The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-02
T|GEs TURN OFF A
BIG INNING AND
GET REVENGE
Champs Cluster Their Hits Around
Sam Crawford Who Murders at
Steady Clip All the
Afternoon.
Bush Is Giving the Statistics the Lie,
Though it Takes Perspicacity
To Appreciate.
BY PAUL Il. BRuSkE.

us common Saying Among pllSH
ers that no league finger ever Is able
to show the best that is in him un-
I'll he has been forced 10 put up for
a time with lame arm. Perhaps that
is the experience that Edgar Willett is
at present Al any rate,
the rumor became current Oh the De
troit baseball club two weeks ago thai
the Kansas Cyclone had developed a
very lame elbow. This was substan-
tiated from time to time by the fact
that Trainer Tuthill was making fire.
quent use OF his baking apparatus on
Edgar In the club house. Yet there
was nothing dstinctively crippled
about the brand OF twirlng that the
big fellow was handing out all the
while
Yesterday was typical Willet
game with the bad Inning reserve
until The last when the Maps punched
four OF their six singles. TO the great
confusion OF the imitation box scores
in the Detroit extras that score the
final stages by guessworh. AT the
time the Maps cut loose, however,
Willett had his game won beyond the
shadow OF a doubt
That such was the case was due
very largely to the torrid batting OF
Sam Crawford the Pitcher Murderer.
Sam was caught red-handed in his
deeds yesterday.
First inning. Berger pitching. no.
body on base and two out. Sam pulled
off the stunt we were all expecting
in Detroit. by spanking the ball past
Hinchman IN center. Hinch has been
playing close In on Sam Of late and
il was inevitable that. when the
drive came, he would be unable ~
catch up with It in time.
Second inning and Sam came mp
with Bush on third and Berger
nerves unsettled by a spasm which
had beaten even the one the Maps
had turned OF here the day before AZ
the expense Of Wild Bill Donovan. The
Murderer whaled a triple into tho
hence and scored Bush from third
base. counting himself moment later
on Cobbs single off Liebhardt, who
had relieved the Keeling Rerger after
Sans second blow had landed.
Surely Some Inning.
Speaking OF innings, that was surely
some period Into ii the Tiges jam
med singles by Rossman, Bush anu
cobb triples by Willett and Crawford
and fine assortment of wild heaves
By Easterly. Turner and StovaH. Six
runs! Glory be!
Recurring to Mr.. Crawford. he had
two other chances at bat. His sac
rifice I'm the eighth was material ald
to Detroit's scoring off Liebhardt anc.
into the remaining proceedings he
dumped an inocuous single.
From present appearances, Detrolf
is going to show the league hne
demonstration OF the fact tnat figures
are the greatest prevaricators known.
Yesterday DOME" Bush made two
more errors, swelling his total TO pro-
portions which were already stagger-
ing. Undoubtedly, on his present
showing. Bush will be the worst-teld'
ing shortstop in the league
And yet he's the best. beyond the
shadow of a doubt with the possible
exception Of George Mcbride. OF
washington. whose efforts at bat
would make potato smile.
He Goes After Everything.
Bush turned off so many absolutely
absurd stops that he Is of balance IN
his throwing about half the time
When he gets the ball and lets II
ay wildly but with enough speed To
have beaten the runner 10 the sack
the scorers have but one option ana
must penalize him for the error, re-
CARELESS of the fact that the wonder
ful little infielder has made possible
a chance which, with other shortstop'
ners on the field, would have belonged
to some outfielder, while the runner
trotted to first base without the ieas'
interference.
OF course, Bush accepts a lot OF
these chances and gets away with
them I'm which case they are clear
gain. Ii Is this which makes him sc
valuable 10 his team. in addition q
his inveterate habit of getting on frs'
base and making the circuit with neat
ness and dispatch
Here's hoping that he continues 70
manifest a continued contempt fo'
the error column. His number OF &C
certed chances will be speaking for
itself and the fans will know, II they
are of the knowing kind. that his fall
ure to ton the record players is occa
stoned by the fact that he Is handlhe
balls they would never get to
Summers and Rhoades.
Another game in Cleveland today
and then July double-header with
the Browns and their southpaws. In
all probability. Summers will Twill to
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