ONLY ONE VICTORY.
NATIONALS FELL DOWN IN TWO SERIES.
Anderson Deserts and Cantillon Adds Several Promising Young Players to His Team.
WASHINGTON, AUGUST 4. -- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE:-- Seven games were played last week and only once did victory perch on the banner of Cantillon's tribe. By losing three out of four to Chicago, Washington enabled that team to retain first place while here and then by losing a double-header on Friday to Detroit, they let the Tigers jump over the Sox and take the lead. They tried to let the Tigers keep it yesterday, but the Highlanders like the Sox better than the Tigers, so they lost two while we were losing one and the Chicago team resumed its place at the head of the table...
CLEAN SWEEP FOR TIGERS.
Then came Detroit and Hughey Jennings with his "Ki-yah" and his Choctaw dialect. The first game on Friday was notable, because it marked the big league advent of Walter Johnson, the Idaho boy wonder. And it must be said that the youngster made a most favorable impression and gives evidence of becoming a star of the first water. He held the hard-hitting Tigers to six hits and two runs and would probably have won his game had he finished it, but he was taken out in the eighth to allow Blankenship to bat for him and Hughes finished the game, the winning run coming in on a series of mishaps...
Johnson is going to be a great pitcher some day. He lacks only experience...
J. D. ABRAMS