The Washington herald., 1916-07-27
Young's Timely Single In the
Tenth Inning Gives Detroit
Verdict Over Locals. \
WALTER JOHNSON IS WILD
By H. V. WILCOX.

CThe Washington Herald's Detroit Cor
respondent)
Detroit Mich, July 26.-Washington
dropped another game to the Tigers to-
day, the score being to g. Walter
johnson pitched for the Nationals and
will draw credit for beating. Walter de-
feated the Tigers all right, however, but
found it impossible to trim both Detroit
and his own club. Miserable support
was to blame for at least half of the
Jungaleer tallies. At that, Johnson car
ried the game along ten innings before
consecutive defeat for the Grirmen in
Detroit. and like all the rest, it was by a
one-run margin.
Willie Mitchell started for Detroit and
breeZed along in good shape for three
innings. In the fourth he blew com
pletely, and before the Nationals could
be extinguished they had scored five tai
lies and switched the score from 8 to 0
favoring Detroit to to 3, with a two
run lead for Johnson to work on.
There was little excuse for the first
three Tiger runs. Johnson himself was
not to blame. But Walter was not
blameless for what happened later. In
the eighth he was hit hard and lost his
lead, and in the tenth, pair Of singles
and his own error cost him the ball
game. Dubuc, who replaced Mitchell in
the fourth, gets credit for the victory.
Tigers start corfng.
The scoring started almost as soon as
the Tigers got their bats unlimbered.
Witt led of the inning and Morgan threw
him out. Then Bush and Burns both
singled Crawford grounded to Morgan
who dreamed Of force play at second.
What happened, however. was a wild
heave that sent Bush home and Burns
to third. Veach walked and Heilmans
sacrifice fly to Rice permitted Burns to
tally.
Detroit scored again in the second
and the run was just as undeserved as
the other two. Young walked and Nc
kee sent him to third with a single to
right. Mitchell rolled to Johnson who
held Pep at third and tossed to sec
ond to force Mckee, only to discover too
had covered the bag While the ball was
chased. Young scampered across the
plate Thereafter until the eighth John
son was plenty effective to hold the
Jungaleers scoreless.
The Nationals cut loose In the fourth
and regained all their lost ground and
more. Milan started the round with
rousing single to center. Rice forced
Milan, but Shanks came through with a
double to right Charity. whose timely
hitting has been a feature Of the Nation
ais offensive for a week, delivered with
a two-bagger to the scoreboard IN left
field that cleaned the sacks. Ainsmith
famed for the second out. but Mcbride
started more fireworks when he was
given stroll TO first Johnson himself
strode to the plate at this juncture and
smeared a smoking triple to right that
scored Charity and Mcbride. That was
MitchelPs finish and Dubuc replaced him.
Morgan singled to right and Johnson
registered the fifth and last run the Ma
tiOnals were to get.
Fail in the Tenth.
Washington did not get another real
scoring chance until the tenth, which
had been made necessary by the Tiger
eighth. After Burns had flied out in that
inning Crawford singled. Veach tripled
and Heilman singled, and these blows
tied the count
Foster started the tenth with a bingle
to right. Milan grounded out putting
Eddie on second. Rice walked but
neither Shanks nor Charity could deliv-
er. The Tigers won in their half of the
extra frame when Crawford hit safely.
and Johnson caught Veach's pop-up and
failed to double Crawford at first because
Of his wild throw. Sam took second on
the error. Heilman famed, and then
Young singled to right and scored the
''Wahoo" man with the winning tally.
The score: