Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-20
not handle himself we'll in the outfield,
and appears slow and uncertain on the
bases.
HAL CHASE.

CollihOwer, the Washingtonian, is UNI
piring here for the first time He is still
new at the game and had bad day
two things which got him in wrong with
the fans and players yesterday.
Detroit and Washington will play a
double-header here this afternoon. The
first game starts at > O'Clock, and it will
be the first double-header played at Ben
nett Park this year. The reason for the
two games today is the result of the con-
test yesterday. when the Nationals and tt
gers battled for eleven innings to & to
score. The game was called at the end of the
eleventh by Billy Evans because it was
SO dark that the outfielders could hardly
be distinguished from the rear seats in
the stands.
The game should have been Washing
tons In a walk. Dolly Gray, usually
effective against the Tigers, had them
on his card yesterday till he made the
grievous error of letting down in pitch
ing to Ralph Works in the fifth inning.
Tom Jones and Casey had been retired
and Gray held the champions scoreless.
Along comes Works. tall. angular. with
the reputation of having gathered the
lowest batting average in the American
League last season. and Mr.. Gray, real
izing all those things. concludes that
eases up, Mr. Works meets one of those
that cut the heart of the plate and
swats 1t along the left-fleld foul line.
The two or three times Mr.. Works has
managed to get the ball safe this year
he hit into right, so while the Nationals
stood paralyzed the angular form of Mr..
Works ambled to second base He got
to third when Cunningham booted a diff
hcult chance from d. Jones bat, and
he scored on OLearys safe drive to left.
u. Jones stole third and scored on Nc
lntyre's single. Crawford doubled to
right. scoring O'Leary and Mcintyre, and
sam scored on Moriarty's triple to right
center.
Jim McAleer decided that Gray could
not get over his grievous error in al
lowing Works to get one right over the
plate, and took Gray out, Otey replacing
him. Lathers was the only man to face
otey in that inning and he grounded
-, Detroit Sn,. made run off otey on singles
by Morfarty. Lathers and L. Jones, but
that is all the scoring they did.
The Nationals hung up their first run
directly as the result of a perfect execu-
eled. He started for second with the
pitch, and Elberfeld drove the ball
through the opening O'Leary left. Milan
reaching third. He scored from there
when Casey dropped Moriarty's assist on
Cunningham's grounder.
A base on balls to Ralston, a muff of
fly by Crawford and an infield error
and out scored another tally. The third
was the result of some beautiful base
running by Clyde Milan. Milan singled
and advanced on Elberfeld's out He
stole third as Cunningham walked, and
signaled for the double steal. Both start
ed. Casey threw to IIathers, who made
a quick return, but Milan beat the throw
to the plate.
Clean hitting by Somerlot, Henry and
Milan brought in the fourth tally, and in
the ninth they tied 1t in this manner:
Gessler singled and Mcbride and Somerlot
walked, filing the bases. This was after
Ralston flied out. Lelivelt batting for
Henry, hit to O'Leary. Charlie touched
second. forcing out Somerlot, and then
made fast throw to Tom Jones to bring
about double play, but the ball skipped
past Jones, and Gessler and Mcbride
breeZed home.
In the tenth Elberfeld walked and stole.