The Detroit times., 1909-06-07
HgERs OPEN THEIR
SERIES IN NEW
YORK TO-DAY .
Den't Expect 70 Find the Pitching
Any Harder Than at Boston,
->-s> Whsss They Looked at
Two q Day.
Perth Amboy Exhibition Starts Sc
5 ries That Will Be in Progress All
Year, Players Getting the Dough.
by PAUL n. HRUSkE.

"a BY PAUL n. BRUSkE.
v Still sojourning In the land OF doubt
full pitching. the Tigers resume their
|<1eague play this afternoon, weather
ON the field of the New
York Highlanders with the denizens
v>of the metropolis looking on. The
'<Champs are hitting well these days
\ and are not expecting TO be materially
J checked by anything in the category
.-of twirling to be propounded by the
pupils Of Big Crouch Stallings. Hav-
Ing demonstrated beyond all question
4 the fact that Boston had nothing in
( the pitching line they could not hit,
3 the Yankees are next In line.
Both these clubs are admittedly
Weak on the firing line. But the Tig-
4 ere will need all the basehits they can
e secure Just now, to store up for use
IN their percentages when they strike
washington and Philadelphia. where
y the twirling is strictly up to the grade
that prevails In the west
Summers w. Manning.
In. all probability Summers will take
K the firing line for the Champs, Stall
! 1ngs men have not played since
Thursday and any one of the Yankee
Z pitchers ought to be ready. Manning
10 the most likely choice. Four games
are scheduled In as many days.
Developments OF the past three
days In the league race are all In the
favor Of the Tigers. During their
!. eogtern trip they have accumulated
but one postponement. All the other
clubs have at least two. These dou-
s6loheaders cannot but result to the
Advantage OF the Champions in the
Dext eastern series, as II will force
the eastern pitchers to added amounts
mt toll.
!. Light Practice at Perth Amboy.
Yesterday the Champs took light
{ practice at Perth Amboy. N. j.. which
! 1s almost directly across from Port
Richmond, l.. l., where Matty McIn-
tyre winters. The Perth Amboy gang
sbeat the Giants last years and the
.fesidents OF that burg have been look
ling down on the metropolis ever since.
They aren't so cocky now. Works
pitched, and the Tigers won, 9 to 2.
Killifer caught for both teams, but
sustained funk on the digits and let
4 Beckendorf go in at the close. Jen-
nings let Rossman work in center
Held where he did well. Crawford
toiled gracefully at first base. and got
some practice for the position he is
booked to hold down later on. Mo-
rfarty rested and Cobb was allowed to
get on the field, after he had been
3ightely spiked. 4
One Bull" Durham, of the Giants,
pitched for Perth Amboy.
Matty Mcintyre failed to burst into
the center of the stage with any par
ticularly doughty deeds, though doing
his share right along. Matty, how
ever. accomplished enough there In an
exhibition game last year, to last in
the memory Of the spectators for
some seasons. He admits that the
play was the best he had ever essay
ed.
Mstty Had To Do II.
In left field last fall for the New
Jersey team against gang OF New
York transformers. Matty found II in
cumbent upon him to go back at full
speed to the uttermost confines of the
ball yard after a fly ball. The drive
was corker, sure. When Matty
reached the edge OF the big ditch that
bounds the field on this side, he found
that ne was still short Friends and
relatives were looking on, and Matty
had to do 1t.
A narrow plank spanned the ditch
An one spot. Leaping out on this
plank and posing himself over the nut
brown food, Matty pirouetted on one
toe, stuck out his glovec hand. speared
the ball and. just as he was losing his
balance, gave one hectic leap for the
xxrhf hA oAa In cafo
Profit-shsring Resumed.
y, The exhibition game OF yesterday
was the first OF series that Manager
Jennings has arranged for the Sundays
which the team has open In the east.
The members OF the club are all inter
eeted very much la Hughes moves In
this particular, as the profits OF these
into baseba1l's arcadia are
divided among the members of the De-
troit club and constitute a very hand
some little bonus at the close OF each
season. Yesterday the receipts were
biz enough to allow the Tigers to split
ND $500, but usually the towns visited
are OF far greater size and quite fire.
the Tigers whack up a por
many times larger.
More than one member OF the Tiger
club has supported family and lived
veil without winter labor, on the added
money which has fallen to his lot in
the exhibition games and the worlds
series, allowing him to salt down all
be his regular salary as SO much velvet.
There IL some very considerable adj
vantage In being q member OF a cham
pion ball club and drawing card like
the Jennings aggregation doesn't need
TO walt till the worlds championship
series comes around for the oppor.
tunity OF cashing in.
ttareFA @rsfrt-
-. Taft Down on Bunting.
President TAFT doesn't like bunting