The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-12
.P|TTSBURG WINS
 FROM TIE TIGERS Lead of Five Runs Is Scored
 In the First Inning BOTH TEAMS HIT HARD Wagner, Bush and Delehanty Star at the Bat While Crawford Fails
 to Hit Safely With Men
 on the Bases.
BOTH TEAMS HIT HARD

Detroit. October 11.-Pittsburg de- ] feated Detroit by the score of 8 to 6 l here toady in one of the most spectac | ular and fiercely contested games ever | played in a worlds championship series. This gives Pitsburg the margin of two games to one in the series and the National league champions are cor i respondingly jubilant. Detroit, how ever. showed in the final innings of the battle that 1t is far from a hopelessly beaten team. Weather conditions were frightful. Rain fell frequently during the nine innings, several times in hard showers of several minutes duration. The sky was threatening all day. and ] the low hanging clouds made the at mosphere so dark during the last two innings that it was hard for players and spectators to follow the ball. The afternoon recalled the first local game of the 1908 worlds series. when the Chicago Nationals beat Detroit with Summers also pitching in rain storm. A sharp northwest wind this afternoon added to the discomfort of the players
 
 stands.
 Despite the wretched weather the attendance, 1S,277, broke al local rec ords for a worlds series.
 Pittsburg Takes Lead.
 Pittsburg jumped into the lead inn mediately this afternoon by scoring five runs in the first inning. They batted Summers out of the box. aided by some poor fielding.
 Anothe CT run in the second inning gave Pittsburg a lead of to 0, and the game then appeared to be safe for the visitors. Detroit, however, came to the fore with one of the gamest raI- lies ever made and scored four runs fin the seventh inning. batting Maddox hard and playing brilliantly With the score to 4, Ptttsburg landed on the ball again in the ninth for two runs.
 With the score to 1 against it. the Detroit team even then did not real ize 1t was beaten and smashed out two runs in the last inning. Had Sam Crawford been able to hit up to his usual mark this afternoon, there might
 
 Detroit outbatted Pittsburg by a margin of one hit, getting 12 to the winners II. Summers started for the locals. but were removed before the end Of the first inning. Willett succeeded him and did well until he was taken out to allow Mcintyre to bat for him in the seventh. Mcintyre struck out. | Works, who then went in, was lucky in the eighth after Abstein had made l.
 next two were easy outs. In the ninth Pittsburg landed on him for three hits and that clinched the game for them.
 Maddox was on the rubber for Pitts burg and was hit hard in the closing innings, although Detroit could do nothing with him in the early sessions When the American leaguers did start to hit him they landed hard and often. but Manager Clark left Maddox in be- cause of the lead his team had.
 Hans Wagner Stars.
 The mighty Hans Wagner was the star of the game, but he was forced to share some of the stellar honors with Owen Bush and Delehanty of the locals. Wag- ner made four hits and stole four bases although Catcher Schmidt was not to blame for at least one of the bases. Be- sides his hitting and base-running Wag- ner played an admirable game in the field. In the first inning Wagner beat out hit to Bush, stole second and went to third on Schmidt's bad throw to second. He then scored on wild pitch. In the second he reached first on a felders choice and on double steal went to third, while Leach was stealing home. In the fifth he singled just out of Tom Jones' reach and stole second Wagner singled to left in the seventh, but was caught trying to steal second while Leach was on third waiting to score Schmidt did not throw to catch Wagner this time, however. until he had ascertained that Leach would not try to score.
 Bush and Delehanty were the bright spots on the Detroit team on batting, while Cobb and Crawford made great catches during the course of the game. Bush made four hits in five times at bat and two of them played important parts in the scoring Delehanty was there with two two-baggers and a single in five times at bat. His third hit, a double in the seventh, started the rally that caused many apprehensive chills among the Pitts burg players.
 Crawford Is Weak.
 While Crawford starred in the field, his work at the bat was feeble and he missed two excellent chances to swing the tide of victory toward his team. He ended the rally in the seventh inning by a puny pop fly to Abstein with two men on bases. In the ninth he again had a chance, with Cobb on second, but his best was feeble grounder to Wagner.
 Cobb made a two-bagger and single that were important factors In the Detroit , rally. His single in the seventh scored one run and his double in the ninth sent in two more.
 The ground rules brought about a long conference between Umpires O'Loughlin and Johnstone and the members of the national commission. Then an innovation was made by sending Umpire klem, who was not scheduled to work today, out along the right field foul line to watch the hits into the crowd and act in an advisory capacity to the other two um- | pires.
 Awful First Inning. The first inning was a weird spectacle for the local enthusiasts and when 1t was over hope was nearly dead for Detroit victory Byrne opened by beating out a hit along the third-base line and went to third when Leach singled to center. Clarke sent a hounder tO Summers and Byrne