Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-18
Nationals Have Star in Catcher Ainsm Play Here Toda
AINSMITH'S CATCHING BEST
SEEN HERE THIS SEASON
Youngster Gives Marvellous Exhibition
Against Detroit Team Game on Muddy
Field Furnishes Some Sensa-
tional Playing.

with ease. for ordinarily a team which
had as many opportunities as the Ma
tionals would have scored lot of runs
early in the game. Summers was MT
rather hard throughout the game, Dut
just when hit would have given the
locals comfortable lead he seemed able
to fool the batsmen. Twice the bases
were full with none out, and yet not
run was scored, which speaks well for
Summers work in the pinches.
One would not have expected a sensa-
t:onal fielding game on grounds that was
in as miserable a condition as the local
field was yesterday, and yet the game
proved TO be one of the best seen here
this year. Cobb and Mcbride were the
players to pull OFF the circus plays. Cobb
made wonderful catch off of Mcbride I'm
the eighth, while the work of the local
shortstop was brilliant from start to
finish. In the ninth his stop of Cobb's
sharp grounder almost over the bag, and
which he had to lay down and stretch to
get. was easily the best play of the day.
and forced the two teams to struggle
overtime.
Cobb may create the impression that he
has a very good opinion of himself, but
you must give him credit for undoubtedly
being the greatest ball player in the
game today. There is never a day that
he does not pull off something sensational
either in the field ar at the bat. Yester-
day he prevented disaster for his team
by reason of his good throwing arm, with
which the locals did not dare to take any
chances, for with first and second oc-
cupied on two different occasions a base
hit was made into Cobb's territory. yet
the man from second could not score.
Cobb did not hit up to his standard here.
but for all that he was in every game.
Kid Elberfeld will be out of the game
for several days as the result of his COLI
sion with Ty Cobb at third base in the
ninth inning. when Gray and Mcbride
caught him mapping and ran him down.
The Kid twisted a ligament in his leg.
Conroy was brought into third, and Schae-
fer went TO left when Elberfeld retired.
Today's game will be called at o'clock
1t is most likely that Young will pitch
for Cleveland, while McAleer has selected
Walker to do the twirling for the locals.
Now comes the real fight for fifth place.
Even If the Nationals should take the
three games the Maps are scheduled to
play here they cannot GUST them out OF
their position. but they would be within
three points of doing it. This series Is
really the most important one the Ma
tionafs have had this season. because the
result will do much to decide where the
team will finish in the race this year. Nc
Aleer's men are playing good ball now.
and there is a chance for them to down
Cleveland three straight, not only because
Of their good work, but because II has
never been a difficult matter for a Wash
ington team to beat Cleveland
The figures in that thirteen-inning game
follow. Everything went well and the
Nationals seemed to have the game
cinched until Moriarty got a scratch two
Dagger over first base in the ninth which
tied hod fUn az ND
three balls on him when he reached out
and popped one over Unglaub's head,
scoring Crawford.
In the thirteenth Gray was hit hard,
and the Tigers scored three runs, which,
Of course, gave them the victory. The
score: