Evening star., 1909-06-10
DETROIT TIGERS
DUE TOMORROW
A Great Team This Year and
Appear to Have StrangIe
Hold on Pennant.

Will the Detroit Tigers. who open here
tomorrow. with their superior offensive
ability land their third consecutive
American League pennant and thereby
accomplish something which the Chicago.
Philadelphia and Boston teams. other
pennant winners. have been unable to
do? Judging by the early great form dis
played by Jennings vociferous jun
gleites. answer this question. Yes"
The showing of the Detroit team dur
ing most of the season to date evil
dences that it is capable of making a
runaway race of it. 1t is safe to say that
unless some of Jennings most valuable
players are incapacitated there will not
be very exciting finish to this years
American League race.
OF course base ball is very uncertain.
and the team which apparently has every
thing its own way now may prove an
easy mark for other teams later on, but
in the case of the Detroit team IT must
not be overlooked that in two previous
campaigns it has shown it's superiority
| over the other seven teams in the Ameri-
can League, and it entered this year
stronger than ever.
What is more, the playing of the cham
pions has been of high class and con-
sistent. Not only has Jennings strength
ened his teams batting, but his pitchers
are showing more class than ever before,
and his catching staff is stronger than
il has been since he took charge of the
Tigers
In sizing up this years team one finds
that the Tigers are stronger individually
and collectively than they have been in
the past two seasons. This perhaps ac-
counts for the runaway race the team
| is making this season. or else the other
teams are weaker than they were in
previous years. At this time in the
1913 races the Tigers were away down
! in the second division, and it was not un-
til the middle of June that Jennings band
| of ball tossers began to move up.
New Men Valuable.
| The acquisition of Moriarity and Bush
has strengthened the infield wonderfully.
and no one accused it of being slow last
year. The former is big Improvement
| over the veteran Bill Coughlin at third.
and Bush at short plays stronger and
faster game than his predecessor, O'Leary.
| Stanage, the new backstop, has proved
that he is an able assistant to Schmidt.
| The Detroit pitching is much stronger
than it was last year. Mullin is twrling
| the best ball of his career this season. Ed
Summers years experience in the major
league has proved beneficial to him, and
| If he can retain his present form he will
| come near leading the winning twirlers in
hts league. In the few games Bill Dono-
van has pitched he has shown that he still
retains the form that made him famous
| last year and the year before Wilet.s
| is fully as good as he was last season and
| the two youngsters, Iafitte and Speer,
have shown major league caliber.
Take that wonderful outfield-can you
beat 1t? You have. perhaps read. heard
of or seen great outfields of years ago,
but none can compare with the Tigers
trio of outgardeners-that is, of course.
taking into consideration that base ball
as ii is played is more scientific than i
was years ago. 1t is composed of the
greatest batting. base running and throw
ing trio in sthe major leagues.
There is Matty Mcintyre getting on