The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-06-25
MULLIN WINS WAR
BETWEEN THE BIC
IRISH GIANTS
George and Dineen Enjoy a Battle
Royal. But the Tigers Finish On
Top as Usual, By Score
of 2 to !.
Game Featureful in Almost Every
Inning and Was Marked by Swell
Fielding; Oh You "Donie!'
Rv PAIL 4. aRuskE.


/ Bennett paris in what proved 10 be
\ The most thrilling of the six consecu
ave victories which the Tigers have
y4ubed from the palpitatiuC Browns,
and Muffin put IL over Diueeu by a
wee margin, which came mighty near
being no margin AZ all The score
was - l.
A fine big pair they made as they
alternated on the firms line 10 the edi.
hcation OF The largest paid dance
OF the week Everybody knows how
! Mullin looked, whether he was there
to see on this particular occasion or
not George was still the burly. pow
erful Aforementioned figure and lo
WAS pitching his very best all the time
because be had 10, IL for 10 other req
son
Detroit bugs may not remember Di-
neeu so well. for Bill has been seen on
the firing line az Bennett park but sell
dom. since he was discarded by the
John |. TayloTs and took UP his resi-
deHce in the Missouri metropolis. Sut-
fee 10 say, however. that he was Just
as imposing ard just as speedy as or
wore and nobody ever had better con-
troll regardless OF occasion or emer-
geucy
Oineen Pitches To Hold job.
Bill Dineen was pitching for his
very life from al appearances ana
well liz might for during the last TWO
weeks rumor has been busy with mis-
name and i IS more than probable
that had he failed 10 deliver the
goods Yesterday. there would have
beeu a request for waivers hltering
f,, ha . I'M. - ~ Ia
=e...44-tAe name OF Dineen would be
shortly mentioned as the one desig'
mated.
When a team gets 10 going as the
Browns have lately. there is usually
an execution or TWO before The stump
starts and Dlneeu was booked for the
sacrifice. il is said. chiefly because he
Is the highest-salaried ball player OF
the Brown staff OF beavers.
Btti Didn't via his game yesterday.
~ be- sure. bur he did pitch dandy
nine innings and he should. on
the LASTS OF that performance. be good
. for many game in big-league BAH
win II as basis provided the exhi-
Jitiuu was not a fash III the pan.
Old Boston Battery.
Toiling with Criger, his old battery
mate OF the Boston days when he pair
we're the most feared combination IN
the league and won two pennants ana
a large share OF 4 worlds champion
ship, Dineen gave a wonderful eNhlbl- (
ton. He let Criger DO al the guess
ing ana laid the ball exactly when .
Butch" called for IT II there was
any blame 20 be attached 20 either one
Of tie battery staff for the little MI
ting that Detroit did do. Crlger should
bear st. for never did pitcher more
effectively follow out directions an
never was there an exhibition OF more
deadly accuracy.
II must be, however that DOME
Bush. the watch-charm shortstop, has
ttt,- yge-slf54eSs-At -auE rate IL was his
hitting that won the game and ne was
the one Tiger whom Dineen was abso-
lutely never able 20 fool. Two clean
hits and two perfect bunts ne pee!cu
off IN his four appearances al BAT ana
both OF Detroit runs were the lhcl-
rect results The first time he Ouh'ed F.
and nobody even made a throw. Craw-
ford wanoped over HartZells head or
a three.sackcr and DOME came home +
from second wherc he had adFanc~d /
on asbalk by Dineen.
Bush Out-Suessed I'm.
Next time up Dineen was victim /
lied by has own foresight. he pitched
-be ball 20 Bush and started over -
first base 20 field a possible bunt Blsa
wbalcd away fun force and sent the
bail at the spot just vacated by tie
twIrler's bean Crawford forced HIM.
but cobb walked and Rossman whaled
into right Crawford scoring single
to lett and q safe placed bunt that
rolled toward Tom Jones allowing him
~ beat any possible throw We're Don
les other contributions. but the other
Tiges couldn't help him.
In the field the peewee iioosier
grabbed of ten chances. evenly diFid-
ga between put-uuts and assists. heir-
ed iu "a double play and left The error
column out altogether
ate out Of Mullins Hand.
Tho Browns ate out OF Mullins hand
until tta last TWO periods and would
have been shut out at that had ho.
/ Crawford oyer-run Hartzells short Av
and tailed complete miss. The baIl
rolling 90 deep center. where 20 was
! retrieved lt Mcintyre. il went for =
triple ara allowed its perpetrator 20
score ou Hunmaus fly 20 Cobb i1 deep
rilht Iu tle ninth a hit batsman eft
"a ha.e 600 balls made the situation dan.
gcr8s. uG schmidt picked Tom luuea
of SECOND base and Mullin. ia burst
af -Ay,d that showed he had plenty
/ left, struck cut stephens. the nnai