The Detroit times., 1912-07-10
WE KNOW THESE TIGERS,
BUT WHO ON EARTH ARE
STERRIT, DOWD ET ALI.
Wolverton Has a Bunch of I'm
known Youngsters Who Are
Winning Pennants
TIGER COMBINATION GOOD
Best Arrangement of Present
Material is Now Being Used
BY Jennings
TIGER CoMBINATIoN GOOD
BY RALPH L. YONKER.

We get you, s.. as to who Is was
who called themselves the Tigers, but
what foreigners are these Yankees?
IL Rip Van Wrinkle were a Highland
baseball fan and were put to sleep
only few weeks ago, he could have
been walked up today with perfect con.
fidence that his failure TO recognize
his favorite team would furnish a
story.
II he had been put to sleep last year
and awakened now, he would nave
taken one look at the Yankee bunch,
rolled off his back, quit snoring and
had another good sleep. He would
have been lucky, indeed. had he not
been awakened.
The Tigers have the best team they
can put on the field right now. They
have the combination that Jennings
has been working long TO get, but
numerous injuries and illness galore
kept him shifting his men from posi-
tion to position like so many hot pota-
toes.
Moriarty at first has been playing
better baseball than he did at third,
Louden at second is thyb in fielding
and has been hitting better than fair
ly well and running bases like fiend,
IL f1end Is noted for his running abil-
ity. Bush, OF course, Is enough saiN
Witt at third hasn't hit his hitting
stride after his long absence, but Is
starring a-feld.
Crawford is hitting blngles with re-
markable force and regularity. which
boosts the whole offense, and Cobb Is
waking up enough to pull some OF his
unheard of stunts In left field Davty
Jones ha sreturned after q little in
jury that kept him out OF the game.
II Delahanty would only hit with ac-
customed regularity he would prob
ably beat Jones out of his job, but Del
hasn't been pelting the pellet the way
he used to.
So much for this Tiger bunch OF
ours. We've heard Of most of them
before but from what hiding places
have the Yankees picked up that ag-
gregation named In the box score?
Shades of Chase and Wolter! Who
Is Sterrit? What about Dowd?
Running the eye quickly down the
list of arrivals we find that Daniels
in left field, and Hartzell at third, are
the only men outside of the battery
that were registered at HoUl-de-Far-
rell last season.
While all the hub-bub is being
raised about youngsters winning pen
nants and making their trembling op-
ponents feel cold icycles and hot
darning needles piercing their backs.
what about this bunch of youngsters
that isn't winning pennant? Raw
thah knocks part OF the youngster-
pennant.winning theory that the Ma
ationals put in vogue by their squirt,
doesn't II?
This man Zinn is the fielder who
created somewhat of sensation dur
Ing the early part OF the season by
his clover work In the outfield for the
Yankees. He narrowly escaped going
to the Browns, but was fortunate
enough TO have the Yanks see him
first. Simmons Is the handy man for
the Highlanders. He has playNd about
every position In the infeld for VOL
verton
Sterrit. the man at first, is called by
Barney Petty the best OF the Yankees
late additions. He can hit like a spile
driver, they say, and his little feat of
getting three hits Yesterday in four
times up would seem TO confirm those
suspicious.
This man Dowd at short acts just
like star, they say. He resembles
Bush closely not only in looks but in
actions. He is picked as a winn.- II
he doesn't start a stage-fright slump.
Maloney was at center field yester
day taking the place OF Otis? Which
means rs much to the ordinary fan
as information about the Alaska
league. Well Otis Is a Williams man
who has been given a trial on the