Evening star., 1909-05-27
NATIONALS FINALLY
WHIP PESKY TIGERS
Gray's Good Pitching and
Brownies Great Catch
Turn the Trick.
Sprcial Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch TO The star
DETROIT, Mich. May 2'.-W1tn TWO
runs needed to tie in the ninth INNING
Bush on first base and no one out. 1eoi eV
Browne made a mad dash out INTO oeep
. left center and in the last gasp oi al al
most hopeless effort pulled down iohs
drive from Sam Crawford's bat that was
ticketed for three bases at the lo"es'
as,in.te He undoubtedly saved the
game for had the ball gotten os nun sosd ponii
= would have scored one run ana raw raw, ~
1rouId have been on third. with SoDo ols
Moriarity to rescue him and posslpi! 10
follow along later with the tdils .hae
would win out. But fate ana bloWne
speed were against the Tigers. and oy a
Z to I score they went down 10 de1eal III
the final Washington game.
Two things won for the Natlonais.
Brownies catch was one Gray pltciills
was the other. Cantillon passed up
Hughes and the other right-handers for
the final being anxious TO take one mere;
and electing Dolly" Gray, who inquired
in a brilliant, though a losing. perform
ance Sunday. to turn the trick Grey
Was eouaI to the demands made on him.
He kept the swats scattered and m,gnt
have had shut-out had he not Wavereu
for a moment in the fourth inning. when
he handed Bush pass; 1t was MS onis
gift of the game. Else times ne was
steady keeping the ball over and forcing
the Tigers to hit weakly to fielders he
had a beautiful curve ball. and both rlght
and left hand htters looked bad against
him.
Suggs Up Against It.
George Suggs was given another chance
to show himself That he didn't come
home with his name in brackets argues
nothing in game with such good pltch-
ing against him. He held Washington to
six hits. He pitched a good game all
the way through. The luck was not with
him. and his team could not hit the op-
posing pitcher. Under these circum-
stances no twirler has much chance.
Washington scored in the first inning
when Conroy hit through the box and
stole second. Deehanty flied to Stanage,
but Dononue singled to center, scoring
the run. SuggS threw out Milan, enuiiis
the inning.
In the sixth Browne hit by O'Leary
with no one out. Conroy bunted and
Stanage threw over Moriarity's head
Delehanty also laid one down and suggs
slipped as he was about TO throw, every
body being safe. Donohue flied to Cobb,
Browne scoring and Conroy taking third.
Milan famed.
steal, but Conroy was nailed at the plate
after Delehanty had been allowed to run
a while.
Homer for Del.
Delehanty's home run in the ninth was
ter that Crawford nearly reached, high
bound carrying it over his head to the
fence.
Detroit's only run was scored in the
fourth. Bush walked and Crawford sac
rificed. Bush stole third and scored on
Cobb's single to short center. Cobb died
stealing and Moriarity flied. That tied
1t up. but Washington had another run
before Detroit got its second chance,
which was In the eighth. Schaefer opened
w
and Schaefer stole third as Suggs was
striking out. Mcintyre flied.
In the ninth Bush hit at Conroy and
was safe, the ball bounding badly. Then
Crawford tore off a wicked vallop be-
tween Browne and Milan that looked
good to go to the fence. Browne took 1t
after a long, hard run, and Bush was
forced back to first. That broke up the
rally Cobb flied and Moriarity forced
Bush, and it was over.
The score.