The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-04-09
With Pitchers in Shape
TIGERS Should Make Good

test of a major league curver's caliber
at all times.
For ten innings the Texans were
unable to get "A run off him. and only
through his own error in the eleventh
We're they given the run that won the
game. Ralph was trying this time.
something that he doesn't always do
in exhibition contests fact that
does him no particular credit. Some
how the tall lad got the idea that he
wasn't appreciated by the Tigers and
that he would like TO so somewhere
else. When someone took the trouble
10 point out that if he went away
from Detroit at all it probably would
be 10 the minors, Ralph bucked up and
decided that the City of the Straits
wasn't such a bad place to pass the
time after all. Now he is taking things
more seriously and he looks like he
might make good all the predictions
OF his friends
Certainly it took Ralph long enough
to round into form At Monroe he
showed absolutely nothing but good
appetite and some striking effects in
>.
for the faith that Jennings had in his
ultimate ability to get going Works
probably would have decorated the
list of gentlemen slated for the festive
tinware. Now he is iustifying the
confidence imposed in him by the
manager. If Ralph can pitch the sort
of ball when the season opens that he
flung against Fort Worth another bit
of jennings worry will be lifted from
his shoulders.
A Good Start means Much
Getting "a good start means a lot
this season. Most everyone agrees
that the Athletics are the people
whom we must fight and the Connie
Makers are VIGOROUSLY poor front
runners. This does not mean that
they lack sand. for nobody but one
hopelessly blinded by prejudice would
spring that after the showing they
made last season and in the worlds
series games. 1t does mean, howey-
err. that when they get comfortable
margin on the nearest contender they
gain confidence and dash that are apt
to be lacking when it's an uphill fight.
success" was made to order for the
Mackmen. When they are going well
the devil himself couldn't stop them.
Therefore if the brotherly love boys
get off with the crack of the pistol and
jump into the pole position it's going
to be tough work checking them.
On the contrary should the Tigers,
whom the Athletics fear more than
any other club in the race, this year
or any other. get off in front, the
strain of a stern chase is likely to take
some of that pepper and dash from
Comics crowd. A little tough luck,
some bad pitching, a few kicks on the
infield and the worlds champions may
not be the smooth. memorable machine
that they were when the Cubs were
butchered to make a popular holiday.
/ Tigers are Dangerous Always.
If the fates ordain, however, that
the Tigers slump in the beginning, the
fans of the place where life is worth
would the Philadelphia shouters were
their outfit in a similar fix. 1t is we'll
known that the Tigers are most dan
gerous when apparently down and
out. There never was a club any bet
ter at fighting against almost hope
less odds, at coming from behind and
sticking until the finish.
Thrice after kind friends were or
dering flowers for jennings band
lit lodged the undertaken and won a
pennant. Nothing should be more en-
courag ing to admirers of the Jungle
crew than the fact that experts in 9TH
er cities than Detroit already have dis
posed of Mr.. Jennings and his men as
ALSO rams" in the 1911 sweepstakes.
That's just what they did in 1907. 1908
and 1909. Paste it in your hat that
no club which boasts of Ty Cobb,
Crawford, Davy Jones, Moriarty. Bush,
Delahanty, Mullen Donovan, Willett.
Summers, the four catchers now on
the rolls. and above all, the indomita-
BILE Jennings, is out of the race. Not
by city block. There is a psycholog-
ical element in the performances of
this crew of hope wreckers that the
nice little figures in Spalding's guide
don't take into account. You cant
reduce it to figures, measure ii by the
yard pound, or acre. For want of a
better name, We will call it simply
1.-The old Tiger spirit"