The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-07-14
By THOMAS S. RICE.
OF to a bad start IN Detroit

When washington was playing ST.
Louis here, St Louis was in bad luck
So was washington but IT was natural
that the luck Of the BrOWuS should be
worse than that OF our team which was
ahead IN the race
Now those dear Nationals are play
ing Detroit in Detroit, and Detroit IS the
club ahead. hence il. gets the breaks
and wins The first game there hy to g.
That is, If il can be called luck when
Ty. Cobb Is Foxy enough to set hit in the
ninth inning after Bush had reached
first by forcing Jones, who had walked,
and sam Crawford came along with
triple that So both Bush and Cobb
Sons folk call il IucS, but Che rooters
for the losing team in such a game
cali il other things and rise upon their
hind legs and make remarks
We hope the correspondents VIII not
forget those cunning and clever express
sIonS about Tigers lair Tigers jun
gle Pulled the Tigers claws etc
II does not SIN natural 10 read q De-
trolt baseball story without seeing that
The difference betwixt tweedIe dunn
and tv~eedIe dee is that a team Ike De-
troIt can take advantage Of any slight
weakness and pound out winning az
the most unexpected moments, while
Washington is limited 10 merely coca
sionaI batting flashes and such things
as the fates may send in the way OF
runs made of errors and things, as
was the case in the tying run with St.
Louis on Tuesday
Washington has jumped upon a waver-
ing brother Of the slab and won games,
but Il IS not our usual afternoon exercise.
and when we 90 II we generally have
paIpitati0n OF the lamps the next day
and cannot Gene back strong for
another stunt Of the same sort
It was the kind Of a game 10 thrill
the home fans, and the EIks-
Washington had one grand little bat
ting feast il tie sixth inning that Melted
four runs. Dit as soon as A-uuin tight
ened up and began 70 strike his stride
il was all of, and not another tally
was made by the Nationals
On the other hand, Detroit was on tap
with time-y hits and logged seIf-c0nE-
dence in is sTatriuE ability that EraEu-
ally 0vercame the lead Of four runs, and
wound up BIZ winning OF course. Nc
AIeerS men have done thar same trick.
and must be given credit for sticking 10
their knitting in the face OF many dis
cOuraE emeDCSr but they could not hope
Win the same CLe--- LlLeSS LLEE the
Tigers could
All Of which is 10 say that with the
Washington pitchers going as erratI-
cauy as they have been this year 10
lead Is bis enough 20 be considered
entirely safe
IN keeping with hrs recent policy OF
getting busy with you1g talent and let
Ting IL grow up with the city. Manager
1IcAIeer has bought for immediate de-
livery BIZ Oteys "a left-hznd pitcher now
win NOTIoLE- Bin was with Norfolk
last year and had a record OF fourteen
games won and twelve lost q percent
age OF -5GS. while his team finished Sec
Ond in the league with q percentage Of
30 He Is reported 10 he going EuoE
This year
There are stories that because OF Rich
mOnd' S grip on the best dates I'm the
schedule the Virginia League Is rutter-
lng. which probably accounts for N0--
folks willingness 10 take the cash and
let Otey 60
Here IS the UabuIE-e5 tale Of woe from
Detroit in the first game OF the trans