The Detroit times., 1912-04-17
TIGERS-AT-HOME ARE
CLAIMING TO GET into
THE FRAY ONCE MORE
Works and Laftte, Especially,
Want That Zone More
Chance" With Hughie
NEW SOX FOR THE TIGES
Only One Chicagoan of Last
Year Played the Entire
Game Yesterday
NEW SoX FOR THE TIGES
BY RALPH L. YONKER.

BY RALPH L. YONKER.
While the Tigers-on-the-road are
meeting with overwhelming success,
failure, victory, and defeat, the IL
gers.ut=home are pacing up aHd-down
their Detroit cages enviously cycling
their fellows who are making names
ror themselves and all kinds OF good
and bad baseball history
Works and Eafitte, TWO or the Tiger
pitchers upon whom waivers have
been asked-and, it is said, have been
obtained-are both anxious TO get
back into the fight once more. These
TWO hurlers are at the want-one-more-
chance stage of the baseball game.
Daily workouts at Mack park have
been in order for these men and they
have been showing lots OF stun. They
showed lots at Chattanooga, too, dur
ing their stop-over privilege there.
But the trouble is, neither man has
seemed to show the stan at time
when 1t appealed TO Manager Jen-
nings.
Aye, there's the rub.
The test OF a pitcher is in winning
low score games. Any mediocre hurl-
er can win a game like that OF yes
opened the canister on a couple or
recruit pitchers for l6 hits and over
half as many runs.
This is not saying, OF course. that
Willett didn't pitch one OF the finest
games Of his career yesterday Three
hits of him is proof that he did. But
they might have banged him for a
dozen and still he might hare won.
Besides winning games for Hughie,
the pitchers who win them must show
the stun while they're winning. Works
has taken lots of games but they were
not Of the kind that pleased the Tiger
manager.
LATTE just hasn't suited, that's all.
n Joe Casey is sent back 10 some
minor league club. II may not neces-
sarily mean forever. The fact that
the Tigers are evidently planning to
let Joe 20, doesn't mean that he is a
poor catcher by any means.
The Tigers now have what Is adj
mitted Thy us) to be the best In eth
err league. Peerless Oscar Stanage is
backed up now on the road by two
OF the best youngsters in the back
stopping business. Thus IL is very
possible that Joe is much better than
some OF the second string receivers
on the other big league teams.
OF course, If IL be true that waiV-
ers have been granted on him, that
another story, too,
III Joe Casey Is allowed TO go TO
bush, II will be for the sake OF giving
him the experience OF working back
into fast company Manager Jen'
nings thinks that Joe has the stun
10 be fine backstop If he will only
get Il into his head to pick up every
opportunity he has 10 improve and
will work In the minors with that
idea I'm mind.
II he does that, JOEL be back.
The sending of Westerzil 10 Indian
apolis may have been severe dis
appointment to Paddy Baumann. Ii is
certain that Paddy will be allowed to
make tracks out OF the Jungle, but
II has not been decided just yet where
he will go.
indianapolis is Paddy's home town
IL was there that the Irish-German
boy sojourned with DOME Bush dur
ing the winter, and 1t is there that
he now is, unless he has suddenly de-
parted
There Is little doubt but that Paddy
would liked to have kept on sojourn
ing there, il he had to leave the tt
gers, but the purchase OF WesterZil
by the Indians, would indicate that
they have filed their demand for an
And while McCorry is on his way
To San Francisco Jimmy Moroney will
be chatting at the bit, along with
Works and LATTE, for an opportunity
TO get In against Cleveland during the
opening games here TO cinch his job.
That bunch OF Sox that were hung
out on the line for the inspection OF
the Tigers yesterday didn't seem tc
belong TO the same family that used
TO do the wash day stunt in the Amer
lean league last year.
Only one who started the season
against Detroit last year, played q
full game yesterday In the same posi-
ton In which he was stationed in 1911
That one was Third Baseman Lord.
Only four names appear In botf
Yesterdays line up and that of The
opener of a year ago Besides Lord
there is Rolie Zeider, who played
short last year and first yesterday
Jimmy Callahan who was injured II
the last OF the ninth yesterday. anc
had to quit. and Matty Mcintyre who
came up long enough TO line into G
triple play in the seventh.
Except in the pitchers box the
game was battle OF recruits In
which the Tiger youngsters haG al
the better of IL. In the box IL was
an old Tlge against some new So'
and the Tigers fairly bulged the
stockings with fat bingles.
Hank Perry was the only Tigle
who spilled the ice cream all ovel
his nice new suit He dropped Lords
fy after butting into Crawford's ter
ritory to get IL. Oscar Witt conducted
himself with proper decorum. ana Bill
Louden picked up with two hits ant
nary a social blunder.
The youngsters were all sent into
the party in a row at the first, tive
without any chaperonage whatever
Witt. Louden and Perry is the wal
= the batting order reads with two hits