The Washington herald., 1910-07-16
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
special to The Washington Herald.

Special TO The Washington Herald
Detroit, Mich, July l5.-oueer. indeed.
are the ways OF baseball. Catcher Beck
endorf was released 10 Washington less
than two weeks ago By Detroit. yet he
came through with the hit to-day that
put Washington on Easy street. He
really broke up the contest in the sixth
inning. driving in two runs when the
tionals. After that Detroit had no chance
to catch up. Score: Washington. I: De-
troit, s.
Edward Killian was chosen to battle
the tribe OF McAleer and he had few
puzzlers. Twelve times the Washington
folks smote the ball and seven times
they crossed the plate. Doc. GessIer was
the only one 70 miss getting at least
single, and he didn't mind that because
he scored run
Groom pitched grand ball for the Ma
tionals. In six OF the nine innings De-
troy went without a hit. They got two
IN the fourth. three in the eighth. and
two In the ninth. The terrible tribe of
Jennings, which has been hitting .257 as
club all season, looked very meek and
mild before Groom's masterful work
Jones lunches Hits.
About the only man able 10 do anything
worthy OF note was Tom Jones. and he
pcked out three singles, one OF which
counted In the tslIies. the other two
going to waste. Cobb made only one sin
gle OF Groom, and in fact that was the
only time he knocked the ball from the
diamond IN view az the way Detroit
has been hitting OF late, Groom's work
was a grand exhibition of pitching.
Washington lost no time in getting a
run. In the first inning, with two our,
Conroy singled TO left. Gessler was
passed. and Conroy crossed the plate
when Bush muffed McBrides easy
grounder.
Detroit tied It up in the fourth. With
two out. Cobb singled to center and
stole the only base pilfered on Becken-
dorf- Crawford walked, and Moriarity
scored Cobb on single to center.
In the fifth. Washington forged ahead
and was never caught. Milan singled
and stole second. He scored from there
on Conroys single 20 center.
The sixth was the big inning. Nc
Bride walked, and KiIifer stood in the
way OF a pitched ball John Henry at
tempted TO sacrifice and hunted q pop
fly over Killian's head. and too slow for
O'Leary to handle This filled the bases
and gave Beckendorf his chance He
promptly poied single to left, scoring
Mcbride and Kfllifer. and these two runs
put the Tigers so far behind they lost
courage.
In the seventh Washington added an
| other on a pass to Gessler and a double
TO right by Mcbride. both OF which came
with two hands down.
Nationals Add Two More.
Not content with this lead, the Nation
ais added two in the eighth by more hit
ting. Kiilifer began the inning by sin
gle to left Henry beat a hunt. Becken-
doff Obliged with a sacrifice HIT Groom
| hit a single TO center scoring Killifer
and Henry. Lelivelt also got lift this
inning, but It counted for nothing
Detroit made all the rally 1t could in
the eighth and ninth. but was unable to
get enough runs to be dangerous Groom
always frightened up in time Schmidt
reached first in the eighth on a force-out,
moved up on Simmons hit, and scored
On Lathers' bingle.
In the ninth Crawford walked and
counted on hits by o'Leary and T. Jones.
The Nationals were so far ahead, how
ever, that the little rallies Of the Tigers
| did not bother any.