The Washington herald., 1911-07-08
Special to The Washington Herald.

Special to The Washington Herald.
Detroit, Mich, July I'm a game that
was dull and dreary after the first open
ing innings, Washington lost to Detroit
by a score of 6 to to-day.
The game was slow because both Gray
and LATTE had very mediocre control,
and almost every batsman played out the
string to the finish 1t was dreary be-
cause Of the lead which the Tigers &C
quired at the start and the failure of the
Nationals to do anything during the mid
die stages to indicate themselves as In
the strife. The visitors had no pep"
and the Tigers, with Jennings out, had
very little Of It.
The game would undoubtedly have been
lot more interesting but for Gray's
lack of control in the opening period.
Into this he injected three bases on balls,
and these, with a single and a wild
pitch, gave the Tigers a margin which
they allowed the visitors to equal for
but one-nalf inning of the game. After
the first, Gray's control was much better.
He kept the ball around the batsmen's s
knees or lower all the time, and these
tactics kept Ty Cobb hitless and gave
Crawford but one chance for a real blow.
Bush was another who failed to hit
safely. But the latter half Of the Tiger
batting order got its hits when they
counted.
LATTE lacked his usual speed, but
crawled out of many tight holes. Schae-
fe:, Lelivelt, and Gray all found his stuff
to their liking, but were unable to con-
centrate their energies to any extent, and
the left-on-base column tells a sad story.
Morinrity Hits Timely.
In Detroit's half of the first, Drake
walked, and with two out scored on a
then paraded and Moriarity whaled out
a single, which Milan trapped neatly
after "a hard run. Crawford scored, but
Delehanty was thrown out at the plate.
Stanage's fine throwing offset the Ma
tionals' early hitting, but an opening was
given in the third by O'Leary's wide
throw of Conroy's grouader. Wild stole
third and scored when Gray bumped the
ball against the left field bleacher for a
double.
In the fourth the visitors tied the score
on hits by Elberfeld and Lelivelt with
Conroy's fly.
The Tigers came hack with a ven
geance Delehanty hit terrific fly into
the left field bleachers, good for a home
run, and O'Leary and LATTE punched
singles with an. infield out in between.
This gave the league leaders their old
margin of two runs, which they increased
by tearing off one each in the sixth and
seventh. The latter run was entirely of
the fortuitous order, resulting from
freak bounce taken by brakes fly that
fell safe back of 3chaefer and popped
into the first base pavilion, which at one
place comes very close to the foul line.
Nationals Score in Eighth.
The Nationals showed no signs of an
other rally until the eighth, when. with
the score to 2 in the Tigers favor, FL
berfeId forced Schaefer, who had singled,
and then took third. on Gessler's shot into
right, scoring on Lelivelts long fly to
Drake.
In the ninth the Nationals worked two
men to bases with two out on Henry's'
hit and a pass to Milan. 1t was up to
Schaefer who had hit safely three times
and wasn't quite equal to a continuous
performance, lifting a tall fly to o'Leary,
which ended the game.