The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-17
BOX NEED MUCH
MORE I HAN
t +. JONES :
Entire Ball Club Seems To Be
Demanded in the Haunt OF
That Genial President
Charlie Comiskey.
Initial Showing Of Windy City
Contingent Az Bad Az the Play
Of the Tigers Was Good.
BY PAUL n. eRuskE.

BY PAUL n. 6RUskE.
Far be II from the intentions OF
khe author Of this piece 10 insert at
\ this joyful stage any element which
4 would tend to deprive the Tigers OF
4 any Of the just fruits OF the remark
able start which they have made In
the American league race. They have
b surely disported themselves like good
men and true, making good thereby
all the pleasant things said about
them while they were absent on the
'training trip. and they have given
the home populace much 10 think
about with the hes. start a Detroit
\ club has made In many moons.
Nevertheless the faithful critic OF
B the past three games must be par
doned little ponder
Were those three victories secured
x nolely because Detroit was so good
or did q fatal weakness OF the Sox
which is bound TO become more thor
(. oughly apparent later on In the sea-
son, a most important bearing
4 ON 4 u.t?
More than probably. both conditions
contributed to the most delicious ter
minntion of the first series. Yet it
must be admitted that the Sox looked
voefully weak.
Miss Jones and Walsh.
without Jones the Whitesox will
be far from formidable"
Weeks ago the prediction outlined
above began to make its appearance.
Since then II has appeared often
enough In the sporting pages TO make
Z e look as IL the line had been stere-
otyped and was being passed about
by . syndicate. The first series play
"a BY the Chicago club certainly
makes that prediction seem very prob
able OF fulfllment. Without Jones
and Walsh-the Whitesox do look
very punk. In fact. there is a still
uG1ier. II slightly longer. term which
would even more aptly describe their
p0rformances here. That the condi-
tiOn was fully recognized by the vet
eran members OF the club itself. as
we'll as the Chicago baseball experts
who were present. goes without say
Ing. Though not yet quite ready TO
call In the services OF the embalmer
they LEFT ready to admit that the air
IN the vicinity was already becoming
slightly tainted.
However. enough OF this most un-
pleasant phase OF the situation and on
TO the less disgusting details.
Doping" the sox.
For years everybody has wondered
how In the world the Chicago club
won 90 tarnation many ball games.
Dissected by experts, year after year.
the aggregation didn't seem to class
With any OF the two or three clubs up
round the top of the American league
ladder with whom IL was continually
Knitting battle for the lead. The
club had two or three corking pitch
ers. backstop whose superior would
be dificult TO find. and a brainy boss.
That was about all that could I've said
Tor II. Yet II kept winning. strictly
AGAINST all precedent and prediction.
Finally even the experts gave II up.
set the Sox down az hitless wonders
and began to dope the Chicago club
on q basis all it's own. Things went
along this way until this spring. II
events continue TO record themselves
h the tone prevalent up TO date, the
baseball world Will soon be failing
Fielder Jones as not only a grand
tactician, but as an actual wizard
In other words. folks interested In
baseball will at last learn where the
8ox really belonged all the time.
or course, the absence OF Ed Walsh
hurts. In fact. on the basis OF the
6ox' showing here. Mr.. Walsh looks
\ 10 have been even a greater factor in
" the teams scheme than Mr.. Jones.
When the giant exponent of the ex-
restoration pellet returns 10 his own.
Is he undoubtedly will, after the law.
yers have MIXED lin as dry as they
can. we will know for sure In the
meantime, the Sox hardly look as IL
Y lilly Sullivan or any other man OF
merely human brains, magnetism and
Intellect, can do much OF anything
With them In a league as strong as
the American.
Though anything Is likely TO happen
IN the great American game-as
paeudo-wise men are frequently wont
"a observe, IL may not prove q rasn
4 prediction to make at this juncture
that two eastern clubs have grand
chances TO butt their way into the
frst division this year.
Easy for olympus"
n Be that as II may. the Tigers licked
the sox again yesterday. and for. the
third time In as many DAYS. On the
occasion OF the final game of the
series they licked them much more
6oundly than In either OF the other
two, doing 20 by the hefty score of
10 10 g. II was the first time thar
the Champs have really STRUCK their
old batting stride. The butchering
Of Mr.. Fiene. painful as the process
must have been 10 himself, was
brought with loads OF eclat and oceans
~ bliss.
Prophetic as ever OF what was Ia
the wind. little Hughie sent out Bum.
\ pms" Jones 20 do battle with Fiene
"Bumpus" was favored In the events
Which shortly began to transpire. As
4 developed, almost anybody could
\ have licked the Sox yesterday. mush
lom such a corking pitcher as the
ufide Of Oxford, Mich. AS a matter
M fact. "Bumpus" was some distance
h nom being I'm his actual top form and
f Moved some six scattered hits, Of
s V11ch three came In one inning. He
4 30 plenty good enough. however.
I'D LATTE. who followed, was even
Ore impregnable.
H0xhic might have made the &C.
1rn1on enc OF debut for any number
colt cSirlers. They could all have
c1(en away with II just "a we'll
The peculiar appropriateness OF Mr..
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