The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-10-15
DETROIT WON YESTERDAYS
GAME BY SCORE OF 5 TO a
AFTER MOST SENSA.
TiONAL BATTLE.
THREE MEMBERS or
DETROIT TEAM HURT
In Ninth inning When Pittsburg
Started Rally That -sould Have
Won If Mulin Had Not Re-
covered-Tom. Jones
is Badly Injured.

Detroit, Oct. 14.--Detrot kept in
the fight for the worlds baseball
championship by deafeating Pittsburg
to f. today in a battle full of sen
sational and thrilling situations. The
two teams are now tied, with three
victories each. The seventh and de-
ciding game will be played here Sat
uray. A fear-inspiring rally in the
ninth inning by PittsDurg was stop
ped after | run was scored. but three
of the Detroit players were injured
in stemming the rush OF the Pittsburg
runners to the plate.
Jones Most Seriously Hurt,
Tom Jones, Detroit first baseman,
was the most seriously hurt. His neck
and spine were injured in a collision
with Wilson at first base. This re.
suited in Pittsburg scoring its run
of that session Charles Schmidt,
catcher, had his right leg badly
gashed in blocking Abstein off the
plate in the final inning. The play
that finished Pittsburg's threatening
rally resulted in the injury of George
Moriarity. who caught Wilson trying
TO steal third on Abbaticchio's strike
out. Moiarty's left knee was badly
hurt when Wilson slid into the base.
Tom Jones was carried off the field
unconscious. Recovering conscious
ness in the club house, fle insisted on
being taken home rather than the
hospital He was carried there in an
ambulance and it is practically GER
tain that he will be unable to play
Saturday, Schmidt, it is thought, can
play and no doubt Moriarity also. The
injury of Tom Jones made it neces.
sary to shift Crawford to first base.
d. Jones to centerfieId and sending
Mcintyre to left.
Pirates Started Strong.
The Pittsburg tea. got big lead
by smashing out thr>s runs on four
successive hits off Mulln in the first
inning but after that Mullin was in
vincible until the ninth when he
weakened enough to get into a dan
gerous situation, only to extricate
himself by another marvellous exhibi.
tion of pitching.
Detroit put up another Of its won.
derful uphill games, scored one in
the first inning, batted Vic Willis off
the slab by scoring ,wo inthe fourth,
and another in the nth by terrific
batting. Camnitz succeeded Willis
and Detroit batted him hard enough
to get another run in the sixth. Cam.
nitz was withdrawn when Hyatt bat.
ted for him in the seventh and the
veteran Phillippi stopped the Detroit
scoring.
The ninth inning rally of Pittsburg
teemed with tense moments and
dramatic incidents. At one time a
hit meant the probable winning OF
the worlds championship by Pitts
burg as single woiud have tied the
score and two-baggcr perhaps put
Pittsburg in the lead.
Pittshurg's Ninth.
Pittsburg went to the bat with the
score FIVE to three against it in the
last inning. Miller scarted with a
single to right, Abstein put another
in the same place, sending Miller to
second. Wilson paced a bunt in
front of the plate, Schmidt fielded it
to first, but a collist9n with Wilson
caused Jones to lose the ball. Miller
scoring and Absten moving to third.
The, delay oecasioned by Tom Jones
injury gave Mullin a hard earned op-
portunity to recover his balance. Glib
son grounded to Crawford who had
succeeded Tom Jones at first base
and the star fielder made a great stop
and throw to the plate. Ahstein was
OFT when Schmidt biccfed him off the
plate and tagged him, but the Detroit