The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-12
Whole Detroit Nine Shows
Marked Lack of Team
Work.
WAGNER'S HITS
VERY SCRATCHY
None of Four Credited to Dutch
man" Are of Clean
Cut Style.

fouls, but ne Is EtlAI giving Lus NoIS-
exhibition o. throwing 70 bases that
ever received major league wages. All
of his heaves but one were about as
usef-,I as pageing a deaf and dumb man
at a hotel. He did not get one in i've
to the right place or at the proper
height in practice and the proportion
wac I-ss In the game. As ne likeN, ise
fen down In his sticking his exhibition
yesterday was even sadder than In
previous games.
Tiger Fans Loyal.
Detroit has certainly proved loyal 70
the Tigers Although a smaller city
and not so dirty with money, the gem
eral Impression is that far more Tiger
rooters went TO Pittsburg than Pirate
fanatics come to Detroit The cheer
ing here is twice as loud and genuinely
enthusiastic as il is in Pittsburg, even
II the grounds DO not contain more
than two-thirds as many people
That the Tigers weakened and became
demOralized in the first two innings
cannot be denied. but they came back
graudly in the closing sessions They
never lest hope and when they realized
that MaddoX's delivery was not break
ing properly they got together with
as much spiTi5 and dash as If they
We're tied instead OF eight runs behind.
They rounded Maddox, hunted him and
worked the hit and run on him with
science and precision and If they had
only been able to steady down IN in
niugs one and two they would have
trimmed the Pirates before Manager
Cl9lke could have seen the danger.
Batting Won.
The Pirate inheld Is not invulnersble,
but it is stronger on the defense than
+de Tigers.
II was genuine hitting ability which
enabled the Ply ltes TO tap Works for
two singles a double, and a sac~ihce fly
in the nintl He had great speed: his
shoots broke sharply and his control
was perfect. bat all that could not save
him After his wildness in the second
inning Wiiletf pitched good ball and
had the Pirates helpless. Jennings
gambled high. but it was all he could
DO, when he sent Matty Mcintyre TO
bat for Willett in the seventh The
Tigers were seven runs behind, two were
on with one out, and Wiilett is not a
hitter. Mcintyre famed Works had 10
go In. and Works was touched for the
winning runs That was a genuine Jolt
from the goddess OF chance.
Work Three "Umps"
Three umpires worked Yesterday,
creating a distinct novelty. O'Loughlin
was behind the bat. tombstone on the
bases. and KLEIN on the line In far right
field 10 pass judgment whether long
hits vent into the crowd and became
amenabie 10 the ground rule allowing
two bases for such swats. Cobb's two
Dagger in the ninth would very probably
have been a home run had the field been
clear Of spectators.
Sam Crawford Is giving his third an
nual exhibition Of being the biggest dis
appointment on record in a world series
The receints so far have been enOr-
nous, The gross total for three games
has been S1o2, S32. The nearest 10 this
was the total for the entire White S1X-
Chicago Cubs worlds series in 1906.
v hich was S106.550- The players SHIRE
so far Is S5592S as against 50, 033 IS.
which they received for the whole series
IN 1907. F1rty-siV men on the two teams
will split this windfall, which is going
to be MICH larEsr before it is all over.