The Detroit times., 1915-04-03
Bad Weather Robs the
Tigers of Much of
Their pep"
POOR SHRIMP
GETS THE BLAME
Sea Food Believed to
Have Sickened Sew
eral Players
by HAROLD v. WILCOX.

by HAROLD v. WILCOX.
LOUISVILLE. KY April s.--it Is
) rather dificuit thing this weekend
y talk Tiger and come up smiling
3 u The playing and general physical
3 conditfon Of the Jungaieers during
~ past week were to be taken as q
4 Gvltsrion OF what Ii to come. the OBJ
E 1luisfs wouldn't be able to get the
s Ill PAST the infieid. The team has
>een out Of condition. several OF the
D>nyors. including Manager Jennings
i <Insolf. have been III. the weather
~ the whole has been abominabie
4 M the "pep- and ginger that char
nctorixod the earlier weeks Of the
Irotning trip has been consistently
III at the hotels before the game.
If the Tigers reach Detroit In the
oAape which the end Of this week
nds them. the fans can find some
hing 20 praise IN the beautiful
81 uchedule that has been handed De-
(<cot this year. II any other club
@>nn Cleveland were TO open with
Detroit. bad start would seem In
[ovlcable.
a bit o. probing into the present
11kuntion. however. makes Il seem
Dcgs1ble. and even probable, that a
@ofy different team will come TO
|IungIetown . week from wednes-
~ -.
r11mbed out OF the Pullmans at
ou1svills this morning The most
nollgnanf source Of the present
Scubls - IN inconsiderste shrimp,
ehich was not In the pink OF con-
|11ion when II climbed into q meas
u 1ne sea vegetables served the IT,
1orp by some Gulfport friends Just
1ofore the team left the coast. No
1ody became seriously I'll. but a
rnmbsr Of the players. including the
ronager. were slumped for several
oys to that physical condition com
nonly termed az ''off their feed"
y anything can rob team OF ginger.
y an attack OF stomach trouble.
On top Of This. Moriarty got q sore
- that would not keep him ont Of
No game during the season. but
1hich put him ON the bench for
V1ils this week because there was
10 need Of taking chances OF ar
x1vating the injury. DOME Bush
No. hit IN the ear with q bad boun-
~ late last week. and until the
NJ DAY Or two. sore and swollen
Iords IN his neck and shoulder
100 Me miserable for him. The
6cvo who were bothered with diges-
~ dimcuities and the boys who
Fere injured are nearing form again.
~ b. the time the new week
q Doorts. they should be back TO the
addition which they had reached a
3oek ago. That IL not saying lot.
~ bad weather the last week In
amp slowed them UP q lot. But TO
person Of optimistic tendencies
@1o dope seems TO be that the TT
r Drs are near enough In condition
- that n they should get 10 days
"a baimy weather. theyswiil reach
)otroit In az good. II not I'm better
addition. than any other American
11Guo club viii return home.
with Cleveland as the initial foe.
y still seems probable that Detroit
piu cop about six of the nine gameI
1at start the season and n those
DDtests are played under decent
rather conditions. the team win be
splendid shape to meet the more
crmidable enemy.
Iho two most discoursging things
the Tiger camp now IL the lack
e Pepper and the slowness with
>h1ch the pitchers are rounding into
>opo Tigers without an abundance
battling spirit are among the
>t11s raritiss. and II does not seem
cn11bIs that such an unusual situa-
- can BE- permanent. With Jen-
~ back In uniform and those In
oo<ible shrimp forgotten. the
- WIN certainly speed up. That
~ - taken ne verify.
u very easy to scramble into o
~ cavs when the pitching stan
nnontioned. But that 10 not yet a
1cosity. There n sim reason to
- That the Tigers win have four
~ winning hurlers this year.
n they do. they are BY no means
c1one. IN fact. there are several
nono EVERYBODY knows that
>C1cnhia. Dubuc and Dsuss are
~ pitchers. They may have a
1oar. Just Tie any other good