The Detroit times., 1910-03-14
HOT SERIES IS IN
VIEW FOR TIGERS
AND KITTENS
Present Yanigan Team By All odos
the Best Detroit Has Ever Had
and Thinks II Can Trim the
Champions.
Real Reason for Jennings Assembly
of Second String Talent at Tram
ing Camp, Now Appears.
ey PAUL II. sRUsKe

SAN ANTONIO. Texas. March -
Oh, YOU Yanigans.
That IS the prevailing zone oi me
sentiment OF the veterans IN camp
here now. Everybody Is looking lot'
ward with interest TO what promises
TO be as interesting a series OF games
AS has ever taken place between two
divisions OF the sam, club. I'm fact,
il is virtually the first time in many
years that Detroit has had second
team worth the name
Yanigan aggregations OF the past
at the Detroit training camps, nave
been largely composed OF substitutes,
extra battery performers and word
painters parading rs ball players Dut
liable 10 arrest for false pretenses.
Their games with the regulars have,
as rule, been little more than hOi
low mockeries The regulars haven
lost a combat OF this character, II
memory serves, since away back IN
the spring OF 1907 which was the last
year the club trained al Augusta.
These Yanigans Different
But there is nothing punk about
that Yanigan club OF 1910. No in
deedy! II has been the Detroit Base
ball club itself for couple OF weeks
and il has smelt powder. Further
more. II has tasted blood. Its mem
bers have a very pardonable pride in
their organization and have been
heard 10 remark that they WOULDN'T be
a bit averse to remaining intact amt
representing some big city in the
world of fast baseball. The aggrega
ton, composed as il is OF the best
players of a dozen minor leagues OF
prominence, is drawn also very large
ly from the champion teams or those
leagues, and its members aren't like
" 10 brook defeat with placidity. They
will get Just as good pitching AMI
catching as the regulars and they
have been aching for the fray for
week their present training trip
through Texas being regarded as a
sort of finishing preliminary touch to
the big show that will start on their
return.
And perhaps those regulars aren't
on their mettle, Some OF them have
seen Hughes juniors IN action and
they have spread the report among
Is 10 come. II will behoove every man
10 do mis- duty like hero. or else suf-
fer ignominious defeat II has never
been a weakness OF the Tigers to I'M
der-estimate the strength OF their op-
ponents and there is no danger that
such will be the case now The vet
Grams know that one Of Hughie Jen-
nings' main purposes In getting to-
gether a strong second team this year
is TO give the regulars hard. grilliug
fights in the training camp. and tney
know that they must be very near
their best 10 win
Hughes Foxy Scheme.
AS for the little manager he is rub
bling his palms in delight al the an
ticipated pleasures OF the two weeks
To come II those Yanigans give the
regulars as hard fight as he fully eX-
poets they will there will be- little
danger OF that fatal fault which have
been the cause of the undoing OF
every former three-time pennant win
ner in history
There is going 10 be a ball game IN
the Detroit camp every afternoon
that the weather permits as long as
the two squads are stationed az the
local resort. On the days when the
big team isn't playing the "San'one
Bronchos or some other aggregation
with the view TO enticing few odd
dollars i'm az the gate-the two De
troit clubs will be at IT, And the pros
poets seem TO indicate that the Tiger
Kitten series is going 10 be one OF the
warmest affairs in the annals OF the
reign OF the good King Hughie