The San Francisco call., 1909-10-14


The home seventh and thereafter the
Michiganders never had lokin. Ii
was Babe Adams second victory OF the
series. Babe was good, but he did not
look any better than Summers unlli
the latter finally blew up. Detroit hae
q chance to murder him in the opener
and didn't take advantage of it lie
sppreciated this abstinerice and proved
his appreciation by making the Tigers
look like bushers until they got busy
with him again in the sixth.
WEATHER UNUSUALLY COLD
The game was played with the ther-
mometer lowering between 35 and 40
degrees above zero. A chilhng VINO VINO
swept across the field, but the immense
zrandstand protected the great ma
5ority Of the spectators. Despite the
untoward conditions 2l.tOS persons, s1@ S1S
The game and the receipts were $5z,l D
OF this sum the national commission
receives S3217 80 and each CLUB owner
SI4477.S5. The players no longer snare
in the receipts, as the first TOUR games
This makes the receipts for the I'VE
games s156.IOS and the total attend
snce vas 1I7.34T. Each club owner has
now received S36.7S6.15 and the nauohal
commission Sl5,61O.SO-
CrawfoTd's home run nearly deprived
Pittsburg Of the services OF the Drll-
liant Tommy Leach. Leach chaSeo
sv,forS's long hit and whiIe running
backward at a good clip struck the low
fence. The impact OF his oody sInasileo 1slles'l
the boards and he shot over the renee
head first groan went up from tile
crowd, as IL appeared as II At was I'M
uossjble for the little center fielder TO
escsne irfIlrv After short delay he
returned to his place in the field, appar-
entity none the worse for his spectacu-
summers had twice as much smoke
on his fast ones at the start as he old
the other afternoon IN Detroat ~
looked as If the Pirates were gong 10
lose sure when Davy Jones home run
drive was followed by walk TO bosn
Adams appeared shakv TO say the least
But he came to and flnlsneo the open
ing round IN a blaze Of glory.
The early scoring of summers was
partly due TO his wildness ana partly
10 luck. Not a single Pittsburger MT
a BAH hard in the first three innings,
although three talies were gathered
in that time. The Kickapoo eYldently
was UP against fate He tried every
thing but nothing worked TiSnt Tor
him. Discouraged when he should not
have been he lost all his stuff
WAHOO SAM WAKES UP
In the Pittsburg seventh, after Craw-
ford, Cobb and Wagner had comolnea
10 give him a fighting chance the work OF
Wahoo sam was easily the feature, even
Il he was on the losing side. CRAWFORD
has been hitting so feebly since the
series started that people began TO
think his ailment was chronic. Today
he was like bis real self. Out of four
attempts he had one single. one double
and one home run and none OF MS
drives was scratchy. His two Dagger
was hit harder than any ball OF the
series to date
PIRATES NEAR CHAMPIONSHIP
The Pirates victory today gives
them three wins and two defeats. They
have only 20 win one more game 10
settle the ownership Of the title. II they
can trim the Tigers in Detroit tomor-
row they will be worlds champions until
some other National or American Ieague
club can Wrest the title from them.
II however. they are beaten in Detroit
tomorrow ii viii mean that the big
battle will not be over until Saturday
afternoon. This much was decided
after today's game at a special meet
ing Of the national cOmmiS SsiOn. held
IN the press stand. Last night II was
should IL be necessary. would be played
Friday in Pittsburg-
This morning Chairman Hermann
read the rules over again and ascer-
tanned that it would be needfnl to toss
a coin 10 decide in which Of the two
cities or on what neutral grounds the
final contest should be fought out SO
the commission was called into brief
session President Johnson won the
toss and thus 1t happens that there
the Tigers win tomorrow. for it was
deemed advisable 10 set apart Friday
as a day OF rest for both clubs. So
there will be no coming back to Pitts
burg whatever happens. The series
may be over tomorrow night or II may
not be- II the American leagpers cop
tomorrow both clubs viii be at liberty
TO spend Friday as they see fit and get
together Saturday for the final
PTTTSBURC