Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1909 — TIGERS BEATEN IN THIRD GAME [ARTICLE]

TIGERS BEATEN IN THIRD GAME

Pirates Drive Summers Out ul Box In First Inning. DETROIT MAKES PLUCKY FI6HT American League Champions Refuse to Be Discouraged by a Lead Their Opponents Gained Early In the Battle and Keep Up the Struggle Until Their Last Batter It Retired —Three Umpires Watch the Hitt and Plays. Detroit, Oct. 12. —Pittsburg defeated Detroit by the score of 8 to 6 in one of the most spectacular and fiercely contested games ever played In a world’s championship series. This gives Pittsburg the margin of two games to one in the series. Detroit showed In the final innings of the battle that it is far from a hopelessly beaten team. Rain fell frequently during the nine innings. Despite the weather the attendance, 18,277, broke all local records for the world's series. Pirates Get Six Runs Lead. Pittsburg jumped into a lead quickly by scoring five runs In the first Inning. They batted Summers out of the box. Another run in the second Inning gave Pittsburg a lead of 6 to 0. Detroit came to the fore with one of the gamest rallies ever made and scored four runs in the seventh inning, hatting Maddox hard and playing like fiends. With the score 6 to 4, Pittsburg connected with some of Works’ curves in the ninth for two runs. With the score 8 to 4 against it, the Detroit team even then did not realize it was beaten and smashed out two more runs in the last inning. Detroit outbatted Pittsburg by a margin of one hit, getting twelve to the winners’ eleven. Willett succeeded Summers in the first inning and did well until he was taken out to allow Mclntyre to bat for him in the seventh. Mclntyre struck outj Maddox was hit hard in the closing innings although Detroit could do nothing with him in the early sessions. Four Hits by Wagner. The mighty Hans Wagner was the star of the game, but he was forced to share some of the stellar honors with Owen Bush and Delehanty of the Tigers. Wagner made four hits and stole four bases. He played an admirable game In the field. The ground rules brought about a long conference between Umpires O’Loughlin and Johnstone and the members of the National Commission. Then an innovation was made by sending Umpire Klein to the rightfield foul line to watch the hits into the crowd and act in an advisory capacity to the other two umpires. 1 Following is the official attendance and receipts for the game: Total attendance, 18,277; total receipts, |20,676. Division: National Commission, $2,067.60; players, sll,165.04; two clubs, $7,443.36. Detroit— R. H. E. Pittsburg 8 11 3 Detroit 6 12 4 Maddox and Gibson; Summers, Willett and Works, and Schmidt. Rain Stops Interleague GamesChicago, Oct. 12.—Wet grounds prevented the fourth Cubs-Sox contest. Boston, Oct. 12.—Rain kept the New York Giants and Boston Americans from playing the third game of their post-season series.