Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-14
CHICAGO TAKES
FOURTH OF SERIES
SHUTS OUT DETROIT IN Err
RORLESS GAME
TIGERS ONLY CHANCE CAME IN
FOURTH
Cubs Need but to Win Today's Game
to cinch the Worlds Cham
ponship Title-Score
to o
ERr Assoclated Press.1


DETROIT. Oct. 13-Chicago crept
one game closer to the worlds baseball
championship today by defeating De-
troit, to 0.
Chicago has now won three games of
the series, as compared with the one
annexed by Detroit at Chicago yester-
day.
Eddie Summers of Detroit and Nor
decai Brown, the premier pitcher of the
Chicago team, opposed 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 on balls,
some of which seemed to the crowd to
be much like strikes. He was cutting
the corners in whirlwind fashion, and
an inch either way would have changed
the umpires verdict.
Chicago had 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 a result of sprightly efforts of Cough
lin and SchSefer, had been retired
Summers wavered ever so little, and
Schultz was presented with standing
room on the initial bag. The tall Chi
cago right fielder promptly concluded
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, next up, was also walked, de-
spite the strenuous objections of the
Detroit battery, to say nothing of the
crowd. Singles by Steinfeldt and Hof-
man followed, sending Schultz and
Chance across the plate.
1s5 fllI iRl 0d nfT a N
second during the process of run-get-
ting, but the best Tinker could do was
a. grounder to O'Leary, who threw him
out
Chicago's next and final run occurred
in the ninth, when Winter took Sum-
ners' place in the box. The change in
pitchers made no difference to Chi
cago. With two gone, Evers singled to
left and stole second, coming home on
Chances single to right.
Detroit threatened to score only once.
In the fourth inning Brown found him
self in a pretty hole when singles by
O'Leary and Crawford placed those
players respectively on second and first
bases with none out. Capt. Chance left
first base and Joe Tinker came over
from short to confer with Brown. If
the conference concerned the handling
of an expected bunt it was successful.
Cobb, the Detroit slugger, who hit so
strenuousy yesterday, was next up and
bunted The ball rolled steadily toward
Brown, who rushed up TO 1t and with
out even looking at first, shot it on a
line to third, just in time to get
OLeary.
Crawford meanwhile had taken Sec
ond on the play. He is known locally
as "Old Reliable" 1t 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 second,
"Old Reliable" for once m his life 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-tive winks too
many Killing observed the runners
somnolent expression and the violent
efforts of Joe Tinker to attract atten-
ton without making noise. The Chi
cago backstop shot the ball to Tinker,
on a line, rudely disturbing the rest
of Crawford, spelling Detroit's only
chance TO score and perceptibly depres-
Crawford retired to the bench crest
fallen, for where there had been men
on bases with an excellent chance of
scoring, now there We're two out with
only Cobb at first.
Cobb started to steal second at the
same time that Umpire Connolly called
third strike on Rossman. Presum-
ably Killing did not hear what the UNI
pire said, Off he threw to Evers and
KLEIN called Cobb out. The play, how
ever did not count, as Rossman had
already made the third out.
In the fifth inning Coughlin was hit
by a pitched ball but got no further
than first. In the sixth O'Leary got
his second hit, but was Immediately
doubled. In the next three innings
Detroit went out one, two, three.
The pitching of Brown was clearly
up to his usual standard. His only
wildness was in hitting Coughlin. He
allowed 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 accept
ing four chances in fielding out run
ners on bases.
While the crowd today was larger
than that which turned out to view the
opening struggle of the series, it was
not so large as had been expected in
view of the Detroit victory yesterday
The turnstiles registered 12,907 paid ad-
missions, from which the gross re-
ceipts were $19.231.
The ground Immediately in front OF
the grand stand was still muddy from
Saturdays play, but the diamond was
in good condition and the weather was
ideal for spectators and players.