The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-10
This Renders Five More Con-
tests Necessary in Series to
Determine the Baseball
Championship Of the World.
THIRTY THOUSAND PEOPLE
SEE PlTTSBURG DEFEATED
Great Feature of Game Is Sen
SationaI Theft of Home Plate
by Ty Cobb, a WeIl-Timed
Piece of Baseball Work.
WAGNER AHEAD OF COBB

Pittsburg, Oct. 9.-The American
leage champions from Detroit evened
the count in the worlds champion
ship series by defeating Pittsburg z
to 2 at Forbes field today.
At least five contests will now be
necessary before the series will be de-
cided.
Detroit's ability to hit the National
league pitchers and Pittsburg's in
ability to connect with the curves of
wild" Bill Donovan, tell the story
of the game.
A total Of S1,114 tickets were sold
for the game today, the turnstiles at
the field showing that 30,915 persons
passed into the grounds. The total
receipts were S41,SS45O, which will be
divided as follows; To the National
baseball commission, $41SS.45: to the
players, $22,6176S; to each club. ST.
539.21.
The totals for the two games here
are as follows: Tickets sold. 60,691;
receipts. sS2156: National baseball
commission shares. $S.215.60: players
share, $44,S64.24: each clubs share,
Sf4,7SS.OS
How Trick Was Turned.
Pittsburg scored two runs in the
first inning today, but Detroit tied the
score with two in the second. The
American leaguers battered Howard
Camnitz out of the box I'm the third
inning, when they took a commanding
lead by scoring three runs. Vic VIII
40 1od I'm s7f nd
runs from his offerings In the fifth
inning gave Detroit its total of seven
runs.
Detroit made nine safe hits. getting
six from Camnitz in two and one
third innings and three from Willis
during the remainder of the game. The
Detroit hitting total included two
baggers by Schmidt and Crawford.
Donovan allowed only four hits, and
two of those were two-baggers by
Leach and Miller in the first inning.
After that the Detroit pitcher was an
enigma, and another two-bagger by
Leach in the third, q single by Abstein
in the fourth and an infield hit by
Wagner in the ninth represented the
Pittsburg biting during me last elght
innings. Only sixteen batters faced
Donovan in the last five innings. Dur
ing the last four innings only twelve
men faced Willis.
Feature of the Game.
The most sensational feature of the
game, which was witnessed by more
than 10000 spectators, was steal of
home by Ty Cobb in the third inning.
This was a remarkably well timed bit
of work and the entire Pittsburg team
and crowd was caught off their guard.
It was on the first ball pitched by
Willis after he succeeded Camnitz that
the daring play was made. As soon
as Willis started to wind up, Cobb
started for the plate and by a daring
slide he reached the base in time to
beat Willis bewildered throw. Gibson
was so surprised that he dropped the
ball after Cobb slid in. This scored
the third run in the third inning.
Leach was again the star of the day
with two two-baggers in his first two
times at bat In the field he played
a star game
Ty Cobb made his first hit OF the
series with a single over second base
in the seventh inning. Wagner made
a hit in the ninth and still leads Cobb
in the batting duel between the two
leading hitters Of the major league
Wagner has made two hits in seven
times at bat for an average of .2S6,
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