The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-06-19
BY PAUL Hall eRusKE.


Unloading on desperate and dis
courased populace their most divert
tx batting rally OF the season. the
Tigers celebrated their homecoming
most effectively yesterday and are
out today TO maintain their locally un-
bcaten record against the White Sox.
Todays game. strange to relate, Is
. he opening pastime OF the season.
That Is to say, 1t is the game which
VAS to have been played April IL. but
VAS unavoidably postponed. The game
With which the Tigers started their
mad career was really the second In
the Ban Johnsonian order. Idiocyn-
cracies OF the schedule made II impos-
able TO play the opener before mat
ter OF IS combats had been put on Ice.
Lafitte viii probably go In against
LANCE or Young Cy Young and the
lineup will be substantially the same
81 that Of yesterdays start At any
rate. it's cinch that no athletes will
be on view In the regular positions
who weren't pastiming yesterday. Tho
contest brought out practically the
complete roster OF both teams and all
for one price OF admission.
Any team that handicaps itself sew
en- runs In the first inning and an even
dozen In the FIRST i've, has got to cut
loose some daring stunts to win out.
but that Is just what the Tigers did
yesterday
Detroit's opening period In the field
MAS one frought with heartaches and
deep grief. Ere Chief Summers left
The box. the foe had scored FIVE runs,
had two on base and but one was out.
Matty. Mcintyre got hit of Ralph
Works and two more runs tore in.
Hope was then almost abandoned and
fhiled to revive until the ninth, In
which. after long uphill fight. the
Tigers, on singles by Jones and Cobb.
doubles by Bush and Crawford, and a
low heave by Lord, scored three runs
on I'd Walsh, tying and whining the
pastime, while one would bat an eye
lash.
It's an inspiring thing to read about
the deeds OF T. Cobb on foreign fields,
but It's infinitely more exciting to see
~ turning them on before our very
~ took an active part in the Sum-
mers Mysteries In the opening inning,
dropping a fiy ball at q time, which |
I LOI0ELthllttly Gcllmdl6ut LhduC AhC
alp cost three hostile runs. Ty then
began 20 make up for his thunder. !
White, Olmstead and Walsh all pitch |
Cd to him, refusing couple Of chances
70 let him perambulate to first. Out |
of ak times at bat. Ty amassed five
blows for eight bases, ..yssas 4s.
For Detroiters 20 really appreciate
The Peach II Is necessary to gaze occa-
sionally on the work OF other ball
players, and for Ty himself to occa-
oionally absent himself from our
midst Then. when he returns and
We watch him tear on that trip from
1rst to third, we are all In shape to
realize that the poetry of baseball mo-
ton. the acme Of speed and the height
o. perfect judgment combine in Cobb |
~ they do In no other man In base
hall
There was something about Ty's
stride yesterday which made q certain
. 1foid and blase resident OF the press
box want to get up and. rupture all
<raditions by hectic, red-faced yen.
0fn6rs felt similarly and repressed
themselves with less success
TO properly appreciate what the
keech did yesterday ut Bennett Park
& y necessary. to review some OF the
details.
Two out in the arst. he smashed to
center, but was left. One down In the
nird, he was thrown out on a close
+ play by Lee Tannehill. Two ON In
> The NTH, he trfpled to right and scored
E "a Crawford's triple which followed
One on and two out In the sixth, he
singled to right, Covington scoring.
Two on In the eighth. he singled to
right Mitchell scoring. Two on in the
ninth, he singled to Lord, both runs
scoring on the hit and the low throw