Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-06
WINS
THE PENNANT
Cobb's Triple Starts a Batting
Streak That OverWheIms st.
Louis-The Race All Over.
SpeciaI Disnatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ST. LOUIS. Mo, October 5-TerrIfic bat
ting gave Detroit victory this afternoon
over the Browns, 10 to g. and crowned
the Tigers champions of the American
League for the season OF 1907, with the ac-
companying right to battle with the Chi
cago National League club for the worlds
championship series. which begins next
week. But few teams in the history of base
ball have faced a more tense situation than
did the Detroits today when they lined up
for the first game OF the series with the
Browns. All but pennant winners, Phila-
delphia still hung on to a slender thread
of hope, and triple defeat by the Browns,
coupled with two victories for the Ath-
letics at Washington, meant dead hopes
for Jennings and his hustAng band by the
narrowest of possible margins St. Louis,
as was consistent with the fact that the
team was natural factor except in decid-
ing where the pennant should be flown this
season, put its strongest combination in
the field and prepared to make Detroit
fight to the bitter end for victory and the
championship
Detroits' Grand Battle.
Detroit faced the situation gamely and
fought a grand battle. For three innings
Powell went in brilliant form, while the
Detroit players watched with an anxious
eye the scoreboard showing Philadelphia's
game with Washington. Victories for Phil
adelphia and the Browns meant con-
tinuation of the struggle for the Tigers
this afternoon. and always that chance of
a possible defeat for the pennant hung In
the background.
Never did team fight with more grim
determination than did the Tigers. With
Powell moving batters down in order
Jennings kept up fire of encouraging
talk from the third base line, while every
Tiger on the bench was fighting as hard
as he could without drawing the attention
of the umpires For few minutes In the
first inning Sever was having trouble
stemming the force of the attack directed
at him by the Browns, and it looked as
though st. Louis would get off in the lead.
men getting to first and second with but
one out. Then this danger passed and 1t
was once more case of working for runs
Jennings troubled look finally gave way
to smile in the fourth inning when DaVy
Jones was given a base on balls, the first
Tiger to reach that point during the game.
With one out Schaefer did the right
thing with perfect sacrifice toward hrSt
Crawford, the mighty, failed, but still
Jennings and his cohorts fought on. Cobb,
the coming batting champion of the Ameri-
can. League, was still their hope, and he
responded nobly with line drive to left
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was relayed imperfectly, Jones going home
with ease.
Browns Fighting Hard.
That the Browns were fighting hard was
shown when Stone went up against the
left field bleacher front for a brilliant
catch on a foul fly off ROssman's bat for
the third out of the inning. Then came
the crash in the fifth inning, which wrecked
the Browns hopes for a victory. and as
sured Detroit of the pennant. Powell
was using everything he had in stock to
keep Detroit from getting hits. In fact, he
was trying too hard, and as a result
Coughlin walked. Schmidt hunted for a
sacrifice and then Powell and O'Leary had
an interesting battle which finally wound
IN with the Detroit shOrtstop walking
Sieyer is not a great batter by any means,
and if Powell disposed of him he was in
fair way to pull out of the tight position
he was in.
The Smash That Won.
Jennings talked TO Eddie in his most per-
suasive style and when the Detroit pitcher
finally swung with all his might on what
would have been the third stree he had his
reward Far out in center, just a trfe over
toward right, a long, high fly took It's
course, and with HemphiIl fielding to left 1t
was a certain extra base drive. This was
| the smash which really won for Detroit as
Cough lin and OLeary scored and SieVer
| went around to third.
That the drive had broken down the fight
| ing spirit of St. Louis was shown a moment
| later when Davy Jones drove line to
center for another triple and Sever scored
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