av-ntbeing ono ahead, Chicago, evidently Ignorant of the tho Inning, Chicago team got runners to rule, waa arguing heatedly and Man- first oppoalng and second beforo anyone want ager Duffy ran from the third hate waa for tho tho out coaching line to the pitcher's slab to batter Naturally down play to a sacrlflco bunt puah appeal to the assistant umpire, Final- Tho White Hox bad system of play ly the ball was thrown to first hae. to hill the sacrifice In that but behind Rchaefer, who Instantly ituatlon. The shortstop and second started for second and when the hall was thrown to second Milan made a baseman, aided by the pitcher, wore to bold the runner at aecond as dose dash for the plate, ftchaefi-- achieved to the base aa possible. The third hie purpose, even thouah Milan waa baseman waa to play close, as If Incaught at the plate. Then Washing to tako tb bunt, but aa the tending ton protested the game. In rase of it ball was being pitched be waa to run feat, on the grounds that, when the back, cover third, while the pitcher play waa made, Cbleago had ten men fielded the bunted ball, threw to third In uniform on the playing field and forced out tho runner at that The game went to the twelfth point. Harvey bad been carefully nlng and finally, with a runner eoached bow tha play waa to bo exethird baae, and Schaefer again cuted. but the batter, detecting the first, the batter drove out a clean sin play from the art lone of the shortgle that ended the contest. Hr stop and second baseman, changed unsatisfied with the freaks of the day signals and derided to try to drtvo tho Schaefer ran from first down to see. ball past, Harvey hard Instead ol ond, stopped, looked around to see As the pitcher wound up bunting. anyone (especially an umpire! was Harvey whirled and sprinted back looking, walked all the way around to third. The batter chopped the aecond base without touching It. and. ball bard and sent a line bit straight satisfied that he had duplicated toward third base. The ball at ruck famous play, came off the field Harvey on the back of the head, and grinning. That evening he held a bounded high; the baaeman. celebration to gloat over the White aa be went staggering on over the Sog and the umpires, not one of whom base, caught the ball and, by a fast had observed hit failure to touch the throw to second, doubled the runner bag. off. Aa Harvey came off the field Among the abnormal Incidents that nursing tho bump on hla bead Mans figured In the earlier history of the ger Jonea remarked; "That's using FLAGS. IN. WASHINGTON lamps .feature cf builbini h That Decide Baseball Championships By Hugh S. Fullerton ANNK8S OF ALL NATIONS "O BE BEEN THERE. r Civilised Nations, and Parhapa Soma Otharw-Oiat- in. gulahad Persons Always Com. ing and Going. At Legations r 'MW iknJ WiTipT " Philadelphia's ipaJ atruisxllng In lit Anal IuaJ C araiion In the baarball Hfal 14 M outcome d the rpiin y, Cfc championship of the Amor 4 meet "Mh rat, and th for(banco world tho Cuba lwi were itcUt Laip The Athletic and rare. lb 7ni altbougb rwi had not ripened to lu flfal i lookanl aa If It would Ufa The panto wao tbo 11 rat it U Nd i to bo played In Do were filit the Ww ( ,fi la the eighth Innln narrow tho by hading l oleoo run. Every member of XtJ Mtioma knew that tho flrat The people of Washington probably are better acquainted with the flag of nations daellera In any American other Baft Glowing Bulbs at Structure Are Objscte ef . Oreat Interest There at, no lamps In Washington like those that ahed their soft glow at the east entrance to to lean building on 17th street. Very many persons overtook them berause they are only a tingle feature of tbxt daullng white building and are encompassed by so many other beautiful things, From ths sidewalk la a level apace of pur white marble pave leading to low flight of seven marble step At the side of this wide and low stairway are the lamps, which are of gray green bmnse, resting on square marble pedesula taller than the ta!V at man. Then the cy sees the bare of the lamps, a lion's paw with prominent claw supporting each corner. Above (hi base Is the strong circular stem of the lamp, and next above la the lamp proper, modeled after the fashion of a great lantern. Throllgh la glass Inclosed, three panes high of frosted glasi and twelve panes In Thus there are thirty I of these panes of glass, each about the size of the old fashioned window lights familiar In old time houses and which are aometlmca put In new houses for colonial or early republican effect Around th base of each light are six small bronze heads of tigers. The top of each lamp la convex and reminds one of the top of a big, rotted tureen or chafing dlah. Hanking the lamps are a marh'e balustrade and the sunken garden, with Its rich green turf bordered by white marble coping and hedges of bog. In the gurdon at each aide of the approach are yellow graveled walks coped with short staircase which overcome the difference In level between that of the street and th lower Also notable are four big garden. old aycamore tree three in the north garden and one in the south. In the southeast corner of the aouth garden Is a sign, put there by the Inaugural committee on the marking of historic sites, which reads: "Site of the residence of Gen. Van Ness, who married the daughter of Davy Burns, original owner of the grounds now occupied by the White House, treasury and state, war and navy departments." The sign stands close to a great old aycamore, the noon shadow of which falts scrota the marker. Perhaps the hade of that aycamore fell often on Gen. Van Neaa and hla wife, Marta Burnt, and perhaps It waa growing there when old Davy owned the land. Ian-Ame- r Oddly enough, a hen one begins to tudy the freak playa that decide Mince and not Infrequently aettle pennant raeea. It will be found that moat city The legation of the at range blta of play that neem of all clvllled naInexplicable, happen to rlube during tion ars here, their winning etreaka. In lucking and then perhaps over the queer playa of the laat two some other. Disseasons In my recorda I picked out tinguished per 111 twenty and discovered In every In sons or personatance that the luck broke" for the ages are always (lub that waa at the time having a coming and going "winning atreak." There are tlmea In the capital ol when "everything breaka for" one the V tilted Hlates club, when nothing another club may and courtesy call try will win. for the display ol During the early wrrka of laat different many would tho decide aeaon It oeemed aa If, no matter whethxbaf The leading hotels keep flags flag. sub-thirto er they did well or 111. the freak playa of all nations and they make frequent fa g waa clinging desperately to all reaulted In their favor. "It'o the display of flags representative of na ! rut lead that was earned by only team I ever aaw ," mourned Fred Ilona (bat were, before their absorprrrtflc drives by Crawford and Clarke, "that can win gamca by maktion or extinction. ' And this brings to mind that In the pmovan waa pitching magnlfl ing errora." There waa one play that fa? jh be could not prevent the muat atlll remain tmpreaaed upon the flags of all nations which may bo seen w In Washington red Is the most usuul from hitting; time and again memorica of thoa who aaw It The your noddle. Old Man." were thrown back on the game waa at Chicago and had gone color. Yon will see It In nineteen nait 4I Iceford Tannehtll waa the hero ol tional standard. You will see blue In and saved by the won Into extra Innlnga. In the tenth. I t 1 feti a remarkable play late In the season the emblem of the I'nlted Ktutes. and believe It waa, Chicago had a runner Mdlog feats of Cobb of 190, and, as the play saved the Russia. France. Great Britain. Hot were on third have with two out The hatrMn The eighteen athletes I w game for Chicago, and aa the White land. Kquador, Sweden, Chile, Iortu d to the breaking point and ter amaahed a fierce drive Juat Inalde Sox won the pennant by a onegami gal, Venezuela and Cuba. Yellow apfa m was "on bla toea" every In the flrat baae, the game aeemed over margin and then beat the Cuba for the pears In the flags of Austria. Spain. It the eighth Inning the Ath and the victory Cblcago'a. Konetehy, Bta world's championship, the freak play Helglum. Brazil, baae the Cardinal flrat baaeman, dived at pit a tunner to aecond Persia, Sweden, Kg. none out. It looked like a tied the ball aa It waa paaalng, flapped fala might be said to have given the Box Egypt, China and Venezuela. The yel the world's championship. The game lowest flag la, of course, the I'nlted rrittpt victory, when one of mitt down and by tbla despairing efaa against St. Loula and with the States quarantine flag. Black Is to be mgitt freak plays ever seen fort, he managed to make the glove hit White Hog one run In the lead, an seen In the flags of Germany, Belgium nl, saved Detroit, and turned the ball. Hut Inatead of atnpplng. the error and a two-bashit put lirowa and China. Tho ensign of Samoa has Ira tide of thn aeaeon. The ball rolled alowly back Into right field runners on second and third with one or had black In It. Green appears In tsv-to sacrifice on fair ground and stopped perhaps attempted DOff out The Infield waa called close tc the flags of Brazil, Bolivia. Mexico, wd was forced feet behind the bag. IJke to hit. He twenty-fivt ori3a A rut off the runner at the plate and Italy and Perala. The merchant flag t fast ball, high and out a flash Konetehy leaped in pursuit of prevent a tied score, as Jonea, the of Bulgaria has green In It and ao, too. It the retrieved sent and and he a ball, whirling plate, twisting, manager, saw hla team could not btt baa the merchant flag of Austria-Hungary- . : !y over the head of the first threw to the pitcher who wax rover St. Louis pitcher and figured a the baae a the at back feet Ing a perhaps seventy top speed, only atep tie probably meant a defeat. The ball The flags that are all red are the enr kg. and the ball waa falling ahead of the runner. Konetehy la was hit fiercely and straight at r signs of .Morocco and of Zanzibar and the foul line, one of the few one of the moat powerful throwers In who la one of the surest field- the merchant flag of Tunla. There is a the entire playing Held where the business and he threw w 1th all his ers In the business and possessed ol larger ratio of red In the Imperial In an force to effort make almost the Just time. play every Jife a wonderful of for of Japan, the ensign of Switzerblock bands flag pair tke reach of any fielder. Ross-tand save the day. The ball flashed balls. The ball ap land. the ensign of Turkey and tha Ing bard-driveII rot baseman, turned and past the pitcher bo fast he hadn't time peared to be bounding true but on tha merchant flag of Great Britain than in the foul line, hie back dl to put up his hands, shaved the head short bound. It struck something, the flags of other Important nations. ' the plate, but from the first of the runner, who dodged, and bound-trideshot I straight at TannehlU'a chin, btt The flag with the largest ratio of hands Into ed Hmmahan's he could not reach the perfectly him and, as he reeled from the knock- white la that of Equador. tall Schaefer, who was play-- at the plate. The runner coming home 'A out blow, the ball fell back directly It la appropriate In thla connection a from third with the winning run had rot had been playing In Into hla bands. He threw to the plate, to recall that the flag of the Con fed d to cut ofT a right-fielhit been loitering, and when to his amazethen sat down looking foolish and took American colonies waa a field of SENATE BATHROOMS he bat of a NO MORE hitter, ment he aaw the ball beating him to the full count before he was able to red with red cross of SL George on ifa the Instant the ball was the plate he made a belated effort to a cor-neIn white get up. the upper ataff I ground printed at top Beed tow ard slide, but nreanahan blocked him and Machines, the Bunker Hill American flag Showers, Plunges, Larry Doyle's lucky kick which alr short right came Ty Cobb, touched him out It perhaps waa the and Upholstered Couches, Other waa a most field blue with Giants ' the cross red National the of St. gave "ing the victory snatched from only time on record when a wild Luxuries Locked Up. on a an1908 In In white Is the George upleague ground championship runby sheer luck, had turned on throw to flrat base ever caught a other historic freak of play. Those per ataff corner, the Rattlesnake flag idrrful burst of speed that baa ner at home and saved a ball game. The senate bathrooms are locked Germany Schaefer. perennial rivals, the Giants and Cubs, waa a yellow field with a colled snake up. .The iia the marvel of baseball. It It waa merely an exaggerated examshowers, the plunges, the the center, and th Ameriu If Cobb might reach the ple of the manner In which fortune national game, perhaps none Is aa were playing what aeemed the decid- Incanblack In to the dellcately-uphol-tenmachines, Reason was a white Appeal flag as the one ing series of the year; the Cuba needt feat possible only for him, followed the Cardinals during that well known to the maaaeurs and Couches, field with a green pine tree In the which happened to Cliff Carroll, on ed one run to tie and had two men on kwfer. although other which Uncle 8am for slower, had period. luxuries, when the batter hit viciously bases, The moat sensational game I have the St Louis grounds, when he waa d between haa been paying handsomely, are no quicker start, claimed the Doyle and aecond base. u4 reached the ball. Ilia final ever seen during twenty seasons of member of the famous "Browns." more, so far aa th senators are confa with hands outstretched, watching major league baseball was Perhaps you have wondered why base- Doyle reached the ball fut It broke STANLEYS WAY TO CONGRESS cerned. If a senator wants a bath hla hands, and It seemed aa I him to the he haa to get It at home or hire a ball Juat Inside that between the Washington team ball players have plain shirt fronts, through If the error had given Chicago tha In so Sox have few late and breast White as and bath of the common or garden va- -' the and, why players he Chicago on Traveled aa accomplished Steamboat aa Long tbae game. Instead, the ball hit Doyle's at the prevailing prices. On of catch, and while the 19U. It was filled with freakish playa pockets. Cliff Carroll is the reason. rlety Lasted Funds and Than shin, bounded straight Into the hands the solemn Off. roaring with applause, from start to finish. The Washington He was running forward to take a of Got question before the Demo? Brldwell, who was on aecond wait? ble to check himself In bis team Just then was In the only lucky base hit on the flrat bound. The ball cratle caucus some days ago had to de doufor and an the throw, easy effort, crashed against Schae-f- a streak It enjoyed during the season bounced crooked and hit him on the Ing Representative A. O. Stanley of Ken- about the batba. In secret, behln team. a somersault over him and, and teemed a certain winner. Flrat, chest. He grabbed at the ball hastily ble play retired the Chicago tucky waa ones a school teacher In tightly closed doors, the matter waa vent down, Schaefer allowed Walter Johnson hit one of the longest and, as he clutched It, he shoved It New York winning by one run. debated. It waa before the oaucua InThe tales most often told are those the mountalna of hla native state. The 4 to fall from hla hands. A drives I ever saw, a ball that on a down Into the handkerchief pocket on for several days. Finally waa not termittently satisfacsmployment entirely how 111 fortune will pur eroae from the crowd. It waa decided that the Democratic The still day would have cleared the deep bis shirt front. The runner saw Car-ro- Illustrating man to the and young tory accordingly sue teams and the Instances of '"runs runner on aecond had tried center-fieltugging and straining to tear the fence. A high wind, how)ne day he decided to go out and aee party could not talk economy while kek to the base when he saw ever, was blowing directly from cen- ball out of the pocket and Instead of of luck" and "tough breaks" are pa the world. enatore were bathing extravagantly multinumerous as there are garnet kaefer would reach the ball, ter toward the plate and the ball, soar- stopping at flrat, he sprinted on to secand luxuriantly at public expense. 8o dia he went Boarding steamboat, e plied by player. The Chicago Cuba rect to the be turned and raced for the to ing high, was caught by It Bodle had ond while Carroll, still trying captain and handed him It waa decided the bathrooms should never wlU cease mourning the faci to second. ran The the ball, what funds he had In hla possession. be closed. started straight outward at top speed that George Rohe, of the White Sox, He told Aa a result, the magnificent marble to let him stay the seemingly without a chance to reach batter passed the fielder and turned one of the weakest players that ever aboard until captain In At Carroll with for third the pursuit hla money waa used up establishment Is In disuse. The chief the ball, but as the wind checked broke Into the American league, and messeur and hla attendants are gone. md then put him off. force of the drive, the ball began to third Carroll stopped and tried In vain weak hitter, beat them out of ono and runner the release to the ball, town of Henderson, It Is estimated the bathrooms cost for the Reaching slow up and then fall, at first directly worlds championship. Rohe, who the went up. to young Stanley operation and all something like $10,-00- 0 downward and then backward toward kept on across the plate and scored wasn't enough to hold a sub- tnd captain strong von run. Chris a year. Several thousand dollars der the Ahe, winning who announced that thla waa hla getactually the pursuing fielder, head was of were who at time at the that is, a off paid out to the field marshal of made and spectacular ting place. overtook It, Muck-enfus- s the masseurs and bla subordinates. "Your money all gone," he said. catch. A few moments later Walker, the euphonic trio. Von der Ahe. and Dlddlebock, which operat"All right, captain," replied the Besides, there was the cost of keeping In left field for Washington, raced to the ed club, was furious and ordered line vicious a of youthful Kentuckian with spirit. "I'll up the establishment, a rather Indefinleft center in pursuit The get my luggage and go ashore. I am ite sum, but still considerable. drive. There was a puddle of water all pockets removed from baseball teams and followed the Other shirts. to Walker going to get ready to go to congress next thing that may have to go la the appeared In his path and exsenate barber shop. It Is under susfrom here." be watching that puddle more than pockets never have been restored, who are few a wawilling cept players by Ten the skirted later He years Stanley presented picion as an adjunct of the Democrats he was the ball. his credentials to the speaker of the economy program. It was not a Demoter and turned as If In pursuit of the to risk the repetition of the accident.I Of all the good luck freaks that house of representatives, as a mem- crat, but a Republican, who was really ball and. glancing up, he saw that the responsible for the downfall of the of ever heard recounted, the best was ber of congress from Henderson, Ky. the broken flight had wind high senate bathrooms. Senator Kenyon of Isbell to Frank which that was happened It coming that and the sphere Iowa began the war on It last con- when he was playing with St. Paul in Declined With Thanks. straight at his head. He ducked, In those Western old the ward to If league. as hand bare his threw up A southern admirer of President not per on Sunday Argues While Seated. off the blow, and the ball struck his days baseball Wilson wants to present him with a An unique scene waa enacted In the limits within the corporation mltted hand and stuck there. ive alligator. He wrote to Inquire lt of St. Paul, and a Sunday park had Supreme court room one day recently. '.he president would accept the sau-raiInning after inning of sensational been erected outside the JurisSomething that has never happened citys smashes line stops, catches, startling The White House la thanking before In the was The diction. ground douextremely history of the Supreme aimed straight at fielders, rapid its good fortune that he did not send court, small and was inclosed by a high excepting, the possibly In the case keeping followed, ble plays, the alligator flrat and write after- of Oliver P. Morton So small was the Inclosure of Indiana and fence. enthusiwith wild crowd rolled up and wards. lie closed his letter with the Alexander H. of Georgia, ocbatters hitting the ball hard Stephens asm. Finally "Prince Henry" Schaef- that phrase "awaiting your reply most curred. P. H. Gilmore of Denver had fences were compelled to the a against climax by starting er capped the tnxlously. Precisely what he meins an argument to make before the SuHl Chase. to first, because If the ball hapIs not known, but his anxiety that became historic, and started sprint to rebound over preme court He was a stanch supplay fieldto the directly 'chief er, dazed Milan, pened by the shock, never ending discussion. Clyde baving a live alligator off his hands porter of Blaine In the runner slow a throw out could he er, on was presidential the ball, Ty Cobb. can be no greater than that of the and, In a sitting . a fast and clever runner, In 1884, and was overcome As it required about four hits of their campaign IUl a men two on was first, Schaefer White House at the prospect. The while , threw last effort before go- third, making a stump speech, and was at equivalent in errora to yield a run, atitute position on the team more wildly to the Infield, were out and a weak batter and never since that day has been able .law materials for pocketbooks were In rule. snores more the one the small than two made season, ball first pitched the On the plate. hits and each of them gave traveling bags was declined with to make an address standing. He asked ninth Inning of this game Milwaukee three-basSchaefer stole second, loitering pur- had two runs the hanks. and Chief Justice White for permission to there Sox a victory. White the advantage a throw posely and trying to draw on second with first and make his argument while seated and lost Chase runners Hal a were New for game would give that from the catcher season St. In bat. Ambassadors York it was granted. fashat Pauls a last Isbell only logical Typewriter. runs peculiar two As ,ent on the first bound Milan a chance to score. was for a home run over one of ion. Two runners were on the bases a new piece of furniture at is There hope than more damage do any would not General Leea Monument the high fences. Isbell hit a hard and two men were out when an eas? tne German embassy In the shape of one, the Sox let him run unmolested, line smash to right field against the bounder was hit to third. Ilartzell Baron Marschall von Biebersteins Gen. Robert E. Lee Is to have a could not batter the certain feeling to his a fence. The runner on first was a made a perfect throw and the Inning typewriter. splendid memorial erected hit. On the next ball pitched, also It Is a secret typewriter, too, with honor In Washington. The chief feaslow man and the fielder squatted, aeemed over but as the, ball came second from stole Schaefer strike, expecting the ball to rebound to him near to him Chase dodged suddenly, a type that la different from all others ture of the monument will be a statue back to first, again striving to force and to whirl and force the slow man threw up his hands aa If to protect In the world. It Is locked up in the of heroic size of the Confederate Sox the manner in I Chicago to throw. The White at second base, ending the game. But hla face, two runs scored and the ambassador's desk, only to be brought leader. This tribute has been made of fortune may change stantly raised a protest. The umpires the ball didnt rebound. It Impaled Highlanders recorded another hard out when there Is confidential and Im- possible by the gift of a northern man, Jason's outcome and upset I were silent. They could not on a wire nail about ten feet up lyck defeat. 'It developed later that portant cipher correspondence to be Emerson McMillin, a New York banker, calculations of the baseball Chicago players what to do, although Itself and while the Milwaukee a photographer was squatting on the typed, says the London Express. who has offered 150,000 to pay for the the fence, first the for was ne ever has been able to palpably the play ,, Isa were Then n Admirers of General Lee will dow ambassador the statue. sits outfielders ladder, the outside coachers box and and hunting ground th of Schaerer, percentage of 'luck in baseman to run ahead circled the bases and won the the sun reflected from the metal of types with the secret typewriter him- seek to secure a fine site for the mebell, the pitcher, from ,alMma. i have heard play- take the throw the camera dazzled Chase just at the self, not even entrusting the message morial, the details of which are aa yet I'f that luck Is 20 per cent, force Sdhaefer back to the first base game. not completed. Another peculiar play once gave the critical instant and caused him to lose to his privute recretary. iclal m .Uls at loastfi por and touch him out. Milan hadn t a a game that sight of the ball. iLchanoe to go home if the play was Chicago White Sox itn Mer-kle'- y wk lli a r -- than e e Tan-nehll- ft v f 1 per-rillo- t er-ite- left-hande- Ns X r, ' X-r- ay d s ll 5 d tile-lodg- s e n |