The Detroit times., 1909-07-17

game With little hit ana, on one Oc-
casion when Groom. with two out,
started To- pass Stanage 10 get a
chance at the pitcher. Jennings sent
out Davy Jones TO swing his bats as
| II preparing to take the pitchers place.
Dayy went at IL with vim but Charlie
street only grinned. continued calling
for waste balls and let Stanage walk.
Before the crowd had chance 10 Lee
mand Il. Jones laid his bat back in the
| pile and Summers emerged from the
I dugout once more TO do his best, but
I 10 fail only where such great Datsmen
I as Crawford and Cobb had done IN
every one OF their appearances at bat.
Crisis in Fifteenth.
The crisis OF the game came In the
fifteenth %hcn the Tigers. by stan
ages lat, GroOm's Wild ACave OF sum.
mers' attempted sacrifice and an in
territorial pass TO Mcintyre, niled the
sacks with none out and the famous
wrocking crew almost sure 10 get a
crack at it,
The crowd stood up and rooted.
Women screamed and yelled and dogs
barked. Bush fouled TO Kelly, but
what OF L? Here-was Maheo Saai
Crawford. king OF all the hard hitters.
and Wade killifer. running for stan
age. prepared for the dash from thirI
10 the plate.
Down town a hysterical afternoon
paper let 10 an extra with the score
10 o in favor OF Detroit.
Sam missed two and then chopped
a little grJunder of 10 Grooms lei;.
he stopped IL and heayed to the
,,la II; ft.
KERN didn't make his first announce.
nent plain enough TO make IL obvious
The Detroit runners on base started
for the clIO house. paused moment
and then dashed back TO the bases.
Mr.. KERN had said out
But we still had Tyrus Cobb, the
hero of two home runs on the day be-
fore. and the crowd begged for HIT
just little single. Ty would have
given year of the end Of his life u
oblge them. What he did do. how
ever, was to take three jerky little
swings at the ball and start for the
field, his head hanging low.
Cobb Saved II, Though.
Ii Cobb, however. failed in the emer-
gency, ii nad fallen 10 him TO save the
game In the twelfth when the visitors
pulled of play that came pretty nea-
proving the Tigers undoing. There
were two out at the time and Liz
welt on first. Donohue connected
squarely for the hardest hit ball of the
day Ii was a line drive In and of 10
Cobbs right. II is doubtful If there
H. another fielder in the world who
could have covered the distance be-
tween himself and the line OF the
drive. but Cobb did II, threw himself
at the sphere and came up with the
ball in his hands Had 1t gone through
10 human lower could have kept LII
welt from making the circuit.
II is still a matter of Wonder that
Mr.. KERN called the game when he
did. His action was a surprise 10
players, press and public. Had it no.
been for the fact that the teams had
already played twice the regular
length OF time the action would have
met with strenuous disapproval on
the spot. 1t seemed perhaps hoggish-
TO demand more, but, Sd far as the
light was concerned. II would have
been easily possible TO pla- at least
two more innings in which either
worlds record might have been estab
lished or someone would have copied
the contest.
But what's the use? The game
ends with ii continuation line and the
date for the next instaIlment. as we
have already remarked. has been an-
tomatically set for Sunday. Aug. %.