Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-29 | Page 10 | Detroit Tigers Are Most Popular Baseball Team in the Country

' x DETROIT' TIGERS ARE MOST POPULAR BASEBALL TEAM IN THE COUNTRY H PROM a spectators standpoint tho ' Detroit team furnishes more real cn- H tcrtalnmcnt during a ball game than H tny of ltsrlvals To lev the Tigers H ' In action immediately creates tho lin- Hl ," predion that It Is a successful combl- H lation, even though one was not fa- H "' nllfnr with its successes There Is a has a good effect on tho other members of the team. Then there Is Jennings, whose methods meth-ods differ from those of anr other manager so far as jictlvltj In tho gamo Is concerned Though not actually engaged en-gaged In (he contest, he Is ery much In the game and works js hard as any m&b ., t H rhoto by American Tress Association. H V MANAGER HUGH JENNINGS. Hl certain amount of dash about that team H vhlch Is impressive. Not that the Tl- H lrera play any moro brilliant ball than H j lo tho Athletics, but their stjle of play Hj I Is moro plcturesquo than that of the j thamplona. Of course tho presenco of K Cobb has much to do With thrs Tho V prowess of tn.e 'Georgia peach is ln- Hj tplrlng, and there Is no doubt that The rcmarkablo' spirit that Cobb' displays of his players on tho coaching lines Speed is one of the Tigers' greatest, requisites, and by mcans'ofMt and an ordinary amount of intelligence on tho bases this team scores a lot of runs which other teams would not gcL Hugh Jennings' coaching Is not, as many suppose, a coa of signals for his plajers Certain words do not mean to 'do ccrUln things or am thing of that -1 hi o n .(4 a n. io'V j'wmnct a sort, though tho wily Hughle is perfectly per-fectly willing to have this impression impres-sion go out. The Jennings ejstcm, like that of the old Baltimore club, whero he got" his early education, Is to allow the players to think for thom-sclves. thom-sclves. Jennings gives no signs from tho coachcr's box cither bj- word or motion He las down a sjbtcm for his plajers to follow, and he relies upon their Intelligence to do tho right thing at the right time Aside from being amusing to the spectators, Jennings' coaching Is of a kind that keeps his plajers on edge. There Is nothing monotonous about his efiorts, and ho works up a spirit that stands tho plajr-crs plajr-crs in good stead. "U'ith tho boss encouraging en-couraging and hustling as docs Jennings Jen-nings there is not much chanco for anj' loafing among the plaj'crs, and this Is really Hughlo's onlj' object in displacing dis-placing the antics he does