Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-27
Nap FANS
GO CRAZY
IN SPOTS
Defeat Meant Third Place
for Cleveland ..Lajoie's
Crowd Up in Air.
Weep Tears Of
Joy at End.

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CLEVELAND Ohio. September 90
Saturday. September IS. will go down in
base ball history as the greatest day
Clevelanders have ever enjoyed. Even
though the Maps won the pennant it is
doubtful If the demonstration which
they will surely receive would compare
with that accorded them at League Park
today.
Over 1900 enthusiastic fans cheered
themselves hoarse in the fourth inning.
then. after a brief 1ntermission of two
innings. cheered louder and longer than
in the fourth inning. Another brief re-
spite and every man. woman and child
present threw convention to the winds.
For fifteen minutes pandemonium reign
ed. Strong-lunged men cheered. and
then cheered some more. Women, and
there were several thousand present,
clapped their hands until they were Bills
tered.
Some Crowd.
It is little wonder the 17,000-odd fans
could not control themselves. for the
Maps defeated Joe Cantillons Nationals
in one Of the most sensational games
ever played at League Park. 1t was a
game that compared with that never-to-
be-forgotten seventeen-inning tie game
between the Tigers and Athletics at
Philadelphia last season. Like that men,
orable contest. first place in the league
race hinged on the outcome Of the game.
Had the Maps colors been lowered by
the visitors they would now be in third
place instead of being perched on the top
rung Of the pennant ladder. as both De-
troit and Chicago won.
1t was the Maps first victory over the
Nationals in the last seven games be-
tween the two teams. and such victory.
The Nationals. although up against Addie
Joss, got away with a flying start and the
big crowd OF loyal fans had visions of
third place.
The big crowd. the fact that first place
was at stake. that they were up against
the team that proved the biggest STUN
bling block in their path all season. and
last. but by no means least, the fact that
they had to face their old-time hoOdoo,
Long Tom Hughes. all seemed to get on the
Maps nerves. They made no less than
six errors in the first four innings. five OF
which figured in the runs scored by the
visitors. They came so fast and at such
critical stages that IT made the fans sick
at heart
Hughes Down and Out.
With Hughes working well, it looked as
IL the Maps were battling for Cost cause
Hughes has had 1t on the Maps all
son. but the day of reckoning was at hand
When 1t seemed that it was all over and
the Maps would have to rest content with
third place, they woke up and commenced
TO lombard Hughes in great fashion
Manager Cantillon stood it long he
could and then called " alter Johnson to
the slab to save the day.
The Maps, however, had their dander
up. They were not to be denied. Walter
STAYED them off for a couple of innings,
but the word victory appeared to be
discernible on every Maps face.
Much Joy.
The Maps scored three runs in the fourth
inning. That left them one run In the
rear Where a moment before the spec
tators had been plunged in the deepest
despair they realized that the Maps at
least had a fighting chance for the game
1t was in the seventh inning that the
Maps tied the score. and for ten minutes
the fans cheered even louder than before.
The fans swarmed close to the base lines
and 1t was entirely out of the question
to play ball until small army of blue
coats commenced flourishing their clubs.
Then came the eighth inning. Stovall.
Mig Clarke and George Perring were the
principal actors for the Maps, and when
Perring's single sent Stovall across the
plate with the run that put the Maps In
the lead pandemonium reigned. The JOY
of the fans knew no bounds. and the
officers made effort to get the big
crowd under control until their enthu-
siasm had been spent. When Liebhardt.
who had relieved Joss after tine fourth
inning struck out the three Nationals who
faced him in the last inning the fans
went wild. Lebhardt made his escape
to the clubhouse but Bradley. Perring
and Lajoie were not so fortunate. They
were raised aloft on the shoulders of the
happy fans and paraded around the field
,.-.. Fans Go Bughouse.
They pleaded with the exuberant fans
to be permitted to go to the clubhouse
and after several minutes were allowed
to do so. The demonstration proper, how
ever. continued until the shades of night
fell and reminded the thousands that din
ners were awaiting them at home. Head
ed by two hands. thousands OF men.
women and children marched around the
field time and again. cheering and singing
songs.
To win a game after having lost six
in a row to the Nationals four in Wash
lngton and two here. II was glory enough
to win the game after IL had been appar-
emily thrown away
When II announced last Monday
that Hughes had been indefinitely sus-
pended for a run-in with Umpire O'Lough-
lin at Chicago. II was figured that he
would not pitch against the Maps but
the suspension was lifted Friday night
Cantillon. DESTROYS of making a clean
sweep OF the series. sent Hughes to the
firing line.
Maps Wake Up.
For four innings 1t looked as IL Hughes
had the Maps goat They played mis-
cradle ball. All that was needed to re-
store confidence in themselves were a few
hits and a run two They got them
both in the fourth inning. After the
fourth the Maps were the Maps who had
won nine straight games and sixteen of