The Detroit times., 1911-10-30
ST, LOUIS BROWNS GAVE
CHAMPIONSHIP TO T|GtS
SOME FOUR YEARS SINCE
While Tigers Were the Cheap
5 Guys of the American
League, They COPIED.
BROWNS PURSE PROUD.
With One Game Needed to Cinch
Pennant, Detroit Made st.
Louis Look Foolish.

II Is nearly two months since the
last game at the old Bennett PARK
VAS played by the Tigers. There is
little left there that would be recog
nized as the old park.
Il is four years since the Tigers
FIRST won the American league cham
pionship. There is little left on the
Tiger outfit except in the outneld,
which would be recognized by the
far of 1907.
William Ii. Yawkey had President
2 Nayin's Office, and Hugh Jennings
was a newcomer. Mullin, Donovan
and Willett were the only pitchers
now on the job: Schmidt was catch
ing. and O'Leary was AT shortstop'
Crawford, Cobb and Jones were the
far gardeners.
IL was along towards the last oil
the season when Detroit needed one
more game to put the last tack in
the bunting. ST. Louis players were
touting themselves as high-priced
guys and belittling the worth OF the
Tigers.
Well. the Tigers played at the
southern town when they were need
ing that one more game, and this is
the way St Louis sport writer told
about H.:
"The locale of the auspicious oc-
casion' (referring 10 the game), was
Sportsmans Park, ST. Louis; the
time, yesterday afternoon; the score,
retroit 10, st. Louis 2. whopping
big crowd was there.
.It was hard upon the Browns.
They are purseproud gents. They
get large salaries for losing ball
games. One month ago they took the
train for Detroit to stop the Tigers.
They made no bones about saying
That the new American league cham
pions are cheap guys That is to say.
they get less money for winning ball
eatnes than the Browns do for losing
many more. Which is strange. Also,
which cuts no figure on earth. The
purse-proud Browns may detest the
struggling young men, who make
living playing baseball for Detroit.
That did not keep the same poor
young men from everlasting licking
the aforesaid Browns three out OF
every four times they hooked up, and
II may be said that the cheap guys
of Detroit get through with their sea-
son they will have earned more
money than the Browns stole this
season. So much for money-making
tho man or the ball player.
But to return to our mutton. The
underpaid Tigers fairly ate the over
paid Browns up. Powell pitched for
st. Louis. The rubicund Jonathon
mas been pitching phenomenal ball
for the last month. II took him thirty
minutes to warm up yesterday. Five
innings later he looked like thirty
cents. For three innings he went
along just lovely. Indeed, he made
the Tigers look like lambs. In the
fourth session the storm broke. Big
-.fofrn lost control lie let D.-J6Hes, the
first man up, go TO base. Schaefer
and Crawford went out easily. Then
came up the tyrannous Tyrus Cobb,
OF Tyre, who plays ball on pneumatic
tires, the young southern gentleman,
sub, who done broke up the race,
and the game, with a home run in
thst Philadelphia game last week.
The crowd warmed to Tyrus They
bade him hit er out. Obedient lad.
lie took strike. Big Jack handed
him another In the same spot Bow
ee! The ball whizzed over Wallace's
head, buzZing like swarm of angry
bees. IL hit the left field fence like
an eight-inch bullet hitting a battle
ship. When the high-salaried Mr..
Stone passed il into the higher
salaried Mr.. Wallace, the low. .salaried
Mr. Cobb was headed for third. Mr..
Wallace shot the ball to Mr.. Yeager,
but the low-salaried Mr.. Cobb gave a
low-down trick. He slid into the high
salaried Mr.. Yeager so hard that the
prchensible gentleman was Jared
loose from the ball Meanwhile, the
other low-salaried gentleman, Mr. Dee
.Iones-who had been canned from the
high-salaried Browns because he was
a cheap guy had scored.
"This was good enough. The mai
had been started into the soft pine
board. They drove Il through in the
next session.
"rhe ffth inning was really av
ful for a lot OF high-salaried gent,
a-playing of lot OF low-salaried guys
Mr. Coug1lin worked a base on balls
Schmidt sacrificed him TO second
Little Mr.. O'Leary also worked IN,
generous Mr.. Powell for free ride q
fiFst, In violation of all the interclul
commerce rules of baseball. TheI
the low-salaried Mr. Siever, who. lik,
the low-salaried Mr.. Dee Jones. haC
been canned from the high-salarie,
Browns, as not having sufficien
claws TO him, punched one of tn,
munihcent. Mr.. Powelrs curves to cen
! ter for three bases. Not a great drive
tIs true But il was not so bad for /
cheap guy
That other 'deciasse' gentleman
Air u Jones, followed with Just sncl
saother triple To the same spot. Mr.
Schae(er singled over second. Mr.
Crawford bounced one against IN,
left.held fence for two bags. All thi,
spelled five runs, and drove the- mai
home 10 its head In the fore-h head O
McAleer as Judith drove II into Tn,
head OF Holofernes."
Then along towards the last OF IN,
recital, the peevIsh pencil propcllel
proves that habit Is a hard thing Il
oyfrcpme. because the Tigers simpl,