The Detroit times., 1912-08-29
TIGERS BOTH OUTFIT AND
], OUTHElD EAST YET LOSE
d r. OF Is GAMES PLAYED
Make ia Hits To Opponents
~ 1O7; Commit 81 Errors To
Opponents "a
isDROP MANY CLOSE GAMES
Lose Four Contests BY One Run
a. and Four BY Two; Pennant
Bare Physical Possibility
DROP MANY CLOSE GAMES
By RALPH L. YoNKER.

~ - well worth cnTOnlcunB tnht the
Tigers won O game yesterday, II
made the third they have won in this
eastern trip. Out Of Is played they
have dropped l2.
W. Willett held the Athletics TO eight
ffhits, while his teammates sent Houck
ep-scampering after nine hits had been
yeecured from him. Bender relieved
him too late, the Tigers finishing 5-3.
81 Hardly could a more disastrous trip
sAhan the one just completed be imag-
ined. New York took four out OF five
from us. Boston took three In q row,
Washington took three OF four. The
only game we won there was one OF
a double-header, which every team
feels that IL Is entitled TO. Yester-
days was the lone game the Athletics
allowed us out OF three.
Yet In losing these IL in 10 games,
the Tigers made more hits and com.
mitted fewer errors than did their op
ponents. A tabulation shows that
while the Tigers secured ia hits
from the eastern pitchers, the elite
hitters raped the Bengal hurlers for
only lot. While the Tigers were guilty
OF 81 ofiicial crimes, or more than two
q game, their opponents are held re-
sponsible for "a. or three more.
IL is quite a record TO out-hit and
out-feld four teams and yet lose IL
In 10 games 10 them.
That the Tigers were playing In
hard luck can be seen when one scans
the scores and notices that they lost
four OF the games dropped by one run
and four by two, In only four games
rwere they decisively beaten.
Ragged, torn-to-tatters fielding fea-
tured the defensive work OF both
Tigers aud opponents. No game was
errorless As many as ten were made
In one game with New York. An av-
: erage OF over four per game was es-
tablished The Tigers erred In every
game but one: their opponents In
every game but two.
The Tigers are on the very verge OF
Death Valley In their journey across
the American league desert
Once In Death Valley their last
feeble possibilities OF ever seeing the
goal for which they have strived are
smothered.
Once over the brink OF the chasm
and they cannot see even the CLEAN
OF the star which they chased until.
they became lost In the. maze OF east
ern defeats.
The only thread that holds them on
the edge OF the inky guleh is today's
Philadelphia.B Boston game. IL the
Athletics can hold the fort today, the
Tigers can still cling to the last pos
ability. II the Sox wrest today's
game from Macks men, they have cut
the slender cord that the Tigers are
clinging to-
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beaten TO spume, the Tigers are yet
within physical possibility Of the
pennant. The bond OF life between
this possibility and the Tigers, how.
ever. In scarcely breathing A single
game lost by Tige or single one won
by the Sox chokes the last spark OF
life of that possibility.
By winning two games yesterday
the Red Sox placed themselves on a
pedestal OF 81 games won and 81 lost.
The Tigers took a game from the Ath-
letics, giving them 81 won and 81 lost.
The Sox have 80 games TO play: the
Tigers 2s. not counting postponed
games. If the Sox lose every single
game and the Tigers win every single
one. the former would stand at Arma.
geddon with 81 won and 67 lost, while
the Tigers would have won one more
and lost the same number.
All Of which speculation Is interest.
ing. II not important
There Is a possibility OF a fight for
the Tigers, however, In spite OF their
lowly position. They can scrap with
some enthusiasm, " they will for the
right to get out OF the second division
The race between the Tigers and
the White Sox TO see who shall occupy
the lower berth In the first section
and who the upper in the second is
the only one OF much excitement.
Chicago has lead of over so points
In the percentage column. Both teams
play practically the same teams from
now on, The Tigers meet st. Louis
once more than do the White Sox. but
on the other hand the Sox meet the
Maps two times more than do the
Tigers. A series OF three games with
each OF the four eastern teams Is
scheduled for each aggregation. ..
At the rate both teams are going
now, the Tigers can never hope TO get
out OF the second class.
IN the Tigers do not finish I'm the
FIRST division this season Il will be
the irst time that they have failed 10
do 80 since Manager Jennings assumed
their leadership.
The race for the pennant Is con.
ceded BY most critics to be all over
with Boston ready to get under the
wire In canter. The way stahrs
men cleaned mp on the White Sox In
both games yesterday left little sus.
picion- that ax-~aulA- -t4-,.-u--rtrz
stretch. They have such lead that
they can take things easy on the way
home
A majority OF experts are ready "a
designate New York as the ularp m
held part OF the worlds series pom.
Mar sentiment In the west fators the
Cubs, but popular sense Is OF the opIn.
ion that they are in hopeless chase
Nothing that Is posslble now would
sui, the fans OF this portion OF the
tonnfrf better than 10 see the Cnhs
e6n up their winning spaFt and she
Giants keep on losing until Chance
aen capped the hag