The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-18
'MOREC0lTH EAVERs
LIKELY TO APPEAR
AGAINST BROWNS
Browning's Success Shows Jennings
That This Is the Time 10
Unload Pernoll and Stroud
On the Hostiles.
Little Kentuckian's Debut One oil
the Most Successful Engineered
Locally in Many Seasons
av PAUL HALE 5RuskE.

With his veteran pitchers apparent
" laboring under a run OF hau! iu0N
which has hampered their best EFFORTS
I'D to date, Hughie Jennings Is hAeiy
TO give US quite little spel no" VI
the colt article with which-siory De
he is well provided. In all prop
ability two of the games OF the ST.
Louis series will be twirled by young
sters Pernoll and Stroud and the
former Is very likely TO take the hr
ing line today, four OF the Brownie
regulars hitting from the leIt-hahueu
position and making them look HNe
possible marks for the similarly htted
throwing apparatus OF the Grant
Pass athlete.
II the TWO youngsters mentiohed- 40
as well as Frank Browning did sat
urday, there will be no cause Tor com
plant.
Pending the time when Halleys
comet assumes proportion more terri
fyirg than knothole in the renee, IL
might be we'll to refer 10 Mr.. Brown
ing who is at present shedding fresh
luminousity on our ball yard. For II
was the little Kentuckian whom,
where Mullin, Willett aud Works had
failed. stepped in and, in the hrst
big-league game in which he had ever
participated, won a decisive victory
over the Cleveland Maps and earned
for himself home in the hearts Oh
the bleacherites and grandatahd
patrons alike, by debutting perform
ance the like OF which has been fur
nished by no Detroit recruit pi,cher
IL many a season.
Crowd Welcomed Him.
The big crowd that had assembled
Saturday treated the newcomer 10
fast company in a style which Of II
self put heart into the novice. Brown
ing wasn't expected at all, and oniv
those III Manager Jennings con
fidence knew that Summers was not
quite ready and that the burden was
10 be borne by the colt The posi-
bility was noted, however, when
Browning strobe TO the practice firing
line and began warming up. lie hadn
taken a half-doZen steps toward the
box, however. before the applause rip
pied out Before he took the slab II
was an ovation. Graceful, courageous
and with all the confidence of vet
eran, Browning went 10 work.
Kruger, the first batsman up. after
two strikes had been called. smashed
safely into left, but the crowd didn
take 1t as a bad omen and cheered
nightly when, after "A harrassing in
ming in which his nerve was tested
70 the utmost, he retired the side run
less.
The Tigers came TO bat and thumped
around two runs in their first inning,
which gave the youngster little
puin n From
on. he was always a winner.
But the little fellow had still q pass
his real battle test and the way he did
il completely won the hearts OF the
mob The trial came i'm the NTH
inning which he opened Y passing
Birmingham Ball hunted and Mortar
tvs throw pulled Tom Jones off the
bag. both runners being safe. The
ball really got away from Tom allow
ing Birmingham TO romp all the way
to third. Ball straightway stole sec
ond.
A Tight Place.
Bear In mind the situation. Detroit
ahead, . 10 and doing little with
Falkenberg; none out and fast men
on second and third--certalnly, II lit
tie Mr.. Browning had anything up his
sleeve, now was the time fer him 10
unload IL.
Falkenberg tried twice to buut. this
being apparently his only hope Each
time the ball went foul At the next
he took full swing and missed clean
~ The crowd Toared an approval.
Kruger then essayed 10 bat the
runs home Browning cut loose with
a fine little turn OF speed. keeping the
ball up around the Clevelanders neck.
Mr.. Kruger didn't like them there,
as was obvious in the hectic manner
I'm which he addressed the sphere
three times and in vain. The crowd
whooped its approval with doubled
enthusiasm.
Ii was up to Bradley. The duel
here was more prolonged. Browning
was insistent that Brad was not going
to get a good one across the middle.
Working both corners and using his
curve freely, he kept the CONT OF
strikes even with the list Of broad
ones at which the Cleveander did not
offer. Each strike increased the tumul,
and, when the third had been register
ed and the little Kentuckian started
for the bench, Detroit fandom arose
as one man and INDUCED IN a tdmut
OF Joy 70 which the object of the dem
onstration uonchalantly tipped his
cap like veteran who has been