Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-01
BATTLE IL
INNING TIE
DETROIT AND PHILADELPHIA IN
GREAT GAME
Fight for League Pennant Draws
10000 Fans, Who Are Rewarded
by One Of Most Remarkable
Contests on Record
BY Associated Press.


the greatest baseball games ever seen in
this city Detroit and Philadelphia, who
are making a sensational fight for the
American league championship, today
played each other to standstill.
The game went seventeen innings and
was called by the umpires because it was
too dark to play any longer. Both teams
were worked up to a high pitch and go
ing strong and neither wanted to quit.
although the street lamps surrounding
the grounds had already been lighted.
There being no result, the positions OF
the teams remain the same, Detroit nav
ing 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 could not have gone seventeen
innings.
1t was remarkable contest in many
ways and the crowd that saw it was
probably the largest that ever gathered
in a ball ground in this city. 1t is esti-
mated that fully 10000 persons were
packed in and outside the grounds. The
official paid attendance was 25,127, but
several thousand more persons gained
-admittance on passes or otherwise. The
gates to the grounds were closed before
/ o'clock and the great crowd became
SO large that the police for time lost
control and hundreds gained admittance
over the fence.
Roofs Are Crowded
The roofs of surrounding houses were
crowded to the danger point, the thrifty
householders charging from 25 cents to
81 for standing room on their roofs. The
multitude within the Enclosure was well
controlled except in the fourteenth inning
when First Baseman Rossman of Detroit
nearly caused a riot In this inning
Davis hit to center field and Crawford
dropped the ball on the edge of the
crowd Crawford claimed he was inter-
fered with and the whole Detroit team
came in to back up Crawford's claim. In
the confusion that followed Rossman
struck Monte Cross, who was coaching.
Cross went at his man, but the other
players interfered and stopped hostilities.
The crowd surged onto the field and
for a few minutes matters looked dan
gerous but the excellent work OF the
police 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 be-
long to Donovan, who after being ham,
nered for fourteen hits In seven innings
recovered himself and the more he pitched
the better he seemed to get. In the last
inning he held the home team to six hits.
He gave only three bases on balls in the
seventeen innings
Dygert lasted only a little more than
one inning wnen he was relieved by Wad-
dell the latter pitching remarkable ball
for three innings striking out six of the
first eight men that faced him. Inc
crowd went wild over his performance,
but he later weakened and was replaced
by Plank in the ninth inning after Cobb
had hit him for moe run, tyelng the
score. Plank piAched his usual steady
game and was seldom in trouble.
Philadelphia looked an easy winner up
to the seventh inning, when it had a
lead of to l. In the seventh Philadelr
phia made one, bringing the score to 8.
Detroit made runs off poor fielding, add
ing one in the eighth and tied 1t up 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
dangerous at times, but Donovan and
Plank were as steady as clock. Brill
liant playing marked many of the innings
the fielding honors going to Nichols, who
scooped up grounders on the run and shot
them over to first in brilliant style. De-
troit was easily disposed of In the first
inning but the home team gave Donovan
much trouble Hartse singled and stole
second and Nichols sacrificed him on
third. Seybold was given four balls.
Davis drive was TOO not " LedTy, anu
Hartsel trotted home, Seybold taking sec
ond. Murphy filled the bases with sim
gle and a moment later Seybold scored on
Collins fly to Jones. Oldring sent Davis
home with the third run on two-base hit
into the crowd.
Detroits Gets Run
Detroit got its first run in the secord.
Rossman singled and Dygert made bad
throw of Coughlin's grounder. Schmidt
sacrificed O'Leary hit to Dygert, who
threw to Schreck to catch Rossman, but
the big backstop dropped the ball and
Rossman was safe. Dygert was then
relieved by Waddell, who electrified the
crowd by striking out both Jones and
Schaeffer Doubles by Seybold and
Davis, single by Murphy and Oldring's
force gave Philadelphia two runs in the
third and two more were made in the
fifth on a home run by Davis and a two
base hit by Collins and Oldring.
The home team momentarily went to
pieces in the seventh. Oldring muffed
Donovan's easy fly. Jones received a
base on balls and Nichols allowed the
bases to be filed by fumbling Schaeffer' s
grounder. Crawford then came to time
with double into the crowd, sending
Donovan and Jones acress the plate.
Cobb's easy out scored Schaeffer and
Crawford came home with the fourth run
of the inning on Rossman's out.
In Philadelphias half Murphy scored a
run for the home team on his own single
Collins sacrifice, Oldring's single and
Schmidt's force hit
Detroit Adds Another
In the eighth Detroit added one to its
count on OLeary's two-base hit and
steal of third and Jones' single.
The ninth opened with Detroit two runs
behind and defeat staring them in the
face. Crawford opened with a single and
then Cobb put the ball out of the
grounds, tieing the score. Plank relieved
Waddell and the inning ended without
further scoring. The Philadelphians were
easy outs in the ninth.
Cobb's double and Rossman's single
gave Detroit's ninth and last run in the
eleventh Philadelphia tied UP in the
same inning on a double by Nichols, a
wild pitch and a long fly by Davis. Score:
Detroit .. hits 10, errors l.
Philadelphia Q, hits 90 errors 6.
Batteries-Donovan. Schmidt and Payne; Dy-