The Washington herald., 1911-06-02
By WILLIAM PEET.

Detroit champions produced enough MT
ting strength to break the tie and win
the opening encounter OF the series here
yesterday. to z.
It was an afternoon thickly punctu-
ated with thrills. heart .throbs, and hu-
man earth tremors. There wasn't a
place in 1t from beginning to end where
you could stop and get your breath; all
in all, Just about as dangerous ball
game, to which a crowd OF fans were
sver exposed.
True, the home folks looked to be
hopelessly left adrift during the early
part Of the struggle. when the Tigers
collected six runs in five innings, as
against the Nationals lonesome one, but
Pitcher Lively was getting bumped at
about the rate of one hit an inning. and
a blow up was expected momentarily.
The upheaval occurred in the seventh.
and from that time on the rooters sat
pop-eyed and kept their fingers crossed.
Jennings braves disposed Of Dixie
Walker in two innings. the Birmingham
husky going to the stable after four runs
on as many hits were registered. Bill
Otey finished out the pastime. and, al
though rumpled up rather more than a
respectable twirler Is supposed to be hit,
kept the swats nicely scattered. Count
ing the chalk marks one by one De-
troit pulled down exactly eighteen for
q total of twenty-four bases-some hit
ting, believe US.
Delehanty Has His Troubles.
Jim Delehanty. who formerly sported a
Washington uniform, played first base
for the champions. and Jim had bad
day-several bum heaves got away from
him, one high throw bounced off his
glove and two Washington runs counted.
Ty Cobb, as usual, came across with
his famous base stealing stuff. Twice he
purloined third and once second. Davy
Jones pulled down a couple Of nice hard
drives in left field, while Mcbride and
Milan did the best for the Nationals.
Otey and John Henry pulled off couple
of bone-headed plays, but neither one
cost a run, and the youngsters no doubt
gained valuable experience. The pitcher,
in the eighth, was completely fooled by
Ty Cobb and allowed Delehanty to get
away with a pretty cheap hit. Cobb
was on third and an easy grounder from
Ders bat hoped into Otey's glove. The
lanky slabman saw Cobb dancing off
third and started to throw to Conroy,
Cobb dashed back and Otey changed his
mind. Whirling around he sought to
throw out Delehanty at first. but the rum
ner was over the bag before Steamboat
Bill could pull back his arm.
Henry's ivory-coated play came in
the first, when, with Sam Crawford on
second, Delehanty grounded to Mcbride.
Mcbride slammed the ball to Henry,
and Mr.. Henry probably thought this
made the third out, as he rolled the bail
&c the pitchers box and started to pull
off mis- glove. Crawford saw his chance
and came home. This run would have
counted any way. as Moriarity. the next
man up, singled. What McAleer had to
say to these two youngsters could not
be found on page IS of the prayer book.
Dixie Walker got off to bad start
passing both Jones and Bush. Cobb
singled 10 left and Jones scored. Craw-
ford's grounder to Mcbride forced Cobb,
but Bush came home on the out, with
a pretty sprint Then came the play re-
ferred to in the foregoing paragraph.
when Sam Crawford crossed the plate
with the Tigers third run
Nationals Score a Run.
The Nationals managed to pull back
one of these runs in the second half Of
the inninS. Milan singled through Bush
Conroy stopped one of Lively's shoots
with his elbow and Lelivelt flied out to
Jones, Milan going around to third on
the out While Bush and O'Leary were
throwing out Conroy at second on Cess
ler's hot grounder, Milan crossed the
plate.
Tigers raked him for a run In the sec
ond on a two-bagger by Lively, Bush's
single, ana Henry's error.
Bill Otey was on the mound when the
Tigers third opened. and although hit
for a couple of safeties, a sacrifice, and
tossing in q base on balls, managed to
hold the Tigers runless. double play
saved Otey in the fourth, but in the
fifth two Detroit runs cropped out on a
double, a pair Of singles>and wild pitch.
With to ! score staring them In
the face as the last half Of the seventh
opened, the home fans grew peevish and
yelled for action. They were rewarded,
too. for Lively was hit hard. and errors
helped accumulate a quartet Of tallies.
Here is how 1t happened.
otey led off with hit to Leary, who
headed Bill off at first. Milan fol-
lowed by popping to Bush. conroy
was hit by q pitched ball. Lelivelt
scratched, and both moved up on a
passed ball Gessler walked and Mcbride
hit slow roller to Lively, which the
pitcher slammed high to Delehanty The
ball bounded of 'Del's" glove and before
st could be recovered Conroy and Leli-
welt scampered home. Bin Cunningham
threw the rooters into a state of frenzy
by ciouting the first ball pitched to the
center field fence, pulling up at third base
and sending In Gessler and Mcbride
Henry made the third out, Moriarity to
Delehanty. Score, Tigers G. Nationals g.
Tho champions died easily in the eighth.
but pulled ahead one run In the ninth
after two had been retired, when Bush
tripled to right and came in on Cobb's
timely single.
Locals Tie the Score.
With two to tie and three to win the
home folks started after Lively with
muderous intent as the final half of the
ninth opened. With three ball and two
strikes on Conroy. the Widow dumped
the bah into the left field stand for
single The crowd broke loose with
terrific roar when Lelivelt walked, and
Gessler aid down a pretty bunt, advanc-
Ing both Conroy and Lelivelt a peg.
shot one through Moriarity at
mile clip. and Conroy came home, Milan
going to third. Cunningham's srounder
to OLeary. forced Mcbride at second
and Milan scored on the out. A double