The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-23
WHEN DETROIT TIGERS
MEET THE GIANTS HERE.
NEAREST WORLDS SERIES FOR
WANaHACHIE WILL BIZ
STAGED TUESDAY.
Hu2hie Jennings and John j. Me-
Graw VIII Clash Teams In Big
qest and Best Exhibition
Baseball Game.

Though Waxahachie already has
had something in the baseball way
that II never before has enjoyed, a
major league club. the Detroit IT.
gers. having appeared at Jungle
park in combats both with Dallas
and Fort Worth. of the Texas league,
it now is promised a match that no
city in the country has been able to
secure. That is the game between
Detroit and the New York Giants.
which will be staged here on Tues
day next Tuesday is farewell day
for jennings men. and this contest
will be a fitting finale to their stay
here.
Jennings, who manages DetHit,
and McGraw, who holds the same
position with the Giants, we're team
mates on the famous Baltimore ORR
oles, three times champions Of the
National league. They played side
by side, Jennings at short and Me-
Graw at third base, Ever since the
Detroit leader broke in as a major
manager, in 1907, the two old com
rades have been trying to arrange
a meeting. They came close to 1t
in 1908, when they would have met
in world series had not the ia
nous Merkle play put the Giants out
Of the running
Waxahachie will share with Dial
las, Houston and Marlin the honor
of staging the first set of games be-
tween these two great ball clubs.
Each. under its present banager, has
been champions of its league on sew
eral occasions, and, consequently,
has been in world series. The first
match that the two teams. will play
will be at Marlin. on Friday, that
town insisting on a game as soon as
il was learned that Manager Jen-
nings had induced McGraw to bring
his team here. On Saturday and
Sunday the clubs will get together
at Dallas. The Giants play at Cor
sicana on Manday. while the Tigers
will be in WaXahachie. with no game
on Then comes the Tuesday strug-
gle. which will be the biggest base
ball event Ellis county has known
There will be no second team stuff
to this game, as each of the two old
pals is anxious to put something over
on the other and neither wishes the
news flashed north that his club
has been trimmed All the Tigers
will be in camp so Jennings can Sc
lect his best lineup. The only pos
sible absentee is Cobb, and, while
the Detroit manager will not prom
Use the Georgian's presence, he ex-
poets Ty here. McGraw breaks camp
at Marlin on Friday night, so that
he will have all his regulars with
him.
In all baseball there are not two
more attractive clubs than those
will meet here. They are led by a
pair OF fighters The Tigers have
a spectacular lot of ball players, in
Guiding the sensational Cobb. the
hard hitting Crawford, the flashy
Bush, the reliable Veach, the long
driving Burns, and those two great
fielders. Young and Witt. Oscar
Stanage is the dean of the catching
corps. and is conceded to be one of
the greatest catching backstops.
McGraw himself is not lacking in
attractions. He has Christy Mat
thewson, one of the greatest right
handlers that the game has known,
who may pitch a few innings; Mer-
kle. a grand fielder and hitter, de-
spite what has been printed about
him; Larry Doyle a fine ball player,
George Burns. another; Jim Thorpe,
the Olympic champion; and Benny
kauff. who admits that he is going
TO lead all leagues this season in
hitting, base stealing and throwing