The Detroit times., 1912-05-02
BROWNS HERE TO-DAY ARE
I MUCH MORE FORMIDABLE
THAN COMEDIANS OF OLD
Four Southpaws and a Spit-Ball-
er Can Be Called On To
Work Against Tiges
ENFIELD is STRONGER
Stovall and Pratt at First and
Second Have Strengthened
Wallacemen
|NFIELD is STRONGER
BY RALPH l.. YoNKER.

trio indicator back OF the stage said,
~Chicago 5. Detroit 2" and the SLOW
curtain slowly dropped.
~ The Tigers were splendid Tolls Tor
ne Sox in the comical tragedy.
Beginning today the Jungleemn are
scheduled to get their final tryout In
+ the western territory. The trouble
with the tryout proposition is that no
matter whether they make good this
week or succonib 10 the Browns, once
he Joke OF the league. they must ap-
pear In the east, starting with the
clawssy Bostonians, known now as the
fRed Sox or the Stahlwarts. Willy
nilly eastern cities must see their
melodrama next week.
"a II is decidedly up to the Tigers.
They have let every team in the west
rialtreat them thus far this season.
4 while the alibis about poor condition
\ hnd so on are satisfying for while
they wear out In time.
The Tigers must make their maj
Stab for recognition In the west this
week. They won't find that II is an
easy stab either. II won't be as easy
as II was last year TO entire the
brownies into the Tiger lair and slay
Them.
For one thing. row Of southpaws
with a good spitballer thrown in is
\ ready for the Tigers. or the twelve
hurlers that Bobby Wallace has. four
are portsiders and Bobby is not at ali
backward about using them against
the Tiges. Hamilton and Charles Roy
Brown are lefties not to be sneezed at
Trill and Bill Bailey are good enough
&C be given some more trial. Joe Lake
is q splitter OF no little ability. Among
the newcomers with Wallace's bunch
Is Baumgardner, who won his home
by pitching great ball this spring
Z Wallace is well fortified in pitchers.
Then with Stovall playing great
game at first and hitting like o demon,
with Pratt, one OF the sensations OF
Y the league at second, Bobby, himself.
or Hallman, at short, and Austin az
third, there Ia an infield that is not iI
the weakling class Shotten, Hogan
and Laporte in the outfield are not 50
bad either. a.
Thus the Tigers will have not OF last
years cinches In their final western
effort
There are two consultations in that
wierdness OF yesterday that stand out
prominently In the dull background.
First, Ty stole home again. Doing II
Just when II wasn't expected TO hap
pen, he got Benz so excited that he
threw badly, being discredit with a
wild pitch.
Then our two pinch hitters. Davey
4 Jones and Hank Perry. both came
through with singles In the tight
places. The brightness Of their efforts
rs dimmed by the fact that neither one
sof them did any twisting OF the turn.
fstile at the home plate, but neverthe-
Hess they got their hits.
Both OF them were very lucky.
Dayey's especially was based almost
solely upon the caprice of the lady of
fortune lit was an infeld hit that
Bounced high before II got to Rath and
gwhizzed into him on a low short re-
hound that he couldn't handle. Davey
was nearly to the bag before it got
ITO him at that.
Perry sent Weaver back so far after
the high bound from his bat when he
\ batter for Kocher in the ninth that
Buck couldn't get Is over to the sack
dn time
II pinch hitting is based principally
or luck, and that seems TO be conced-
red, II looks as IL both Davey and Hen.
nv were wooing Dame Fortune with
tardor. A little more allowing screech
ing two-sackers rather than scratch
ssingles in the squeezy places and all
will be well for the emergency men,
or all the reversals of fielding form
shown, that OF Buck Weaver. the Sox'
.shortstop, holds the record today. IN
his first two games here he looked
mediocre. He wasn't picking up
grounders any too clearly and his
throwing was TO the winds.
How long will Weaver last? was
the question.
In the last two games, Buck evident.
Nv made up his mind TO show his form
or teammate, Oscar Witt, that he
wasn't the only Pacific coast phenom
beside Bodie In the fray. His hand.
Ting OF hard chances yesterday was
marvellous. He got 'em ON the run.
backing up, going sideways and a;
such times that he didn't have a
chance TO stop his pedal motion, but
had to throw while in midair.
In ten chances yesterday he bungled
only one. Delehanty's grounded and
handled a half a dozen stifr PROPOSE.
tions. His work in the last two of the
quartet reminded one OF his efforts
IN the first two, II was so different.
His arms betterment Is the cause OF
Il all. Throwing as he did yesterday
will make him the pride OF Chicago.
Bill Louden has a peculiar habit OF
feIding; Bill Louden handles the dif.
bcult plays with the skill OF an artist
% often that he looks great: then he
falls down on a simple toss.
That's what he did yesterday. He
handled a couple OF hard chances on
grounders TO perfection and bungled
one of the easiest OF the game by
throwing low TO Gamer.
The derrick Is one of the important
party OF Jimmy Callahan's baseball
machinery. He used II In every game
bat the first here on his pitchers. and
the umpires used II ON two OF his me a
Lord day before yesterday and Block
yesterday
Benz was replaced with Crawford At