The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-14

assist them In straying to the bal
yard. AS a result Detroit Is now only
few more than 100 points In the
lead OF It's nearest rival for the pen
nant, which happens to be the team
that arrived from Cleveland this morn
ing to take up the burden which Stall
! ing and his men laid down.
The handicap alluded To was the
presence ON the slab OF one OF the
non-regulars OF Detroit's pitching STAFF
AS intimated yesterday. the HEAVIER
was Suggs. Suggsey did pretty well
as well as might have been expect.
ed from Donovan, Mullin, Willett or
Summers, for nstance-through the
first seven innings In the eighth he
exploded with a loud report New
York scored six runs on clean hitting,
the last two OF them off Edgar Willett
who entered the game with none out
and the sacks intoxicated.
New YORK a Bum Attraction.
Whether or not is will be necessary
TO handicap the Tigers systematically
In this way all season, In order to keep
their opponents from defaulting the
schedule remains to be seen. At any
rate. the fans In general prefer seeing
a real contest in which the opposition
has some show TO win. This was
plainly evidenced by the falling of
In attendance which featured the sec
ond and third games OF the New York
series. The mob took one look at the
gentlemen from the metropolis and
Went home. convinced. A few took a
second whirl at the proposition on
Wednesday. On Thursday the attend
ance had dwindled TO the figure quot
ed above, SO thoroughly had the pre-
cedlng pair OF combats imbued the
denizens OF the local stands with the
idea that they would get more salts
faction out OF their expenditure by
saving their money until things might
tighten UP bit.
Everybody wants to see the home
club win, but few care to see the OPP
position commit suicide in order 10
foster this result
Tiges Near-Winners at That.
Yesterdays game was the second
which Detroit has lost on the home
park this year. In both contests
young pitchers have officiated on the
slab.
At that II looked for long time as
II ouBbo NOuiu Bet away Win IL Ildu
the Tiges been favored with a reason
able amount Of luck in their hitting.
this would probab bly, have been the
case. explosion and all. AS II was,
however. nine hits in the first seven
innings of Manning-and these in
cluded a double and two triples, to
gay nothing OF two two-base errors by
the hostile squad-garnered but two
runs and the extra-base bingles might
as well have been-left I'm the grip, for
all the impression they made on the
score
FORT once the champs left.on- base
column assumed staggering proper
tions--a situation directly contrary to
the general rule.
Beyond question. Suggs' recent H.
ness and the fact that he has not ap-
peared on the slab In a league game
before this year. had something to do
with his collapse. The visitors got
as many bingles in their scoring inn
ing as they had accumulated in all
the seven stages that preceded and
that was five.
Just to enumerate the disgusting de-
tails OF that one inning is task OF
no great magnitude.
Pinch.Hltter Starts Il.
Stallings apparently determined that
IL was then or never for his bunch
and sent In Hemphlll to bat for, Man.
ming, first up. Charles thumped into
right. In an effort to keep the ball
close to the hard-hitting Cree. Suggs