The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-14
Three Fingered" Miner Yields Four Hits and No Base
 on Balls
SUMMERS AND WINTERS
 HAVE BAD INNINGS EACH
In the Fourth Detroit Had an Excellent Chance, But cobb's Blunt Was Bad. Crawford Caught Mapping.
 Clever Game, Though.

Detroit, october 13.-Chieago crept one game closer to the worlds base ball championship today by defeating Detroit, to 0. Chicago has now won three games of the series as compared with the one annexed by Detroit at Chicago yesterday. Eddie" Summers, Detroit, and Miner" Brown, the pre- mier pitcher of the Chicago team, op- psed each other, and the latter had all the better of the argument, although Summers pitched excellent ball in all but one inning.
 In the third, Summers passed two men on balls, some of which seemed to the crowd to be very much like strikes. He was cutting the corners in whirl- wind fashion, and an inch either way would have changed the umpires' yer dict.
 Chicago got two men on bases in the first and one in the second without the situation, however, growing precarious. In the third, after Sheckard and Evers, as result of the springtly efforts of Messrs. Coughlin and Schaefer, had been retired, Summers wavered ever so little and Schulte was presented with standing room on the initial bag. The tall Chicago rightielder promptly con- cluded to try out 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, was also allowed to walk despite the a1.f of hn battery. Singles by Steinfeldt and Hof- man followed sending Schults and Chance across the plate. Steinfeldt took third and Holman second during the process of run-g getting, but the best Tinker could do was a grounder to o'Leary, who threw him out.
 Scare In the Fourth.
 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 two out, Evers singled to left and stole sec ond, coming home on Chances single to right.
 Detroit threatened to score only once. In the fourth inning Brown found himself in a pretty hole when singles by oLeary and Crawford placed these gentlemen respectively on second and first base with none out. Captain Chance left first base, and Joe Tinker came over from short to con fer with Brown. If the conference concerned the handling of an expected bunt, it was successful. Cobb the De- troit rightfielder, who batted so strenu- ously yesterday. came to bat and bunted The ball rolled straight to- ward Brown, who rushed upon it and witho even looking at first, shot it on line to third just in time to force out OLeary. Crawford who had taken second on the play, is known locally as the "old reliable" It is said of him that he may be depended on to do the right thing at the right time almost invariably. Taking a lead off from second the "old reliable" for once in his life did the wrong thing at the wrong time He chose this occasion to refresh himself with the traditional 40 winks." This was some 35 winks too many. kling observed the runners s somnolent expression and the violent  tion without making a noise. The Chicago backstop swung his arm pow erfully and the ball shot down to Tink- CT on a line, rudely disturbing the rest of MT. Crawford, spelling Detroit's only chance to score, and pereeptibly de- pressing the spirits of the spectators. Crawford retired to the bench very much crestfallen, for where there had been men on bases with an excellent chance of scoring there were now two out with only Cobb on first. Cobb started to steal second at the same time that Umpire Connolly called third strike on Rossman. Presumably Kling did not hear what the umpire said for he threw to Evers and Um- pire Klem called Cobb out The play however. did not count Rossman had already made the third out
 In the fifth inning Coughlin was hit