Evening star., 1909-05-25
TIGERS DEvOUR THE
LUCKLESS NATIONALS.
Altrock Driven to Cover and
Smith Is Very
~. Wild.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 Inc SUIT.
DETROIT Mich. May 25.-Refore there
had been real demonstration OF the fact
that Nick Altrock's first Washington ap-
pearance against the Tigers was TO De no
more successful than his start against
them az SoX. earlier in the season, the
b Champs had the second game of this Sc
ries in their mitts. From his perch In
the stand Joe Cantillon wig-wagged for
arainforcements as soon as he was con-
vinced that the enemy was proving too
much for him, but his action was too
late He sent Charlie Smith in cold, and
Smith was easier than the left-hander
had been. Altrock did have control and
support, though little else can be said.
Smith wasn't ready to work and did more
COSTLY wild pitching than any twirler has
shown here this season. Add to this the
fact that Detroit hit him at all times.
and one of the errors cost him two scores.
and the story is told. The score was lo
to l in Detrot's favor.
1t didn't really matter, the form that
Eddie Summers was in He went the
whole route. and only two men made
third base on him. One of these. of
course. was Milan, who scored in the
second inning. The other was Altrock in
kthe next inning. He was there with but
one down, but was left as the result OF
"a double play into which Delehanty hit.
=. Milan was the only stumbling block IN
the way of a shut-out. as a matter OF
fact He hit three times in a row, the
:. other time they walked him and he scor-
ed.
Few Features.
i. There were few features. Cobb and Mi
Ian gave an exhibition of hitting that was
worth watching and the Tigers did some
!, fast work on the sacks. Smiths subway
sling was helpful to them on three occa-
V,lxa CHI hod q n
opportunity to stop double steal, an
awful heave gave couple of runs.
1t was Sunday repeated. in one sense,
Washington getting away in the lead. and
being tied by Detroit in the same rouno,
. with the Tigers then doing all of the
scoring that was done. The second was
the inning in which everything started.
and Washington had score when Detroit
came to bat in Its half: Morlarty came
up with one gone and hit for case. Con-
roy overran slow bounder from O'Lea-
rvs bat and he was safe. Schaefer sin
gled to left, scoring Moriarity and putting
O'Leary on third. The latter tried to get
'home when Stanage bounded one at Con-
: roy. and was caught. Summers lifted
fly to Delehanty.
Everything that counted came on in
the third. Mcintyre opened it with tri-
pie and Bush scored him with a single
to left He tried to take two. and Browne
threw him out to Mcbride. Crawford
bunted and beat it, and Cobb tore off the
first of four hits that he negotiated during
the day. This was the Office for Altrock's
sretirement and Smith was called from
the bench to the slab.
Smiths Bad Start.
Smith disposed of any chances in
hurry, pulling of two wild pitches. both
balls hitting in front of the plate and
bounding by Street. On the first the two
runners advanced base each. and on the
second both scored, Cobb getting home
from second on some poor handling of the
return to the plate. After this, Moriarity
flied to right O'Leary hit for two and
Schaefer walked Stanage singled OLea-
Fry home and put Schaefer at third, but
Summers grounded to short. In the next
inning. with two gone, Crawford and
Cobb singled. and Sam scored from third
on Smiths third wild pitch of the game.
second and third Moriarity walked
They started double steal. Cobb was
caught off third and rundown started.
!. Moriarity hustled around to take third.
Blankenship. catching at this time, had
only to go to third base and tag a man
cut. Instead he threw, and the ball sailed
past third to Browne, both men scoring
Son the error. The runs in the eighth,
two in number. came on hits by Mcintyre
and Bush. safe bunt by Cobb and
double by Moriarity. Cobb died at the
plate trying to follow the others home
on the last named hit.
Milan Scores Only Run.
Milan walked with one out in Washing
tons second, and went to third on ely
mers single. He and Mcbride pulled
fon squeeze" play. Summers throwing
out the batter. Street hit to Schaefer.
leaving Ciymer on. In the third; Altrock
walked and Browne sacrificed. Conroy
was safe on Bushs tumble. Delehanty
hit liner toward right, but Schaefer
got in front of 1t and made nice play,
doubling Conroy off first. 1t was tough
luck for the Nationals.
Washington's other hitting didn't mat
ter. Three times second base was occu-
pied, and on two of these occasions there
was a man also on first. But two were
down each time, and each time Summers
struck out the man whose hit might have
made run.
The score.
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