Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1911 — CANNOT FORGET THE TIGERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CANNOT FORGET THE TIGERS

-Kid- Eiberfeld, in Remlnlacent Moment, Says Public Too Often Overlooks Good Play. “In figuring the responsibility for a baseball defeat or the credit for a victory,” said “Kid” Eiberfeld in a •eminiscent moment, “the general public too often overlooks the play or the Incident, through which success or failure came, and credits or blames some player who really should never have had a chance to decide the result. They don't go back far enough to note bow the play should have been switched. “I was in one of the two most famous finishes the American league has had, playing shortstop for the Highlanders In 'if 04, when we lost the pennant to Boston on the closing day of the season, through being in the first number of a double-header. That game has gone into baseball history as the one in which a wild pitch lost a pennant. As a matter of fact, Chesbro did toss the chances for the flag when a ‘spitter’ got away from him, went by Jack Klelnow to the stand and let Lou Crlger score from second base with the winning run. “But we lost that pennant three ways, and two of these had nothing to do with this particular game. It never should have been necessary for us to take either game of this doubleheader to become champions. The flag should have been won long before that. It might have been had It not been for Washington. That team, always down at the bottom of the column, started us down hill just when we were being hailed as the coming champions. It was the old story 6f a team that didn’t count at all killing the chances of a better club. “The same thing happened to us again in the fall of 1906, when, after we had given the White Sox an awful beating on their own lot, going into the lead with only eight

more games to play, Detroit, which finished seventh that year, took three straight from us and won the flag for Fielder Jones. Last year, you will recall, Detroit In tarn had the same sort of luck. When Bt. Louis handed It a beating In an eight-game series, through which Jennings expected to go into the lead.”

Kid Elberfeld.