Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-11

son when the club won "a and lost q,
games, percentage of 54S Thera - Ii..I y.
uoupt the club Will excel this the nresant
~ eW thought at the beginning OF tho
~ pi esehi season the club had any chance ar
all TO mead Off Chicago but this hao -
accomplished with a very good cbanca "a
STAND ahead Of that club at the close oS
o.l9 campaign. Certainly Detroit has been
IT, Is, a. considerably faster pace than
iLie champions. Jennings has the club NAV
ing splenddIy together and there ia tho ~
lL i harmony In the ranks. There IS first
Grass team work and everybody is doing hi.
pLetlleSt to land every game
Detroit always has had a frst-cIess on.
!ield. 1t secured the wonder OF the conn
Try when 1t put Cobb on its roster and q
W strna be Impossible to estimate the
stiehsth this player has added to the club
TINS season. Crawford has also heen 60
10 rare advantage this year and has batted
ana NEEDED In rare form. Detroit ought IN
ne stronger than ever when Mcintyre gets
Jones. 'iioA 10
manager MCGUIRE Is feeling much
e!ated at the Improvement in the work a,
the Boston Americans. which enabled them
10 pass the st. Louis Browns At one time
this season 1t looked as n Roston r,,.
doomed TO remain behind McAleers bunch
all season. but just now the chance. %,
Boston to finish in sixth place ara re,,,rL-
aoiy good, and If the club can continue 70
pay the game It has played during the
49, lew weeks, New York be forced
out OF the running. MCGUIRE has infused
better feeling into the team than roc
oeen noted there for very long time and
me pest or spirit prevails among the
gattir ne team does not shine as a run
sot'us or pase-winnng combination and
LOT that reason cannot hope to be a ton
a. uotcler; NO club can land a winner unless
III IN nus trsd Inc speed That was the great stock
Detroits and of the Athletics. '
Kun getting Is down to a minimum
Base stealing is lost art It is the rare
thlng to have a game that reaches doub,e
nsures In no season have there bean M
many shutouts and so many small scora
games People do not want indiscrtmInats
hitting. but they want more than thew are
settlng now The reasons for this state of
thlnss are not difficult to find and n 20 nm
10 the rule makers to take the matter In
nand and help the game. Best of al, #
Wouio De to stop penalizng the batsmsn
~ oh louis as is now the case, II not modify
tle lule; again, prevent the PLAYERS from,
using the big gloves that are now az
ployed, and thereby place some nre,otmn,
oii tHe native ability OF fielder Instead of
providing him with a big glove with Witch
ne can get in the way of the hardest kind
of a drive. ' Aiiiu
more players than ever will be secured bv
the major league teams next season in the
nope OF drawing some such man as Cobb
or some crack infielder like Johnny Eyers
some of the clubs will have their hands
hlled with an abundance of riches and may
commit the error of letting go better men
than have been drawn.
Unglaub has been playing as fine a first
base as any one who has ever PLAYED the
bag on the American League grounds in
Boston, and that Is saying a good deal He
has had Lot of very bad throwing with
which to contend. He is simply remarkable
In taking a ball that comes 10 him off the
ground. II has been a rich treat to watch
his work. Any one Will have to do some
tall work to beat his playing. No little
OF the fine showing made by the Bostons
during the home series just completed mas
been due to his very clever work