El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-23
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BALL DOPE.


Hughie Jennings, manager Of the De-
froit Tigers, is not only great baseball
PLAYER, but he is a hrainy man as We'll
His opinion is of value on the chances
of the teams in the American league
despite the fact that he is an interested
party.
He predicts that he will duplicate the
feat of Charlie Comiskey, who is the
only big league manager who ever won
four consecutive championships. me
latter turned the trick with the 81
Louis Browns of 1885, 1886, 1887 and
1888 Frank Chance nearly duplicated
this record with the Chicago Cubs. That
aggregation won three flags and then
finished second to the Pirates The Pr
rates also won three flags, in 1901.
1902 and 1903. Ed Hanlon's Baltimore
Orioles grabbed a trio Of champion
ships in 1894. 1895, 1895 and finished
second to Boston IN 1897.
Jennings now says that he viii win
the flag for the fourth time. and Will
cap it by winning the worlds cham
pionship- He says:
Detroit is in splendid shape TO re-
peat this year. We won our first pen
nant in 1907 and came right back with
two more flags in 1908 and 1909. Chi
cago beat us for the worlds champion
had to hustle to whip US last year.
Baseball is a wonderful institution"
also says Jennings Just think of it,
the Detroit team made 100000 last sea-
son. That's going some for little
town like the Michigan metropolis But
we drew big coin on the road; In fact
the Tigers outdrew every other club
in the American league away from home
by more than $4,000.
THE present owners of the Detroit
team bought the club, lock, stock and
barrel, five years ago for $4,000 Since
then the team has made more than
$500, 900 and you couldn't buy the plant
today for $500, 600. The Detroit team is
liberal with its players and that is one
of things that makes the boys play
hard. Ty Cobb draws $4,000 a year
and others Of the team draw big sal
aries. Last year the bonus handed me
by the mana cement was more than ten
times what my salary was the first year
! played professional baseball. This spir-
1T is what makes the team the solid or
ganization that it is and enables US
TO win pennants-"
Good stories develop once in while
in baseball which are OF actual occur
renee Two Of the most humorous of re-
cent date are now floating around. Here
they are:
There was game played at FL Reno,
Okla last week which will probably
be disputed over forever. FL Reno was
beaten and needed q run to tie Two
men were on bases and two were out
when the batter hit an easy bounder
towards shortstop. The shortstop was
about to pick up the ball and toss it to
second to finish the game when a prai-
RE dog jumped out of a hole, collided
with the ball, sent it TO centerfield and
the score was tied A hit followed and
FL Reno won the game. The official
scorers wanted TO give the prairie dog
an error.
Here is another one, reported truth
fully from Denver Jack Hendricks,
who is leading the Denver team towards
the western championship, got a tip
on player who was working with
semi-pro team in Denver and he ran
away to see the youngster perform In
the third inning, with no one out, the
bases were full and the batter up hit
q high fly The pitcher was standing
u-der the ball which broke through his
hands. hit him on top Of the head and
bounded on the fly to the third base
man, who touched third The umpire
called ii double play instead Of allow
ing the infield out and the game was
won right there.