The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-12
PIRATES WON
 THIRD GAME IN sLuGGlNo MATCH PITTseURe TAKES LEAD IN CHAMPION
 SHIP FROM DETRolTERs.
Game Was Played Under Terrible Conditions, Weather Cold, and Rain lnterrupting Play at
 Intervals.

Detroit, Mich, Oct 11.-Pittsburg defeated Detroit by score of & to 6 here today in one of the most spec tacular and fierccly contested games ever played in worlds championship series.
 This gives Pittsburg the margin of two gamest to one in the series. and the National League champions are oosrespondingly jubilant
 Detroit however, showed in the final innings of the battle that it is far from a hopelessly beaten team. Weather conditions were frightful. Rain fell frequently during the nnne innings several of them being hard showers of several minutes duration.
 The sky was threatening all day and the low hanging clouds made the atmoshere dark in the last two in. innings that it was hard for the play CTS and spectators to follow the ball
 The afternoon recalled the first To- cal game of the 1908 worlds se.ies when the Chicago Nationals beat De. troit with Summers also pitchingesn a rainstorm. A sharp northwest wind this afternoon added to the discomfort of the players, and the spectators in the unprotected stands.
 Despite the wretched weather the attendance. 1S.277 broke all local rec. ords for a worlds series.
 Pittsburg jumped into the lead i'm. mediately this afternoon by scoring five runs in the first inning, They batted Summers out of the bcx, aided by some poor fielding.
 Another run in the second inning gave Pittsburg a lead of to 0, and the game then appeared to be safe for the visitors. Detroit, however, came to the fore with one of the gamest ral lies ever made and scored four runs in the seventh inning, batting Mad dox hard, and playing brilliantly. With the score to Pittsburg landed on the ball again in the ninth for two runs.
 With the score 8 to ageilst them, Detroit even then did not realize they were beaten, and smashaI ont two runs Tn the last inning Had Sam Crewlore beeen able to hit up 10 his usual msrk this afternoon there might have Teen a different sto.y to tell
 pctrcit outbatted Pitsburg by margin of one hit, get Ing 12 to the winncis' II.
 Sumr p"s started for Y : locals, but was tortSed before the tirs' innins was completed. Willetts succeeded him and did we'll until he was taken ont to allow Mcintyre to bat for him in the seventh Mcintyre struck out. Works. who then went in. was lucky in the eighth. after Abstein had made a two-base hit with one out. The next two were easy outs
 In the ninth Pittsburg landed on him for three hits that clinched the game
 Maddox was on the rubber for Plttsburg and was hit hard in the closing innings. although Detroit could do nothing with him in the early sessions. When the American Leaguers did not to hit they landed hard and often, but Manager Clark left Maddox in becauaa of the lead his team had.
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 The mighty Hans Wagner was the star of the game, but he was forced to share some of the stellar honors with Owen, Bush and Delehanty of the To- calls. Wagner made four hits and stole four bases, although Caecher Schmidt was not to blame for at least one or the bases.
 Besides his hitting and base run ming Wagner played an admirable game in the field. In the first inning Wagner beat out a hit to Bush, stole second and went to third on Schmidts bad throw to second. He then scored on wild pitch. In the second he reached first on fielder's choice, and in a double stesl went to third while Leach was stealing home In the fifth he singled Just out of Tom Jones'