Evening star., 1916-01-13
:WE|LMAN A WONDER
Against Tigers Browns Pitch
er Is in Class by Himself.
WON 8 OUT OF 9 GAMES
Jungaleers' Chances for Pennant
Last Year Killed by Tall
Portsider.
BY ERNEST j. LANIGAN.

Hugh Ambrose Jennings probably,
among his New Year wishes. had one to
the effect that his Tigers get even with
Carl weilman of the st. Louis Browns
during 1916. Certainly the Junglemen
have many old scores to even up with
the tall southpaw, who merely beat them
eight out Of nine times last season,
winding up by putting them absolutely
out of the race. Carl has been just as
effective against the Tigers as MordecA
Brown used to be against the Giants,
or as Christy Mathewson once was
against the Reds. He will start the next
campaign with a record OF having ad-
ministered seventeen beatings to the
Detroit team. and with only having sue
cumbed to Ty Cobb & Co. seven times.
weilman's average of wins against the
Tigers is .70S. They made his ac-
quaintance September 8. 1912. that be-
ing the day Weilman hurled his first
combat in swift society. He then fell
before them. to /. Edgar Willett, last
season with ths Sloufeds. having the
honor of leading the Tigers to victory.
Since then the Jenningsites who nave
put Weilman down for the count have
been Mark Hall. who died last year;
Miles Main, who pastimed In the Fed
eral League last season; Pug Cavet,
who now Is connected with a Pacific
Coast League team; Jean Dubuc and
George Dauss, Dauss trimmed Weilman
twice, the others each downed MIN once.
weilman played havoc with the Tigers
batting averages. as well as their PEN
nant prospects, last season, their mark
hfv,r hot
was on the rubber for st. Louis against
Detroit in rs and 2-3 innings, 261 at
bats being charged against him Jen-
nings' men collected IS runs and made
were triples and one was home run.
weilman hit one man. passed 2S and
famed 29.
Only Defeat Of Year.
The Tigers only clawed their Nemesis
once last year. That was in the front
part Of the bargain bill staged May %.
when they grouped four hits on him in
the first inning and sent him to the cy-
clone cellar without his having retired a
man. weilman came right back in the
second tussle and twiried one runless in
ming, and the following day showed some
more of the return stuff by abating the
Junglemen. 3 to 2, in twelve innings.
They never got to him for more than
seven hits any time they faced him in
1915 and only once did they gather that
number. Twice the Tigers gathered six
safeties OF Weilman, twice they gathered
five, four times they gathered four, once
they gathered three and once they gath
cred one. The times the Tigers made one
and three hits off Weilman were in sin
gle innings. his best complete games
against them being three in which he
permitted only four wallops. one Of these
ekirmishes being a twelve-round fray.
The queer part about Detroit's hitting
against Weiiman last season was that
the ifYeeulars batted best George Boeh-
ler got a double off Carl the only time
he batted against him. and Baby Doll''
Jacobsen and George Moriarty found him
for percentages of 1913. Each made two
hits. both of Jacobsens being manufac-
tured while he was doing pinch-hitting
tricsD and both being for extra distance.
1t was on account Of Jacobsen's batting
egaipst Weilman that Branch Hickey
took him as part payment for Bill James.
Weilman wrecked Detroit's wrecking
crew, for Cobb only batted -231 against
him. Veach only 200 and Crawford only
.147.- Tyrus worked the Tiger hoodoo
for nine passes and took the strike-out
count five times What the Tigers ac-
complished in the batting line against
Weihnan last season will be found below