The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-29
TIGERS DEFEAT
NJ GRAW GIANTS
BENNY kiUFF FAILED To pp.
LIVER ~ THREE CHANCES
OFFERED HIM.
CAME
Tigers Outplayed and outhit New
York Giants in Interesting Ex-
hibition Game Here Tues
day Afternoon.

Not many Waxahachie baseball
fans ever had the pleasure OF see
ing Tyrus Raymond Cobb. premier
batter and base runner. but they
are firm believers in his prowess
more so, perhaps, today than ever
before because the one man VINO
would contest his honors has been
given chance in the absence of
Cobb and failed TO make good
Benny kauff, reclaimed outlaw, was
given his chance yesterday to make
good his boosted claim as rival TO
the mighty Tyrus, but he failed 10
deliver the goods and Cobb is still
the idol of baseball fandom. For
weeks a busy press agent has been
giving out interviews with this ex-
Fed player saying Kauff would out
shine the bloom of the Georgia
Peach" even in the exhibition
games played in the south hence
local fans were uneasy lest in the
absence of their idol the McGraw
protege might to some small degree
demonstrate his right to the claims
he has made, but as the game pro-
crossed the Tigers regained conf
dence and played with the ex-Fed
as a cat plays with a mouse. De
termined to show Kauff up after he
had made three trips to bat with
out as much as bingle McTigue
deliberately walked three men fill
ing the bases in the last half Of
the ninth Kauff realized in a flash
that he was to be put to test He
made an effort to deliver, putting
force behind his swing which sent
a high fly to left field. Burns,
Brainard and Roberts were racing
home and Kauff had passed the
first station and was trying for the
second when a great shout went up
from the fans, Bobby Veach was I'M
der the high one and the game was
ended. For a second time in the
game Kauff had had his chance and
was sent away from Jungle park
hitless.
Fully 5000 people witnessed the
exhibition game between the De
troit Tigers and New York Giants
at Jungle park Tuesday afternoon.
1t was a sight we'll worth travelling
miles to see the big leaguers in
action, and thousands of fans
throughout Ellis county have graft
fled that desire, Manager Hughie
Jennings of the Tigers had empha-
sized his confidence in Waxahachie
fans through wager with McGraw
that Waxahachie would give a bet
ter attendance than did Marlin last
week when the two teams played
there, and Hughie is going to wear
a new hat as a result of his good
Judgment. The Giants drew $40
as their part OF the gate receipts,
which was S140 more than the to-
tai gate receipts at Marlin, and
within $28 of the gate receipts at
Dallas on Sunday last when the two
teams met there. People began TO
gather at Jungle park early In the
afternoon. The management limited
the sale of grand stand tickets to
500 and that number were sold IN
the advance sales. The bleachers
would not accommodate one tenth
of the crowd, so arrangements were
made for people to stand along the
west side fence. In fact a string OF
people reached from the grand
stand to the score board. so far IN
deep center that one cannot read
the figures placed thereon.
People had come from far and
near to see perhaps the greatest az
gregation of ball players ever 10
clash on Texas soil They had heard