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Show Detroit Batsmen Make Jinx Team for Walter Mails By BILLIC EVANS. Detroit Is the: jinx team of the American league for Pitcher Walter Malls of the Cleveland club. Not since his enjtfy Into th- American Amer-ican leajrua has Malls bee nable to j turn In tt ictiry aunnt th- Tigers. Tho experience that Mails ha had against the Detroit club Is very slmi-( lar to that of Cy Morgan when he pitched for th Philadelphia Athletics.! in the days when Mack s cluos were Winning pennants Morgan a very effective spltball pitcher, nlmply couldn't win against that old slugging aggregation of Cobb. Crawford and Company. There Is no vier manager In base-1 ball than Connie Mack, and he tried' in every way possible to remedy tho' fault After using Morgan about .1 half-dozen times or more against Detroit De-troit with the .'arm- result his ultimate ulti-mate removal fr..m the box Mac k saw the folly of sut:h a policy. Morgan, strangely enough, was always al-ways very successful against the 1 . ' -land team. On all western trlpa of the Athletics Morgan was excused from pitching agalnsrt tho Tigers. Against th Cleveland team ho wa always al-ways selected to opin and finish tho four-game series Knowing h was Ineffective against tho Tigers, and very effective against Cleveland Mack played the hum h i.r not starting him in Detroit and using him twice agalnsl Cleveland And It Was not an unusual thing for him to twice beat Cleveland In the s.i miseries mi-series It might be a wlso pUin for Speaker Speak-er t. adopt the policy of not starting Mail' against the Tigers a Mack did Morgan. |