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| + | <p>A book of 600 pages, profusely illustrated with over 100 full | ||
| + | page engravings, and having sixteen forceful cartoons by Homer C. | ||
| + | Davenport, the famous American artist.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | this country, as also in the libraries of public schools and | ||
| + | private houses.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | everywhere, and by everybody, to have the best equipment of any | ||
| + | living writer to treat the subject that forms the text of this | ||
| + | remarkable volume, viz., the story of the origin, development and | ||
| + | evolution of Base Ball, the National Game of our country.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | time& | ||
| + | been closely identified with its interests. Not infrequently he has | ||
| + | been called upon in times of emergency to prevent threatened | ||
| + | disaster. But for him the National Game would have been syndicated | ||
| + | and controlled by elements whose interests were purely selfish and | ||
| + | personal.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | players, clubs and personalities connected with the game in its | ||
| + | early days, and is written in a most interesting style, | ||
| + | interspersed with enlivening anecdotes and accounts of events that | ||
| + | have not heretofore been published.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Spalding' | ||
| + | Game has been very encouraging and he is in receipt of hundreds of | ||
| + | letters and notices, a few of which are here given.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Gaynor, says:& | ||
| + | recreation and I am interested in reading everything I can find | ||
| + | about the game. I especially enjoy what you [Mr. Spalding] have | ||
| + | written, because you stand as the highest living authority on the | ||
| + | game."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | club:& | ||
| + | enjoyed reading it very much."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | says:& | ||
| + | read with a great deal of interest."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Nationals:& | ||
| + | <p>W. IRVING SNYDER, formerly of the house of Peck & | ||
| + | Snyder:& | ||
| + | interest."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Snyder:& | ||
| + | was conducted in early years."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Press:& | ||
| + | interesting. I prize it very highly."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | appreciation of the book. It carries me back to the early days of | ||
| + | base ball and makes me feel like a young man again."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | club:& | ||
| + | part of every base ball library in the country."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | did not think it possible for one to become so interested in a book | ||
| + | on base ball. I do not find anything in it which I can | ||
| + | criticise."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | on college sport:& | ||
| + | deal of interest. 'It fills a long felt want,' and you are a | ||
| + | national benefactor for writing it."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | book with a great deal of pleasure and was much interested in | ||
| + | seeing the account of base ball among the Asiatic whalers, which I | ||
| + | had written for Harper' | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | comedian:& | ||
| + | of the game, it perpetuates the memories of the many men who so | ||
| + | gloriously sustained it. It should be read by every lover of the | ||
| + | sport."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Ind.:& | ||
| + | than I. Ever since I have been big enough, I have been in | ||
| + | professional base ball, and you can imagine how interesting the | ||
| + | book is to me."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | treasurer, H.D. Seekamp, writes:& | ||
| + | much interested in the volume and has read with pleasure a number | ||
| + | of chapters, gaining valuable information as to the history of the | ||
| + | game."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | not very much of a ' | ||
| + | just at the present time in base ball particularly. Perhaps if all | ||
| + | the Giants had an opportunity to read the volume before the recent | ||
| + | game (with the Athletics) they might not have been so grievously | ||
| + | outdone."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, the first organization of ball | ||
| + | players in existence, writing from his home at Honolulu, Hawaiian | ||
| + | Islands, says:& | ||
| + | it is my opinion that no better history of base ball could have | ||
| + | been written."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | George Wright, Barnes, McVey, O' | ||
| + | us back there in Boston in those days of '74 and '75, and I recall | ||
| + | how indignant we were when you 'threw us down' for the Chicago | ||
| + | contract. The book is splendid. I treasure it greatly."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | expert:& | ||
| + | national game from the time, years before it was so dignified, up | ||
| + | to the present. Those who have played the game, or taken an | ||
| + | interest in it in the past, those at present engaged in it, | ||
| + | together with all who are to engage in it, have a rare treat in | ||
| + | store."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Spalding has been the largest factor in guiding the development of | ||
| + | the game and thus deserves to rank with other great men of the | ||
| + | country who have contributed to its success. It would have added to | ||
| + | the interest of the book if Mr. Spalding could have given us more | ||
| + | of his own personal experiences, | ||
| + | with the game."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the book is an excellent authority on the famous sport."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | has written the most complete and authoritative story of base ball | ||
| + | yet published."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | competent to write a book on base ball it is A.G. Spalding who has | ||
| + | been interested in the game from its early beginnings."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Game' has been added to the < | ||
| + | library as an invaluable contribution to the literature of the | ||
| + | national pastime."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | written and presents information and dates of great value to the | ||
| + | newspaper man of to-day!"</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | book through, and take pleasure in stating that it is a complete | ||
| + | history of the game from the beginning until the present time."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Journal</ | ||
| + | there was need. It is the most valuable addition to base ball | ||
| + | literature that has yet been put out."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | carefully and with much interest. It is the best piece of base ball | ||
| + | literature I have ever seen, and I congratulate you on the | ||
| + | work."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | have given to the world a book of inestimable value, a classic in | ||
| + | American history; a book that should be highly prized in every home | ||
| + | library in the country."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Philadelphia:& | ||
| + | is to me amazing. Frankly, I would not change a line, for the | ||
| + | reason that the story is told in a way to grip the reader and hold | ||
| + | his interest continually."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | been out six months and ninety thousand copies have been sold. We | ||
| + | understand there will be other editions. America has taken base | ||
| + | ball seriously for at last two generations, | ||
| + | that the fad was given an adequate text book."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | leading authorities in the world on sport:& | ||
| + | invaluable contribution to the literature of the game, and one none | ||
| + | else could have made. Moreover, you've done some very interesting | ||
| + | writing, which is a distinct novelty in such books& | ||
| + | dull and uninteresting."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | grew up with the sport, has written ' | ||
| + | which he describes as not a history, but the simple story of the | ||
| + | game as he has come to know it. His book, therefore, is full of | ||
| + | living interest. It is a volume generously illustrated and abounds | ||
| + | in personal memories of base ball in the making."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | information regarding base ball, as might be expected, in Mr. | ||
| + | Spalding' | ||
| + | Spalding there was no base ball. The book is no record of games and | ||
| + | players, but it is historical in a broader sense, and the author is | ||
| + | able to give his personal decisive testimony about many disputed | ||
| + | points."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | entertaining, | ||
| + | in many respects the most interesting work pertaining to base ball, | ||
| + | the national game, which has been written.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | put it down until it is completed is strong within the mind of | ||
| + | every person who begins to read it. As a historical record it is | ||
| + | one of those volumes which will go further to straighten some | ||
| + | disputed points than all of the arguments which could be advanced | ||
| + | in good natured disputes which might last for months."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | old time teams players and magnates of a bygone era will interest | ||
| + | every lover of the game, and no doubt start many discussions and | ||
| + | recollections among the old timers."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | assemble the grand army of base ball fans in convention, their | ||
| + | first act probably would be to pass a vote of thanks to Mr. A.G. | ||
| + | Spalding for his work ' | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | been put in print so much of authentic record of this distinctly | ||
| + | national game, and it will be long, if ever, until so thoroughly | ||
| + | interesting and useful a volume is published to cover the same | ||
| + | field."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | teams, players and magnates of a bygone era will interest every | ||
| + | lover of the game. Homer Davenport, America' | ||
| + | contributed drawings in his inimitable style of various phases of | ||
| + | the game."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | pages are filled with material for ' | ||
| + | average ' | ||
| + | for anyone who follows the national pastime and a valuable addition | ||
| + | to any library."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | written that is superior to this one by A.G. Spalding. The book is | ||
| + | admirably written, yet without any frills. Many of the more notable | ||
| + | incidents recounted in this book are having wide publication by | ||
| + | themselves."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | compendium of the salient incidents in the evolution of | ||
| + | professional base ball. Mr. Spalding is pre-eminently fitted to | ||
| + | perform this service, his connection with the game having been | ||
| + | contemporaneous with its development, | ||
| + | league director."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | with peculiar force to the public. Mr. Spalding' | ||
| + | synonymous with base ball. He has worked to the end of producing a | ||
| + | volume which tells the story of the game vividly and accurately. | ||
| + | Taken altogether, this is a most valuable and entertaining | ||
| + | work."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | of the season has been ' | ||
| + | The first edition of five thousand copies has been sold out (in two | ||
| + | months) and a second edition of five thousand is now on the press. | ||
| + | As a Christmas gift from father to son, it is most | ||
| + | appropriate."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | well qualified to do so, Mr. Spalding has committed to print a | ||
| + | professional' | ||
| + | known base ball celebrity has a store of familiar anecdotes | ||
| + | embracing the entire period of the game as now played and the | ||
| + | reader will find it most interesting."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | live boy will want to buy this book. It is said of some of the | ||
| + | 'best sellers' | ||
| + | reader with its anecdote, its history, its pictures; but it will | ||
| + | have no end; for no home& | ||
| + | complete hereafter without it."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | every American boy is familiar, has been prevailed upon to commit | ||
| + | to print events which were instrumental in guiding the destinies of | ||
| + | the National League during the trying period of its early days. To | ||
| + | write upon base ball in a historical manner, and yet not fall into | ||
| + | the habit of quoting interminable statistics, is a feat that few | ||
| + | could accomplish."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | A.G. Spalding' | ||
| + | market and receiving well merited attention. It tells the story as | ||
| + | Mr. Spalding saw it, and no man has been in position to see more. | ||
| + | When ' | ||
| + | came into the arena, the game was young, and through all the | ||
| + | changing seasons that have seen it mature into full bloom, its | ||
| + | closest watcher and strongest friend has been the same ' | ||
| + | Spalding."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | history, a cyclopaedia and a most entertaining volume."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | for the first time the history of the national game of base | ||
| + | ball."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | and has such personal value in the story line that one hardly knows | ||
| + | where to begin in making quotations from it& | ||
| + | told are so admirable."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | York:& | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | qualified to talk of base ball, from its inception to its present | ||
| + | greatness, than A.G. Spalding."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | book, and it is very valuable in our work."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | read the book with great pleasure and it produced a vivid | ||
| + | reminiscence of the striking events in base ball, so full of | ||
| + | interest to all lovers of the game."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Union:& | ||
| + | of manly sport, for the compilation of this historic work."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Boston, Mass.:& | ||
| + | it certainly is a valuable compilation of facts relating to the | ||
| + | history of base ball, the great national game of America. I prize | ||
| + | it very highly."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Mass.:& | ||
| + | intensely interesting but most valuable, as giving the history of | ||
| + | the game. Better still, my nine year old boy is looking forward to | ||
| + | the time when he can get it away from me."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Union:& | ||
| + | national game, but also as a technical dissertation on base ball as | ||
| + | it was and is, this book will not only be of interest but of | ||
| + | benefit to all of us Americans who are interested in | ||
| + | sport& | ||
| + | being interested in sport, chiefly in base ball."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Union of the United States:& | ||
| + | history of any sport or anything pertaining to athletics approaches | ||
| + | the interest with which one reads a popular work of fiction, but I | ||
| + | can truthfully say that I have read the story of the great national | ||
| + | game with as much interest as I have read any recent work of | ||
| + | fiction."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Francisco:& | ||
| + | origin and development of base ball& | ||
| + | devised by man& | ||
| + | base ball loving people, not only of this, but of every English | ||
| + | speaking country; and I am sure it will perpetuate the name of A.G. | ||
| + | Spalding to the end of time."</ | ||
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| + | <p>In preparing this issue of SPALDING' | ||
| + | for the season of 1913, it has occurred to the Editor that the | ||
| + | season of 1912, and the period which followed its completion, have | ||
| + | been filled, with a great deal of unusual and uncommon | ||
| + | vicissitude.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the first place the personnel of the National League, the | ||
| + | oldest Base Ball organization in the world, has been greatly | ||
| + | changed by reason of death and purchase of one franchise. New | ||
| + | owners have brought new faces into the game, and when the National | ||
| + | League starts on this year's campaign there will be some younger | ||
| + | but equally as ambitious men at the heads of some of the clubs.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | incident of interest, for it is well within the memory of the Base | ||
| + | Ball " | ||
| + | perfected in the past. For this organization it may be said that | ||
| + | the members promise that it will be their object to bring about | ||
| + | better deportment on the part of their own associates and that they | ||
| + | will work their best for the advancement of Base Ball from a | ||
| + | professional standpoint. If they do this they will be of benefit to | ||
| + | the sport. If they work from selfish motives it is inevitable that | ||
| + | eventually there will be a clash, as there was in the past.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | special series of games which has been played in the history of the | ||
| + | national pastime. There may have been single games and there may | ||
| + | have been series which have attracted their full measure of | ||
| + | interest from the Base Ball " | ||
| + | special series so filled with thrills and excitement as that | ||
| + | between the New York and Boston clubs. The GUIDE this year enters | ||
| + | into the subject thoroughly with photographs and a story of the | ||
| + | games and feels that the readers will enjoy the account of the | ||
| + | contests.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | which should interest Base Ball readers. Attention is called to the | ||
| + | symposium by prominent Base Ball writers which brings up a subject | ||
| + | of interest in regard to future world' | ||
| + | special articles, including something about the Base Ball writers | ||
| + | of the South, who have decided to organize a chapter of their | ||
| + | own.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Base Ball throughout the world. To-day it not only is stronger than | ||
| + | ever as America' | ||
| + | other countries because of the attractiveness of the pastime.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | more enjoyable Base Ball year in 1913 than they had in 1912. This | ||
| + | publication is now one of worldwide circulation, | ||
| + | gospel of Base Ball, not only across the Atlantic ocean, but across | ||
| + | the Pacific ocean as well. One of these days it may be its province | ||
| + | to report a series for the international championship, | ||
| + | Base Ball will have become the universal game of the world, a place | ||
| + | toward which it is rapidly tending.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
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| + | <a name=" | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | United States; a whole race has succumbed to the fascinations of | ||
| + | the greatest of all outdoor sports. Both France and Sweden have | ||
| + | announced their intention of organizing Base Ball leagues. That of | ||
| + | Sweden is well under way. Indeed, they have a club in Stockholm and | ||
| + | there are more to follow, while the French, who have gradually been | ||
| + | awakening to the joys of athletic pastime in which they have | ||
| + | hitherto chosen to participate in other ways, hope to have a new | ||
| + | league by the expiration of the present summer.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | are making efforts to procure suitable players from the United | ||
| + | States to coach them and the French promoters of the sport are | ||
| + | determined that their young men shall be given every opportunity to | ||
| + | take advantage of the game of which they have heard so much, and | ||
| + | have seen so little.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | attention to the fact that the Japanese had so thoroughly grasped | ||
| + | Base Ball that they were bent on some day playing an American team | ||
| + | for the international championship. It is not probable that such a | ||
| + | series will take place within the next five years, but not | ||
| + | improbable that it will take place within the next decade. When the | ||
| + | Japanese learn to bat better, and with more effect, they will | ||
| + | become more dangerous rivals to the peace of mind of the American | ||
| + | players. They have grasped the general theory of the game amazingly | ||
| + | well, and they field well, but they have yet to develop some of | ||
| + | those good old fashioned "clean up" hitters in which the " | ||
| + | the United States revel.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | that more progress has been made in China in regard to Base Ball | ||
| + | than in any fifty years preceding. True, there was not much Base | ||
| + | Ball in the fifty years preceding, but now there is. There is a | ||
| + | league at Hong Kong. There are Base Ball teams at Shanghai and | ||
| + | other cities.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | from a trip around the world, holds that Base Ball has done more to | ||
| + | humanize and civilize the Chinese than any influence which has been | ||
| + | introduced by foreigners, basing his statement on the fact that the | ||
| + | introduction of the sport among the younger Chinese has exerted a | ||
| + | tremendous restraint upon their gambling propensities.</ | ||
| + | <p>It is a rather queer fact that where the civilizations are older | ||
| + | in the countries of the Occident there is a greater tendency to | ||
| + | gamble, especially among the young, than there is in the newer | ||
| + | America. Doubtless this is largely due to the lack of athletic | ||
| + | pastime. The young of those countries know little or nothing about | ||
| + | simple amusements which are so popular in the United States, and | ||
| + | acquire from their elders their knowledge of betting and taking | ||
| + | part in games of chance, two evils which unquestionably have done | ||
| + | much to degrade the race as a whole.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | boys. Once they get a ball and a bat in their hands they are better | ||
| + | satisfied with them than with all the gambling devices which have | ||
| + | been bequeathed to them by a long and eminent line of | ||
| + | forefathers.</ | ||
| + | <p>So it would appear that the introduction of the national game of | ||
| + | the United States into China is likely to exert a humanizing | ||
| + | influence which shall go further than legislation or sword, and if | ||
| + | only the missionaries had grasped earlier the wishes and the | ||
| + | tendency of the younger element of the Chinese population, the | ||
| + | country might be further along than it is with its progressive | ||
| + | movement.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the Philippine Islands the younger generation simply has gone | ||
| + | wild over Base Ball. Progress has been noted in the GUIDE from time | ||
| + | to time of the increase of interest but it is now at such a pitch | ||
| + | that the boys of the islands, wherever Base Ball has been | ||
| + | introduced, simply have deserted everything for it. They will play | ||
| + | nothing else. The cockfights and the gambling games, which were | ||
| + | also a part of the amusement of the younger men, have been given | ||
| + | up. The little fellows who wear not much more than a breechclout | ||
| + | play Base Ball. They have picked up many of the American terms and | ||
| + | one of the most amusing of experiences is to stand outside the | ||
| + | walls of old Manila and hear the little brown boys call: "Shoot it | ||
| + | over. Line it out," and the like, returning to their native | ||
| + | language, and jabbering excitedly in Filipino whenever they arrive | ||
| + | at some point of play in which their command of English fails | ||
| + | them.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Philippines, | ||
| + | and it may be that the introduction of Base Ball into all three | ||
| + | countries will result in a better understanding between the peoples | ||
| + | and perhaps bring all three races to a better frame of mind as | ||
| + | relates to their personal ambitions and rivalries.</ | ||
| + | <p>In connection with the widespread influence which Base Ball is | ||
| + | having on both sides of the world, on the shores of the Pacific | ||
| + | Ocean and on those of the Atlantic Ocean the editor would like to | ||
| + | call attention to the theory which has been advanced by Mr. A.G. | ||
| + | Spalding, the founder of the GUIDE, as to the efficacy of Base Ball | ||
| + | for the purpose of training athletes, that has a worldwide | ||
| + | application.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | assistance to the athletes of the United States in helping them to | ||
| + | win premier honors at the Olympic Games since their reintroduction. | ||
| + | Mr. Spalding was the first American Commissioner to the Olympic | ||
| + | Games appointed to that post, the honor being conferred upon him in | ||
| + | 1900, when the late President McKinley gave him his commission to | ||
| + | represent the United States at Paris in 1900. Mr. Spalding, with | ||
| + | his analytical mind has reasoned out a theory which is undoubtedly | ||
| + | of great accuracy, and which is further corroborated by an | ||
| + | interview given out in London& | ||
| + | day that Mr. Spalding gave utterance to his ideas in Los | ||
| + | Angeles& | ||
| + | Olympic Games at Stockholm last year, while returning to the United | ||
| + | States after witnessing the triumphs of the Americans. Mr. Spalding | ||
| + | said:</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Stockholm. History has been repeating itself in this way ever since | ||
| + | the celebration of the Olympic games was inaugurated at Athens. | ||
| + | America won the victory there in 1896; she triumphed again at Paris | ||
| + | in 1900; our athletes defeated the contestants at St. Louis in | ||
| + | 1904; the victory was ours at London in 1908, and it was a foregone | ||
| + | conclusion that we would win at Stockholm.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | of triumphs. Why do our athletes always win? All other things being | ||
| + | equal, the contestants in the country holding the event should | ||
| + | naturally come to the front. Their numbers are always greater than | ||
| + | those from any other country and the home grounds influence is | ||
| + | strong. However, that advantage has not in any case prevented | ||
| + | American success.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | and tape, our athlete' | ||
| + | theory of 'more beef' must be discarded. We may not lay claim to | ||
| + | having all the best trainers of the world. We must look to some | ||
| + | other source for American prowess.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | these continued successes is to be found to the kind of training | ||
| + | that comes with the playing of America' | ||
| + | competitors in other lands may never hope to reach the standard of | ||
| + | American athletes until they learn this lesson and adopt our | ||
| + | pastime.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | been wisely answered by the statement that it should antedate his | ||
| + | birth. The training of Base Ball may not go back quite that far, | ||
| + | but it approaches the time as nearly as practicable, | ||
| + | starts training of future Olympian winners very early in life. | ||
| + | Youngsters not yet big enough to attend school begin quickening | ||
| + | their eyesight and sharpening their wits and strengthening their | ||
| + | hands and arms and legs by playing on base ball fields ready at | ||
| + | hand in the meadows of farms, the commons of villages and the parks | ||
| + | of cities all over the land. Base ball combines running, jumping, | ||
| + | throwing and everything that constitutes the athletic events of the | ||
| + | Olympian games. But above all, it imparts to the player that degree | ||
| + | of confidence in competition, | ||
| + | enables one athlete to win over another who may be his physical | ||
| + | equal but who is lacking the American spirit begotten of base | ||
| + | ball.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | showed to best advantage in contests where the stress of | ||
| + | competition was hardest. In the dashes they were supreme; in the | ||
| + | hurdles they were in a class by themselves, and in the high jump | ||
| + | and pole vault there was no one worthy of their steel. Whenever | ||
| + | quick thinking and acting was required, an American was in front. | ||
| + | Does not this fact prove that the American game of base ball | ||
| + | enables the player to determine in the fraction of a second what to | ||
| + | do to defeat his contestant?"</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <p>It may not be out of place to say a few words in regard to the | ||
| + | greatly increased cost of Base Ball. There are some sensational | ||
| + | writers whose hobby is to inform the public about the great | ||
| + | receipts in Base Ball. Usually they exaggerate from twenty-five to | ||
| + | thirty-five per cent.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | for the National League will be offered. Railroad expenses for | ||
| + | mileage alone $300,000, including spring training trips. Hotel | ||
| + | bills $65,000. Sleeping cars and meals en route, $80,000. Salaries | ||
| + | to players, $480,000. Total, $875,000. Add to this $30,000 for the | ||
| + | salaries of umpires and their traveling expenses. That makes | ||
| + | $905, | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | of the president of the National League, the secretary and | ||
| + | expenditures of the office nor for the salaries of the business | ||
| + | departments of the various clubs, nor for ground rents, taxes and a | ||
| + | dozen and one other things, to say nothing of that well-known old | ||
| + | item "wear and tear."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | alleged profits of Base Ball mostly are fanciful dreams of those | ||
| + | who know nothing of the practical side of the sport and are stunned | ||
| + | when they are made acquainted with the real financial problems | ||
| + | which confront club owners.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | almost immediately finds its way back into public channels. Less | ||
| + | than thirty per cent. of Base Ball clubs realize what a business | ||
| + | man would call a fair return on the amount invested.</ | ||
| + | <p>A well-known writer on economic topics interviewed owners of | ||
| + | Base Ball clubs as to their income and outgo. One of the best known | ||
| + | of the National League men took the writer into his office and | ||
| + | spread the cash book of the club's business before him.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | is the balance for the last day of the year."</ | ||
| + | <p>It read as follows: Receipts, $250,505; expenditures, | ||
| + | $246, | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | with any more essays on the affluence of Base Ball ' | ||
| + | think it would be better to extend them the hand of charity than | ||
| + | the mailed fist."</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | ball players during the closing days of the season of 1912 was | ||
| + | looked upon with some misgivings by those who remember only too | ||
| + | well what happened when a prior organization of ball players was | ||
| + | formed.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the present instance those foremost in perfecting the | ||
| + | organization have also been foremost in asserting that the players' | ||
| + | organization' | ||
| + | owners.</ | ||
| + | <p>If this object is followed with fidelity and to its ultimate | ||
| + | conclusion there is no necessity to fear any grave disturbances, | ||
| + | but there is a dread& | ||
| + | child that has had its hands burned by the flame, that a selfish | ||
| + | coterie of players might obtain control of the organization, | ||
| + | a policy of unscrupulous defiance and destructive opposition and | ||
| + | retard for a moment the higher development of the game.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | players or unscrupulous club owners, which will ever find it | ||
| + | possible to destroy organized Base Ball. The results that organized | ||
| + | Base Ball have brought about will never be annihilated although | ||
| + | grave injury could be temporarily wrought by a force defiant to tie | ||
| + | unusual demands made by the sport to perpetuate itself | ||
| + | successfully.</ | ||
| + | <p>It is simply out of the question to control Base Ball as one | ||
| + | would control the affairs of a department store. Base Ball has its | ||
| + | commercial side, but its commercial side cannot maintain it with | ||
| + | success. There must be a predominant factor based upon the | ||
| + | encouragement that brings forth admiration for a high class sport. | ||
| + | This factor can only be fostered by the ability to maintain not | ||
| + | one, but a group of high class teams.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | grouped together in the city best able to pay the highest salaries | ||
| + | simply is an enemy to his career and to those of his fellow | ||
| + | players.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | strength of Base Ball nines of the professional leagues there will | ||
| + | be no prosperity for the leagues or the clubs individually. No | ||
| + | better evidence may be cited to prove this than the fact, | ||
| + | repeatedly demonstrated that in the smaller leagues Base Ball | ||
| + | enthusiasts in the city best able to pay the largest salaries | ||
| + | frequently withdraw their support of the team because "it wins all | ||
| + | the time."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | ideal sport, a better managed sport, and a more fairly and | ||
| + | equitably adjusted sport, than it ever has been, which is manifest | ||
| + | proof of its superior evolution. Had results been otherwise it | ||
| + | would have retrograded and possibly passed out of existence. | ||
| + | Carefully comparing its management with that of all other sports in | ||
| + | history the Editor of the GUIDE believes that it is the best | ||
| + | managed sport in the world.</ | ||
| + | <p>It is true that improvements can be made. It is evident that | ||
| + | there are still commercialized owners not over capitalized with a | ||
| + | spirit of sport. It is undeniable that there are ball players not | ||
| + | imbued with a high tone of the obligations, | ||
| + | employers and to the public, but it is as certain as the existence | ||
| + | of the game that progress has been made, and that it has not ceased | ||
| + | to move forward.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | lofty ideals and not be led astray by foolish outbursts over | ||
| + | trivial differences of opinion, easily to be adjusted by the | ||
| + | exercise of a little common sense.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <p>In connection with the subject of "Base Ball For All the World," | ||
| + | for which the GUIDE expounds and spreads the gospel, the Editor | ||
| + | would submit a very interesting letter received by him from Sweden. | ||
| + | it reads as follows:</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <p>To the Editor of the GUIDE:</ | ||
| + | <p>We hereby have the pleasure of sending you two copies of the | ||
| + | rules, translated and issued by the Westeras Base Ball Club, into | ||
| + | Swedish from the Spalding Base Ball Guide.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | account of that the work of translating, | ||
| + | had to be done on our spare time, but it is done now, and I think | ||
| + | we have succeeded pretty well, everything considered. The books | ||
| + | will be distributed by a well-known book firm, Bjork & Boyeson, | ||
| + | Stockholm, and will soon be available in all the bookstores in | ||
| + | Sweden.</ | ||
| + | <p>We got some advance copies out just in time for the Olympic | ||
| + | Games, and I had the pleasure of presenting some copies to | ||
| + | Commissioner Col. Thompson, Manager Halpin and others of the | ||
| + | American Olympic Committee.</ | ||
| + | <p>As you know, so did we have a game of Base Ball at Stockholm | ||
| + | with one of the Finland teams, and as it may be of some interest to | ||
| + | you to know the preliminaries to the game, I am writing to relate | ||
| + | how it happened.</ | ||
| + | <p>In trying to arrange for some amusements in the evenings at the | ||
| + | Stadium, the Olympic Committee wrote us if we would be willing to | ||
| + | take part in a game of Base Ball at Stadium some evening during the | ||
| + | Stadium week. As our club this year was in poor condition, on | ||
| + | account of some of our best players being out on military duties, | ||
| + | we hesitated at first, but then decided to risk it, knowing very | ||
| + | well that whoever we would play against, they would not rub in to | ||
| + | us too hard. We pointed out to the Olympic Committee that it would | ||
| + | not be very hard to get a team of Base Ball players picked out from | ||
| + | the American athletes taking part in the contests, but as they | ||
| + | would not be prepared for Base Ball, suits and other needed | ||
| + | articles had to be provided for. We were then told to get necessary | ||
| + | things ordered, and so we did. We ordered suits from a tailor in | ||
| + | this town, after a pattern that I got from Spalding' | ||
| + | The suits were of gray flannel, with blue trimmings for our team | ||
| + | and red trimmings for the American. I also ordered bats and gloves, | ||
| + | and with the things our club already had, we were very well | ||
| + | equipped.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the Olympic Committee, New York, saying that if a game of Base Ball | ||
| + | could be arranged for during the Olympian Games, they would bring | ||
| + | two teams along on the Finland. The Olympic Committee cabled to | ||
| + | come along, and sent us a copy of Mr. Sullivan' | ||
| + | course, that if the game could be played by two American teams, it | ||
| + | would be a much better game than if our team took part, and told | ||
| + | the Olympic Committee, and wanted to withdraw, but as they did not | ||
| + | know for sure how it would be, told us to go ahead with the | ||
| + | arrangements just the same, and so we did, and by the time the | ||
| + | Finland arrived, everything had been arranged for.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 10th of July, for the game, and thought that this would be suitable | ||
| + | to the Americans, but as some of the players had to take part in | ||
| + | the contests, Mr. Halpin would not risk them then, so it was | ||
| + | finally decided that a game should be played the 15th, the | ||
| + | Americans to play six innings between themselves and then six | ||
| + | innings against us.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | innings, and Mr. Halpin was kind enough to let us have a pitcher | ||
| + | and catcher from his men. The score was 9 to 3, and it could just | ||
| + | as well been 9 to 0, perhaps. Well, at any rate, it was the first | ||
| + | Base Ball game, as far as I know, that ever took place in Europe | ||
| + | between an American team and a European team, with England possibly | ||
| + | excepted.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | next morning between themselves, but that game did not come off. | ||
| + | There was probably no time for it, as the Finland left Stockholm | ||
| + | the same day. Very likely the American boys were somewhat | ||
| + | disappointed in not being able to play between themselves, as | ||
| + | anticipated, | ||
| + | but as long as there was a Base Ball team in Sweden, it would have | ||
| + | been strange if it had not played, and it gave our boys a chance to | ||
| + | see how the game should be played, and they certainly did take it | ||
| + | in. Had the game been played as it was intended and advertised, on | ||
| + | the 10th in the Stadium, there would very likely have been a bigger | ||
| + | crowd present, and the game would also have been more talked about | ||
| + | in the papers, but then we will have to be satisfied as it is.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the 24th of August we gave an exhibition game here at Westeras, | ||
| + | between two teams from our club, the suits made for the Olympic | ||
| + | Games coming in very handy. I send you herewith a clipping from a | ||
| + | local paper describing the game, and also a picture of the two | ||
| + | teams with myself and the umpire included.</ | ||
| + | <p>At our game here we distributed the " | ||
| + | written by you and translated into Swedish, and it came of good | ||
| + | use. Next year we intend to have our teams appear in the nearby | ||
| + | cities around here, so as to give people a chance to see the game, | ||
| + | and it will not be long before they will start it in Stockholm, so | ||
| + | I think the game is bound to be popular here also,</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | games, and as he was very kind to us, we would like to send him the | ||
| + | picture of the club, and hope that you will forward us his | ||
| + | address.</ | ||
| + | <p>I am, for Westeras Base Ball Club,</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Base Ball over the greatly improved conditions by which the season | ||
| + | of 1913 is begun under the new National Agreement. While it perhaps | ||
| + | might be exaggerated boastfulness to affirm that Base Ball, as a | ||
| + | professionally organized sport, has attained perfection, it is not | ||
| + | out of reason& | ||
| + | that Base Ball never had such a well balanced and perfect | ||
| + | organization as that by which it is regulated at the present | ||
| + | time.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | provisions which have been thrown around the players of the minor | ||
| + | leagues and in the equitable and just measures which have been | ||
| + | agreed upon to provide for their future.</ | ||
| + | <p>As a general rule it may be taken for granted that the players | ||
| + | of the major leagues can take care of themselves. That is to say, | ||
| + | their positions, if they are expert in their calling, and | ||
| + | conscientious in their deportment, really take care of them.</ | ||
| + | <p>No club owner, unless he is maliciously or foolishly inclined, | ||
| + | will jeopardize the interests of his team by acting in a wilfully | ||
| + | unjust manner toward a player who is cheerfully and uprightly | ||
| + | offering his services. We may hear of occasional exceptions to this | ||
| + | condition of things, but if these occasional exceptions chance to | ||
| + | arise, it is inevitably certain that the owner in the long run will | ||
| + | suffer to a greater degree than the player with whom he deals | ||
| + | unfairly.</ | ||
| + | <p>It is the history of Base Ball that more inequitable treatment | ||
| + | has arisen by fifty per cent in the minor leagues than has had its | ||
| + | origin in the major leagues. The reason for this existed almost | ||
| + | wholly in the inability of Base Ball as a whole to bring the minor | ||
| + | league owners to a realization of the injury that they might be | ||
| + | doing and to extend such punishment and insist upon such regulation | ||
| + | as were necessary to change this undesirable condition.</ | ||
| + | <p>By the organization of the National Association of Base Ball | ||
| + | clubs the minor leagues, for the first time in their history, | ||
| + | placed themselves in a position where they could demand proper | ||
| + | enforcement of regulations for the government of the sport, and by | ||
| + | their alliance with the major league clubs, under the articles of | ||
| + | the National Agreement, a general working basis was effected | ||
| + | whereby compliance with rules could be insisted upon.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | and equity now rule where there once existed chaos and at times | ||
| + | something akin to anarchy in sport.</ | ||
| + | <p>At no time in the history of the game, which is so dear to the | ||
| + | hearts of the American people, has the general legislative and | ||
| + | executive body been so well equipped by the adoption of pertinent | ||
| + | and virile laws to insist upon justice to all concerned as at the | ||
| + | present moment.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the old was a long, long step in advance of anything which had | ||
| + | preceded it. The mere fact that club owners and leagues were so | ||
| + | willing to adopt a system better than its predecessor wholly | ||
| + | confutes the absurd assertions of the radical element that there is | ||
| + | no consideration shown for the player.</ | ||
| + | <p>To the contrary, every consideration has been shown to the | ||
| + | player, but the latter must not confound with the consideration | ||
| + | shown to him the idea that his interests are the only interests at | ||
| + | stake in Base Ball. The man who is willing to furnish the sinews of | ||
| + | war has as good standing in court as the player who furnishes the | ||
| + | base hits and the phenomenal catches.</ | ||
| + | <p>So perfect is the system which is being attempted to be set in | ||
| + | force by the new National Agreement that the young man who now | ||
| + | essays to play professional Base Ball may be assured of steady | ||
| + | advancement in this profession and a generally improving condition | ||
| + | if he will be as honest by his employer as he expects his employer | ||
| + | to be honest by him.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the least important leagues to the most important is the most | ||
| + | perfect plan of its kind that has ever been devised. There may be | ||
| + | flaws in it, but if there are they will be remedied, and if | ||
| + | modifications are necessary to make it more perfect there is no | ||
| + | doubt that such modifications will be agreed upon.</ | ||
| + | <p>As proof of what the new National Agreement may do, although it | ||
| + | has barely had time to be considered, the editor of the GUIDE would | ||
| + | submit the following for consideration:</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | always striven to aid the players in their efforts to gain the top | ||
| + | rank in the great national game. They have had a hard proposition | ||
| + | in handling all of the cases that have been brought to their | ||
| + | attention, but their decisions in all cases were absolutely fair | ||
| + | and impartial. Then the matter of the new agreement occasioned many | ||
| + | hours of laborious work on the part of the members of the | ||
| + | Commission, and when the instrument was finally announced it meant | ||
| + | that all of the parties to such an agreement were satisfied and | ||
| + | that there could be no improvement. There was one detail that | ||
| + | covered a wide field, and that was in the matter of players; | ||
| + | drafted by the two big leagues and later sent back to the minors. | ||
| + | Under the old National Agreement it was possible to pick up a | ||
| + | player by means of the annual draft from one of the Class C leagues | ||
| + | and just before the opening of the season send him back to the club | ||
| + | from whence he came without ever having given him a chance to land | ||
| + | with a club in some higher organization.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | in the Base Ball profession, this matter was thoroughly thrashed | ||
| + | out and the new ruling under which all of the National Agreement | ||
| + | clubs operate was adopted. Now it is possible for a player in any | ||
| + | of the smaller leagues to be drafted by a major league club, and | ||
| + | when the latter party does not care to retain possession of such a | ||
| + | player he is first offered to the Class AA clubs. All of these | ||
| + | clubs must waive on him before he can be dropped farther down in | ||
| + | the list, and if such should be the case he would then be offered | ||
| + | to the Class A clubs. In that way the player, although he is not | ||
| + | fast enough to remain in the two major leagues, is always given a | ||
| + | chance to advance, for if any of the clubs in those classes higher | ||
| + | than that from which he came had grabbed him he was bound to | ||
| + | receive an increase in salary. That meant that he had his chance to | ||
| + | advance, and that was the sole purpose of the National Agreement in | ||
| + | drafting such a rule.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | drafted by the two major league clubs, and of that number | ||
| + | twenty-seven have already been sent back to the minor leagues. The | ||
| + | Class AA and A clubs claimed all of these twenty-seven, | ||
| + | more than likely that there will also be many more who will be | ||
| + | given trials by the big league clubs during the spring training | ||
| + | season and who may later be turned back to the minors. Of the | ||
| + | twenty-seven players thus far sent back seventeen of them advanced | ||
| + | in their profession, a tribute to the sagacity, wisdom and | ||
| + | impartiality of the members of the National Commission. The | ||
| + | decision, as announced by Chairman Herrmann of the National | ||
| + | Commission pertaining to this return of drafted players, is as | ||
| + | follows:</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | ------------|-----------------|----------|-----------|-------------- | ||
| + | | ||
| + | | | ||
| + | ------------|-----------------|----------|-----------|-------------- | ||
| + | Louisville | ||
| + | Chattanooga |Southern Asso. | ||
| + | Sacramento | ||
| + | Sacramento | ||
| + | Sacramento | ||
| + | Sacramento | ||
| + | Indianapolis|American Asso. | ||
| + | Indianapolis|American Asso. | ||
| + | Indianapolis|American Asso. | ||
| + | Indianapolis|American Asso. | ||
| + | New Orleans |Southern Asso. | ||
| + | New Orleans |Southern Asso. | ||
| + | New Orleans |Southern Asso. | ||
| + | New Orleans |Southern Asso. | ||
| + | New Orleans |Southern Asso. | ||
| + | Portland | ||
| + | Portland | ||
| + | Portland | ||
| + | Portland | ||
| + | Portland | ||
| + | Portland | ||
| + | Milwaukee | ||
| + | St. Paul |American Asso. | ||
| + | St. Paul |American Asso. | ||
| + | St. Paul |American Asso. | ||
| + | St. Paul |American Asso. | ||
| + | St. Paul |American Asso. | ||
| + | St. Paul |American Asso. | ||
| + | St. Paul |American Asso. | ||
| + | St. Paul |American Asso. | ||
| + | Omaha | ||
| + | Omaha | ||
| + | Omaha | ||
| + | Omaha | ||
| + | Buffalo | ||
| + | Buffalo | ||
| + | Buffalo | ||
| + | Buffalo | ||
| + | Columbus | ||
| + | Rochester | ||
| + | Montreal | ||
| + | Toledo | ||
| + | Toledo | ||
| + | Toledo | ||
| + | Toledo | ||
| + | Denver | ||
| + | Denver | ||
| + | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <p>1: Subject to investigation as to whether New York American | ||
| + | League Club has title.</ | ||
| + | <p>2: Subject to investigation as to whether St. Louis American or | ||
| + | National League Club has title to this player and how secured.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | series as to whether the adjustment of dates had worked | ||
| + | satisfactorily. The contention was that playing off a tie game on | ||
| + | the ground where the game had been scheduled might work some | ||
| + | inconvenience to " | ||
| + | dates, simply to conform to custom.</ | ||
| + | <p>It was asserted that the importance of the series demanded that | ||
| + | it be a home-and-home affair, dates to alternate regularly, | ||
| + | regardless of all ties or drawn games. To obtain opinion that is | ||
| + | sound and practical the Editor of the GUIDE sent forth the | ||
| + | following letter:</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | played in one of the cities, which compelled both teams to remain | ||
| + | in that city for another date. Before the series was over this | ||
| + | arrangement resulted in one club having five games on its home | ||
| + | grounds and the other club having but three games on its home | ||
| + | grounds.</ | ||
| + | <p>It has seemed to some that it is unjust. It is also contended | ||
| + | that it is unfair to the patrons of the game to schedule a contest | ||
| + | and then not play in the city specified after some had traveled | ||
| + | many miles to see it.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | change would be advisable?</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Guide.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | opinion" | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | concerned, I don't think having to play more games on one ground | ||
| + | than on the other makes any material difference. Where cities are | ||
| + | sufficiently near each other for games to be alternated daily, it | ||
| + | would perhaps be fairer to spectators to do so, irrespective of | ||
| + | ties; yet it seems to me that a tie on one grounds should be played | ||
| + | off the next day in the same city."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | contests is a poor one. I saw the result of it in the series | ||
| + | between the Cubs and White Sox last fall. Two tie games were played | ||
| + | and the confusion and inconvenience it caused the fans was | ||
| + | deplorable. It is unjust to the followers who support Base Ball. It | ||
| + | is also unjust, in a small way, to the club which has to play two | ||
| + | or more games on its opponent' | ||
| + | home grounds, in a fall series, are more or less under a nervous | ||
| + | strain. If there was confusion, inconvenience and difficulty in a | ||
| + | local series as a result of a tie game, the folly of the | ||
| + | arrangement must appear more absurd when towns like New York and | ||
| + | Boston are involved. Dates should alternate, tie or not tie."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | thank you for the opportunity presented.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | considered as a game. Either side had an opportunity to win and any | ||
| + | advantage that the home club might have had was lost when it failed | ||
| + | to break the tie.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | played in the other city.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | see the scheduled contest, there is no doubt that they were | ||
| + | afforded a sufficient amount of amusement and excitement for their | ||
| + | trouble, in witnessing a closely played contest."</ | ||
| + | <p>J. G. T. SPINK, < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | contending cities regardless of ties. The tie game gave Boston five | ||
| + | games on the home grounds, while the Giants had only three. | ||
| + | Besides, many persons, who traveled to see the games in New York, | ||
| + | were inconvenienced."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | irrespective of the results of the respective games, and any extra | ||
| + | playing or playing-off should be done after the originally set | ||
| + | schedule is completed."</ | ||
| + | <p>H. P. BORCHELL, < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | prevails. While the situation which arose last season did seem | ||
| + | unjust to the New York club, I think the very fact that Boston had | ||
| + | five games on its home grounds, and the Giants but three on their | ||
| + | own diamond, was an answer to those ill-advised skeptics who are | ||
| + | always ready to raise the cry of hippodroming.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | time, and I believe the rule as it stands is a guarantee to the | ||
| + | public of the strict honesty of the world' | ||
| + | contests."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | fairer to the patrons of the sport. Here in Chicago this past fall | ||
| + | two ties were played and, as a result, there was considerable | ||
| + | confusion over the ticket arrangements. How much more is the case | ||
| + | when two cities are involved? A condition which allows five games | ||
| + | to be played in one city and only three in another is scarcely fair | ||
| + | to the two teams. By making a schedule calling for alternate games | ||
| + | in each city, irrespective of ties, everybody& | ||
| + | players& | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Post.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | play a regular schedule, regardless of the fact that any tie games | ||
| + | may arise in the series. Under the old system of playing the tie | ||
| + | off in the city where the tie game is played, it brings about a | ||
| + | great deal of confusion. Many fans make arrangements to see a game | ||
| + | on a certain day and are greatly disappointed when the game is | ||
| + | played in a different city. Of course, the old rule of playing the | ||
| + | play-off game on the same grounds as the tie game, is fair to both | ||
| + | contesting clubs, as it is merely a matter of chance where a tie | ||
| + | game is played."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | world' | ||
| + | apparently work a hardship to one team or the followers of one | ||
| + | club, but, after all, they help to throw the necessary safeguards | ||
| + | around the contests. As for the argument for not playing off a tie | ||
| + | game on the same grounds, thus disarranging the dates and | ||
| + | inconveniencing the fans, patrons of the world' | ||
| + | accustomed to this, since bad weather frequently cuts into the | ||
| + | event and causes postponements.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | privilege of playing five games at home to three games at home for | ||
| + | its opponents. The rule of playing off a tie game on the same | ||
| + | grounds is a fixture in Base Ball. As to the other game, this was a | ||
| + | question of the luck of the toss of the coin.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | will see in a world' | ||
| + | games played and possibly upon the toss for a seventh battle. In | ||
| + | 1905 the fans of Philadelphia saw only two games in a world' | ||
| + | series with New York. In 1910 only two games were played here in | ||
| + | the series with Chicago.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | where four victories decide the issue either it or its followers | ||
| + | have not much chance to raise an objection."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | obliged to play five of the eight games in the post-season series | ||
| + | last fall on the grounds of their opponents, but this came as a | ||
| + | result of one tie game on the Boston grounds and being outlucked on | ||
| + | the toss to determine where the deciding game should be played. | ||
| + | This tie game unquestionably caused much inconvenience to patrons | ||
| + | because of the change in the schedule made necessary because of | ||
| + | it.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | remedied without disturbing the balance of an even break for both | ||
| + | teams more violently than was the case last fall.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | of 1912, and so, in my opinion, an immediate change in the | ||
| + | conditions governing these series would not be advisable. It is not | ||
| + | clear to me just what changes could be made. One club or the other | ||
| + | is bound to have the advantage of an extra game on its own grounds, | ||
| + | providing seven games are necessary. The championship in nine out | ||
| + | of ten contests will be decided in seven games or less.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | fixed schedule, so as not to inconvenience patrons& | ||
| + | be out of the question, being open to the objection that it would | ||
| + | then be possible to have every game that figures in the result of | ||
| + | the series played on the home grounds of one of the contestants. | ||
| + | For instance, tie games or unfavorable weather which would prevent | ||
| + | a game being played in one city, would throw all the games to the | ||
| + | other city where there might be no tie games nor unfavorable | ||
| + | weather. That would mean four straight, if it so happened that the | ||
| + | home team won the games, and the loser would never have gotten | ||
| + | action on its own grounds. That would be considerably worse than | ||
| + | five to three.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | chances in the future as they have in the past."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | a tie), as a team able to tie its opponent on a hostile field would | ||
| + | be entitled to consideration for this performance. I am very | ||
| + | certain, however, that the players of both clubs in the recent | ||
| + | world' | ||
| + | the amount of traveling they were called upon to do.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | would hardly be satisfied. It seems to me that the rule as to | ||
| + | alternating ball parks should be applied strictly, but only in case | ||
| + | the tie game involved went nine innings or more."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | in stipulations covering all short series of a special character, | ||
| + | such as intercity, inter-league and world' | ||
| + | compulsory for the teams to alternate between the cities or grounds | ||
| + | of the competing clubs."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | game only in cases where an equal number of games had been played | ||
| + | in each city, and, in cases where one city had seen more games than | ||
| + | the other, to play the deciding game in the city which had seen the | ||
| + | fewer games?</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | regarding postponed games. The rule now provides that, in case of a | ||
| + | postponement, | ||
| + | was scheduled until it is possible to play. If this rule were | ||
| + | changed and there happened to be a week of bad weather, as in 1911, | ||
| + | the teams and many fans might be forced to travel back and forth | ||
| + | from one town to another for a week without participating in or | ||
| + | seeing a single game; and it might happen some time that the jump | ||
| + | would be between St. Louis and Boston."</ | ||
| + | <p>R. W. LARDNER, < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the world' | ||
| + | each city on the dates named in the schedule drawn up before the | ||
| + | series starts, unless the weather interferes."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | but not as frequent. They operate the same in their effect on the | ||
| + | contest for the world' | ||
| + | patrons by disarranging the schedule. It would be manifestly unjust | ||
| + | if, after a rain postponement, | ||
| + | and play the game off before playing elsewhere. That might result | ||
| + | in playing all of the games in one city. Since drawn games are | ||
| + | treated like postponed games in the regular season, and are of | ||
| + | infrequent occurrence in world' | ||
| + | the present does not seem advisable. The patrons, who should be | ||
| + | considered always, would be among the first to object if each team | ||
| + | did not have an equal show to win. In the last series only four | ||
| + | games that counted were played in Boston and three in New York and | ||
| + | if New York had won the toss for the deciding game the situation | ||
| + | would have been reversed. It would be manifestly fairer to play the | ||
| + | seventh game if necessary in some neutral city."</ | ||
| + | <p>L. E. SANBORN, < | ||
| + | <a name=" | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | leaves of history in the National League as during 1912-13, and | ||
| + | because of this there are many new faces peering out of the album. | ||
| + | There have also been changes in the minor circuits and one | ||
| + | prominent change in the American League.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | National League. Wise in the lore of the game, a man more of the | ||
| + | future than of the present, as he always foresaw that which some of | ||
| + | his contemporaries were less alert in perceiving, it meant no easy | ||
| + | task to be his successor.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | curious and some idle speculation as to his ultimate successor in | ||
| + | case of decease, or, in the event of his retirement because of | ||
| + | bodily weariness. One or two went so far as to say that upon his | ||
| + | death Andrew Freedman would return to prominence in Base Ball, | ||
| + | because he was the real owner of the New York club. Once and for | ||
| + | all the writer would like to put the personal stamp of absolute | ||
| + | denial on the repeated statements made by certain individuals in | ||
| + | New York and Chicago that Andrew Freedman retained the control of | ||
| + | the New York club after John T. Brush was reported to have | ||
| + | purchased it.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | objected to him as a partner, but when Mr. Brush purchased the | ||
| + | stock he purchased the control outright, although he did request | ||
| + | Mr. Freedman to hold a few shares and not give up his personal | ||
| + | interest in Base Ball, for Mr. Freedman had a great liking for the | ||
| + | game in spite of his stormy career. The assertions that Mr. | ||
| + | Freedman was the real owner and Mr. Brush the nominal owner were | ||
| + | made with malicious intent, of which the writer has proof, and | ||
| + | through a desire, if possible, to combat the popularity and the | ||
| + | success of the Giants.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | while rumor was plentiful as to the future control of the Giants | ||
| + | Mr. Brush was carefully " | ||
| + | son-in-law, Mr. H. Hempstead& | ||
| + | <p>To a few it was known that Mr. Hempstead was acquiring such | ||
| + | experience and information as would be necessary to assume the | ||
| + | control of an undertaking which has grown so big as the | ||
| + | organization of the Giants in New York. The business details of the | ||
| + | club have quadrupled and the cares and anxieties of the man at the | ||
| + | head have increased in proportion.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | John T. Brush and John J. McGraw, the men who have been the | ||
| + | executive heads in both the business and the playing departments of | ||
| + | the game, are as susceptible to reverses as if they were the | ||
| + | lowliest club in the organization. It is only by constant and | ||
| + | severe application that the club's affairs may be kept at the best | ||
| + | pitch.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | business sagacity developed beyond his years, coolness, a | ||
| + | disposition that is sunny and not easily ruffled, and a reputation | ||
| + | for unvarying fairness and the highest type of business and sport | ||
| + | ideals. Quite a list of qualities, but they are there.</ | ||
| + | <p>If characteristics of that description fail to maintain the high | ||
| + | standard of the New York club, then it will be due to the fact that | ||
| + | our standards of business deportment have turned topsy-turvy.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Philadelphia club. He and Mr. Hempstead are the " | ||
| + | of the league. There is no necessity for the Editor of the GUIDE to | ||
| + | enter into any long and fulsome praise as to William H. Locke.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | man of the finest attributes, he has brought nothing to the mill of | ||
| + | Base Ball to grind except that which was the finest and the | ||
| + | cleanest grain.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | and esteems him for his worth, not only as one who has administered | ||
| + | the affairs of Base Ball with skill and intelligence, | ||
| + | who wrote of Base Ball with understanding and excellent taste, for | ||
| + | it must not be forgotten that Mr. Locke is a newspaper graduate | ||
| + | into the ranks of the great sport the affairs of which fill a | ||
| + | little corner of the hearts of so many of America' | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Base Ball president with more good wishes behind him than William | ||
| + | H. Locke. He served his apprenticeship as secretary of the | ||
| + | Pittsburgh club and he served it well. He is a high class, | ||
| + | delightful young man, every inch of him, and Philadelphia will soon | ||
| + | become as proud of him as Pittsburgh is now.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the National League. He is Herman Nickerson, formerly sporting | ||
| + | editor of the Boston Journal, who is now the secretary of the | ||
| + | Boston National League club.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the other as one of the most solid and substantial of the writing | ||
| + | force, and also as one of the most demure and modest. In addition | ||
| + | to his great fund of information on Base Ball topics he is an | ||
| + | author, and "The Sword of Bussy," | ||
| + | the winter, is even more clever than some of the author' | ||
| + | Ball yarns, and that is saying a great deal in behalf of a man | ||
| + | wedded to Base Ball.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | M. Stevens of New York, as one of the Board of Directors of the New | ||
| + | York National League club.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | brightest young business men, one who is forging so rapidly to the | ||
| + | front in business circles in the big metropolis that many an older | ||
| + | head goes to him for advice. Mr. Stevens knows a lot about Base | ||
| + | Ball, which is of even greater importance in the game, and is not | ||
| + | afraid to swing any venture that will put with fairness a | ||
| + | championship team into the big city. He is a son of Harry M. | ||
| + | Stevens, whom everybody knows, rich and poor alike.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the American League the death of Mr. Thomas D. Noyes, | ||
| + | president of the Washington club, a young man who left behind | ||
| + | naught but friends, left a vacancy in the organization which was | ||
| + | filled by the selection of Mr. Benjamin S. Minor.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Base Ball and perhaps plenty of it, as almost everybody has had in | ||
| + | Washington, but he is a wideawake, progressive and ambitious man, | ||
| + | who is of just the type to keep Base Ball going, now that it has | ||
| + | struck its gait in the national capital, and the future of the | ||
| + | sport looks all the brighter for his connection with it.</ | ||
| + | <a name=" | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | a vexation of Base Ball since the beginning of Base Ball time, yet | ||
| + | neither the umpires, the public, the club owners nor the league | ||
| + | officials need be discouraged, | ||
| + | umpiring, as a fine art, has advanced a step nearer perfection. We | ||
| + | may well doubt that perfection in its every quality shall ever be | ||
| + | achieved, but we may all feel sanguine that it is possible to | ||
| + | realize better results.</ | ||
| + | <p>It is true that some men make better umpires than others, | ||
| + | exactly as some men make better ball players than others, but it is | ||
| + | also true that if the men who find it the hardest task to become | ||
| + | the most expert umpires would be given a little more encouragement | ||
| + | they might be a little more successful.</ | ||
| + | <p>To the staff of umpires of the National League and the American | ||
| + | League it is but fair to render a compliment for their work of last | ||
| + | season. Some of them made mistakes but the general average of work | ||
| + | on the part of the judges of play was excellent.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | their decisions without being in a position to follow the play | ||
| + | correctly. They were occasionally willing to concede that they | ||
| + | might have been wrong when an analysis of the play was brought to | ||
| + | their attention and they were firm in asserting discipline without | ||
| + | becoming overheated on their own account.</ | ||
| + | <p>To the mind of the Editor of the GUIDE, in the general light of | ||
| + | observation, | ||
| + | 1912 were in making decisions before the play took place. This did | ||
| + | happen and more than once. To illustrate, by an example, the Editor | ||
| + | of the GUIDE had exhibited to him some photographs taken during | ||
| + | 1912 in which a player had been "waved out" before he actually had | ||
| + | arrived at the base. Granting the desire of the umpires to be alert | ||
| + | and ready to render decisions promptly, it is equally apparent that | ||
| + | giving decisions in advance of the completion of plays is likely to | ||
| + | imbue the spectators with an idea that the umpire is either | ||
| + | partisan or incompetent.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | leagues, are apt to overdo rather than fail to be on time.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | some umpires had been accustomed to use the very language to | ||
| + | players on the field that they were presumed in their official | ||
| + | capacity as umpires to correct. The writer knows of instances where | ||
| + | this took place.</ | ||
| + | <p>It has ever been the policy of the GUIDE to stand for clean and | ||
| + | high class Base Ball. Twenty per cent. more women attend ball games | ||
| + | now than did ten years ago. Eighty per cent. more women spectators | ||
| + | are likely to attend five years from now. To encourage their | ||
| + | attendance every effort should be made to eliminate all disgraceful | ||
| + | conversation on the field. Wherever it may be ascertained that an | ||
| + | umpire has used profane or vulgar language on the field the editor | ||
| + | of the GUIDE believes that he should be fined and punished as | ||
| + | sternly as an offending player.</ | ||
| + | <p>It is contended that the position of the umpire has been | ||
| + | rendered more arduous by reason of the world' | ||
| + | is advanced that the players are more intractable, | ||
| + | their eagerness to play in the post-season games. That argument | ||
| + | would be stronger were it not for the fact that some of the worst | ||
| + | disturbances emanate from the players of the clubs that have no | ||
| + | chance to play in the world' | ||
| + | <p>As a general rule two good reasons may be advanced for disputes | ||
| + | on the part of players.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the moment from sheer desire to win, but their lapses from Base | ||
| + | Ball etiquette are so few and far between that their transgressions | ||
| + | usually may be forgiven with some grace.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | presidents and umpires; it is this: whenever two possible plays | ||
| + | occur in conjunction, | ||
| + | the spectators and inform them which player is out.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | two are out and an attempt is made to steal second, as the chief | ||
| + | umpire calls the batter out on strikes the public should be clearly | ||
| + | informed that the batter is out. If the play looks close at second | ||
| + | base the crowd frequently believes the runner has been called out | ||
| + | and resents it accordingly. In line with the same play, when the | ||
| + | runner is called out and the fourth ball at the same time is called | ||
| + | on the batter, the chief umpire should turn to the spectators and | ||
| + | to the press box and make it clearly understood that the batter has | ||
| + | been given a base on balls. It saves a great deal of annoyance and | ||
| + | fault finding.</ | ||
| + | <p>By the way, although it has been said elsewhere, the Editor of | ||
| + | the GUIDE would beg the indulgence of repetition by stating that | ||
| + | the work of the umpires during the world' | ||
| + | of the finest exhibitions of its kind ever seen on a ball field, | ||
| + | and somehow it seemed as if the players, would they but deport | ||
| + | themselves during all series as they did during the world' | ||
| + | might find that there are more good umpires in the world after all | ||
| + | than bad ones.</ | ||
| + | <a name=" | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Southern Association have no organized membership similar to the | ||
| + | Base Ball Writers' | ||
| + | organizations which are best known as the class AA leagues, they | ||
| + | are a clever, hard-working group of young men, who have labored in | ||
| + | season and out of season, not only to build up Base Ball but to | ||
| + | build it up on the right lines.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | abundantly proved that the standard of Base Ball has steadily been | ||
| + | elevated. It needs no compilation of fact nor any dogmatic | ||
| + | assertion on the part of the Editor of the GUIDE to attest that | ||
| + | fact. It is a present condition which speaks for itself. The | ||
| + | general tone of the players is far higher than it was and there has | ||
| + | come into evidence a marked improvement in the spirit of the men | ||
| + | who own Base Ball clubs. In the earlier history of the sport there | ||
| + | was a tendency to win by any means that did not actually cross the | ||
| + | line of dishonesty. Later there came a season when the commercial | ||
| + | end of the game tended to encroach upon the limits of the pastime. | ||
| + | This has been repressed in the last two seasons and to-day the | ||
| + | morale of Base Ball is of a higher type than it ever has been in | ||
| + | the history of the pastime.</ | ||
| + | <p>It is a high class sport in the main, managed by high class, men | ||
| + | for high class purposes.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | league, which, by the way, is the severest of all tasks, and even | ||
| + | now at intervals confronted with changes in the league circuit, the | ||
| + | Southern writers have steadily been sowing the seeds of high class | ||
| + | Base Ball and they have seen results prior to this date, for Base | ||
| + | Ball has become popular and has been handsomely and loyally | ||
| + | supported in sections in which fifteen years ago it would have been | ||
| + | considered impossible to achieve such results.</ | ||
| + | <p>It is true that business reverses and adverse conditions have | ||
| + | had at times their effect upon Base Ball in the South and possibly | ||
| + | may produce similar results again, but the admirable offset to this | ||
| + | fact is that none of these conditions at any time has daunted the | ||
| + | spirit and the resolution of the young men who have zealously been | ||
| + | preaching the cause of clean and healthy Base Ball.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | ability it is possible to ascribe the increase in good ball players | ||
| + | which is making itself manifest in the South. More high class and | ||
| + | attractive athletes are coming from the Southern states in these | ||
| + | days than ever was the case before. Base Ball is very glad to have | ||
| + | them. When a representative major league team is made up of players | ||
| + | who represent every section in the Union, engaged for their skill, | ||
| + | it seems as if Base Ball has become nearer an ideal and a national | ||
| + | pastime than ever before in the history of the sport.</ | ||
| + | <p>To the Southern writers the members of the Base Ball Writers | ||
| + | Association and those of the organizations patterned on like lines | ||
| + | send greeting.</ | ||
| + | <a name=" | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | in Base Ball and Base Ball players is Rev. Dr. Reisner, pastor of | ||
| + | the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, of New York City. Throughout | ||
| + | the season he attends the games and is greatly interested in the | ||
| + | work of the players. He knows Base Ball well, and in addition to | ||
| + | that he knows the environment of Base Ball players and their | ||
| + | character and endeavor as well as any person in the United | ||
| + | States.</ | ||
| + | <p>It is Dr. Reisner' | ||
| + | Base Ball players and their friends in his church in New York, and | ||
| + | the building always is filled to listen to his discourse. In view | ||
| + | of the interest which he takes in the national game and because of | ||
| + | his excellent knowledge as to the general details of the sport, the | ||
| + | Editor of the GUIDE asked him to say a few words to the ball | ||
| + | players of the United States through the medium of this | ||
| + | publication, | ||
| + | following pithy and straightforward talks:</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | James B. Sullivan, beloved by all athletes, gave me these rules for | ||
| + | athletes: " | ||
| + | and eat wholesome food!" The boozer gets out of the game as | ||
| + | certainly as the bonehead.</ | ||
| + | <p>I have interviewed scores of the most noted players. Every one | ||
| + | had a religious training. Many are church members. All avoid | ||
| + | old-time drinking, as our fathers did smallpox.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | duplicated. He is a modern masculine Christian. Base Ball demands | ||
| + | brains as well as brawn. Minds muddled by licentiousness and liquor | ||
| + | are too " | ||
| + | players.</ | ||
| + | <p>I am proud to style scores of Base Ball players, I know, as | ||
| + | gentlemen. They are optimists. Defect is unrecognized. Team work | ||
| + | makes them brotherly. Bickerings break a Baseballist. Every member | ||
| + | of the team gives himself wholly to the game. Jeers are as harmless | ||
| + | as cheers.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | these things the player must follow Bible rules. If he keeps it up | ||
| + | life's success is certain. Governor Tener and Senator Gorman proved | ||
| + | it. No wonder " | ||
| + | dollars for my experience on the ball field."</ | ||
| + | <p>It taught him how to knock the Devil out of the box.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | tired nerves. It brings the " | ||
| + | out-o' | ||
| + | lung-expanding, | ||
| + | cold."</ | ||
| + | <p>He is pulled out of self-centeredness, | ||
| + | another. He stands crowd jostling good-naturedly or gets his | ||
| + | cussedness squeezed out. He chums up with any one with easy | ||
| + | comments and so gets out of his shell and melts again into a real | ||
| + | human.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | emphasizes the value of decency and gives healthy and high toned | ||
| + | recreation to millions. If kept clean its good-doing cannot be | ||
| + | measured. Nothing is worth while that does not do that.</ | ||
| + | <a name=" | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | year. The object of this "Hall of Fame" is not necessarily to | ||
| + | portray the very top men of each department of the national game, | ||
| + | for it frequently happens in these days, when players take part in | ||
| + | only a few innings now and then, that they become entitled to | ||
| + | mention in the records, although they do not bear the real brunt of | ||
| + | the work.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the "Hall of Fame" will be found the men who might well be | ||
| + | termed the " | ||
| + | or ready to take their place on the diamond, if they were not | ||
| + | injured.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | season of 1912. Threatening in other years to become one of the | ||
| + | group of leading players, he performed so well in the season past | ||
| + | that there is no doubt as to his right.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Egan of Cincinnati performed for the Reds earned him a place as the | ||
| + | banner second baseman.</ | ||
| + | <p>At third base the honor goes to J.R. Lobert, the third baseman | ||
| + | of the Philadelphia club. In this particular instance Lobert was | ||
| + | crowded, not for efficiency, but in the number of games played by | ||
| + | Byrne, third baseman of Pittsburgh, and Herzog, third baseman of | ||
| + | New York. In the matter of chances undertaken on the field, Herzog | ||
| + | surpassed both Lobert and Byrne, but, in justice to Lobert, the | ||
| + | honor seems to be fairly deserved by him.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | fought his way to the position of shortstop in 1912. His fielding | ||
| + | was better than that of his rivals and at times he played the | ||
| + | position as only a man of his sterling worth can play.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | League, John A. Heydler, has compiled two methods of comparing | ||
| + | pitchers, the "Hall of Fame" in the National League this year will | ||
| + | include two faces. They are those of Hendrix of the Pittsburgh club | ||
| + | and Tesreau of the New York club. The former won the greater | ||
| + | percentage of games under the old rule in vogue of allotting | ||
| + | percentage upon victories. Tesreau, however, under a new rule which | ||
| + | classifies pitchers by earned runs, easily led the league. The | ||
| + | editor of the RECORD is very much inclined toward Mr. Heydler' | ||
| + | earned run record; in fact, has suggested a record based upon the | ||
| + | construction of making every pitcher responsible for runs and | ||
| + | computing his average upon the percentage of runs for which he is | ||
| + | responsible. That places Tesreau in the front row, with Mathewson | ||
| + | second.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Fame" in 1912. They are Meyers of New York and Gibson of | ||
| + | Pittsburgh. Meyers caught by far the larger number of games, and, | ||
| + | basing the work of catcher upon the average chances per game, seems | ||
| + | to lead his Pittsburgh rival. Both men are sterling performers, and | ||
| + | Meyers is an instance of the greatest improvement on the part of a | ||
| + | catcher of any member of the major leagues.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Carey of Pittsburgh is selected for the "Hall of Fame." Not only | ||
| + | did he play in the greatest number of games of any outfielder, but | ||
| + | his general work in the outfield was sensational.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Zimmerman, the powerful batter of the Chicago club. His work with | ||
| + | the bat in 1912 approached in many ways that of the high class and | ||
| + | powerful batters of old. He batted steadily, with the exception of | ||
| + | one very slight slump, and his work as batter undoubtedly was of | ||
| + | tremendous assistance to Chicago. Zimmerman did not shine alone as | ||
| + | the best batter, as he was also the leading maker of home runs and | ||
| + | the best two-base hitter of the season. That gives him a triple | ||
| + | honor.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Pittsburgh. Though not so high in rank as a batsman as some of his | ||
| + | contemporaries, | ||
| + | his ability to get to third base on long hits.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | runner in the National League. He stole more bases than any other | ||
| + | player of the league, and was also the best run getter& | ||
| + | is to say, scored more runs than any other player.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | games played and his steady work at first almost all of the season, | ||
| + | as he did not join the Washingtons at the beginning of the season, | ||
| + | places him in the "Hall of Fame" at first base.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | work he earned the place at second base. Not so heavy a batter as | ||
| + | some of his rivals, he covered a great amount of ground for the | ||
| + | Chicagos and steadied the infield throughout the year.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | logical selection. Day in and day out he was one of the most | ||
| + | reliable shortstops in the American League.</ | ||
| + | <p>At third base John Turner of the Cleveland club retains the | ||
| + | honor which he earned for himself in 1911, and he is one of the few | ||
| + | players who is a member of the "Hall of Fame" two years in | ||
| + | succession.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the outfield, for all around work, the place of honor goes to | ||
| + | Amos Strunk, the young player of the Philadelphia club. He was in | ||
| + | center field and in left field, and he was a busy young man for | ||
| + | most of the year.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | for years, Wood of Boston is given the "Hall of Fame" honor as | ||
| + | pitcher. His average of winning games was very high, and he was | ||
| + | compelled to fight hard for many of his victories.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | leading catcher. He is Cady of Boston, although for hard work | ||
| + | Carrigan, also of Boston, gives him a close race.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | There was none to dispute his right to the title. He was also | ||
| + | leading batsman in 1911 and is another American League player who | ||
| + | holds a position in the " | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Philadelphia. He earned the same title in 1911. It is a double | ||
| + | "Hall of Fame" distinction for him.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | leading batter for three-base hits.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | being the leading batter of two-base hits.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | outfielder of Washington, is the best base stealer of the year, and | ||
| + | better than all the rest, earns his distinction in joining the | ||
| + | "Hall of Fame" by establishing a new record of stolen bases.</ | ||
| + | <a name=" | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 1845. He died November 26, 1912, near St. Charles, Mo., on his way | ||
| + | to California from New York, for his health. Left an orphan at the | ||
| + | age of four years, he went to live at the home of his grandfather, | ||
| + | in Hopkinton, where he remained until he was seventeen years old. | ||
| + | At this age he left school and went to Boston, where he obtained a | ||
| + | position in a clothing establishment, | ||
| + | identified up to his death. He worked as a clerk in several cities | ||
| + | in the East, and finally went to Indianapolis in 1875 to open a | ||
| + | clothing store. The store still occupies the same building, and Mr. | ||
| + | Brush continued at the head of the business until his death. It was | ||
| + | in the early '80s that he first became interested in Base Ball in | ||
| + | Indianapolis, | ||
| + | promoter.</ | ||
| + | <p>In 1863 Mr. Brush enlisted in the First New York Artillery, and | ||
| + | served as a member of this body until it was discharged, at the | ||
| + | close of the civil war. He was a charter member of George H. Thomas | ||
| + | Post, G.A.R.; a thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason, and was | ||
| + | also prominently identified with several social and commercial | ||
| + | organizations of Indianapolis, | ||
| + | Commercial Club, Board of Trade, and the Mannerchor Society. In New | ||
| + | York Mr. Brush took up membership in the Lambs' Club and the | ||
| + | Larchmont Club. For several years he made his headquarters at the | ||
| + | Lambs' Club.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | and two daughters, Miss Natalie Brush and Mrs. Harry N. Hempstead. | ||
| + | His first wife, Mrs. Agnes Ewart Brush, died in 1888.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | devotedly attached, and for which he had the highest ideals and | ||
| + | aims, began with the Indianapolis club of the National League.</ | ||
| + | <p>It has been somewhat inaccurately stated that he entered Base | ||
| + | Ball by chance. This was not, strictly speaking, the case. Prior to | ||
| + | his first immediate association with the national game he was an | ||
| + | ardent admirer of the sport, although not connected with it in any | ||
| + | capacity as owner. He was what might be called, with accurate | ||
| + | description, | ||
| + | development.</ | ||
| + | <p>An opportunity presented itself by which it was possible to | ||
| + | procure for the city of Indianapolis a franchise in the National | ||
| + | League. Mr. Brush was quick to perceive the advantages which this | ||
| + | might have in an advertising way for the city with which he had | ||
| + | cast his lot and subscribed to the stock.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | there came a time when the cares and the duties of the club had to | ||
| + | be assumed by a single individual and it was then that he became | ||
| + | actively identified as a managing owner, as the duty of caring for | ||
| + | the club fell upon his shoulders.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | interested in every detail relating to Base Ball which might | ||
| + | pertain to the advancement of the sport, and his principal effort | ||
| + | in his future participation in the game was to see that it advanced | ||
| + | on the lines of the strictest integrity and in such a manner that | ||
| + | its foundation should be laid in the rock of permanent success.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | who looked upon Base Ball as an idle pastime, in which only the | ||
| + | present moment was to be consulted.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | substantial nature. It was a game, intrinsically good of itself, in | ||
| + | which the hazards had always been against the weak. There was not | ||
| + | that consideration of equity which would have been for its best | ||
| + | interests, but this was not entirely the fault of the separate | ||
| + | members of the Base Ball body, but the result of conditions, in | ||
| + | which those whose thought was only for the moment, overshadowed the | ||
| + | best interests of the pastime.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | which the clubs in the smaller cities were forced, against the will | ||
| + | of their owners, to be the weaker organizations, | ||
| + | was less due to a desire upon the more fortunate and larger clubs | ||
| + | to maintain such a state of affairs, than to the fact that the | ||
| + | organization generally had expanded upon lines with little regard | ||
| + | to the future.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the membership of the smaller clubs. They demurred at the fact that | ||
| + | they were asked to perform equally as well as the players of the | ||
| + | clubs in the larger cities at smaller salaries. Not that they did | ||
| + | not try to do their best, for this they stoutly attempted under all | ||
| + | conditions. It was the effect of a discrimination which was the | ||
| + | result of the imperfect regulations that existed relative to the | ||
| + | management of the game.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | of a body known as the Brotherhood. To offset not the Brotherhood, | ||
| + | but the cause which led to its formation, Mr. Brush devised the | ||
| + | famous classification plan. Imperfectly understood in what it | ||
| + | intended to do for the players, it was seized upon as a reason for | ||
| + | the revolt of the players and the organization of the Brotherhood | ||
| + | League.</ | ||
| + | <p>At heart it was the idea of Mr. Brush so to equalize salaries | ||
| + | that the players of all clubs should be reimbursed in an equitable | ||
| + | manner. As always had been the case, and probably always is likely | ||
| + | to be, the players who received the larger salaries were in no mood | ||
| + | to share with their weaker brothers any excess margin of pay which | ||
| + | they thought that they had justly earned, and it was not a | ||
| + | difficult matter for them to obtain the consent of players who | ||
| + | might really have benefited by the plan to co-operate with them on | ||
| + | the basis of comradeship.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | and, if grasped by others, they were disregarded, | ||
| + | conflicted with their immediate temporary prosperity.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | time. His plan was born under the best of intentions, but it | ||
| + | unfortunately devolved upon the theory that players would be | ||
| + | willing to share alike for their common good. Later in life, | ||
| + | through another and unquestionably even better method, he succeeded | ||
| + | in bringing forth a plan which attained the very end for which he | ||
| + | sought in the '80s, but in the second resort, by a far more | ||
| + | efficacious method.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | National League. The players of the National League and the | ||
| + | American Association deserted to join the Brotherhood League, upon | ||
| + | a platform that promised Utopia in Base Ball. Unquestionably it was | ||
| + | the idea of the general Brotherhood organization that the National | ||
| + | League would abandon the fight and succumb, but the National League | ||
| + | owners were built of sterner stuff.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | were combated by a fickle opinion, based upon sentiment, it | ||
| + | developed within two months that the public had learned thoroughly | ||
| + | the reasons for the organization of the new league and declined to | ||
| + | lend it that support which had been predicted and expected.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | which had befallen the sport in an organized sense from a | ||
| + | professional standpoint.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | This is not the verdict of personal opinion, but a record which is | ||
| + | indelibly impressed upon Base Ball history.</ | ||
| + | <p>It was the theory of the Brotherhood League that it, in part, | ||
| + | should be governed by representative players, but the players would | ||
| + | not be governed by players. Discipline relaxed, teams did pretty | ||
| + | much as they pleased, and the public remained away from the games. | ||
| + | It may be added with truth that the National League games were not | ||
| + | much better patronized, but that was due to the prevalent apathy in | ||
| + | Base Ball affairs throughout the United States.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | players from the National League the latter organization undertook | ||
| + | to strengthen itself where it could and when Brooklyn and | ||
| + | Cincinnati applied for membership in the circuit both were | ||
| + | admitted.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | and, upon the substitution of Cincinnati for Indianapolis in the | ||
| + | National League circuit, procured from Mr. Brush many players of | ||
| + | note, among them Rusie, Glasscock, Buckley, Bassett and Denny.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | may be said that Mr. Brush flatly refused to give up his club, | ||
| + | asserting stoutly that he was perfectly able to continue the fight, | ||
| + | but when he felt that the exigencies of the occasion demanded that | ||
| + | Cincinnati become a member, he agreed to give up the franchise, | ||
| + | providing that he be permitted to retain his membership in the | ||
| + | National League, and transfer such of his players as New York | ||
| + | desired to the latter city. It has been alleged that he demanded an | ||
| + | exorbitant price from New York for the transfer of the players.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | of his players, and the worth of giving up a Base Ball year in a | ||
| + | city in which there was to be no conflicting club and, as he had | ||
| + | expressed full confidence in his ability to make a winning fight | ||
| + | for the National League, it was agreed that his rights to be | ||
| + | considered could not be overlooked. To retain his National League | ||
| + | membership he accepted stock in the New York club.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | dealt what it believed to be a death blow to the National League by | ||
| + | the purchase of the Cincinnati franchise. It proved to be a | ||
| + | boomerang, for before the first day of January, 1891, the | ||
| + | Brotherhood League had passed out of existence. The backers of the | ||
| + | organization, | ||
| + | too willing to come to an acceptable agreement and retire.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Byrne and A.H. Soden were prominent members of the National League | ||
| + | to bringing this result about. Of these, Mr. Spalding and Mr. Soden | ||
| + | survive, but have retired from active participation in Base Ball | ||
| + | affairs.</ | ||
| + | <p>It was through this settlement, resulting upon the Base Ball | ||
| + | war, that Mr. Brush' | ||
| + | National League had a franchise in that city, but no one to operate | ||
| + | it. Mr. Brush agreed to take up the franchise and attempt to | ||
| + | operate and rebuild that club. That, however, is a detail which | ||
| + | relates purely to the continuance of a major league circuit.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | career and, to the mind of more than one, the greatest successful | ||
| + | undertaking in the history of the game, was a complete revolution | ||
| + | in the distribution of financial returns. By his success in | ||
| + | effecting this Mr. Brush brought about the very purpose which he | ||
| + | had sought to attain by his classification plan.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | readjustment of conditions were the owners and not the players. | ||
| + | Briefly, it was the following:</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Association and the National League. Recognizing that the best | ||
| + | method to bring about a cessation of this war was to effect an | ||
| + | amalgamation of the conflicting forces Mr. Brush sought, with the | ||
| + | assistance of others, to weld both leagues into one. He was aided | ||
| + | in this task, though indirectly, because A.G. Spalding was actively | ||
| + | out of Base Ball, by that gentleman, Frank De Hass Robison, | ||
| + | Christopher Von der Abe, and Francis C. Richter, editor of | ||
| + | " | ||
| + | task in an advisory capacity.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | opposition; indeed, much opposition. It was conceded at that time | ||
| + | that a twelve-club league, which was the object sought, was | ||
| + | cumbersome and unwieldy, but there was no other plan of possible | ||
| + | accomplishment which suggested itself.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | this consolidation of leagues was that all gate receipts should be | ||
| + | divided, share and share alike, so far as general admissions were | ||
| + | concerned.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | history of Base Ball. Prior to that time the principle of a fixed | ||
| + | guarantee for each game played had given each home club a | ||
| + | stupendous bulk of the sums paid by the public toward the | ||
| + | maintenance of the sport. The inevitable outcome of such an | ||
| + | arrangement was that the clubs in the larger cities completely | ||
| + | overshadowed the clubs in the smaller cities.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | to place rival organizations on the field that would equal in | ||
| + | playing strength those of New York, Boston and Chicago, but they | ||
| + | were unable to do so unless their owners were willing to go on year | ||
| + | after year with large deficits staring them in the face.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | upon a plane of absolute fairness, so far as the proper | ||
| + | distribution of the returns of the sport could be made between | ||
| + | clubs, Base Ball began to prosper, and, for the first time in all | ||
| + | its history, the owners of so-called smaller clubs felt that they | ||
| + | could go forward and try to rival their bigger fellows with equally | ||
| + | strong combinations.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | of all, it " | ||
| + | clubs until they were on equal terms with their fellow players in | ||
| + | the larger clubs, so that Mr. Brush helped to accomplish by this | ||
| + | plan the very aim which he had at heart when he proposed the | ||
| + | classification plan& | ||
| + | to every player in the game, so far as the finances of each club | ||
| + | would permit& | ||
| + | limit.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | more than others, based upon their preponderance of skill, it is | ||
| + | now a fact that two-thirds of the major league ball players of the | ||
| + | present day owe their handsome salaries to the system which John T. | ||
| + | Brush so earnestly urged and for which he fought against odds which | ||
| + | would have daunted a man with less fixity of purpose.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | so just that its results almost immediately began to make | ||
| + | themselves manifest, the owner of the Cincinnati club devoted his | ||
| + | time and his energies to the endeavor to place a championship club | ||
| + | in Cincinnati. He never was successful in that purpose, although | ||
| + | his ill fortune was no greater than that of his predecessors.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Club could be purchased. He obtained the stock necessary to make | ||
| + | him owner of the New York organization from Mr. Andrew Freedman, | ||
| + | but before he did so another Base Ball war had begun between the | ||
| + | National League and the American League, a disagreement starting | ||
| + | from the simplest of causes, but which, like many another such | ||
| + | disagreement, | ||
| + | prosperity of the pastime.</ | ||
| + | <p>As had been the case in the prior war brought about by the | ||
| + | organization of the Brotherhood League, Mr. Brush fought staunchly | ||
| + | for his rights. Prominent National League players were taken by the | ||
| + | American League clubs, and this brought retaliation.</ | ||
| + | <p>At length the National League opened negotiations to obtain | ||
| + | certain American League players and succeeded in doing so. Among | ||
| + | these were the manager of the Baltimore club, John J. McGraw, who | ||
| + | felt that he was acting perfectly within his rights in joining the | ||
| + | New York National League club. Directly upon his acceptance of the | ||
| + | management of the New York club Mr. Brush became its owner and the | ||
| + | era of prosperity was inaugurated in New York, which was soon | ||
| + | enjoyed by every club throughout the United States.</ | ||
| + | <p>In its first year under the new management the team was not in | ||
| + | condition to make a good fight, but the next year it was ready and | ||
| + | since then has won four National League championships and one | ||
| + | World' | ||
| + | <p>In the spring of 1911, at the very dawn of the National League | ||
| + | season, the grand stand of the New York National League club burned | ||
| + | to the ground. A man less determined would have been overcome by | ||
| + | such a blow. Nothing daunted and while the flames were not yet | ||
| + | quenched, Mr. Brush sent for engineers to devise plans for the | ||
| + | magnificent stadium which bears his name and which, on the Polo | ||
| + | Grounds in New York, is one of the greatest and the most massive | ||
| + | monument to professional Base Ball in the world.</ | ||
| + | <p>In connection with this wonderful new edifice of steel and | ||
| + | stone, which is one of the wonders of the new world, it is | ||
| + | appropriate to add that two world' | ||
| + | field of the Polo Grounds since it has been erected.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | upon the suggestion and by the advice of Mr. Brush and since a | ||
| + | regular world' | ||
| + | national game has progressed with even greater strides than was the | ||
| + | case in the past.</ | ||
| + | <p>At a meeting of the National League the following resolutions | ||
| + | were adopted:</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | New York National League Base Ball Club, comes as a sad blow to | ||
| + | organized professional Base Ball and particularly to us, his | ||
| + | associates in the National League.</ | ||
| + | <p>As the dean of organized professional Base Ball, his wise | ||
| + | counsel, his unerring judgment, his fighting qualities and withal | ||
| + | his eminent fairness and integrity in all matters pertaining to the | ||
| + | welfare of the national game will be surely missed.</ | ||
| + | <p>He was a citizen of sterling worth, of high moral standards and | ||
| + | of correct business principles, and his death is not only a | ||
| + | grievous loss to us, but to the community at large as well. Be it, | ||
| + | therefore,</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Professional Base Ball Clubs, in session to-day, express their | ||
| + | profound grief at the loss of their friend, associate and | ||
| + | counsellor and extend to the members of his bereaved family their | ||
| + | sincere sympathy in the great loss which they have sustained by his | ||
| + | death. Be it further</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the records of the league.</ | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <p>In connection with the death of Mr. Brush, Ben Johnson, | ||
| + | president of the American League, said: "Mr. Brush was a power in | ||
| + | Base Ball. He will be missed as much in the American League as in | ||
| + | the National League."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | acquaintances, | ||
| + | funeral of Mr. Brush, on Friday, November 29, at St. Paul's | ||
| + | Episcopal Church, Indianapolis. Fifty or more of Mr. Brush' | ||
| + | Ball associates and acquaintances, | ||
| + | present.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Paul' | ||
| + | William Geake, Sr., of Fort Wayne, acting thrice potent master, and | ||
| + | official head of the thirty-third degree in Indiana. The Scottish | ||
| + | Rite delegation numbered more than 150. There were also in | ||
| + | attendance fifty Knights Templars of Rapier Commandery, under the | ||
| + | leadership of Eminent Commander E.J. Scoonover.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | and a number of local and out-of-town clubs and social | ||
| + | organizations of which Mr. Brush was a member also were | ||
| + | represented.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Brown, in reviewing the life of Mr. Brush, spoke of him as one of | ||
| + | the remarkable men of America, who, in his youth, gave no promise | ||
| + | of being in later life a national figure. In the course of his | ||
| + | remarks Dr. Brown said:</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the most remarkable men of our generation. His life was that of a | ||
| + | typical American. He began in the most unpretentious manner and | ||
| + | died a figure of national importance.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | unknown to some of his most intimate friends. He was mustered out | ||
| + | with honor and entered the business world in Indianapolis. His | ||
| + | labors here put him at the forefront for sagacity, squareness, | ||
| + | honorable treatment and generosity.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | perfectly natural way, he went from manager of the local team to | ||
| + | proprietor of the New York Giants. He was a Bismarck in plan and a | ||
| + | Napoleon in execution. His aim was pre-eminence and he won place by | ||
| + | the consent of all. The recent spectacular outpouring of people and | ||
| + | colossal financial exhibit in the struggle for the pennant between | ||
| + | New York and Boston were but the legitimate outcome of his | ||
| + | marvelous skill.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Blue Lodge degree in his native town and to demonstrate his | ||
| + | attachment he never removed his membership. Where he had been | ||
| + | raised to the sublime degree of a master there he wished to keep | ||
| + | his affiliation always.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | its past eminent commanders. He was a member of the Scottish Rite | ||
| + | bodies in the Valley of Indianapolis in the early days and | ||
| + | performed his work with a ritual perfection unsurpassed. He | ||
| + | received the thirty-third and last degree as a merited honor for | ||
| + | proficiency and zeal.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | purpose."</ | ||
| + | <a name=" | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <p>No individual, whether player, manager, owner, critic or | ||
| + | spectator, who went through the world' | ||
| + | forget it. There never was another like it. Years may elapse before | ||
| + | there shall be a similar series and it may be that the next to come | ||
| + | will be equally sensational, | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | should be played without mistake or blunder this world' | ||
| + | be said to have been inartistic, but it is only the hypercritical | ||
| + | theorist who would take such a cold-blooded view of the series.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | crammed with thrills and gulps, cheers and gasps, pity and | ||
| + | hysteria, dejection and wild exultation, recrimination and | ||
| + | adoration, excuse and condemnation, | ||
| + | cheerfully be called " | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | out of their seats in frenzy. There were others which caused them | ||
| + | to wish to sink through the hard floor of the stand in humiliation. | ||
| + | There were stops in which fielders seemed to stretch like india | ||
| + | rubber and others in which they shriveled like parchment which has | ||
| + | been dried. There were catches of fly balls which were superhuman | ||
| + | and muffs of fly balls which were " | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | outcome of games and some of them did. There were opportunities for | ||
| + | other beautiful long hits which were not made.</ | ||
| + | <p>No ingenuity of stage preparation, | ||
| + | no cunningly devised theory of a world' | ||
| + | originated a finale equal to that of the eighth and decisive | ||
| + | contest. Apparently on the verge of losing the series after the | ||
| + | Saturday game in Boston the Giants had gamely fought their way to a | ||
| + | tie with Boston, and it was one of the pluckiest and gamest fights | ||
| + | ever seen in a similar series, and just as the golden apple seemed | ||
| + | about to drop into the hands of the New York players they missed it | ||
| + | because Dame Fortune rudely jostled them aside.</ | ||
| + | <p>As a matter of fact the New York players were champions of the | ||
| + | world for nine and one half innings, for they led Boston when the | ||
| + | first half of the extra inning of the final game was played. Within | ||
| + | the next six minutes they had lost all the advantage which they had | ||
| + | gained.</ | ||
| + | <p>It was a combination of bad fielding and lack of fielding which | ||
| + | cost the New York team its title. And if only Mathewson had not | ||
| + | given Yerkes a base on balls in the tenth inning the game might not | ||
| + | have been won, even with the fielding blunders, but Mathewson was | ||
| + | pitching with all the desperation and the cunning which he could | ||
| + | muster to fool the batter and failed to do so.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | demeanor of spectators was never before seen on a ball field in a | ||
| + | world' | ||
| + | willing to concede the championship to New York. In the twinkling | ||
| + | of an eye there was a muffed fly, a wonderful catch by the same | ||
| + | player who muffed the ball& | ||
| + | Yerkes, a missed chance to retire Speaker easily on a foul fly, | ||
| + | then a base hit by Speaker to right field, on which Engel scored, | ||
| + | another base on balls to Lewis and then the long sacrifice fly to | ||
| + | right field by Gardner, which sent Yerkes over the plate with the | ||
| + | winning run.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | appropriate to say that the umpiring in this series was as near | ||
| + | perfection as it could be. It was by far the best of any since the | ||
| + | series had been inaugurated. The umpires were William Klem and | ||
| + | Charles Rigler of the National League and Frank O' | ||
| + | William Evans of the American League.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | New York, Oct. 8, 1912.< | ||
| + | Boston 4, New York 3.< | ||
| + | Hits& | ||
| + | Struck out& | ||
| + | Bases on balls& | ||
| + | Attendance 35, | ||
| + | <p>In the description of the games of the world' | ||
| + | innings will be touched upon in which there were men on bases. | ||
| + | Tesreau pitched the opening game for New York and the first man to | ||
| + | bat for Boston was Hooper. Tesreau gave him a base on balls. The | ||
| + | next three batters were retired in succession. Devore and Doyle, | ||
| + | the first two batters for New York, were retired and Snodgrass hit | ||
| + | cleanly to center field, the first base hit in the series. Murray | ||
| + | was given a base on balls, but Merkle flied to short. In the second | ||
| + | inning the Bostons started as bravely as they had in the first, as | ||
| + | Gardner, the first batter, was safe on Fletcher' | ||
| + | batted to Tesreau and Gardner was forced out. Wagner was given a | ||
| + | base on balls, after Stahl had been thrown out trying to steal | ||
| + | second, and Cady flied to Murray.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | given a base on balls by Tesreau and Hooper sacrificed. Doyle threw | ||
| + | Yerkes out and Speaker was given a base on balls, but Lewis died | ||
| + | easily on a weak fly to short.</ | ||
| + | <p>In New York's half of this inning the Giants scored twice. | ||
| + | Tesreau, first at bat, struck out. Devore was given a base on balls | ||
| + | and Doyle batted wickedly to left field for two bases. Snodgrass | ||
| + | was fooled into striking out, but Murray smashed the ball to center | ||
| + | field for a single, and sent two men over the rubber, Murray was | ||
| + | caught at second trying to get around the bases while Doyle was | ||
| + | going home.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | score. In the fifth, with two out, Doyle batted safely, but failed | ||
| + | to score. In the sixth the Bostons made their first runs on | ||
| + | Speaker' | ||
| + | making a desperate effort to catch the fly, had permitted the ball | ||
| + | to go to Devore the chances are that Speaker' | ||
| + | resulted in an out, so that New York lost on the play.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | doubled off first when Murray drove a line hit straight to Stahl. | ||
| + | The seventh was the undoing of the Giants. With one out Wagner | ||
| + | batted safely to center field. Cady followed with another hit to | ||
| + | the same place. Wood batted to Doyle, who made a beautiful stop, | ||
| + | but with a double play in hand, was overbalanced and unable to | ||
| + | complete it. That cost New York three runs, although it was | ||
| + | unavoidable. Cady was forced out, but Hooper hit to right field for | ||
| + | two bases sending Wagner and Wood home. Yerkes followed with a | ||
| + | clean hit to left field for a base and won the first game for | ||
| + | Boston with that hit.</ | ||
| + | <p>In New York's half of the inning, with one out, Meyers was hit | ||
| + | by a pitched ball, but no damage was done other than to Meyers' | ||
| + | feelings. In the ninth Wagner batted Crandall for a two-base hit, | ||
| + | Crandall having been substituted for Tesreau in the eighth inning, | ||
| + | as McCormick had batted for Tesreau in the seventh. Cady made a | ||
| + | sacrifice, but the next two batters were easily retired.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | single more they probably would have begun the series with a | ||
| + | victory instead of a defeat. With one out Merkle batted the ball | ||
| + | over second base for a single and the spectators, who had started | ||
| + | toward the exits, halted. Herzog followed with a slow low fly to | ||
| + | right field, which fell safely. Meyers crashed into the ball for a | ||
| + | two-bagger that struck the wall in right field and the crowd began | ||
| + | to believe that Wood had gone up in " | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | efforts, and when Fletcher came to the plate Wood was using all the | ||
| + | speed with which he was possessed. It was evident that Fletcher' | ||
| + | sole desire was to bat the ball safely to right field, for if he | ||
| + | did so, both of the runners could cross the plate and the Giants | ||
| + | would win. Twice he met the ball, and both times it sailed in the | ||
| + | right direction, but with no result, as it was foul. Then he struck | ||
| + | out. Crandall, perhaps one of the best pinch hitters in the major | ||
| + | leagues, also struck out, and the Boston enthusiasts who were | ||
| + | present fell back in their chairs from sheer exhaustion, but when | ||
| + | they had recovered, with their band leading them, marched across | ||
| + | the field and cheered Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston, who was present | ||
| + | as a spectator of the contest in company with Mayor Gaynor of New | ||
| + | York. Governor Foss of Massachusetts was also present at the | ||
| + | opening of the game. Klem umpired behind the bat in this game.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Boston, Oct. 9, 1912.< | ||
| + | New York 6. Boston 6 (eleven innings).< | ||
| + | Hits& | ||
| + | Struck out& | ||
| + | Bases on balls& | ||
| + | Attendance 30, | ||
| + | <p>In the second game of the series, which was played October 9 at | ||
| + | Boston, Mathewson pitched for the New York team and Collins, Hall | ||
| + | and Bedient for Boston. The game resulted in a tie, 6 to 6, at the | ||
| + | end of the eleventh inning, being called on account of darkness by | ||
| + | Umpire O' | ||
| + | was remarkable more for the misplays of the New York players, which | ||
| + | gave the Bostons a chance to save themselves from defeat, than for | ||
| + | any undue familiarity with the pitching of Mathewson. It was the | ||
| + | universal opinion of partisans of both teams that Mathewson | ||
| + | deserved to win because he outpitched his opponents. The weather | ||
| + | was fair and the ground in excellent condition. In the first inning | ||
| + | Snodgrass began with a clean two-base hit into the left field seats | ||
| + | but neither Doyle, Becker nor Murray was able to help him across | ||
| + | the plate. A run scored in that inning, with such a fine start, | ||
| + | would probably have won the game for the Giants.</ | ||
| + | <p>In Boston' | ||
| + | second base. Yerkes batted a line drive to Fletcher, and had the | ||
| + | New York shortstop held the ball, which was not difficult to catch, | ||
| + | Hooper could easily have been doubled at second, but Fletcher | ||
| + | muffed it. Speaker hit safely toward third base, filling the bases. | ||
| + | Lewis batted to Herzog, who made a fine play on the ball and caught | ||
| + | Hooper at the plate. This should have been the third out and would | ||
| + | have retired Boston without a run. Gardner was put out by a | ||
| + | combination play on the part of Mathewson, Doyle and Merkle, | ||
| + | scoring Yerkes, and Stahl came through with a hard line hit for a | ||
| + | base, which scored Speaker and Lewis. The inning netted Boston | ||
| + | three runs, which were not earned.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | to center field and scored on Meyers' | ||
| + | and Mathewson forced Meyers out. Hooper got a two-base hit in the | ||
| + | same inning, but two were out at the time and Fletcher easily threw | ||
| + | out Yerkes, who was the next batter.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the fourth inning Murray began with a clean three-base hit to | ||
| + | center field. Merkle fouled out to the third baseman, but Herzog' | ||
| + | long fly to Speaker was an excellent sacrifice and Murray scored. | ||
| + | Meyers again hit for a single, but was left on the bases. The | ||
| + | Bostons got this run back in the last half of the fifth. With one | ||
| + | out Hooper hit to center field for a base, his third hit in | ||
| + | succession against Mathewson. Yerkes batted a three-bagger out of | ||
| + | the reach of Snodgrass and Hooper scored. Murray batted safely in | ||
| + | the sixth, with one out, but died trying to steal second, Carrigan | ||
| + | catching for Boston. In the Boston' | ||
| + | with a single and got as far as third base, but could not | ||
| + | score.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | ball for a base and stole second. There were three chances to get | ||
| + | him home, but Meyers, who had been hitting Collins hard, failed to | ||
| + | make a single and Fletcher and Mathewson were both retired.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the eighth the New York players made one of the game rallies | ||
| + | for which they became famed all through the series and went ahead | ||
| + | of their rivals. Snodgrass was the first batter and lifted an easy | ||
| + | fly to Lewis. The Boston player got directly under the ball and | ||
| + | made a square muff of it. Doyle followed along with a sharp hit to | ||
| + | center field for a base and although he was forced out by Becker, | ||
| + | the latter drove the ball hard. Murray came through with a long | ||
| + | two-bagger to left center and Snodgrass and Becker scored. That | ||
| + | tied the score and also put an end to Collins' | ||
| + | Stahl took him out and substituted Hall. Merkle fouled weakly to | ||
| + | the catcher, but Herzog caught the ball on the nose and hit sharp | ||
| + | and clean to center field for two bases, sending Murray home with | ||
| + | the run which put the Giants in the lead. Another base hit would | ||
| + | have won for New York, but Meyers perished on a hard hit to Wagner, | ||
| + | which was fielded to first ahead of the batter.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | inning Lewis batted the ball to left field for two bases. Murray | ||
| + | made a desperate effort to get it. He tumbled backward over the | ||
| + | fence into the bleachers and for a few moments there were some who | ||
| + | thought that he had been seriously injured. Gardner followed with a | ||
| + | single to center and Stahl hit to right for a base, but Wagner | ||
| + | struck out and the Bostons were down with only a run.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the ninth Hall gave a remarkable exhibition. Fletcher and | ||
| + | Mathewson were retired in succession. Then Snodgrass, Doyle and | ||
| + | Becker were given bases on balls, filling the bags. It seemed | ||
| + | certain that a run might score, and perhaps one would have scored | ||
| + | had it not been for an excellent stop by Wagner. Murray hit the | ||
| + | ball at him like a shot, but he got it and retired Becker at | ||
| + | second.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | as if the game would be theirs. Merkle began with a long three-base | ||
| + | hit to center field. Herzog batted to Wagner and Merkle played | ||
| + | safe, refusing to try to score while the batter was being put out | ||
| + | at first. Meyers was given a base on balls and Shafer ran for him. | ||
| + | Fletcher lifted a long fly to left field and Merkle scored from | ||
| + | third. Mathewson could not advance the runners and died on an | ||
| + | infield fly. Yerkes was the first batter for the Bostons and was | ||
| + | retired at first base. Speaker hit to deep center field. There were | ||
| + | some scorers who gave the batter but three bases on the hit, | ||
| + | insisting that Wilson, who was then catching for New York, should | ||
| + | have got the throw to the plate and retired the batter. In any | ||
| + | event Wilson missed the ball and Speaker scored. Lewis followed | ||
| + | with a two-bagger, which would have scored Speaker if the latter | ||
| + | had not tried to run home, so Wilson' | ||
| + | throw became more conspicuous. Other scorers gave Speaker a clean | ||
| + | home run and it is not far out of the way to say that he deserved | ||
| + | the benefit of the doubt.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | was hit by a pitched ball. He was the first batter. He tried to | ||
| + | steal second, but failed to make it.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | fielding of Doyle and Wagner. The former made two stops along the | ||
| + | right field line which seemed to be not far from superhuman. Wagner | ||
| + | killed at least two safe hits over second base for New York and | ||
| + | both of the plays were of the greatest benefit to the Boston | ||
| + | team.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Boston, Oct. 10, 1912.< | ||
| + | New York 2; Boston 1.< | ||
| + | Hits& | ||
| + | Struck out& | ||
| + | Bases on balls& | ||
| + | Attendance 34, | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | played on the following day, October 10. The pitchers were Marquard | ||
| + | for New York and O' | ||
| + | one of the best games of his career and not a run was made against | ||
| + | him until the ninth inning. By far the most notable play of the | ||
| + | game on the field was made by Devore in the ninth inning, when he | ||
| + | ran for more than thirty feet and caught an almost impossible fly | ||
| + | ball which had been batted by Cady. Had he missed it the Bostons | ||
| + | might have scored two runs and won. Devore began the first inning | ||
| + | with a base hit, but was out trying to steal second. The next two | ||
| + | batters were retired. In the second inning Murray batted the ball | ||
| + | to center field for two bases. Merkle' | ||
| + | third and Herzog' | ||
| + | began the inning for Boston with a safe hit, but could not advance | ||
| + | further than second.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the third Fletcher started with a base on balls and was | ||
| + | sacrificed to second, but was unable to score. In the fourth, with | ||
| + | one out, Speaker batted safely, but was forced out at second. | ||
| + | Gardner flied to Murray.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the fifth Herzog began with a two-base hit to left field. | ||
| + | Meyers died at first, but Fletcher hit safely to right field and | ||
| + | Herzog scored. Fletcher stole second and Marquard was given a base | ||
| + | on balls. Devore forced him out and stole second and Doyle followed | ||
| + | with another base on balls. A long hit would have made the game | ||
| + | easy for New York and Snodgrass tried to get the ball into the | ||
| + | bleachers, but Lewis caught it. Stahl began the Bostons' | ||
| + | the fifth with a hit, but was out by ten feet trying to steal | ||
| + | second.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the sixth, with two out, Yerkes hit safely, but Speaker | ||
| + | fouled out. In the seventh, with two out, Stahl batted the ball to | ||
| + | left field for two bases, but Wagner flied to Devore.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the eighth the Giants looked dangerous again. Devore began | ||
| + | with a base-hit to left field. Doyle flied to Lewis. Snodgrass hit | ||
| + | safely to left field and Murray flied to Lewis. Merkle batted the | ||
| + | ball very hard, but Wagner made a good stop and caught Snodgrass at | ||
| + | second. With two out Hooper got a base on balls for Boston, but it | ||
| + | did Boston no good.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the ninth Herzog was hit by a pitched ball and Meyers swung | ||
| + | solidly to center for a single, after Herzog had died trying to | ||
| + | steal. Fletcher lined to Speaker and Meyers was doubled. In | ||
| + | Boston' | ||
| + | base. Gardner hit to the same place for two bases and Lewis scored | ||
| + | Boston' | ||
| + | Gardner out at third. Wagner should have been an easy out, and the | ||
| + | game would have been over if Merkle had not dropped a throw to | ||
| + | first base. Wagner stole second, no attention being paid to him, | ||
| + | and then Devore made his wonderfully good catch of Cady's hard | ||
| + | drive and the Giants had won their first game in the series.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | innings were the Bostons able to get the first man on the | ||
| + | bases.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | New York, Oct. 11, 1912.< | ||
| + | Boston 3, New York 1.< | ||
| + | Hits& | ||
| + | Struck out& | ||
| + | Bases on balls& | ||
| + | Attendance 36, | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | following day. For most of the forenoon it looked as if there would | ||
| + | be no game because of rain. Toward noon it cleared up slightly and | ||
| + | although the ground was a little soft it was decided to play, in | ||
| + | view of the fact that so many spectators had come a long distance | ||
| + | to witness the contest. The soft ground was in favor of the Boston | ||
| + | players, for the ball was batted very hard by New York most of the | ||
| + | afternoon, but the diamond held and the infielders were able to get | ||
| + | a good grasp on grounders which would ordinarily have been very | ||
| + | difficult to handle. Tesreau pitched for New York and Wood for | ||
| + | Boston, as was the case in the opening game of the series. Hooper, | ||
| + | who batted with much success on the Polo Grounds, began with a | ||
| + | single to center and although Yerkes was safe on Meyers' | ||
| + | the Giants got out of a bad predicament handily because of the | ||
| + | excellent stops which were made by Fletcher of hits by Speaker and | ||
| + | Lewis. With one out in New York's half of the inning Doyle batted | ||
| + | safely, but Snodgrass forced him out.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | field and scored on a wild pitch. The next three batters were | ||
| + | retired in order. With one out for New York, Merkle singled and | ||
| + | stole second, but was not helped to get home.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | base on balls. Yerkes bunted and Tesreau whipped the ball to third | ||
| + | base ahead of Wood. Doyle and Fletcher made two fine stops and | ||
| + | Speaker and Lewis were retired.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Tesreau' | ||
| + | balls. Stahl forced him out at second. Then Stahl stole second, to | ||
| + | the immediate surprise of the Boston players and the chagrin of the | ||
| + | New York catcher. Wagner' | ||
| + | Cady pushed a weak single to center field, just out of the reach of | ||
| + | the players, Stahl scored. Wood was retired by Murray.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | thrown out at second on Speaker' | ||
| + | to steal. New York had one out in the same inning, when Herzog hit | ||
| + | safely, but neither Meyers nor Fletcher could help him.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the sixth the New York players began with a rush. Tesreau, | ||
| + | the first batter, hit for a base. Devore followed with another | ||
| + | single. Doyle with a "clean up" could have won for the Giants, but | ||
| + | he lifted a high fly to Yerkes. Snodgrass batted to Yerkes, who | ||
| + | made an extraordinarily good stop and threw Devore out at second. | ||
| + | Murray forced Snodgrass at second and all. New York's early | ||
| + | advantage went for naught.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the seventh the Giants scored their only run. After Merkle | ||
| + | had struck out, Herzog batted for a base. Meyers lifted a terrific | ||
| + | line drive to center field, but Speaker got under the ball. | ||
| + | Fletcher hit hard and safe to right field for two bases and Herzog | ||
| + | scored. McCormick batted for a base, but Fletcher, trying to score | ||
| + | on the ball, was thrown out at the plate by Yerkes.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the eighth, with two out, Snodgrass was safe on Wagner' | ||
| + | fumble. Murray rapped a single to left field but Merkle struck out. | ||
| + | With two out for Boston Speaker batted a double to left field and | ||
| + | was left. Ames pitched in the eighth for New York. In the ninth the | ||
| + | Giants were scored upon again when Gardner hit for a single to | ||
| + | center field. Stahl sacrificed, Wagner was given a base on balls | ||
| + | and Cady forced Wagner, while Gardner was scoring.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Boston, Oct. 12. 1912.< | ||
| + | Boston 2; New York 1.< | ||
| + | Hits& | ||
| + | Struck out& | ||
| + | Bases on balls& | ||
| + | Attendance 34, | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | New York and Bedient for Boston. As was the case in the former game | ||
| + | pitched by Mathewson in Boston, the verdict was general that | ||
| + | perfect support would have won the contest for him, even though the | ||
| + | score was but 2 to 1 in favor of Boston. Devore received a base on | ||
| + | balls in the first inning and after Doyle was out on a long fly to | ||
| + | right was forced out by Snodgrass in a double play. By the way this | ||
| + | game was played under very adverse conditions so far as the weather | ||
| + | was concerned. It was cold and gloomy. Hooper, the first Boston | ||
| + | batter, as usual, began with his single to center field. Yerkes | ||
| + | flied out to shortstop. Speaker hit safely and Lewis batted to | ||
| + | Herzog, who made a beautiful stop on third, and touched the base | ||
| + | ahead of Hooper. Gardner struck out.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the second inning Murray started off with a base on balls and | ||
| + | the next three batters were retired in succession. With one out for | ||
| + | Boston, Wagner batted safely to right field. The next two men were | ||
| + | retired without reaching first.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | field and Devore followed with a base on balls, but Bedient got the | ||
| + | next two batters.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Hooper batted the ball to left center for three bases. Yerkes | ||
| + | followed with a triple to center and Hooper scored. Speaker | ||
| + | contributed with a ground hit, which Doyle should have got, but | ||
| + | fumbled. Had he recovered the ball Boston would have made but one | ||
| + | run in the inning. As it was, Yerkes scored on the misplay and that | ||
| + | run lost the game for the Giants. The next two batters were retired | ||
| + | and for the remainder of the contest Boston never had a man on | ||
| + | first base, Mathewson pitching marvelous ball, by far the best game | ||
| + | of the series, as it should easily have been a one run contest with | ||
| + | not a base on balls nor a wild pitch.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the seventh inning Merkle began with a two-base hit to left | ||
| + | field Herzog flied out to Wagner. Meyers flied out, but McCormick | ||
| + | who batted for Fletcher, made a hit and Merkle scored. That spurt | ||
| + | gave the Giants their sole run and they returned to New York that | ||
| + | night with the series three to one against them.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | New York, Oct. 14, 1912< | ||
| + | New York 5; Boston 2.< | ||
| + | Hits& | ||
| + | Struck out& | ||
| + | Bases on balls& | ||
| + | Attendance 30, | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | York on Monday, October 14. Marquard pitched for the Giants and | ||
| + | O' | ||
| + | York players more than their opponents. In the first inning of the | ||
| + | game the Giants scored five runs and the contest was never in doubt | ||
| + | after that. O' | ||
| + | Boston players generally seemed to be less energetic and less | ||
| + | confident than would have been expected from a team which had but | ||
| + | one game to win to make the championship assured.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | After the Giants had made five runs Boston played through the other | ||
| + | eight innings perfunctorily. The crowd of Boston enthusiasts, | ||
| + | had come to New York to see the finishing touches put on the | ||
| + | Giants, was bitterly disappointed, | ||
| + | not over hopeful on account of the disposition of the Giants to | ||
| + | blunder badly at vital moments, were at least in a much better | ||
| + | frame of mind because of the rally by their team.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | caught napping off first. Yerkes was easily retired. Speaker was | ||
| + | given a base on balls and Lewis flied out.</ | ||
| + | <p>In New York's half Devore was retired at first. Doyle hit safely | ||
| + | to center field. He stole second after Snodgrass struck out. Murray | ||
| + | batted a single to left field and Doyle went to third. O' | ||
| + | a palpable balk and Doyle scored from third, Murray going to | ||
| + | second. Merkle banged a hard double to right field, Herzog followed | ||
| + | with a double to left field, Meyers singled to left field, and | ||
| + | actually stole second under the noses of the Boston players. | ||
| + | Fletcher singled to right field and Meyers scored the fifth run of | ||
| + | the inning; the other men who had crossed the plate being Doyle, | ||
| + | Murray, Merkle and Herzog.</ | ||
| + | <p>In Boston' | ||
| + | twice and that was all they made in the game. Gardner was safe at | ||
| + | first on Marquard' | ||
| + | two batters were easily retired, but Engle, who batted for O' | ||
| + | hit to left field for two bases, Devore missing the ball by pushing | ||
| + | it away from him as he was running into it, and Gardner and Stahl | ||
| + | scored.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | singles, but the runners failed to get around. In the eighth, with | ||
| + | one out, Yerkes made a single, but was unable to score.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | field, but was out trying to stretch the hit. Merkle hit for a base | ||
| + | to left field and was out trying to steal.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the fourth, with one out, Meyers batted to left field for | ||
| + | three bases, but was unable to score. These latter hits were made | ||
| + | against Collins, who had taken O' | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Devore was doubled off first in a play from right field. Collins | ||
| + | continued to be effective in the next three innings, but the | ||
| + | mischief had been done, so far as Boston was concerned, and the Red | ||
| + | Sox simply did not have a rally in them.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | and the remainder of the cavalcade followed over at midnight.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Boston, Oct. 15, 1912.< | ||
| + | New York 11; Boston 4.< | ||
| + | Hits& | ||
| + | Struck-out& | ||
| + | Bases on balls& | ||
| + | Attendance 32, | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | for Boston and Tesreau for the Giants. Wood pitched for one inning | ||
| + | and was hammered in every direction by the New York players, who | ||
| + | ran riot on the field. They simply overwhelmed Boston and this | ||
| + | contest, more than any other in the series, was so "one sided" as | ||
| + | to be devoid of interest, except to the New York fans, who were | ||
| + | eager to see the Giants win the championship. Devore, the first | ||
| + | batter, hit safely to left field. Doyle rapped a single to center. | ||
| + | Devore and Doyle made a double steal and that began the fireworks. | ||
| + | Snodgrass pushed a double to right field. Murray' | ||
| + | sacrifice. Merkle singled to center field. Herzog batted to Wood | ||
| + | and Merkle was run down between second and third. Meyers singled to | ||
| + | left field, Fletcher doubled to right field, and Tesreau made his | ||
| + | first hit of the series, a single to left field. That counted all | ||
| + | told six runs for the Giants and Tesreau added cruelty to the | ||
| + | sufferings of the Red Sox by trying to steal second base and almost | ||
| + | making it.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the second inning Gardner made a home run. Hall took the | ||
| + | place of Wood in the box for Boston and Devore was given a base on | ||
| + | balls. He stole second and Doyle got a base on balls. Devore was | ||
| + | caught napping, but Snodgrass singled to right, scoring Doyle. The | ||
| + | two next batters were retired.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the third Hall was safe on Fletcher' | ||
| + | singled but neither scored. Herzog and Meyers began with singles | ||
| + | for New York, but neither of them got home. With one out in the | ||
| + | fourth, Gardner was hit by a pitched ball and Stahl singled to left | ||
| + | field. Neither of these players scored.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the fifth Hall began with a two-bagger to left. Hooper was | ||
| + | given a base on balls and was forced out by Yerkes. Speaker was | ||
| + | given a base on balls. The next two batters were retired, leaving | ||
| + | Hall on third. There were two out for New York when Meyers made his | ||
| + | third single, but he failed to get home.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | was easily retired. Hall was given a base on balls, but Hooper | ||
| + | struck out, ending the inning. In New York's half, with one out, | ||
| + | Devore was given a base on balls. Doyle batted the ball over the | ||
| + | fence in right field for a home run and Devore scored ahead of | ||
| + | him.</ | ||
| + | <p>In Boston' | ||
| + | to center. Lewis batted to left field for two bases. That put | ||
| + | Speaker on third. While Fletcher was getting Gardner out of the | ||
| + | way, Speaker scored and Lewis reached home on Doyle' | ||
| + | Stahl' | ||
| + | with a single to center. Herzog flied to left field. Meyers made | ||
| + | his fourth single of the afternoon, but Fletcher flied to right | ||
| + | field. Tesreau hit to right for a base and Merkle scored.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the eighth Doyle muffed Cady's fly. Hall singled to right. | ||
| + | Hooper' | ||
| + | with a single, but the next three batters were retired in | ||
| + | order.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the ninth Herzog began with a base on balls. Wilson, who was | ||
| + | catching, singled to center. He was doubled up with Fletcher on a | ||
| + | long fly hit. Herzog, however, eventually scored his run, which was | ||
| + | the seventh of the game for New York.</ | ||
| + | <p>In this contest the Giants ran bases with such daring that they | ||
| + | had the Boston players confused and uncertain. Cady did not know | ||
| + | whether to throw the ball or hold it, and the general exhibition of | ||
| + | speed on the bases which was made by New York was characteristic of | ||
| + | the team's dash in the race for the championship of the National | ||
| + | League, and a system which the Boston players could not fathom.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Boston, Oct. 16, 1912.< | ||
| + | Boston 3; New York 2 (ten innings.)< | ||
| + | Hits& | ||
| + | Struck out& | ||
| + | Bases on balls& | ||
| + | Attendance 16, | ||
| + | <p>On the following day, before the smallest crowd of the series, | ||
| + | the final game was played in Boston. Many Boston fans, disgruntled | ||
| + | at the manner in which some of them had been seated, deliberately | ||
| + | remained away. The air was cold and bleak and in addition to all | ||
| + | the rest the enthusiasts of Boston had given up the fight. Which | ||
| + | merely goes to show the uncertainty of Base Ball. The New York | ||
| + | players unquestionably had the championship won for nine and one | ||
| + | half innings of the final game and then, by the simplest of errors, | ||
| + | overturned all of the good which they had accomplished in their | ||
| + | wonderful rally of the two days preceding. After outplaying the | ||
| + | Bostons in a manner which showed some thing of the caliber of the | ||
| + | teams when both were going at top speed, the New York team stopped | ||
| + | short. As one wit dryly put it: " | ||
| + | championship, | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | end of the seventh inning.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | base on balls, but Murray was retired. Two were out for Boston when | ||
| + | Speaker hit for a single to right field, but Lewis struck out. | ||
| + | Again in the second two were out for New York when Meyers was safe | ||
| + | on Speaker' | ||
| + | flied out.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | started for New York with a base on balls. Doyle and Snodgrass were | ||
| + | out in succession, Devore advancing, and then Murray doubled to | ||
| + | center field and Devore scored. In the fourth Herzog started with a | ||
| + | two-bagger and if the ground rule had not been changed he would | ||
| + | have had an easy triple, and ultimately a run, which would have | ||
| + | changed all the outcome of the game. As it was, he did not score. | ||
| + | In the fifth Devore began with a single and was out stealing second | ||
| + | after Doyle had flied out and Hooper had made the most wonderful | ||
| + | catch of the series, reaching over the right field fence to get the | ||
| + | ball with his bare band. Snodgrass singled and Murray fouled | ||
| + | out.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the sixth Meyers received a base on balls with two out but | ||
| + | did not score. With one out Yerkes singled to right field and | ||
| + | Speaker got a base on balls but no run followed.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the seventh Mathewson began with a single and was forced out | ||
| + | by Devore, who was left on bases while two batters were retired. | ||
| + | For Boston, with one out, Stahl hit safely to center field. It was | ||
| + | a pop fly, which fell between three men, Fletcher, Murray and | ||
| + | Snodgrass. Wagner was given a base on balls and Cady was an easy | ||
| + | out. Henriksen, batting for Bedient, with two strikes against him, | ||
| + | drove the ball on a line toward third base. In fact, it hit third | ||
| + | base. It bounded so far back that Stahl scored the tieing run of | ||
| + | the game.</ | ||
| + | <p>No runs were scored by either team in the eighth or the ninth | ||
| + | innings. In the tenth, with one out, Murray lined a double to left | ||
| + | field and scored on Merkle' | ||
| + | Giants in the lead, with Merkle on second. Herzog struck out and | ||
| + | Wood threw out Meyers. The ball had been batted so hard by Meyers | ||
| + | to Wood that it crippled the pitcher' | ||
| + | cease playing. It was fortunate for Boston that the hit kept low. | ||
| + | So much speed had been put into it by the stalwart Indian catcher | ||
| + | that had the ball got into the outfield it would have gone to the | ||
| + | fence. It was the undoing of Wood, but it really led to the victory | ||
| + | of Boston.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | center field which was perfectly played by Snodgrass, but the | ||
| + | center fielder dropped the ball. Engle went to second base.</ | ||
| + | <p>On top of his simple muff Snodgrass made a magnificent catch of | ||
| + | Hooper' | ||
| + | bent every energy to strike out Yerkes, but the batter would not go | ||
| + | after the wide curves which were being served to him by the New | ||
| + | York pitcher and finally was given a base on balls.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | have been caught by Merkle. The ball dropped between Merkle, Meyers | ||
| + | and Mathewson. As was afterward proved the capture of this foul | ||
| + | would have saved the championship for the Giants.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the tieing run. The Giants still had a chance, but a feeble one, | ||
| + | for Yerkes was on third, with but one out. Gardner flied to Devore. | ||
| + | The New York outfielder caught the ball and made a game effort to | ||
| + | stop the flying Yerkes at the plate, but failed to do so, and the | ||
| + | game was over and the series belonged to Boston.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | wonderful the rally of the New York club after having once given | ||
| + | the series away, that it was the opinion generally that the | ||
| + | defeated were as great in defeat as the victors were great in | ||
| + | victory.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | FIRST GAME. | ||
| + | |||
| + | BOSTON. | ||
| + | Hooper, r.f. 3 1 1 1 0 0 | ||
| + | Yerkes, 2b 4 0 1 0 1 0 | ||
| + | Speaker, c.f 3 1 1 0 1 0 | ||
| + | Lewis, l.f. | ||
| + | Gardner, 3b | ||
| + | Stahl, 1b | ||
| + | Wagner, ss 3 1 2 5 3 1 | ||
| + | Cady, c | ||
| + | Wood, p | ||
| + | | ||
| + | | ||
| + | | ||
| + | -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- | ||
| + | Totals | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <p>1: McCormick batted for Tesreau in the seventh inning. 2: Becker | ||
| + | ran for Meyers in ninth inning.</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | New York | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Wagner, Doyle. Three-base hit& | ||
| + | play& | ||
| + | hits and 4 runs in 25 times at bat in 7 innings; off Crandall, 1 | ||
| + | hit, 0 runs in 6 times at bat in 2 innings. Struck out& | ||
| + | Wood 11, Devore, Snodgrass, Merkle, Herzog, Meyers, Fletcher 3, | ||
| + | Tesreau 2, Crandall; by Tesreau 4, Hooper, Speaker, Stahl, Gardner; | ||
| + | by Crandall 2, Stahl, Gardner. Bases on balls& | ||
| + | Devore, Murray; by Tesreau 4, Hooper, Speaker, Wagner, Wood. First | ||
| + | base on errors& | ||
| + | Fletcher. Hit by pitched ball& | ||
| + | bases& | ||
| + | field umpires& | ||
| + | and Spink. Time of game& | ||
| + | warm.</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | SECOND GAME. | ||
| + | |||
| + | NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. | ||
| + | Snodgrass, l.f-r.f | ||
| + | Doyle, 2b | ||
| + | Becker, c.f. 4 1 0 0 1 0 | ||
| + | Murray, r.f-l.f | ||
| + | Merkle, 1b 5 1 1 19 0 1 | ||
| + | Herzog, 3b 4 1 3 2 4 0 | ||
| + | Meyers, c | ||
| + | Fletcher, ss 4 0 0 1 3 3 | ||
| + | McCormick[1] | ||
| + | Mathewson, p 5 0 0 1 6 0 Hall, p | ||
| + | Shafer[2], ss | ||
| + | Wilson[3], c 0 0 0 0 1 1 | ||
| + | -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- | ||
| + | Totals | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <p>1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in tenth inning. 2: Shafer ran | ||
| + | for Meyers in tenth inning and succeeded Fletcher as shortstop in | ||
| + | same inning. 3: Wilson succeeded Meyers as catcher in tenth | ||
| + | inning.</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | New York | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | errors& | ||
| + | Murray, Herzog, Lewis 2, Hooper. Three-base hits& | ||
| + | Merkle. Herzog, Yerkes, Speaker. Stolen bases& | ||
| + | Herzog, Hooper 2, Stahl. Sacrifice hit& | ||
| + | flies& | ||
| + | Herzog. Pitching record& | ||
| + | times at bat in 7-1/3 innings; off Hall, 2 hits and 3 runs in 9 | ||
| + | times at bat in 2-2/3 innings; off Bedient, no hits or runs in 1 | ||
| + | time at bat in 1 inning. Struck out& | ||
| + | Collins 2, Wagner; by Collins 6, Doyle, Merkle, Mathewson 2, | ||
| + | Snodgrass; by Bedient 1, Doyle. Bases on balls& | ||
| + | Snodgrass, Doyle, Becker, Meyers; by Bedient 1, Becker. | ||
| + | Fumbles& | ||
| + | Muffed foul fly& | ||
| + | by pitcher& | ||
| + | and Rigler; field umpires& | ||
| + | Scorers& | ||
| + | Weather& | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | THIRD GAME. | ||
| + | |||
| + | NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. | ||
| + | Devore, 1.f. | ||
| + | Doyle, 2b 3 0 0 3 1 0 | ||
| + | Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 0 0 0 | ||
| + | Murray, l.f. | ||
| + | Merkle, 1b | ||
| + | Herzog, 3b | ||
| + | Meyers, c 4 0 1 8 1 0 | ||
| + | Fletcher, ss | ||
| + | Marquard, p 1 0 0 0 2 0 | ||
| + | O' | ||
| + | Ball[2] | ||
| + | Cady, c 1 0 0 0 1 0 | ||
| + | Bedient, p | ||
| + | Henriksen[3] | ||
| + | -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- | ||
| + | Totals | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <p>1: Engle batted for Carrigan in eighth inning. 2: Ball batted | ||
| + | for O' | ||
| + | inning.</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | New York | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | errors& | ||
| + | Gardner. Stolen bases& | ||
| + | hits& | ||
| + | Double play& | ||
| + | O' | ||
| + | Bedient, 1 hit and 0 runs in 2 times at bat in 1 inning. Struck | ||
| + | out& | ||
| + | by O' | ||
| + | 3, Fletcher, Doyle, Marquard; by Marquard 1, Hooper. Muffed thrown | ||
| + | ball& | ||
| + | Umpires& | ||
| + | Rigler. Scorers& | ||
| + | Weather& | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | FOURTH GAME. | ||
| + | |||
| + | BOSTON. | ||
| + | Hooper, r.f. | ||
| + | Yerkes, 2b | ||
| + | Speaker, c.f. 4 0 1 2 0 0 Snodgrass, c.f. | ||
| + | Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Murray, r.f. 4 0 1 3 0 0 | ||
| + | Gardner, 3b 3 2 2 0 2 0 Merkle, 1b 4 0 1 8 0 0 | ||
| + | Stahl, 1b 3 1 0 9 0 0 Herzog, 3b 4 1 2 2 1 0 | ||
| + | Wagner, ss | ||
| + | Cady, c 4 0 1 10 0 0 Fletcher, ss 4 0 1 3 6 0 | ||
| + | Wood, p 4 0 2 0 2 0 Tesreau, p 2 0 1 0 2 0 | ||
| + | | ||
| + | Ames, p | ||
| + | -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- | ||
| + | Totals | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <p>1: McCormick batted for Tesreau in seventh inning.</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | New York | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | errors& | ||
| + | Fletcher. Three-base hit& | ||
| + | Merkle. Sacrifice hits& | ||
| + | play& | ||
| + | 5 hits and 2 runs in 24 times at bat in 7 innings; off Ames, 3 hits | ||
| + | and 1 run in 8 times at bat in 2 innings. Struck out& | ||
| + | 8, Devore, Snodgrass. Murray 2, Merkle 2, Meyers, Tesreau; by | ||
| + | Tesreau 5, Lewis, Stahl, Wagner, Cady 2. Bases on balls& | ||
| + | Tesreau 2, Hooper, Gardner; by Ames 1, Wagner. Fumble& | ||
| + | Wild throw& | ||
| + | Umpires& | ||
| + | Klem. Scorers& | ||
| + | Weather& | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | FIFTH GAME. | ||
| + | |||
| + | BOSTON. | ||
| + | Hooper, r.f. 4 l 2 4 0 0 | ||
| + | Yerkes, 2b 4 1 1 3 3 0 | ||
| + | Speaker, c.f. | ||
| + | Lewis, l.f. | ||
| + | Gardner, 3b | ||
| + | Stahl, 1b | ||
| + | Wagner, ss 3 0 1 1 1 0 | ||
| + | Cady, c | ||
| + | Bedient, p 3 0 0 0 0 0 | ||
| + | | ||
| + | | ||
| + | -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- | ||
| + | Totals | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <p>1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in seventh inning. 2: Shafer | ||
| + | ran for McCormick in seventh inning and then played shortstop.</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | New York | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | errors& | ||
| + | Three-base hits& | ||
| + | Yerkes and Stahl. Struck out& | ||
| + | by Bedient 4, Devore, Snodgrass, Merkle, Mathewson. Bases on | ||
| + | balls& | ||
| + | Gardner. Umpires& | ||
| + | umpires& | ||
| + | of game& | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | SIXTH GAME. | ||
| + | |||
| + | NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. | ||
| + | Devore, l.f. 4 0 1 2 0 1 Hooper, r.f. | ||
| + | Doyle, 2b | ||
| + | Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 6 0 0 Speaker, c.f. 3 0 0 5 0 0 | ||
| + | Murray, r.f. 3 1 2 7 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 0 0 0 | ||
| + | Merkle, 1b 3 1 2 4 1 0 Gardner, 3b 4 1 0 0 1 0 | ||
| + | Herzog, 3b 3 1 1 1 1 0 Stahl, 1b 4 1 2 8 0 0 | ||
| + | Meyers, c | ||
| + | Fletcher, ss 3 0 1 0 2 0 Cady, c 3 0 1 3 2 1 | ||
| + | Marquard, p | ||
| + | Engle[1] | ||
| + | Collins, p | ||
| + | -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- | ||
| + | Totals | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <p>1: Engle batted for O' | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | New York | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | errors& | ||
| + | Three-base hit& | ||
| + | Herzog, Meyers. Double plays& | ||
| + | Hooper and Stahl. Pitching record& | ||
| + | runs in 8 times at bat in 1 inning; off Collins, 5 hits and 0 runs | ||
| + | in 22 times at bat in 7 innings. Struck out& | ||
| + | Wagner, Gardner, Stahl; by O' | ||
| + | Devore. Base on balls& | ||
| + | Fumble& | ||
| + | fly& | ||
| + | of game& | ||
| + | umpires& | ||
| + | Spink. Weather& | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | SEVENTH GAME. | ||
| + | |||
| + | NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. | ||
| + | Devore, r.f. | ||
| + | Doyle, 2b 4 3 3 2 3 2 | ||
| + | Snodgrass, c.f. 5 1 2 1 0 0 | ||
| + | Murray, l.f. | ||
| + | Merkle, 1b | ||
| + | Herzog, 3b | ||
| + | Meyers, c 4 1 3 6 0 0 | ||
| + | Wilson, c[1] | ||
| + | Fletcher, ss | ||
| + | Tesreau, p | ||
| + | -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- | ||
| + | Totals | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <p>1: Wilson relieved Meyers in eighth inning.</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | New York | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | errors& | ||
| + | Sacrifice hit& | ||
| + | hits& | ||
| + | Double plays& | ||
| + | record& | ||
| + | inning; off Hall, 9 hits and 5 runs in 32 times at bat in 8 | ||
| + | innings. Struck out& | ||
| + | Wagner, Cady; by Hall 1, Herzog. Bases on balls& | ||
| + | Hooper, Yerkes, Speaker, Lewis, Hall; by Hall 5, Devore 2, Doyle, | ||
| + | Herzog, Tesreau. Fumbles& | ||
| + | ball& | ||
| + | fly& | ||
| + | ball& | ||
| + | Umpires& | ||
| + | Rigler. Scorers& | ||
| + | windy.</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | EIGHTH GAME. | ||
| + | |||
| + | BOSTON. | ||
| + | Hooper, r.f. 5 0 0 3 0 0 | ||
| + | Yerkes, 2b 4 1 1 0 3 0 | ||
| + | Speaker, c.f. | ||
| + | Lewis, l.f. | ||
| + | Gardner, 3b | ||
| + | Stahl, 1b | ||
| + | Wagner, ss 3 0 1 3 5 1 | ||
| + | Cady, c | ||
| + | Bedient, p 2 0 0 0 1 0 | ||
| + | Henriksen[2] | ||
| + | Wood, p | ||
| + | Engle[4] | ||
| + | -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- | ||
| + | Totals | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <p>*: Two out in tenth inning when winning run was scored.</ | ||
| + | <p>1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in ninth inning. 2: Henriksen | ||
| + | batted for Bedient in seventh inning. 3: Shafer player shortstop in | ||
| + | tenth inning. 4: Engle batted for Wood in tenth inning.</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | New York | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | errors& | ||
| + | Herzog, Gardner, Stahl, Henriksen. Sacrifice hit& | ||
| + | Sacrifice fly& | ||
| + | record& | ||
| + | innings; off Wood, 3 hits and 1 run in 12 times at bat in 3 | ||
| + | innings. Struck out& | ||
| + | Stahl; by Bedient 2, Merkle, Fletcher; by Wood 2, Mathewson, | ||
| + | Herzog. Bases on balls& | ||
| + | Lewis, Gardner, Wagner; by Bedient 3, Devore, Snodgrass, Meyers; by | ||
| + | Wood 1, Devore. Muffed fly& | ||
| + | fly& | ||
| + | Fumbles& | ||
| + | Umpires& | ||
| + | Evans. Scorers& | ||
| + | cold.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | arranged to show at a glance the total work in every | ||
| + | department:</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | BOSTON. | ||
| + | |||
| + | G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PO. A. E. | ||
| + | Hooper........................ 8 31 3 9 2 | ||
| + | Yerkes........................ 8 32 3 8 .. 1 | ||
| + | Speaker....................... 8 30 4 9 1 | ||
| + | Lewis......................... 8 32 4 5 .. .. 14 .. 1 | ||
| + | Gardner....................... 8 28 4 5 .. 3 | ||
| + | Stahl......................... 8 32 3 9 2 | ||
| + | Wagner........................ 8 30 1 5 1 | ||
| + | Cady.......................... 7 22 1 3 .. 1 | ||
| + | Wood.......................... 4 7 | ||
| + | Carrigan...................... 2 7 .. .. .. .. 9 | ||
| + | Collins....................... 2 5 .. .. .. .. .. 3 .. | ||
| + | Hall.......................... 2 4 .. 3 .. .. .. 5 1 | ||
| + | Bedient....................... 4 6 .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. | ||
| + | [1]Engle...................... 3 3 | ||
| + | O' | ||
| + | [2]Ball....................... 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. | ||
| + | [3]Henriksen.................. 2 1 .. 1 .. .. .. .. .. | ||
| + | | ||
| + | 273 25 60 6 | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | NEW YORK. | ||
| + | |||
| + | G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PO. A. E. | ||
| + | Devore........................ 7 24 4 6 4 | ||
| + | Doyle......................... 8 33 5 8 2 | ||
| + | Snodgrass..................... 8 33 2 7 1 | ||
| + | Murray........................ 8 31 5 10 .. 1 23 1 .. | ||
| + | Merkle........................ 8 33 5 9 1 1 83 1 3 | ||
| + | Herzog........................ 8 30 6 12 2 2 11 16 .. | ||
| + | [4]Becker..................... 2 | ||
| + | Meyers........................ 8 28 2 10 1 1 42 4 1 | ||
| + | Fletcher...................... 8 28 1 5 1 | ||
| + | Wilson........................ 3 1 .. 1 .. | ||
| + | Shafer........................ 3 .. .. .. .. | ||
| + | Tesreau....................... 3 8 .. 3 .. | ||
| + | [5]McCormick.................. 5 4 .. 1 .. 1 .. .. .. | ||
| + | Crandall...................... 1 1 .. .. .. | ||
| + | Mathewson..................... 3 12 .. 2 .. | ||
| + | Marquard...................... 2 4 .. .. .. 1 .. 4 1 | ||
| + | Ames.......................... 1 .. .. .. .. | ||
| + | --- -- -- -- | ||
| + | 274 31 74 12 | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <p>1: Engle batted for Carrigan in eighth inning of third game; for | ||
| + | O' | ||
| + | inning of eighth game.</ | ||
| + | <p>2: Ball batted for O' | ||
| + | <p>3: Henriksen ran for Stahl in ninth inning of third game; and | ||
| + | batted for Bedient in seventh inning of eighth game.</ | ||
| + | <p>4: McCormick batted for Tesreau in seventh inning of first game; | ||
| + | for Fletcher in tenth inning of second game; for Tesreau in seventh | ||
| + | inning of fourth game; for Fletcher in seventh inning of fifth | ||
| + | game; and for Fletcher in ninth inning of eighth game.</ | ||
| + | <p>5: Becker ran for Meyers in ninth inning of first game.</ | ||
| + | <p>6: Two out in tenth inning of eighth game when winning run | ||
| + | scored.</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | New York 11 3 3 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 0& | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 2, Henriksen 1, Hall 1, Engle 1, Speaker 1, Wagner 1; total 14. New | ||
| + | York: Murray 4, Herzog 4, Snodgrass 2, Merkle 2, Fletcher 1, Doyle | ||
| + | 1; total 14.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Hooper 1; total 6. New York: Murray 1, Merkle 1, Herzog 1, Meyers | ||
| + | 1; total 4.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Stahl 1; Wagner, Yerkes and Stahl 1; Hooper and Stahl 1; Speaker 1 | ||
| + | (unassisted). For New York: Fletcher and Herzog 1; Fletcher and | ||
| + | Merkle 1; Fletcher, Doyle and Merkle 1; Devore and Meyers 1.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 3, Fletcher 3, Devore 2, Snodgrass 2, Herzog 2, Meyers 2, Murray 2, | ||
| + | Crandall 1, Mathewson 1, total 21. By Collins: Doyle 1, Merkle 1, | ||
| + | Snodgrass 1, Devore 1, Mathewson 2; total 6. By Bedient: Doyle 1, | ||
| + | Devore 1, Snodgrass 1, Mathewson 1, Fletcher 1, Merkle 2; total 7. | ||
| + | By O' | ||
| + | Hall: Herzog 1; total 1. Grand total 39.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 3, Stahl 2, Gardner 2, Wagner 2. Speaker 1, Yerkes 1, Lewis 1; | ||
| + | total 15. By Mathewson: Stahl 2, Collins 2, Wagner 2, Gardner 1, | ||
| + | Yerkes 1, Speaker 1, Lewis 1; total 10. By Marquard: Wagner 2, | ||
| + | O' | ||
| + | By Crandall: Stahl 1, Gardner 1; total 2. Grand total 36.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Murray 1; total 3. Off Hall: Doyle 2, Devore 2, Snodgrass 1, Becker | ||
| + | 1. Meyers 1, Tesreau 1, Herzog 1; total 9. Off Bedient: Devore 3, | ||
| + | Becker 1, Murray 1, Snodgrass 1, Meyers 1; total 7. Off O' | ||
| + | Fletcher 1, Doyle 1. Marquard 1; total 3. Grand total 22.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 3, Speaker 2, Wagner 1, Wood 1, Gardner 1, Yerkes 1, Lewis 1, Hall | ||
| + | 1: total 11. Off Marquard: Hooper 1, Speaker 1; total 2. Off Ames: | ||
| + | Wagner 1; total 1. Off Mathewson: Yerkes 1, Speaker 1, Lewis 1, | ||
| + | Gardner 1, Wagner 1; total 6. Grand total 19.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 25 times at bat in 7 innings; off Crandall, 1 hit, 0 runs, in 6 | ||
| + | times at bat in 2 innings in game of October 8. Off Collins, 9 | ||
| + | hits. 3 runs, in 30 times at bat in 7-1/3 innings: off Hall, 2 | ||
| + | hits, 3 runs, in 9 times at bat in 2-2/3 innings; off Bedient, 0 | ||
| + | hits, 0 runs, in 1 time at bat in 1 inning, in game of October 9; | ||
| + | off O' | ||
| + | Bedient, 1 hit, 0 runs, in 2 times at bat in 1 inning, in game of | ||
| + | October 10. Off Tesreau, 5 hits, 2 runs, in 24 times at bat in 7 | ||
| + | innings; off Ames, 3 hits, 1 run, in 8 times at bat in 2 innings, | ||
| + | in game of October 11. Off O' | ||
| + | bat in 1 inning; off Collins, 5 hits, 0 runs, in 22 times at bat in | ||
| + | 7 innings, in game of October 14. Off Wood, 7 hits, 6 runs, in 8 | ||
| + | times at bat in 1 inning; off Hall, 9 hits. 5 rung, in 32 times at | ||
| + | bat in 8 innings, in game of October 15. Off Bedient, 6 hits, 1 | ||
| + | run, in 26 times at bat in 7 innings; off Wood, 3 hits, 1 runs, in | ||
| + | 12 times at bat in 3 innings, in game of October 16.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 1; total 4.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 1, Wagner 1; total 6.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 1, Speaker 1; total 6.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 2, Speaker 1; total 12.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 1; total 5.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Meyers. By Tesreau: Gardner.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | and Rigler, of the National League.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | J. Taylor Spink of St. Louis, all games.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | participating in the World' | ||
| + | that New York clearly outhit Boston. The team average of the Giants | ||
| + | was 50 points higher than that of Boston. The Boston team had only | ||
| + | four batters in the .300 class, while New York had five. Of the men | ||
| + | who played all through the series, Herzog was high with .400. The | ||
| + | figures are:</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | INDIVIDUAL BOSTON BATTING. | ||
| + | |||
| + | G. | ||
| + | Henriksen | ||
| + | Hall | ||
| + | Engle 3 | ||
| + | Speaker | ||
| + | Hooper | ||
| + | Wood | ||
| + | Stahl 8 32 3 9 2 | ||
| + | Yerkes | ||
| + | Gardner | ||
| + | Wagner | ||
| + | Lewis 8 32 4 5 | ||
| + | Cady | ||
| + | Carrigan | ||
| + | Collins | ||
| + | Bedient | ||
| + | O' | ||
| + | Ball | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | INDIVIDUAL NEW YORK BATTING. | ||
| + | |||
| + | G. | ||
| + | Wilson | ||
| + | Herzog | ||
| + | Tesreau | ||
| + | Meyers | ||
| + | Murray | ||
| + | Merkle | ||
| + | Devore | ||
| + | McCormick | ||
| + | Doyle 8 33 5 8 2 -- .242 | ||
| + | Snodgrass | ||
| + | Fletcher | ||
| + | Mathewson | ||
| + | Becker | ||
| + | Shafer | ||
| + | Crandall | ||
| + | Marquard | ||
| + | Ames | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | a slight margin of .958 to .951. The figures follow:</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | CATCHERS. | ||
| + | G. PO. A. PB. E. PC. | G. PO. A. PB. E. PC. | ||
| + | Carrigan | ||
| + | Meyers | ||
| + | |||
| + | PITCHERS. | ||
| + | G. PO. A. E. PC. | G. PO. A. E. PC. | ||
| + | Tesreau | ||
| + | Crandall | ||
| + | Mathewson | ||
| + | Wood 4 1 | ||
| + | Ames 1 1 | ||
| + | |||
| + | FIRST BASEMEN. | ||
| + | Stahl | ||
| + | |||
| + | | ||
| + | Yerkes | ||
| + | |||
| + | SHORTSTOPS. | ||
| + | Shafer | ||
| + | Wagner | ||
| + | |||
| + | THIRD BASEMEN. | ||
| + | Herzog | ||
| + | |||
| + | OUTFIELDERS. | ||
| + | Murray | ||
| + | Becker | ||
| + | Hooper | ||
| + | Snodgrass | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | with clean records. Marquad won two games and did not meet defeat, | ||
| + | and Bedient won one without a defeat. Wood won three and lost one. | ||
| + | Following are the figures:</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | G. W. L. T. TO. PC. H. BB. HB. SO. IP. AB. | ||
| + | Bedient | ||
| + | Marquard | ||
| + | Wood 4 | ||
| + | Tesreau | ||
| + | Collins | ||
| + | Hall 2 | ||
| + | Mathewson | ||
| + | Ames 1 | ||
| + | Crandall | ||
| + | O' | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | are charged with neither defeat nor victory. Tesreau pitched first | ||
| + | 7 innings of first game and is charged with defeat. Crandall | ||
| + | finished game. Collins pitched first 7-1/3 innings of second game, | ||
| + | Hall followed for 2-2/3 innings and Bedient for 1 inning, but as | ||
| + | game was tie no one has defeat or victory charged against him. | ||
| + | O' | ||
| + | Bedient pitched in the last inning. In fourth game Tesreau pitched | ||
| + | first 7 innings and is marked with defeat. Ames finished the game. | ||
| + | In sixth game O' | ||
| + | Collins completed the game. Wood pitched only one inning of seventh | ||
| + | game and is charged with a defeat. Hall pitched the last 8 innings. | ||
| + | Bedient pitched first 7 innings of eighth game and retired to | ||
| + | permit Henriksen to bat for him with New York leading. Boston then | ||
| + | tied score and Wood, who succeeded Bedient, finally won out in the | ||
| + | tenth inning, Wood getting credit for game.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Series were the highest of any series ever played, excelling even | ||
| + | the receipts of the 1911 Athletic-Giant series, which reached | ||
| + | proportions of such magnitude that it was thought they would not | ||
| + | soon be exceeded, or even equaled. In the 1911 Athletic-Giant | ||
| + | series the total attendance was 179,851 paid; the receipts, | ||
| + | $342,364; each club's share, $90,108.72; National Commission' | ||
| + | share, $34,236.25; the players' | ||
| + | each player' | ||
| + | player' | ||
| + | comparison we give the official statement of the 1911 World' | ||
| + | Series:</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | | ||
| + | First game, New York................ 38, | ||
| + | Second game, Philadelphia........... 26, | ||
| + | Third game, New York................ 37, | ||
| + | Fourth game, Philadelphia........... 24, | ||
| + | Fifth game, New York................ 33, | ||
| + | Sixth game, Philadelphia............ 20, | ||
| + | --------- | ||
| + | Totals ............................ 179, | ||
| + | |||
| + | Each club's share................................ $90,108.72 | ||
| + | National Commission' | ||
| + | Players' | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Giant-Red Sox world' | ||
| + | the receipts, as announced by the National Commission. The players | ||
| + | shared only in the first four games, divided 60 percent, to the | ||
| + | winning team and 40 per cent, to the losing team.</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | Attendance. | ||
| + | First game, New York................ 35, | ||
| + | Second game, Boston................. 30, | ||
| + | Third game, Boston.................. 34, | ||
| + | Fourth game, New York............... 36, | ||
| + | Fifth game, Boston.................. 34, | ||
| + | Sixth game, New York................ 30, | ||
| + | Seventh game, Boston................ 32, | ||
| + | Eighth game, Boston ................ 16, | ||
| + | --------- | ||
| + | Totals............................. 251, | ||
| + | |||
| + | Each club's share............................... $146,915.91 | ||
| + | National Commission' | ||
| + | Players' | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <a name=" | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | fortune on the part of others, and marked variations of form, which | ||
| + | ranged from the leaders almost to the lowliest teams of the second | ||
| + | division, injected spasmodic moments of excited interest into the | ||
| + | National League race for 1912 and marked it by more vicissitudes | ||
| + | than any of its immediate predecessors.</ | ||
| + | <p>By careful analysis it is not a difficult matter to ascertain | ||
| + | why the New Yorks won. Their speed as a run-getting machine was | ||
| + | much superior to that of any of their opponents. Every factor of | ||
| + | Base Ball which can be studied demonstrates that fact. They led the | ||
| + | National League in batting and they led it in base running. They | ||
| + | were keenly alive to the opportunities which were offered to them | ||
| + | to win games. Indeed, their fall from the high standard which they | ||
| + | had set prior to the Fourth of July was quite wholly due to the | ||
| + | fact that they failed to take advantage of the situations daily, as | ||
| + | they had earlier in the season, and their return to that winning | ||
| + | form later in the season, which assured them of the championship, | ||
| + | was equally due to the fact that they had regained their ability to | ||
| + | make the one run which was necessary to win. That, after all, is | ||
| + | the vital essential of Base Ball. To earn the winning run, not by | ||
| + | hook or crook, but to earn it by excelling opponents through | ||
| + | superior play in a department where the opponents are weak, is the | ||
| + | story of capturing a pennant.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | their dearest and most bitter enemies on the ball field, with | ||
| + | marked candor, confessed that such was the case. Opposing leaders | ||
| + | admitted that when two or three of the New York players were | ||
| + | started toward home plate one or two of them were likely to cross | ||
| + | the plate and that, too, when one run might tie the score and two | ||
| + | runs might win the game.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | beginning of the season that the Giants would win the championship, | ||
| + | there were others who were convinced that they would have a hard | ||
| + | time to hold their title, and after the season was over both | ||
| + | factions were fairly well satisfied with their preliminary | ||
| + | forecast.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | gave abundant satisfaction to those who said they would win, and | ||
| + | the setback which the team received after the Fourth of July until | ||
| + | the latter part of August afforded solace to those who were certain | ||
| + | in their own minds that the New Yorks would have much trouble to | ||
| + | repeat their victory of 1911.</ | ||
| + | <p>It must not be forgotten, too, that the New York team had the | ||
| + | benefit of excellent pitching throughout the year. In the new | ||
| + | record for pitchers, which has been established this season by | ||
| + | Secretary Heydler of the National League, and which in part was the | ||
| + | outcome of the agitation in the GUIDE for a new method of records, | ||
| + | in which the various Base Ball critics of the major league cities | ||
| + | so ably contributed their opinions, Tesreau leads all the pitchers | ||
| + | in the matter of runs which were earned from his delivery. | ||
| + | Mathewson is second, Ames is fifth, Marquard seventh and Wiltse and | ||
| + | Crandall lower, and while both the latter were hit freely in games | ||
| + | in which they were occasionally substituted for others, they | ||
| + | pitched admirably in games which they won on their own account.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the opinion of the writer this new method, which has been put | ||
| + | into usage by Secretary Heydler, is far superior to anything which | ||
| + | has been offered in years as a valuable record of the actual work | ||
| + | of pitchers. It holds the pitcher responsible for every run which | ||
| + | is made from his delivery. It does not hold him responsible for any | ||
| + | runs which may have been made after the opportunity has been | ||
| + | offered to retire the side, nor does it hold him responsible for | ||
| + | runs which are the result of the fielding errors of his fellow | ||
| + | players. On the other hand, if he gives bases on balls, if he is | ||
| + | batted for base hits, if he makes balks, and if he makes wild | ||
| + | pitches, he must stand for his blunders and have all such runs | ||
| + | charged against him as earned runs.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | compiling pitchers' | ||
| + | dropped to twenty-eighth place in the list of National League | ||
| + | pitchers, finished third in the earned run computation, | ||
| + | that if he had been given proper support he probably would have | ||
| + | been one of the topmost pitchers of the league, even on the basis | ||
| + | of percentage of games won, which is more vainglorious than | ||
| + | absolutely truthful.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Base Ball. There were less than a half dozen instances in which | ||
| + | they came into conflict with the umpires. The president of the | ||
| + | National League complimented Manager McGraw in public upon the | ||
| + | excellent conduct of his team upon the field and the players | ||
| + | deserved the approbation of the league' | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | good. It must have been good to have enabled the players to finish | ||
| + | second in the championship contest, but the team, speaking in the | ||
| + | broadest sense, seemed to be just good enough not to win the | ||
| + | championship. As one man dryly but graphically put it: " | ||
| + | makes me think of a wedding cake without the frosting."</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | determination not to play. It was not for the reason that the | ||
| + | impulse to play did not seize upon him more than once, but he had | ||
| + | formed a conviction, or, at least, he seemed to have formed one, | ||
| + | that it would be better for the organization if the younger blood | ||
| + | were permitted to make the fight. It was the opinion of more than | ||
| + | one that Clarke incorrectly estimated his own ball playing ability, | ||
| + | in other words, that he was a better ball player than he credited | ||
| + | himself with being.</ | ||
| + | <p>As batters the Pittsburghs were successful. As fielders they | ||
| + | were superior to the team that won the championship. As run-getters | ||
| + | they were not the equal of the Giants. In brief, fewer | ||
| + | opportunities were accepted to make runs by a much larger | ||
| + | percentage than was the case with the New York club, which can | ||
| + | easily be verified by a careful study of the scores of the two | ||
| + | teams as they opposed one another, and as they played against the | ||
| + | other clubs of the league.</ | ||
| + | <p>It took more driving power to get the Pittsburgh players around | ||
| + | the bases than it did those of New York. In tight games, where the | ||
| + | advantage of a single run meant victory, the greater speed of the | ||
| + | New York players could actually be measured by yards in the | ||
| + | difference of results. Naturally it was not always easy for the | ||
| + | Pittsburgh enthusiasts to see why a team, which assuredly fielded | ||
| + | better than the champions and batted almost equally as well, could | ||
| + | not gain an advantage over its rivals, but the inability of | ||
| + | Pittsburgh Base Ball patrons to comprehend the lack of success on | ||
| + | the part of their team existed in the fact that they had but few | ||
| + | opportunities, | ||
| + | players and found it difficult to grasp the true import of that one | ||
| + | great factor of speed, which had been so insistently demanded by | ||
| + | the New York manager of the men who were under his guidance.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | would have been obtained from it if Adams had been in better | ||
| + | physical condition. An ailing arm bothered him. While he fell below | ||
| + | the standard of other years, one splendid young pitcher rapidly | ||
| + | developed in Hendrix, and Robinson, a left-hander, | ||
| + | no major league experience, pushed his way to a commanding position | ||
| + | in the work which he did.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | month of August the western team threatened to come through with a | ||
| + | finish, which would give them a chance to swing into first place | ||
| + | during the month of September, but the series between New York and | ||
| + | Pittsburgh turned the scale against the latter.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the race the New York players battled desperately with their rivals | ||
| + | on Pittsburgh' | ||
| + | were filled with admiration for the foe whom they had met, and | ||
| + | while they were not in the mood to accept defeat with equanimity, | ||
| + | they did accept it graciously and congratulated the victors as they | ||
| + | left Pittsburgh after playing the last game of the season which had | ||
| + | been scheduled between them on Forbes Field.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | been made to obtain a first baseman, who could play with accuracy | ||
| + | on the field and bat to the standard of the team generally. Clarke | ||
| + | transferred Miller from second base to first and the change worked | ||
| + | well. More graceful and more accurate first basemen have been | ||
| + | developed than Miller, but in his first year of play at the bag he | ||
| + | steadied the team perceptibly and unquestionably gave confidence to | ||
| + | the other men.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | baseman and second base gave Clarke more or less concern all of the | ||
| + | season. At that, Pittsburgh was not so poorly off in second base | ||
| + | play as some other of the teams of the senior circuit.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | in 1912. For a few days they threatened to assume the leadership of | ||
| + | the National League. With the opportunity almost within their grasp | ||
| + | the machine, which had been patched for the moment, fell to pieces, | ||
| + | and the Cubs, brought to a climax in their work by all the personal | ||
| + | magnetism and the driving power of which Chance was capable, were | ||
| + | exhausted by their strongest effort. The courage and the wish were | ||
| + | there, but the team lacked the playing strength.</ | ||
| + | <p>To return to the factors which contributed to the club's | ||
| + | success. They were the restoration to health of Evers, and a | ||
| + | complete change in the manner of playing second base, added to the | ||
| + | consistent and powerful batting of Zimmerman. The latter led the | ||
| + | league in batting and repeatedly pulled his club through close | ||
| + | contests by the forceful manner in which he met the ball with men | ||
| + | on bases.</ | ||
| + | <p>A third contributing force, though less continuous, was the | ||
| + | brief spurt which was made by the Chicago pitchers in the middle of | ||
| + | the season. They were strongest at the moment that the New York | ||
| + | team was playing its poorest game, and their temporary success | ||
| + | assisted in pushing the Chicagos somewhat rapidly toward the top of | ||
| + | the league. They were not resourceful enough nor strong enough to | ||
| + | maintain their average of victories and finished the season | ||
| + | somewhat as they had begun.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | of July, when Lavender, pitching for the Cubs, won from Marquard of | ||
| + | the Giants, who, to that time, had nineteen successive victories to | ||
| + | his credit. Chicago continued to win, and the New York team made a | ||
| + | very poor trip through the west.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | it became quite evident that he had pitched himself out. Then was | ||
| + | the time that the Chicagos could have used to good advantage two | ||
| + | and certainly one steady and reliable pitcher, who had been through | ||
| + | the fire of winning pennants and would not be disturbed by the | ||
| + | importance which attached to games in which his club was for the | ||
| + | moment the runner-up in the championship race.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | team. Indeed, the Cubs beat the New Yorks on the series for the | ||
| + | season, but there were other clubs, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and | ||
| + | Cincinnati, which won from Chicago when victories were most needed | ||
| + | by the Cubs, and their hope to capture the pennant deserted them as | ||
| + | they were making their last trip through the east.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the Cubs did finish third for the first time since Chance had been | ||
| + | manager of the organization, | ||
| + | apparently in as good form as ever and Zimmerman so strong with the | ||
| + | bat that the leadership of the batters finally returned to Chicago | ||
| + | after it had been absent for years.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | in the race. It was by no means a weak showing for the new manager, | ||
| + | in view of the team which he was compelled to handle. Until the New | ||
| + | York club played its first series in Cincinnati, which began May | ||
| + | 18, the Reds were booming along at the top of the league, | ||
| + | apparently with no intention that they might ever drop back. It was | ||
| + | New York that won three out of the five games played and took the | ||
| + | lead in the race, and when that happened Cincinnati never was in | ||
| + | front again.</ | ||
| + | <p>To the other managers, who had been watching the work of the | ||
| + | Cincinnatis it was apparent that sooner or later the break would | ||
| + | have to come for the reason that, as the season progressed, better | ||
| + | pitching would have to be faced by the Cincinnati club, while it | ||
| + | was doubtful whether the Cincinnati pitchers could do any better | ||
| + | than they were doing. The manager seemed to have known this, for | ||
| + | when the break did come and the Reds began to totter, he said in | ||
| + | reference to their downfall that no team could be expected to win | ||
| + | with only ordinary pitching to assist it.</ | ||
| + | <p>In this manner Cincinnati played through the middle of the | ||
| + | season always just a little behind most of its opponents. As the | ||
| + | latter days of the year began to dawn the Reds began to improve and | ||
| + | not the least of which was in the better work of the pitchers.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | while O'Day did not have the satisfaction of finding his first year | ||
| + | as a manager generous enough to him to make him the runner-up for | ||
| + | the championship team, he actually put his club in the first | ||
| + | division, which is something in which many managers have failed and | ||
| + | some of them managers of long experience.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | to every team which engages in a championship contest, but most | ||
| + | assuredly Philadelphia had more of its share of reverses through | ||
| + | accidents to players and illness than any team of the National | ||
| + | League. Yet the Philadelphias were courageous players from whom | ||
| + | little complaint was heard. They took their misfortunes with what | ||
| + | grace they could and played ball with what success they could | ||
| + | achieve, whether they had their best team in the field or their | ||
| + | poorest.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the race. Frequently they defeated the Chicagos, all too frequently | ||
| + | for the comfort of the Chicago Base Ball enthusiasts, | ||
| + | loss of a game or two by the Philadelphias to the Chicagos might | ||
| + | have turned the race temporarily one way or the other, the | ||
| + | Philadelphias, | ||
| + | <p>It may not be necessary to call attention to the fact of | ||
| + | absolute fairness in the contests for championships in the various | ||
| + | leagues which comprise Base Ball in its organized form. The day has | ||
| + | passed when the Base Ball enthusiast permits his mind to dwell much | ||
| + | upon that sort of thing, if ever he did. But if it were necessary | ||
| + | to advance an argument as to the integrity of the sport and the | ||
| + | high class of the men who are engaged in the summer season in | ||
| + | playing professional Base Ball, there could be nothing better to | ||
| + | prove that the price of victory is the one great consideration, | ||
| + | greater than the fact of Philadelphia' | ||
| + | which was a strong contender against that which finally won the | ||
| + | championship.</ | ||
| + | <p>As much as Philadelphia desired that New York should be beaten, | ||
| + | for there was no love lost between the teams in a ball playing way, | ||
| + | the fighting spirit and the predominant desire to add to the column | ||
| + | of victories as many games as possible brought forth the best | ||
| + | efforts of the team of ill fortune against Chicago and struck | ||
| + | telling blows against Chicago' | ||
| + | moments.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | <p>As a whole the St. Louis team did not play as well in 1912 as it | ||
| + | did in the preceding year. There was some bad luck for St. Louis as | ||
| + | well as Philadelphia. The players did not get started as well as | ||
| + | they had in the previous two years. Their spring training was more | ||
| + | or less disastrous, for they were one of the clubs to run into the | ||
| + | most contrary of spring weather.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | season through from beginning to finish, was in regard to the | ||
| + | pitchers. There were two or three young men on the team who seemed | ||
| + | at the close of the season of 1911 to be likely to develop into | ||
| + | high class pitchers in 1912. They pitched well in 1912 at | ||
| + | intervals. One day it seemed as if they at last had struck their | ||
| + | stride and the next they faltered and their unsteadiness gave their | ||
| + | opponents the advantage which they sought.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | batting it would have rated higher among the organization of the | ||
| + | National League. Several games were lost which would have been | ||
| + | taken into camp by a better display at bat. In fielding the team | ||
| + | was much stronger and the success of the infield, combined with | ||
| + | some excellent outfield work now and then, frequently held the team | ||
| + | up in close battles, but when the pitchers faltered on the path the | ||
| + | fielders were not able to bear the force of the attack.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | fated to start the season with bad luck and misfortune. The spring | ||
| + | training trip did not bring to Brooklyn all that had been expected | ||
| + | owing to the inclement weather.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | crowd filled the stands. Long before it was time for the game to | ||
| + | begin the spectators became unruly and swarmed over the field. It | ||
| + | was impossible for the ground police to do anything with the | ||
| + | excited enthusiasts and at last the city police were asked to | ||
| + | assist. They tried to clear the field, but only succeeded in | ||
| + | driving the crowd from the infield. Spectators were so thick in the | ||
| + | outfield that they crowded upon the bases and prevented the players | ||
| + | from doing their best. For that matter the outfielders could not do | ||
| + | much of anything.</ | ||
| + | <p>A ground rule of two bases into the crowd was established, | ||
| + | the New York players, who were the opponents of Brooklyn, took | ||
| + | advantage of it to drive the ball with all their force, trusting | ||
| + | that it would sail over the heads of the fielders and drop into the | ||
| + | crowd. They were so successful that they made a record for two-base | ||
| + | hits and Brooklyn was overwhelmed.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | team. The players recovered slightly, but had barely got into their | ||
| + | stride again when accidents to the men began to happen. Some of | ||
| + | them became ill, and the manager was put to his wits end to get a | ||
| + | team on the field which should make a good showing.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | it could. As the season warmed into the hotter months the infield | ||
| + | had to be rearranged. There was disappointment in the playing of | ||
| + | some of the infielders. It was also necessary to reconstruct the | ||
| + | outfield. Unable to get all of the men whom he would have desired | ||
| + | the manager continued to experiment and his experiments brought | ||
| + | forth good fruit, for unquestionably the excellent work of Moran, | ||
| + | who played both right field and center field for Brooklyn, was a | ||
| + | great help to the pitchers. By the time that the Base Ball playing | ||
| + | year was almost concluded Brooklyn had so far recovered that it was | ||
| + | able to place a better nine on the diamond than had been the case | ||
| + | all of the year.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | material was not there for a championship organization, | ||
| + | did play better ball than in 1911 and that is to the credit of | ||
| + | players, manager and owner. The club had changed hands, but the new | ||
| + | owner had not been able to readjust all of the positions to suit | ||
| + | him. He put the best nine possible in the field with what he had. | ||
| + | Never threatening to become a championship winning team Boston | ||
| + | played steadily with what strength it possessed and always a little | ||
| + | better than in 1911, so that the year could not fairly be | ||
| + | considered unsuccessful at its finish.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | contest for the National League championship of 1912, it is not | ||
| + | uninteresting, | ||
| + | the remarkably odd record which was made by New York to win the | ||
| + | pennant. In that record stands the story of the fight, with | ||
| + | striking shifts from week to week.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | been related, and it was won by New York and that, by the way, was | ||
| + | the game in which Marquard began his admirable record as a pitcher | ||
| + | for the season.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Brooklyn and one to Boston, and the players of the New York team | ||
| + | began to wonder a little as to what had happened to them.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | being stopped finally by Philadelphia on the Polo Grounds. But that | ||
| + | defeat did not check them. They started on another winning spurt | ||
| + | and played throughout the west without a defeat until they arrived | ||
| + | in Cincinnati. This total of victories was nine. All of the games | ||
| + | on the schedule were not played because of inclement weather.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the tables on the Reds, who had been leading the league. They threw | ||
| + | them out of the lead, which they never regained, and won another | ||
| + | succession of nine victories. That made three times consecutively | ||
| + | that they had won a total of twenty-seven games in groups of nine, | ||
| + | assuredly an unusual result.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | they won six games in succession. Then they lost a game. After this | ||
| + | single defeat they won but three games. Their charm of games in | ||
| + | blocks of nine had deserted them. They were beaten twice after | ||
| + | winning three, and Pittsburgh was the team.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | victory lost to Brooklyn. But that was the last defeat for a long | ||
| + | time. Well into the race, with their condition excellent, and | ||
| + | playing better ball than they had played since their wonderful | ||
| + | spurt of the month of September in 1911, they won sixteen games in | ||
| + | succession.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | was thick and muggy and without life. The Giants were scheduled to | ||
| + | play two games that day with Brooklyn, the first in the morning and | ||
| + | the second in the afternoon. If they won both of them they would | ||
| + | tie a former record, which had been made by the New York team, for | ||
| + | consecutive victories.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | winning or it may have been an uncommonly good streak of batting on | ||
| + | the part of Brooklyn. Surely Brooklyn batted well enough, as the | ||
| + | morning game went to the latter team by the score of 10 to 4. In | ||
| + | the afternoon Brooklyn again beat the Giants by the score of 5 to | ||
| + | 2. Wiltse pitched for New York and Stack for Brooklyn.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | The fourth game was won from Chicago and then the Giants lost two | ||
| + | in succession.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | succession. Chicago began to have visions of winning the | ||
| + | pennant.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | series of three games, winning two and losing one. Their next call | ||
| + | was at Cincinnati and beginning with that series they got back to | ||
| + | form a trifle and won five games in succession.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | in succession by Chicago. After that New York settled into a | ||
| + | winning stride again and won six games in succession. Pittsburgh | ||
| + | came to the Polo Grounds and stopped the winning streak of the | ||
| + | champions by defeating them three times in succession. That was a | ||
| + | hard jolt for any team to stand. Yet the Giants rallied and won the | ||
| + | test game of the Pittsburgh series.</ | ||
| + | <p>It was but a momentary pause, for after another victory St. | ||
| + | Louis beat New York. The Giants won another game and the next day | ||
| + | lost to St. Louis. That finished the home games for New York and | ||
| + | the team started west, facing a desperate fight. They lost the | ||
| + | first game to Chicago, won the next and lost the third. Going from | ||
| + | Chicago to St. Louis they won three games in succession, returning | ||
| + | to Chicago, lost a postponed game with the Cubs.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the first contest. Then they made the stand of the season when they | ||
| + | beat the Pittsburghs four games in succession.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | of the New York fans and won twice, when it seemed as if the Giants | ||
| + | were about to start on a career which would safely land the | ||
| + | championship. The Giants returned home and beat Brooklyn in the | ||
| + | first game and lost the second. They won the next two and then lost | ||
| + | again. The championship was still in abeyance. Again they won and | ||
| + | then lost to Philadelphia.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | which contained postponed games, and once more rallying with all | ||
| + | their might, won four games and lost the last of this series of | ||
| + | five.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | They won three times in succession and then lost four games to | ||
| + | Chicago and Cincinnati, but all of this time Chicago was gradually | ||
| + | falling away because it was necessary that the Cubs should continue | ||
| + | to win successive victories if they were to beat New York for the | ||
| + | championship.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | and Cincinnati by winning the next four games in succession, and | ||
| + | while this did not actually settle the championship, | ||
| + | definite championship game had not been played, the race was | ||
| + | practically over and all that was left to fight for in the National | ||
| + | League was second place, in which Chicago and Pittsburgh were most | ||
| + | interested. The pitching staff of the Chicagos had worn out under | ||
| + | the strain and the Cubs were beaten out by Pittsburgh.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | follows:</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON APRIL 30. | ||
| + | | ||
| + | Cincinnati | ||
| + | New York | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 15. | ||
| + | | ||
| + | New York 18 4 | ||
| + | Cincinnati | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Pittsburgh | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 31. | ||
| + | | ||
| + | New York 28 7 | ||
| + | Cincinnati | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Pittsburgh | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 15. | ||
| + | | ||
| + | New York 37 | ||
| + | Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Cincinnati | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 30. | ||
| + | | ||
| + | New York 50 | ||
| + | Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Cincinnati | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 15. | ||
| + | | ||
| + | New York 58 | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Cincinnati | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 31. | ||
| + | | ||
| + | New York 67 | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Philadelphia | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 15. | ||
| + | | ||
| + | New York 73 | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Philadelphia | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 31. | ||
| + | | ||
| + | New York 82 | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Philadelphia | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 15 | ||
| + | | ||
| + | New York 95 | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Cincinnati | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 30 | ||
| + | | ||
| + | New York | ||
| + | Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Cincinnati | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | Club. N.Y. Pitts. Chi. Cin. Phil. St.L. Bkln. Bos. Won. PC. | ||
| + | New York -- 12 | ||
| + | Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Cincinnati | ||
| + | Philadelphia | ||
| + | St. Louis 7 | ||
| + | Brooklyn | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | -- -- -- | ||
| + | Lost 48 58 59 | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | by the Pittsburgh club and thrown out of the records, taking a | ||
| + | victory from the Chicago club and a defeat from the Pittsburgh | ||
| + | club.</ | ||
| + | <a name=" | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | individually, | ||
| + | different angles, agree on the main points there usually is good | ||
| + | reason behind such near unanimity. Outside of Boston it is doubtful | ||
| + | if any experienced critic of Base Ball in the country expected the | ||
| + | Red Sox to be converted from a second division team into pennant | ||
| + | winners in one short season. If such expectancy existed in Boston | ||
| + | it was partially a case of the wish fathering the thought. The | ||
| + | majority of men believed the machine with which Connie Mack had | ||
| + | achieved two league and two world' | ||
| + | least one more American League pennant. That expectation was based | ||
| + | on the comparative youth of the important cogs in the Athletic | ||
| + | machine. Yet this dope went all wrong. The Athletics were beaten | ||
| + | out by two teams which were in the second division in 1911, one of | ||
| + | them as low as seventh place.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | Washington teams improved magically in new hands, while the | ||
| + | Athletics went back a bit, partly because of too much prosperity | ||
| + | and partly because of adversity. Having come from behind in 1911 | ||
| + | and made a winning from a wretched start, the Mackmen apparently | ||
| + | thought they could do it again and delayed starting their fight | ||
| + | until it was too late. The loss of the services of Dan Murphy for | ||
| + | more than half of the season also was a prime factor.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | time kept everybody guessing by their whirlwind start under new | ||
| + | management. They walked over every opponent they tackled for the | ||
| + | first few weeks, then began to slip and it required herculean | ||
| + | efforts to keep them in the first division at the finish. The | ||
| + | Chicago team always was a puzzle to all parties to the race, | ||
| + | including itself.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | teams in the league. Cleveland and Detroit occasionally broke into | ||
| + | the upper circles for a day or two in the early weeks of the | ||
| + | season, but not far enough to rouse any false anticipations among | ||
| + | their supporters. St. Louis and New York quickly gravitated to the | ||
| + | lower strata and remained there, the Yankees finally losing out in | ||
| + | their battle with the Browns to keep out of last place.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | managers. One of the three which began the race under leaders | ||
| + | retained from the previous year changed horses in mid-stream. Jake | ||
| + | Stahl, Harry Wolverton, Clark Griffith, Harry Davis and James | ||
| + | Callahan were the new faces in the managerial gallery. Some of them | ||
| + | were not exactly new to the job but were in new jobs. Of these | ||
| + | Stahl, Griffith and Callahan proved successful leaders and the | ||
| + | first named became the hero of a world' | ||
| + | last ball of the series was caught. Davis resigned during the | ||
| + | season and was succeeded by Joe Birmingham, who almost duplicated | ||
| + | the feat of George Stovall in 1911, putting new life into the | ||
| + | Cleveland team and starting a spurt which made the race for | ||
| + | position interesting. Wolverton stuck the season out in spite of | ||
| + | handicaps that would have discouraged anybody, then handed in his | ||
| + | resignation. Wallace, who started the year at the helm again in St. | ||
| + | Louis, cheerfully handed over the management to Stovall, who had | ||
| + | been transplanted into the Mound City in the hope of making Davis' | ||
| + | task easier in Cleveland. Stovall made the Browns a hard team to | ||
| + | beat and had the mild satisfaction of hoisting them out of the | ||
| + | cellar which they had occupied for the better part of three | ||
| + | seasons.</ | ||
| + | <p>An unpleasant feature of the season, but one which had | ||
| + | beneficial results, was the strike of the Detroit players, | ||
| + | entailing the staging of a farcical game in Philadelphia between | ||
| + | the Athletics and a team of semi-professionals. This incident grew | ||
| + | out of an attack on a New York spectator by Ty Cobb while in | ||
| + | uniform and the immediate suspension of the player for an | ||
| + | indefinite period.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | against the action of the Detroit players and the diplomatic | ||
| + | efforts of President Navin of that club averted serious or extended | ||
| + | trouble and undoubtedly furnished a warning against any similar act | ||
| + | in the near future. Another, excellent result was the effort made | ||
| + | by club owners to prevent the abuse of the right of free speech by | ||
| + | that small element of the game's patronage which finds its greatest | ||
| + | joy in abusing the players, secure in the knowledge that it is | ||
| + | practically protected from personal injury in retaliation.</ | ||
| + | <p>In the development of new players of note the league enjoyed an | ||
| + | average season, and a considerable amount of new blood was injected | ||
| + | into the game in the persons of players who made good without | ||
| + | attracting freakish attention. The rise of the Washington team from | ||
| + | seventh to second place brought its youngsters into the limelight | ||
| + | prominently, | ||
| + | Gandil, who had his second tryout in fast company, plugged the hole | ||
| + | at first base which had worried Washington managers for some time. | ||
| + | Shanks also made a reputation for himself as a fielder. These men | ||
| + | were helped somewhat by the showing of their team, but the case of | ||
| + | Gandil would have been notable In any company. His first advent | ||
| + | into the majors with the White Sox showed him to be an exceedingly | ||
| + | promising player, but for some reason his work fell off until he | ||
| + | was discarded into the International League. There he quickly | ||
| + | recovered his stride and, when he did come back shortly after the | ||
| + | season opened last spring, he demonstrated that he had the ability | ||
| + | to hit consistently and proved a tower of strength to Griffith' | ||
| + | team.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | youngster making good in spite of comparatively poor company. His | ||
| + | pitching record with a team which finished in seventh place stamps | ||
| + | him as one of the best, if not the best, of the slab finds of the | ||
| + | year. Jean Dubuc of Detroit was another find of rare value and | ||
| + | still another was Buck O' | ||
| + | advantage over Baumgardner of getting better support both in the | ||
| + | field and at bat. O' | ||
| + | with a championship team.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | promise to keep on doing so. Two of them, George Weaver and Morris | ||
| + | Rath, started the season with Chicago and the third, Baker Borton, | ||
| + | joined the team late in the summer. Still later Kay Schalk started | ||
| + | in to make what looks like a name for himself as a catcher.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | <p>No better illustration of the slight difference between a | ||
| + | pennant winning machine and a losing team in the American League | ||
| + | has occurred recently than the Boston Red Sox furnished last year. | ||
| + | It did not differ materially from the team of 1910 which compelled | ||
| + | the use of the nickname "Speed Boys." Jake Stahl was a member of | ||
| + | that team, and except for the absence of Stahl in 1911, the | ||
| + | champions of 1912 were composed of practically the same men who | ||
| + | finished in the second division only the year before. But for the | ||
| + | showing of 1910 the whole credit for last season' | ||
| + | might be attributed to Manager Stahl. Much of it unquestionably is | ||
| + | his by right, and there is no intent here to deprive him of any of | ||
| + | the high honors he achieved.</ | ||
| + | <p>To Stahl' | ||
| + | the improvement in the team. The outfield trio of wonderful | ||
| + | performers did not perform any more wonders last year than in the | ||
| + | previous season, but what had been holes on the infield were | ||
| + | plugged tightly. Many looked askance when Larry Gardner, supposedly | ||
| + | a second baseman, was assigned to third, but the results more than | ||
| + | justified the move, and it made room at second for Yerkes, a player | ||
| + | who had proved only mediocre on the other side of the diamond. This | ||
| + | switch and the return of Stahl, who is a grand mark to throw at on | ||
| + | first base, gave the infield the same dash and confidence as the | ||
| + | outfield possessed, and the addition of some pitching strength in | ||
| + | Bedient and O' | ||
| + | just the right combination that differentiates the real manager | ||
| + | from the semi-failure.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | eclipsed for a time by the White Sox. In spite of that the | ||
| + | Bostonians never faltered but kept up a mighty consistent gait all | ||
| + | the way and wore down all competitors before the finish. Stahl' | ||
| + | men never were lower than second place in the race with the | ||
| + | exception of three days early in May. when Washington poked its | ||
| + | nose in front of the Red Sox and started after the White Sox, only | ||
| + | to be driven back into third place by the men of Callahan | ||
| + | themselves. For more than a week in April Boston was in the lead. | ||
| + | Then Chicago went out and established a lead so long that it lasted | ||
| + | until near the middle of June. Boston attended strictly to its | ||
| + | knitting, however. Without stopping in their steady stride, the Red | ||
| + | Sox hung on, waiting for the Callahans to slump. When their chance | ||
| + | came in June the Bostonians jumped into the lead& | ||
| + | the exact date& | ||
| + | dust.</ | ||
| + | <p>By the Fourth of July Boston had a lead of seven games over the | ||
| + | Athletics. The Red Sox kept right along at their even gait and a | ||
| + | month later were leading by the same margin over Washington, which | ||
| + | had displaced the former champions. On September 1 Boston' | ||
| + | was thirteen games, but it was not until September 18 that the | ||
| + | American League pennant was actually cinched beyond the possibility | ||
| + | of losing it.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | into the files for the dope, revealed the fact that the newspaper | ||
| + | reports of about every third game they played on the average | ||
| + | contained some reference to " | ||
| + | anything from their glory. No team ever won a major league pennant | ||
| + | unless it was lucky. No team ever had as steady a run of luck as | ||
| + | Boston enjoyed in 1912, unless that team made a lot of its own luck | ||
| + | by persistently hammering away when luck was against it and keeping | ||
| + | ever on the alert to take advantage of an opening.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | the work of the Red Sox all season and the fact they did not | ||
| + | experience a serious slump. In the first month of the season they | ||
| + | won twelve games and lost eight. The second month of the race was | ||
| + | their poorest one& | ||
| + | month they won eight and lost ten games. In the third month Boston | ||
| + | won twenty-three and lost seven games. The fourth month saw them | ||
| + | win twenty games and lose eight and in the fifth month their record | ||
| + | was twenty victories and five defeats. In the final stages of the | ||
| + | race the Red Sox were not under as strong pressure from behind and | ||
| + | naturally did not travel as fast after sighting the wire, but the | ||
| + | figures produced explain why Boston won the pennant. It started | ||
| + | well and kept going faster until there was no longer need for | ||
| + | speed. The annexation of the world' | ||
| + | breaking world' | ||
| + | climax to their season' | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | invasion of the season with a team of youngsters, some of them | ||
| + | practically unknown, and declared he was going after the pennant, | ||
| + | everybody laughed or wanted to. A few weeks later everybody who had | ||
| + | laughed was sorry, and those who only wanted to laugh were glad | ||
| + | they didn' | ||
| + | pitch during the greater part of the season, and when they did | ||
| + | start slumping in September, he made a slight switch on his | ||
| + | infield, applied the brakes and started them going up again. The | ||
| + | result was that Washington finished second for the first time in | ||
| + | its major league history, winning that position in the closing days | ||
| + | of the race after a bitter tussle with the passing world' | ||
| + | champions.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | base which had defied the efforts of several predecessors to stop | ||
| + | and it helped make a brilliant infield, for it gave the youngsters | ||
| + | something they were not afraid to throw at. In giving credit for | ||
| + | the work of Griffith' | ||
| + | the worth of the new stars. But there was a tower of strength at | ||
| + | short in George McBride, who has been playing steadily and | ||
| + | consistently at that position for several seasons without being | ||
| + | given one-tenth the credit his work has merited.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | position in the race except the first and last. The Senators were | ||
| + | in seventh place for a few days in the opening weeks of the season, | ||
| + | but not anywhere nearly as long as they were in second place later | ||
| + | on. They climbed out of the second division by rapid stages and | ||
| + | after May 1 they were driven back into it only once during the rest | ||
| + | of the year. That was for three days in the beginning of June. In | ||
| + | the meantime they had knocked Boston out of second place for a | ||
| + | short while in May and, most of the way, had enjoyed a close fight | ||
| + | with Philadelphia for third and fourth spots. Near the middle of | ||
| + | June, after the Red Sox had ousted their White namesakes from first | ||
| + | place, the Senators also passed Chicago and started after Boston. | ||
| + | But the youngsters were not yet hardened to the strain and soon | ||
| + | fell back to third and fourth. On July 5 Washington went into | ||
| + | second place and held onto it, with the exception of three days, | ||
| + | for a period of two months. September brought a slump and | ||
| + | Griffith' | ||
| + | for about two weeks, then came back and took it away from the | ||
| + | Mackmen at the end.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | not really know until after the middle of the season. Then the | ||
| + | suspensions of Chief Bender and Rube Oldring blazoned the fact that | ||
| + | Manager Mack's splendid system of handling a Base Ball team by | ||
| + | moral suasion had fallen down in the face of overconfidence and too | ||
| + | much prosperity. Few people saw any reason for changing their | ||
| + | belief in the prowess of the Athletics during the first half of the | ||
| + | season, because they were in as good position most of the time as | ||
| + | they had been the year previous at the same stage of the race. They | ||
| + | were expected to make the same strong finish that swept everything | ||
| + | before it in 1911. Not until the second half of the season was well | ||
| + | under way did the adherents of the Mackmen give up the battle.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | right all the year, but the outfield and the slab staff gave Connie | ||
| + | Mack sleepless nights. When Dan Murphy was injured in Chicago in | ||
| + | June it was discovered what he had meant to the team. Dan was what | ||
| + | the final punch is to a boxing star. His timely batting was missed | ||
| + | in knocking out opponents, and the injury kept him out all the rest | ||
| + | of the season. The strain which Jack Coombs gave his side in the | ||
| + | world' | ||
| + | expected, and if Eddie Plank had not come back into grand form it | ||
| + | would have been a tougher season than it was for the Athletics.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | were in the second division. During all of May and part of June | ||
| + | they climbed into the first division and fell out of it with great | ||
| + | regularity. Not until near the middle of June did the Athletics | ||
| + | gain a strangle hold on the upper half of the league standing, from | ||
| + | that time on they kept above the .500 mark, and toward the end of | ||
| + | June they met the White Sox coming back. There was a short scuffle | ||
| + | during the early part of July among the Athletics, Senators and | ||
| + | White Sox for the possession of the position next to Boston. Then | ||
| + | Chicago was pushed back, leaving Philadelphia and Washington to | ||
| + | fight it out the rest of the way. Trimming the Phillies four out of | ||
| + | five games in their city series did not lessen the gloom of the | ||
| + | Athletics.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | good condition at the start. Although the Chicagoans experienced | ||
| + | tough weather in Texas last spring they fared better than any of | ||
| + | the other teams in their league, and that fact, combined with the | ||
| + | readiness with which youth gets into playing trim, enabled the | ||
| + | White Sox to walk through the early weeks of their schedule with an | ||
| + | ease that astonished everybody. Even prophets who were friendly to | ||
| + | them had expected no such showing. So fast did the Callahans travel | ||
| + | that on May 3 they had lost only four games, having won thirteen in | ||
| + | that time. But Boston was hanging on persistently. Chicago' | ||
| + | over the Red Sox varied from four to five and a half games; during | ||
| + | May, on the fourteenth of that month the White Sox had won | ||
| + | twenty-one games and lost only five, giving them the percentage of | ||
| + | .808. During part of this time they were on their first invasion of | ||
| + | the east. May 18 saw the Chicago men five and a half games in the | ||
| + | lead and their constituents were dreaming of another world' | ||
| + | pennant almost every night.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | found the right combination. Just then came the awakening. The luck | ||
| + | which had been coming their way began breaking against them with | ||
| + | remarkable persistency. Plays that had won game after game went | ||
| + | wrong and youth was not resourceful enough to offset the breaks. | ||
| + | The White Sox began to fall away fast in percentage, but managed to | ||
| + | cling to the lead until June 10. Boston passed them right there and | ||
| + | the Chicagoans kept on going.</ | ||
| + | <p>By mid-season Manager Callahan was fighting to keep his men in | ||
| + | the first division and their slump did not end until they landed in | ||
| + | fifth place for a couple of days in August. Then in desperation | ||
| + | Callahan began switching his line-up and by herculean | ||
| + | effort& | ||
| + | upper quartet and stuck there to the finish. It was a desperate | ||
| + | remedy to take Harry Lord off third base, where he had played | ||
| + | during most of his professional career, and try to convert him into | ||
| + | an outfielder, a position in which he had had no experience at all. | ||
| + | But Lord was too good an offensive player to take out of the game, | ||
| + | in spite of his slump at third base, and he was willing to try the | ||
| + | outfield. Results justified the move. Lord learned outfielding | ||
| + | rapidly, and Zeider proved that third base was his natural | ||
| + | position. The acquisition of Borton for first base enabled Callahan | ||
| + | to put Collins in the outfield, and the White Sox in reality were a | ||
| + | stronger team when they finished than when they started their | ||
| + | runaway race in April. With one more reliable pitcher to take his | ||
| + | turn regularly on the slab all season the White Sox would have kept | ||
| + | in the race. Callahan' | ||
| + | they produced by beating the Cubs in a nine-game post-season | ||
| + | series, after the Cubs had won three victories. Two of the nine | ||
| + | games were drawn and one other went into extra innings, making a | ||
| + | more extended combat than the world' | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | 1911, even to swapping managers in mid-season. Harry Davis, for | ||
| + | years first lieutenant to Connie Mack, took the management or the | ||
| + | Naps under a severe handicap. He succeeded a temporary manager, | ||
| + | George Stovall, who had made good in the latter half of the | ||
| + | previous season, but who could not be retained without abrogating a | ||
| + | previous agreement with Davis. The public did not take kindly to | ||
| + | the situation when the Naps failed to get into the fight, and the | ||
| + | new management had a pitching staff of youngsters with out much of | ||
| + | a catching staff to help them out when in trouble.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | first fortnight, although it retained a respectable position at the | ||
| + | top of the second division, with an occasional journey into the | ||
| + | first division during the first month or six weeks. In the middle | ||
| + | of June the Naps dropped back into sixth place, below Detroit, for | ||
| + | a while, then took a brace and reclaimed the leadership of the | ||
| + | second squad for part of July. Midway in August found Cleveland | ||
| + | apparently anchored in sixth spot and, with the consent of the | ||
| + | Cleveland club owners, Manager Davis resigned his position.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | with enthusiasm but without experience, just as Stovall did the | ||
| + | previous year. He infused new life into the team, shook it up a | ||
| + | bit, and improved its playing so much that Cleveland passed Detroit | ||
| + | before the end of the race, and was threatening to knock Chicago | ||
| + | out of fourth place at one time. This would have happened but for | ||
| + | the brace of the White Sox. Profiting by previous experience the | ||
| + | club owners did not look around for a permanent manager until they | ||
| + | saw what Birmingham could do, and in consequence were in position | ||
| + | to offer him the leadership of the Naps for the season of 1913.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | that had won three straight pennants was slowing up, with the | ||
| + | exception of Tyrus Cobb, who has yet to reach the meridian of his | ||
| + | career, and the Georgian got into trouble fairly early in the | ||
| + | season, with the result that he was suspended for a considerable | ||
| + | period. That and the strike of the Tigers in Philadelphia threw a | ||
| + | monkey-wrench into the machinery, resulting in a tangle which | ||
| + | Jennings was unable to straighten out all the season. There was a | ||
| + | problem at first base which he had a hard time solving. The break | ||
| + | in Del Gainor' | ||
| + | have done, and he was unable to play the position regularly. | ||
| + | Moriarty was pressed into service there and did good work in an | ||
| + | unfamiliar position; then the infield was shifted several times | ||
| + | without marked benefit. Donovan, who had always been of great help | ||
| + | on the slab in hot weather, was not equal to the task of another | ||
| + | year and was made manager of the Providence team. Jean Dubuc was | ||
| + | the only one of the young pitchers who proved a star, but his work | ||
| + | kept the Tigers from being a lot more disappointing proposition | ||
| + | than they were.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | after the season opened it was apparent they were doomed to fight | ||
| + | it out for the last round on the ladder. That the Browns finally | ||
| + | escaped the cellar in the closing days of the race was due largely | ||
| + | to the efforts of Stovall, who was made manager to succeed Wallace | ||
| + | near the middle of the season.</ | ||
| + | <p>As early as the first of May it was seen the Browns and Yankees | ||
| + | were destined to trail. The New York team quickly gravitated to the | ||
| + | bottom. It started without the services of Catcher Eddie Sweeney, | ||
| + | who held out for a larger salary, and it had a manager at the helm | ||
| + | who was inexperienced in major league leadership. Not until April | ||
| + | 24 did New York win a game and in that time it had lost seven | ||
| + | straight, postponements accounting for the rest of the time.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | to dispute sixth place with Detroit, but on May 1 the Browns found | ||
| + | only New York between them and the basement. In the middle of May | ||
| + | the Yankees passed St. Louis and ran seventh in the race until | ||
| + | July. 4. But accident and injury, and the loss of Cree, shot the | ||
| + | Yankees to pieces. For nearly six weeks, however, it was a battle | ||
| + | royal between New York and St. Louis to escape the last hole, but | ||
| + | in the middle of August the Yankees again established their | ||
| + | superiority, | ||
| + | September. In the homestretch the new blood given Stovall enabled | ||
| + | him to pull his men out of the last notch just before the schedule | ||
| + | ran out. This feat was soon forgotten in the defeat of the Browns | ||
| + | by the Cardinals in their post-prandial series for the championship | ||
| + | of the Mound City.</ | ||
| + | <hr> | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | performances in the American League. Walter Johnson of Washington, | ||
| + | and Joe Wood of Boston were credited with sixteen straight | ||
| + | victories, which raised the American League record in that respect | ||
| + | from fourteen straight, formerly held by Jack Chesbro of the | ||
| + | Yankees. Mullin of Detroit and Hamilton of St. Louis added their | ||
| + | names to the list of hurlers who have held opponents without a safe | ||
| + | hit in nine innings. Mullin performed his hitless feat against St. | ||
| + | Louis and Hamilton retaliated by holding Detroit without a safety. | ||
| + | The number of games in which pitchers escaped with less than four | ||
| + | hits against them was smaller than usual, however. There were only | ||
| + | seventy-eight shut-out games recorded last season by comparison | ||
| + | with the American League' | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | innings, Washington defeating Philadelphia in that combat 5 to 4, | ||
| + | and it was played late in September when the two teams were | ||
| + | scrapping for second place. The American League record for overtime | ||
| + | is twenty-four innings, held by Philadelphia and Boston. There were | ||
| + | a lot of slugging games in 1912, but not as many as during the | ||
| + | season of 1911. Philadelphia piled up the highest total, 25, in | ||
| + | eight innings, but it was made against the semi-professional team | ||
| + | which wore Detroit uniforms on the day the Tigers struck. The | ||
| + | highest genuine total of hits was twenty-three, | ||
| + | Athletics against New York pitchers. The Athletics also run up the | ||
| + | highest score of the league' | ||
| + | twenty-four runs against Detroit In May.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | follows:</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 1. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Club. Won. Lost. PC. | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | Washington | ||
| + | Cleveland | ||
| + | Athletics | ||
| + | Detroit | ||
| + | St. Louis 5 | ||
| + | New York | ||
| + | |||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 15. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | Washington | ||
| + | Cleveland | ||
| + | Detroit | ||
| + | Athletics | ||
| + | New York | ||
| + | St. Louis 6 17 .261 | ||
| + | |||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 1. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | Detroit | ||
| + | Athletics | ||
| + | Cleveland | ||
| + | Washington | ||
| + | New York 12 23 .343 | ||
| + | St. Louis | ||
| + | |||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 15. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Washington | ||
| + | Athletics | ||
| + | Detroit | ||
| + | Cleveland | ||
| + | New York 17 31 .364 | ||
| + | St. Louis | ||
| + | |||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 1. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | Athletics | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Washington | ||
| + | Cleveland | ||
| + | Detroit | ||
| + | New York 18 44 .290 | ||
| + | St. Louis | ||
| + | |||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 15. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | Washington | ||
| + | Athletics | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Cleveland | ||
| + | Detroit | ||
| + | New York 22 53 .298 | ||
| + | St. Louis | ||
| + | |||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 1. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | Washington | ||
| + | Athletics | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Detroit | ||
| + | Cleveland | ||
| + | New York 31 53 .333 | ||
| + | St. Louis | ||
| + | |||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 15. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | Athletics | ||
| + | Washington | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Detroit | ||
| + | Cleveland | ||
| + | New York 36 73 .327 | ||
| + | St. Louis | ||
| + | |||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 1. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | Washington | ||
| + | Athletics | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Detroit | ||
| + | Cleveland | ||
| + | New York 45 | ||
| + | St. Louis | ||
| + | |||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 15. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | Athletics | ||
| + | Washington | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Detroit | ||
| + | Cleveland | ||
| + | New York 48 | ||
| + | St. Louis | ||
| + | |||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS ON OCTOBER 1. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | Washington | ||
| + | Athletics | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Cleveland | ||
| + | Detroit | ||
| + | St. Louis | ||
| + | New York 49 100 .329 | ||
| + | |||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON | ||
| + | |||
| + | | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | Washington | ||
| + | Athletics | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Cleveland | ||
| + | Detroit | ||
| + | St. Louis | ||
| + | New York 3 7 | ||
| + | | ||
| + | | ||
| + | |||
| + | NATIONAL LEAGUE | ||
| + | |||
| + | STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON. | ||
| + | |||
| + | N.Y. Pitts.Chi. Cin. Phil.St.L. Bkln. Bos. Won. PC. | ||
| + | |||
| + | New York | ||
| + | Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Chicago | ||
| + | Cincinnati | ||
| + | Philadelphia | ||
| + | St. Louis | ||
| + | Brooklyn | ||
| + | Boston | ||
| + | | ||
| + | Lost | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | by the Pittsburgh club and thrown out of the records, taking a | ||
| + | victory from the Chicago club and a defeat from the Pittsburgh | ||
| + | club.</ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | 1871- Athletics | ||
| + | 1872- Boston | ||
| + | 1873- Boston | ||
| + | 1874- Boston | ||
| + | 1875- Boston | ||
| + | 1876- Chicago | ||
| + | 1877- Boston | ||
| + | 1878- Boston | ||
| + | 1879- Providence .702 | 1893- Boston | ||
| + | 1880- Chicago | ||
| + | 1881- Chicago | ||
| + | 1882- Chicago | ||
| + | 1883- Boston | ||
| + | 1884- Providence .750 | 1898- Boston | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | < | ||
| + | players who participated in any manner in at least fifteen | ||
| + | championship games during the season of 1912:</ | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | Name and Club G. A.B. R. H. T.B. 2B 3B HR SH SB PC | ||
| + | Zimmerman, Chicago | ||
| + | Meyers, New York 126 371 60 133 177 16 | ||
| + | Sweeney, Boston | ||
| + | Evers, Chicago | ||
| + | Bresnaban, St. Louis | ||
| + | McCormick, New York 42 | ||
| + | Doyle, New York | ||
| + | Kuisely, Cincinnati | ||
| + | Lobert, Philadelphia | ||
| + | Wiltse, New York | ||
| + | Wagner, Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Hendrix, Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Kirke, Boston | ||
| + | Kelly, Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Marsans, Cincinnati | ||
| + | Kling, Boston | ||
| + | Donlin, Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Stengel, Brooklyn | ||
| + | Paskert, Philadelphia 145 540 102 170 221 38 | ||
| + | Konetchy, St. Louis | ||
| + | Crandall, New York | ||
| + | Titus, | ||
| + | Philadelphia-Boston 141 502 99 155 224 32 11 | ||
| + | Merkle, New York 129 479 82 148 215 22 | ||
| + | Daubert, Brooklyn | ||
| + | |||
| + | W. Miller, Chicago | ||
| + | S. Magee, Phila | ||
| + | Wheat, Brooklyn | ||
| + | Huggins, St. Louis 120 431 82 131 154 15 | ||
| + | Carey, Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Edington, Pittsburgh | ||
| + | Simon, Pittsburgh | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | </ | ||
| + | <hr class=" | ||
| + | </ | ||
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