The Washington times., 1911-07-26
GRAY ANDHUGHES
EATEN BY TIGERS
Chewed Up and Swallowed at Inauguration of New
Home of the Nationals, With Sir Thomas as the
Master of Ceremonies.
By SENATOR"

Long Tom" Hughes tWfrled an ever
| contest with the Tigers yesterday. In
deed, Sir Thomas deserved the bun fol
winning. but he marched to the mounC
| after Dolly Gray. the gazelle-eyed beau
ty and pride Of the harem, had haC
her back comb smashed and her rat!
| twisted awry by the vicious clouts Of
the wicked Detroiters. So the National!
failed to land that Inauguration game
before 7,65411 fans. and Jim Saffel.
When Cobb gathered in Milan's sailel
in the ninth the tally was just to 2
and that's the way 1t goes into the
records.
George Mullin, the huge person who
used to pitch for the Mt. Sinai team In
the Mesopotamian League, and earned
a reputation by tanning Colomon with
the bases. jagged. was elected to tease
the Nationals. He did. They hit his
benders in scattered chunks, but only
twice were they able to shove their
companions over the dish. All the rest
of the afternoon George kept them pop
ping and grounding.
Gray Walloped First Thing.
Dolly Gray, all dolled up for the oc-
casion. started the game, and got a wal
lop in the left eye right away when
Delos Drake-the man named like an ISL
and in the Egean Sea-spanked the first
ball for a nifty single to center. Dorf
Ainsmith spoiled the thieving intentions
of Delos, though, by mailing him at sec
ond on a crow-fly peg. Then "Donie'
Bush stroHed and T. r. Cobb, said to
show marks of promise as a player in
this league, whipped safety between
Milan and Red" Walker. Bush grab
bed third while Walker was disentang-
ling the pill from four blades of yellow
grass in the. garden.
BY this time even Sunny Jim" Sher-
man was sharpening his pencil prepara-
tory to marking up several Tiger tai
lies The experts and Jim Saffel. were
all wide awake. With Sam Crawford at
the pan the harem beauty on the hill
was in danger Bif, a slow one triokled
toward Dolly Gray and Bush was under
Ainsmith like flash of trained light
could murmur, My wordI' T. Ray
mond trotted over the pan a moment
later when Delahanty skied to Milan
Those two runs were sad handicap.
Charlie OLeary, who played in that
same Mesopotamian League with George
Mullin. hammered a hard one at wild"
Conroy and creaked his way to first.
However, Dutch Schaefer stuck UP one
fin and gobbled "Wid's" peevish toss.
Oscar Overwork Stanage carefully bal
anced his rod and drifted a bingle to
right, going to third when Mullin hit
Fatima in the left eyelash with B. double
against the barrier in right. That
finished the harems pride, and three
men and a boy with baskets gathered
up the shattered back-combs, rats, ETC.,
etc. around the pinnacle while Sir.
Inomas Hughes, another Mesopota-
mian, was sprinkling some unguent oil
upon the spring of his right wing.
naYy Jones. replacing Delos Drake,
slapped the bubble on 4, long. high
bounce at Dutch Schaefer, and Stanage
started to slow-freight it to the pan.
The Comedians brains were all alive,
though. and he mad that Pill In Ain
smiths hands with time to spare, Stan
age giving up the ghost without mur-
muir. Hughes looked lucky and was,
too. till Bush came up and spanked
Mullin and Jones and enabling him to
reach second. Ty Cobb tried to bring
him I'm. but Red Walker romped out
among the sand hills and took his fly.
Trouble In the Fourth.
A speedy. double play choked possible
National runs in the fourth. Elber-
fell walked and Leliyelt nearly broke
MLllIn's riRht fin with the. sreed of
his wallop through the box. Moriarty
gathered In Walkers bounce and tagged
klberfeld. Bush couldn't Quite get