The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-06-12

~ PAUL ". bHUSkE.
@ors and more II begins 10 look
a the Tigers are surely going to
compelled TO fight TO retain their
10 lead.
~ when that tight is due viii be
/nrd matter TO prognosticate, but
= coming unless the personnel OF
clubs infeld can be changed be-
~ the scheduled time for Gainor's
xoInrn. or else unless Edgar Wiilett
1&<nins the form which he showed
~ fash on Saturday, during the
Uckfng which Boston handed the
Md here's a little prediction.
When the Tigers are collared and
rooned---if passed they are going to
bo--they are going to come back with
vim and they'll see that league lead
nrnin.
Mach az every one In Detroit Ia
4 Du1ling for the team, II In just as true
LIT there IN no town which likes bet
~ 20 see Its club In position where
a has to fight and is doing that very
<hlnR. Perhaps the reason Ia found
s ~ the known events that have trans
ulrod In such circumstances. Really
~ hasn't seemed natural up 20 date
r thls year TO see the Tigers leading
[ ~ 70 large q margin. The crowd 10
uood to seeing its favorites on top.
buf these eight-game leads are some
thing altogether contrary to prece-
The Tigers are now four and one
haR games ahead of the Athletics,
v1th the rest nowhere. In former
pennant years this would have been
s oonsidered q most yoIuptuous mar
IN. This year II doesn't look 80 big,
Sd to team that has Gainor and
G|anage out of It, Delahanty playing
1{ut with q bad leg and q broken
hand. and OLeary, q utility man,
nkying second, those four and half
lines look mighty sweet. IT.
speaking OF crippled teams demands
ut we al give credit to Hughie
y nninxs for his refusal TO rush into
INT With wall over the losses which
~ club has suffered through the abb
nee Of the hospital list from the
nd OF battle.
<Hughie hasn't yet been quoted In
= OF those fearful interviews which
f $ 20 often voiced by managers both
home and on the road. when SOHO
Ing OF the sort goes wrong.
Words can barely paint the agony
u Connie Mack az he tells OF an In
lent OF this kind. Memory IL still
ksh with the walls OF Lajoie when
4 used to be the manager OF the
6eveland crew and Bill Bradley or
nmebody else had been spiked. Jim
cAleer OF washington can turn the
hits low and work swell accom-
niment to the big fiddle ON the
6Ird-luck theme, and there are others.
but it's all the same to little
Uuehie. II the regular isn't on the
~, why his substitute II ready and
Hnghie IL optimistic as ever when
to newspaper men happen around
Like about everything else In
mich he differs from the common
mi Of managers, there's q method In
ne way Hughie regards injuries. He
G&esn't believe In talking about them
81 way which his men might take
~ paving the way to defeat In the
H&me which happens to be on the
&rds for the following afternoon. His
myers read the papers and imbibe
~ srnfidence which the manager
HIInself shows In them. They join
~ view OF the situation, present n
Gbnt at the ball yard which goes as
~ a. within human power to bal
11ce the loss Of the men who happen
e. b. out OF II, and more often than
~ they get away with their game In
% cumstances which would be dill
o/It, II not impossible, were they to
(1ke the field with the impression
~ even their own manager lacked
c@nf1dence In them
By no means the least OF the ex-
o. lent attributes OF Mr.. jennings is
~ unfailing skill as the mouthpiece
u his ball club.
The Tiges are In Boston again to-
~ and will try to avert a repetition
a the events that happened yester-
~ when, after Works had been
ocked out or the box, they tied
~ score, only to lose the game I'm
~ tenth on hit, combination OF
OTIS, and another hit.
fhe score was to and the Red
used up Joe Wood, their best
p|kcher, to turn the trick.
Ne performances of the pinch HIT
n and the fine pitching OF willett,
70 relieved Works and held the Red
K until the Tigers caught up, were
~ most encouraging features OF the
21cesion. Bill Donovan and Walter
eiier are doing wonders In the
inches these days and Saturday Jack
lively helped them along In the bat
ing rally In which Detroit tied the
1<ore IN the ninth, Ed LATTE pitched
40 nnai inning. after wiIlett had been
Ken out to let Smaller hit, and Il was
q his expense that the final run
e r. noteworthy fact that Ralph
Vorks, despite AL the hitting in which
lYal teams have INDUCED recently at
~ expense, y still dodging the defeat
1tQdo. Saturdays game win undoubt-
11Iy BE- scored against LATTE, Works
Mn escaping with q clean record.