The Detroit times., 1909-04-26
ATCHERS DO THE
W|NN|NG FOR
THE TIGERS
that Being So, How cinchy 1t VIII
Be When the sluggers Strike
Their Respective oid.Time
Strides.
nehmide Squares Himself For Dumb
Play Saturday By Acting the Aag-
gerty On His Next Time Out
Nv PAUL "A. BRuskE.

controyery may cali for a speedy re
<Ieton--the Tiges being now In the
ohio metropolis ana scheduled Tor 4
mi series Observation-Disclosures the De
froit bug will nave his little gloat and
now is the accepted time.
Cleveland! Where is the town any
how?
Lajoie? Why that's the name OF
the guy that made two> expensive eI
rors last week. each one OF which Os'
his team a game.
The smuggling Maps? Wei, they so'
three hits on Eddie Summers yester
day In as many different innings anu
no hits at al in the other six.
Detroit's traditional rivals? Well. II
all the others are as easy, the Tigers
ought not tn lose many games for the
rest OF the season.
Contenders for the pennant? Iha'
4 is the biggest joke OF all, so far as
/ they have shown yet, for the Cleveland
bunch hasn't been able TO take more
4 than one game out OF four up 10 Date
/ from the Tiges and has gotten no bet
4 ter than an even break from the
Browns.
No Excuses Go. Either.
or course. the Cleveland fans are
/ there with the excuses. The in1eld
IS sadly crippled by the temporary
loss of Turner and Bradley. 10 be
sure. Yet wait moment. DID Ter
nv Turner in his prime ever play THAI
n abort field any better than Hinchman
did yesterday? Were there any flies
on Mr.. Perring at third base or at the
bat where he whistled out couple
that only accidental proximity OF field
ers TO the line of their fight turned
& into outs7
To all intents and purposes Cleve-
land had he full strength In the Held
and her pitcher was delivering the
goods very acceptably, only-well De
troit was too much for the Ohio atm
\ letes.
Aha, What a painful duty 1t Is for
the Tiger supporter TO reel on line
/ OF talk like that.
Addie Joss says the Maps are not
bothering about any series this year
except the one with Washington. Per
haps, before the season is much far
Their advanced there will be some at
tention paid the Tigers over in the
tomjohnson town.
oh, very WE'LL Let IL go at that.
Murray for the Hcsvers!
Yesterdays game was fine illus
tration OF the versatility of the Tiger
squad. Ordinarily the champs are ex
d pected to win their games by virtue
of the mighty smuggling deeds OF Wa
hoo Sam. the Georgia Peach and our
stalwart first-sacker Claude. OF Phil
mont. The Tiger pitchers are suppos-
cd to hold the enemy to four runs or
Whereabouts. The batting babies dc
the rest
Well, up 10 date the Wahoo person
is hitting In the neighborhood OF .24J
and the Peach about ten points less
ostentatiousiy. Our hard-hitting first
sacker, as we are proud 10 refer 20
him, has been picking them now and
then but the others are behind their
normal clip by considerable.
But how does IL come that the team
has lost only three games out Of ten
10 tar?
The answer is easy.
Batting support being not particular.
ly In evidence. George Mullin and Ed
die Summers have taken the bits in
their teeth and, assisted at times by
Edgar willett and sundry others-we
opine from his showing In Chicago Sat
urday that one Speer will be heard
from more and more as the season adj
vances-they have gone ahead to bull
the base-hit market to such an extent
as to make such indulgencies on the
part OF hostile aggTegations virtually
out of the question. The Tiger pitch
ers don't allow anybody a run and
then, after the game has progressed
seemly distance DOME Bush or
Charlie Schmidt or George Moriarty
OF somebody else comes along and
makes a couple of doubles or steals a
few bases or something else OF that
\ delicious character.
schmidtty compensates.
Yesterday win furnish grand ma.
terial for the daily gathering round
the cracker barrel at Coal Hill, Ark s
popular grocery, when the news drifts
in. which will be some time around
Friday The. burg's most famous citi
gen went cunning tor the aureole OF
h Pitcher Wright and accumulated a
perfect record for the day at the bat
He sacrificed unaveilingly IL perfect
ly the first time up. Schaefer having
paraded Immediately before, though
he failed to get around. The next
time there was one out and none or
base. Detroit hadn't scored a hit as
yet. though 1t was the sixth inning
B Full scope was accordingly guaran
teed Mr.. Schmidt and he took a pok,
B at the bah. The suddenness of hi,
onslaught. coupled with the north gal,
somewhat confused the athlete tenant
ing the Cleveland left field and tn,
ball got away from him. The crow,
opened up and EMBODIED IL. MI
Schmidt took second. He advanced OF
Summers ny to Goode, and score,
when Mcintyre rolled a perfectly ride
uious little grounder just out o
Wright's reach and 80 GLOW that Hinch
man didn't lave a chance TO make
play 10 either base. he having laid ia
out. expecting something altogethe
diffefent. Matty took second whel
Bush walked and scored when Craw
ford clouted into center.
Once more and yet again already
Mr.. Schmidt turned on the sluggin
stunt. His turn came In the next In
ming when bis drive scored Scnaefel
waiting on second base.
All OF which was poetic justice Il
view OF the fact that. according To tn
united testimony of the Tigers
schmidt LOST the game Of the day pre-
ceding at Chicago. by throwing .
third base wildly wnen he might jus
a. we'll have trotted down TO the baI
and touched one OF the two runner