The Detroit times., 1912-06-15
Stoyall Axes" Joe Lake to
Leave Because He's Old,
So Tiges Buy Him.
WAS ONCE oUTFIELDER
Has Been Pitching Four Years,
Two for the Yanks and
Two for Browns.
BY RALPH L. YoNKER.


Tigers?
That's the question that is ram
pant concerning Joe Lake, the newly
acquired Tiger with the watery name
and the watery style OF pitching
George Stoyall, on taking charge OF
the Browns. decided that there must
be q change in the method or hand
ling the Browns. He scanned the
baseball skies In search of luminaries
End once he had his lamps on them
he studied the paths they had taken
He saw Connie Mack's champions
beaming down upon him from the top
most heights OF the baseball dome.
He saw that the path OF this constel'
latfon was marked by the constant
addition OF young players VINO deVel'
oped into stars. Stovall unused a
while and then he began shining up
his ak.
The necks of Joe Lake and Barney
Pelty were the first TO be laid under
the property used in the l-cannot-teil'
allie drama featuring George Wash
ington. Joe Lake and Barney Peity
were put on the block and sold to the
highest bidders. Red Nelson was
scheduled 10 follow them.
the veteran spit-ball artist, Lake, ana
snapped him up, while washington
needed Petty, so Griffith thought, 10
help Johnson, Groome and Long rom
3 Hughes in that record-breaking stunt
OF winning games in row.
Stoyall says that he thinks he can
better depend upon his youngsters,
the notable Baumgartner, the Brown
ND
than on the old-timers. At the al lie
time he qualities his satisfd~t1n I
seeing them go with the hazafL o
Lake may be OF value 10 the llgefs
with the jungle wrecking crew OF
Cobb, ct al, 10 aid him
Joe Lake certainly hasn't had the
kind OF support that would entiee
man into working his head of 10 win
games. Those who have had the mis-
fortune to become the property OF
the Browns have almost always been
glad when their ship has come in and
they have sailed away from the Mis-
souri, port on IT, RUDE Kocher, pres.
ent Tiger bacKstop, is one OF those
Rube grins every time he thinks. OF
the ,way he escaped the st. Louis
crew
Joe has dHSdus uSlpth Inv 80"
out by losing two games TO them.
Now he wants TO be friends and use
the reverse Englishing, winning for
them. He pitched seven. innings
against Ralph Works here this spring
when the Tigers beat the Browns
10 0. At St. Louis he worked in the
last game OF a double-header against
Dubuc, which means of course that he
lost.
Lake has been playing professional
baseball since 1905. He was an out
fielder with the Newburg team in the
Hudson River league in that year and
also In the next He became quite
Y batter the last year. hitting for .32l.
Then he went 10 the Yankees as a
pitcher and stayed with them for
two years. He started the year 1910
with the Browns, who secured him
from New York along with outfielder
Demmitt for Lou Criger and a bunch
of coin.
Lake Is a big fellow, standing just
over six feet in height and weighing
around $50 pounds in playing condi.
ton He both pitches and bats right
handed. He Is 80 years old
Lake Is due to get chance 10 show
the probability being that he will be
used in the first game played He
arrived In Detroit yesterday.
With the recollection OF Bill Burns
failure fresh, there are some who are
dubious of Lakes potentialities, but
the wise ones say he'll bear watch.
ing.
rFsA- t. fa1
ters. but the pinch fielder is rapidly
coming into his own.
And leader among pinch tielders Is
one Tyrus r. Cobb, OF whlm you have
heard
That stunt OF his yesterday in get
ting Oldring out at the plate In the
s eighth inning was one of the most
beautiful pieces or fielding and throw.
ing seen for some time.
II came at that famous time known
as the physiological moment, which
is so easily understood, yet so hard
to define After LORD had put his
life in the hands OF Jim Delahanty to
start the eighth inning, Oldring was
lucky enough TO have a grounder he
started straight for Bush take a leap
that rivalled George Horine's and
Bush, could only knock down the am.
bilious bounder Then the hit and
run worked beautifully, Collins send.
ing hit through the territory vacat.
ed by Bush in his attempt to cover
second
Be doggoned IL Frank Baker didn't
stand right up and speed one through
the middle OF the diamond so fast
that Il wasn't observed until II left
the inield Then Cobb took the hot
bound and with a perfect throw, drop.
ped the bali into Stanage's hands on
an easy bound catching Oldring off
the plate by yards.
That oEe-hand diving catch of his
the other day was also pinch biz
OF fielding that will be hard to dupli
cate
Al. this wonderful fielding in the
tight places makes II annoying to sec
some easy rollers escape the Peach
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