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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
Gets
UNOER WAY ON
MONDAY
Route for Glidden Reliability Run
To Be Mapped 0ut by
Chairman Long
streth.
News and Gossip of the Busy Auto
mobile Factories and Their
Genial Statesmen.

That time-honored preliminary In
stitution of the annual Glidden tour
the 'pathfinding" trip-will start next
Monday. April "a, at Washington, ID,
c., when Chairman Howard Long
streth and his crew will leave the
capital bound for Ottawa, Canada, the
destination OF the contest, a thousand
miles distant-and then some This
route will be followed precisely by
the contestants in the Association
Eighth National Reliability tour. June
1926. which this year will be known
as the "Glidden Reciprocity Tour"
Chairman Longstreth will return 10
New York by scenic route. and thus
an international tour will be made
available TO members in such com
pact form as TO insure much popular.
ity.
Chairman S. NJ. Butler, of the con
test board, will accompany the party.
which will include Z. L. Ferguson,
who has compiled the details of many
miles OF American road, including a
coast-to-coast expedition.
The pathfending of the Glidden
AOuNC Wal NONNi a pSllOh Va dOOAe
two weeks-a trifie more II bad
weather Is encountered.
Interest manifested by manufacture
ers indicates that the entries this
year will far outnumber those of any
previous season
The route OF the tour is as yet ten
tative and subject to change accord.
ing to conditions disclosed by the
pathfinding trip. This season, how
ever. numerous big cities will be Wis.
tied. Starting at Washington. the
caravan will move through Baltimore.
Philadelphia. New York, Boston and
several large Canadian cities.
Owing TO this, contestants will not
be obliged TO undergo such hardships
as In former years when II was din.
cult to secure hotel accommodations
and made sleeping in barns and
camping out In tents necessary. In
short, the contest this year is ex
pected to be a Glidden tour de Luxe.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
BY PAUL HALE 6RuskE.

Well, "Our Boys" have struck the
annual epidemic of southpaws. For
two DAYS now they've been up against
them and there's an excellent chance
that there will be another "kithogue
ON the slab for the hostiles al Ben
nett park this afternoon.
White at Chicago Saturday, George
nj Detroit yesterday, Bailey here TO-
day--the Tiges are getting IL in the
same old way.
The last two doses resulted In ten
inning battles. White won his, largely
because he pitched a grand article OF
ball while Willett acted as II snort
OF work and weakened in the later
stages. He was surely TO be pardoned
for he hadn't toiled for nine days
George, yesterdays opponent, lost MS
after fighting back surge after surge
of the Tiger batsmen In most astound-
ing style.
The rival managers are all watch
ing the conflicts with eagle eyes, Ev-
cry one Of them Is grooming q lelt-
handler or two for use against the
Tiges. .
As a matter OF strict truth, the t.
gers are less than ever at the mercy
OF left-handed pitcher this year. The
three outfielders are the only LETT
handed batsmen when Stanage
catches, In the old days when the
southpaw peril was first discovered,
Detroit had left-handed hitter ON
first base and another behind the bat.
Now the infield and Stanage are In
position to slough the lefthanders
slants. Delahanty and Stanage do SO
In particular, Bush has a habit OF hit
ting 'em extra hard when left-hand-
or officiates. Gainor showed signs or
similar proclivities on both Saturday
and Sunday. Moriarty ought to, and
there is Del Drake In reserve, as
cleanup man in place or some out
fielder, to which use he will be put
as soon as his convalescent ankle be-
comes well,
Now and then there will come along
a left-hander who will trim the II
gers, as White did Saturday. But he
will have to be in fine form and equip
ped with everything. In such circum-
stances the Tigers are liable to de-
feat, even II the pitcher heayes from
the standard side of his person.
But there is one player who never
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
Short Lengths
Michigan, ,, VI. A. g., 4.

Michigan, ,, VI. \. g., l..
Kalamazoo, 81 Duluth. q.
Adrian, o, Hill-daIe, 2.
There are a. schools In the Penn
meet
LEFTY Craig, the Indianap polls pitcher
SAot oy burglar Is dead.
The EucIids scored six runs I'm the
eighth. beating Windsor, to g.
Pitcher Meyers had the Flint
lcaguers at his mercy yesterday. Nc
Graws Tigers winning. to ?.
Detroits, o. Spaidings, I I'm the Soc
played a to tie.
Grea, britain won the che.. match
and permanent possession of the
Ntwnes trophy
has been formed for the purpose OF
securing public links.
.
Cadillac, Of the Michigan State
league, is accommodating a fine bunch OF
Dealings In trip round the South
Michigan circuit
Pitcher jolly, Of the Detroit Athlet-
Durhams yesterday. tanning 10 The
score was I TO 3
The Detroit Motorcycle club IL cor
responding with Jack Prince with q
view to getting him to come here and
build an SLAP track for racing pur-
poses.
Craig, Ross, Han and Gamble viii
run the mile relay at the Penn meet
II VIII be the only relay team which
Michigan Will send The day OF the
four milers appears to have passed
with the departure Of Keene Fitzpat-
rick
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~ n (TE
PL AGUE OF SOUTHPAWS STARTS;
TIGES GO TEN INNINGS TWICE

ed TO find himself right in the middle
OF the game.
Although IL was the big Tigers
third victory OF the season, II was an
open secret on the club that his speed
OF former years had seemed 70 be re-
turning very slowly. In his prior
games he had been forced TO rely on
his curve and his change OF pace. II
vas so through the early innings Sun
iay. About the sixth inning. George
egan TO find himself From then on
&c was never in distress. The speed
or which he is famous Ill over base
alldom came 10 him and he had the
'rowns stepping away from his fast
ne and missing II a foot
Mullin has been pitching lnde- diff
iculties all season. He las heen un-
er a doctors care. suffering with an
ggravated form Of catarrh and has
Undergone several minor operations.
lis nose has been completely stopped
p but he has kept ganely at his
ork in the worst kind OF weather
nd is now on the upgrade.
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weather puts In an appearance HIS
heart is said 10 be a bit doubtful out
this remains TO be proven. Yesterday
he was hitting Mullins choicest into
center field, high and far away.
Lefty George looks as II, with im'
proved control, he will be dangerous
TO any ball club. The Indianapolis
graduate may be an eccentric on the
field but he knows nothing but oasepall
on 1t. AT one time he faced Crawford
and Cobb with the bases luil and none
out. but emerged scatheless. Only his
poor control kept him continually IN
the hole This in fact WIS responsi-
BILE for the final blow-off In the tenth
as Delahanty was enabled TO go from
first 10 third on wild pitch. TINS
brought the infield in on the edge oi
the grass and made IL easy for stan
age to push sharp drive past WA
lace.
Next to the victory, the most cheer
ing feature of the combat vi Sunday
was the manner In which Mullin seem
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
WIZ Don't the Ball Players Steal
More Bases? Hugh Fullerton Asks

and Gray; the catchers, King, Archer.
Sullivan and Street. The average time
from the start of the pitch to the mo-
ment the second baseman held the ball
TO touch the stealer was, on straight
balls 2 % seconds, on curve ball "a
seconds, on slow balls and spitters
3 1-3 seconds.
Then Cobb and Zeider were timed
sprinting to second. Their average
time was 8 rs seconds.
But the above figures are averages.
Cobb and Zeider both beat their aver
ages many times. The throws to sec
ond are often slower than the average.
While perfect fast throw to second
will catch the fastest runner nearly
every time, the actual performances
show the best base runners beat the
throw seven out Of ten times.
Fullerton believes that drawing the
catcher's throw to the base behind the
runner is the best variation of the de-
layed steal. II the runner has good
lead when. the throw Is made, he can
beat the relay TO the next base almost
every time.
When the throw Is drawn from catch
er to first, IL the runner has a lead
OF "a feet, he need only sprint and
slide &c feet while the ball is travelling
81 feet to first and 81 feet to second
Drawing the throw to second has even
better chances. The runner there has
32-foot lead. while the ball must be
thrown 1872 feet TO second and relayed
So feet TO third. The runner only has
TO sprint IS feet The runner with a
28-foot lead of third has good chance
TO steal home II the catcher throws to
third behind him. The ball must travel
so feet TO third and be relayed back
again, while the runner has to cover
81 feet.
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back to the pitcher, spits into his
glove. Another runner has persisted
In the effort to steal second"
What are the chances for base rum
ner on first to steal second? Probably
you'd say about one chance In three.
But Hugh Fullerton, who likes to go
Into the figures, says in the May Am
erican Magazine that with crack
pitcher on the mound and a star catch
er behind the plate, an average rum
ner has just about an even chance to
steal second safely II the ball Is per-
fectly handled. Great base runners
like Cobb. Collins, Speaker. Evers and
Fred Clark steal safely about 20 per
cent Of the bases they start for.
The reason more bases are not stol-
en-, says Fullerton, Is because the play
ers no longer run wild on the paths.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
BURMAN TO BROOKLANDS.

DAYTNOA, Fla. April 24.--As a re-
suit of his sensational lowering OF
records for one mile and one kilo-
metre. including his own records OF
the day before, Bob" Burman, the
daredevil driver OF the Bitten Benz
racer. will probably be seen on the
Brooklands track in England this
summer
He lowered his nile record of 26.12
seconds TO 25.40 seconds and the kilo-
metre record from 1927 seconds TO
1888 seconds. He also lowered the
two-mile record of 55.S7 seconds to
SIPS seconds
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
WALKER A MAGNATE.
Foster J. Selected as President Of the
Manufacturers League.


The Manufacturers Baseball league
was reorganized for the season at Il
meeting held Friday evening at the
Spalding Sport Shop.
The directors chose the following
officers:
President-Foster j. Walker.
President-Richard Jackson,
Jr
Secretary-Walter Schultz.
The membership of the league will
consist of the Roberts Brass, Hudson
Motor Car, Burroughs, Detroit Wire
& Spring. McRae & Roberts, and one
more club to be selected from three
applications now on file with the
league.
A unique feature of the league this
year is the interest taken in its forms-
ton by the managers of the various
establishments, Several Of them will
take an active part in the play, among
them Manager Young OF the Detroit
Wire Spring Co. Mr. Young former.
ly pitched for Michigan. He will
pitch and manage his team in the
league.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24

Like a catapulted figure the tense
athlete, who has been counting the
inches between his foot and first base.
while his eyes steadily watched the
right shoulder OF the pitcher. and his
ears strained to catch the slightest
change of tone in the voice OF the
coacher, shoots forward toward the
goal, hurls his body sideways, crooks
one leg toward a sawdust-flled bag,
hooks one foot over II, while his body
tears furrow In the dirt and stops.
cloud Of dust hides him, the bag
and the second baseman.
"'Ye're out"
The umpire turns YEARLY away as
the crowd roars for his hearts blood.
The baseman grins. losses the ball
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
Md t|beIie|d Better
Than tVeT This Year
Washington starr

Ball players may come and ball
players may go. but 1t does seem as
If Kid Eleberfeld would go on for
ever. Every now and then when FL
befelds long career is mentioned. II
leads TO the belief that the time has
come when he must soon make way
Tor some young man. But there Is
nothing TO indicate that time has done
anything but improve the kid. He is a
better ball player today than he was
ten years ago, because he is attending
more strictly to business. He no long
er has time for squabbles with UNI
pires or spectators, but looks after his
own work and that OF his team. The
kids hustling proclivities are invalu-
able. He is in every play that he can
reach, coaches the pitchers and Is, as
they say, constantly on the job. Ii
would be no easy matter TO find a
player more valuable to the Nation
ais than Elberfeld
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24

In the old days a man who reached
first was practically sure TO attempt
10 steal second Nowadays managers
do not often let their men try the play,
but rely on the sacrifice and hit-and-
run to advance basemen. Now for fig
ures:
In an average season In both big
leagues S9,156 players face the pitcher
ers, but only 27,058 reach first-19.154
on safe hits. 1886 on bases on balls,
1903 on errors and 645 by being hit by
pitched balls. or the 27,05S on frst.
1913 reach second, 1882 third and
S,272 score. There are thus 55,9Ss
chances to steal, but only 2.744 players
steal-one out OF 20 chances. Nine
teen runners steal home, ia from sec
ond to third base, and 1881 steal sec
ond
Fullerton put the stopwatch on pitch
ers and catchers and the throw 10
second TO catch men stealing. The
pitchers timed we're White. Walsh.
Three-Fingered Brown. Cole. johnson
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
Evans Entry Unaecepted.

CHICAGO; April 24.-Charles Ev
ans. Jr., western open golf champion
who will compete for the British
amateur championship on the Prest'
wick links, in Scotland, next month,
left today for Washington, ID. c.,
where he will stop for a few days
prior to sailing for England. Evans
competing for the British trophy is
contingent upon the acceptance Of
his entry, which has not yet been az.
firmed.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
KELLY THE FAvORITE.
His Scrap With Cyclone Thompson Is
Weeks Pueilistic Feature.

CHICAGO. April 24.-The big event
OF the week for local fight fans comes
Friday night at Racine. Wis, when
hugo Kelly the Chicago middle, and
cyclone Pohnny Thompson. the
o3Salhore, his, nghter IN set.
me battle will be Thonpson's first
nsht since his return TO America and
the interest has increased the advance
sale until the oox Office officials pre-
dict a record breaking atteuda ice. a
special train will run from Chicago 10
Racine.
Kelly was slight favorite m the
betting today.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
TWO NEW AUTO RECORDS.

DAYTONA. Fla. April % --Huddled
behind the big wheel Of his Bitten
Benz car, Robert Burman today hung
up two new wonderful records for
straightaway running In an automo-
bile He wrested Barney Oldheld's
speed crown from his head In both the
mile and the kilometrc distance. COW
ering the first In 26 l2-100 seconds, and
the second In 16 27-100 seconds. The
previous records were 1888 and 1904
The mile was covered at the rate or
lss miles an hour That the record
will be approved as official by tho
American Automobile association ~
certain. as its veteran officials man
aged IT,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24

larly hill climbs. and have been so
successful that several other enthusl-
astic Krit users have announced their
intention TO show the way up the
steep inclines this summer.
Aside from the entries of Krit cars
by owners. the factory probably will
be represented In the big hill climb
ing contests.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
Experiments in
Base Running

Fielders' time-120 trials: curves,
fast, spit and slow balls:
Pitchers wind up 3-8 seconds.
Balls time, pitcher to catcher, 5-S
seconds.
Time of catch, recover and throw.
/ 1-8 seconds
Time OF throw of catcher to base
man rs seconds.
Time OF catch and touch 3-8 Sec
onds.
Total average time 3-S seconds.
Runners time-60 trials made by
Cobb, Zeider, Evers and Camp
bell, average 3 5-S seconds.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
KrIt Car Is a Climber.

The Krit car, which has met with
some famous successes In hill climb
ing, will doubtless be found In many
contests. particularly hill climbs. dur
ing the coming season.
The Krit company has not attempt
ed any systematic contest work IN
the past. but various owners have en-
tered their cars in contests, particu-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
Roller VS.. Demetral.

CHICAGO. April 24.--The Chicago
mat season ends tonight with a
match between Dr. Roller and Deme-
trail, a local Greek grappler, before
the Empire Athletic club Americas,
the Baltimore grappler. and John
Lemm are matched for one OF the
preliminaries.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
New Workers Are Interested.

NEW YORK, April 24.-Increasing
interest is being shown today in the
ten round fight between Ad. Wolgast
and one Round Hogan, the California
boy Wednesday night Hogan is re.
garded as a real contender for the
fight title.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
Du(hy Holmes Punished,
Calls limp q Vegetable

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. April pa
PRESIDENT Kayanaugh, OF the Southern
league today announced the indefinite
suspension OF "Ducky' Holmes, old
tlme major Lacquer, now playing with
the Mobile clug following his "Spat"
with Umpire Colli1ower. Holmes re
terred to the official as a Common
vegetable"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
shrubb 10 Retrieve Himself.

NEW YORK, April 24.-Alfred
Shrubb and Guita Ljungstrom are
expected TO do some tall running In
their ten mile race tonight Shrubb
is anxious 10 retrieve his honors, re-
Gently lost 10 william Queal.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
couIon TO Meet o'keefe.

CHICAGO, April 24.--Johhny Cou-
lon, bantam champion. is today on
his way to Kansas City, where he
will do ten rounds with Eddie
O'Keefe of Pittsburg tomorrow night.
In spite OF his recent fight with Phil
McGovern, the champion is In fine
fettle and is confident Of stopping the
Pittsburg lad
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
He Knows the Brands.

II the Pirates could only get Walk
er to pitch for them, they would pre-.
sent the finest team of selected whis-
ky bottles In the country. Hunter,
Wilson, Gibson and Walker-wouldn't
that batting order make a distiller
sit up and take notice? And II Duffy
could be the manager-oh, cut 1t out!
Times-Star.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
AeropIane School Starts Term.

NEW YORK. April 24.-It is an
nounced that the Moisant Aviation
School and Exhibition Co. will be-
gin business on May | with an en-
rollment OF ~ pupils. Seven French
biplanes and seven monoplanes will
be sed in the instruction work.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
LOCAL OPTION SCRAPS.
That is the Hope Of the Friends Of
Boxing in Illinois.

SPRINGFIELD, Ills. April "a
Hopes are entertained here today for
the ultimate passage of the bill legal
izing slx-round bong boxuts, killed In
the Illinois house last Thursday. The
friends OF the el.l plan To amend II
SO as 10 leave the matter MP to the
city council of thee ity inc which the
bouts are to be neld IL Is thought
thought this clause will gain the pas
sage OF the resolution
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
The Big League Races AT a Glance
NATIONAL.

Yesterday's Results.
Chicago Z. ST. Louis o.
Pittsburg !, Cincinnati o.
Saturdays Results.
Chicago z, st. Louis 4.
Rain elsewhere.
Today's Games.
Boston at Brooklyn,
New York at Philadelphia.
Pittsburg at st. Louis.
Chicago at Cincinnati.
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.Batted for Corhan in the eighth.
TBatted for Sullivan in the ninth
zone out when winning run was

Two base hits-McConnell, Willett.
Sacrifice hits-Bush Tannehill. T.
Jones Zeider. Left on bases--Chicago
O. Detroit 2 First base on balls-On
Willett 3. on White 1 Struck out-By
Willett 3, by White / Time-l:4s UNI
and sheridan.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24

seems 10 make a distinction between
beavers OF right or left-handed pro
clivities. IL Is Tyrus Raymond Cobb,
locally known as The Peach"
IL will be many day before Detroit
fandom forgets Tyrus doughty deeds
OF Sunday. For six innings yesterday
he held the center OF the stage In
solitary majesty. Twice he hit safe
ly-the official score only gives him
credit for one of the drives but the
other was coming 10 him. despite 4
bad throw 10 first on which he took
second. On each occasion he startled
us with base-running feats which
came TO a glorious climax at the plate
with a minimum OF assistance from
his mates.
Three times in the field he brought
us 10 our feet with sensational
catches, twice diving and once
sprinting far back and averting
triple by the most vivid sort of spear
ing
Alone and unaided he kept the Tiges
in the game until the time when his
mates got the range on Lefty George
and began 10 fail their way to VIC
tory.
The only event which will ever
make US lose sight OF Ty's great ex-
hibition will be another exhibition by
the same wonderful player. He's
likely to turn that loose today or any
other afternoon.
On the basis of their first game
before a Detroit crowd, IL seems pre-
mature to condemn the Browns TO
1911 oblivion. While there Is nobody
brash enough to consider them pen
nant possibilities, they are beyond
question a much stronger aggregation
than last year. The trade with New
York by which they received Austin
and Laporte in exchange for Hartzell
has given them a fast base-runner and
a fair fielder in the former, and
cleanup hitter who Is no fielding fall
ure, In the second. The three out
ielders In yesterdays array must be
conceded to be fast and dangerous.
Shotten, Hoffman and Murray can all
20 down to first base very fast and
each Is dangerous hitter. II was
Detroits first view OF Murray. who
looks like a very good ball player, de-
spite his many years In the mirror
leagues. A prediction Is rife to the
effect that he will fail when the warm
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
AMERICAN.

Yesterday Results. --~--
Detroit 4, ST.. Louis 3 t10>tnnings)s
Cleveland 8, Chicago 2. -a- -
Saturdays Results. ~ .--'
Chicago 3, Detroit 2.
Boston 4, Philadelphia B
Rain elsewhere.
Todny's Games.
81. Louis at Detroit.
, Cleveland at Chicago.
Washington at New York.
Philadelphia at Boston, ....
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24

Two-base hits-Mullin 2, Murray, La
porte. Wallace. Sacrifice fiies-Dela-
hanty, Laporte Stolen bases--craw
ford. Austin, Schotten. First base on
balls-Of Mullin 2. OF George q First
base on errors-Detroit /, ST. Louis l.
Left on bases-Detroit 10. st. Louis 8.
Struck out-By Mullin 5, by George ?
Wild pitch-George Time-2:25. I'm
and Dineen.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-24
Worlds Marks For Warren.

The past few days have seen an
avalanche of American automobile
records come into the Warren-De-
troits net. Chairman Butler, OF the
American Automobile association, has
stated that the Warren go" driven by
Jack Tower in the Jacksonville, Fla,
races, had been declared title-holder
for the FIVE and 10-mile distances in
class B, (piston displacement 161 to
230). Towers time in those races
was 4:24:12 for the five, and 9:l0:52
for the 10-mile event.
Another proud distinction that came
the Warren's way was the cars vic
tory in the 24-hour race at Los An.
geles. In that grind the Warren won
the championship of America for Its
class by doing l,167 miles. nearly 300
miles more than its nearest competi.
tor was able to negotiate. "Scoot'
Miller and Ward were the drivers IN
the long contest.