The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-13
Pfiester Hit Hard and
 Often. IN ONLY ONE INNING WAS
 CHICAGO ABLE TO SCORE Reulbach on Firing Line in the
 Ninth. The Victory of the Tigers Yesterday Assures the Playing of Two Games at Least at Detroit Today and Tomorrow.

Chiago. Oct. 12.-Detroit became a real contender for, the worlds cham pionship today when 1t defeated Chi- | cago in decisive fashion, to 5. Manager Gennings achieved this re- suit with change in his lineup Downs was put on the bench and the efficient Shaefer. who is at home in al- most any position. was shifted from third to second base, Coughlin occu. pying the third sack. This shake-up. however. cannot be said to have had | any material effect tn winning the game, for neither Schaefer nor Cough lin got a hit while Coughlin bunSled one of his two chances. Thomas was placed behind the bat in place of Schmidt. with better effect, for his double scored one run
 Counting the worlds series of last year, today's victory was the first De- troit ha9 scored in eight contests for the highest prize in the baseball world. Mulllin. selected by Manager Jennings to pitch for Detroit, was steady throughout the game, holding Chicago to- seven scattered hits and passing only one man. Pfeisters left handed shoots for the most part failed sides issuing three passes. he was hit safely thirteen times, two of the clus. ter being doubles and six of them oc- curing in one inning. It was this tn- ning-the sixth-which gave the game to Detroit.
 The gray clad Tigers scored two runs behind Chicago, when the inning opened across the plate, in a process of a minority from Detroit, which en. joyed the proceedings hugely, pleaded with vociferous unanimity for the re- tirement of Pfeister. Manager Chance who failed to show any traces of em- barrassment or displeasure at the way in which Detroit came up from behind and went ahead. smiled cheerfully and ignored the request.
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 Tyrus Cobb, idol of the Detroit en:. thuslasts, whose playing was great disappointment a wear ago. came into hitter he is and ran bases like flash. His batting average for the day was 800 Out of five times up, he hit safely four times His stinging single to the right in the first drove In O'Leary with the first run of the game. In the fourth, he reached first on a fielder's chance, but In the sixth he beat out his slow grounder, scoring Mcintyre. Tn the eighth his sprinting ability enabled him to make double of hit which, with a less speedy man would have been good Tor only one base. In the next inning he sin. sin. also pilfqred third by a narrow mar gin. He had no opportunities in the field, to the great regret of his ad- work contributed materially to the vic. tory were OLeary, Crawford and Ross. man, each of whom made two hits. al- though Rossman and O'Leary were both charged with errors,
 To Mul1in. however, the. greatest credit was awarded by the spectators. Even in the fourth inning, when all three of Chicago's runs were scored, he never 1altered. His nerve remain ed steady, nis arm strong and his con trol excellent The only base on balls which he allowed was turned Into
 Despite the fact that the sun shone brightly today and the temperatnre was higher than yesterday, only 14,543 paid admissions were registered at va rious turnstiles, netting total receipts
 Many Macant Seats.
 Dawn did not find the usual line of eager would-be purchasers at the tick ct windows. It was o'clock before single line formed and when play be- gan there were still vacant seats In the more distant bleachers. These seats, however, probably would have been filled had 1t not been that many of the spectators. chose to occupy the temporary seats in the ground behind the barriers in right, center and left field. The game was scheduled to be- gin at 2 o'clock, but was postponed fifteen minutes. waiting for the are rival of the late corners to fill the un" occupied seats.
 Detroit was the first to score. In its half of the first inning of batting, O'I,eary, with one out, lined too hastily and awkwardly for Steinfeldt. He went to second on Crawford's out and came home on Cobbs single to short center.