The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-14
|eERS WILL WIN
PEhhANT, SAYS
GANT|LLON
|nge Of Reelfoot Lake Is Doing His
Best To Pull Them Down, But
Gives Them Credit Just
40 the Same.
ki6es Trim Gray in Opening Clash
With Killian at His Very Best
Form Throughout
BY PAUL n. BRuskE.

While struggling along with a Grip
pied team and fussing daily as TO the
most Imposing lineup possible TO place
IN the field against the Tigers. ice
Cantillon finds enough time 10 pause
and give a prophecy.
detroit will win the pennant." re-
marked the sage OF Reelfoot lake.
FOR there isn't team in the league
that really classes with them. Moth
Ing but the worst sorr OF base ball luck
Ian stand IN the way.
philadelphia good team but
lawfully lucky all season up 10 date.
III don't think the Athletics have a
single thing on my team and | know
They've beaten us SO regularly thar
they've made us look bad TO man
who doesn't take into account the way
we've been crippled. Here | am with
4 Clymer still out with a broken leg.
Street absent on a call TO his home
Browne and Delehanty just back IN
4 sitter long absences and Conroy In no
/. phape TO play. Add TO that the way
the Athletics have Cut-ncked us IN
almost every game and you'll have
4 some idea of the reason they're up
4 where they are.
Comics Men Lucisy.
DAY after day in our series with
Comics men we'd be playing them
even or actually leading them when.
al at once Davis OF somebody else
who hadn't had anything like a hit
would come up and peel off a three
Dagger just at a time that would
change the whole complexion of the
game. IL didn't seem possible for
them to waste a hit. somehow.
Connie has had his whole team IN
shape since the start OF the season.
\ Collins Is going so fer ahead OF his
FORMER gait that he's almost certain
10 slow up some. They are sure TO
have a few accidents and then you
Fellows will have another chance 70
pull away. | don't consider Boston a
eoutender at ALL"
So saying Mr.. Cantilion resumed his
attempt TO draw up batting order
which would enable him to trim the
z aggregation which he had just ten
dered so hearty boost.
49, Senators a Good Ball Club.
There is undoubtedly whole lot in
!. what Cantillon says about his own
teams crippled condition and tie
Afhletics' luck in the inter-club series
y which has done 50 much to put them
& IN second place Baseball experts all
oyor the country believe that Ioe's
team is a whole lot better than lis
:poSition in the league standings and II
'wonld surprise few 10 see the tall
lenders strike a sprinting clip at any
stage OF the proceedings and simply
rum nmuck.
a The Senators weren't doing any
X thing of that sort yesterday, however.
One OF the reasons WIS Ed Killian.
The Detroit southpaw pitched tne
n beet game he has shown this year. la
4 fact. 1t was his first appearance In
"A which his old-time control was really
"a Sevidence. He could lay that tan
TALKING slow curve OF his over the
+ outside corner to the right-handcd
8 batters In a way that leased them 10
frenzy. while the left-handers were Sc
eaSy that he would with impunity
IS Waite three balls. If it seemed I'D
visAble and come right back with three
etr4kes ut which they could break their
b backs without performing any damage
to the run column. Not score did he
allow the harried representatives, OF
ma national capital and most of the
X hftb they did get came with two ont
rs md several chances to retire the side
an Evidence, before the plate could be
n crdssed. Perfectly supported by the
Ti6ers Ed. acted as IL he could have
twlrled all day without suffering
4 Knitting more than a miniature and
6afmlcss hit ncv and then.
Making the Hits Count
NJ The Tigers weren't doing much.
y However, to the lanky Mr.. Gray. Had
ne had good control. 1t would have
B been closer yet. but the Tiges. as is
osual when the left-hander pitches.
rot the most out Of their hits.
81. Right I'm the first. Bush beat out an
lnfcld grounder and stole second. Wa
hob Sam. the red-handed ptcher-lnur-
defer. failed into center. and the Pre-
cotious Child trotted home. Conroy
hobbl$a out in front OF Wahoo's drive
kuocked It down and toyed with II
m6mentarlly. Sam dug for second
and made II, whence he scored on a
oassed ball and wild pitch.
There we were. strong with pail
rfeht at the start The third and hnal
Tun was the result of series OF hec
&c dashes about the sacks by the one
and only Georgia Peach.
Came the fourth and. with one out
f nv smashed over third. He never
pulled up. but kept going and slid In
Is second. completely circling the be
* fuddled Delehanty, though the latter
Mad the ball.
I'D and doing again was the boss o.
III the base runners the game ha:
ever seen. BY virtue of another o.
nose wonderful slides. he got around