The Detroit times., 1911-03-30
GOLD BLASTS MAKE
TIGERS SILVER IN
EVANSVILLE
Forty-Mile Gale and Snow Flurries
Greet Warriors, But They Will
Play Unless They Have To Use
Snow Shovels.
Members of Team Stricken With
Malarial Colds After Change
From Sunny South.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, March 30.-A
forty-mile gale and snow furries
greeted the Tigers in Evansville TO
day warranting the pessimistic proph-
ecy by Crawford that IL we have
another pleasant day before May he
will be surprised
The players shivered around the
hotel all morning, fearing frost bites
II they should attempt the exposure
outdoors. The game will be played
unless the elements rage even worse,
however. Jennings has not announced
the game in which Coyington will
work, but 1t will probably be tomor-
rows. This will get the natives who
want to see their last years star,
+ forcing them to attend both matneSs.
Manager Hughie admitted today the
sale OF Beckendorf to Buffalo. Louis
Vile also wanted him.
The annual spring slump has struck
the Detroit baseball club. While its
members are still capable of playing
an article OF ball good enough to take
into camp any of these minor league
aggregations not favored with I'M
righteous sorts OF luck, the boys are
really In bad shape for the time.
Malarial colds which manifest them.
selves in various ways, seem to be
the prevailing ailment. Undoubtedly
the illnesses are due to the change
In climate, coupled with the stay of
the club I'm Memphis, which seems to
be a town of ill-omen with Detroit
clubs.
Summers First Invalid.
A catalog of the ailments of the
players should, of course, include the
out-ard-out malaria Of Eddie Summers
who was forced to go home from
Hattiesburg. The next serious cases
were those OF Cobb and Mullin. Ty
came down after the game In Birming.
ham, with headache and cold in the
head. At Memphis he developed a
Temperature. Since then he has been
ailing, both from the effects Of the
Illness and the large quantities OF
medicine he has consumed in his
game effort to put himself In shape
for the daily work at the ball yard.
Mullin pitched four innings at Bir-
mingham and hasn't been himself
since. At 6 O'Clock, that evening. his
neck was as stiff as a board. He de-
i
manifests q peculiar symptom, being
able to cause pain In the back Of his |
neck by light pressure on his chest. !
His eyes grew watery and his head
dopy az the result Of quinine, but he |
always finishes his catalog of symp- |
toms by remarking that his arm re-
mains I'm fine shape.
Casey's trouble 10 q cough so |
hoarse that Joe himself IL inclined to |
believe it's Of the whooping variety. |
He Is complaining OF lame arm, but |
Delehanty and Bush insist they never |
want him TO get the alleged lameness
out, or he will be numbering them.
Lively On War Path.
Jack Lively got the idea that his |
Ice cream tasted bit on color last |
night A couple OF the Negro walters |
were cycling him closely while he ate |
ton. Those walters don't know how
near the brink OF sudden death they |
are standing.
Bush has been complaining OF cold
and, az usual, his trouble settles In
his feet, which continue very sore. |
Trainer Tuthill is trying healing
SAWS OF various kinds without re-
suits and IL planning to take Bush to |
specialist in skin troubles, on his |
return to civilization. Tuthill believes
that Bush's feet have become infected |
somehow, due to the players habit |
OF parading about the club house and
through the sleeper, barefooted
However, aside from Bush's case, |
there 10 no occasion for alarm over
the Tigers slump. II Is a matter OF
annual occurrence at about this stage.
In addition TO the change In climate,
the Tigers happen TO be just at that
stage of development, where any ath.
lete 10 liable to a lapse OF form The
slump OF a football team about Oct.
1, can be counted on, with almost
the same accuracy
All Since Leaving Monroe. ,
In this connection 1t is noticeable
that, regardless of the criticism level
ed at the Hotel Monroe, there was
no Illness there, but the cases de.
veloped rapidly as soon as the amount
and grade Of eats was raised.
ID. Jones advances the theory that
the shock has been too great and that
some OF the boys have been over-eat-
ing to counteract the effects OF the
Monroe temperance.
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