The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-21
DETROIT TIGERS ARE SENSA TON SI IN THE AMERICAN
Dopesters Claim Detroit'S Re- versaI of Form Is Good
 Thing For League
By GEORGE CHADWICK lpreiaI Correspondent of Tine ARe-HeraId Copyright. 1922, by Tho Age e-Herald)

New York, May 2o.-Detroit Is the sensation of tho American league. For the most part the American ieaeue is mighty glad of 1t. More. than that the Tigers for the moment arg the sensation of both leagues.
 While champions and others were content to win the majority of their games, the Tigers have not been cor tent to lose any game. There is the answer to Detroit's progress.
 Joy is not concealed in certain clubs ot the American league that Detroit is "butsin' things wide open" Even the president of the American league beamed when he saw part cf 1t happen There is reason.
 With Cleveland Tot living up to expectations for the moment and Washington not able to get started the rails being greased whenever they play a really good game, there were fears in tho American league circuit that the contest would spindle out in one of two ways. Either the Yankees would get lead which would tail-end everybody and drown. interest in the mill pond of public approval by July 1, or St. Louis and New York would hook up in neck and neck race which would build up crowds to skyscraper heights in New York and St. Louis, but leave the other cities at the bungalow leved.
 Han Puts 0. K. on Team President Ban Johnson SAW Detroit play when he was visiting in New York. The Tigers defeated the Yan- lSees twice, while the president looked them over through his specs l think they've Got good team, he said. Don't you think that Yankees lack little in pep2'
 The champions occasionally have shown tbat they are bitten by the hookworm, but they don't lack fn reevishness They can draw the blue ribbon for being the most boyisaly petulant aggregation of ball players that has sbeen assembled since the days of Baltimore The motto or the old Orioles. was: Every man with Il chip on his shoulder" Yet they would scrap. They didn't bout. Insy beloved The Yankees pout and jump up and down in the same sp"l and worry the grass to death.
 Before the season began the De- troit club was described by the pra'nS of baseball as being team oi s"@. ters who would hit and hit. but "oui' not win much because there were t1 ritchers cn the teaH to put up eooa
  Tigers Show Strength
 There were moments In the early srrinp when 1t seemed as if the De troit horoscope had been correctly read in the prevailing stars. But the stnrs have shifted and Detroit s not travelling. on a permanent horoscope. It IS making one daily for It's own con veniences. It has moved up from last place in the race by its owa abilit. No matter what may hap uen the team has shown that It Is to he feared and when a team shows that to the other teams in major league. the opposing managers ar range correspondingly if they are men of wisdom
 The Tigers can bat. There is no doubt of it. and they will be likely to continue to bat. Heilman isn't up here he will be when the season ,s over He Is not hitting as well as did in 1921 but the chances are that lie will be batting the ball at high altitude when the other now leading hlm have ceased to travel with speed.
 Clark Hitting Young Clark, thrown in at second base. has hit as he did in the Texas league last year. and that means bet ter than 300. Rigby is not .he showiest shortstop in the American league, but from day to day Cobb is getting better defense at short than he did last year.
 The outfield is ste ady. sanguine and stubborn. 1t hits well and plays ball with a forward motion and not on thes defense. There are faster out ficlders than some of those of De;