The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-07
NEW STAND INVITES
u SATURNA[|A OF
A HOME RUNS
Addition To Seating Capacity oil
Bennett Park Likely To Play
Prominent Part in the 1910
Pennant Race.
Tigers Weakness in Singers To-
ward Left Makes II Look as II
Advantage Was To the Foe.
BY PAUL HALE eRusKE.

BY PAUL HALE 5RUSkE.
An interesting feature in the com
ing campaign OF the Detroit baseball
Club will be the effect OF the large
left-hcld bleacher which has been
added to the clubs equipment this
year.
The bleacher is ON fair ground aud
It's base cuts of from the Tiger play
ground a zone of 40 feet in depth. eH'
tending into the field OF play, parallel
to the left-held pallisade. The near
est boundary is still considerable
distance from the plate, and is away
outside the legal limit OF 255 feet.
Any drive, naturally. which alights IN
The bleacher or bounds INTO II Will
be scored home run.
HOW MANY OF THOSE HON
RUNS WILL FALL TO THE LOT OF
THE DEFENDERS OF THE AMERi'
CAN LEAGUE s PENNANT?
Tigers Fence Few At Home.
The Detroit clubs leit-field hitters
have in times past been compelled u
take seat III the remote rear. as
compared 10 those OF the enemy In
fact, Hickman was really the last OF
the local players who could be relied
OF for a long drive into this territory
in the past, and Hick has long since
been a denizen of a minor League
Once in a while one of the Tiger
Willett most particularly
smashes a ball in that direction and
hard enough TO carry 10 the barrier.
But the real fencing feats have been
accomplished by the opposition. as a
rule
Crawford. Cobb. Rossman--the slug
ging brigade which for three seasons
terrorized the American lelgue-they
are all right-held hitters. There has
been no left-hand batter, in fact, who
has ever knocked the ball over the
left-field fence. or even come close.
THE HOME RUNS THAT WILL
TRAVEL INTO THE NEW DETROIT
BLEACHER WILL ALMOST GER
TAINLY BE, IN THE MAIN, FROM
THE BATS OF THE VISITING
PLAYERS
These Are the Dangerous Ones.
Such men as Lajoie. harry Davis.
Stoyall. Jake Stahl. Danny Murphy,
Wagner OF Boston, Rube 0ldring and
others who might be mem oned, will
get those drives and. If there are
q. ugh OF them, the result is going
To cost the Tigers their pennant.
How often have we seen these men
smash out drives which hit that left
field barrier on the line or banged UP
against IL on the bounce!
How often have we madly cheered
Matty Mcintyre or Davy Jones as.
gifted with supreme knowledge Of
the batsman. one of them has placed
himself where the bleaeher now
stands and has been able, after a hard
run TO make a catch which stopped
the foe in the middle Of threatening
batting rally!
THOSE CATCHES ! ILL BE M
POSSIBLE NOW.
From now on. the main duties OF
the left-felder OF the Detroit club.
when playing on his own lot will be
TO cut OFF sharply-drlven balls which
are apparently possessed OF enough
agility 10 clear the bleacher wall. on
the bounce He will have 10 play
deeper than usual TO do this And
there are pretty sure 20 be fair per
centage OF such that will get away
All In all, il Is going 10 be a pretty
tough season for the talented athletes
who will cavort In the western garden
Detroit is mighty lucky 10 have a
couple Of them.
Had X Only Been RightField.
OF course. it is unfortunate that the
conformation OF Bennett park pre-.
vented the club from placing a bleach.
er in right-feld In a proximity which
uynut1 t,oaEn 10 avail. bla F,,- 1gvr 81, 49,.
by Wahoo Sammy and the Peach. The
present right-feld bleacher is too re-
mote To help. according TO the record
of last season. though the writer has
not yet given up hope that some day
he will see Crawford drop one into its
confines.
With a right-held beacher as near
as the left-fied annex. Detroit would
find its pennant chances strengthened
easily 20 per cent and the two premier
swattists would run up a total that
would staager humanity.
OF course, ALL those homers into
the new bleacher will not 90 10 swell
the score OF the enemy. Jim Dele.
hanty will hit one I'm Their, once i'm a
while and so should Tom Jones and
Moriarty. Perhaps Wahoo may locate
tut emu utNltHl AflIitl IElU some QAF.
for he is the hardest hitting left.
handed batter who ever lived. In all
probability. Ness. the CO. drst.sack-
er who has been getting SO many help
full homers in the south. would find II
pie for him. Willett and ,iulliu ought
10 locate IL now and then
But the big majority Of those drives
are bound 10 be hostile. And it's the
irony Of fate that the men who, on
form stand most likely to get them,
are attached 10 the clubs which pro-
mise 70 be the Tigers most dangerous
opponents in the pennant race.
Saved From the Grave
II had about given up hope. after
nearly four years of suffering from p
severe lurg trouble" writes Mrs VI.
l.. Dix. Of GAINESVILLE. Tenn Often
the pain in my chest would be almost