The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-14

situation however growing precarious. In the third after Schreckard and Ev- CTS as result of the sprightly efforts ef Messrs. Coughlin and Schaefer. had been retired. Summers wavered ever so little, and SchrIte was presented with standing room on the Initial bag. The tall Chicago right fielder promptly coicluded to try Schmidt's throwing arm. Said arm was tried and found wanting. Schmidt's unsuccessful throw to second was the first of four similar failures. Chance. the next. man up. strenuous objections of the Detroit battery, to say nothing of the crowd. Singles by Steinfeldt and Hoffman fol- lowed, sending schulte and Chance and Hoffman second during the pro- cess of run getting, but the best Ttnk- CT could do was a grounder to O'Leary who threw him out.
 Chicago's next and final run occurred in the ninth inning, when Winter took Summers place in the pitching box. The change in seasons made no diff ference with the Chicagoans. With 1 two out. eEvers singled to left and stole second. coming home on Chances single to right.
 Detroit threatened to score only | found himself in a pretty hole when singles by O'Leary and Crawford | placed these gentlemen respectively on second and first base with none out.
 
 | Tinker came over from short 10 con. | fer with Brown. If the conference | concerned the handling of an expected | bunt, 1t was successful. Cobb, the De- | troit right fielder. who batted so stren- uously yesterday. came to bat and bunted. The ball rolled. straight to- | wards Brown, who rushed upon 1t. and without even looking at first. shot | 1t on a line to third just in time to l force out OI.eary. Crawford, who had taken second on the play. Is known To. of him that he may be depended on | to do the right thing at the right time almost inva- riably. Taking lead off from second. the .oid Reliable for once in his ire
 did the wrong thing at the wrong time.
 He chose this occasion to refresh him,
 self with the traditional forty winks." !"
 This was some thirty-five winks too
 many.
 Kling observed the runners somno-
 lent expression and the violent efforts
 of Joe Tinker to attract attention
 without making n; noise, The norf,,iS Gni6aiS9
 and the bail shot down to Tinker on
 a line. rudely disturbing the rest of
 Mir. Crawford. spelling Detroit's only
 chance to score. and perceptibly de-
 pressing the spirits of the spectators.
 Crawford retired to the bench very
 crestfailen, for where there had been
 ing there was two out with only Cobb
 on first. Cobb started to steal second at the same time that Umpire Con
 nolly called third strike on Ross man. Presumably King did not hear
 what the umpire said. for he threw to
 Evers and Umpire Klem called Cobb
 out. The play. however, did not count
 as Rossman had already made the
 In the fifth inning. coughlin was
 hit by a pitched ball, but got no fur
 ther than first. In the sixth o'Leary
 got his second single, but was imme-
 diately doubled.
 In the next three innings, Detroit went ont. one, two, three.
 The pitching of Brown was clearly up to his usual standard. His only wildness was in hitting Coughlin. He allowed only four hits. two of which went to o'Leary and two to Crawford, | one of the latter's being a. double. He struck out four men, besides ac- cepting four felding chances in perfect 1 style. -Ie tyF 1t1s than. that which turned out to view the opening struggle of the series l here. if was not as large as had been l expected in view of Detroit's victory | yesterday. The turnstiles registered l i2.907 paid admissions, from which the | gross receipts were s19,23f.
 1 The score: