Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-08
WHY PITCHERS ARE
NOT TAKEN FROM BOX
Jennings Has Won Three Champion
ships by Keeping Them In, as
He Understands Men.
MAKES THEM FEEL
IT IS UP TO THEM
Critical Detroiters Want to Advise
Hughey After He Has Put
That City on the Map.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DETROIT, Mich, April 30.-Why didn't
he take him out? What'd he put that kid
in for? Hughes all right, but
You've heard remarks like that; they
crop out, Jennings has been here three
years, has won three championships for
Detroit and has made the Tiger town one
of the biggest cities on the base ball map.
Jennings has educated the fans to cham
pionship base bai and now that the city
is accustomed to 1t some are wont to be-
come critical.
After three years of the most sensa-
tional base ball in the history of the game
and with the fourth looking like runa-
way, some fans have asked the question:
Is it Jennings, or is it the development OF
Tv Cobb into the worlds greatest. or are
still other factors to be considered in the
Tiger winnings:
Formerly a Joke.
When Bill Armour quit in 1906 the IL
gers we're the joke club of the American
League. They were in sixth place and no.
body cared whether they went lower.
The Tigers had the joke infield OF the
league. according to the dopesters. Iheir
pitching staff was wretched also. accord
ing TO dope" Bill Donovan was AL
in" Mullin and the rest were ciasseo as
"f.;r" There was no catching strength
MCINTYRE was looked on as good oaii
n,ayer and Tv Cobb as a promising but
.ro,,h,esome youngster. Sam Crawford
uas picked as the one star OF the CLUB.
"yben Sam hits they win," was the ex-
,.ss,on Of opinion: when he can't win
for them they lose.
What Hughie Confronted.
sucb was Jennings team when he came
Tbav wanted him In Washington
,,d tbev wanted him in Boston, but he
chose Detroit The fact That the team
r.s in omen rebellion didn't scare him
bit.
perhaps no athlete ever lived with more
phvsical energy. more nerve, more caring
and determination than Hugh Jennings.
Another generation of fans had mace
his name a household word when as
how he made himself the sensation OF the
old National League. And no man ever
had more absolute confidence IN himsef.
Jennings doesn't know It perhaps put ne
is a deep student of psychology outside
the text books He Is absolute master or
the first principle of success: Il Will.
Defeat to him is an impossible conception.
He never tightens his belt and hits Ior
the coaching line that he not absolutely
sure of victory. No Tiger batter ever
steps to the plate that Jennings is not
certain that he'll get hit or start
something." Failure to him Is so for
ei1n that he never recognizes It,
jennings Spirit Spreads.
The first year Of the Tiger fight for
base ball honors gives the best sample
of the Il will' principle of Jennings. That
almost uncanny belief in self possessed by
HIM spread to his men. He fired them
with the belief that nothing in the world
could stop them. And, once thoroughly
imbued with the idea that they were to
become champions. they fought with a
recklessness akin to that of the pagan
fatalIst warning for an ideal.
with the weakest infield in the league,
with no catching strength. with one great
pitcher, a good southpaw and little else.
thew "bulled' their way to the top. pass
ing teams that looked far better on tie
field but which lacked that perfect blind
ness to everything else but victory.
ITS growing dark" said Claud Ross
man in the closing round of that men,
90 HE sa,er'aas, inning c'r',gele in Phil