The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-05-15
story That He Will Be Farmed
Back to Sacramento Denied
will Stick.

John Brodie Williams Honolulu
JOINTS not to be farned back TO the
minors, despite a story printed yester.
day, pnrported to have been extracted
from o San Francisco paper. Williams,
according TO information received by
mail yesterday, has signed years con.
tract with Jennings. Much has been
said about Williams fast real apt ear.
ance IN major baseball. but, wan all
that has been said and that may be
said, the Honolulu pitchers experience
was no worse than that which befell
Christie Mathewson and other world
renowned pitchers Of the present day
when they made their debut.
Hawaiian eyes will be conferred, nat
ufally, ON the performance Of the
Tigers. According TO the last main.
land papers Detroit had lost but two
ehmes since the opening Of the Amer
can League season and the Tigers of
old stem TO have once again got into
their old time stride. The following,
" Yonker, appears in the Sorting
News of April 80;
DETROrf, Michigan, April 27.--The
close of the second week in the Ameri
can League 1914 season found the Ii.
GERS and the White Sox battling with
might and main for first position in the
pennant race. The race for FIRST re-
solves itself right now into struggle
between the mighty swatting and fight
ing of the Tigers and the cunning
pitching of the White Sox. The Tiger,
have a fair pitching staff, with gang
If timely sluggers, who hit together
behind them, while the Sox have
fair crew of batters with a staff OF
PITCHERS who are in fine shape and who
can hold the Western clubs at least,
down to few hits.
The Tigers are showing that old
fighting spirit that made them three
times pennant winners. Despite the
fact that they haven't the best pitch
ing in the world, they are going out
and eluhbing to death anybody sent
against them. Furthermore, they are
coming up from behind and winning
games about half of the time. They
are not beaten this year until the last
man is out. Whether winning or losing
thew are serapping all the time.
The Tiger defensive work is wabbly
and crude at times. The infeld with
two recruits on the right-hand side OF
Che diamond, Is far from smoothly
working machine. The pitchers haven Z
sfrnek their fielding stride, either
which has been a handicap to infeld
work and the whole infeld shows an
inclination TO get mixed up badly on
bunts between fielders and on pop flies
that are allowed TO fall between men
One game at st. Louis was lost in the
twelfth inning merely because Mark
Hall failed to let Oscar Stanage take a
little pop that belonged TO him, the
winning run scoring when the two men
collided.
They Like an Uphill Fight
But even though the team is far from
what it might be defensively, it has the
Invaluable knaek Of whaeking out hits
and drawing passes in a bunch Ii
apparently needs to be set back in the
rear two or three or four runs before
Il can arouse its fighting blood and then
Il slugs. The Tigers won the first game
Of the season in thirteen innings, over.
coming lead gained by the Browns
Of two runs in the thirteenth. In all
three games the Maps played here
cleveland had good lead only to be
cut down and 6eaten three straight
The Maps took two runs in the first
inning Of one game and one more in
the second and then the Tigers went
ont and tied II up and won by one run
In another game the Tigers took q
lead Of three runs in the third inning
but dropped back again when the Maps
scored six runs In the next frame. Tn
Tigers then got busy and tied the connt
in the eighth and won in the ninth.
The most spectacular feat Of over
coming lead came in another game
with the Maps, however. Manager Jen
nings sent his Hawaiian pitcher, JohI
Brodie Williams, out. John Brodie gave
the Maps four runs 20 start with. The
Tigers tied the count with four runs in
the fifth inning and won their game
to A. Thursday the Browns scored
the first run but the Tigers won, 3 Il
II Friday the Tigers tied the count
with four runs in the sixth only to lost
In the twelfth inning on an infeld mix
up. When team can win a majority
of its games after a substantial leat
has been scored against it, then tina
team is n very dangerous proposition
Ia any pennant race. .h
The Tigers have been winning thes
games by clubbing without the bes
services of their chief swatsman, Tyru
Cobb. Cobb has been off his strid
ever since the season started He ha
! cen hitting around 800, but 300 is ia
from his stride. He blames il to
bad habit of taking too much of
swing against the minor league pitehin
that he faced on the way North on th
spring exhibition trip.
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