The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-01
WHIRLWIND BATTLE 10
 SEVENTH N-INXING TIE American League Aspirants Fight Each Other to a
 Standstill. FOURTEEN LINING CONTEST Between Sox and Pilgrims Ends in a Tie-Nationals Blank
 Cleveland.
.OURTEEN-INNl CONTEST
AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING.

this city Detroit and Philadelphia, who are making. a sensational fight for the American league championship to-day played each other to standstill The game went seventeen innings and was called by the umpires because it was too dark 10 play any longer. Both teams were worked up to a high pitch and neither side wanted to quit, al- though the street lamps surrounding the grounds had already been lighted, There being no result the positions of the teams remain the same, Detroit having lead of seven points. Each team has seven games on it's schedule before the season ends. Had 1t not been for the fact that two games were to have been played necessitating an early start, the game would not have gone seventeen innings.
 It was remarkable contest in many ways and the crowd that saw it was probably the largest that ever witnessed baseball game in this city. It Is es- timated that fully 10000 people were packed in and outside the grounds. The official paid attendance was 24,127, and several thousand more were admitted on passes or otherwise. Hundreds gained adnittance over the fence, the police for a time losing control Of the crowd, outside Roofs of surrounding houses were crowded to the danger point the thrifty householders charg- ing from 25 cents to dollar for stand ing room on their roofs,
 The multitude within the enclosure was well controlled except in the four teenth inning when First Baseman Rossman of Detroit nearly caused a riot. In this inning Davis hit to cen- ter field Crawford dropping the bal | loon at the edge of the crowd Craw- ford claims he was interfered with and the whole Detroit team came in to back up Crawford's claim. Tn the con- fusion that followed, Rossman struck Monte Cross who was coaching. Cross went at Rossman, but the other play CTS interfered and stopped hostllities. The crowd surged on the field and for few minutes matters looked danger ous, but the excellent work of the po- lice prevented further disorder and the crowd fell back. Davis was declared out and Rossman was put out of the game. Killian took his place.
 The honors of the game undoubtedly belong to Donovan, who after being hammered for fourteen hits In seven 1 innings, pulled himself together and 1 the more he pitched the better he seemed to get. In the last ten innings he held the home team to six hits. He l only gave three bases on balls in the seventeen innings, Dygert lasted only a little more than one inning when he was relieved by the famous Waddell. l The latter pitched remarkable ball for three innings, striking out six of the first eight men that laced him. The crowd went wild over the performance, but later he weakened and was re- | placed by Plank in the ninth inning after Cobb had hit him for a home run, tieng the score. Plank pitched his usual steady game and was seldom in trouble.
 Philadelphia looked like an easy win ner up to the seventh inning when they l had lead of to i. In the seventh Philadelphia made one, bringing the score to 8. Detroit made four runs on poor fielding, added one In the eighth and tied the score in the ninth. Both teams scored in the eleventh and from then to the finish neither side could get the extra tally Each side was | l ot I,,4 ,J Plank were as steady as a clock.
 Brilliant plays marked many of the innings, the fielding honors going to Nichols, who scooped up grounders on
 the run and shot them over to first ir brilliant style
 Detroit was easily disposed of in the first inning, but the home team gave Donovan much trouble. Hartsel singl-
 ed, stole second and Nichols sacrifice put him on third. seybold was given l four balls Davis drive was too hot fol | O1eary and Hartsel trotted home, Sey. bold taking second. Murphy filled the
 bases with a single and moment Ia.
 ter Seybold scored on Collins fly tC Jones. Oldring sent Davis home witt
 the third ron in the second. Rossmar singled and Dygert made a bad throw | of Couglin's grounder. Schmidt sacrl. feed O'Leary hit to Dygert wh. I threw to ScHrcck to catch Rossman 1 but the big baekstop dropped the bal and Rossman was safe Dygert was | then relieved by Waddell who electrl.
 fled the crowd by striking out bott
 Jones and Schaefer. Doubles by Sey.