The Detroit times., 1912-05-18
In LOODEN COULD TRAIN
HIS ARM He WOULD GIVE
MORR!Y BATTLE FOR JOB
While Not Particularly Strong In
Batting, He Is Good All Over
Except In Heaving
BkUMAN GOOD IN A PINCH
Little Irish-G German, Put in a
Hard Place, Comes Across
With the Goods
RY RALPH D. YONKER.

BY RALPH Il. TONhER-
n Bill Louden could sandpaper that
wing OF HIS so he could soar more
safely over TO first, George Moriarty
Would have a terrible time beating him
out Of his job over there at the third
sack.
Il Is hard to recall when Bill has
received an error In handling a ground
ball and as for those that come on The
n.y. Bills middle initials are s. +. p,
plural for sticky fiy paper.
Bill hasn't been guilty OF any mis-
demeanors, either, In funneling the
pegs that his teammates have made
to him from various parts OF the
diamond and he isn't policeman near
4 fight when Il comes to interfering
with mans ensconsing himself In the
Injuries OF scoring that can be antici-
psted only at Bits beat at the third
corner.
Now, In batting, II will have to be ad-
( mfted that william has no intimate
adhuaintance with the Big Stick. He
dds considerably more to help the
b1keze agencies, using the willow as
Al atmosphere disturber. than he does
tn physical culturists who insist on
oiiihelders taking exercise.
Once on the paths Bill Is danger
oiiB man. He Is dangerous more be-
cailse OF his head than his feet While
nd the fastest baserunner on the
team. he has a bunch OF clever tricks,
none OF which he uses more than once
or twice In the same situation.
In fact, Bill is a player, possessed
OF about all the requirements for a
biz Lacquer except that angelic ap-
pdndange on his right side. Gould Bill
Only get the springs In that adjusted
he would be too good to keep on big
league team.
Yesterday Bills roughness let in a
couple OF Mack's runs.
Despite all distractions, the Tigers
played a game Of baseball yesterday,
that, from our point of view, was real
baseball. Lefty Russell kicked big
hole into the dream that we set the
scenes for, entitled, is Mack going TO
wtke up some morning and find that
hit L. mot Lillian) Russell lemon Is a
peach
Russell had the March hare beat
back to his nest for the rest Of the
year. He scared away above the pro-
Verbal hawk. His makeup would
haFe shamed the famous man Of
Btrneo.
One OF the chief delights OF the IT,
gers, SO fond of striking, was not TO
when Russell was hurting manifestoes
anthem They simply read the inscrip-
fitn, BALL., on them as they came
afId let them wander, thereby being re-
wkrded with complimentary passage
to- the first station.
Then, the next chief delight was for
some Tiger with good idea to get rid
OF II with man or two on the bases
hi The Tigers were hitting
timely-or were timely in their hit
ting, as y'please.
DIR. Paddy Bauman, who hates to be
called the Irish-German. but who does
n9 say which end of the name 1t is
he's ashamed of. seen his duty and
he done, II noble His swat-the-hy-
aiid-grounder campaign resulted in as
many runs as the Athletics could
scfape together. With the others lift
int by Crawford and Co., Dubuc was
placed In comfortable lead from
which he.was never ousted.
Paddy didn't get chance to show
whether he could transform himself
from an infielder to sensational sub
urban gardener, for he had no chance
TO. work, except to chase one hit that
sailed between him and Crawford
Paddy proved that he's there In
pinch, going to center and to third
place in the batting order in place OF
the greatest ball player, who was out
on suspension. and making good, is
something to be proud of.
The French ambassador will not
Journey to Philadelphia TO extend the
greetings OF his nation to Jean Dubuc.
There won't be single warship sent
to- Quaker City to conduct him in
safety to Washington.
But that's because France has not
ns|yet awakened to the worldwide i'm
poftance Of baseball. AS soon as they
beEin to forget to fight bandits and
toIworry about England and Germany
and let their secretaries and a small
st4nding army take care OF their minor
defails OF life, they will be ready 10
accord Jean and his Fix the recep-
tidn due them, according to advanced
ideas.
Jean pitched a great game yester-
day, He did no extremely sensation.
M work. Jean has the reputation OF
being a man who Is not sensational
in his performances. His strength lies
In giving every man who faces him
battle for his life.
hat 10 what he did yesterday. He
a