The San Francisco call., 1909-10-10
Second Game
Goes Against
Pittsburgers
Every Tiger bur One Gets Hit
and Foxy TyruS Cobb
Steals Home
By R. W. LARDNER
s. Daealeh o ~ CaIIl


PITTsBURG. Oct. s.-The Detroit
Tigers. playing the baseball OF which
they are capable, the kind that has
won them three straight American n
lea que championships, evened up the
score in the worlds series today by
beating Pittsburg in the second game,
10 ..
Behind superb pitching by Donovan,
Hughev Jennings men acted like their
real selves. Despite their three errors
their heldiug was classy. far superior
10 that OF yesterday Cobb Crawford
and the rest Of them appeared TO have
shaken on their nervousness and they
went after young Howard Camnitz 50
nerCelE that he was glad to retire in
the midst Of the third inning when il
was plain TO see that he did not have a
chance Of fooling the Michigan slug
gers
Donovan was bad at the start and
the Pirates. hitting IN luck. scored
twice before Donovan had fairly
warmed 10 his task. After that frst
inning the home boys were eating out
OF BITS valuable right hand and only
three lirs did they accumulate
Charley Schmidt was DouoVsn's chief
assistant The stockE Tiger catcher
drove in the two tallies that tied IL
Up in t1e second win lohg aHa togu
two bagger- Then he put on the nnish-
ing touches i'm the nth by shooting 2
single 70 center and counting Two more
0f his teammates The game had been
won before that time, however. Old
reliable Jim Delehanty broke II up IN
the third with crack past wagner
and Tv Cobb made Ill safer by pulling
Of the real feature Of the day
The chances are that Pittsburgers
have better opinion of COBB To-Day
tlan they ever had before. Besides
lis daring theft he almost pulled on
auother OF his favorites. namely. dash
ing from first 10 third base On an in
field out He was going 50 fast.
though. thar he was unable 10 stop
when lie reached Byrne's station, and
Bobby tagged him after ne hao sld
F-verv one On the Detroit team got
hit but Donovan himself. and ne aIInost
beat out & bunt in the fourth Schmidt
was credited with two. and, as mas
reen hinCed both Of them counted LOT
2 lot sam Crawford al last manages
- connect His drive was Gouble
Goat vent past Bvrne like q shot and
ras worth something, for sam event
T6e mos helpless person 10 face
Donovan was Bill Absrein. He was
fortunate enough 20 land for single
his second time Up. but he struck out
every other chance he got honus
Wagner was none TOO strong himself
Bin famed him in the opening inning.
when Pittsburg. yelling like mad Ior
ore OF the Dutchman's old time wal
Ions which would have counted a
reuDIe OF waiting Pirates. and perhaps
himself HOnus popped an easy ny on
his second appearance and rolled
gr0Guder TO Donovan his third time
up His hit IN the ninth was something
III scratch. for Tom Jones probably
could have felded IL II IL had bounded
truly TO him
Tommy Leach was again the lead
iuE light Of Pittsburg. he hit two
la agzers his first two times at bat and
made a pretty throw from the out
held 10 third base, which caught a
daring Tiger.
wills was Camnitz' successor when
Clarke had decided that the late vic
tim OF ronsOlitls was having relapse.
Nics peculiar slow curve deceived
Jennings LADS part Of the time, but
not ali OF it. Three Detroit runs were
made while he was working, the first
Of them being on Cobb's great sprint
for the plate. Willis had lots or
trouble in the fifth. the inning in which
Crawford got his bearings and in
which Charley Schmidt produced his
second bread winning drive After
that Vic was good and the Tigers had
but one chance TO tally. that being
lost because Cobb overslid third.
Donovan worked fast as usual, and
nts colllfo5 Nas PSElect CURING ths lasI
seven innings HIS curve ball broke
nicely and his fast one had the hop on
81 which troubled the Cubs so much
early In that famous duel with Overall
on the West Side grounds last fall.
Pittsburg broke its own worlds Sc
RES attendance record, made yesterday,
UE Last To-Day = crowd DElHk 1As1lNs
Barney Dreyfus and all concerned were
fortunate in having another ideal aft
ernOon for the game. and yesterdays
victory moved lot Of this city's neigh
b0rs TO come 10 town and see the feat
repeated. They were disappointed, OF
course but they saw q much more in
teresting and better played game than
on Friday.
There were no vacant seats in the
stands this time. and the new bIeachers
around the outfield were popuIa ted
more densely than at the opening bat
tie. E'ourthermore. there were hun
dreds OF bugs sitting on top of the
fences
The Tigers were handed many ex-
pressions Of sympathy. which were met
with laughs and good natured boasts.
Behind the Detroit bench were seated
the bugs from Michigan. They went
wild after Schmidts double had tied it
in the second. and still wilder when
DeIehanty made his timely single in the
third Their JOY was beyond descrip-
tiOn when Umpire Evans ruled Ty Cobb
safe at the plate on the Georgian's
steal
Pittsburg lost good money on the re-
suit The tourists from TfRertoWn fig
ured that Jennings would pitch Eddie
Summers. and they were confident Ed
dies knuckle bail would fool the Ma
rfonal lesguers. who never had seen it
So they backed their club TO win this
game. and some OF them were on the
short end Of : 10 wagers. Jennings
crossed them by working Donovan.
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