The Detroit times., 1911-10-20
THE TIMES SPORT PAGE
RULE WHICH OUGHT TO Be
OF AID TO MACK .HINDERS
Would Seem To Be Better To
Play in Philadelphia, But
Every Delay Hurts.
BY RALPH |. YoNkER.

With beautiful weather IN Detroit
II gets pretty tiresome TO hear day
after day news from Philadelphia that
there is mo game, wet grounds.
While II furnishes the player-scribes
with more chances TO indite divergent
opinions. furnishes the Philadelphia
hotels with opportunities TO get rich
quicker and the theaters with greater
patronage, it's benefit otherwise is
predetermined
IL is naturally supposed that the
home grounds give an advantage and
the rule making IL necessary TO alter
nate from one ground TO the other
probably had this in mind, but IL is "A
nuisance TO have 10 wait in one food
ed town for drought while there are
excellent playing conditions in the
other.
Ii is a remarkable indication Of the
uncertainty of baseball that the very
rule which would seem 10 favor the
Athletics, has worked against them
for the postponements have given Nc
Graw the chance of his life TO get his
star pitchers back into shape. While
Mack could have trotteu along through
the race without stopping.
With his characteristic non-commit-
tai attitude toward reports tending TO
knock him, Hughie Jennings has
nothing to say about the rumor that
he and his teammates gave McGIaw
the tip To get Bakers goat by spiking
him.
That rumor had already floated
around Detroit for some time until
the kindly thought that anybody at all
who had watched the work of Baker
or who hsd- read the reports OF the
Athletic games here. could see that
the way TO attempt 10 get Baker was
10 use the pedal weapons. Then II
hardly seemed reasonable that the
blame for Snodgrass's actions should
be laid 10 the Tigers or their man
ager.
While any American league team
may be In position to give McGraw
pointers ON getting 10 the Athletics,
and while Hughie Jennings may be an
old friend and pad of Muggsy McGraw
and while Muggsy may have picked
Hughie Jennings for his All-Time All
Star team for friendships sake. that
can't hang this little piece OF dirty
work on TO Hughie. III there is any
thing TO be tipped by Hughie, 1t VIII
be something that every kid in De-
troit couldn't hand out gratis
Philadelphia, the "city of brotherly
love" has earned its right TO be called
baseball mad They tell us that Snod-
grass has been shot by crank, they
deny, they affirm, they don't know
T. hey let II float with resemblance
TO ivory solid, that Baker is corpse.
/ They yell out that the convicts in the
jails will batter down the walls un-
less they are allowed scores by inn
ings.
For heavens sake, j. Pluy give
the Quakers a rest, or well go d1ppy,
too, feeding on that sort OF stuff
An interesting move in the man
agerial checkerboard, is the jump OF
Stovall, the popular Nap leader. to
Washington, and of Mcbride. whom
McAleer thought so much of, TO Cleve-
land. in exchange 10 rhim, and the
move of Harry Davis, who is taking
"Stuny" Mclnnis place at the first
corner for the Athletics Just now. TO
the Maps. Cleveland bugs are rabid
about Stovall. and they are TO be
handed Harry Davis and Mcbride in
an effort TO pacify them over the loss
Of George
William A. Larned, the tennis cham
pton has changed his mind aud will
try 10 regain the Davis cup. over In
Australia.
Likes Ross KS sister.
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