The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-13
With Mullin in the Box for De-
troit the Smoky City Men
Were Unable to Connect
With the Ball.
NINE GOOSE-EGGS IN
A ROW TELL THE TALE
loft Day for Manager Clarke
and Hans Wagner, Both
Mighty Men With the Stick.
TerrOrS to Opposing Pitchers
GAME AT PITTSBURG TODAY

Detroit, Oct. 12.-Detroit defeated
Pittsburg, 5 to 0, today and evened
up the count in the worlds champion
ship series, each now having two vic
tories to its credit. The game was
played with the mercury at "a de-
grees above zero, but 1908 persons
braved the chilling temperature and
the great majority felt well repaid,
because they were with Detroit.
The American league champions out
classed their rivals in every department
Of the game, and the pitching of George
Mullin will mark one of the brightest
periods in the baseball history of Detroit.
1t is hard to conceive of any pitcher
having his opponents more at his mercy
than Mullin had Pittsburg. There never
was a moment when he was not the aO-
sOlute master of the situation, and he was
at his best with men on the bases. -Four
hits represented the ability of the visit
Ors and no two of those were made in
the same inning.
Nullin performed a feat in the third in
ming that will live long in the annals of
baseball He struck out Wagner, with
two out and men on second and third.
previously he had struck out Manager
Clarke, a hard hitter, with men on first
and second. A double steal on Clarke S
third strike moved the men to second
and third, where they were when Wagner
came to bat, Leifield was also a victim
of strikes in this same inning. giving Null
lin three strikeOuts in one session All
told he struck out the visitors ten times.
How Runs Were Made.
Detroit scored because it was able to hit
when hits meant runs. Stanage, Jennings
young catcher, distinguished himself in
the second by sending DetrOit's first two
runs across the plate with drive just
out of Miller's reach. In the fourth in
ming Bush's ringing double into the over
flow crowd in sthe left field scored an
other run, and it was Immediately fol-
lowed by another twO-baggeT into the
same place by Ty Cobb. The onslaughts
! by Detroit in the second and fourth drove
! Leifield, Pittsburg's star left-hander, from
| the slab, and he was succeeded by Phil
| iippi, who was able to stem the Detroit
| tide, although they pressed him hard in
/ the eighth inning. Eight hits were made
/ by Detroit and six of those came in the
/ two innings when the scores were made
only two being wasted.
Outside Of Mulin there were no stars
on the Detroit team, but their work was
always brilliant. Every man did the right
thing at the right time, and only one
/ fielding slip maTred the otherwise perfect
/ performance.
The cold apparently affected Pittsburg
| fielding, for they put up a miserable ex-
/ hibition in the field. Six errors were
charged to the infield-Abstein, Miller and
| Phillippi getting two each. The six err
rors detract little credit from Detroit S
performance, as only one figured in the
! scoring.
Betting at Even Money.
! The conclusive victory of Detroit has
/ toppled Pittsburg from its position as the
favorfte in the betting, and even money
/ is now being offered as a more equitable
| indication of the relative merits of the
| two major league champions.
The teams left for Pittsburg tonight and
/ the fifth game will be played at Forbes
! field tomorrow. The scene viii then shift
back to this city, where the sixth game
/ is scheduled for Thursday.
Detroit celebrated its victory in due
style tonight and the American league
| champions supporters are more than con
/ fident Detroit will be successful in its
/ third attempt to win the worlds cham
pionship.
Hans Wagner failed to star as he die
! yesterday. At the bat he was helplss.
! before Mullin. The first time up he was
/ lucky enough to draw a base on balls, bu
was forced out at third. The third in
/ ming saw his memorable strikeOut, in thJ
| sixth he sent hot liner into Tom Jones
/ hands. and in the ninth he was an easy
/ out MOTiarity to Jones. In the field hC
| had two putOutS ana TOUR assists out TnO
| Of them were of the easy sort. His bes
play came in the fourth inning, when hi
/ fumbled a gTOUnder by Stanage for tn,
! fraction of a second, recovered it quickly
and touched second, forcing Tom Jones
and then threw to First Baseman AbsteiI
/ in time to double up Stanage.
cobb's One Hit.
/ Cobb made one hit. a two-bagger, and
reached first once when he was hit by
/ Leifield. The other two times the Geor
| gian tried to beat out hunts in front o.
/ the plate, but Gibson threw him out botf
/ times In the field he had only one chanc,
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