The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-10-14

~ PAUL n. eRuskE.
Now the question NC all want TO
80 explained TO our satisfaction is
how ~ the world that Chicago Nation
~ league club managed to lose 80
usmas IN the course OF its season =
cam paitn.
It's . moral cinch that. playing as
they have against the Tigers. one Of
those nves--the nrst one. of course.
might safely have been eliminated.
Tho only possible explanation az
hand - the long series of accidents
Sustained by the worlds champions IN
the heat of the pennant combat.
Yeeterday's game was commonly
agreed on as the crisis In the big race,
Had the Tigers won II they would
have tied the Cubs and have placed
themselves In a position were they
needed 10 win but two more games
20 dethrone the greatest team. In all
probability, that has ever been or
ganixed.
There 10 no occasion TO repine
81 over the game which the American
league champions furnished. They
played the sort OF ball that would
have wen three games out Of four
soeInst any other team. And yet
they lost by q score Of 10 0,
pisyed erroriess ball according to
the offscIal scorers and mad
right good pitcher out there on the
ssrlNa line.
THEY LOST BECAUSE THEY
WEaE OUT-Cl4AssED IN BATTING.
OUT.giASSED IN FIELDING. OUT.
CLAsSED IN BASE-RUNNING AND
OuT-CLAssED IN GENERALSHIP
AZ. The writer has never seen a gam :
IA which team rose TO the emergen-
cy Is Chicago's Cubs did yesterday
Brown fooled the Detroit sluggers,
not because they were on their strida.
but because he was pitching the
rrandest sort OF ball. Tinker. Evers
and Steinfeldt pulled of play after
MAY OF the most dificult character
without ever giving the impression
that they were doing anything out Of
the usual. On the bases the Cubs
were invincible. They took advan-
tneo OF Two scoring chances In dash
lng style, almost never hitting at a
hall that did not cut the plate and
eettiug their hits when they counted
mightily. Two out saw them striving
q IL they had Just started the. inning.
II fsct. every one of their runs was
scored after two men had been retired.
They planned out every play Ike .
zane Of checkers and were ready 10
meet the emeroenty before 1t arose.
no HALL CLUB EVER ORGANIZED
COULD HAVE BEATEN THE CUBS
IN THxIR FORM OF YESTERDAY.
The best any organization could have
Aono would have been to prolong the
eontoot "a even terms and the Cubs
$3.50 @ e they could have done their
share Of II TIL darkness began to fall.
Tho way thar stopped the Tigers
~ thoiS one scoring opportunity WAS
III nsundoot piece Of baseball seen At
u6uno&t Park "a many moons.
osLAary ba0 led on the inning--the
funrth with q clean single. neatly
p1ocod over Tinker. Good old Wahoo
0&m had smashed one past Stein
ES11t and there were men on first and
5000 with none out. Cobb, the
A&1osican leagues greatest batsman.
woo ~.
chsnes, Tinker and Brown cor
1oeyol.
''Tt6y1l play 1t to tie US up" said
chance. when he hunts. you. Brown.
- " on the line and get that bail.
6foinfoldt will stick to third"
yea" added Tinker. and keep 1t
over the Outside corner so he can't
ruIl Il down toward first base"
ueOwu fooled around with Cobb 4
fsW moments and then handed Ty n
Low curve that gave him just the OPP
UoCtnuiSy be had been hoping for. He
Qoted, just a. Chance had predicted
~ would. A he had let the pitch go.
ngoWn had gotten under full head
~ ana sprinted toward the foul line
Cohh's hunt was absolute perfection
~ there wasn't q chance In the
World for the three-hngered one to
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