Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-17
ATHLETICS AND i
DETROIT TIGERS
ARE AMPHIBIOUS
Rain Does Not Prevent the
Junglers From Clawing
White Elephants
SOME GOOD BASEBALL
By ROBERT w. MAXWELL

DETROIT, Mich, June 17.-Once upoi
a time the poor, downtrodden baseball mag
nate would gnash his teeth as he looked
out of the window of his mansion at thu
dark lowering clouds that might interfere
with the ball game, and If a faint drizZl,
began to smear itself over the landscape
he'd gnash his teeth some more, admit Il
the world at large that he was many thou
sand bucks to the bad jump into his limou
sine and spend the day at the club
But that was once upon time. Today,
1t is vastly different A rainstorm of the
common or garden variety has no terrors
for the B. NJ He cares no more for that
than John d. Rockefeller does for a nickel
Only cloudburst or a cyclone can curb
the great national game, and this was
proved yesterday, when our Athletics and
the Detroit amphibians played u full game
while those same dark, lowering clouds
spilled their contents over the players the
field and everything else.
Something New
1t is something new in the annals of base.
ball when game is played in the rain.
The moisture began to spill before the
battle was scheduled to begin and the
start was delayed 10 minutes. No one
thought they would dare to play but Um.
pire Dineen, after looking over the sheltered
patrons in the grand stand and ignoring
the bugs in the two-bt section, waved his
per schedule Tho players were about as
happy as t. r. congratulating Hughes on
his nomination, but the ump cared nothing
for that He was there to umpire a ball
game, and he would do his duty or perish in
the attempt
Good baseball was entirely out of the
question. The diamond was sloppy, the
base lines muddy and 1t was necessary TO
have an attendant on the job with towel
to wipe Off the ball and the bats after each
pitch. Toward the end whtewash was put
on the bases to show the players their ex-
act location. 1t was more of farce than
ball game, and If Mr.. johnson Is going to
stand for that kind of stuff. there will be
some weird stunts pulled on the American
League circuit this year.
Colts Trimmed
Although Comics kids were trimmed,
they had no license to lose the game. De-
troit was presented with four perfectly good
runs and they were just enough to cop the
combat Charley Pick gave them three and
Wally Schang the other, all of which came
after wild throws. The Macks earned their
three scores, and although couple of boots
were charged against the Tigers, they did
not benefit the visitors to any great extent.
1t is another example OF the luck the
Athletics now are playing in. They are
trailing the league and everything is break
ing against them, 1t is necessary to have
q Few OF the breaks" in order to win ball
games and the other fellows always get
them. Nabors pitched wonderful game
yesterday and made Dubuc look like bush
but the wrong thing always hap
pened at the wrong time and bIooie went
another contest.
Small Roster
Connie is going to have a good ball club
before the season is over and now Is weed
Ing out his undesirables TO make room for
The crop of new players expected next week
crowell went to Baltimore last Tuesday,
and today Mack announced that Bill Stell-
bauer, the outfielder purchased from Peoria,
md Louis Malone, the sehoolhoy phenom
who made such hit the latter part of last
year, had been released to st. Paul, in the
American Association. They will leave for
he new jobs tomorrow night
This leaves the Athletics with only Is
players, the smallest roster In the big
easues, and it gives Mack chance to sign
up 10 more to keep within the American |
League limit