The Washington times., 1909-10-14

now has a leg on the w0r3l's baseball
pennant, the score being three games to
two. If it wins ,omorrOw or Saturday
and captures the highest diamond
honors Hughey Jennings win have HIM
self largely TO blame. and his prestige
as a great, thinking manager viii re
ceive a Jolt from which it viii never
recover.
Jennings has made q most egregiOus
mistake in going into the series with
two such catchers as Schmidt and
stanage, especially schmidt HIS faults
have been so glazing that che fans OF
both leagues cannot comprehend what
ais Jennings when he sends him behind
the plate No Glass d league backstop
in the country could have made more
miserable showing or have done more
damage in the tire and one-half games
Schmidt has caught.
Not one thing has he done to redeem
himself except to make double ana
two singles on Saturday, driving in three
runs, when all the Tigers got busy with
sick man Camnitz and touched him Tor
six hits and five runs in three innings
and then got next to Willis for three
hits and two runs. on Friday and Mon
dav he was hitless, and yesterday MS
contribution with a man on second anu
one out in the ninth inning was weak
grounder to Wagner. His slugging can
not save his record or Jennings repu-
tatiou as q wise baseball man.
Mcintyre Fails.
Marty MCINTYRE was sent TO bat for
Stanaga in The seventh inning yesterday
II was Matty's third appearance as
relief swatter. Previously he had lied
N left in one game and famed IN an
other. This time he grounded out 10
Ahsfefn unassisted. on, versatility!
Tba4.s the Mcintyre sysIem-never 10
LEI the other fellows know how you are
going TO get out.
Rllt TO resume. Schmidt went behind
the bat in the seventh. Byrne opened
with a single to left and took third on
I.each's single in the same direction
Both scored on Fred Clarke's homer into
the empty centerheld bleachers.
yVazner was whanged in the short
ribs by vicious inshoOt, and made
great TO do about being almost dead
An. but he was indeed the stricken ath-
late. vas that Dutchman, cut down in
his priroe by a mere kid pitcher. Yep
that's the way he put 1t on, and the
Tigers fell for II Ike a chambermaid
falling for a palm reading He mad
hardly reached first and Strengthened
himself out when he was on for second
ike a scared rabbit on hit and run
that went wrong because Miller fouled.
Misses Twice.
Thereupon the brazen Pirate deliber-
ateIv telegraphed that ne was going TO
steal and went down on the next ball
Schmidt had every chance In the world
bur he threw wide and on the ground,
and the bah bounded to center. Wag-
ner grinned all over himself, and on
the very next ball ne lit out for third.
schmidt threw the bali twenty feet over
Moriartyts head and wagner went al
the way home.
Stanage had famed twice. in a row
yesterday and that was Jhe reason
Jennings supDlanted him with schmidt
but while he was on the JOB ne made
a hum heave when Fred Clarke stole
on Tuesday he worked WhOie game
without mishap and the PlraJeS mace
no attempt IC steal on MIN. Also on
Tuesday he smashed one through NIL
Ter SO hard he scored two men.
Reverting To Schmidt for little mo-
lnent. he has had ten bases stolen on
him in three and One-halr games tde
has nailed a stealer Just Twice OHce
he got Wagner cleanly on an aILeiLpteu
rbaft of second. On another occasion ne
made a bush league throw on when
MoriaFtv made "a graudSLanu stop ana
then tagged Wagner out on a decision
so close it is stiu causing tax. SlaIleEy
or Hardy. Of the washington team
could have done a thousand times better
-than that. Jennings has hao an ehtIre
season 10 get a catcher VINO couid I'M ~"
and the entire American League blds
fair TO be made rather RIDICULOUS De
cause he has not done so.
Summers Weak.
Summers proved weak vessel again
Yesterday and from a hindsight point Of
view, ct would have been better 20 have
taken him out before the damage was
made irreuarable. He forced in a run
IN the first inning, let in one by a wild
pitch in the second inning, and gave
base on balls that became run in the
third inning. In the fourth, h1th. ana
sixth he was effective, but in the sew
enth and eighth he was q gift from IRE
gods for Pittsburg. and the fans and
the Pirates felt ia their bones that II
Summers was wild and easy in the
third of an inning he pitched on Mon
day. when he was reached for four sin
giles. hit q batter. and LEFT man on
third when he retired. That he should
have been kept in so long yesterday
when he was going badly and threaten
ing 20 blow up any minute was hardly
good generalship
Tigers Improved.
Bush showed flashes Of his major
league form after the first two innings
yesterday. In fact with the exception
OF Schmidt and Summers. an the Tigers
were better than they have been in the
series. There was more sharpness and
certainty about their fielding. and they
no longer went at the ball as If oppress-
ed with the horror of making g. mistake
This was the solitary grain OF comfort
the Detroit rOOters got, except the sud
den coming 10 life Of sam Crawford as
q hitter.
sam has been a dismal failure in
worlds series as a sticker for three
years uatu yesterday. His whole stvie
OF batting has been pale and discOurag-
ed. Now he has apparently taken "A
new lease on life and may be able to
pull the next two games out Of the
fire Eis two-bagger 10 center that
scored COBB from first Ia the sixth In
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