The Washington herald., 1908-06-19
To-DAY,S GAMES.
Washington mt Detroit
Boston Mt Chicago.
New York at st. Louis.
Philadelphia mt Cleveland.
Special 70 me Washington Herald.

Special TO The Washington Herald.
Detroit. Mich. June 1S.-Had the selec-
tion Of Presidential nominee been left
TO tho Nationals to-day. Big Bill Burns
would have been nominated by acclama-
ton. for the big Californian was the
hero Of the gathering at Bennett Park,
scoring a clean shut-out by to O.
In one spasm of hectic batting, the Ma
tionals sent their old nemesis, Eddie
Siever. into retirement. banging round
four runs in the second inning, and Civ
ing BIZ Burns enough runs TO win four
games OF the sort he was pitching. Later
on the slugging visitors raised their total
10 five. Detroit was never in the remotest
danger Of becoming n factor in the con-
test. and Burns closed the game with &
clean shut-Out
on his showing OF to-day. b his first
game in Detroit, there is no ground for
any adverse criticism Of Mr.. Burns. The
sterling singer whizzed his straight one
round the batter's neck and acted as II
he could have driven tacks with il. His
curve he used either to force the bats
man away from the plate or else to de-
lude him by it's quick break over the
outside corner. He was about as efrec-
tive against the right-handed hitters as
-.gainst the left He was never within a
mile OF handing out a base on balls. and
yet it is doubtful IL he twirled four balls
over the middle Of the plate in the entire
record OF the game.
Mcbride Stars I'm Field.
The Nationals played errorless ball back
Of Burns. with Mcbride IN the limelight
from start to finish. II was his triple In
the second inning which virtually broke
up the game, coming as it did with
three men waiting to score. Inathe field
he accepted nine chances without an er-
ror. some Of his assists being on extreme
ly difficult balls
Against such a defense II was small
wonder that the Tigers lost. They sue
ceeded in getting but two men to third
base. and their seven hits were well scat
tered
On the other hand. his defeat is locally
taken TO mean the local passing OK Eddie
Siever, the veteran twirler OF the Chanps
Retained solely on account Of his alleged
effectiveness against Washington. Boston
and Chicago, Siever has won but two
games this year. and one Of these was
through great batting streak on the
part OF his comrades.
Siever's finish was hardly foreshadowed
by his start. as he famed Milan and held
Ganley and Delehanty TO little flies in
the first inning. The second. however
proved HIS Waterloo. Pickering opened
this with high fly between Killifer and
Cobb, which fell safe Shipxe singled
cleanly past Crawford Schaefer knocked
down Streets screamer and held Picker
Ing at third. Freeman popped. bur Nc
Bride came 10 the fore with a larr1In he
tween Mcintyre and Jones. on which all
three runners scored, Mcbride reaching
third. Burns was struck out. but Milan
hit safely, Mcbride scoring Ganley hit
one through Coushlin. and there were
two on when Delehanty forced Milan at
third.
SuERs TO Rescue.
susss. the premier Southern Lacquer OF
last year. relieved Siever in the third
and Pickering hit the first ball he bitch
cd past Killifer. Suggs got balled on
N~---heeNe N~NA buNA lAlItt ana Two lnuelQ
Oubs brought Pickering home with his
second run Of the day. Shipke tried to
steal home with Freeman at the bat. but
was only out by an eyelash.
In the meantime, Detroit had done lit
tie innocuous hitting. Mcintyre had sin
sled in the first. and was on third while
Street was disposing of Cobb for the final
out. Cobb stretched a single into a double
by hard sprinting In the fourth, but there
were two out, and Delehanty got Jones
Coughlin and Thomas opened the aftb
with hits, but could not score. Two out
in the seventh. and Killifer and Thomas
punched singles. Mullln was injected to
bat for Suggs. Burns promptly struck
him out.
The teams have arranged to play to-
morrow. Saturday, and Sunday. the last
mentioned game having been transferred
forward from August q, when they were
booked here for a mysterious double
header.