The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-04-29
.SmiIer Takes Bunch of Lost
= Hopes and Stoves Them Into
N First Division
FUTURE AND EX-TIGERS
ON ROSTER ARE NUMEROUS
Bill Himself May BE Counted
Upon to Hurl Few for
Them After July
BY RALPH L. YONKER.

sz-r With bunch or Tigers oi '"e -"
xure. Tigers OF the past and re"
rank outsiders. Smiling Bill Donovan.
THE Tiger Wild Bill of former days
IL making the international league SIX
ND and take particular notice.
lsss Picked by the hot stove fans Tor
dismal cellar position, the Greys have
q lDutplayed. outfought and outgamed
half OF the clubs In the international
n aRue. and today, with the season
NV weeks old, are In the frst d.
"a vision.
| They have been as high as second
Mace and were within one game
Few days ago OF taking the position at
1.-THE top of the heal.
lST Since the material that Bill had was
\ sbuppoeed to be Of such mediocre quail
yity, Donovan IL being given great
4 deal Of the credit for having brought
the club to its present position.
ks5 A Providence paper devoted three
Syuuarters Of q page of its Sunday edi-
s!tion explaining to the public that al
Though Donovan used to- be Gales
ft~Wild Bill" he had Outgrown that
3 snickname and had laughed himself
Into the monicker, Smiling Bill" and
with his smile and grit was giving
them a winning ball club.
Donovan Is as popular in providence
rs manager as he used 10 be In De
ttroit as Tiger pitching hero. Oh
course, the fact that he ia winning
more than his share Of games Is his
chief asset. but with II Is his won
derful smile and his goodly DISPOSE
} ton.
s*| Manager Jennings Is the boss whom
sBfll ia taking as his model, says Don
soyan's historian. Hughes motto was
>salways, Pep" and Bill has grabbed II.
XIII He il master OF his men He is not
) ,nduly familiar with them. He de-
s.smands service from them and he IL
.willing to take all the knocks when
they do as he says and fail. His word
, is law. He made that understood
when he had the men south on the
5straining trip with him, taking time
for the forelock.
fS Donovan objects to his men being
sfcalled 'cast-offs" or "has-beens."
~ Il am the only has-been in the
y party. Says Wild Bill wherein Char
ssIie Street, former Washington ana
providence catcher, now with Chat-
sttanooga disagrees with him. Chariie
4 said this spring that Bill was sun
there as a pitcher in Glass IA league
and that as soon as Bits weather IN
gsJuly came, he would be out there on
\ the mound hurting his share OF the
games.
Donovan may be veteran, said
(aabby, but he looked pretty hne last
year at Providence. He used to take
il easy until he was in a pinch. Then
Il when he began heaving them over In |
earnest they couldn't see EN-"
is@ But be that as It may. Bill has
motley array of vets and youngsters
with whomshe Is winning games. The
club lines up like this: Platte, RI;
Ems. 3b; Shean. 2b and capt; Mcln-
tyre, II: Ed. Onslow. III: Scheer, or;
y. Onslow or Kocher. C.. and pitchers
galore.
Platte Ia the outfielder who played
with Cadillac in the Michigan State
league last season. running second In
hitting with an average OF 1861 and
heading Bundy Brief, now with the
browns.
Mcintyre is the Matty OF Tiger and
White Sox fame Matty's history rs
regards the Tigers is interesting. lie
gswas sent to Chicago when Manager
\ sJenninss thought that he was done as
n Il major leaguer He hit like a Hend
for Chicago one year and then was
gone. Last year he was with Sacra-
merto on the coast at a salary bigger
than he had been getting with the
major leaguers. But he didn't like
the coast and by refusing TO sign at
any figure gained the right to buy his
release FOR 81 500, which he did. lie
then signed with Providence. where
X he in a valuable man.
III. Ed Onslow is the youngster Oh
tanned from Lansing IN the South
s}-Michigan association last season as
Tigers first baseman. lie failed 20
make good and was sent to Providence
Tor experience. He Is hitting and
playing first base in great shape.
jEven though first base is troubling
X 1.-THE Tigers right now. President Ma
win. who controls the Providence club
:eays that Onslow will be left where
he il this season at least.
. Sheer Is former big Lacquer. once
with the Washington club.
,s. Jack Onslow, brother 10 Ed. and
y, Kocher are the two catchers taken
soHth with the Tigers in the spring
,xrpf 1912 and kept all last season The
3FWere transferred to Providence TINS
yffall.
AZ Besides those players appearing in
1.-The lineup, there are O'Mara, the
s5$IIannibal shortstop, who was given
<tuue days trial with the Tigers Ia De-
.hGroit last season. and Ray Powell. the
t1pout0elder, sent east By the Tigers q
view days ago. NJ
~ The club has 10 many pitchers that
"a President Navin OF the Tigers cannot
{k.remember them all. They have 80
4 zmany that there Is little chance for
{ any Tiger castoffs to go there.
- There are Jensen. the-New Haven
{[younester given trial here last fail
3<VFheatl6y. the lad sent TO the Greys
u tnig spring Latte the nld.iime Tiger
Ia plrate parentaee: Clarence Mitch.
Ill. the former Tiger southpaw who
nay come back and who may he
{ nnde into On OtAelder:: Moran. cot
)oofen aaAnu .soufhpaw n. who saw \
4&W days In Detroit and with the club
4the seaA lass fslI. 1itr Bailey. ",
- Fc4teftee: R~isi.i anotheI