Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-20
Standing of American League Clubs.
Of Union League Clubs

American League Games Today.
Chicago at Washington.
Detroit at New York .,..,o
Cleveland at Boston.
National League Games Today.
Brooklyn at rittshurg.
Boston at Chicago
Union League Games Today.
Washington at Reading.
Paterson at Baltimore.
Elizabeth at BROOKLYN
Wilmington at Philadelphia
Yesterdays National League Games
Pittsburg -Philadelphia-Rain.
Yesterdays Union League Games.
Reading, II: Washington: 2.
Philadelphia s: Elizabeth T.
Wilmington. s; Paterson l..
Baltimore, 2. Brooklyn. i.
The third battle between the Washing
ton and Chicago clubs. at American
League Park was an interesting affair.
although the visitors won out handily by
the score of = to o.
Harry White. the southpaw twirler. a
Washington boy and an offshoot of the
Central High School and Georgetown Uni
Saturdays performance and performed
with still greater proficiency. The Ma
tionaIs got but one hit off White. a clean
single into right by Capt Bob Ganley.
while on Saturday they registered five. 1t
was the general opinion of the wise
acres that the locals would get to White
yesterday on account of appearing on the
rubber twice during one series. but all
the calculations and predictions went
awry. as the clever twirler was at his best
and the opposing batsmen were almost as
putty in his hands. But three of the
local batsmen reached first and none
ever got as far as second. Delehanty got
on in the first inning through the grace
of a base on balls: Ganley in the fourth
whipped clean single into right. and
Pickering got on when he rolled to George
Davis and forced Ganley at second. Out
side of these three startling events the
Washington batters went out in their
order of trotting up to the plate. White
has pitched many clever games since join
ing the professional ranks, but he has few
better exhibitions to his credit than that
of yesterday.
Charlie Smith also pitched a high-class
game. but his work was overshadowed
by that of White The White Sox made
but FIVE hits. and the bases on balls and
strike-outs were the same. but the first
run developed through a piece of good
luck for the visitors. while the second re-
suited from good base ball on their part,
and they were entitled to the victory.
In the face Of the good pitching by both
twirlers. the fielding was Of the mechani-
cal order. Tannehill and Parent making
three good plays. somewhat above the or
binary while the locals did nothing In a
sensational way.
Manager Cantillon. in desperation tried
to force some batting into the local ag-
gregation in the eighth by substituting
Street for Warner and Gates for Free
man. both right-hand hitters. but they
were curled up by White even easier than
the men whom they had replaced
The White Sox and the Nationals bat
tied along for four innings without result,
although the visitors had a man on the
bags in the first and second innings. but
in the fifth the ice was broken. Chicago
hanging up its first rum Sullivan led off
with single into left and Tannehil sent
him 10 second with a sacrifice. Parent
hen flied to Pickering and Sullivan went
20 third on the out. beating Picks
throw TO the sack by foot
Doc White then tried to kill one of