The Washington herald., 1911-08-27
BeCker and Groom.
A1e Pounded Hard
Detroit tigers Capture Final Game of Series by
11b 6-Young Morgan Puts Up Great
Game at Third and at Bat
srecial to The iashington Herald.

Detroit, Mn, Aug. 2b.-Ihe Ilgers To-
dav got little revenge on the Ma
tionals for heir massacre Of Mullin and
LATTE in te first game of yesterdays s
double-hear by getting out their mai
lets and drIing into retirement, in rapid
succession.t Bobby Groom and Buck
Becker. OF the Washington staff. &C
cumulatinei in the first rhree innings off
this nair dough- runs to balance the Ma
tionals' ely lead and to tide them over
washingr's finishing sprint at the ex-
nense ofJack Lively. The score was II
70 an the Tigers were always in the
lead afr the first two innings had been
The Washington club took the field
n.itboy Herman Schaefer, the German
bavin, strained his back in the fielding
practe which had preceded the game.
I,eliylt was hustled out to first, and.
thouh plainly suffering from lame
leg elded in perfect style and did some
time batting.
Jsnings was saving Donovan and
Su, ,mers for the Athletics, and took a
chIce on Jack Lively.
TX started off like the wild man OF
Rheo. pitching eight balls to Milan
an Lelivelt, without getting one OF them
or the plate. Walker sacrificed, Cess
u hit to Bush, who blundered, Milan
bring and Lelivelt taking third. Nc
tide hit to Lively. who tossed. Lelivelt
dt at the plate on a close decision. Cess
lr went to third on this play and scored
IN Morgan's hit, the first of an uninter-
.uptea series of four. it might be noted.
Tigers Even Up.
! The Tigers got the two runs back IN
their lalf. Bush and Cobb opened with
single, but Groom struck Crawford out.
AS SIN famed, Ty and DOME started
doubl steal. beautifully ntpped by Street
and dcBride, when Bush was thrown
out the plate. Ty took second and
scorI on Delehanty's single. Drake then
hit resounding slap for three bases
ove1MiIan's head and Delehanty scored.
Lely got the Nationals in order. and
Ranan and Schmidt hit hard line drives
TO enter in Detroit's half of the second.
Mcleer then benched Groom and sent
outBecker, who passed Lively, filling
theoases. Bush then hit the southpaw
fora clean triple between Milan and
Ge.er. cleaning up the sacks and scor-
ineimmediately after on Cobb's drive
pa. Mcbride.
Iain Lively baffied the Nationals, and
III Tigers resumed operations with
Eker. Gainor beat out bunt, and
Rk. with painful deliberation, hit Bau-
M and Schmidt, filling the sacks. Live
ly1it a spinning single that fairly GAL
led away from Mcbride as he started
tpick it up. and two more runs scored.
Ish walked. and the bases were full
ain. At this stage, McAleer made an
her change, shunting Dixie Walker
to the game.
Dixie stopped the hitting, though the
igers scored one more run on Craw-
1rd's sacrifice fly. But the score was
to >, and there it stayed until the
eventh inning, fast play all around on
ooth sides helping the good pitching to
oaffie the batsmen.
In the seventh Lively weakened, ana
was hit for consecutive singles by Milan,
Lelivelt, ard c. Walker. Two infield outs
then brought in a run apiece. and Nor
gan cleaned up with his fourth hit Of the
day-a fine double TO center. Cunning
hams single brought Morgan home, but
Ainsmith stopped the rally by succumb-
ng TO called strikes.
Lathers replaced Bush, who was bench
ed for kicking over a called strike. The
one time at bat resulted in
a single in the seventh, which followed
4 hit by Gainor and a triple by Drake,
the result netting two runs.
The Tigers punched doubles by Craw-
ford and Drake in the eighth, but a fat
play by Walker and Morgan got Sam
at third and Delehanty was out at the
plate as the result of an ill-timed double
steal.