The Washington herald., 1909-10-12
PIRATES CAPTURE
BATTING CONTEST
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in the seventh. so that Matty Mcintyre
could strike out for him Works started
out finely. but when rain began falling
in the ninth he experienced difficulty in
controlling the sphere. and the Pirates
got TO him for a pair OF runs, SUFFICIENT
to give them the decision
The Tigers made fewer hits of Maddox
than the Pirates CLEANED of the deliveries
Of Summers. Willetts. and Works. and
for the third time the National Leaguers
had the edge on their adversaries' inield.
Hans Wagner made brilliant debut
before a Detroit crowd. and lived up TO
his reputation of being the greatest base
ball player in the world. The Teuton
terror made four singles and stole a
quartet of sacks. It is hardly necessary
to say that Charley Schmidt was De
troit's backstop. Jennings. for some rea-
son, still imagining that the coal miner
is a good pegger and a better man to
have behind the bat than Stanage.
Tiny Owen Bush. who only celebrated
his twenty-hrst birthday on the after
noon the worlds series started. divided
the batting honors Of the conflict with
Wagner The diRinutive Tiger. like
Honus bingled safely three times, and
was among those present IN the two
rallies made by the Jungleites.
"Der' Also Bats We'll.
Jim Delehanty did some spirited slug
ging in the early part Of the controversy.
and led the attack on Maddox IN the
seventh inning that resulted In Detroits
scoring four times. The former Senator
however, ended the game by skying to
Clarke, Cobb being left on third.
Ty Cobb made the star fielding play OF
the game when he caught Jack Miller
low fly IN the ninth inning. The Georgian
had to turn a sOmersault 10 make the
/ capture. but he came up with the ball in
his hand. other good catches were made
by Clarke on Crawford in the fourth in
ming. and by Crawford on Leach in the
same session.
For the first time a worlds champion
ship game was umpired by three men.
| The extra official was Billy Klein. who
did patrol duty IN the right field. on &C
count OF the crowd. to judge the value OF
hits out that way. Klems duties were MI.
as not once was he called upon to make
a decision.
/ Though the Pirates have won two games
10 the Tigers one. the Fungleites showed
/ in the last three innings to-day that they
are far from out OF the SERIES and that II
/ Mullin and Donovan repeat their excel
lent box tricks OF last Friday and Satur-
day the worlds honors nay fall to the
| Detroits.
First Inning.
Pittsburg-Byrne hunted the first ball
/ Summers hitched down the left foul
line and beat Moriaritys fast throw,
and on the hit and run Leach singled TO
| center. sending Byrne to third. on
/ CIark's roller 70 Summers, Byrne was
caught on third and retired. Summers %
/ Moriarity, to Schmidt. TO Bush. Leach
and Clark scored on wagner's single
which was too hot for Bush to handle.
Wagner stole second and went 70 third
/ on Scandals high throw. Wagner scored
on a wild pitch. Miller waited and
walked Abstein singled 10 center, and
( Miller scored when Crawford made a wild
throw to catch him at third. Absteir
went to third on the play. With fouT
runs In and one man out Willetts went
in to pitch for Detroit Wilson singled
70 center. bringing IN Abstein Wilson
[ went TO second when Bush threw out
/ Gibson. Schmidt made pretty catch OF
Maddox's high. twisting foul Five runs
FIVE hits, two errors.
Detrogi-D. Jones put up an easy fly
which Leach caught with little effort
Bush sent a hummlng single through
the box. Cobb drew three balls and Their
| famed. Crawford ended the round by
forcing Bush, Miller 20 Wagner. No runs
one hit, no errors.
Second Inning.
PIttsburg-Morlarity made q great jump
ing stop Of Byrne's bounding roller, and
got him at first Leach was hit on the
right hand by a pitched ball and went 70
first. Clarke was also hit by pitched
ball. Wagner forced Clarke at second
Bush TO Delehanty. Leach and Wagner
pulled of a double steal. Leach scoring
and Wagner going 10 third when Schmidt
muffed Bush's throw. Abstein flied e
Crawford. One run, no hits, one error.
Detroit - Delehanty doubled TO left
! MOria-ity struck out 1. Jones popped 9
lhy 70 Byrne. Schmidt out, Miller 20 Alb
stein. No runs. one hit, no errors.
Third Inning.
Pittsburg-Abstein out, Delehanty to T
Jones. Wilson fled TO Crawford. Gibson
out. Moriarity to T. Jones. No runs, NJ
hits. no errors.
Detroit-Clarke ran far back into lef
center and made pretty catch of WI
let's fly. Clarke make a capture o.
Jones' short-line fly. ByTne reached 4
mile. grabbed Bushs tap, and got tn:
BAN TO first ahead OF the runner. No runs
no hits, no errors.
Fourth Inning.
Pittsburg-Willetts' toss OF Maddox
roller settled the runner. Byrne's Dol
] dropped in Bush's hands. Crawford raj
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