The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-22
||NE WEATHER IS
PROVIDED FOR
I CHICAGO TODAY
( Delated Opening of Comiskey's Park
For Season of 1909 Is On For
This Afternoon-Tiges
"a As Foes.
1ullin Anxious To Keep Pitching
While Luck Is Good and May Get
Chance Against Smith.

CHICAGO. April 22.-This morning
\ dawned bright and clear and the
( thousands OF baseball fans who have
been in the dumps for the past three
days owing to the fact that neither OF
4 the local big-league clubs has been
able TO pull OF a game during that
\ period, took heart and waxed gay. The
Box are due to open their season this
Afternoon on their home grounds with
the doughty and apparently well-nigh
invfncible Detroit Tigers as their op'
ponsnts.
Comiskey's ball park is still very
muddy but the morning sun started
the drying-out process early and,
Though the field will be slow. II
seemed certain at IL o'clock that II
would be In very fair shape, In spite
OF yesterdays downpour.
Manager Sullivan, OF the Sox. an
nounces that he will send big Frank
emith to the slab for his team. Smith
pitched fine ball against Detroit and
81. Louis and Is the Sox's sole win
ming pitcher up to date. HE spit ball
has been more elusive this spring than
ever before.
MuiiIn Wants to Toll.
At the Detroit camp IL was said
that the pitcher would be either Null
I'm or Summers. The former has made
m especial request that he be allowed
20 pitch the game. He Is In better
ehape than In several years and IL
was open gossip among the Detroit
'players that he has declared himself
out TO set record this season which
would startle humanity. He has
mined the unboundcd respect OF the
Dox by the one-hit game which he
pitched against them on opening day
Ia Detroit, but the local contingent
feels certain that ne will not be able
10 repeat the performance.
News leaked out OF the headquarters
~ the local American league club
here today that waivers had been
|osked and secured On Nick Altrock.
The veteran left-hander who has so
long been a member "a the Sox's pitch
Ing stan. Manager Sullivan. II Is said.
~ icath TO part with the pitcher who
three years ago played so prominent
~ part in the winning Of the American
loague pennant and the worlds cham
|pionship, but Is convinced that Altrock
VIII no longer be Of assistance to the
|4Iub. Last year he was of little use
and I'm 1907 he suffered almost a COM
*plete collapse. This spring he got
his tryout at st. Louis and was
sounded numerically by the Browns.
MIIIers Want Him.
II is understood that Altrock Is
booked for Minneapolis. Manager
Mike Cantillon Is said to be very
anxious to land the southpaw and will
make a place somewhere on his regu-
lar lineup for him, In case he does not
make good in the box.
Another player who, II Is rumored.
- soon to make a trip to the minors.
n John Anderson, the outflelder, who
- In Comiskey's bad graces and has
not yet appeared in the regular lineup
III all
The fine showing made In the prac-
tice series by Pitchers Scott and Su-
TOR and Outfielder Cravath make Sulli-
van certain that the loss OF the men
mentioned above will not weaken his
team in the least.
Both clubs attended a theatrical
performance last evening and were
the recipients Of ovations between the
acts. The "We-ah" battle cry OF
Hughie Jennings was given repeatedly
BY the crowd.
The game will be called at o'clock.