The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-26

Lake chaperOned his band or alleseu
speed boys out OF Detroit last night.
and there was no band on hand TO pay
tribute to the occasion with marual
airs.
Tonight the Tigers, after occupying
ringside seats at the Fair Grounds
and picking their teeth In leisure. VIII
fade similarly. Detroit is going 10
have a long respite from baseball and
win have to worry along with Grand
Circuit races, contests between tho
gasoline tuggernauts, the sport OF
kings and q national championship
rowing regatta. For three long weeks
this IL to be the case. Not until sun
day. Aug. Is, will our boys-as we
are wont TO term them when they nave
acquitted themselves with credit-bo
back on the Job at the home lot, Tor
they play in Cleveland, New YORK
Boston, Philadelphia and washington
before they're home again.
Goodbye, boys, take care OF your
selves.
Win II, Lose 6, With the East.
It's been a good home stand. every
thing considered Against the western
clubs the Tigers. by their feat OF trim
ming the Browns in eight games In as
many DAYS. put themselves well TO the
good. Against the eastern clubs they
won IL games and lost six, which IS
about their normal clip. Nobody has
been catching up with them; In fact'
the Athletics suffered a slump worse
than the one that hit the Tigers when
Mack's men were here. The pitchers
ara going finely. the shifts that Man
sger Jennings has made In his inneid
have apparently worked for good, al
IN lovely and the bugs can almost
hear that pennant tapping.
The fond memories that remain
from the long home stand are not cen
tered in the final combat-the partniah
shot. as Il were, fred by the Boston
gang. however. II was not good pau
that the Tigers played on Sunday, anu
this was fact which they lamenten
all the more because OF the presence
OF 40 many OF their friends and SUP
porters. Had The Peach only neld
Miles fly after long run; had Wahoo
Sam only heaved true 10 the plate
little later: had Red Kilifer only tag
Red those runners that came sliding
into second like an accommodation
train on an upgrade. after Stanage
had handed him the ball wherewith TO
nut them out-all this In the first In
ning-dewey eve might have fallen
with the ball yard still Inhabited. AS
II WA. Killian should have had shut
ont lust as willett should in his
game the day before-though the lat
ter had TO wait IL innings before win
ming. 2 to /.
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nitchers in the style to which they
have become accustomed as runs the
old phrase so often heard In the d.
vorce court.
But all this is vain retrospect. The
Tiges lead the league. lead II by a
bigger margin ia games, condition and
In prestige than at any other period in
the race up to date. II Is the general
belief of all wise guys that they Will
lead Il at the finish.
crawford's Batting Feats.
In the meantime II is a pleasant
duty 20 call attention to the fact that
Wahoo Sammy Crawford Is likely "a
be leading this league almost any
old day. Sam hasn't had to go hitress
10 bed since July 10. on which event
full date the other Tiges slugged
Brockett and Chesbro into AFFECT sub
mission. Saturday he batted In one
OF Detrolt's two runs and scored the
other himself in the twelfth inning
after spanking the ball into the cen
ter field crowd with force that. In diff
ferent conditions. would have Melted
him even more than : two-base larrup
Southpaws-what a plague we have
had OF them OF late-are as easy for