Johnny Tavener's Four Hits Power Tigers Past Browns in Five Run Eighth
Johnny Tavener collected four straight hits and drove in three runs as Ty Cobb's Tigers erupted for five runs in the eighth inning to defeat the Browns 9 to 4 and win their fourth consecutive game.
Content from Detroit Free Press - Wednesday June 23, 1926
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- Bengals Get Five Runs in Eighth and Win 9 to 4 After Browns Tie Score
- Four Consecutive Victories Earn Bengals Two Day Rest
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Bengals Get Five Runs in Eighth and Win 9 to 4 After Browns Tie Score
FOUR PITCHERS FALL BEFORE TIGER ATTACK
BY HARRY BULLION.
Ty Cobb's Tigers broke open a tie game with five runs in the eighth inning Tuesday afternoon at Navin Field, defeating the St. Louis Browns 9 to 4 behind a relentless 14-hit attack.
Dauss Comes to Rescue
Manager Ty Cobb couldn't get by with one pitcher. Necessity compelled a switch from Earl Whitehill to George Dauss in a tight place, and the veteran, checking the advance of the Browns in the eighth, rode with his mates on the wave of the orgy that netted the five counters in the same inning.
While the Tigers are a team of men of giant stature, like Harry Heilmann, Heinie Manush, Marty O'Rourke and Cobb, for instance, it remained for the littlest of the bunch to show the way in the attack on the hapless enemy pitchers. Four times Johnny Tavener appeared at the plate with a club in his hands and each time the midget smote the leather to an untenanted sector of the field.
Drives In Three Runs
Three of Tavener's blows scored runs, or a total of three, which was one less than the combined attack of the Browns could produce. Switching pitchers didn't make any material difference to Tavener, who nailed two singles off Alfred Wingard, a left hander, and scarred Art Gaston and Ray Ballou, right handers, for the other two.
For six innings it seemed as though Whitehill would turn in a shut-out and thus gain brackets with his left-handed mates, Sam Gray Johns and Hooks Wells. Earl had distributed four hits deftly over that route without letting a Brownie sink his spikes in the plate. But he became entangled in a jam, through no fault of his own, however, in the seventh, and before he could extract himself from it the Browns had scored three runs on three hits and an error and came within one of tying.
Browns Tie Score
Had Tavener fielded a ball cleanly when he had a chance to retire the side with a double play the Browns would have been erased scoreless. Starting the eighth, George Sisler pasted a single to left and Whitehill was derricked. Dauss finished that round, was maced for a double behind a sacrifice and the Browns scored the tying counter.
This trick of the enemy acted as a tonic on the Tigers, who drove out Milt Vangilder, Sisler's third pitcher, and abused Ballou, the fourth gunner to face them in the game. Six solid wallops went unblushingly to the outfield and five runs were the result. In this rally even the pitcher, "Hookie" Dauss, participated with a double.
Nearly as many safeties were made by the Tigers in that one round as their attack netted in the other seven. Altogether, the Browns' pitchers were solved for 14 safeties that netted 19 bases. The longest blow was delivered by Lu Blue in the first inning, a triple that rebounded from the fence in left field and gave cause to Bing Miller to chase it. Two other hits rebounded from the bat of the agile first baseman, who, though he got one less safety than Tavener collected, realized more bases from his lusty clubbing.
Whitehill commenced to take the Browns in the first inning, when three of them batted, but Wingard didn't have so much luck. Blue's greeting to the visitors' southpaw was a triple that passed Miller and rebounded from the left field fence for three bases. O'Rourke's long fly to Sam Rice gave Blue ample time to score.
Manush scratched a single to Sisler, who threw wild on the hit to Wingard covering first base, and Manush reached second. Cobb's sacrifice fly to Cedric Durst put Manush on third, where, though, he was left when Heilmann grounded to Wally Gerber.
Blue Starts It Again
There wasn't any more scoring until the fourth, when, as before, the Tigers made a run. Cobb walked to start the round. Heilmann flied to Rice, but Johnny Warner's grounder to Marty McManus for the second out put Cobb on second. Tavener took advantage of that situation to single over second base and score Cobb.
All this time Whitehill was issuing blanks to the Browns, who were minus something when the fifth closed for them. The Tigers, though, put the ingredients together for a run in the fifth. Whitehill was out on a lift to Miller when Blue singled past third base.
O'Rourke walked, after which Manush was thrown out on a high bounder to Wingard. The play was delayed long enough to let Blue and O'Rourke advance a base each. Cobb rescued Blue with a punch for a base near second, where Melillo knocked the ball down. Losing sight of the leather, O'Rourke tried to follow Blue home and was nipped, Melillo to Eddie Dixon.
The sixth was another blank for the Browns and good for a run that increased the Tigers' total to four. Heilmann opened the attack with a double to left. Warner sacrificed and Tavener delivered his third single to center, scoring Heilmann.
Browns Come Back
St. Louis' seventh developed enough in a scoring way to almost tie the score. Three runs put the Browns within one of a tie. McManus pried off the lid with a double to left. Miller flied to Cobb. Durst's looping single dropped just in front of Manush, McManus stopping at third. Dixon waited for a pass that filled the bases.
Batting for Gerber, Bubbles Hargrave grounded to Tavener, who fumbled the ball, McManus scoring and the bases remaining filled. Benny Lamotte batted for Wingard, flied to Manush and scored Durst. Rice came clean with a single to center, scoring Dixon and putting Hargrave on third with the tying run. Oscar Melillo closed the inning with a fly to Manush.
Detroit's seventh was a blank, although Blue, first up, walked. On a combination of things that followed, Blue worked his way around to the far corner, and ended up there.
Vangilder Batted Hard
Sisler singled to left to start the Browns' eighth, which fact was sufficient to cause Manager Cobb to remove Whitehill and call on George Dauss. McManus sacrificed, but Miller had a double in his bat, the blow scoring Sisler. Durst waited for a pass. Ken Williams batted for Dixon and flied to Heilmann. Miller moved to third on that, but Wally Schang, batting for Gaston, forced Durst at second on a grounder to O'Rourke.
Vangilder opposed the Tigers in their half and Heilmann petted him for a single to left. Warner sacrificed and Tavener hit his fourth consecutive single to center, scoring Heilmann. Johnny Woodall slipped another single to center, Tavener stopping at second. Dauss hit the scoreboard with a two-base blow, scoring Tavener and putting Woodall on third. Ballou relieved. Vangilder pitched the first ball and Blue singled to center, scoring Woodall and Dauss.
Manush hit the wall in left field with a double and Blue scored from first base. Cobb reached out for a pitch and tapped it to Melillo for the third out. The Browns failed to score in their half of the ninth.
Four Consecutive Victories Earn Bengals Two-Day Rest
Wednesday and Thursday Open Dates in Tiger Schedule — Hard and Consistent Hitting Produce Easy Victory Over Browns.
George Sisler led his Browns out of town after the game Tuesday, two full games deeper in the second division than they were before trying conclusions with the Tigers, who by the way, earned a two-day rest after registering their fourth victory in a row at the expense of the lowly athletes from the Mound City.
Manager Ty Cobb and his hired help have nothing in particular to do Wednesday or Thursday, the schedule makers taking care of that, but the Indians come here for four games, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday after which the Bengals take the road again with St. Louis the first stop.
Unlike Monday's game, spectacular fielding was not required to beat the Browns Tuesday. Clubbing of the consistency and dimensions that the Tigers heaped on Milt Vangilder could have no other result, and Alfred Wingard, who preceded the right hander, was far from an enigma.
Earl Whitehill pitched another of those games where he looked very good for six innings and then very wobbly. The Tiger sidewheeler hurled scoreless ball and allowed only four hits in the first six frames, but he tottered in the seventh, gave up three hits for as many runs and saw the first man to face him in the eighth hit safely.
That last blow resulted in his departure from the game and the introduction of the veteran George Dauss, who after yielding the run that Whitehill put on the bases, got the side in the eighth and ninth.
Johnny Tavener, Lu Blue, Harry Heilmann and Heinie Manush fattened their batting averages at the expense of the St. Louis pitchers. The midget shortstop hit safely on all of his four appearances at the plate, drove in three runs and scored one himself.
Blue punched out a triple and two singles in four official trips and scored three runs while Heilmann and Manush each collected a double and single in four appearances at the swatting station.
Detroit's 14 hits were good for 19 bases, Dauss, on his only appearance at the plate, got the other extra base hit, a double in the eighth to start the round.
Only Marty McManus and Bing Miller were able to solve Whitehill and Dauss for more than one hit. Each got a double and single. McManus' two-ply blow opened the seventh, where the Browns came within a run of tying the score.
Tris Speaker's surprise package in the form of the Indians, next guests on the Tiger schedule, will be entertaining the White Sox while the Bengal flingers are easing up Wednesday and Thursday, which should give the Cobhmen the edge in the pitching department.
Either Wilbur Cooper, Herman Holloway, George Stoner, Sam Johns or Gus Gibson will be ready to hurl the first game of the series Friday, while Hooks Wells will be ready for either the Saturday or Sunday.
Speaker used up his two best southpaws, Walter Shaute and Sherry Smith, on Monday and Tuesday and since the Tribe and Sox are waging a merry scrap for second place, Speaker may be forced to call upon George Uhle and Ed Karr or Buckeye in the remaining two games of the set with the Pale Hose.
Tuesday's victory gave the Tigers an even break in the 16 games played on the present home stand. They broke even in two games with the Nationals; dropped all four to the Yanks, took three out of four from Boston, split in four with the Athletics and won both arguments with the Browns. And the latest victory again launched them above the .500 mark for the season.
AROUND T HE LEAGUE
LYONS ADDS TWELFTH
Chicago, June 22.—(By the Associated Press.)—Ted Lyons hung up his twelfth victory of the season today when Eddie Collins' double broke up a ten-inning game, which gave Chicago the second game of the series from Cleveland, 4-1. Collins' batting was the outstanding feature of the White Sox victory, as he led the attack with four hits in five times up.
REDLEGS KEEP LEAD AS CUBS DRAW SETBACK
Maintain Slender Edge Over Pittsburgh by Thwacking Chicago, 3 to 2.
MAY GOOD IN PINCH
He Pitches Himself Out of Situation That Looked Dangerous.
Cincinnati, June 22.—(By the Associated Press.)—Although outbatted by Chicago, Cincinnati held first place today by beating the Cubs, 3 to 2.
In the eighth inning the Cubs filled the bases with none out, but Jakie May prevented them from scoring when he fanned Gabby Hartnett and Mickey Osborne and retired Joe Schreiber on a slow grounder.
PIRATES STAY CLOSE TO TOP
Victory, 3-1, Over St. Louis Leaves Pittsburgh One Point Behind.
St. Louis, June 22.—(By the Associated Press.)—Lee Meadows outpitched Bill Keene today and Pittsburgh defeated St. Louis, 3 to 1.
Thus the Cardinals dropped to two and a half games from the top and Pittsburgh remained one point behind the league-leading Reds.
Two of the Pittsburgh scores were on home runs by Glenn Wright. The other came in the sixth, when Max Carey tripled and scored on Paul Waner's single. The Cardinals' lone tally was the result of Taylor Douthit's double, followed by Jim Bottomley's single.
HOME RUN BEATS DETROIT STARS
Kansas City Wins Fourth of Series, 5-3.
Kansas City Monarchs defeated the Detroit Stars in the fourth game of the series, 5 to 3. The game was a pitcher's duel until the seventh inning with the two teams on even terms, until Johnston, Monarch outfielder, came to bat with two mates on the bases and knocked a home run, scoring three runs.
Bill Bell, the Star hurler, was then removed from the game and Morris went to the mound and held the visitors in check, but the damage was done and the locals could not rally in the last inning.
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