The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
Tigers Beaten By Cubs
 In O Desperate Contest
BAD WEATHER PUTS
 DAMPER ON CROWD

Detroit, October 10-With the bright weather of the forenoon encouraging every one into the belief that the ele- ments had entered into the spirit of the day, little talk was to be heard in the hotel lobbies or on the streets today save the afternoons game between Detroit and Chicago, and the possibility of securing tickets. Vendors of flags did a thriving business, and the temporary lunch stands erected in the vicinity of the grounds were well patronized prior to the first shower. While incoming trains from Chicago brought several parties of en- thusiasts from that city, their number was by no means large. The net result was a crowd of 10700 persons, 50 per cent smaller than had been expected. Both managers and players were disappointed, but pinned their hopes to fair weather and record d-breaking crowds at Chicago tomorrow and Monday. The gross re- ceipts today were only $16,473. Of this $16H goes to the national commission, $2965 to the team owners and $SS95 to the players. It is stated that the crowd was smaller by 1000 persons than that which attended the game in this city the after noon of Labor Day. The covered stands in which the seats were reserved, and the regular bleachers were filled, but the green circus seats imported from Chi cago had few occupants. This was partly due to the rain, however, as many spec tators found themselves less uncomfort- able standing than sitting. The miserable weather however, did not prevent some hundreds of spectators from taking cheap seats in the outlaw stands outside ths left field fence.
 
 and then luck broke worse than ever. The game was hard fought, but Chicago showed that 1t had the class in the field and on the bases.
 Tinker's Great Work.
 The Cubs, led off by Tinker, gaves a magnificent exhibition of running and really clinched the victory by clever work on the bases. There was no comparison in any department. The thing that most upset the Cubs was the wild, daring base running of Cobb. Twice in the face of heavy odds he took two bases on hits that only en- titled him to one and each time he got away with it, once on a close decision at third given by Sh eridan and again he drew a wild throw to third that came near giving Detroit the verdict. As they had expected the Cubs fell upon Killian and drove him to the bench, but Summers, with a world of speed, had them stopped AS long as Detroit was losing and far behind Sum- mers kept his nerve and pitched fair ball, but when the Tigers got ahead and victory seemed within their grasp, Summers lost his heart or his head and in that ninth inning the Cubs gave the greatest exhibition of offensive ball ever seen in this city. They forced him to lay the ball down the groove and hits were simply shameful, and then after they had evened up and gone ahead Tinker bunted h ome a run by one of the cleverest runs ever seen. Tinker indeed was the hero of the game. His fielding simply was su perb and twice during the time that Reulbach was going at his best Tinker cut off clean base hits and got his men at first each time because of tn grand work of Chance in retrieving hurried, desperate throws when the ball came to him each time on bad, awk- ward bounds.
 Cubs Looked Best.
 Just how much the weather condi- tions affected the playing of the teams is hard to tell, but the chances are that the Cubs would have won by a score of about to on a dry field.
 Twice Steinfeldt had chances to get his man and might have averted lot of trouble If he had been able to move a little faster in that awful seventh inning when Cobb's hit broke through Reulbach On a dry field he would have thrown Cobb out easily, but un- der the circumstances he could hardly start for the ball.
 Detroits first run was the result of the batters outguessing Reulbach and the two men whose hits manufactured the tally made 1t by hitting the first ball he pitched to them. Altogether it was National league And American league ball as played. The American game as exploited by the Tigers is the science of doing the unexpected while the National league game as played by the Cubs is straight baseball and straight baseball won.
 When Chicago made its four runs in the third the running looked hopeless for the Tigers and few expected then, to come back at all. But they did come back fighting, and encouraged by the madness of the crowd, fought tn Cubs off their feet in the seventh and eighth after they had been outplayed. Nor did many expect the Cubs to re- viye after the blow their hopes re- ceived in that eighth inning when tn ey broke and handed the lead over to De troit. But they came back filled with determination and pounded their way to well-earned victory with five screaming hits with a bunt and a dou- ble steal in succession.
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