Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-05
BY HARRY BULLION
Snortin1 Writer, Detroit Free Press


Employing 16 hits to excellent pur-
pose the Detroit Tigers Tuesday att
ernoon administered their most de-
cisive defeat of the spring series to
Rochester, 10 to 3.
Bert Cole, who went the whole
route for Manager Cobb, weakened
in the eighth and ninth, where, in
the first of these periods the Rust
lers avoided a scoreless beating with
a single run and in the closing stanza
grouped a single and two triples for
two more markers.
There is no telling to what length
the Bengals would have carried the
atrocities on Stalling's men had the
former miracle man failed to make
good guess with his third pitcher,
Meador.
keenan, and Leonard were pound
ed numerically and while Cole re-
mained strong it merely became
question of how great total the
Tigers would compile and how long
it would require the minor leaguers
to dent the plate.
Stallings took Keenan off the hill
at the conclusion of the fourth in
ming, by which time he had been
shamefully abused and Leonard, the
relief gunner, didn't fare a great
deal better. With the introduction
of Meador, though, the artillery fire
stopped almost entirely.
Johnny Bassler and Lou Blue were
the only men in Cobb's cast who fail
ed to participate in the slugging jubi-
lee. Even Cole, a pitcher who isn't
supposed to carry bat to the plate
except that the rules require it, add
ed to the discontinue of the young
moundsmen who struggled to please
their ranting manager on the bench.
Race for Honors.
Cobb and Fothergill ran q merry
race for batting honors, with the
| laurels finally resting on the brow of
the Georgian, although in the num-
Der of jolts to untenanted spots Bob
tied Ty. In the Peach's collection
were pair of doubles, however while
the Rochester graduate confined his
efforts to three singles and one blow
OF the single extra base variety
Afield the Tigers were not SO
strong as in Mondays game, but the
way the clubber's took toe holds and
massaged the leather an alright de-
Tense wasn't necessary. Emory Rig
ney was the principal offender with
two "boots," while Cutshaw contrib
uted one.
Rochester's defensive merit was of
cleaner character than the Tigers
but with them it was either case
of the Tigers mailing the horsehide
straight at somebody or nowhere
near enough to be intercepted.
Liberties taken with Coles deliv-
cry were limited, however. Bert
didn't get away with much eclat in
the first inning, where he was solved
for a single and double without
yielding a score, but thereafter or,
until two were out in the seventh the
sum total of the Rustlers' achieve
ments With the stick was one hit and
the lean southpaw set six of the en-
emy down on strikes.
In the seventh the strenuousness
OF his toll began to exact toll, though
and q pair of singles punched with an
error by Cutshaw scored a welcome
run for Stallings and in the ninth
single by Archdeacon and triples
looped over the outfields' heads by
Brady and Merkle accounted for two
more.
Detroit Starts Eearly.
Detroit started early to profit by
the inviting mark keenan, offered
Cutshaw singled and doubles by
Cobb and Fothergill followed for two
runs. Rigney opened the second with
double to left, but he expired in a
double play with Cole after Bassler
sacrificed.
The second and third were dull Pc
riods, but in the fourth singles by
tothergill, Mohardt, Rigney and
Cole, with weird hea9e by Rearce
netted three more runs. That finish
ed keenan,, who yielded to Leonard,
a big right-hander. Cutshaw greet
ed the second gunner with a double
to left and Cobb scored the ex-Pirate
with a single to right. Then while
Feathergill took cut at the third
strike Cobb stole second and scored
standing up on Jones's belt for
base to center.
Leonard got by the sixth without
trouble, but everything was done to
him in the next round before he
could get man out. He hit Cut
shaw to start the inning and Cobb
doubled George to third base. Foth-
ergill scored Cutshaw and sent Cobb
to third with single to center. Bob
moved up on the throw and scored
immediately after on Jones'es double
to right.
That concluded the Tigers scoring,
but up to that time the Rustlers were
still wondering when their first run
would arrive. 1t occurred in the
eighth on Cutshaw's error behind
lift to Murray and singles introduc-
ed by Pool and Pearce,
By that time Cole was sagging at
the knees and plainly tired He en-
I Continued on Page Twol