The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-12
Wild BiIi Donovan WeakenS In the Eighth and Loses Hard
 Fought Game
PITCHERS BATTLE WAGEO
 FOR SEVEN FULL INNINGS
Chicago Fails to Make Hit Off Don ovan Till the Sixth But in the Eiohth Six Hits Go For Six
 Runs and the Victory.

Chicago. october 11.-After eight innings of clock-worx baseball today, Wild Bilf' Donovan, premier pitcher of the ehah- pions of the American league weakened under the prolonged strain, and the Chi eago worlds champions captured their second game of the present series, to l.
 Detroit hopes, which were high after seven innings, in which Chicago had made only one hit, were dashed in the eighth. In that sensational portion ot the game Donovan was hit for a home nm. A triple. a double and three singles. incidentally he walked one man and al lowed another to score on Wild pitch' Overall, on the contrary, was steaoy throughout the game, holding the Tigers to four hits and one run. That run marked Detroit's despairing effort in ther half of the ninth.
 Nothing could have exceeded the excel lence of Donovans work up to the fatal eighth. He had speed, an assortment oI curves. which he mixed up in baffling stvle. and he cut the corners with the greatest DleBlSlol anu SpNSN- @+~
 hest of Chicagos batsmen swinging wild, and twice struck out the redouotaple Kling. Not until the fifth did the world champions connect with his wizard curves. Then the distinction fell to Overall, who' considering the high class of ball he pitched, did not need the added glory But he did it-poked a short fly just beyond Downs-and the Chicago enthusiasts cried loudly for a run It was their first legitl- mate chance for ridding themselves of their excitement. Donovan, however, only smiled and a moment later the side was retired on flashing double play Not a runner of either side reached hrst oase until the third. Then Overall passed Downs and the latter was sacrificed 10 second where his obsequies as runner were performed. This was farther than Chicago went overall reached first be- cause Rossman who stopped his ground CT. instead of covering the bag himself, waited for Donovan to do so, and the lat ter dropped his throw
 But the big Chicago pitcher got no fur ther.
 Donovan's Good Work.
 Again in the sixth Overall reached the initial sack on his single, but with these two exceptions Chicago could do nothing with Donovan's deliyery-that is, up to the eighth Then it was different.
 Overall's pitching was masterly. He was found for only four scattered hits, no two of which came in the same inning, and one of which has to be counted because I,otI al ScbaRf- CTS bunt, and each stopping for the other to field it, it went for hit. He issued passes twice Crawford and Mcintyre, who hit above 300 all season, were unable 10 connect safely with his delivery. That he was effective in holding down Craw- ford with the kind of ball he pitched was remarked by critics of the game. Craw- ford is known as one of the surest hitters of a high ball in either league, yet Over all curved them around his neck or shot them straight across without getting into trouble Each side was credited with an error. but neither of them figured in the score.
 Up to the eighth the game was pitch CTS battle, with both sides for the most part going out one, two three. It began to look as if the experience of last year s championship series, when the same pitch CTS worked would be repeated, namely, a tie game There was comparatively lit- tie noise The spectators were too high ly keyed by the neck-and-neck struggle to indulge in much cheering. And besides, despite bright sunlight, the air was rather chilly, which also had a subduing effect.
 Big Hats cheered.
 There were a number of rugs and blank cts used with comfort in various sections of the stands The main grandstand held a fair sprinkling of women, whose head gear, when it happened to be of the latest sweeping model, which was nearly al- ways, created considerable merrlment, not untinged with malice. The stand was crowded and in one wing men and boys stood up and cheered wildly whenever a woman with the gigantic fall fashion in hats walked down the aisles. Outwardly the applause was good-natured, but it had it's inception in the fact that one of those hats would block the view of half a dozen spectators, while any one sitting at the side of woman thus bedecked had to lean far aside to keep out of range However, with the beginning of play, the mockery of cheers ceased and the fair spectators saw the game serenely through
 Tinker the Hero.
 To Joe Tinker belongs the credit foI breaking in the eighth inning the spell which Donovan had held over the Chica- goans for so long. Steinfeldt had struck out and Hoffman had reached first be- cause Schaefer, after beautiful one handed pickup of his weak grounder had thrown low. The crowd scarcely hoped for more than single. and hardly eX- pected that, when Tinker came to bat Donovan sent a fast waist-high n-shoo1 over the plate---that is to say, partly ovei It. It never got all the way, for tn, stocky Chicago shortstop. who had al