Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-06
TIGERS FINALLY WIN
Greatest Crowd in History
Witnesses Game in Boston.
KARGER PROVES A MARK
eft-Hander Is Pounded Off Slab in
Very First Inning-Cobb
Sick Man.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


BOSTON, Mass, August 5.-Boston and
its environs scraped together today the
largest crowd of base ball fans that ever
saw a game in this city, probably the
largest that ever saw one in any quarter
of this terrestrial sphere. But the 49, O4
enthusiasts who clicked the merry turn
stiles saw the Detroit Tigers lapse again
into their wild ways. After four sound
beatings there was hope that they had
been tanned to fragile, and that they
would be found purr1ng gently and eat
ing off the Red Sox hands. Politically
speaking they did eat off Eddie karger's
left arm in one round. Anyway, they
knocked him south in that length Of time
and won ultimately, Z to 4.
But the crowd-believe us, Mawruss. it
was some crowd. The gates were thrown
open at 1880. simultaneously there was
a rush, and that rush was not over until
after big Bill Dineen had donned his
mask and crept behind Bill Carrigan to
watch the windings of the first pitched
ball. Stands, bleachers and the great
horseshoe space behind the ropes filled
as if some one had upset an immense
pail of humanity and it was trucking to
all corners at the same time. Only the
big foot ball games produce like gather
ings in these parts, and these. II more
colorful in certain respects, are never as
representative gleanings as was today's
multitude.
Shoes For Base Hits.
Just before the game started and when
all that was needed to give the battle a
championship flavor was a band, dele
CATION Of shoe people from Brockton
marched into the grandstand behind the
believing of some very acceptable brass.
1t developed later that George E. Keith
was at the head Of this crowd and that
how UraT n ~a;f =, loo
considerably during the afternoon. He
gave pair of shoes TO every player
making a base hit. Detroit didn't wake
UP to this until about the seventh inning.
Then they went in and hammered off
seven In the round, bringing their total
up to fifteen pairs of feet protectors for
the afternoons labor. The SoX. on the
other hand, were on from the very start
for they hit safely in every inning and
piled up total Of fourteen bingles during
the contest. iris Speaker, with four hard
hit safeties, led the field in the shoe
contest.
After the crowd had been fairly well
nodded into shape and held back by
eighty-fve bluecoats the batteries were
announced. There was some shaking of
heads when Eddie karger's name was
mentioned as Boston's finger The
Texan has had a hard time against the
Tigers this season. Today, with Ed
ward Willett as his opponent, he didn't
L.
Larry Pape who relieved him after the
first inning, twirled. well enough to have
won. But the beans were split in the
opener, and all the kings horses and all
the kings men couldn't help it little
bit
Cobb, as the most watched man OF
either team. was disappointing in some
respects. He tore off his two hits and
stole base, and he took chances on the
bases, but somehow or other 1t was ap-
parent that he was bit fine, and that the
strain is telling. But what he did in
tired condition was only Indicative of
what he can do when he Is right His
hits were both solid clouts, but he was
caught off first once by Pape, and was
thrown out trying to steal second by Car
rigan, and this in addition to the Hooper
pegging that nailed him after his second
wallOp.
Larry Gardner was in reality the
brightest defensive operator of either side,
his stop of Willett's grounder. his re-
covery and his throw on the same, re-
minding one of the old Jimmy Collins
style in every respect.
The Tigers left tonight for New York,
where they open another nerve-wrecking
series Monday. They played to over 3d.
600 people, won one game and lost four.
They were knocked out Of first place as
well. Their next visit to Boston will
come in September. Having lost twelve
out Of the last seventeen games, they are
due to recover from their slump or else
they are pretty sure to be looking up at
the Sox~ by that time. The score: