Evening star., 1923-03-04

The Tigers made a pretty bold bid
last summer for something more than
they attained. In the middle of the
season Pillette was carrying them
along in splendid style. His pitching
was good enough to bowl over all
opposition and he could handle the
close games as we'll as any pitcher
in the American League.
Chances Go Glimmering.
While this was proceeding He'll
mann was hurt and the other Tiger
pitchers failed to hit the pace which
was being set by Pillette. If john
son had come through about four
weeks earlier than he did there
might have been three-cornered
fight right down to the blow-off.
which would have turned the Amer
lean race any one of three ways De-
troit's let-down after going like
streak probably helped st. Louis more
| than it did New York. Anyhow, it
took out Detroit as d championship
factor for the remainder of the year.
Granting that such was the case.
the squirt they made introduced the
Detroit players to the fact that if
they got away in 1928 with as much
speed as they had produced in the
middle of 1922 they had a chance to
win something better than third
money.
1t is a safe bet Of a cooky to
cracker that one of the reasons which
without much fussing is their knowl
edge of what they can do.
Cobb Handles EN- Right.
1t might be we'll to add TO that
credit for a liberal application Of
salve on the part of Ty Cobb. Since
the Georgian agreed to manage
team well as try to win a cham
pionship as a player among other
players he has become quite diplo-
| ,1@ H.
his fellow men and more than half
convince some of them that he has
got the biggest scare cooked up for
his rival managers that has been on
the fire in the American League since
the 1922 season closed.
His players are moving along with
him, and If Ty can get out of Geor-
gia after a liberal application of sun
shine and without a creaky arm on
his pitching staff there will be no
muff1er on the cutout when his old
Tiger gas cart starts digging up
Woodward avenue in the City of the
Straits.
II the pitchers of the American
League could only catch Babe Ruth
in the same frame of mind he was in
when he played the world series of
last year and the year before they
might stop him as successfully as
him in those years. Incidentally, if
they could do this. they would ruin
one of the most valuable pieces of
base ball attraction that any club in
either circuit owns.
/ Ruth was annoyed, and then again
and more. That he dared the Giants
to meet him Individuality choosing
| any representative of their team that
| they might desire. and that no one
volunteered or even seconded the mo-
ion ha hnan n
then. and is none the worst for repe
| tition.
Getting the goat" Of player in
| world series is not a. new social
ped the bounds of decency, but as the
mikado and the members of the base
| ball cabinet cannot run around at the
heels of the players listening to their
monologues and dialogues. 1t has not
| been possible to place all the blame
when the airy persitiage ran into the
| vulgar rather than the rococo.
It would be d hard task, though,
| for the pitchers Of the American
| League to catch Ruth's goat and keep
| It tied all of the season.
as an American League city. When
| the Braves won the championship
away from New York York in aIa,a. lsi4; entirely ,rayy
concealed Fenway Park from the
naked eye, everybody in the Hub
said that Boston was a National
League city after ALL II both Boston
clubs should happen to win, the city
! would probably be divided as to popu-
lation, one race against another Now
that neither club can win, and both
| teams are in eighth place. Boston dis
4 owns them more or less, and they can
| 60 to the island of Guam for all that
| the fans care.
] Ths owners are seeking to rectify