Evening star., 1911-08-24
NATIONALS TO FACE A NEW
DETROIT LINEUP TODAY
Tigers Are Somewhat Demoralized Over
Constant Defeats, But Are Very Hungry
and Like Washington Boys.

thei., last two trips. while the Tigers lave
been weaker. Philadelphia has been al
most nvineible At home. Philadelphia
will finish at home: Detroit away from
home. Detroit is now several games be-
hind and losing on her own soil. Detroit
has not been able to get as good as an
even break away from home in the cas-,
this year and while they are fighting on
foreisn soil in most of their remainin :
games the Athletics will be at Shibe PARK
on their own lot. where other clubs havs
little Glance against them
The Nationals will find an entirely diff
ferent lineup here. Jennings has made
the most radical shift he has put through
any time since coming to Detroit. The
midget Bush is leading off, with Cobb
second in the batting order Crawford IS
third and the slugging Delehanty fourth.
with an average of better than .s';'.
Next comes Drake. who is playing in
place of Davey Jones. The eminent
druggist, Mr.. Jones. is out of the line
up with a twisted back. Ii was about
time for Davey 10 start on bench duty
anyway. as his playing showed the worst
kind Of d slump, both at bat and in the
field
Del Gainor. the first sacher, whose arm
was broken by Jack Coombs early in the
season, is back on first base and fielding
nicely, although the arm bothers him in
hitting. Ganor is batting sixth. with
New Bedford. Mass, seventh in the bat
ting order.
Jennings .seems Ia have picked up
young wonder in this Bauman. He COW
ers about much territory any second
sacker in the business. lie has pulled off
some remarkable fielding stunts. AS
batsman he has the unhappy faculty of
swinging on a ball. but he can certainly
drive them to the far corners when he
does connect He has made two of the
longest hits ever recorded at Bennett
Park in the few games he has played
there since the Tigers returned from the
east.
Paddy has bad base-running habits.
though. Ii takes him long to get started
and when he does start he has an idea
that the more ground he can cover the
better il will be for him. He draws an
circle when he rounds the cir
cult and barely escapes collisions with
the outfielders. He lost two home runs
just that way. And they We're two OF the
longest drives. ever seen in Detroit.
Jennings is weak on pitchers at pres
ent. Wild Bill Donovan, the smiling
veteran. whom everybody counted down
and out, is the best man on Jennings
hurting staff right now. and Bill has to
go 1t alone. The other veterans are
showing miserable form, and the young
sters whose wonderful work kept Detroit
at the top in the early months of the
season and gave them the commanding
lead of twelve games, which the Athletics
had to overhaul by remarkable spurts.
have all lost their ability to pitch. and
Hughe is struggling along hoping that
something will develop to change his
luck. That seems rather uncertain,
though, at present. THE Tigers have
blown is the most frequent expression
In this town today.
Detroit has secured Intielder Tutweiler
from the Hattiesburg, Miss. club. Jen-,
nings looked Tut over while the Tigers
played an exhibition game there this
spring. He is fast has nice whip, and
few thousand words of recommended
tions from leading citizens.
Tho way Jennings hurting program has
been shattered, it is pretty hard to pre-
dict who will heave in this series with
the Nationals The Tigers manager got
the idea i'm Washington that a pitching
schedule would be the proIie;' thing. So
he fixed up little schedule. and each
HEAVIER had different date on which to
work. The idea was to work four regu-
larly. land as soon as one OF the regular
quartet got out of condition Jennings was
to promote another HEAVIER to the job. Ed
Lafitte was the first Tiger pitcher to
work on schedule time. He was also the
last Eddie got his. Some one had TO
help him out. and the schedule was shat
tered. They have been figuring that that
quartet of regulars has dwindled down
to William Donovan. Since he pitched
against New York Monday it is not like
ly. that he will work today.