The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-06-09
|OCkETT HANDED.
usual DOSE BY
THE CHAMPS
Rsrennial Experiment Blighted in
ons Big Inning by the Tigers
Who Barely Saved
Willett.
Everybody Happy as the Result of
thinning Victory Over Stallings'
New York Club Yesterday.
ay PAUL 4. aRusKE.

AS has been remarked before this
(. year and In years preceding, New
4 Yorks press and public gets TO think
ing very highly OF king" Brockett.
the languid pitcher. until. on some un-
lucky day, he is started against the
Detroit Tigers. Then the opinion has
10 be revived. Such was once more
the necessity yesterday, though Brock
EFT lasted much longer than usual. the
defamation not coming until the sew
enth inning, when singles by Moriarty,
Schaefer and Stanage. with two errors
by Austin, who was the scapegoat OF
the Tigers speedy base running,
swung the pendulum of victory.
4 Some day the perspiriug Mr.. Brock
EFT will win a game from the Tigers
II he starts often enough. This is the
first season out OF the many he has
started In American league company.
In which he has lasted long enough
10 take two whirls at them before go
ing back to the Eastern league and
this fact In itself should give him vast
encouragement.
WilIett starts Badly
The Tigers, as usual, got away
badly yesterday. II took Willett one
inning to settle down, which was strict
~ according to precedent. He hit
Cree and Keeler's single and an error
by Moriarty filed the sacks. A base
ION balls forced Cree home and Keeler
scored on an infield out. More runs
were threatening but Edgar braced
and started pitching, just in time 10
eocape holocaust
The Tigers gave him two-run mar
9iu In the seventh, as related above
and It looked safe, whereupon he dem
onstrated that prosperity was unwel-
come by allowing a pass TO Laporte,
q triple TO Demmitt and an infield hit
10 Hemphill. Both the last mentioned
were pinch bitters and there were two
out when they faced Edgar. Somehow
the manner in which those emergency
.-batsmen make good against the Tigers
these days is simply weird.
That tied the score and Willett and
Mcconnell, the latter the ex-Bufalo
mastodon. started to fight 1t out.
This time Edgar went along without
. a wobble. But Mcconnell was also
there with loads of speed and spit
ball that was a beauty.
Nothing doing in the ninth. and the
battle went into extra innings. Moth
ing doing in the tenth and the crowd
Of 10000 was in frenzy.
Bush, Cobb, Schaefer!
Came the eleventh and Bush opened
up with a hit. Jennings besought
Crawford to end things right there,
hut Sans line drive was right at
Cree. Cobb, however. came through
with a drive to left and Bush was
on his way before the ball was pitched.
going all the way TO third. whence he |
scored when Moriarty's drive to
Knight took a high bound, delaying |
the play long enough to allow the n.y.
ing 'Donie" TO make the plate.
New York had run out of pinch hit |
tiers at this stage and could do moth |
ing with willett's under-hand curves
and SO ended the combat.
Both departments of the Tiger out
y at were hugely pleased over the result
Z OF the game. The players were glad
because they won it, increasing their
lead over their nearest rivals to 50
POINTS and putting them that much
nearer a worlds championship divvy.
Secretary Schramm likes 1t pretty
well from his point Of view, as he car
rfed away his share of one OF the larg-
est gates Detroit has played to on the
trip and the turn out had been pretty
fair all along the line at that.
Hughes Policy indicated.
Jennings was pleased because. In
the face of hostile array or home
critics who have always maintained
that any pitcher allowing two runs in