The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-10
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REACH AMBITION S
HEIGHT TODAY?
II.
Jennings and Tigers Make Their
Last Stand in Effort To Held
Their American League
Leadership.
! Philadelphia's Left-Handeis Gone
But Summers and Donovan Must
Face Bender and Combs.
BY PAUL II. sRUsKE.

Throughout the ups and downs o.
our beloved Tigers lie the American
leagues pennant race. the architect
of this column has refused 10 wax ap'
prehensive over them. so long as they
kaye retained the position which AL
the other seven CLUBS have been en-
deavoring 10 flch from their grasp
The philadelphia Athletics wouid
give year of their lives 10 grab thal
lead today and 10 cinch II tomorrow
The youthful Redsox would foreso
baked beans and brown bread Tor the
rest OF their natural lives eouId they
be ensured OF secure hold or tue
position IN which the Tigers have been
ensconeed all year with the exception
OF two days and a small fraction. IN
Cleveland. were the team 10 estapllsh
such a lead as the Tigers had TINS
morning, they'd be turning out VITA
bands. And the same would be the
case 10 all even more marked extent
In, the otner-tewhs- tAat-Bake- Tue
league circuit.
Still there are lot OF folks in De-
tfoit who are waxing panlcky over Tue
tact that the Tigers margin has Deeh
SO materially reduced that they are
actually within the reach OF one OF
the hostile aggregationS!
Can't Expect This.
There was never an American league
team Jet that seized the league lead
at tee start of the season and held IL
10 the finish. They all have their ups
and downs, AID in this fact Is founu
the great secret of the interest whlSn
has always been manifested In the
event
Detroit people showed conclusively
that they didn't care tC see the nome
club slaughtering the opposition, oy
the way they refused 20 play the part
of the Roman mob while the Tigers
were chewing up ST, Louis. A little
real competition will lend zest 10
the race that the lead OF 100 points III
which the team has INDUCED on sew
erai- asiens, -seemSd-to- have re
moved.
To pull out OF Tigertown after Sun
day's game with the lead In their pos
session, the Athletics will have TO cop
both the games OF this afternoon anu
tomorrow. The Tigers believe that
this will prove an impossible task.
Pitchers Lined Up.
Mack's iefthanders are through and
the task oil keeping the hits down de-
wolves on Bender and Coombs. They
will DE opposed by couple OF sling
ers VINO, in former years, have been
always Jonahs to the hopes or the
Macks. Eddie Summers came In from
Mt. Clemens yesterday, entirely recoy-
cred in health, and with his game
knee giving him no bother whatever.
He will probably twill the game or
TO-DAY against the Indian Chief
Wild Bill Donovan. back In good
health again, has been tugging at The
leash all through the series and wants
TO go to It the worst way. He'll get
his chance on Sunday.
AS for the batters on the Tiger
team, they have gone hungry for two
days and are due TO tear loose. Heaven
help the opposing pitcher. regardless
who he may be AMI how good, oil
whom they have to break their fast!
Jennings Rallies Tigers.
Like Wolfe at the Plains OF Abra.
ham, Jennings is today remarking that
there Is tide in the affairs OF men
which, taken at the food, leads on TO
fortune. Laid aside III memory's tab
tets are the defeats CT the past two
days. The future only Is the concern
of the scrappy little manager, and the
team which he has rallied in so many
more grlevous straits and has always
brought through successfully. The
Tigers are game, and, unless the fickle
goddess Fortuna has shifted all her
allegiance without warning. they are
lucky. That combination has never
been beaten yet.
What little retrospect there was at
tie Tiger clubhouse this morning went
out In sympathy for big Ralph Works.
whose dreams OF an unbeaten row OF
games were so rudeIy shattered yes
terday. though through no particular
fault OF his own. Ralph pitched u
nice game, scattered the hits well.
crawled out OF numerous excavations
not all OF his own digging, and held
the hostiles to two leaps across the
platter, but the Tigers couldn't score
OF Plank. and finally cast To the winds
their best chance when, with two on
base and none out, Stanage failed TO
sacrifice, Moriarty made an ill-timed
attempt to steal third with the ball
III NahN ANAAiAANA
whitfield.
plank Out to Demonstrate.
Genial Eddie, the vet, was out TO
show that Krause wasn't the whole
cheese in the backstopping line. and
he did it, pitching an even more eff
fectivc game than the unbeaten gen.
tleman had the day before. He Whit.
ed seven ftges-many of them in
pinches-and the box score tells the
rest Of the tale. Also, he was there
by a large majority with the sapling,
his three ATS being all OF them clean
ones to center and one OF them batting
in run which would have made his
game safe had not his mates come
TO the rescue with another
In conclusion, the present affords an
excellent opportunity for the repeti.
ton OF that old, soul.fllling line:
Now Is the time for all good fans
to come 10 the aid OF the Tigers" And
come they will
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