The Detroit times., 1910-03-14
not SERIES IS IN
VIEW FOR TIGERS
AND KITTENS
Present Yanigan Team BY AL Odds
the Best Detroit Has Ever Had
and Thinks II Can Trim the
Champions.
Real Reason for Jennings Assembly
of Second String Talent at Train
ing Camp, Now Appears.
BY PAUL Il. BRUSkE.

SAN ANTONIO. Texas, March IL
Oh, yor Yanigans'
That Is the prevailing tone OF the
sentiment OF the veterans In camp
here now Everybody is looking for
ward with interest 10 what promises
TO be as interesting series OF game
as has ever taken place between t"o
divisions oil the same club. In fact,
II is virtually the first, time I'D 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 as ball players but
liable 20 arrest for false pretenses
Their games with the regulars have
as rule. been little more than hol-
low mockerics The regulars haven't
lost combat OF this character, II
memory serves, since away back IN
the spring OF l907. which was the last
year the club trained al Augusta
These Yanisans Different.
But there is nothing punk abont
that Yanigan club of 1910 No in-
deedy II has been the Detroit Base
ball club itself. for a couple OF weeks
and ii has smelt powder. Further
more. il has tasted blood. It's mem
bers have a very pardonable pride In
their organization and have been
heard to remark that they wouldn't be
a bit averse to remaining intact ana
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
prumnence, is drawn also very large
" from the champion teams OF those
leagues, and its members aren't like
ly to brook defeat with placidity They
will get Just as good pitching and
catching as the regulars and they
have been aching for the fray for a
week. their present training trip
through Texas being regarded as
sort of finishing preliminary touch TIC
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
their mates that. in the strife which
is to come, IL will behoove every man
10 do mis- duty like a hero or else srlf-
fer ignominious defeat II has never
been a weakness OF the Tigers TO un-
der estimate the strength OF their OPP
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 n strong second team this year
IL to give the regulars hard. grilling
nhts in the training camp. and they
know that they must be very near
their best 10 win.
Hughes Foxy Scheme.
AS for the little manager. he is rub
bling his p1iIns in delight al the an
ticipated pleasures of the two weeks
10 come II those Yanigans give the
regulars as hard fight as he fully ex-
pects they will. there will be little
danger OF that fatal fault which have
been the cause of the undosng Of
every former three-time pennant win
ner in history.
There is going to be ball game liz
the Detroit camp every afternoon
that the weather permits. as long as
the two squads are stationed at the
local resort On the days when the
big team isn't playing the "Santone'
Bronchos or some other aggregation
with the view to enticing few odd
dollars in ar the gate-the two De
troit clubs will be at Ii. And the pros
poets seem TO indicate that the Tiger
Kitten series is going TO be one OF the
warmest affairs in the annals OF the
reign OF the good King Hughie.