Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-08
TIGERS AND PIRATES
FIGHT FOR LAURELS
Continued from First Page.)

twirler for the American League cham
pions. Gibson for Pittsburg and Schmidt
for Detroit were the most likely choices
for the backStopping.
The national commission today decided
how the umpires were to work throughout
the series. and instructed them especially
to caution the players OF both teams con-
corning rowdyism of any sort during the
series 1t was announced officially that
tombstone National League) would work
behind the bat today. with OLoughlin
(American League) on the bases. Tomor-
row Evans (American) will work behind
the bat, with Klein (NationaD on the
bases.
Forty Thousand See Game.
The crowd inside the gates when the
teams lined up was estimated at 10000,
and half as many were outside, cursing
because they could not obtain admittance.
The reserved seats were all sold days ago.
Eighteen thousand general admission
tickets We're placed on sale at 10 O'Clock
this morning and all were disposed Of by
noon The ticket offices were then closed.
After preliminary conference between
Managers Jennings and Clarke and UNI
pres OLoushiin and tombstone. the
ground rules were decided upon. This
took some little discussion and the whole
Detroit team were on hand making sug-
sestions. Finally everything was adjust
ed satisfactorily. Umpire tombstone then
announced the batteries as:
Adams and Gibson for Pittsburg, and
Mullin and Schmidt for Detroit. Davy
Jones played left field for Detroit, and
led off at the bat.
Following are the details of the game:
First inning-Detroit: Jones drew a
base on balls. Bush sacrificed Abstein
to Miller. advancing d. Jones to second.
Cobb walked. Crawford hit to Adams,
who threw to Byrne, forcing d. Jones.
Lob. ",I~l~
and sending Crawford to third, and Del
ehanty went to second on throw to plate
! to catch Cobb. Morarity hit grounder
which struck Delehanty as he was run
ming to third. and Delehanty was out.
MOriarity getting credit for a hit. One run.
Pittsburg-Byrne hit to Bush. Leach
out. Deiehanty to T. Jones. Clarke out,
Mullin to T. Jones. No runs.
Second Inning.
Detroit-T. Jones out. Byrne to Abstein;
Schmidt out, same way. Mullin singled to
center. D. Jones lined to Byrne. No
runs
Observation-Disclosures out, Delehanty to T.
Jones. Miller flied to Cobb. Absten
drew base on balls. being the first Pitts
burg player to get first base. Absten
was caught mapping at first. Mullin to T.
Jones' No runs.
Third Inning.
Detroit: Bush hunted and was out.
Adams to Abstein. Cobb out, Wagner to
Abstein. Crawford hit high bounder
over Adams head. and beat Miller's relay
to Abstein. Delehanty flied to Clarke.
No runs.
Pittsburg-Wilson out, Moriarty to T.
Jones: Gibson out, Deiehanty to I. Jones
Adams flied to D. Jones. No runs.
Fourth Inning.
Detroit-Moriarty out. Byrne to Abstein.
Byrne making a beautiful stop. T. Jones
flied to Leach. Schmidt drew base on
balls Mullin forced Schmidt at second,
Wagner to Miller No runs.
Pittsburg-Byrne out, Mu1lin to T.
Jones.
Leach struck out.
Clarke knocked a home run into the
right-field bleachers and the Pittsbur 6
crowd went wild.
Wagner hit by a pitched ball.
Miller flied to Cobb One run.
Fifth Inning.
Detroit-D. Jones singled to right
Bush forced D. Jones at second, Wagner
to Miller, and Miller tried for a double
play, but Bush beat the ball to Abstein.
Cobb forced Bush at second, Wagner to
Miller
Cobb stole second.
The decision al second was close and
the Pittsburg team disputed with Umpire
OLoughlin and. the game was delayed
for short time.
Crawford fouled to Gibson. No runs.
Detroit tumble Costly.
Pittsburg - Delehanty let Abstein's
grounder get away from him and the ball
rolled onto centerfield lAbstein getting to
third before l. was returned. Wilson
struck out. Gibson doubled to center,
scoring Abstein.
Bush fumbled Adams grounder, letting
him go to first, and Gibson moved IL
third.
Byrne was hit in the head by a pitched
ball and dropped to the ground. He was
not seriously hurt, and went to first base,
filling the bases
Leach sent a sacrifice fly to D. Jones,
and Gibson scored. Clarke out, Delehanty
TO I. Jones. Two runs.