Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-07
TIGERS SPEED
PENNANT LIKE
Holding Present Pace Means
High Position for BengaIs.
Kay Reports.

Before leaving for Baltimore at s
O'Clock today Joe McGinnity TOOK q
look at the speedometor on his baseball
machine, and the register showed that
the Bengals are travelling at a 1872 clip
q pennant-winning gait-in the last thir-
teen games. Since Lee broke the IT,
gers losing streak the Tigers have won
nine and lost four games in thirteen
starts.
If Lee pitches today there Is every in
dication that another win will be hung
up, and the worst we can look for to-
morrow is an even break at Baltimore
In the scheduled double-header, which,
by the way, is the first the Tigers nave
been called upon to play this season.
Newarkers who taxi in Sundays
game here between the Orioles and the
Tigers will probably see two new faces
in the Tigers lineup. One of them will
be George Bell in the pitchers box, n
there is a strong possibility that Bill
Kay, the heavy-hitting sentinel, may
also be on the job. Kay lives III Ches-
terrified, Va, and it is not much of a
run for him to get to Baltimore.
With three such hitters as Seymour,
Swacina and Kay in the lineup, n the
rest of the Tigers keeping up their
consistent batting, the Tigers will just
about clean up in the next fortnight,
and when the northern teams make an
other invision they will find the Tigers
q far more difficult proposition than
they had heretofore expected.
Vaughn's Views.
Bobby Vaughn has some very inter-
esting views on how a championship
team should be constructed. You will
notice." says Bob, that no team aver
won a championship without three
h~eavy-hitting outielders. We've got
them now, and our pitching staff is rap
idly rounding into shape Bobby
picks Newark, Rochester, Buffalo and
Baltimore to finish in the first d.
vision.
The Toronto team has made an IN
expectedly poor showing. which was
due for the most part to a weak catch
ing staff. Phelps and Kocher have peen
sadly missed from the Toronto Club.
Both Fisher and Higgins are young
sters, and both are meeting with a
NUMBER OF accidents.
The Baltimore Club has been strength.
ened by the acquisition of Dixie Walker,
the clever Washington finger, during
the last few days, and he has already
won a game for the Dunnites. Jaek
has a good nine, but so has Newark,
and the -four games of this SERIES
three at Baltimore and one here on
Sunday, should be battles worth wit
Messing.
Barberich and Gaskell, both pitchers.
We're left behind this morning. Man
ager McGinnlty calculated that six
pitchers ought to get along all right In
three games.
Though the Tigers were idle yesterday
because of rain, they dropped back to
sixth place. but they. are only a half
game behind Baltimore and Toronto.
which teams are tied for a first division
berth.
Flag day was celebrated at Rochester
yesterday when the Hustlers raised their
third straight %pennant, and then, as
usual, the home team was beaten be-
fore a crowd of 7,150.
The old kick about games being called
to allow one of the teams to catch a
train caused trouble again Yesterday Mt
baltimore. The Grays had to catch the
Federal express for Providence at $50,
and the game was called with Payne on
second, none out and Baltimore one run
to the bad.
Jimmy Murray, of the B'sons, had a
Eomer and two triples at Rochester
yesterday.