The Detroit times., 1912-05-24
DESPITE DRAWBACKS OF
EVERY SORT, THE IIGtS
PASS MAPS IN THE EAST
White Sox and Athletics Alone
Retain Positions In Per-
centage Column
rICEs FATTENED ON YANKs
Mullin Did the Best Pitching IN
East, With Dubuc a
Rival
rrGEs FATTENED ON YANKs
BY RALPH L. YoNKER.

Despite drawbacks OF e,et'
ceivahle sort some of which were
n.ver conceived before the Tigers
s,arted their trip east, Jennings men
hive distanced the Maps and return
Tram their eastern campaign at lne
tcn ~ the second division, having
robbed the Davis warriors OF that po'
sition.
Jennings landed In Boston Tor the
drst game OF the invasion IN sAsn
place with nine games won ahu
& loAt He returns TO the west Win al
eyen break. having split the II games
nlaved in the east! But CleNeiahu
ha6 not been so fortunate having lost
six out OF IL.
This gives the Tigers Just the least
savantaqe over the Maps. II the
Maps should gain a single game over
the Tigers they would again eAc AK, =, 2 2
positions. The Yankees ana tne
Browns have sunk clear below tne
Maps, Wallace's men, Occupying incl.
accustomed place at the bottom. OF the
cellar. The Yankees were at the last
y round OF the percentage ladder when
the eastern invasion started. but they
have exchanged places with TIE
Browns.
Chicago still clings to first place In
anife Of the fact that they didn't do
quite 40 well In the east as they had
n the west. The Athletics remain
AZ the bottom OF the first division.
Boston has climbed up to second
place. where washington was former
II. the Nationals dropping peg
m spite or the many shifts In order
not team-has escaped from the Oh
vision In which Il was when the west
erners left their native soil.
The Yankees were the meat upon
which the Tigers fattened while away.
No better than an even break could
be wrenched from any other team,
but from Wolverton's humbles, three
OF the four games were annexed.
The Tigers might have made clean
sweep at New York had not things
broken badly for them In the Monday
came following the Sunday exhibition
with Providence, Works was yanked
from that Yankee game on Monday
and Pernoll and Covington both failed
as rescuers, the Wolverton gang WIN
ming, 10 to 4.
Willett managed to pitch a victory
over Buck O'Brien at Boston, but that
was oil the Tigers could accomplish
there. Mullin and Dubuc were both
m the frst game against Joe Wood,
but the Bostonian was too much Tor
them. Rain postponed the second
contest, and then Burns and Works
gave the Red Sox IL hits and let them
win In spite OF the fact that the II
gers forced Charlie Hall to quit in
favor OF Bedient.
New York used Ford, Vaughn,
Quinn and Mcconnell trying to stop
The Tigers from taking the first con-
test there, but while Dubuc held the
Yanks at bay with seven hits and
ave runs, the Tigers amassed IL hits
and nine runs. Then came the Mon
day farce followed by easy victories
BY Mullin and Willett.
Rain prevented the first game at
+ Philadelphia. Lefty Russell hadn't
lost enough OF his lemon flavor TO take
the second, which Dubuc won, 6 to 3.
The third was that comedy presented
BY the Athletics with the scratch team
nurriedly scraped together from st.
Joseph's college by Manager Jen-
7. nings, which the Athletics won, &c
10 2.
The strike interfered with the next
two contests, which may have been
we'll, for at Washington we dropped
! two Of three. Mullin pitched the
greatest game Of the eastern series
: when he held Washington TO two
scratch hits and won over Walter
johnson, who In turn held the Tigers
70 three bingles, two Of which were
scratches. Groom outpitched willett
and took the next, s to 4, while Burma
was Knocked from the box yesterday
allowing the Nationals TO take the
series with the score OF 8 to 2 in the
ANAL game.
Mullin did the best work OF the
pitchers In the east. His greatest
feat was pitching the two-hit game
Just mentioned against Washington
Dnbuc was a rival OF Mullins fol-
honors. while willett was the Other
Tiger hurler who showed the greatest
class.
Mniiin won unassisted from New
York allowing the Yankees only -four
hits. Dubuc won also from New York
irving them seven hits, and from tn,
Athletics, giving them six. He ant
Nnllin let Boston have only six bin
ties In the FIRST game there, but tn,
Tigers were outlucked so badly tha