The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-23
COME ON YOU WAHOO!
GET THAT BIG STICK A.
WORNNs FOR SOME RUNS
AS Soon as Crawford Hits His
Gait, Tiger Victories Will Be
More Plentiful
COBB GETS ON ALL RIGHT
But Sam Hasn't Been There
There With Bingles To Send
Him Along Lately
BY RALPH L. Y0NKER.

BY RALPH L. YONKER.
Come on, you Wahoo Samuel! Get
going.
There Is just one thing to wait for
before beginning to mark up the Tiger
victories in the usual way, and that is
for Mr.. Sam Crawford to hit his usual
stride.
In these games If there Is any
proximity OF the positions OF the tt
gers and their opponents at the close
of the days proceedings-if the II
gers have nosed out just ahead-most
or the final deadly work can be found
to have come from Sans big bat.
On the other hand, in those games
in which Crawford has gone hitless, 1t
has meant that Cobb had had TO Ian
guish a few bags ahead of him. Cobb
can get on without assistance. Yes.
he can even get around the bases
alone for that matter, but he can't do
1t with enough regularity TO win
games.
Crawford simply must strike that
gait that means more runs for Cobb.
With Cobb on In the first yesterday,
Crawford was passed. In the third
with Ty on second, Crawford sent an
easy grounder to Wallace. In the
seventh, Crawford forced Cobb, Aus
tin TO Pratt. Crawford was up first
I'm the sixth.
Sunday in Detroit, Cobb was on
four times ahead of Sam. Once he
was on third and Sam flied out. Three
times Ty was on first. Once Sam flied
out, once, he grounded out and once
he hit into double play.
That's all we're waiting for now
SamHeiis real hitting debut, not. his
debut la PATHS farewell.
Oscar Witt has carried himself over
the first rough spot that was sup
posed to be In his way. He has an
chored the rumors that he would blow
when he got in major league baseball
because OF stage fright.
III there was ever q cool and bril-
liant little German in the game, II Is
the same little Oscar. Witt is high
tensioned. He isn't deliberate by any
means. He resembles Cobb much In
that he is high strung.
His health has never been OF the
best but Oscar thinks that II was the
dampness of the coast that made him
III so often in the west Since COM
ing here he has not complained.
But nervous and tense as he Is, he
hasn't lost his head for a minute.
The next hard going that is predict
ed for him Is that his weakness at bat
will be discovered by the pitchers and
then he'll slump The fact that he
hit less than .270 on the coast is
taken to mean that he can't keep up
the pace here.
They all look good in the spring:
here's trusting that Oscar looks just
as good in the summer.
The Tigers have IL on Dame Fortune
fn one notable particular. Not a man
IL suffering from an injury severe
enough to keep him out OF the game.
Oscar Stanage is the only Tiger who
has had a severe hurt since the sea-
son began. The injury to his finger
which almost kept him out OF the first
Cleveland game, Is the only physical
disability that has harmed the tt
gers.
Davey Jones, it is true, was kept
out OF the first few games, but II Is
not at all likely that he would have
been asked to play even had he been
able.
To Jack Coomb's absence from the
Athletics, comes the additional mis-
fortune OF having to do without Jack
1Iapp. The physicians say that he
has typhoid fever and can't play for
weeks.
philadelphia seems to be the seat
OF most of the injuries. The Phillies
are worse off than the Athletics, they
having seven men under.
lis Oscar Stanage discouraged?
Aren't his pitchers doing what he
wants them to?
Or is, Oscar just plain disguised
with the break luck Is taking?
The wire from st. Louis says that
Oscar loafed in going after one OF Will
let's bad shoots and took his time in
getting the ball to Edgar. who was
covering the plate. almost allowing
Austin to score.
In Sundays game here when Kaler
poled that two Dagger, Oscar tossed
his mask up IN the air and caught 1t
expressing very plainly. There she
Goes, boys. Nothing more to H."