Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-28

After a glorious three days stay in
Cleveland the Nationals moved on TO De-
troit Saturday night. watched the Tigers
20 into first place yesterday and Will
try and pull them back again today in
double header. Before leaving Cleveland
Manager Cantillon promised to use John-
son twice. Hughes once and Iannenil
once against the Tigers. and II this trio
of twirlers get going right. the Washing
ton fans should hear some interesting
news from Detroit for the next couple OF
DAYS The Tigers will be hard to head
off now as their squirt into first phase will
revive all their dropping energy and make
them fight for their lives to land the
coveted flag The Nationals will place
their usual strong team in the field again
today, Del going to second and the ad-
ditional batting strength will be appre-
ciated. The Detroit people have finally
grasped the fact that the Tigers have
swell chance of coping" the pannant
again and are patronizing the games like
in a real city. Many fans all over the
country are roofing for the Tigers to win
out, as they want them to go against the
Cubs again. feeling sure better battle
will result. The edges have been knocked
off the Detroits and there will be none
of that nervousness so noticeable last
fall.
The majority of the managers and own
ers Of the clubs up in front battling Tor
the championship of the two big leagues
have kept their heads pretty steady so
far and it remained for Chubby Charles
Murphy to break into the limel1ght early
last week. Before leaving Philadelphia
he publicly made the offer of a new auto
mobile to Manager Murray of the Phila-
delphias If he would win one game from
the New Yorks Little notice was taken
of the offer at the time. but 1t Is more
than likely that others will spring up. If
il is all right to offer manager prize
to win. why not one to lose by the team
that needs the victory? President john
son smothered this sort of thing in the
American League several years ago. or at
least made the aspiring managers keep
their offers under cover. and President
Pulliam will probably do the same for the
National League. once he realizes the pos
sibilites of the movement Back In the
old American Association days. when the
St Louis Browns and Athletics were bat
Ting for the championship. suits of clothes
and all sorts of presents were offered the
Louisville team in the final series to trim
the Quakers, but the latter were going
so fast that they finally won out. Since
then but little has been heard of presents
being offered to teams to win games, and
IL is to be hoped that nothing Will crop
up this year to spoil the glorious contests
III DOtI ledSueS.
1t is lucky for the American base ball
fans that the season in both the
American and National leagues Is drawing
to close or the insane asylums would
probably be crowded to the doors. For
more than a month the general public has
been ConvulSed with tense excitement
occaSioned by the battle for leadership In
the American and National leagues. The
elimination of this highly dramatic Sit
uation is present today when Detroit
leads Cleveland by one point in the
American League race. and the same diff
ference separates New York and Chicago
in the National League race. Right at
the heels of Cleveland is Chicago. which
won from Boston yesterday. only three
points difference and only four points
back Of the Tigers. Something phenom-
email will have to happen to push the
Browns back in the running, although 1t
is not impossible. Pittsburg is seven
points back Of the Cubs. so that the race
in the National League is not quite as
close as that in the American. A days
results can and may affect the relative
positions Of the six clubs. Can anything
more dramatically exciting be imag ined
with the end of the championship season
not two weeks away?
The standing Of the leading clubs in the
two leagues. including Sundays games.
Is as follows: