Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-10
Yesterdays National League Games
American League Clubs Standing.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


DETROIT, Mich. August 1O.-The history
OF Mondays game. when Washington came
UP to the ninth with the score to .
against her. tied in that inning and won
later. narrowly escaped repetition yester-
day. With the Tigers enjoying a supposed
ly winning lead, and with six innings done
without a Washington runner having
reached second sack there was a sudden
explosion in the seventh Before any one
realized what was happening the Nationals
had reached Siever, to that time untouch
able. and had shared six bingles, two or
them two-basers, out of which things, with
an error and a pass, five tallies were man.
ufactured. This was just one less than
the number then in possession of the
Tigers.
That the score was not tied in this in
ming was entirely due to some bad base
running by Wakefield. who having emp
tied the sacks by his two-base hit, was
over-anxious to stretch the hit into
triple There was rever~ts~ chan ce -for-flm
to reach third, and he was caught easily.
His play was unnecessary, because there
was no one out at Che" tine. siever
in the air. and it would have bothered him
more to have Wakefield on the bases than
over the rubber. Three hits followed this
of these would have tailed Wakefield. But
Washington didn't tie. and Detroit. which
had driven Falkenberg off the rubber in
three innings, and had taken two cheap
runs off Hughes, grabbed a couple more
later on to make it safe Eubanks finished
for Detroit and was unhittable.
Slugging in the Seventh.
The smuggling of siever was really the big
one bingle had been made off him, that
coming with two down in the opening
round An error started the bother in the
seventh. Lowe making bad heave on Stan
ley to open the inning. Anderson hit to
right. advancing Joseph to third. Stahl
doubled to right, Stanley scoring and An
derson stopping at third. Schlaf1y walked.
filling the bases Wakefield. who in four
previous tries in two games hadn't hit Sic
yer out of the infeld smashed a double to
left field fence. emptying the bases He
tried to make third himself and Was picked
or. Mcintyre 10 Lowe to Coughiin. Hughes
and Nil followed with singles Jones flied
out, but Altizer was there with another
bingle. registering Hughes. Stanley, bat
ting for the second time in the Inning
popped to Mcintyre.
In rounds seven and eight Eubanks was
on the pitching pile Only six Nationals
was the only one to get the bali out of the
infcld
I'et-oit picked theirs up all along the way
Davy Jones led away with hit first time
UP eno scored on a passed ball and a wild
pitch, Messrs. Falkenberg and Wakefield
oetrg bad combination. In the second
s"naefer hit to left, Coughlin and Lowe
beat hunts and the German scored on
Fayne's fly to AHizer in short left.
Falkenberg Finished.
They finished Falky in the third Lindsay
singled and Mcintyre sacrificed Crawford
hoisted Mexican Lacquer into right, put
ting Lindsay at third. Schaefer squeezed
Chris home and Sam tailed on Coughlin's
clean hit.
Hughes took up the task in the fourth
and was fine goods for two rounds Then.
III the sixth. Schaefer waited him out.
Coughlin sacrificed. Lowe beat a bunt and
Schaefer came all the way home on
Hughes high throw on the play. Bob made
second on a bad toss by the pitcher to get
him mapping at first. Payne injected sim
gle that scored Lowe. Jones walked and
stole second, and Lindsay died on the in
field.
Following this came the Nationals rally.
Then in Detroit's half Schaefer poked a
slow one at Altizer. and a hurried throw
by the short stop carried into the pavilion.
the runner going all the way round. Eu-
banks tripled into right in the eighth and
scored on d. Jones long fly.
Stanley ran into the fence while chasing
Eubanks' triple and was knocked out Hick-
man replacing him.
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