The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-06
NEWSSTAND INVITES
sATURhAL|A OF
HOME RUNS
Addition To Seating Capacity OF
Bennett Park Likely To Play
Prominent Part in the 1910
Pennant Race.
Tigers Weakness in Sluggers To-
ward Left Makes II Look as If
Advantage Was To the Foe.

An interesting feature in the COM
ing campaign OF the Detroit baseball
) club will be the effect of the large
left-field bleacher which has been
added TO the clubs equipment this
year.
The bleacher is on fair ground and
its base cuts of from the Tiger play
ground a zone OF 40 feet in depth, ex-
tending into the field OF play, parallel
to the left-field pallisade. The near
est boundary is still a considerable
distance from the plate, and Is away
outside the legal limit of 2S5 feet.
Any drive, naturally, which alights In
the bleacher or bounds into il viii
be scored home run.
RUNS WILL FALL TO THE~LOT OF
THE DEFENDERS OF THE AMERt-
4 CAN LEAGUES REMNANT?
Tigers Fence Few At Home.
\ The Detroit clubs left-held hitters
have In times past been compelled 10
take a seat in the remote rear, as
compared TO those of the enemy In
fact. Hickman was really the last OF
the local players who could be relied
on for 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
pitchers-Willett most particularly
smashes ball in that direction and
I. hard enough to carry 10 the barrier
= But the real fencing feats have been
4 accomplished by the opposition, as
rule.
I, Crawford. Cobb, Rossman-the slug
4 ging brigade which for three seasons
I terrorized the American league-they
are all right-feld 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
BUEACHER WILL ALMOST GER
TAINLY BE, IN THE MAIN, FROM
4 THE BATS OF THE VISITING
\ PLAYERS.
These Are the Dangerous Ones.
Such men as Lajoie. Harry Davis.
Stovall. Jake Stahl. Danny Murphy,
Wagner OF Boston, RUDE Oldring and
others who might be mentioned. will
get those drives and, If there are
enough 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 houncel---
How often have Me nnadIy- cheered
Matty Mcintyre or .Davy Jones as,
\ gifted with a supreme knowledge Of
the batsman. one of them has placed
himself where the bleacher now
stands and has been able, after a hard
j run to make a catch which stopped
the foe in the middle of threatening
batting rally!
THOSE CATCHES WILL BE I'M
POSSIBLE NOW.
From now on. the main duties OF
the left-feider of the Detroit club.
when playing on his own lot will be
to cut of sharply-driven balls which
are apparently possessed OF enough
agility TO clear the bleacher wall, on
the bounce. He will have 10 play
deeper than usual TO do this. And
there are pretty sure TO be a fair per
centage of such that will get away.
All in all, IL is going 30 be pretty
8 tough season for the talented athletes
a who will cavort in the western garden.
couple of them.
Had II Only Been Right-FieId.
OF course, IL is unfortunate that the
( conformation of Bennett park pre-
vented the club from placing a bleach
er In right-feld in a proximity which
would make IL availa BILE for long shots
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 it's
confines.
With a right-fieId bleacher as near
as the left-fieId annex. Detroit would
find its pennant chances strengthened
easily 20 per cent and the two premier
swattists would run up a total that
would stsqser humanity.
OF course, ALI. those honers into
h the new bleacher will not 20 70 swell
y the score OF the enemy Jim Dele
hanty will hit one in there once in a
while and so should Tom Jones and
Moriarty. Perhaps Wahoo may locate
e the end nearest center field some dav.
for he is the hardest hitting left.
handed batter who ever lived. In all
probability. Ness, the colt frst-sack
er who has been getting so many help
ful homers in the souta.. would find h
I pie for him.. Willctt and MulHn ought
10 locate it.now and then
But the big majority Of those drives
are bound to be hostile. And It's the
irony Of fate that the men Who. on
form stand most likely 70 get them.
are attached 10 the clubs which pro
pise to be the Tigers most dangerous
opponents In the pennsnt race.
Wilmington Quits Crew.
a BOSTON. April ,6.--Harvard's var.