Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-12
IBy Associated Press.l

tested games ever played in a world
championship series. This gives Pitts
burg the margin of two games to one,
and the National league champions are
correspondingly jubilant. Detroit, how
ever, showed in the final innings Of the
battle that it is far from hopelessly
beaten.
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 it was so
dark during the last two innings that II
was hard for both players and spec
tators to follow the ball A sharp
northwest wind added to the discom-
fort of the players and the spectators.
Despite wretched weather, the attend
ance, 1921 broke all local records for
worlds series.
Pittsburg jumped into the lead i'm
mediately by scoring five runs in the
first inning. They batted Summers out
of the box, aided by some poor fielding
Another run in the second inning gave
Pittsburg a lead of 6 to 0, and the game
then appeared to be safe for the Wis
itors.
Tigers Fight Hard
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with one of the gamest rallies ever
made, and scored four runs in the sew
enth inning, batting Maddox hard and
playing like f1ends.
With the score 6 to 4, Pittsburg con-
nected with some of Works curves in
the ninth for two runs.
With the score to against it, the
Detroit team smashed out two moro
runs in the last inning. Had Sam
Crawford been able to hit up to his us
ual mark this afternoon there might
have been a different story to tell.
Detroit outbatted Pittsburg by a mar
gin of one hit, getting twelve to the
winners eleven. Summers started for
the locals but was removed before the
end of the first inning. Willett sue
ceeded 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
a two-base hit with but one run. The
next two were easy. In the ninth
Pittsburg landed on him for three hits
and that clinched the game. Had Jen-
nings sent in more experienced
pitcher in such a situation he might
have secured at least a tie.
Maddox was on the rubber for Pitts
burg and was hit hard in the closing
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nothing with him in the early ses-
sions. When the American leaguers
did start to hit him they landed hard
and often, but Manager Clark left
Maddox in because Of the lead his
team had.
Mighty Wagner Is Star
The mighty Hans Wagner was the
star of the game but he was forced to
share some of the stellar honors with
Bush and Delehanty of the locals.
Wagner made four hits and stole four
bases, although Catcher Schmidt was
not to blame for at least one of the
thefts. Besides his hitting and base
running, Wagner played an admirable
game in the field. In the first inning
Wagner beat out a hit to Bush, stole
secodn went to third on Schmidt's bad
throw to second. < He then scored on
a wild pitch. In the second he reached
first on a fielder's choice and on a
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, Schmidt to
Bush.
In the ninth he again singled and
stole second while Leach was on third
waiting to score.
ner 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 in batting,
while Cobb and Crawford made great
catches Bush made four good 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 apprehensiye chills among the
Pittsburg players.
Crawford's Weak Batting
While Crawford starred in the field,
his work at 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 pop fly to Abstein with
two men on bases. In the ninth he
again had a chance with Cobb on Sec
ond, but his best was a feeble bounder
to Wagner
Cobb made a two-bagger and a sin
gle 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 a long con-
ference between Umpires O'Loughlin
and Johnstone and the members of the
national commission. Then an inno-
walton was made by sending Umpire
KLEIN, who was not scheduled to work
today, out along the right foul line to
watch the hits in the crowd and act in
an advisory capacity to the two other
umpires.
The first inning was a weird spec
tacle for the locals, and when 1t was
over hope for a Detroit. victory was
nearly dead
Byrne opened by beating out a hit
along the third base line and went to
third when Leach singled to center
Clarke sent a grounder to Summers
and Byrne was caught between third
and home, Summers to Moriarity, to
Schmidt, to Bush. Leach went to third
and Clark to second during the chase
Wagner's hit was too hot for Bush and
it rolled to left field, while Leach and
Clarke scored. Wagner stole second
went to third on Schmidt's bad throw
to second and scored on wild pitch.
Miller drew a base on balls and
Abstein singled to center, Miller scor-
ing when Crawford made bad throw