Evening star., 1909-08-21
NATIONALS LOSE TO
TIGERS At THE END
Make a Strong Start, but Blow
Up in the Eighth
Inning.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


DETROIT. Mich. August 21.-What
Dolly" Gray had to offer the Tigers In
the inaugural battle of the closing Wash
ington series for this city. which the To-
Gals won. :; to l. seemed to make most
earnest appeal to Mr. Owen Bush. NO
other Detroiter evinced any special fond
ness for the southpaw.s slants. But the
midget infielder lit on the bali every time
he was up. with single exception. Twice
something happened the something in
each instance being the scoring of rum
This happened in the sixth and again in
the eighth. in which period Bush himself
also registered. In the first five rounds
he was the only Tiger to make first base.
With Bush absent Gray would have cake
, walked.
Gray started out to be just as difficult
as he always has proved to Detroit. but
wound up badly. He went wild at the
finish. in the eighth inning managing 10
walk four men and hit another. besides
Kidding himself of a wild pitch: even then
he pulled out with two runs, one of which
was on an error.
Purse for Schaefer.
There were some enlivening incidents 10
the occasion. One of these was the flrst
Detroit appearance at bat in Washington
II.
nected with base ball affairs locally. Mr..
Schaefer drew round of cheers that
must have done him lot of good. and
he also drew a purse of 500 In gold that
cannot do him any harm. This was pre-
sented by Detroit friends Inspired by
the cheers and the coin. the exiled second
sacker made gallant efforts to break up
the party. scoring Washington's only run
and viciously smashing every ball thrown
to him. Moriarity stole couple of hits
from his old teammate. Tyrus Cobb was
the chief figure in the other unusual oc-
currence.
Umpire Connolly banished Cobb for a
protracted kick a decision at home
base, when the Georgian tried to score
on Streets throw to second. Cobb
away with line of oratory that he
scattered around the plate He erred
in continuing his conversation when he
reached the bench.
Had Edgar Willett not been at his best
or had Cobb been replaced by an mex
perienced outfielder prior to, instead of
after. the fourth inning Washington
might have won. The Kansan was in
but one bad spot. but that cost run
that looked large until the sixth inning.
Street had a chance in the third for
possible tally. doubling as starter. but
he was caught mapping, so his hit was
wasted.
Dutch's Triple.
Schaefer started the fourth. and he
started it right. He hit where he sell
dom drives them. away over into left
field corner. giving Jones such a chase
that making three sacks was not diff
cult. Unglaub promptly rescued his
teammate with a line single into right.
Lelivelt waited out four bad ones, and
ConrOy sacrificed. Milan tried for long
fly. Cobb got under 1t and returned the
r. r--
glaub by sufficient margin to prevent any
arguments on the award. That was prac-
tically all. The second and fourth hit
ters of Washington's ninth made the
bags, but Mcbride lined into Delehanty's
mitt and nothing mattered.
Until the sixth inning only one Tiger,
Bush, in the opener. had made first
base. Stanage started the sixth with a
drive to the fence in left field. making
third. He dallied at third while Nc
Bride was throwing out Willett. Jones
was hit the head by pitched ball.
Bush singled past short, scoring the run.
Cobb lifted fly into right that looked
sure to fall safe, but Browne took it on
the run and sprinted to first, beating
Bush back, thus completing an unassist-
ed double at first base-an unusual feat
for an outfielder.
Bob Started Double Play.
They filled them up i'm the seventh on
I4elehanty's double, Moriaritys single
and an Intentional pass to Mullin. One
was down. and when Stanage hit to Tn
glaub the latter tagged Delehanty at the
plate and got back to first in. time to
take Streets return throw. 1t looked
like the batting luck that has been beat
ing the champs right along.
Wflet was gone in the eighth when
Jones drew a pass. He romped to second
on a wild pitch. Bush pried loose his
third safety. and Davy scored. Lelivelt
made bounding return to Mcbride that
got away from that infielder. and Bush
went to second on 1t. Cobb was hit by
pitched ball. and he and Bush pulled off
"A double steal. aided somewhat by
Streets failure to hold the pitch, in his
eagerness to make a throw They didn't
intend to let Crawford hit at the ball in
this situation. and they didn't. He was
walked. filling the bases. Street under
took 10 catch Cobb mapping off second
but threw badly, Bush going home. Then
Street tried a peg on Crawford, who was
roaming long way off first base. Cobb
hiked to third and Sam got back safely
Une OF Gray's wide pitches got away
from Street. and Crawford dug for sec
olld. The ball rolled only few yards
and Street recovered and threw to Schae-
fer. Cobb started home and Schaefer.
anticipating this. returned the ball to
Street. He tagged Cobb, and the arSu-
plcnt that resulted in TVS banishment
was begun.
Delehanty and Moriarity were both
frx.l Ia.