The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-08-15
Tigers Spend Open Dates
Transforming In Jungle
Viii BE Back To Play
Senators On
Friday

The lEfTf are "Ai tH "'
mis- afternoon the, viii play an eK-
fbltion game AT Toronto. ana
hnrsday afternoon they all Jour
ey 10 flint 20 pastme for ne
'ehics up there They VIII Die"
eek 20 Detfot Friday ~ time 20
ssirt more or less feebif ihe ina
n,laushi OF he eastern clubs
Washington wu 30 thr FIRST 70 ap-
ear here Probably Johnson NiH
nrI a Saturday or sunta. game
The series with ,ne Browns
rought no JOS % ,his town Bernie
Ioland WASH able 20 work 10 three
xmes IN two DAYS and Manager
snnings had trouble in hndins
uitahle successor Sc T4Ee took
Nating and the series became an
wen break
II wasn't a good sersfs any how
hdie Plank didn't pitch q single
nnings Inquiries FOR The hero ~
Gettysburg revealed rumors that re
lad Quit the game. silently folding
10 his "uns" and slipping awaF Win
at giving the band a chance 70
Hay a dirge
The greatest southpav OF his time
mrled IL innings against Waiter
johnson one dag last week. took
20 0 beating in which he displayed
reat skill, and then retired ron
baseball forever Plank Is one o.
he most remarkable players that
vver wore q major league uniform
Re didn't start IN the big snow
until he was % years OF age, ana
men he starred for Is consecutive
reasons. Plank and Mathewson we're
ne brainiest pitchers Of their une
Plank quit the game simply oe
muse he was tired Of il and vasn
thriving on hotel eats
Dave Davenport was the pitching
hero OF the Tuesday milling al MI
Eayin's bingle orchard. He permit
ed II hits for a total of 5 bases
but held the Tigers 10 four runs NO
pf which were fukey and the otAer
hwo OF which did NOT come until the
Rame was safely won BY The Browns
Dave also was the clOuung nero,
sven tho he famed thrice The one
hme Dave didn't Whit vas N ne
opurth. Az this time the Tigers had
two runs. Pratt and Smith walked
LAvan came up with two out and
scored Pratt with a single Dayen
port took a pair ~ strikes and then
Knocked the bali over tooo's head
He stopped AZ second, bu' he Two
runners galloped home. giving the
Browns lead they never dropped
The visitors 20, frisky again with
TIxe in the eth This time Gun
ningham got the pounding AUSTIN
walked and took third on Sisters
aingle. Pratt tripled 70 the score
sending home two runs sew.
ereid's sacrifice nv 20 Cobb scored
Pratt and made the Brownie total
. halfdozen
The Tigers bombarded Davenport
Justify. Bush and Young each got
\ trio OF blows. But Cobb and Neaeh
could do no effective clouunE. and
few runs came home A pair were
scored IN the third Young singled
past Lavan. and Spencer was hi by
4 pitched ball BOland sacrificed
Bush got credit for hit when ne
rolled 20 Lavan and beat the throw
Young scored. and Spencer came
home on an infeld out
Tige did nothing more until ne
ninth. Heilman walked After two
were out. Spencer tripled TO center
Young. who had arrived az first on
q force play. Tailed on this wallop
Harper bstted for Ehmke. who had
finished -the-same. and singled thu
the inneid. Spencer scoring The
hit and run was attempted ana
Pratt went over 20 cover. On his
way he scooped up Bush's grounder
which would ordinarily have been
hit, and DOME was caught AT hrst
for the third out That finished the