The Detroit times., 1911-08-22
By PAUL HALE eRUskE.

Once more the bright Star of Hope
has been sighted on the eastern hori-
xon. Reassured, to a certain extent,
are the bugs OF Detroit, for didn't the
Tigers win a bang-up ball game yes
ferday, and from that bunch OF pests
from New York, the hardest crowd for
them 10 beat In the whole American
league?
Yes. indeedl Just that very event
was chronicled at the ball yard.
wild Bill Donovan pitched II and,
despite the hostile Jump, the riotous
eastern Meese and the very darndest
OF Hal Chase and his crew, the
eleventh inning found the Tigers one
run to the good and the bases full
with none out
But the best of It all was the fact
that Sam Crawford was back In the
game.
Wahoo Samuel was right in the
thick OF Il all, with three corking
blows. one OF which batted home two
runs, while the other was followed by
hurting steal of second and daring
sprint to the plate on single which
followed.
with Samuel back In line. the
Tiges seemed to take new heart, even
despite an accident before the game
which led to the retirement for some
days Of Dayy Jones, with q twisted
knee.
Morning practice and q brand-new
Mating order-the last innovation an
lexperiment Of the eleyenth-hour de-
sscrfption, due to the Jones injury
also seemed to help the Tigers.
Today MuIlin or Willett will try to
llxeep up the clip. Chase has Vaughn,
.Fisher and Ford from whom to pick
fhis twirler In the final game OF the
lseries.
Had the tigers lost the game In the
5closing stages, II would have gone
ydown into the unofficial chronicles az
lone OF the few In which the jennings
| ties could surely advance the Rob
,bed-by-the-umptrer excuse. That they
finally managed to cop 10 an especial
lily pleasant memory, because OF the
lshocking manner In which they were
! treated by one Egan, famed as an ex-
I, ponent OF the Black Hand.
Though never given to wall much
over the breaks In the umpiring. the
I architect OF this column has once or
4 twice found II necessary to call atten-
ton to the terrible travesty which
Mr.. Egan has been handing out In his
vain effort to initiate the good umpire
with whom he has happened to be
travelling. BY no means all his breaks
have hurt the Tigers; some Of them
have helped them. But even impair
tial incompetency II something that
hurts ball game. Particularly II
this the>ease when the Jump follows
his breaks by brainstorms In which
he fiagrantly "evens up"
yesterday Egan robbed the Tigers
OF run at the plate and then handed
one to New York In style that would
have done credit 10 the midnight
prowler. He missed so many strikes
and balls during the game that he
had the pitchers and batters alternate
" desperate and delighted. But he
climbed the capax In the final period
IN which he refused to let Gardner
walk 70 first, even when confronted
with the bruised and bleeding digtts
OF the New Yorker who was really 90
badly hurt that he may not be able
70 take part In 'today's game.
OF course, allowance must be made
for the fact that good umpires are
really scarce. The American league
is committed to the double-umpire
system and some OF the jumps are OF
snecessity better than others. Local
'conditions would not be 80 severe
were II not for the fact that Ban
- Il H.I