Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-12
CHICAGO TAKES THE FIRST
TWO GAMES FROM DETROIT.
Wins the First at Detroit Saturday in the
RAIN Ten to Six and Then Takes the
Sunday Game in Chicago, Six to
One---Easy Proposition.

OF clock work baseball today, Wild
Elf Donovan, crack pitcher of the
champions q! the American League,
weakened und'r tho strain and the
Chicago Worlds Champions captured
their second game of the present series,
s t. J. f. .t.cit's hopes. which We're high
after sever inninbs, III which Chicago
made ont on. hit, were dashed III the
eighth Ia that sensational portion of
,hc gam, Donovan Was hi Tor q home
run, q triple, {: double and three singles.
Incidentally he gave one man Il base
on balls and allowed another To score
on It Wild pitch overall. on the con-
1cary, WIS steady throughout til" game,
holding % troit to tour hits and one
,un, That run marked Drtroit's desper-
ATE effort i'll their hall of the ninth
Nothing could have exceeded tire ex-
cellcrcr e DouOvan's WORK up to that
fatal eighth. He had speed, an as:ort-
Ilcnt nt curves winch We're battling, ana
ho cut the corners Win the greatest
precision lie had the best Of Chicago's
hatsnen Swinging wild and twice
struck o,L rle rccloubtahlc King Not
until the sixth did the worlds cham
l:uns tat Ills ttirNrs. Then the aistinc-
tjon belongs tu Overall uho put a
snort fiy ,ust hcyonG Downs. and the
Chicago enthusiasts crie1 loudly for a
run. II Wai Their iIrst Icgilimat" chance
10 Civ" No 1T to their excitement Dono-
van, h3lr, Yer. 'hly Slnilr,i and a mo-
nnnt later th' Side was retired on d
1i"S hing duuhlc play.
Not Il runner "f either side reached
first th.s" untIl tn" third Then Overall
passed Downs ana the latter WAS sac
iii.t cd - strunG, where he was left
This was farther than Chicago went.
overall reached first base because
BOSNIAN who stopped his grounder
instead of covering the bag himself,
waited tor Dul ovan to Go so and the
latter dropped the throw. But The big
Chicago pitcher got no further. Again
IN the sixth Ot"rall reached the initial
lag on ms single but with these two
exceptions Chicago could do nothing
with DGnrYan's delivery. That was up
to the eighth. Then 1t was different.
Cverall'@ pitching was nasterly He
was found for orlv four scattered hits.
No TWO OF which came III the same in
ming ana one Of " Mich was to be count
ed because he tnd King both went af-
ter ScharfcrS hunt. ana. each stopping
for the other to field it, 1t became a hit
He gave passes twice Crawford and
Mcintyre, who hit above 800 all the
season. were unable safely to solve his
delivery. That he was effective in hold
ing doAn traM ford with the kind of
ball he pitched was remarked at by
critics of the game. Crawford Is known
as one of the Surest hitters of a high
ball in eithe, league; yet overall curry
ed the ban around his neck or
shoulders straight across the plate
without getting into trouble Each side
was credited with an error but neither
of them Ggurcd IN the score
Up to the eighth the game was a
pitchers LATHE with both sides for the
most part going out one. two, three. 1t
began To l"ok rs if the experience of
last year championship series. when
the same pitchers worked. would be
repeated, ramolv. a tie game There
was comparatively little noise The
spectators Were too highly keyed upl
by the struggle to engage in much
cheering And. besides despite the
bright sunlight. the air was rather
chilly, which had a sublung effect
A number of rugs and blankets were
used with comfort in various sections
of the stand The main grandstand
held fair sprinkling Of women
To Joe Tinker belongs the credit for
breaking the spell which Donovan had
held over the Chicagoians for SO long. |
Steinteldt haG struck out, and Hoffman
had reached first. because Schaefer af- |
ter fine one-handcd pickup of his
weak groundcr had made a low throw |
The crowd scarcely hoped for more
than single. and hardly expected that /
when Tinker came to bat. Donovan
sent 4 fast waist thigh in-shoot toward |
the plate. and the stocky Chicago |
shortstop. who had already popular
lied himself by fast clean fielding.
swung viciously. The ball scared so
high that it seemed certain it must ,
drop into Cobb's hands, as that fielder
was playing well back as a. result of
previous experience with Tinker. But
there was an unusual amount OF ener-
gy behind the hit, and it went clear
into the stand in right field Tinker,
preceded by Hoffman. trotted around
the circuit amidst the first real cheer
ing of the game. Horns We're blown.
bells rung and threats strained to in
crease the ovation. Manager Jennings
sought to persuade Umpire KLEIN that
the hit should go for only two bases,
bIt KLEIN only smiled Such hits have
always gone for home runs. The ground
rules provide that a hit into the over
flow crowd should restrict the runner
to two bases but this certainly had
nothing to do with that long hit of
Tinkers. The application of the rule
was Illustrated by the next man at
bat, "NoiSy" John King. King drove
the first ball pitched into the over ;
flow crowd in left field and stopped ,
when he had reached second 5
base. This onslaught had affected Don
lvan, but he still smiled and retired
Overall on a weak grounder He went ,
20 pieces. however, when Sheckard. the t
lext batSman, singled over second and {
scored Killing. The whole team, in fact =.
seemed to be stunned by the sudden ,
less of it all. Sheckard made a desper- {
tie steal of second and went to third
NJ Ever's safe bunt. Rossman in a
moment of absent mindedness brought S
bcnt hu the general cata StrOOhe | II