Evening star., 1921-05-16

Incidentally. the White Sox assigned
their leaS" on the cellar apartment &c
the Mackmen by again trimming them
the decidedly unusual spectacle of neariH
every club in the circuit having its posi-
tion changed in one day being thereby
presented.
Fans jam tho Place.
The size of the mob which turned out
for the battle here yesterday. about
5000 was even larger than was cN-
pected. the s. T. O. sign being displayed
long before game time. In addition 10
a semicircle of humanity from six to
eight feet deep. which stretched from
one pavilion 20 the other around the field.
there was a string Of humanity seated
atop the wal al! the way round. while
others hung in feStOOnS and clusters
from the iron girderS and ratings above
the aisles in back of the seats in the
stands. which were 50 crowded that the
pasSa geways were almost completely
blocked
In view of the weather conditions this
aSSemblaSe Of ovcrcoGted and muttled
illustration of the popularity of base bail
or a testimonial to the ESkimo-lik. in3-
perviouSneSS of DetroiterS TO friSid al
moSphere. or both. for the artiC breeZeS
from the region of snow-manteled Sault
Ste. Marie. coincidental to the tripping
effect of telegraph wires of the aurora
bcrealis made conditions propituous only
for polar bears.
Congealed muscles and trapped fingers
undoubtedly account in measure for
the fact that a total of twcrty-nine safe
hits was recorded in the course Of the
close TO three hours required 10 run off
the game. and for the thirteen bases on
ba lis dished out to III" home talent by
johnson. Courtney and Acosta. in addi-
ton TO one wild pitch. a hit batsman and
two erratic haaves.
Tigers Fielding Tells.
But only in a measure is ii explana-
tory. for pair of Detroit hurlers is
sued only TWO passes and their sup
porting cast played errorless ball. 1t
was this disparity in defense between
the visitors and acclimated home tai
ent that accounted for the fact that
the locals copped, although outbatted
by sixteen hits for total of twenty
three bases. against thirteen SafetieS
for an aggregate of seventeen sacks.
Chilled zephyrs and high winds are
not entirely to blame for the persit
ence with which aid and comfort was
given the enemy. with easy fly balls
falling as safe hits. This happened
twice. Cobb's first safety being gift
from Harris and Brewer who bowed
and scraped in right field while the
ball descended between them. and his
second was another present from
y
liar acts were staged by Lewis and
ORourke and Rice and Miller. while
II the Cleveland series there We're
several of Ike nature recorded -four
OF the Griffs doing the Alphonse-
CASTOR stunt on one OCCASION.
\ little skull practice for the per-
fection of signals might prevent the
boys from getting their wires crossed
so frequently and with such costly
results
johnson. who started in the box
for Washington. was both wild and
inefective. while Sutherland, his op-
ponent, at the outset was merely in
effective. Courtney. who succeeded
Barney, was wild only, Harry failing
to get the ball over the plate fire.
quently enough to determine whether
or not he would have been effective
The southpaw was very wild. how
ever. and so was Acosta. the third
and last of McBride's hurlers, but the
senor undoubtedly would have done
much better had he not been called
on for service at time when the
bases were loaded with Courtney's
passes and two balls called on the
ha atsn1an.
Score at Outset.
Hopping on Sutherland before he
could get his bearings. Washington