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Wa Was It Iton itono D DETROIT on ono one of ot Charles Dickens Dickens' ens characters charac t ur that said It I J cant can't b bo the tho be best bestIn bestIn t tIn In my lily line I want to bo the worst be In that I wont won't but may God grant grint between th the two extremes M Maybe Mabo both the Detroit Tigers heard about the chap bit of ot a D. and are giving the thIng thine a 1 of at th the turn The Tho present st standing clubs in the thc American league 0 does docs not Indicate that Detroit has i tho the best ball club on the circuit while their consecutive con con- defeats would lead to the opposite op op- op- op l polo belief bellet Give Gho tho the Tigers credit they have haTo set a 1 mark that other clubs may well shoot at nt When hen yo you can go as long longas as they ther have hayo with nothing but re reverses reverses reverses re- re verses It becomes a 3 feat not ft n. tragedy e- e dy dj or a 3 catastrophe c. but a l po posItive ve teat feat n a record something unparalleled However e r tho the dally daily press press press' has dwelt sufficiently upon this thia marvelous run of ot reverses There is nothing new In pointing it out b but t there mt may be bo a n. alot lot Jot to think about in what now ap appears appears appears ap- ap pears as 18 the cause of ot this holocaust I An old ohI dear In Boston Walter Valter Hapgood Hapgood Hap- Hap I good s secretary o of t the Boston s Braves rAJ I 4 41 t M TI should Dear bear r spon IoU uc LUY i gets gets' c remarkable showing at the start of or th the season Walter surel surely prepared the tho rollers and greas greased tho tract track Walter did It all by br himself and It was th the tho 3 brn bravest st little spring sch schedule dule that mans man's brain ever er concocted Walter Waller Wal Wal- ler ter planted the for tor tho the TIgers Tigers Ti Tigers TI- TI gers and started the hurrah lor tor or the theother theother theother other clubs in tho the western half halt of the tho American league circuit New Cnn Converts Convert to 0 S Sane nr Training In brief brIc tho Tigers Tigers' spring tour Is blamed for tor the kind of start the club got rot When hen tho the Tigers TIers opposed the thc White So Sox Sax the they pla played cd against a club that was In form and atul going at top s-pe s pend d. d Eddie Collins explained the matter vcr very simply Imph b by forwarding tho the Information that tho the Chicago team had almost perfect weather until It rot not Well t into northern latitude While the tite So Sox were wro working under perfect weather conditions In Texas the Ti Tiei Tige Tiger Ti- Ti ge ger ei were throwing snowballs mo or sitting sitting sit sit- ting over o radiators In 11 hick town torn hotels tr trying to keep their blood from clot clot- ting The few games the tho club W was i able to play were staged In Cornfields corn cornfields cornI I fields or potato patches In remote corners corners cor cor- ners of the near nea- south and the ground was as so dangerous that a pla player er cd his lils lambs Iambs every oen time be he moved three or four feet so 80 o ho tried to keep both feet planted in one spot to save his 0 and earning power Keeping two feet teet In ta one ono spot is Js no no way for any ban ball ballplayer player to get et Into playing condition And nd there thero ha have vc you oU the secret for the Tigers TIgers' bum start It is IB probably needless less t to m mention nUon that tho the Detroit owners have bave decided de CM crp this that Mr Hapgood has bas arranged ar aT- ranged his last spring tour for tor them that In the future the club will win wint t stay tay ta away as far tar aa as possible from Mr and his sinister Influences G trie ato io team probably will remain In some safe tafe nook In tho the south a as lon long long- longas as 33 possible pos pos- sible net next spring and see sec if IC something can be done to unlimber tho the athletes athlete so flO the they will be able to win at least one game out of ot their thel first dozen Given Give Pane F Chan Chance e to Sh Show Worth onh WorthIn In spite of ot the tho wretched showing the tho club has drawn wonderful crowds at home lionie The losing spoil spell gave O certain ce evidence th that t Detroit Is 15 at least the best sport town In tho the countr country for nowhere else in this bright and chilly land nd would they permit a i team to continue continue con con- tin le losing as Jho jhc Tigers did without razzing the boys to a 3 thee fare But nul pulpit press pres an and bleachers have bravel bravely born tho tIle reverses suffered bythe by bytho the tho club Jennings has tried every ery means in his power to help matters to a belter better bet bet- ter for galL gaIt Tho Detroit lineup has ex experienced eC cx- several shakeups some ome of at them open to criticism but these thes condemnations condemnations con con- can be withheld for when whenn a n team cannot win it Is the tho unwritten ten law to shake up the lineup dally daily winning com corn In an effort to strike a This will come sooner or later but it will probably bl be achieved with ith the familiar batting order Cobb an and 1 Veach should start hitting soon Also stead and Shorten When they thoy do Detroit's problem willbe willbe will willbe be solved for tor the TI Tigers ers have not re received re- re exactly bad pitching HO Howard rd i and George GeorgI Dau Dauss s have both twirled some er very good rood baseball Dutch Leonard Lonard onard Is not ready and will not be at his host best for a i few tew weeks weck Red Oldham looks fit it to make tho the major league grade and young Alton Allen should hould also be useful Berney Boland BolandIs Is laid up Had ho been able ablo to take talco his regular turn during thelast tho the last two weeks things would be a a. abit bit different Ramom Rumon of ot Trade d I nn and l lIn In times like those who have been boen having one ono hears rumors and counter rumors There Thero was tho the report of or a proposed trade trado between Detroit andSt and St St. Louis In which tho the Browns were ero to give Dave Davo Davenport a pitcher who wont won't report for Donlo Bush a shirt shirt- stop who Is playing dally daily and doing a bit better than several shortstops in the league Such is the comedy of trade rumors There Thero are aro also talks taUs of changes in leadership and rumors that Jack Coombs will win Hugh Jennings aa as boss of at the TI Tigers This talk heard Is bosh chiefly chien outside of ot Detroit Coombs will not succeed Jennings as manager of at the tho Tigers bet on that Coombs is highly capable In many things and man many ways but not as 15 a manager of ol a i iball ball club Ball clubs clubs' probably ar are not cognizant cognizant cognizant I zant of ot the fact tac but to the unattached observer It becomes quito quite apparent that psychology plays a much more Important part in m baseball than willbe willbe will willbe be admitted d. d When a team lII like c DeI Detroit De De- I troit trait loses da lay day after day dar the players simply become convinced that the breaks breaks are arc all against them and that It is Impossible to win Then the spirit rIles dies and tho the club looks bad Players ln changing their style I to bring a a. change in luck and they thor start making plays the wrong way and arid look stupid Such has been the case with Detroit What the tho Tigers needed most moat of all was Voas work work work-work work before the season started The They were caught unprepared pared and while the they are floundering ab about ut seeking a a. foothold teams that I s started ted the le league rate race ready to face tace the barrier barner ar are galloping g by The team has had but 9 Ix Ix games at home and lost the tho opportunities for morning morning morning morn morn- ing practice Which throws all tho the blame back on the opportunities lost lostIn lostIn lostin in the south Edwin poet laureate of ot the club sat eat down one dreary day recently and composed a parody on a well known n southern hymn His parody paroo or part of It runs Away down south In tho the land of cotlon cotton cotton cot cot- ton lon Where the sIc sky Is high and arid the he grounds are rotten Stay awa away stay away Stay awa away stay awa away But then you have probably heard tho the stor story of the man who purchased a alock alock lock for his stable door after his horse had hail been stolen |