Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-26

NiIautuvii. u: Washington. - ,
Reading .: Philadeihia. I"
The Detroit Tigers wound up their five
DAYS STAY in Washington yesterday WIN
a victory over the locals by the shut-out
score of to o. II was a warm pitchers
battle between Farmer Burns ana Ed
Ill, Siey.r the latter having the better OF
,Ee argument as he felded his position in
sensational styln while the former handed
his opnouents a run on a silver platter
,irauph The medium of wild throw TO
first. a PLAY that should never have been
made.
This imrortant occurrence came up IN
th.. third inning and in detailing that
round for the Tigers the whole story OIL
ne. game. is told as both pitchers worked
like we'll oiled machinery in all the other
innings Payne, the first man up. nit
clean single into center and Downs, the
next batter. tried to send him down on
sacrifice. He placed Il perfect hunt along
the third base line. about three yards
from the plate and by the time Burns
fad reached the ball Downs was almost
an The bag A little quick thinking by
eHher Street or Burns would have tod
the big twrler to hold on to the bali. but
instead he cut loose for Freeman with a
hurried throw that went yards over the
had started over on run to back Up
the throw and the ball just missed him by
a foot. going out into right heid aiter
hitting the partition in front OF the
bIeacher stand. By the time PICKERING
had regained the ball Payne was over
the rubber and Downs resting on third
base.
Errors Part of the Game.
Mishaps of this sort are liable to occur
hut 4 art. "a pI a
luck for Burns. as he had the Tigers
buffaloed for the rest of the game, and
the fans" were busy for hours after the
struggle figuring out what the ultimate
result would have been but for this wild
throw.
When Burns and Siever hooked up last
Thursday the locals secured four hits and
the visitors two. and many OF the wise
ones claimed that the tall DeIroiter was
lucky and would be hit much harder if he
faced th- Nationals again before leaving
the city. Washington won then by yester-
days score and Manager Canli'ion de-
c'ded TO send The big sot!;:3aw again TO
the rubber to repeat his brilliant peri rrn-
ance. Manager Jennings accepted the
challenge and also placed Siever or tue
firing line. The expected result of a
close game followed Burns being as
steady as a rock in the twrling line, not
giving a base on balls and striking out
seven of the Tigers. Siever gave one pass
and struck out only one maa. but his
fielding OF hunts along the first base lie
was of the sensational order and. coupled
with his covering of first grounders nit
IL Ressman, was one of the features of
the game. ON three different occasions
Freeman. Gdnley and Burns sent rollers
towards first and were within foot of
the bag when Sieyer would shoot the ball
over the runners shoulders and get the
ball to Rossman ahead of them by inches.
\ bad throw on either of these occasions
would have done heap of damage. but 1t
failed TO materialiZe.
In seven of the nine innings Burns
turned back the Tiger batsmen on their
order OF going to the plate, and in this
respect eXcelled Sieyer, the locals on
four occasions got men twice as far as
second and twice To first. On pitching
alone Burns was the best but in fielding
Sever is entitled TO the palm.
In the first inning Milan started off
Win Il clean single TO center. and Cianley
seEI him along with neat sacrifice to
RoSsman. D"lehanty died NJ .irst on a
roller to Schaefer. Milan taking third.
bal he stayed there while Pickering went
out on bounder to Rossman on which
Sever was quick enough to cover the
bag and take the throw. In the second
with two out. Mcbride hit safely To left.