The Detroit times., 1912-05-30
THOUGH ERRATIC, WORKS
HAS THE CONFIDENCE OF
HIS TIGER TEAMMATES
In Many Wabbly Places, HIS
Support Stiffens
Behind Him.
SUMMERS NOT AT BEST
Evident That Eddie Has Yet 20
Get in Tip-Top Shape
For Season
BY RALPH L. YoYKER.

The Tigers. have confidence IN
Ralph Works. That Is apparent from
the way they stiffen their support be-
hind the lanky- lawyer when, The OBJ
position begins to look strong. In tne
last two games In which Works mas
worked (beg pardon.) he has been
In all sorts OF trouble, but his friends
have been right there With the help
ing hand wheR-he-ySas }a-neea -
Works has whole lot 10 be thank
full for In this. When a hurler's team
mates have no confidence III their
chief defensive strength, ii makes IL
very. very bad for that parsonage.
Young Remneas, the Tiger spitnallist
who was sent to Providence, Is an
example of the unfortunate individual
In whom his teammates place no con-
fidence. The Tigers were as good as
lost as soon as Rem stepped into the
box.
The team has more confidence in
Works than Manager Jennings. Works
has always gone well in the spring
and saised Hughes expectations
high, only TO let them fall down later
IN the season. That is what has made
the Tiger manager prone TO view
Ralph's work with very critical eye.
Over at New York, Hughie ydnked
Works in the fourth inning on blue
Monday after his support had got him
In a bad hole. Thereafter the Tigers
played baby ball Ii looked very
much as if they were trying 20 show
their manager up for having jerked
Works against their judgment.
In that Thinning game last Satur-
day which Ralph pitched without
run for 13 successive innings, ne was
I'm trouble time and time again hat
at no time did his support falter TIE
men behind Ralph seemed 10 Know
that he would pull through However,
an earned run finally lost him the
contest.
Not only has Ralph had the conf
dence of his mates, but he has been
having some good breaks in fortune.
Yesterdays game would have been
lost In the eleventh had No. the
Browns taken that time, so opportune
for the man with the wing collar, 10
pull of an ivory nub that would have
originated only in the darkest Africa.
The solid plays of Bodie and Weav-
er that helped Mullin win his last
game at Chicago had nothing on the
exhibition OF bewilderment made by
four alleged baserunning Browns yes
terday. The moving picture man re-
tired from the field of action. The
Browns brain motors moved too
slowly for depletion in motion.
Ii was at a time when a run would
have meant that the Browns could
have retired to their clubhouse with
another victory. II was the sec md
inning after the, regular workday pre-
scribed by the baseball union. :, There
We're three men on bases.
With one out in the eleventh the
Browns got to Works, Pitcher brown
and Shotten singing and Hogan walk
ing. blocking the paths. Then Stoyall
rolled to Moriarty. When Brown on
third saw that George had the ball
he started back TO third. Shotton and
Hogan, tearing wild for third and sec
< ond, respectively, saw their lea FER
stop and Shotton returned to second
where he convulsively embraced
Hogan as both of them tried 20 re-
tain their balance on the same sack
In the meantime Moriarty had pegged
TO Onslow at the bag, forcing brown
and had received the return from
Jack, forcing Shotton at third.
IL was rather peculiar that the
same play came up in the thirteenth
inning with the same man at the bat
but with two out There were three
men on when Stovall rolled to Mortar
~ who forced the man coming from
second by touching third.
AS an example of the unfairness OF
the rules, covering the awarding OF
games to pitchers is offered that con.
test yesterday Works had every
thing to lose and nothing TO gain In
the average columns yesterday. lie
went into a bad start that tied ur a
game that Summers had officially won.
Had he lost he would have been
charged with the defeat As It was he
gets no official credit for the victory.
The showing or one Eddie Summers
Yesterday does not tend To enrapture
his faithful fans in this mans town.
Eddie was evidently not In .iptop
shape. He went TO Philadelphia a
week or more ago, claiming 20 be
ready to work, but Hughie evidently
thought that Kickapoo had made a
mistake for he didn't use him until
yesterday, when he made his seasons
big league debut
II Is hoped that Summers rs Simply
not yet at his best for he Is capabl
OF pitching much better ball than that
shown against the weak Browns yes
terday, II he is the Eddie Summers OF
old. The season Is past its spring
chicken stage already. We're needing
you, Eddie. Fiddle upl
And II here isn't that Willie Iouden
with his face all washed and MS hair
brushed back waiting for his daily
boquet.
Here y'are, Bill. You're WORKING
ike an old warhorse out in tina; short
garden. The shortening OF the dis
lance required for most OF the thrcws
% hrst has been what you needed fol
gon'resgetting them over there In goot
shape. You're covering all kinds O.
ground too. Going out TO right ant
lett for short flies and getting ground
efs all over Is the proper stunt Tn,
error that some Of the scorers CAV,
you yesterday was called a his b,
many. II was bad bound.
Of course. we don't mind n you &c
ht now and then. too.