The San Francisco call., 1909-10-11
Heavy Rain In
Detroit Makes
Game Doubtful
Thousands of Fans Await Third
Battle for the Worlds
Championship
BY r. w. LARDNER
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

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DETROIT, Mich. Oct. lot is just
as well no Sunday game was scheduled
in Detroit between the Pirates and
Tigers. 1t would have been impossible
to play today, for heavy rain started
falling at noon and had not ceased to-
night. More rain is predicted for to-
morrow, but unless 1t is absolutely i'm
possible the rival clubs will get to-
gether as advertised.
For once in it's history Detroit is
Crowd The inhabitants of Tigertown
have much more confidence in the abil-
ity of their heroes to trim the Pirates
cursion trains from Petsburg will
bring Pirate hackers tomorrow morn
ing. The demand for seats is without
parallel here, according to President
Navin, who has pee been ,,sp wp6rkihng thags Mars Mas
no such thing as a battle for the
worlds title.
THIRD IS CRUCIAL STRUGGLE
One would think that tomorrow's is
to be the deciding game of the series
There is no doubt that this strug-
gle will be important in the extreme.
Manager Clarke today named three
give out any definie information con-
cerning his plans, saying that he would
have known whom to work If Pittsburg
had won the Saturday game. Inc nomi,
Adams II looks as ii the left handler
would be the one selected. Leifield is
in great shape. but Clarke evidently
is a little afraid to trust him with the
task, perhaps because he has shown
spells of unsteadiness
SUMMERS FOR DETROIT
1t is almost certain Eddie Summers
will pitch for Detroit. If he Is able
to duplicate Donoyan's feat and take
the measure of the National leaguers,
the Tigers probably will become favor
ties in the betting, for Jennings then
will have Mullin and Donovan to come
back with. 1t is the plan now to pitch
MuIlin here on Tuesday and Donovan
in Pittsburg Wednesday, but this
scheme will not work out unless Sum
mers proves effective tomorrow.
Before the series started those who
picked Pittsburg to win made their
selection on the ground that Detroit is
not overburdened with classy pitchers.
To date, Jennings slabmen have done
in rare form yesterday and Mullins 8
performance the day before would
have won him the verdict on most occa-
Sions.
sLUGGERS DUE TO AWAKEN
One thing that makes Detroit people
hopeful of ultimate victory is the fact
that Crawford and Cobb are due to
begin smuggling. Each has one hit tn
MS so lar duQ ouc I'LL III LWO
games is below the regular gait of
each. To be sure, fCrawf9rdS drive
counted in the scoring yesterday, but
the Tigers could have won without 1t.
IL the two do strike their stride there
is bound to be trouble for Maddox.
Leifield, Adams and the rest of them.
DEFEND ON KNUCKLE BALL
Manager Jennings and every mem
Der of the Detroit club believe Sum-
mers will puzzle the Pirates with his
knuckle ball, delivery to which they
are unaccustomed. Eddie is great
pitcher when he is good and much de-
pends upon his ability TO get away to
fair start.
Manager Hughey and Bill Donovan
were the only Tigers to come around
to the hosteIry and call this afternoon.
Bill was all smiles and was busy re-
ceiving congratulations. not from Pitts
burg partisans. however. Jennings re-
peated his expressions of confidence
and said he was pleased that Cobb had
shown the National league fans some
of his fast base running stunts even
though Ty had been unable to hit In
his usual form.
JENNINGS CONFIDENT
'.crawford> and Cobb will have a lit
tie more luck in the next two days.
said Hughey, and when they begin to
waIlop the ball it will be all off with
Pittsburg. If Summers is right to-
morrow the balance of the series ought
to be comparatively easy sailing for
us