Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-21
Johnson Also Pitches Back the Game and
Gets Ht-Score Tied on Short Passed Ba1Same Teams
Battle Again Today-Loca1s Batting and Fielding
Figures to Dae-Travers Earned Golf Title.
Championship Race Comment

by remarka BILE squirt upon the part of
the C1evelanders. who made a gain OF
nineteen points. while Detroit fell back
one point. The Chicagos held their own
and the st. Louis Browns advanced two
points Until the Both instant the four
western contenders will enjoy the same
advantages. meeting the eastern teams,
which collectively are the weak sisters
TINS season. OF course some surprise par
ties may be handed. like the Highlanders'
two straight victories over the DetroiterS,
Out on form the western teams must cap
ture the majority of the games. AS
stunning that they win about ali even per-
centage, then the resting place for the
next championship pole will not be de-
termined until the contenders begin clash
ing among themselves again in the final
week Of the season.
A week ago it looked as though if De-
trolt were to be beaten out the Chicacos
would have to turn the trick but now
LaJoie and his larruppers are looming
up as the ones who may be called upon
to do it. Probably no club in either
league has had a greater run of
continuous hard luck than the Cleveland
ers. Something always appears to go
wrong with them just when they seem
destined to 60 to the front. 1t may be
that their hard luck has run out. If So
then it is more than likely that they
will represent the American League in
the series for the worlds championship
The American League had no stancher
friends or ADLER advisers than Messrs
grudge them the honors and the emolu-
ments that would be theirs if the Cleve-
landers should win the flag.
For the sake of the American Leagues
reputation, many fans are hoping the
Clevelands will not finish first this year
in the pannant race. Manager Lajoie is
fean
great credit for doing as well as it has
in the face of many handicaps. but just
for minute place the Maps alongside the
Giants in worlds championship strug-
gle. The Maps are winning now on their
batting alone. hardly day going by
without a couple of errors being charged
against them, yet with all their hitting
strength they are not in the same class
with New York. Without waiting to see
the real standing of the two teams. the
chances are that odds of at least three
to one would be offered on the Giants
should the pair clash.
The Washington fans have seen the
Clevelands play. and while they have not
considered the Nationals in the light of
pennanA winners, the Maps were the
easiest sort of picking for the locals. If
and Elmer Flick in right field the Maps
would look very much stronger, but as
at present constituted, it would be a worse
defeat for the American League than the
one handed out last season.
The Tigers have been through the fire
and with O'Leary back at short will be
able to fight the Giants all the way to
the end. The same applies to Chicago
But Cleveland or ST. Louis In the worlds
championship, the fans believed. would
be joke.
Keep your eyes on Tom Hughes during
the present trip. He may work today
and he may not work az all in St. Louis
Joe Cantillon will play in Cleveland. and
it is dollars to pennies that he will work
Mr.. Hughes from the cellar floor to the
roof. Eli Gates is not very bad in
fielder. and Shipke may be all right by
that time. and with the little fellow on
third and Unglaub on second. the Ma
tionals may give the Maps the race of
their lives and incidentally again stir up
the Cleveland papers. Cantillon is in
such a position that he would almost give
up an arm to win the series from Cleve-
land, and to do without Delehanty in
the game would add "trimmin's'' on the
side.