The Washington times., 1912-09-14
Erratic Pitching, Coupled
With Wild Throws, Gives
Game Away.
BY SENATOR"

DETROIT, Mich, Sept 14.--In the
gathering of lazy. hazy Septem-
Der afternoon in Michigan the Ma
tionals. filled to the brim with their
own Importance and cocksure OF defeat
ing Jennings Jungaleers by a large
score. threw away their golden victory
by a succession of misera BILE boots and
pegs. They lost out in ten innings, .
toS
To play such a game reflects strongly
on the steadiness of the Griffmen they
are a veritable machine when slightly
behind or slightly ahead, but let chem
get a comfortable lead and their Uncle
Toms Cabin propensities appear to an
alarming extent. They Immediately
conclude that they are playing at an
other State fair and proceed to enliven
the afternoon with a bunch of wicked
errors on ground balls and savage and
futile heaves; that's exactly what they
did yesterday and that's why they were
nosed out by the Tigers.
When the seventh inning started the
Nationals were leading by a score of
s to l. When 1t closed the Tigers had
cut down this lead by three runs. In
the eighth the Tigers went after the
rapidly weakening Engel and pounded
out three more tallies, bringing 1t up to
Tomasso Hughes to stop their headlong
rush to victory. Ty Cobb's crashing
triple to the center field fence. followed
by Gand"s misplay on Eddie Onslow' s
little roller. tied up the battle.
Their Stalling Failed.
The shades OF night were fast draw
ing over the field in the last Of the
tenth. The Nationals stalled along as
much as they could, but Tommy Con-
molly was inexorable. and they had to
go through with the game.
Bush drew a pass with one gone.
Moeller took Corriden's easy fly. and 1t
looked like a forlorn hope when Sam
Crawford pounded a low fly to left.
Shanks made a desperate attempt 10
take it in the air but failed and man.
aged to hold the speedy Bush at third
Then Foster tried to get Crawford
breaking like a madman for the midway
cushion. The ball sailed out into the
garden and Bush raced over the plate
| with the winning run. That was the
crucial plav of the long contest.
Until tsey blew up the Nationals
They could get the hits whenever
they needed them and Joe Engel, the
Milk Bottle Baby of the staff under
Griff, was doing noble work on the
mound. Until that memorable seVepth
frame the best the Tigers could get
off his delivery were four scattered
bingles and one run. But that was
too good for the Capital City outh'
and they proceeded to go insane, En-
gel leading the grand march to Nut
| burg.
Moeller the Batting Hero.
Moeller came to life with the stick
In grand good fashion, bagging a triC
of doubles and being cheated out OF &
single by Bush's catch OF his liner II
the first of the seventh. Daniel wa'
the goods throughout the day. La
| porte, too, was a terror with the sttcl
| just as long as young Boehler re
NAMED on the hill. Everybody tool
| a vacation when CoVington and vii
lett took up the task of stopping th'
smuggling.
Two great fielding features wer,
seen, TY Cobb and "Zeb" Milan com
ing in for the applause of the fans
| In the second, with Cobb on first
| Veach drove a wicked liner to lef
| center 1t looked like a certain dou
BILE II II ever passed the ,outfielders
Milan came tearing across the swar'
and just as the bali was about TO ge
! away, speared it with both hands. !
was great catch and equaled onl,
by that of Cobb In the third.
/ Gandil showed powerful drive mig
IN the air bound for the center-fiel
fence, Ccbb -aced back for 1t and jus
as II was about TO clear his heat