The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-14
Wild Bill" Relates
 Tale of BasebalPS
 Hardest Tie Battle
By JAMES J. CoRBETT

Wild Bill Donovan lapsed into reminiscent mood the other day long enough to recount again the details of the historic Thinning tie of 1907 between the Athletics and the Tigers
 Ut was a game with the champion ship of the American league at stake, declared Donovan, who is now managing the Phillies. and then was the star twirler of the Tigers. "If the Athletics had won that day, they would have an- nexed the flag. But they didn't win, and the Tigers eventually harpooned the honors.
 Many baseball games have involved endless arguments afterward. But | doubt if there was ever one that pro- voked so many disputes as that clash ing and stormiest I ever worked in or saw. Just about everything that could happen did happen-and then some.
 HIT DONOVAN HARD
 'The Athletics found but little diff. culty in connecting with my delivery through the early innings. and when the seventh came along they had us [ to l. Dygert, who had started the game for the Athletics, pitched only the first two innings and then was followed by Rube Waddell. The Tigers, impotent with their bats earlier in the game, got busy in the seventh inning and pounded out four runs, bringing the total [ to 5 against us. We got another in the eighth, which made the count to 6 in favor of the Athletics when we went to bat in the ninth.
 The first man got m on hase and Ty, who followed him. promptly smashed out a home run, which evened up the count to all Right then and there Waddell was given the gate, and Plank took his place. I've been nystified through all the years since then as to how the change of pitchers was made with such startling rapidity.
 T saw Cobb hitting the ball that Wad- dell had pitched and watched Ty race around the bases. After Ty scored and the tumult had died down. 1 looked to the mound and Waddell was no longer there. Eddie Plank was ready to pitch
 STILL TIED UP
 Our team scored a run in the eleventh, making the count g to in our favor. The Athletics went to bat and had a player on second with two out. The next batter sent long fly to left field and it looked easy for Davey Jones. A tele- graph operator, anticipating that Jones would certainly make the catch, flashed along the wires that the batter had flied out to Jones, retiring the side, and that Detroit had won the game, 9 to s.
 While the Detroit paper which got the dispatch went to press with the news that Detroit had won, Jones muffed the ball. the runner scored and the game was tied up again at all.
 "In the following inning Harry Davis slammed ths ball to Sam Crawford 4 policeman saw the ball coming and tried to get out of Crawford's way. In at tempting to do so. he interfered with Crawford, who muffed the ball. San picked up the ball and ran into Silk charged interference and demanded that Davis be called out.
 "O'Loughlin, in doubt as to exactly what had happened, went to Tom Con- molly, who was umpiring the bases and asked him whether the policeman inter 1 fered with Crawford. Connolly replied l that the policeman had interfered, where upon OLoughlin ruled that Davis wa | out.
 A VIOLENT OUTBURST 1 ''The decision caused violent out burst by the Athletics, and the scene I which followed was one of those tha 1 must be seen to be approximations cannot be explained in words. The on locker was certain that every new sec l ond or two would see murder commit ted, but some way and somehow tn i Athletics were quieted down, order wa i restored and the game went on to tn seventeenth inning tied up, at wnlcl time darkness ended further struggling
 .I have played in a lot of games ant I have seen a lot more in my time, bu never have known a more hair-Taisn' one than that combat in Philadelphia 13 years ago"
 | (Copyright, 1921, by King Features Syn
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