The Washington times., 1909-10-13
MULLINS TWIRLING
DOMINATING FEATURE
OF FOURTH CONTEST
Holds Pirates in Total Subsection, While Detroit Tigers
Do Timely Hitting With Men on the
Bases In Two Innings.

By THoM
DETROIT. Mich. Oct 12.-The great
and solemn truth remains that when the
other fellows can't hit your pitcher and
YOU can hit theirs, then you are mighty
likely to win a BAH game.
II was because of this well understood
rule OF nature and baseball that Detroit
shut out Pittsburg fin the fourth game
OF the worlds series by to o. In fact,
Il would be nearer right 10 say that
lIulun won it rather than that Detroit
turned the trick.
1t would be impossible to expect a bet
ter performance than Mullin gave in the
freezing winds and under a Sky that
threatened every minute to dump
enough snow on the lot to build large
village of igloos-
DR.. Cook, the explorer man. was at
the Pontchartrain Hotel here yesterday
morning, after having garnered trunk
TuI Of mixed American and Canadian
money from his lecture the night betor g.
and was invited TO go to the game as a
ruest Of the national committee, but
begged TO be excused on the gound Jhat
ii was too cold. Eheu, what a funny
world it is. and what a bum season Tor
baseball.
Ordinary Game
AS 10 the game itself It was most
ordinary affair, except that. consider
ing the conditions, the deIding was eX-
ceIlent in general quality, although
there were surprisingly few opportunl-
ties for sensational work The princl-
nal point was the Improvement in the
mental tone and physical efforts Of the
TIGERS. They played much ike a real
han team. Bush was the principal sin
ner on the mouruers' bench at this re-
vfval. and flashed In a decidedly sprlngly
manner as compared with his weak ana
childish performance the day before.
Why this young man should in-and-out
the way he does is mystery. his
,lean double TO left in the fourth. with
two on bases and two out. was highly
approved BY the leading experts
n vas a cinch Stanage could not be
much worse than Schmidt, and he was
not. How much better ne would have
baen had the opportunity offered IS hard
IN say. but II is a good bet he would
have had a. decided edge on HIS pre-
decessor. Pfttsburg did not try 70 run
bases on him because 1t got PAD stStl =
and had TO rely on sI1ss1ns ea --2f No -
only emergency ne had 10 HtS9s
when Bryne and Leach WORKED ne
dorbIa steal Of third md second In the
third inning. Stans-se made 500
leava 80 AfOriarty, who was playing ul
900 far RToriarty took the Dall ana
many thought he had hagged ~ me
mt he didn't. Byrne made a v oitoeIL ~
half moon slide around flstfly {
80 md got his fingers on the bag IN
eafafv In the NTH inning Stallage
,lropDed the third strike on Byrne, Dut
easily nailed him at ErEt
Good Impression.
ON the whole stanage created the i'm
precision Of being an advance on Schmidt
behind the bat. He also brought In De
4roff's first two runs with Smash 80
hot # caroned or h5illeTs glove into
right field
Cobs1 had il on Wagner IN the fourth
rana. HIS double 70 left "a the fifth
tnnlng scoring Davy Jones and Bush
was a whole Lot better than the flying
T1itcrInan could DO. for Wagner reach
ed first but once. and that on a base
on balls The double aforementioned
1gas pecsfliar. Cobb seemed to intend
20 buna and change his mind In the
r1fdst OF motion The result was 3 cross
bstween a tap and a swing, or. IN other
words, a sort OF hard poke at the ball.
II shot along the ground. an inch IN
side Of third base, and after passing
that haven, Engushed or into folS ter
r4tory. II was an ideal two-Aagger. too
fsst for an inhelder 70 reach and too
slow for an oU1delder 20 gel Up on IN
time q play at second
Conditions Horrible.
As-every players joints were cold and
zfR. the small number Of errors and
the steady pitching were little less than
wonderful. 1Iuliin gave two bases on
balls and never wavered but once. The
tottsr wac IN the third inning. when,
win one out. after Byrne singled, he
syoS himself In a hole by walking Leach.