The Detroit times., 1914-05-21
Every Pennant- Winning Year
They Have Had a Stumbling
Block, But Have Over
come il
LAMBASTE WEAK SISTERS
TO MAKE UP FOR SETBACK
Other Clubs Find Disaster to
Pennant Hopes When a Single
Club Beats Them Badly
~ RALPH y. YONKER

The result OF the series OF games
between the Tigers and the Red Sol
az Boston was very disappointing 4
Detroit fans. but il should not be too
disheartening.
Hughie Jennings club is one tha
can take a bad beating during the
seasons series from some club anc
still win the pennant.
More Jennings club is the only
team that can take such beatlng
during the season and remain on top
Never since Jennings entrance into
the American league has any club oui
Detroit suffered badly in its games
with any other one club without los
ing its pinnacle position.
Still more: Every one of the three
pennants Jennings has won came in
spite of the fact that some one riya!
club beat him TO death. What ne lost
to this one club ne more than made
up by battering the weak teams he
found very, very hard.
Every club, II IL finishes its seized.
ule, plays % games with each OF the
other seven teams.
In 1907, out of these % games, Jen-
nings was able TO take only nine from
Chicago. That Is considered bad
beating for a pennant winner TO re-
ceiye from a third place club. Yet
Jennings won the bunting, chiefly by
beating Washington and Boston al
most TO a fragile.
In 1908 Cleveland was Detroits
stumbling block. The Maps halted
the Tigers by taking l3 games from
them and giving them nine. but
they couldn't prevent their winning
the flag, for jennings made up on
Washington again and New York.
The year later the Athletics stepped
In and beat the stuffin' outen them
Tigers, but the Felines turned on
their old easy prey, st. Louis and
Washington, and won 50 many games
from them that there was no keeping
them away from that rag.
So even IL Boston does prove 10 be
very formidable to the Detroit CLUB,
little worry need be felt on that
score. The Tigers wouldn't look nat.
ural unless there was some club IN
the league that managed 10 stamp on
them.
Teams that have won the pennant
since the Tigers last one have. had
to win at least half OF their games
with every club, with a single excep-
ton. In 1910 the Athletics won not
less than ~ games from each club,
New York alone holding them to that
count.
New York was in second place. It's
winning only nine games each from
Detroit and the Athletics showed II
behind the pennant winners.
In 1911 the Athletics did survive
the short end of 1912 series at the
hands OF the Tigers. The Tigers that
same year, however, found New York
a ink and dropped 10 games to that.
club while the Athletics themselves
were winning Is from the Yankees.
II the New York club had proved a
Philadelphia ink and soft spot for
Detroit the Tigers would have won
the pennant.
Boston broke even with Cleveland
when ii won the pennant and took a
majority OF its games from every oth-
err club. Washington found the Attn
letics the big ink, taking only seven
games from them and losing 10 TO
them Washington finished second.
Clark Griffith gave Jake Stahl a chase
In their series, winning 10 OF %
Last year the Athletics broke even
with Boston with II games won, and
took more than half OF the games II
played with other clubs Washington
again found Philadelphia the jinx and
lost "a games to them, finishing in
second place.