Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-04
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TIGERS ARE NO LONGER A
WINNING TEAM ON ROAD
jennings Team Has Made Two Poor
Eastern Trips This Season-Ath-
letics a Good Home Team,

BOSTON. August If the Tigers re.
turn home in the lead they must first
reverse the order Of things. If the rule
Of 1909 and 1910 holds good on this trip
Detroit cannot be in first place when
the Tigers return to Bennett Park
Reference Is here made to the Tigers
showing on the road. Jennings no longer
has winning road team. In 1907 the
Tigers won a pennant principally be-
cause Of their success when away from
homo The same held good In 1903. In
the year that followed they gained most
Of their strength in the percentage COL
umn through the work done by them
at Bennett Park. and last year the club
had lost its powers on the road alto
gether.
On the first trip east this year the
Tigers lost more games than they won,
and they will make q mighty showing In
the remaining games in Boston and five
games at New York to carry first place
back with them.
If the Tigers do not reverse tho con-
ditions OF the last few years they will
not win the .pennant this season-not
unless Philadelphia shows a sudden re-
versal Of things. The Athletics are q
strictly AT home" club.
Athletics Like Tigers.
They are the hardest club in the league
to beat at Shibe Park. On the road they
are like the Tigers.
Tigers and Athletics are going neck
and neck at the present time. But the
Tigers are on the road with their ill-luck
on foreign battlef1elds against them, while
the Athletics can remain on their nome
lot while the Tigers are travelling.
Philadelphia has thfrty-eight more
m NAV Chfha park and hJlf
eighteen on the road. This fact makes
Philadelphians confident that the pennant
will again float over Shibe Park.
Detroit May Reverse Order.
Again. Detroit may prove to be q win
ming road team from now on. The Tigers
may accomplish this year what they &C
complished in 1907. They may suddenly
reverse the order Of things.
An unexpected change in luck would
not come amiss. The success Of base ball
the game takes. The speculative breaks
and ~unlooked-for changes make the popu-
larity of the game, but on the dope De-
troit is not better than q second choice.
Philadelphia is playing great game at
home. The players are fielding well and
they are hitting in pinches. It's pitchers
are going good.
ocuucT 4S 0IdIISOs
Bender has started on his annual
streak. In the last few years Bender has
shown an inclination to one winning spree
a year, and he seems to have gone on
this spree. Plank Is also pitching bet
ter bal THAN he twirled at any previous
stage Of the race, and Coombs. though
not at his best, manages to get along
fairly we'll.
Detroit has a hope-Gainer. II the
West Virginian re-enters the game this
year there is q possibility that the Tigers
can show new and unexpected strength.
Gamer was not taken along on this
trip. Hughie told him to remain in De-
troit and rest his mending wrist. Hughie
is playing on futures. When the Tigers
return home Gamer will be ready to
!. Gamer May Be Savior.
II Gamer does return to tho lineup
there is a question whether he will be as
good as he was before the accident.
Gamer may not return to form this year.
Not that he has lost his playing ability
during his absence. but Gamer may be
gun shy" when he again faces pitchers
in regular games. Players often come
back that way. It takes them time to
recover confidence.
hitting ability he displayed before the
pitched ball fractured his wrist. and II
he can field and throw the way he did
in the early months of the present sea-
SON, Jennings may find him the savior
Of his team.