Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07

contenders. The greatest crowd ever as
sembled on the grounds. and partisan. al
most to man. was out to show Its SYM
pathy for the home club. Doc White. one
was to face the foe. White had always
been the hardest sort Of proposition for
the champions on his home lot. Invariably
he had made the left-hand hitters of Jen-
nings' look like amateurs.
Yet In spite OF these many obstacles the
brave Detroit commander and his little
army took the field for the one great su-
perhuman effort. encouraged by the weak
cheers of a handful of loyal fans from the
City OF the Straits, whose honest efforts
were for the most part drowned in the
great din Of continuous racket kicked up
by the thousands of local sympathizers.
"Doc" White Derricked.
element. Cool and determined, the cham
pions came first to bat. Right of the
reel they sailed into the curves Of Doc
White. and before the game had got we'll
under way had hammered him from the
box. Next came Eddie Walsh. the peer
less spitball twirler Of the Jones stable.
He it was who had humbled Jennings on
the previous day. But all pitchers looked
alike to the demon clouters from the
town where life is worth living" and
Walsh withered before the cruel fire of
gade. Walsh lasted less than three in
nings. Frank Smith was now sent in
with the hope that things might break
differently. His new style nonplussed the
lacing. In the last round the Tigers fell
upon him for two runs.
Detroit may thank Wild Bill Donovan
for the honors which accrued to the club
as the result of the afternoons triumph.
While every member of the champions
nj In IA nd
especially so Bush the dimihutive short
stop who has kept the winners In the race
since the injury to O'Leary, 1t was Dono-
van who at all times kept the Sox at
moved down the hopes of the Windy city
by an endless procession of batsmen
whose futile efforts to "get on" panied
sadly as the hopeless fight progressed.
1t was the same Wild Bill who had tried
SO valiantly to stop the Cubs in the
when his catcher tossed away the first
game of that memorable series on a
passed ball. His smile was even broader
yesterday.
Said He Would Win.
Before stepping into the box Donovan
declared he would surely win If his team
mates could only encourage him with a
few hits OF the opposition. This the giant
sluggers of the Tigers-Cobb. Crawford.
Rossman. Schaefer and McIntyre-did.
and. true to his word, Wild Bill lived up
to his part Of the agreement. But two
hits he allowed the Sox. and these,
strange to say, fell to battery men. But
five Chicagoans saw first base, and all
these were stranded.
Only once did the Sox get two on at
one time, and this was the only occasion
on which the locals saw second base. 1t
was in the sixth inning. which Smith
xryf<b eli, oil he ovI To-
of the day. Hahn proved one of the
three to walk during the afternoon and
there were two on with none out. But
Wild Bill just smiled a little harder.
frightened his belt and struck out Jones
and 1sbell. the most dangerous batsmen
of Chicago. Crawford didn't have to
bulge for Dougherty's fly. Ten men in
all the untamed William whitfield. the ma
jority of these the very best hitters of the
Sox. In the fourth he got Jones. Isbell
and Dougherty in q row.
OF course. Donovan had every encour-
agement. Before he was called upon to
toe the scratch the Tigers had amassed
enough runs to beat the Sox. weak-hitting
the champions crowded over In the first
inning by some fancy smuggling and err
rors. which are bound to crop out in a
team when pitcher is being hammered.
put the winners on easy street The
game was won outside that ever small
hope which somehow or other sticks to
the very last in the fascinating game. and
which makes 1t all that it is.
Chicago's Only Hope.
After the first inning Chicago's sole
hope was that Donovan would weaken or
that the visitors defense would break.
Wild Bill was much too good for the SUBJ
sanitation Of such faith. so good indeed
that the second contingency was guarded
against in that the Detroit felders, as
fielders. came just as close as possible to
having q day of.
The story Of the slaughter Of Chicago's