Evening star., 1911-08-24
Special Dispatch 10 The star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
DETROIT. Mich. August -4.-Jimmy
McAleer and his Nationals arrived in
town this morning ready for a three
game series with the. Tigers. 1t viii. Se
the last appearance OF the Washington
club at Bennett Park this season.
The Nationals We're expected here yes
terday. They hate several hundred
friends in town ard some of these own
autos. The clerk at the hotel where
McAleer and his men generally sto.
was kept busy during the afternoon and
evening .informing friends OF Herman
Schaefer, Wild Conroy, Norman Elberfeld.
Walter Johnson. GabDy Street, Clyde
Milan, Jack Lelivelt and the other a h
letes of the Potomac district tat they
had chaRsed their plans and. decided not
10 spend Wednesday in Detroit.
When the Washington team comes here
next season they. will play in a. new park
that they may mistake for their own nea
home. The .men who built the W ash
inGton park are to build Detroit new
base ball plant Work will be started on
the park az soon as the regular season
closes.
Detroit fans have been wondering for
weeks whether WashnSton's new base bail
park was built on the lines of Detroit 5
new park or whether Detroit's new park
would be built on The lines of Washing
toms new park.
When il was announced that Detroit
would LATE new plant next year an
other announcement came a few days
laser to the effect that Washington S
park was modelled after Detroits new
home. How a park already built can be
modelled after one which will be con-
structed some time in the future is what
puzzled base ball followers. Still, that
is just what happened in this instance.
The Detroit club has been holding off
on the building proposition, hoping that
Detroit would land a pennant and the
world series results would. in way. re-
imburse the club for the extra expendi-
ture involved i'm building new struc-
ture. But Detroit has proven such
healthy investment on the road this
year that the club can go ahead in its
work of construction Washington fans
can take a squint at their own plant
and they will have picture of what
Detroit's new base ball park will be like.
They have it on Detroit fans in that re-
spect, for Detroit fans are only guessing
what they'll see here next year.
With the arrival of McAleer and his
team something of unusual Importance
in the pennant race is brought forcibly
before base ball public.
Detroit has not won series since
the Tigers last one with Washington.
Detroit's last eastern trip The Tigers
have played six series since that time
and have lost all of them.
After leaving Washington. Detroit went
to Philadelphia. where they lost three out
cf four: next they were in Boston. where
they dropped four out of five and. in
cidentaliy, they lost the leadership of the
American League. They have not re-
gained 1t. In New York they lost three
out of five. They came back home and
Jennings had hopes of seeing his team
return to form while playing on native
soil. The first team the Tigers tackled
was Chicago. Hughes athletes lost
three out of five games to the White SoX.
=. Boston opened the las, invasion of the
east in Detroit last week. The Red Sox
took two out of three games from the
Tigers. Then came New York, Chase S
men also taking two out of three games
from Detroit. and now the Tigers again
have the Nationals opposing them. Since
last meeting McAleers men Detroit has
won nine Games and lost seventeen. The
Tigers play but twelve more games in
Detroit. including todays contest. Half
Of these are with eastern clubs. three
with Washington and three with the
world champion Athletics. The other
six are with western teams.
Detroiters VITO see chance for Jen
nings' men to cop the 1911 flag are few
and far between. To start with, Detroit
has been a woefully weak road team this
year and a good home club. The Ath-
le.ics furnished a poor showing on the
early road trips, but have improved on