The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-24
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NTH ELLIOTT METCALF

lcifh ELLIOTT METCALF
THE TIGERS look like they're The way.
Last Friday they in the cellar. Today they are
fourth place. three games out Of third and only seven
Seven games Is a long way If team is Istless But
the Tigers rolling and could easily cut this margin down
ago Tigers games
However they can't Be expected to win seven game. in row
and the cutting
ths nFers that cutting down viii continue
Tsoma getting good pitching Earl Porter wasn't able to DO
victories IN the last three weeks
Ns Narowe ,ensd the club has ehsbed four win,
p Holmss strong got tuckered by
winning ways again and notice that he VIII be tough to s.
m csdnha hasn't looked impressive did the end
he holding
bryan ss.pAn. 60.
showed Of future the club with his
Improvement hitting been miraculous
The Tigers started the the weakest hitting club the
After the
ne batting deficiency reedi.d partly by replacing IN.
bstters the ethics
Heer. Of the they
sss Mallory asa Perry ss7 Abbott sis Gray
2ne stoeber .2s2.
eKoehler Aids Hifters
Much Of the improvement of the hters be directly
attributed TO the painstaking work of Manager Koeher
koeher il not Of those managers Who orders slump
ing team out before sunrise for three hours of batting
practice.
the rest Of the little instruction And
Defensively Tigers win club the
play tight baseball club that makes hit it, And the
defense heads It's been of weeks outder
has been caught tossing To the wrong base.
Mechanical made But the mental
being erased These nexcussbe ball
Occasionally. spse
But there little repetition Koehler
doesn't let the little things so unattended
outstanding Perry
admiral tended the North Pole
for his modest batting Starr fine fielder
there h in the circuit Abbott playing better
Tigers long way they out on
game an the time when they were losing the
tough and getting than their of the breaks they
with
Has Done Grand Job -.
koehler has done mighty fine job Of managing the
managers job There's lot more than to stand oui
at third base and signal for the hit and stolen
But ssoS n.r e sse . be
m He must know how mold IS different personalities
10 seoid He must be pal to his players and at the time
koshier But KOehe be
the Tigers until after the
He pousd his boys would deliver when the
Things good steady the Tigers fortunes
Az the Tigers arong other having
troubles The pitching stats Of Yakima
Yakima -spokan. series the last weekend
spokane huriers stop weasichee man
agcd Ia total Of
yakima pitchers didn't lock too impressive against the
Tigers weeks before got going
Keeling
DsleE gets good pitching but
for
@ respectable spot in the hasn't
II started poorly and has come the has hitting
fair pitching and tough the home grounds
Ts Yakima and Spokane staggering
shocked pitchers would
develop rising Tigers Capanos
The next two weeks win tell lot The
s four game series starting Tuesday Mel Mariowe win
against TIE indiana Cadinha Holmes all
ready and another pitcher be added by Tigers.
staff .ti be
da1d from the crack Of the bats the series
nan Il baseball. and maybe It won't be like a
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