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<h1>SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASEBALL GUIDE<br>
<br>
1913</h1>

<center><b>EDITED BY</b></center>
<center><b>JOHN B. FOSTER</b></center>
<br>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<center>PRICE 10 CENTS</center>
<center>PUBLISHED BY</center>
<center>AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING CO.,</center>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<center>[Advertisement]</center>
<center>AMERICA'S NATIONAL GAME</center>
<center>By A. G. SPALDING</center>
<center>PRICE, $2.00 NET</center>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<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.</p>
<p>The above work should have a place in every public library in
this country, as also in the libraries of public schools and
private houses.</p>
<p>The author of "America's National Game" is conceded, always,
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.</p>
<p>Almost from the very inception of the game until the present
time&mdash;as player, manager and magnate&mdash;Mr. Spalding has
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.</p>
<p>The book is a veritable repository of information concerning
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.</p>
<p>The response on the part of the press and the public to Mr.
Spalding's efforts to perpetuate the early history of the National
Game has been very encouraging and he is in receipt of hundreds of
letters and notices, a few of which are here given.</p>
<p>ROBERT ADAMSON, New York, writing from the office of Mayor
Gaynor, says:&mdash;"Seeing the Giants play is my principal
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."</p>
<p>BARNEY DREYFUSS, owner of the Pittsburg National League
club:&mdash;"It does honor to author as well as the game. I have
enjoyed reading it very much."</p>
<p>WALTER CAMP, well known foot ball expert and athlete,
says:&mdash;"It is indeed a remarkable work and one that I have
read with a great deal of interest."</p>
<p>JOHN B. DAY, formerly President of the New York
Nationals:&mdash;"Your wonderful work will outlast all of us."</p>
<p>W. IRVING SNYDER, formerly of the house of Peck &amp;
Snyder:&mdash;"I have read the book from cover to cover with great
interest."</p>
<p>ANDREW PECK, formerly of the celebrated firm of Peck &amp;
Snyder:&mdash;"All base ball fans should read and see how the game
was conducted in early years."</p>
<p>MELVILLE E. STONE, New York, General Manager Associated
Press:&mdash;"I find it full of valuable information and very
interesting. I prize it very highly."</p>
<p>GEORGE BARNARD, Chicago:&mdash;"Words fail to express my
appreciation of the book. It carries me back to the early days of
base ball and makes me feel like a young man again."</p>
<p>CHARLES W. MURPHY, President Chicago National League
club:&mdash;"The book is a very valuable work and will become a
part of every base ball library in the country."</p>
<p>JOHN F. MORILL, Boston, Mass., old time base ball star.&mdash;"I
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."</p>
<p>RALPH D. PAINE, popular magazine writer and a leading authority
on college sport:&mdash;"I have been reading the book with a great
deal of interest. 'It fills a long felt want,' and you are a
national benefactor for writing it."</p>
<p>GEN. FRED FUNSTON, hero of the Philippine war:&mdash;"I read the
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's Round Table so many years ago."</p>
<p>DEWOLF HOPPER, celebrated operatic artist and
comedian:&mdash;"Apart from the splendid history of the evolution
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."</p>
<p>HUGH NICOL, Director of Athletics, Purdue University, Lafayette,
Ind.:&mdash;"No one that has read this book has appreciated it more
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."</p>
<p>MRS. BRITTON, owner of the St. Louis Nationals, through her
treasurer, H.D. Seekamp, writes:&mdash;"Mrs. Britton has been very
much interested in the volume and has read with pleasure a number
of chapters, gaining valuable information as to the history of the
game."</p>
<p>REV. CHARLES H. PARKHURST, D.D., New York:&mdash;"Although I am
not very much of a 'sport,' I nevertheless believe in sports, and
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."</p>
<p>BRUCE CARTWRIGHT, son of Alexander J. Cartwright, founder of the
Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, the first organization of ball
players in existence, writing from his home at Honolulu, Hawaiian
Islands, says:&mdash;"I have read the book with great interest and
it is my opinion that no better history of base ball could have
been written."</p>
<p>GEORGE W. FROST, San Diego, Calif.:&mdash;"You and 'Jim' White,
George Wright, Barnes, McVey, O'Rourke, etc., were little gods to
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."</p>
<p>A.J. REACH, Philadelphia, old time professional
expert:&mdash;"It certainly is an interesting revelation of the
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."</p>
<p>DR. LUTHER H. GULICK, Russell Sage Foundation:&mdash;"Mr.
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, hopes and ambitions in connection
with the game."</p>
<p><i>Pittsburg Press</i>:&mdash;"Historical incidents abound and
the book is an excellent authority on the famous sport."</p>
<p><i>Philadelphia Telegraph</i>:&mdash;"In this book Mr. Spalding
has written the most complete and authoritative story of base ball
yet published."</p>
<p><i>New York Herald</i>:&mdash;"If there is anyone in the country
competent to write a book on base ball it is A.G. Spalding who has
been interested in the game from its early beginnings."</p>
<p>I.E. Sanborn, Chicago <i>Tribune</i>:&mdash;"'America's National
Game' has been added to the <i>Tribune's</i> sporting reference
library as an invaluable contribution to the literature of the
national pastime."</p>
<p>O.C. Reichard, Chicago <i>Daily News</i>:&mdash;"It is cleverly
written and presents information and dates of great value to the
newspaper man of to-day!"</p>
<p>George C. Rice, Chicago <i>Journal</i>:&mdash;"I have read the
book through, and take pleasure in stating that it is a complete
history of the game from the beginning until the present time."</p>
<p>Sherman R. Duffy, Sporting Editor <i>Chicago
Journal</i>:&mdash;"It is a most interesting work and one for which
there was need. It is the most valuable addition to base ball
literature that has yet been put out."</p>
<p>Joseph H. Vila, New York <i>Sun</i>:&mdash;"I have read it
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."</p>
<p>Tim Murnane, Sporting Editor <i>Boston Globe</i>:&mdash;"You
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."</p>
<p>Francis C. Richter, Editor <i>Sporting Life</i>,
Philadelphia:&mdash;"From a purely literary standpoint, your work
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."</p>
<p><i>Los Angeles Times</i> (editorial):&mdash;"Spalding's book has
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, and it is time enough
that the fad was given an adequate text book."</p>
<p>Caspar Whitney, Editor <i>Outdoor America</i>, and one of the
leading authorities in the world on sport:&mdash;"You have made an
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&mdash;too often
dull and uninteresting."</p>
<p><i>New York World</i>:&mdash;"Albert G. Spalding, who really
grew up with the sport, has written 'America's National Game,'
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."</p>
<p><i>New York Sun</i>:&mdash;"There is a mass of interesting
information regarding base ball, as might be expected, in Mr.
Spalding's 'America's National Game.' It is safe to say that before
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."</p>
<p><i>Evening Telegram</i>, New York:&mdash;"In clear, concise,
entertaining, narrative style, Albert G. Spalding has contributed
in many respects the most interesting work pertaining to base ball,
the national game, which has been written.</p>
<p>"There is so much in it of interest that the temptation not to
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."</p>
<p><i>Providence</i> (R. I.) <i>Tribune</i>:&mdash;"The pictures of
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."</p>
<p><i>New York Evening Mail</i>:&mdash;"Were it possible to
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 'America's National Game'."</p>
<p><i>Columbus</i> (Ohio) <i>Dispatch</i>:&mdash;"Never before has
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."</p>
<p><i>New Orleans Picayune</i>:&mdash;"The pictures of old time
teams, players and magnates of a bygone era will interest every
lover of the game. Homer Davenport, America's great cartoonist, has
contributed drawings in his inimitable style of various phases of
the game."</p>
<p><i>Indianapolis Star</i>:&mdash;"From cover to cover, the 542
pages are filled with material for 'fanning bees,' which the
average 'fan' never before encountered. It is an interesting volume
for anyone who follows the national pastime and a valuable addition
to any library."</p>
<p><i>Buffalo News</i>:&mdash;"No book on base ball has ever been
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."</p>
<p><i>Brooklyn Times</i>:&mdash;"The book is practically a
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, as player, club owner and
league director."</p>
<p><i>Washington</i> (D. C.) <i>Star</i>:&mdash;"This work appeals
with peculiar force to the public. Mr. Spalding's name is almost
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."</p>
<p><i>New York American</i>:&mdash;"One of the best selling books
of the season has been 'America's National Game,' by A.G. Spalding.
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."</p>
<p><i>Cincinnati Enquirer</i>:&mdash;"As a veteran of the diamond,
well qualified to do so, Mr. Spalding has committed to print a
professional's version of the distinctly American game. This well
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."</p>
<p><i>Teacher and Home, New York</i>:&mdash;"Every live father of a
live boy will want to buy this book. It is said of some of the
'best sellers' that they hold one to the end. This book holds the
reader with its anecdote, its history, its pictures; but it will
have no end; for no home&mdash;no American home&mdash;will be
complete hereafter without it."</p>
<p><i>Buffalo Times</i>:&mdash;"A.G. Spalding, with whose name
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."</p>
<p><i>Cincinnati Times-Star</i>:&mdash;"'America's National Game,'
A.G. Spalding's great book upon the diamond sport, is now upon the
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 'Al' Spalding, the sinewy pitcher of nearly forty years ago,
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 'Al'
Spalding."</p>
<p><i>Cincinnati Time-Star</i>:&mdash;"The book is at once a
history, a cyclopaedia and a most entertaining volume."</p>
<p><i>New York American</i>:&mdash;"'America's National Game' tells
for the first time the history of the national game of base
ball."</p>
<p><i>Portland Oregonian</i>:&mdash;"The book is of rare interest
and has such personal value in the story line that one hardly knows
where to begin in making quotations from it&mdash;all the stories
told are so admirable."</p>
<p>JOHN T. NICHOLSON, Principal Public School 186, New
York:&mdash;"It's a great book."</p>
<p>REV. W.A. SUNDAY, Evangelist:&mdash;"No one in America is better
qualified to talk of base ball, from its inception to its present
greatness, than A.G. Spalding."</p>
<p>WM. L. VEECK and ED. W. SMITH, of the Chicago
<i>American</i>:&mdash;"We have found much enjoyment in reading the
book, and it is very valuable in our work."</p>
<p>W.H. CONANT, Gossamer Rubber Co., Boston, Mass.:&mdash;"I have
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."</p>
<p>JOSEPH B. MACCABE, Editor East Boston (Mass.)
<i>Argus-Advocate</i>, and ex-President Amateur Athletic
Union:&mdash;"I want to express my gratitude, as a humble follower
of manly sport, for the compilation of this historic work."</p>
<p>JOHN A. LOWELL, President John A. Lowell Bank Note Company,
Boston, Mass.:&mdash;"I have read the book with great interest and
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."</p>
<p>WM. F. GARCELON, Harvard Athletic Association, Cambridge,
Mass.:&mdash;"I think 'America's National Game' is not only
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."</p>
<p>GUSTAV T. KIRBY, President of the Amateur Athletic
Union:&mdash;"Not only as a historical sketch of this great
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&mdash;and what American is not interested in sport?&mdash;and
being interested in sport, chiefly in base ball."</p>
<p>EVERETT C. BROWN, Chicago, ex-president of the Amateur Athletic
Union of the United States:&mdash;"It is very seldom that any
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."</p>
<p>THOMAS F. GRAHAM, Judge Superior Court, San
Francisco:&mdash;"'America's National Game' contains matter on the
origin and development of base ball&mdash;the greatest game ever
devised by man&mdash;that will be of the utmost interest to the
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."</p>
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<h2>SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE</h2>
<center>Thirty-seventh Year</center>
<center>1913</center>
<center>EDITED BY</center>
<center>JOHN B. FOSTER</center>
<center>AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING COMPANY</center>
<hr>
<h2><b>CONTENTS</b></h2>
<p><a href="#INT">INTRODUCTION</a></p>
<p><a href="#RULE4_2">EDITORIAL COMMENT</a></p>
<p><a href="#RULE4_3">NEW FACES IN THE OLD LEAGUE</a></p>
<p><a href="#RULE4_4">THE UMPIRES</a></p>
<p><a href="#RULE4_5">BASE BALL WRITERS OF THE SOUTH</a></p>
<p><a href="#RULE4_6">BASE BALL WORTH WHILE?</a></p>
<p><a href="#RULE4_7">THE SPALDING BASE BALL HALL OF FAME</a></p>
<p><a href="#RULE4_8">JOHN TOMLINSON BRUSH</a></p>
<p><a href="#RULE4_9">THE WORLD'S SERIES OF 1912</a></p>
<p><a href="#RULE4_10">NATIONAL LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912</a></p>
<p><a href="#RULE4_11">AMERICAN LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912</a></p>
<hr>
<a name="INT"><!-- INT --></a>
<h2>INTRODUCTION</h2>
<p>In preparing this issue of SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE
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>
<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.</p>
<p>The players have effected an organization. That, too, is an
incident of interest, for it is well within the memory of the Base
Ball "fans" of this day what happened when another organization was
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.</p>
<p>The last world's series which was played was the greatest
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 "fans," but there never has been a
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.</p>
<p>Some innovations have been attempted in this number of the GUIDE
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's series. There are other
special articles, including something about the Base Ball writers
of the South, who have decided to organize a chapter of their
own.</p>
<p>The year 1912 was one of progress and advancement on the part of
Base Ball throughout the world. To-day it not only is stronger than
ever as America's national game but it is making fast progress in
other countries because of the attractiveness of the pastime.</p>
<p>The Editor of the GUIDE wishes its thousands of readers an even
more enjoyable Base Ball year in 1913 than they had in 1912. This
publication is now one of worldwide circulation, and carries the
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, and then
Base Ball will have become the universal game of the world, a place
toward which it is rapidly tending.</p>
<center>THE EDITOR.</center>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<a name="RULE4_2"><!-- RULE4 2 --></a>
<h2>EDITORIAL COMMENT</h2>
<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center>
<center>PROGRESS OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL GAME</center>
<p>Two more nations have been conquered by the national game of the
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.</p>
<p>There is no doubt as to their intention to play Base Ball. They
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.</p>
<p>Last year in the GUIDE it was the pleasure of the editor to call
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 "fans" of
the United States revel.</p>
<p>This season it comes to the attention of the editor of the GUIDE
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.</p>
<p>Dr. Eliot, former president of Harvard, who recently returned
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>
<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.</p>
<p>Base Ball has caught the fancy of the younger generation and the
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>
<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>
<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.</p>
<p>Twenty years from now a league including cities of the
Philippines, China and Japan, is by no means out of the question,
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>
<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.</p>
<p>Mr. Spalding contends that Base Ball has lent no small
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&mdash;strangely enough on the same
day that Mr. Spalding gave utterance to his ideas in Los
Angeles&mdash;by Mr. J.E. Sullivan, American Commissioner to the
Olympic Games at Stockholm last year, while returning to the United
States after witnessing the triumphs of the Americans. Mr. Spalding
said:</p>
<p>"I cannot say that I am at all surprised at the result at
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.</p>
<p>"But there is food for thought in this uninterrupted succession
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.</p>
<p>"Therefore there must be a cause. What is it? Measured by scale
and tape, our athlete's are not so much superior as a class. The
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.</p>
<p>"I may be a prejudiced judge, but I believe the whole secret of
these continued successes is to be found to the kind of training
that comes with the playing of America's national game, and our
competitors in other lands may never hope to reach the standard of
American athletes until they learn this lesson and adopt our
pastime.</p>
<p>"The question, 'When should the training of a child begin?' has
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, for America
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, that indefinable something that
enables one athlete to win over another who may be his physical
equal but who is lacking the American spirit begotten of base
ball.</p>
<p>"An analysis of the 1912 Olympian games shows that the American
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?"</p>
<hr>
<center>WHAT A SEASON OF BASE BALL COSTS</center>
<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.</p>
<p>Now as to the expense of Base Ball. Figures at an approximate
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
$905,000.</p>
<p>Now not a penny has been appropriated thus far for the salaries
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."</p>
<p>The receipts of Base Ball barely cover these expenditures. The
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.</p>
<p>But the money that is contributed to the support of the game
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>
<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.</p>
<p>"You may go through it if you wish," said the owner, "but here
is the balance for the last day of the year."</p>
<p>It read as follows: Receipts, $250,505; expenditures,
$246,447.</p>
<p>"That's answer enough for me," said the writer. "I am through
with any more essays on the affluence of Base Ball 'magnates.' I
think it would be better to extend them the hand of charity than
the mailed fist."</p>
<hr>
<center>THE NEW ORGANIZATION OF PLAYERS</center>
<p>The formation of an organization on the part of the major league
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>
<p>In the present instance those foremost in perfecting the
organization have also been foremost in asserting that the players'
organization's principal aim is to co-operate with the club
owners.</p>
<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&mdash;that dread which is the fear of the
child that has had its hands burned by the flame, that a selfish
coterie of players might obtain control of the organization, set up
a policy of unscrupulous defiance and destructive opposition and
retard for a moment the higher development of the game.</p>
<p>There is no organization, either of unscrupulous Base Ball
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>
<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.</p>
<p>Any ball player imbued with the idea that the "stars" should be
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.</p>
<p>Without some handicap to assist in the equalizing of the
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."</p>
<p>To-day Base Ball, in its professional atmosphere, is nearer an
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>
<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, which they owe to their
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.</p>
<p>For that reason players and owners must be guided by a sense of
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.</p>
<hr>
<center>BASE BALL PLAYED IN SWEDEN</center>
<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>
<p>Westeras, Sweden, Sept. 14, 1912.</p>
<p>To the Editor of the GUIDE:</p>
<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.</p>
<p>The work of getting the book out has been somewhat slow on
account of that the work of translating, proofreading, etc., all
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 &amp; Boyeson,
Stockholm, and will soon be available in all the bookstores in
Sweden.</p>
<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>
<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>
<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's this spring.
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.</p>
<p>The Olympic Committee, Stockholm, then received a letter from
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's letter. I knew, of
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.</p>
<p>The Olympic Committee has selected the evening, 7 P.M., of the
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.</p>
<p>Well, we had a game at the training grounds. We played six
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.</p>
<p>Mr. Halpin said that the Americans were going to play a game the
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, and perhaps I should not have pushed our game ahead,
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.</p>
<p>Our club has been practicing all summer, twice a week, and on
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>
<p>At our game here we distributed the "Description of Base Ball,"
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,</p>
<p>Mr. George Wright, of Boston, was the umpire at the Stockholm
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>
<p>I am, for Westeras Base Ball Club,</p>
<p>Yours truly,</p>
<p>EDWIN JOHNSON,</p>
<p>Electrical Engineer.</p>
<hr>
<center>THE NEW NATIONAL AGREEMENT</center>
<p>Unlimited satisfaction must be had by all who are connected with
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&mdash; indeed, quite within reason&mdash;to observe
that Base Ball never had such a well balanced and perfect
organization as that by which it is regulated at the present
time.</p>
<p>The principal fact of congratulation lies in the safeguards and
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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<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.</p>
<p>The result of this admirable condition of affairs is that wisdom
and equity now rule where there once existed chaos and at times
something akin to anarchy in sport.</p>
<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.</p>
<p>The new National Agreement is an improvement upon the old and
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>
<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>
<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.</p>
<p>The graduated system of assisting players, step by step, from
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>
<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:</p>
<p>Ever since the National Agreement was organized the members have
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.</p>
<p>Realizing that such players were not given a chance to advance
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.</p>
<p>During the past drafting season there were sixty-nine players
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, and it is
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:</p>
<pre>
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   Clubs.   |   League.       | Players. |  Drafted  |  Drafted By
            |                 |          |   From    |
------------|-----------------|----------|-----------|--------------
Louisville  |American Asso.   |Stansbury |Louisville |St. Louis N.L.
Chattanooga |Southern Asso.   |Balenti   |Chattanooga|St. Louis A.L.
Sacramento  |Pacific Coast    |Berghammer|Lincoln    |Chicago N.L.
Sacramento  |Pacific Coast    |Orr       |Sacramento |Phila. A.L.
Sacramento  |Pacific Coast    |[1]Young  |Harrisburg |New York A.L.
Sacramento  |Pacific Coast    |Drohan    |Kewanee    |Washington.
Indianapolis|American Asso.   |Berghammer|Lincoln    |Chicago N.L.
Indianapolis|American Asso.   |Cathers   |Scranton   |St. Louis N.L.
Indianapolis|American Asso.   |Metz      |San Antonio|Boston N.L.
Indianapolis|American Asso.   |Kernan    |Oshkosh    |Chicago A.L.
New Orleans |Southern Asso.   |Bates     |Newp't News|Cleveland.
New Orleans |Southern Asso.   |Wilson    |Knoxville  |Cleveland.
New Orleans |Southern Asso.   |Betts     |San Antonio|Cleveland.
New Orleans |Southern Asso.   |Drohan    |Kewanee    |Washington.
New Orleans |Southern Asso.   |Williams  |Newark, O  |Washington.
Portland    |Pacific Coast    |Williams  |Newark, O  |Washington.
Portland    |Pacific Coast    |Drohan    |Kewanee    |Washington.
Portland    |Pacific Coast    |Bates.    |Newp't News|Cleveland.
Portland    |Pacific Coast    |Grubb     |Morristown |Cleveland.
Portland    |Pacific Coast    |Wilson    |Knoxville  |Cleveland.
Portland    |Pacific Coast    |Betts     |San Antonio|Cleveland.
Milwaukee   |American Asso.   |Beall     |Denver     |Cleveland.
St. Paul    |American Asso.   |Berghammer|Lincoln    |Chicago N.L.
St. Paul    |American Asso.   |Miller    |Harrisburg |Pittsburgh.
St. Paul    |American Asso.   |Booe      |Ft. Wayne  |Pittsburgh.
St. Paul    |American Asso.   |House     |Kewanee    |Detroit.
St. Paul    |American Asso.   |Drohan    |Kewanee    |Washington.
St. Paul    |American Asso.   |Beall     |Denver     |Cleveland.
St. Paul    |American Asso.   |Balenti   |Chattanooga|St. Louis A.L.
St. Paul    |American Asso.   |Agnew     |Vernon     |St. Louis A.L.
Omaha       |Western League   |Wilson    |Knoxville  |Cleveland.
Omaha       |Western League   |Williams  |Newark, O  |Washington.
Omaha       |Western League   |Betts     |San Antonio|Cleveland.
Omaha       |Western League   |Drohan    |Kewanee    |Washington.
Buffalo     |Internat'l League|Schang    |Buffalo    |Phila. A.L.
Buffalo     |Internat'l League|Dolan     |Rochester  |Phila. A.L.
Buffalo     |Internat'l League|Cottrell  |Scranton   |Chicago N.L.
Buffalo     |Internat'l League|Clymer    |Minneapolis|Chicago N.L.
Columbus    |American Asso.   |Drohan    |Kewanee    |Washington.
Rochester   |Internat'l League|Dolan     |Rochester  |Phila. A.L.
Montreal    |Internat'l League|Connelly  |Montreal   |Washington.
Toledo      |American Asso.   |Hernden   |[2]        |St. Louis.
Toledo      |American Asso.   |Stevenson |Oshkosh    |St. Louis N.L.
Toledo      |American Asso.   |Bates     |Newp't News|Cleveland.
Toledo      |American Asso.   |Wilson    |Knoxville  |Cleveland.
Denver      |Western League   |Heckinger |Racine     |Chicago N.L.
Denver      |Western League   |Drohan    |Kewanee    |Washington.
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</pre>
<p>1: Subject to investigation as to whether New York American
League Club has title.</p>
<p>2: Subject to investigation as to whether St. Louis American or
National League Club has title to this player and how secured.</p>
<hr>
<center>A WORLD'S SERIES PROBLEM</center>
<p>Much discussion arose after the finish of the last world's
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 "fans" and result in an inequitable allotment of
dates, simply to conform to custom.</p>
<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:</p>
<p>NEW YORK, January 31, 1913.</p>
<p>During the recent world's series it so happened that a tie was
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>
<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.</p>
<p>Will you please give the GUIDE your opinion as to whether a
change would be advisable?</p>
<p>Very truly yours,</p>
<p>JOHN B. FOSTER, <i>Editor Spalding's Official Base Ball
Guide.</i></p>
<p>Answers were received to the request for a "symposium of
opinion" as follows:</p>
<p>"So far as having any effect on the chances of the two teams is
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."</p>
<p>W.B. HANNA, <i>New York Sun.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"In my opinion the arrangement on tie games in the post-season
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's field. Players when away from their
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."</p>
<p>OSCAR C. REICHOW, <i>Chicago Daily News.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"We are in receipt of your favor of the 31st nlt., and wish to
thank you for the opportunity presented.</p>
<p>"It is our opinion that a tie game was played and it should be
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.</p>
<p>"It is, therefore, our belief that this game should have been
played in the other city.</p>
<p>"As to it being unfair to the patrons who had traveled so far to
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>
<p>J. G. T. SPINK, <i>St. Louis Sporting News.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"It seems to me that the game should be alternated between the
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."</p>
<p>JOHN E. WHEELER, <i>New York Herald.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"I think that the scheduled programme should be played through
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>
<p>H. P. BORCHELL, <i>Sports Editor New York Times.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"I believe it would be inadvisable to change the method that now
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.</p>
<p>"That same situation is not likely to again arise for a long
time, and I believe the rule as it stands is a guarantee to the
public of the strict honesty of the world's championship
contests."</p>
<p>DAMON RUNYON, <i>The New York American.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"A change in the rules regarding world series games would he
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&mdash;fans and
players&mdash;would get an even break."</p>
<p>MALCOLM MACLEAN, <i>Base Ball Editor Chicago Evening
Post.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"I think it might be fairer to both world's series contenders to
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."</p>
<p>FRED. G. LIEB, <i>New York Press.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"The rules regarding the manner of scheduling games for the
world's series should not be changed. There are times when they
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's series games are
accustomed to this, since bad weather frequently cuts into the
event and causes postponements.</p>
<p>"In a way it does not appear fair that one club should have the
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.</p>
<p>"The fans have to trust to luck as to the number of games they
will see in a world's series, this depending upon the number of
games played and possibly upon the toss for a seventh battle. In
1905 the fans of Philadelphia saw only two games in a world's
series with New York. In 1910 only two games were played here in
the series with Chicago.</p>
<p>"Any time a club has three games on its own grounds in a series
where four victories decide the issue either it or its followers
have not much chance to raise an objection."</p>
<p>WILLIAM G. WEART, <i>The Evening Telegraph.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"It was, of course, to the disadvantage of the Giants to be
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.</p>
<p>"It is not clear to me, however, just now these things can be
remedied without disturbing the balance of an even break for both
teams more violently than was the case last fall.</p>
<p>"I do not believe there will be another series just like the one
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.</p>
<p>"Then, as to having the games played according to an arbitrarily
fixed schedule, so as not to inconvenience patrons&mdash;that would
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.</p>
<p>"So it looks to me as if the patrons would have to take their
chances in the future as they have in the past."</p>
<p>JAMES C. O'LEABT, <i>Boston Globe.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"It seems to me that it would be better to alternate (in case of
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's series were satisfied with an arrangement which minimized
the amount of traveling they were called upon to do.</p>
<p>"Persons who had seen a five-inning tie game terminated by rain
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."</p>
<p>FRANCIS EATON, <i>Sports Editor Boston Journal.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"To me the feasible thing to do appears to be to insert a clause
in stipulations covering all short series of a special character,
such as intercity, inter-league and world's series, making it
compulsory for the teams to alternate between the cities or grounds
of the competing clubs."</p>
<p>PURVES T. KNOX, <i>New York Evening Telegram.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"Why wouldn't it be a good scheme to toss up for the deciding
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?</p>
<p>"I do not believe it advisable to change the commission's rule
regarding postponed games. The rule now provides that, in case of a
postponement, the clubs shall remain in the city in which the game
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>
<p>R. W. LARDNER, <i>Chicago Examiner.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"A change in the rule governing the playing-off of tie games in
the world's series should be made. The teams ought to appear in
each city on the dates named in the schedule drawn up before the
series starts, unless the weather interferes."</p>
<p>WILLIAM H. WRIGHT, <i>New York Tribune.</i></p>
<hr>
<p>"Drawn games are as unavoidable as rainy days in world's series,
but not as frequent. They operate the same in their effect on the
contest for the world's pennant and in causing confusion among the
patrons by disarranging the schedule. It would be manifestly unjust
if, after a rain postponement, the competing teams did not remain
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's series, any other arrangement than
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>
<p>L. E. SANBORN, <i>Chicago Tribune.</i></p>
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<h2>NEW FACES IN THE OLD LEAGUE</h2>
<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center>
<p>Not for some time has there been such a turning over of the
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.</p>
<p>The death of John T. Brush removed from Base Ball a dean of the
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.</p>
<p>Prior to the death of Mr. Brush there was a great deal of
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.</p>
<p>Mr. Freedman retained nothing of the kind. Not that Mr. Brush
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.</p>
<p>This digression has been made to call attention to the fact that
while rumor was plentiful as to the future control of the Giants
Mr. Brush was carefully "grooming" a young man&mdash;his
son-in-law, Mr. H. Hempstead&mdash;to take his place.</p>
<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.</p>
<p>The Giants, as successful as they have been under the control of
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.</p>
<p>Mr. Hempstead brings to Base Ball the advantage of youth, a keen
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>
<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.</p>
<p>William H. Locke is the new president and part owner of the
Philadelphia club. He and Mr. Hempstead are the "junior" presidents
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.</p>
<p>His career speaks for itself and he speaks for himself. A young
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.</p>
<p>The writer has known Mr. Locke almost, it seems, from boyhood
and esteems him for his worth, not only as one who has administered
the affairs of Base Ball with skill and intelligence, but as one
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's citizens.</p>
<p>Perhaps no young man ever left a newspaper office to become a
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.</p>
<p>Still another newspaper writer has been claimed from the desk by
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.</p>
<p>"Nick" is known from one end of the National League circuit to
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," a book which was published during
the winter, is even more clever than some of the author's best Base
Ball yarns, and that is saying a great deal in behalf of a man
wedded to Base Ball.</p>
<p>Another change in the National League was the selection of Frank
M. Stevens of New York, as one of the Board of Directors of the New
York National League club.</p>
<p>This brings into Base Ball one of New York's cleverest and
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>
<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.</p>
<p>The new president of the club has had practical experience in
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.</p>
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<h2>THE UMPIRES</h2>
<p>The umpires are always with us, and the umpire problem has been
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, for it was fully proved in 1912 that
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>
<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>
<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.</p>
<p>There was less tendency on the part of the umpires to render
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>
<p>To the mind of the Editor of the GUIDE, in the general light of
observation, the most serious blunders committed by the umpires in
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.</p>
<p>Young umpires, in their haste to "make good" in the major
leagues, are apt to overdo rather than fail to be on time.</p>
<p>While it is not a pleasant subject to discuss, it is a fact that
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>
<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>
<p>It is contended that the position of the umpire has been
rendered more arduous by reason of the world's series. The argument
is advanced that the players are more intractable, by reason of
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's series.</p>
<p>As a general rule two good reasons may be advanced for disputes
on the part of players.</p>
<p>First: Desire to "cover up" the player's own blunder.</p>
<p>Second: General "cussedness."</p>
<p>There are players who make honest objection on the excitement of
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.</p>
<p>The Editor of the GUIDE would offer one suggestion to league
presidents and umpires; it is this: whenever two possible plays
occur in conjunction, instruct the chief umpire always to turn to
the spectators and inform them which player is out.</p>
<p>For instance, if a player is at bat and another on the bases and
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>
<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's series of 1912 was one
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's series
might find that there are more good umpires in the world after all
than bad ones.</p>
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<h2>BASE BALL WRITERS OF THE SOUTH</h2>
<p>While the Base Ball writers of the cities which comprise the
Southern Association have no organized membership similar to the
Base Ball Writers' Association of the major leagues and the
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.</p>
<p>Experience of more than a quarter of a century has most
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>
<p>It is a high class sport in the main, managed by high class, men
for high class purposes.</p>
<p>Going through the early stages of building up a successful
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>
<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.</p>
<p>Very likely to their zeal, their courage, their tact and their
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>
<p>To the Southern writers the members of the Base Ball Writers
Association and those of the organizations patterned on like lines
send greeting.</p>
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<h2>BASE BALL WORTH WHILE?</h2>
<p>One of the foremost divines in the East who has a deep concern
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>
<p>It is Dr. Reisner's custom each year to preach a sermon to the
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, and he has graciously consented to do so in the
following pithy and straightforward talks:</p>
<center>BY THE REV. CHRISTIAN F. REISNER, NEW YORK.</center>
<p>The Bible is the Spalding book of rules for the game of life.
James B. Sullivan, beloved by all athletes, gave me these rules for
athletes: "Don't drink, use tobacco or dissipate. Go to bed early
and eat wholesome food!" The boozer gets out of the game as
certainly as the bonehead.</p>
<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.</p>
<p>Mathewson belongs to the high type now being generally
duplicated. He is a modern masculine Christian. Base Ball demands
brains as well as brawn. Minds muddled by licentiousness and liquor
are too "leady" for leaders. Hotheadedness topples capable
players.</p>
<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.</p>
<p>Every minute he does his best. He sleeps only at night. To do
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 "Billy" Sunday wrote me "I would not take a million
dollars for my experience on the ball field."</p>
<p>It taught him how to knock the Devil out of the box.</p>
<p>Base Ball is invaluable to America. It thrills and so rests
tired nerves. It brings the "shut-in" man into God's healing
out-o'-doors. While yelling he swallows great draughts of
lung-expanding, purifying air and forgets the fear of "taking
cold."</p>
<p>He is pulled out of self-centeredness, while shouting for
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.</p>
<p>Base Ball absolutely pulls the brain away from business. It
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.</p>
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<h2>THE SPALDING BASE BALL HALL OF FAME</h2>
<p>(From Spalding's Official Base Ball Record.)</p>
<p>New faces enter into the Spalding Base Ball "Hall of Fame" this
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>
<p>In the "Hall of Fame" will be found the men who might well be
termed the "regulars." Day in and day out they were on the diamond,
or ready to take their place on the diamond, if they were not
injured.</p>
<center>NATIONAL LEAGUE.</center>
<p>First of all, Daubert has earned his place at first base for the
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.</p>
<p>There is a new player at second base. The regularity with which
Egan of Cincinnati performed for the Reds earned him a place as the
banner second baseman.</p>
<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.</p>
<p>John H. Wagner, the brilliant veteran of the Pittsburgh club,
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.</p>
<p>Owing to the fact that the able secretary of the National
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's
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.</p>
<p>There are two catchers who run a close race for the "Hall of
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.</p>
<p>For the position of leading outfielder, all things considered,
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.</p>
<p>For the position of leading batsman the "Hall of Fame" honors
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.</p>
<p>The best three-base hitter of the league was the quiet Wilson of
Pittsburgh. Though not so high in rank as a batsman as some of his
contemporaries, there was none in the organization who could equal
his ability to get to third base on long hits.</p>
<p>Bescher, as in 1911, earned in 1912 the position of leading base
runner in the National League. He stole more bases than any other
player of the league, and was also the best run getter&mdash;that
is to say, scored more runs than any other player.</p>
<center>AMERICAN LEAGUE.</center>
<p>First of all comes Gandil for first base. His greater number of
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.</p>
<p>Rath is a newcomer to the Chicago club, but by all around good
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.</p>
<p>For the position of shortstop, McBride of Washington is the
logical selection. Day in and day out he was one of the most
reliable shortstops in the American League.</p>
<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>
<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.</p>
<p>Pitching at a standard higher than the American League had seen
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.</p>
<p>The man who caught him seems entitled to be considered the
leading catcher. He is Cady of Boston, although for hard work
Carrigan, also of Boston, gives him a close race.</p>
<p>Once more Cobb is the leading batsman of the American League.
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 "Hall" two years in succession.</p>
<p>The leading home run batter of the American League was Baker of
Philadelphia. He earned the same title in 1911. It is a double
"Hall of Fame" distinction for him.</p>
<p>Jackson of Cleveland enters the "Hall of Fame" by being the
leading batter for three-base hits.</p>
<p>Speaker of Boston becomes a member of the high honor group by
being the leading batter of two-base hits.</p>
<p>Lewis of Boston is the leading batter of sacrifice hits.</p>
<p>Collins of Philadelphia was the best run getter.</p>
<p>Last, but by no means least, of all, Milan, the clever
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.</p>
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<h2>JOHN TOMLINSON BRUSH</h2>
<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center>
<p>John Tomlinson Brush was born in Clintonville, N.Y., on June 15,
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, a business with which he was
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, and he made himself both wealthy and famous as a
promoter.</p>
<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, notably the Columbia Club,
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.</p>
<p>Mr. Brush is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elsie Lombard Brush,
and two daughters, Miss Natalie Brush and Mrs. Harry N. Hempstead.
His first wife, Mrs. Agnes Ewart Brush, died in 1888.</p>
<p>Mr. Brush's career in Base Ball, a sport to which he was
devotedly attached, and for which he had the highest ideals and
aims, began with the Indianapolis club of the National League.</p>
<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, a Base Ball "fan" in the earlier stages of
development.</p>
<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.</p>
<p>Like many such adventures in the early history of the sport
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.</p>
<p>From that date, until the date of his death, he was actively
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.</p>
<p>Naturally this was bound to bring him into conflict with some
who looked upon Base Ball as an idle pastime, in which only the
present moment was to be consulted.</p>
<p>The earliest environment of Base Ball was not wholly of a
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.</p>
<p>There was an inequity in regulations governing the sport by
which the clubs in the smaller cities were forced, against the will
of their owners, to be the weaker organizations, and possibly this
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.</p>
<p>The first general complaint arose from the players who composed
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.</p>
<p>This attitude of the players resulted at length in the formation
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>
<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.</p>
<p>The motives of Mr. Brush were thoroughly misconstrued by some,
and, if grasped by others, they were disregarded, because they
conflicted with their immediate temporary prosperity.</p>
<p>The dead Base Ball organizer had looked further ahead than his
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.</p>
<p>The Brotherhood League came into existence and rivaled the
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.</p>
<p>They fought back resolutely and hard and while for a time they
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.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Base Ball had received a setback greater than any
which had befallen the sport in an organized sense from a
professional standpoint.</p>
<p>The Brotherhood League was a pronounced and emphatic failure.
This is not the verdict of personal opinion, but a record which is
indelibly impressed upon Base Ball history.</p>
<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.</p>
<p>When the Brotherhood League was formed and withdrew so many
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.</p>
<p>The New York National League club had lost many of its players
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.</p>
<p>Relative to the withdrawal of Indianapolis from the circuit it
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.</p>
<p>This is untrue. He asked the price of his franchise, the value
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.</p>
<p>Toward the close of the Base Ball season the Brotherhood League
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, tired of the general conduct of the sport, were only
too willing to come to an acceptable agreement and retire.</p>
<p>A.G. Spalding, John T. Brush, Frank De Hass Robison, Charles H.
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>
<p>It was through this settlement, resulting upon the Base Ball
war, that Mr. Brush's activities were turned toward Cincinnati. The
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.</p>
<p>The next most noticeable achievement in Mr. Brush's Base Ball
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.</p>
<p>But the method was better, for the instruments of this
readjustment of conditions were the owners and not the players.
Briefly, it was the following:</p>
<p>There was still war in Base Ball between the American
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
"Sporting Life" of Philadelphia. The writer also essayed in the
task in an advisory capacity.</p>
<p>The amalgamation was brought about, though not without some
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.</p>
<p>But the principal consideration and the result accomplished in
this consolidation of leagues was that all gate receipts should be
divided, share and share alike, so far as general admissions were
concerned.</p>
<p>That was the greatest and most far-reaching achievement in the
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.</p>
<p>The teams in the cities of less population were expected to try
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.</p>
<p>When Mr. Brush and his associates succeeded in placing Base Ball
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.</p>
<p>More than that, and which to the ball player is most important
of all, it "jumped" the salaries of the players in the smaller
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&mdash;a just, impartial and equal reimbursement
to every player in the game, so far as the finances of each club
would permit&mdash;and without that bane to all players, a salary
limit.</p>
<p>Thus, while it is always probable that some players may receive
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.</p>
<p>Having brought forth this new condition in Base Ball, which was
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.</p>
<p>The time came that Mr. Brush learned that the New York Base Ball
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, resulted in the most damaging of conditions to the
prosperity of the pastime.</p>
<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>
<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>
<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's Championship.</p>
<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>
<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's series have been played on the
field of the Polo Grounds since it has been erected.</p>
<p>The rules for these world's series were formulated and adopted
upon the suggestion and by the advice of Mr. Brush and since a
regular world's series season has been a feature of Base Ball the
national game has progressed with even greater strides than was the
case in the past.</p>
<p>At a meeting of the National League the following resolutions
were adopted:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><i>Whereas</i>, The death of Mr. John T. Brush, president of the
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>
<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>
<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,</p>
<p><i>Resolved</i>, That the members of the National League of
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</p>
<p><i>Resolved</i>, That a copy of these resolutions be spread on
the records of the league.</p>
</blockquote>
<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."</p>
<p>More than three hundred friends, relatives, business
acquaintances, lodge brothers and Base Ball associates attended the
funeral of Mr. Brush, on Friday, November 29, at St. Paul's
Episcopal Church, Indianapolis. Fifty or more of Mr. Brush's Base
Ball associates and acquaintances, principally from the East, were
present.</p>
<p>The service was conducted by the Rev. Lewis Brown, rector of St.
Paul's, and was followed by a Scottish Rite ceremony in charge of
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.</p>
<p>The Grand Army of the Republic, the Indianapolis Commercial Club
and a number of local and out-of-town clubs and social
organizations of which Mr. Brush was a member also were
represented.</p>
<p>The Episcopal service was given impressively. The Rev. Dr.
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:</p>
<p>"The death of John Tomlinson Brush removes from our midst one of
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.</p>
<p>"He went through the Civil War so quietly that the fact was
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.</p>
<p>"His love of sport made him a patron of the national game. In a
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.</p>
<p>"He was an early member of the Masonic fraternity. He took his
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.</p>
<p>"He became a Knight Templar in Rapier Commandery and was one of
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.</p>
<p>"The conspicuous feature of his life was its indomitable
purpose."</p>
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<h2>THE WORLD'S SERIES OF 1912</h2>
<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center>
<p>No individual, whether player, manager, owner, critic or
spectator, who went through the world's series of 1912 ever will
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, perhaps more so.</p>
<p>Viewed from the very strict standpoint that all Base Ball games
should be played without mistake or blunder this world's series may
be said to have been inartistic, but it is only the hypercritical
theorist who would take such a cold-blooded view of the series.</p>
<p>From the lofty perch of the "bleacherite" it was a series
crammed with thrills and gulps, cheers and gasps, pity and
hysteria, dejection and wild exultation, recrimination and
adoration, excuse and condemnation, and therefore it was what may
cheerfully be called "ripping good" Base Ball.</p>
<p>There were plays on the field which simply lifted the spectators
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 "superawful."</p>
<p>There were beautiful long hits, which threatened to change the
outcome of games and some of them did. There were opportunities for
other beautiful long hits which were not made.</p>
<p>No ingenuity of stage preparation, no prearranged plot of man,
no cunningly devised theory of a world's series could have
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>
<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>
<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.</p>
<p>Such sudden and complete reversal on the part of the mental
demeanor of spectators was never before seen on a ball field in a
world's series. The Boston enthusiasts had given up and were
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&mdash;Snodgrass&mdash;a base on balls to
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.</p>
<p>Before entering upon a description of the games it is
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'Loughlin and
William Evans of the American League.</p>
<center>FIRST GAME<br>
New York, Oct. 8, 1912.<br>
Boston 4, New York 3.<br>
Hits&mdash;Off Wood 8; off Tesreau 5; Crandall 1.<br>
Struck out&mdash;Wood 11; Tesreau 4; Crandall 2.<br>
Bases on balls&mdash;Wood 2; Tesreau 4.<br>
Attendance 35,722.</center>
<p>In the description of the games of the world's series only those
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's fumble. Stahl
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.</p>
<p>The Bostons started with a man on base in the third. Wood was
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>
<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.</p>
<p>With one out Herzog hit safely in the fourth inning, but did not
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's triple to left field and Lewis' out. If Snodgrass, in
making a desperate effort to catch the fly, had permitted the ball
to go to Devore the chances are that Speaker's hit would have
resulted in an out, so that New York lost on the play.</p>
<p>Snodgrass was safe in the sixth on Wagner's fumble, but was
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>
<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.</p>
<p>Then began the exciting finish, and if the Giants had made but a
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 "smoke."</p>
<p>The Boston players encouraged him with all their best vocal
efforts, and when Fletcher came to the plate Wood was using all the
speed with which he was possessed. It was evident that Fletcher's
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.</p>
<center>SECOND GAME<br>
Boston, Oct. 9, 1912.<br>
New York 6. Boston 6 (eleven innings).<br>
Hits&mdash;Off Collins 9, off Hall 2; Mathewson 10.<br>
Struck out&mdash;Collins 5, Bedient 1; Mathewson 4<br>
Bases on balls&mdash;Hall 4, Bedient 1.<br>
Attendance 30,148.</center>
<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'Loughlin, who was acting behind the plate. This contest
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>
<p>In Boston's half Hooper hit safely to center field and stole
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.</p>
<p>With one out in the second inning Herzog batted for three bases
to center field and scored on Meyers' single. Fletcher flied out
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>
<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's
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's half of the sixth Lewis began
with a single and got as far as third base, but could not
score.</p>
<p>The Giants started bravely in the seventh when Herzog hit the
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>
<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' work in the box;
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.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for New York, with two out in the last half of the
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>
<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.</p>
<p>The Giants took the lead in the tenth and once more it appeared
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's failure to retrieve the
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.</p>
<p>Neither team scored in the eleventh inning, although Snodgrass
was hit by a pitched ball. He was the first batter. He tried to
steal second, but failed to make it.</p>
<p>This contest was conspicuous because of the wonderfully good
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.</p>
<center>THIRD GAME.<br>
Boston, Oct. 10, 1912.<br>
New York 2; Boston 1.<br>
Hits&mdash;Off Marquard 7; O'Brien 6, Bedient 1.<br>
Struck out&mdash;Marquard 6, O'Brien 3.<br>
Bases on balls&mdash;Marquard 1; O'Brien 3.<br>
Attendance 34,624.</center>
<p>Because of the tie game the teams remained over in Boston and
played on the following day, October 10. The pitchers were Marquard
for New York and O'Brien and Bedient for Boston. Marquard pitched
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's clever sacrifice put him on
third and Herzog's sacrifice fly sent him over the rubber. Lewis
began the inning for Boston with a safe hit, but could not advance
further than second.</p>
<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>
<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' half of
the fifth with a hit, but was out by ten feet trying to steal
second.</p>
<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>
<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>
<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's half, with one out, Lewis batted to right field for a
base. Gardner hit to the same place for two bases and Lewis scored
Boston's only run. Stahl rapped a grounder to Marquard, who threw
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.</p>
<p>Marquard outpitched both of his Boston rivals and in only two
innings were the Bostons able to get the first man on the
bases.</p>
<center>FOURTH GAME.<br>
New York, Oct. 11, 1912.<br>
Boston 3, New York 1.<br>
Hits&mdash;Off Wood 9; off Tesreau 5, Ames 3.<br>
Struck out&mdash;Wood 8; Tesreau 5.<br>
Bases on balls&mdash;Ames 1, Tesreau 2.<br>
Attendance 36,502.</center>
<p>The fourth game of the series was played in New York on the
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' wild throw
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.</p>
<p>Gardner began the second inning with a three-base hit to right
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.</p>
<p>The third was started by a single by Wood and Hooper was given a
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.</p>
<p>Boston added another run in the fourth inning, being assisted by
Tesreau's wildness. Gardner, who batted first, was given a base on
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's out at first helped him along and when
Cady pushed a weak single to center field, just out of the reach of
the players, Stahl scored. Wood was retired by Murray.</p>
<p>With one out in the fifth Yerkes batted for a base, but was
thrown out at second on Speaker's grounder and Speaker died trying
to steal. New York had one out in the same inning, when Herzog hit
safely, but neither Meyers nor Fletcher could help him.</p>
<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>
<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>
<p>In the eighth, with two out, Snodgrass was safe on Wagner's
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.</p>
<center>FIFTH GAME.<br>
Boston, Oct. 12. 1912.<br>
Boston 2; New York 1.<br>
Hits&mdash;Off Mathewson 5; Bedient 3.<br>
Struck out&mdash;Mathewson 2; Bedient 4.<br>
Bases on balls&mdash;Bedient 3.<br>
Attendance 34,683.</center>
<p>The game was played on Saturday with Mathewson in the box for
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>
<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.</p>
<p>With one out in the third, Mathewson batted a single to center
field and Devore followed with a base on balls, but Bedient got the
next two batters.</p>
<p>The third was the inning which broke the backs of the Giants.
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>
<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.</p>
<center>SIXTH GAME.<br>
New York, Oct. 14, 1912<br>
New York 5; Boston 2.<br>
Hits&mdash;Off Marquard 7; O'Brien 6, Collins 5.<br>
Struck out&mdash;Marquard 3; O'Brien 1, Collins 1.<br>
Bases on balls&mdash;Marquard 1.<br>
Attendance 30,622.</center>
<p>With a Sunday in which to rest the series was resumed in New
York on Monday, October 14. Marquard pitched for the Giants and
O'Brien for the Bostons. Rest seemed to have recuperated the New
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'Brien made a costly balk in the first inning and the
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.</p>
<p>The first inning really settled the outcome of the contest.
After the Giants had made five runs Boston played through the other
eight innings perfunctorily. The crowd of Boston enthusiasts, which
had come to New York to see the finishing touches put on the
Giants, was bitterly disappointed, while the New York enthusiasts,
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.</p>
<p>Hooper was first at bat and as usual hit for a base. He was
caught napping off first. Yerkes was easily retired. Speaker was
given a base on balls and Lewis flied out.</p>
<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'Brien made
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>
<p>In Boston's half of the second inning the Boston players scored
twice and that was all they made in the game. Gardner was safe at
first on Marquard's wild throw; Stahl singled to center. The next
two batters were easily retired, but Engle, who batted for O'Brien,
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.</p>
<p>Boston began the third inning and the fourth inning with
singles, but the runners failed to get around. In the eighth, with
one out, Yerkes made a single, but was unable to score.</p>
<p>With one out in the third for New York, Murray singled to right
field, but was out trying to stretch the hit. Merkle hit for a base
to left field and was out trying to steal.</p>
<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'Brien's place in the box.</p>
<p>Devore began the fifth with a hit, but Doyle flied to short, and
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.</p>
<p>The teams again took a special train for Boston after the game
and the remainder of the cavalcade followed over at midnight.</p>
<center>SEVENTH GAME.<br>
Boston, Oct. 15, 1912.<br>
New York 11; Boston 4.<br>
Hits&mdash;Off Tesreau 9; Wood 7, Hall 9.<br>
Struck-out&mdash;Tesreau 6; Hall 1.<br>
Bases on balls&mdash;Hall 5; Tesreau 5.<br>
Attendance 32,630.</center>
<p>The seventh game was played on Fenway Park, with Wood pitching
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's hit was a
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>
<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>
<p>In the third Hall was safe on Fletcher's wild throw and Hooper
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>
<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.</p>
<p>With one out in the sixth for Boston Wagner hit safely, but Cady
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>
<p>In Boston's half of the seventh, with one out, Speaker singled
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's fumble of
Stahl's grounder. In New York's half of this inning Merkle began
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>
<p>In the eighth Doyle muffed Cady's fly. Hall singled to right.
Hooper's sacrifice fly gave Cady a run, Doyle began for New York
with a single, but the next three batters were retired in
order.</p>
<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>
<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.</p>
<center>EIGHTH GAME.<br>
Boston, Oct. 16, 1912.<br>
Boston 3; New York 2 (ten innings.)<br>
Hits&mdash;Off Bedient 6, Wood 3; Mathewson 8.<br>
Struck out&mdash;Bedient 2, Wood 2; Mathewson 4.<br>
Bases on balls&mdash;Bedient 3, Wood 1; Mathewson 5.<br>
Attendance 16,970.</center>
<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: "Boston did not win the
championship, but New York lost it."</p>
<p>Mathewson pitched for New York and Bedient for Boston until the
end of the seventh inning.</p>
<p>With two out for the Giants in the first Snodgrass was given a
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's muff. Fletcher singled over second, but Mathewson
flied out.</p>
<p>Hooper began the third with a base hit, but was left. Devore
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>
<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>
<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>
<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's hard single over second. That put the
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's hand and compelled him to
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.</p>
<p>Engle batted for Wood in the tenth. He rapped a long fly to
center field which was perfectly played by Snodgrass, but the
center fielder dropped the ball. Engle went to second base.</p>
<p>On top of his simple muff Snodgrass made a magnificent catch of
Hooper's fly, which seemed to be good for three bases. Mathewson
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.</p>
<p>Speaker hit the first ball pitched for an easy foul which should
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.</p>
<p>Speaker, with another life, singled to right and Engle scored
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.</p>
<p>Yet so keen had been the struggle, so great the excitement, so
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.</p>
<p>The scores of the games are as follows:</p>
<pre>
FIRST GAME.

BOSTON.        AB. R. H. P. A. E.    NEW YORK.      AB. R. H. P. A. E.
Hooper, r.f.    3  1  1  1  0  0   Devore, l.f.      3  1  0  0  0  0
Yerkes, 2b      4  0  1  0  1  0   Doyle, 2b         4  1  2  2  7  0
Speaker, c.f    3  1  1  0  1  0   Snodgrass, c.f.   4  0  1  2  0  0
Lewis, l.f.     4  0  0  2  0  0   Murray, r.f.      3  0  1  1  0  0
Gardner, 3b     4  0  0  1  1  0   Merkle, 1b        3  1  1 12  0  0
Stahl, 1b       4  0  0  6  1  0   Herzog, 3b        4  0  2  1  1  0
Wagner, ss      3  1  2  5  3  1   Meyers, c         3  0  1  6  1  0
Cady, c         3  0  1 11  1  0   Fletcher, ss      4  0  0  3  1  1
Wood, p         3  1  0  1  1  0   Tesreau, p        2  0  0  0  2  0
                                   McCormick[1]      1  0  0  0  0  0
                                   Crandall, p       1  0  0  0  1  0
                                   Becker[2]         0  0  0  0  0  0
               -- -- -- -- -- --                    -- -- -- -- -- --
Totals         31  4  6 27  9  1   Totals           33  3  8 27 13  1
</pre>
<p>1: McCormick batted for Tesreau in the seventh inning. 2: Becker
ran for Meyers in ninth inning.</p>
<pre>
Boston         0  0  0  0  0  1  3  0  0  0-4
New York       0  0  2  0  0  0  0  0  0  1-3
</pre>
<p>Sacrifice hits&mdash;Hooper, Cady. Two-base hits&mdash;Hooper,
Wagner, Doyle. Three-base hit&mdash;Speaker. Double
play&mdash;Stahl and Wood. Pitching record&mdash;Off Tesreau, 5
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&mdash;By
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&mdash;By Wood 2,
Devore, Murray; by Tesreau 4, Hooper, Speaker, Wagner, Wood. First
base on errors&mdash;Boston 1, New York 1. Fumbles&mdash;Wagner,
Fletcher. Hit by pitched ball&mdash;By Wood, Meyers. Left on
bases&mdash;Boston 6, New York 6. Umpires&mdash;Klem and Evans;
field umpires&mdash;Rigler and O'Loughlin. Scorers&mdash;Richter
and Spink. Time of game&mdash;2.10. Weather&mdash;Clear and
warm.</p>
<pre>
SECOND GAME.

NEW YORK.          AB. R. H. P. A. E.    BOSTON.    AB. R. H. P. A. E.
Snodgrass, l.f-r.f  4  1  1  0  0  0   Hooper, r.f.  5  1  3  3  0  0
Doyle, 2b           5  0  1  2  5  0   Yerkes, 2b    5  1  1  3  4  0
Becker, c.f.        4  1  0  0  1  0   Speaker, c.f. 5  2  2  2  0  0
Murray, r.f-l.f     5  2  3  3  0  0   Lewis, l.f.   5  2  2  2  0  1
Merkle, 1b          5  1  1 19  0  1   Gardner, 3b   4  0  0  2  0  0
Herzog, 3b          4  1  3  2  4  0   Stahl, 1b     5  2  2 10  0  0
Meyers, c           4  0  2  5  0  0   Wagner, ss    5  0  0  5  5  5
Fletcher, ss        4  0  0  1  3  3   Carrigan, c   5  0  0  6  4  0
McCormick[1]        0  0  0  0  0  0   Collins, p    3  0  0  0  1  0
Mathewson, p        5  0  0  1  6  0   Hall, p       1  0  0  0  0  0
Shafer[2], ss       0  0  0  0  3  0   Bedient, p    1  0  0  0  0  0
Wilson[3], c        0  0  0  0  1  1
                   -- -- -- -- -- --                -- -- -- -- -- --
Totals             40  6 11 33 23  5    Totals      44  6 10 33 14  1
</pre>
<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.</p>
<pre>
New York       0  1  0  1  0  0  0  3  0  1  0-6
Boston         3  0  0  0  1  0  0  1  0  1  0-8
</pre>
<p>Left on bases&mdash;New York 9, Boston 6. First base on
errors&mdash;New York 1, Boston 3. Two-base hits&mdash;Snodgrass,
Murray, Herzog, Lewis 2, Hooper. Three-base hits&mdash;Murray,
Merkle. Herzog, Yerkes, Speaker. Stolen bases&mdash;Snodgrass,
Herzog, Hooper 2, Stahl. Sacrifice hit&mdash;Gardner. Sacrifice
flies&mdash;Herzog, McCormick. Double play&mdash;Fletcher and
Herzog. Pitching record&mdash;Off Collins, 9 hits and 3 runs in 30
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&mdash;By Mathewson 4, Stahl,
Collins 2, Wagner; by Collins 6, Doyle, Merkle, Mathewson 2,
Snodgrass; by Bedient 1, Doyle. Bases on balls&mdash;By Hall 4,
Snodgrass, Doyle, Becker, Meyers; by Bedient 1, Becker.
Fumbles&mdash;Fletcher 2. Muffed flies&mdash;Fletcher, Lewis.
Muffed foul fly&mdash;Merkle. Muffed thrown ball&mdash;Wilson. Hit
by pitcher&mdash;By Bedient, Snodgrass. Umpires&mdash;O'Loughlin
and Rigler; field umpires&mdash;Klem and Evans.
Scorers&mdash;Richter and Spink. Time of game&mdash;2.38.
Weather&mdash;Cool and cloudy.</p>
<pre>
THIRD GAME.

NEW YORK.       AB. R. H. P. A. E.    BOSTON.       AB. R. H. P. A. E.
Devore, 1.f.     4  0  2  2  0  0   Hooper, r.f.     3  0  0  1  0  0
Doyle, 2b        3  0  0  3  1  0   Yerkes, 2b       4  0  1  3  1  0
Snodgrass, c.f.  4  0  1  0  0  0   Speaker, c.f.    4  0  1  3  1  0
Murray, l.f.     4  1  1  5  0  0   Lewis, l.f.      4  1  2  4  0  0
Merkle, 1b       3  0  0  5  0  1   Gardner, 3b      3  0  1  0  2  0
Herzog, 3b       2  1  1  1  3  0   Stahl, 1b        4  0  2 11  1  0
Meyers, c        4  0  1  8  1  0   Wagner, ss       4  0  0  1  3  0
Fletcher, ss     3  0  1  3  2  0   Carrigan, c      2  0  0  3  1  0
Marquard, p      1  0  0  0  2  0   Engle[1]         1  0  0  0  0  0
                                    O'Brien, p       2  0  0  1  5  0
                                    Ball[2]          1  0  0  0  0  0
                                    Cady, c          1  0  0  0  1  0
                                    Bedient, p       0  0  0  0  0  0
                                    Henriksen[3]     0  0  0  0  0  0
                -- -- -- -- -- --                   -- -- -- -- -- --
Totals          28  2  7 27  9  1     Totals        31  1  7 27 15  0
</pre>
<p>1: Engle batted for Carrigan in eighth inning. 2: Ball batted
for O'Brien in eighth inning. 3: Henriksen ran for Stahl in ninth
inning.</p>
<pre>
New York       0  1  0  0  1  0  0  0  0-2
Boston         0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1-1
</pre>
<p>Left on bases&mdash;New York 6, Boston 7. First base on
errors&mdash;Boston 1. Two-base hits&mdash;Murray, Herzog, Stahl,
Gardner. Stolen bases&mdash;Devore, Fletcher, Wagner. Sacrifice
hits&mdash;Merkle, Marquard, Gardner. Sacrifice fly&mdash;Herzog.
Double play&mdash;Speaker and Stahl. Pitching record&mdash;Off
O'Brien, 6 hints and 2 runs in 26 times at bat in 8 innings; off
Bedient, 1 hit and 0 runs in 2 times at bat in 1 inning. Struck
out&mdash;By Marquard 6, Hooper, Yerkes, Wagner, O'Brien 2, Ball;
by O'Brien 3, Devore, Merkle, Meyers. Bases on balls&mdash;O'Brien
3, Fletcher, Doyle, Marquard; by Marquard 1, Hooper. Muffed thrown
ball&mdash;Merkle. Hit by pitcher&mdash;By Bedient, Herzog.
Umpires&mdash;Evans and Klem; field umpires&mdash; O'Loughlin and
Rigler. Scorers&mdash;Richter and Spink. Time of game&mdash;2.16.
Weather&mdash;Clear and cool.</p>
<pre>
FOURTH GAME.

BOSTON.       AB. R. H. P. A. E.      NEW YORK.     AB. R. H. P. A. E.
Hooper, r.f.   4  0  1  1  0  0    Devore, l.f.      4  0  1  0  0  0
Yerkes, 2b     3  0  1  2  5  0    Doyle, 2b         4  0  1  4  1  0
Speaker, c.f.  4  0  1  2  0  0    Snodgrass, c.f.   4  0  0  2  0  0
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     3  0  0  2  3  1    Meyers, c         4  0  0  5  1  1
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
                                   McCormick[1]      1  0  1  0  0  0
                                   Ames, p           0  0  0  0  1  0
              -- -- -- -- -- --                     -- -- -- -- -- --
Totals        32  3  8 27 12  1      Totals         35  1  9 27 12  1
</pre>
<p>1: McCormick batted for Tesreau in seventh inning.</p>
<pre>
Boston         0  1  0  1  0  0  0  0  1-3
New York       0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0-1
</pre>
<p>Left on bases&mdash;Boston 7, New York 7. First base on
errors&mdash;Boston 1, New York 1. Two-base hits&mdash;Speaker,
Fletcher. Three-base hit&mdash;Gardner. Stolen bases&mdash;Stahl,
Merkle. Sacrifice hits&mdash;Yerkes, Stahl. Double
play&mdash;Fletcher and Merkle. Pitching record&mdash;Off Tesreau,
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&mdash;By Wood
8, Devore, Snodgrass. Murray 2, Merkle 2, Meyers, Tesreau; by
Tesreau 5, Lewis, Stahl, Wagner, Cady 2. Bases on balls&mdash;By
Tesreau 2, Hooper, Gardner; by Ames 1, Wagner. Fumble&mdash;Wagner.
Wild throw&mdash;Meyers. Wild pitch&mdash;Tesreau.
Umpires&mdash;Rigler and O'Loughlin; field umpires&mdash;Evans and
Klem. Scorers&mdash; Richter and Spink. Time of game&mdash;2.06.
Weather&mdash;Cool and cloudy, and ground heavy.</p>
<pre>
FIFTH GAME.

BOSTON.        AB. R. H. P. A. E.    NEW YORK.      AB. R. H. P. A. E.
Hooper, r.f.    4  l  2  4  0  0   Devore, l.f.      2  0  0  0  0  0
Yerkes, 2b      4  1  1  3  3  0   Doyle, 2b         4  0  0  0  3  1
Speaker, c.f.   3  0  1  3  0  0   Snodgrass, c.f.   4  0  0  2  0  0
Lewis, l.f.     3  0  0  1  0  0   Murray, r.f.      3  0  0  0  1  0
Gardner, 3b     3  0  0  3  2  1   Merkle, 1b        4  1  1 15  0  0
Stahl, 1b       3  0  0  7  0  0   Herzog, 3b        4  0  0  2  3  0
Wagner, ss      3  0  1  1  1  0   Meyers, c         3  0  1  2  0  0
Cady, c         3  0  0  5  0  0   Fletcher, ss      2  0  0  2  2  0
Bedient, p      3  0  0  0  0  0   McCormick[1]      1  0  0  0  0  0
                                   Shafer[2], ss     0  0  0  1  1  0
                                   Mathewson, p      3  0  1  0  3  0
               -- -- -- -- -- --                    -- -- -- -- -- --
Totals         29  2  5 27  6  1     Totals         30  1  3 24 13  1
</pre>
<p>1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in seventh inning. 2: Shafer
ran for McCormick in seventh inning and then played shortstop.</p>
<pre>
Boston         0  0  2  0  0  0  0  0  X&mdash;2
New York       0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0&mdash;1
</pre>
<p>Left on bases&mdash;New York 5, Boston 3. First base on
errors&mdash;New York 1, Boston 1. Two-base hit&mdash;Merkle.
Three-base hits&mdash;Hooper, Yerkes. Double play&mdash;Wagner,
Yerkes and Stahl. Struck out&mdash;By Mathewson 2, Gardner, Wagner;
by Bedient 4, Devore, Snodgrass, Merkle, Mathewson. Bases on
balls&mdash;By Bedient 3, Devore 2, Murray. Fumbles&mdash;Doyle,
Gardner. Umpires&mdash;O'Loughlin and Rigler; field
umpires&mdash;Klem and Evans. Scorers&mdash;Richter and Spink. Time
of game&mdash;1.43. Weather&mdash;Warm and cloudy.</p>
<pre>
SIXTH GAME.

NEW YORK.      AB. R. H. P. A. E.      BOSTON.      AB. R. H. P. A. E.
Devore, l.f.    4  0  1  2  0  1    Hooper, r.f.     4  0  1  2  2  0
Doyle, 2b       4  1  1  1  1  0    Yerkes, 2b       4  0  2  3  1  1
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       3  1  2  6  0  0    Wagner, 3b       4  0  0  3  0  0
Fletcher, ss    3  0  1  0  2  0    Cady, c          3  0  1  3  2  1
Marquard, p     3  0  0  0  2  1    O'Brien, p       0  0  0  0  1  0
                                    Engle[1]         1  0  1  0  0  0
                                    Collins, p       2  0  0  0  2  0
               -- -- -- -- -- --                    -- -- -- -- -- --
Totals         30  5 11 27  7  2      Totals        33  2  7 24  9  2
</pre>
<p>1: Engle batted for O'Brien in second inning.</p>
<pre>
New York       5  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  X&mdash;5
Boston         0  2  0  0  0  0  0  0  0&mdash;2
</pre>
<p>Left on bases&mdash;Boston 5, New York 1. First base on
errors&mdash;Boston 1. Two-base hits&mdash;Engle, Merkle, Herzog.
Three-base hit&mdash;Meyers. Stolen bases&mdash;Speaker, Doyle,
Herzog, Meyers. Double plays&mdash;Fletcher, Doyle and Merkle;
Hooper and Stahl. Pitching record&mdash;Off O'Brien, 6 hits and 5
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&mdash;By Marquard 3,
Wagner, Gardner, Stahl; by O'Brien 1, Snodgrass; by Collins 1,
Devore. Base on balls&mdash;By Marquard, Speaker.
Fumble&mdash;Devore. Wild throw&mdash;Marquard. Muffed foul
fly&mdash;Cady. Balk&mdash;O'Brien. Wild throw&mdash;Yerkes. Time
of game&mdash;1.58. Umpires&mdash;Klem and Evans; field
umpires&mdash;O'Loughlin and Rigler. Scorers&mdash;Richter and
Spink. Weather&mdash;Warm and cloudy.</p>
<pre>
SEVENTH GAME.

NEW YORK.         AB. R. H. P. A. E.  BOSTON.       AB. R. H. P. A. E.
Devore, r.f.       4  2  1  3  1  1   Hooper, r.h.   3  0  1  1  1  0
Doyle, 2b          4  3  3  2  3  2   Yerkes, 2b     4  0  0  1  4  0
Snodgrass, c.f.    5  1  2  1  0  0   Speaker, c.f.  4  1  1  4  0  1
Murray, l.f.       4  0  0  1  0  0   Lewis, l.f.    4  1  1  3  0  0
Merkle, 1b         5  1  2 10  0  1   Gardner, 3b    4  1  1  2  0  1
Herzog, 3b         4  2  1  0  2  0   Stahl, 1b      5  0  1 11  1  0
Meyers, c          4  1  3  6  0  0   Wagner, ss     5  0  1  4  4  0
Wilson, c[1]       1  0  1  2  0  0   Cady, c        4  1  0  1  2  0
Fletcher, ss       5  1  1  2  4  0   Wood, p        0  0  0  0  1  0
Tesreau, p         4  0  2  0  6  0   Happ, p        3  0  3  0  5  1
                  -- -- -- -- -- --                 -- -- -- -- -- --
Totals            40 11 16 27 16  4    Totals       36  4  9  27 18  3
</pre>
<p>1: Wilson relieved Meyers in eighth inning.</p>
<pre>
New York       6  1  0  0  0  2  1  0  1&mdash;11
Boston         0  1  0  0  0  0  2  1  0&mdash; 4
</pre>
<p>Left on bases&mdash;New York 8, Boston 12. First base on
errors&mdash;Boston 1. Stolen bases&mdash;Devore 2, Doyle.
Sacrifice hit&mdash;Murray. Sacrifice fly&mdash;Hooper. Two-base
hits&mdash;Snodgrass, Hall, Lewis. Home runs&mdash;Doyle, Gardner.
Double plays&mdash;Devore and Meyers; Speaker, unassisted. Pitching
record&mdash;Off Wood, 7 hits and 6 runs in 8 times at bat in 1
inning; off Hall, 9 hits and 5 runs in 32 times at bat in 8
innings. Struck out&mdash;By Tesreau 6, Hooper 2, Yerkes, Gardner,
Wagner, Cady; by Hall 1, Herzog. Bases on balls&mdash;By Tesreau 5,
Hooper, Yerkes, Speaker, Lewis, Hall; by Hall 5, Devore 2, Doyle,
Herzog, Tesreau. Fumbles&mdash;Doyle, Devore. Muffed thrown
ball&mdash;Gardner. Wild throws&mdash;Merkle, Hall, Speaker. Muffed
fly&mdash;Doyle. Wild pitches&mdash;Tesreau 2. Hit by pitched
ball&mdash;By Tesreau, Gardner. Time of game&mdash;2.21.
Umpires&mdash;Evans and Klem; field umpires&mdash;O'Loughlin and
Rigler. Scorers&mdash;Richter and Spink. Weather&mdash;Cold and
windy.</p>
<pre>
EIGHTH GAME.

BOSTON.          AB. R. H. P. A. E.    NEW YORK.    AB. R. H. P. A. E.
Hooper, r.f.      5  0  0  3  0  0   Devore, r.f.    3  1  1  3  1  0
Yerkes, 2b        4  1  1  0  3  0   Doyle, 2b       5  0  0  1  5  1
Speaker, c.f.     4  0  2  2  0  1   Snodgrass, c.f. 4  0  1  4  1  1
Lewis, l.f.       4  0  0  1  0  0   Murray, l.f.    5  1  2  3  0  0
Gardner, 3b       3  0  1  1  4  2   Merkle, 1b      5  0  1 10  0  0
Stahl, 1b         4  1  2 15  0  1   Herzog, 3b      5  0  2  2  1  0
Wagner, ss        3  0  1  3  5  1   Meyers, c       3  0  0  4  1  0
Cady, c           4  0  0  5  3  0   Fletcher, ss    3  0  1  2  3  0
Bedient, p        2  0  0  0  1  0   McCormick[1]    1  0  0  0  0  0
Henriksen[2]      1  0  1  0  0  0   Mathewson, p    4  0  1  0  3  0
Wood, p           0  0  0  0  2  0   Shafer[3], ss   0  0  0  0  0  0
Engle[4]          1  1  0  0  0  0
                 -- -- -- -- -- --                  -- -- -- -- -- --
Totals           35  3  8 30 18  5     Totals       38  2  9*29 15 2
</pre>
<p>*: Two out in tenth inning when winning run was scored.</p>
<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.</p>
<pre>
Boston         0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  2&mdash;3
New York       0  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  1&mdash;2
</pre>
<p>Left on bases&mdash;New York 11, Boston 9. First base on
errors&mdash;New York 1, Boston 1. Two-base hits&mdash;Murray 2,
Herzog, Gardner, Stahl, Henriksen. Sacrifice hit&mdash;Meyers.
Sacrifice fly&mdash;Gardner. Stolen base&mdash;Devore. Pitching
record&mdash;Off Bedient, 6 hits and 1 run in 26 times at bat in 7
innings; off Wood, 3 hits and 1 run in 12 times at bat in 3
innings. Struck out&mdash;By Mathewson 4, Yerkes, Speaker, Lewis,
Stahl; by Bedient 2, Merkle, Fletcher; by Wood 2, Mathewson,
Herzog. Bases on balls&mdash;By Mathewson 5, Yerkes, Speaker,
Lewis, Gardner, Wagner; by Bedient 3, Devore, Snodgrass, Meyers; by
Wood 1, Devore. Muffed fly&mdash;Snodgrass. Muffed foul
fly&mdash;Stahl. Muffed thrown balls&mdash;Doyle, Wagner, Gardner.
Fumbles&mdash;Speaker, Gardner. Time of game&mdash;2.39.
Umpires&mdash;O'Loughlin and Rigler; field umpires&mdash;Klem and
Evans. Scorers&mdash;Richter and Spink. Weather&mdash;Clear and
cold.</p>
<p>THE COMPOSITE SCORE.</p>
<p>Following is a composite score of the eight games played, thus
arranged to show at a glance the total work in every
department:</p>
<pre>
BOSTON.

                               G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PO. A. E.
Hooper........................ 8  31  3  9  2   2   16  3  ..
Yerkes........................ 8  32  3  8  ..  1   15  22 1
Speaker....................... 8  30  4  9  1   ..  21  2  2
Lewis......................... 8  32  4  5  ..  ..  14  .. 1
Gardner....................... 8  28  4  5  ..  3   9   12 4
Stahl......................... 8  32  3  9  2   1   77  3  1
Wagner........................ 8  30  1  5  1   ..  24  24 3
Cady.......................... 7  22  1  3  ..  1   35  9  1
Wood.......................... 4  7   1  2  ..  ..  1   6  ..
Carrigan...................... 2  7   .. .. ..  ..  9   5  ..
Collins....................... 2  5   .. .. ..  ..  ..  3  ..
Hall.......................... 2  4   .. 3  ..  ..  ..  5  1
Bedient....................... 4  6   .. .. ..  ..  ..  1  ..
[1]Engle...................... 3  3   1  1  ..  ..  ..  .. ..
O'Brien....................... 2  2   .. .. ..  ..  1   6  ..
[2]Ball....................... 1  1   .. .. ..  ..  ..  .. ..
[3]Henriksen.................. 2  1   .. 1  ..  ..  ..  .. ..
                                 --   -- -- --  --  --  -- --
                                273   25 60 6   8  222 101 14
</pre>
<pre>
NEW YORK.

                               G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PO. A. E.
Devore........................ 7  24  4  6  4   ..  10  2  2
Doyle......................... 8  33  5  8  2   ..  15  26 4
Snodgrass..................... 8  33  2  7  1   ..  17  1  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   4  1 .. ..   ..  ..  1  ..
Meyers........................ 8  28  2 10  1    1  42  4  1
Fletcher...................... 8  28  1  5  1   ..  16  23 4
Wilson........................ 3   1 ..  1 ..   ..   2  1  1
Shafer........................ 3  .. .. .. ..   ..   1  4  ..
Tesreau....................... 3   8 ..  3 ..   ..  ..  10 ..
[5]McCormick.................. 5   4 ..  1 ..    1  ..  .. ..
Crandall...................... 1   1 .. .. ..   ..  ..  1  ..
Mathewson..................... 3  12 ..  2 ..   ..   2  12 ..
Marquard...................... 2   4 .. .. ..    1  ..  4  1
Ames.......................... 1  .. .. .. ..   ..  ..  1  ..
                                 --- -- -- --   --  --  --  --
                                 274 31 74 12   7[6]22l 108 17
</pre>
<p>1: Engle batted for Carrigan in eighth inning of third game; for
O'Brien in second inning of sixth game, and for Wood in tenth
inning of eighth game.</p>
<p>2: Ball batted for O'Brien in eighth inning of third game.</p>
<p>3: Henriksen ran for Stahl in ninth inning of third game; and
batted for Bedient in seventh inning of eighth game.</p>
<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>
<p>5: Becker ran for Meyers in ninth inning of first game.</p>
<p>6: Two out in tenth inning of eighth game when winning run
scored.</p>
<pre>
           1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11  Tl.
Boston     3  4  2  1  1  1  6  2  2  3  0&mdash;25
New York  11  3  3  1  1  2  3  3  2  2  0&mdash;31
</pre>
<p>Left on bases&mdash;Boston 55, New York 53.</p>
<p>Two-base hits&mdash;Boston: Lewis 3, Gardner 2, Stahl 2, Hooper
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.</p>
<p>Three-base hits&mdash;Boston: Speaker 2, Yerkes 2, Gardner 1,
Hooper 1; total 6. New York: Murray 1, Merkle 1, Herzog 1, Meyers
1; total 4.</p>
<p>Home runs&mdash;Boston: Gardner 1. New York: Doyle 1.</p>
<p>Double plays&mdash;For Boston: Stahl and Wood 1; Speaker and
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.</p>
<p>Struck out by Boston pitchers&mdash;By Wood: Merkle 3, Tesreau
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'Brien: Devore 1, Merkle 1, Meyers 1, Snodgrass 1; total 4. By
Hall: Herzog 1; total 1. Grand total 39.</p>
<p>Struck out by New York pitchers&mdash;By Tesreau: Hooper 3, Cady
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'Brien 2, Hooper 1, Yerkes 1, Ball 1, Gardner 1, Stahl 1; total 9.
By Crandall: Stahl 1, Gardner 1; total 2. Grand total 36.</p>
<p>Bases on balls off Boston pitchers&mdash;Off Wood: Devore 2,
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'Brien:
Fletcher 1, Doyle 1. Marquard 1; total 3. Grand total 22.</p>
<p>Bases on balls off New York pitchers&mdash;Off Tesreau: Hooper
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.</p>
<p>Relief pitchers' records&mdash;Off Tesreau, 5 hits, 4 runs, in
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'Brien, 6 hits, 2 runs, in 26 times at bat in 8 innings; off
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'Brien, 8 hits, 5 runs, in 8 times at
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.</p>
<p>Wild pitches&mdash;Tesreau 3.</p>
<p>Balk&mdash;O'Brien 1.</p>
<p>Muffed fly Balls&mdash;Fletcher 1, Lewis 1. Doyle 1, Snodgrass
1; total 4.</p>
<p>Muffed foul fly&mdash;Merkle 1, Cady 1, Stahl 1; total 3.</p>
<p>Muffed thrown balls&mdash;Wilson 1, Merkle 1, Gardner 2, Doyle
1, Wagner 1; total 6.</p>
<p>Wild throws&mdash;Meyers 1, Marquard 1, Yerkes 1, Merkle 1, Hall
1, Speaker 1; total 6.</p>
<p>Fumbles&mdash;Wagner 2, Fletcher 3, Doyle 2, Gardner 2, Devore
2, Speaker 1; total 12.</p>
<p>First base on errors&mdash;Boston 11, New York 5.</p>
<p>Sacrifice flies&mdash;Herzog 2, McCormick 1, Hooper 1, Gardner
1; total 5.</p>
<p>Hit by pitcher&mdash;By Bedient: Snodgrass 1, Herzog 1. By Wood:
Meyers. By Tesreau: Gardner.</p>
<p>Umpires&mdash;Evans and O'Loughlin, of the American League; Klem
and Rigler, of the National League.</p>
<p>Official scorers&mdash;Francis C. Richter of Philadelphia, and
J. Taylor Spink of St. Louis, all games.</p>
<p>Average time&mdash;2.13 7-8.</p>
<p>Average attendance&mdash;3l,505.</p>
<p>Weather&mdash;Clear and cool.</p>
<p>INDIVIDUAL BATTING AVERAGES.</p>
<p>Following are the official batting averages of all players
participating in the World's Championship Series of 1912. They show
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:</p>
<pre>
INDIVIDUAL BOSTON BATTING.

            G.   AB.   R.   H.   SB.   SH.   PC.
Henriksen    2     1   --    1   --    --   1000
Hall         2     4   --    3   --    --   .750
Engle        3     3    1    1   --    --   .333
Speaker      8    30    4    9    1    --   .300
Hooper       8    31    3    9    2     2   .290
Wood         4     7    1    2   --    --   .286
Stahl        8    32    3    9    2     1   .281
Yerkes       8    32    3    8   --     1   .250
Gardner      8    28    4    5   --     3   .179
Wagner       8    30    1    5    1    --   .167
Lewis        8    32    4    5   --    --   .156
Cady         7    22    1    3   --     1   .136
Carrigan     2     7   --   --   --    --   .000
Collins      2     5   --   --   --    --   .000
Bedient      4     6   --   --   --    --   .000
O'Brien      2     2   --   --   --    --   .000
Ball         1     1   --   --   --    --   .000
</pre>
<pre>
INDIVIDUAL NEW YORK BATTING.

            G.   AB.   R.   H.   SB.   SH.   PC.
Wilson       2     1   --    1   --    --   1000
Herzog       8    30    6   12    2     2   .400
Tesreau      3     8   --    3   --    --   .375
Meyers       8    28    2   10    1     1   .357
Murray       8    31    5   10   --     1   .323
Merkle       8    33    5    9    1     1   .273
Devore       7    24    4    6    4    --   .250
McCormick    5     4   --    1   --     1   .250
Doyle        8    33    5    8    2    --   .242
Snodgrass    8    33    2    7    1    --   .212
Fletcher     8    28    1    5    1    --   .179
Mathewson    3    12   --    2   --    --   .167
Becker       2     4    1   --   --    --   .000
Shafer       3    --   --   --   --    --   .000
Crandall     1     1   --   --   --    --   .000
Marquard     2     4   --   --   --    --   .000
Ames         1    --   --   --   --    --   .000
</pre>
<p>Team batting average: New York, .270; Boston, .220.</p>
<p>INDIVIDUAL FIELDING AVERAGES.</p>
<p>The individual and team fielding averages show Boston leading by
a slight margin of .958 to .951. The figures follow:</p>
<pre>
                              CATCHERS.
            G. PO. A. PB. E. PC. |            G. PO. A. PB. E. PC.
Carrigan    2   9  5         1000|Cady        7  35  9      1  .978
Meyers      8  42  4       1 .979|Wilson      2   2  1      1  .750

                                PITCHERS.
                G. PO. A. E. PC. |                G. PO. A. E. PC.
Tesreau         3     10     1000|Collins         2      3     1000
Crandall        1      1     1000|Bedient         4      1     1000
Mathewson       4  1  12     1000|O'Brien         2  1   6     1000
Wood            4  1   6     1000|Hall            2      5  1  .833
Ames            1      1     1000|Marquard        2      4  1  .800

                              FIRST BASEMEN.
Stahl       8  77  3   1     .988|Merkle          8 83   1  3  .966

                             SECOND BASEMEN.
Yerkes      8  15 22   1     .974|Doyle           8 15  26  4  .911

                              SHORTSTOPS.
Shafer          3  1   4     1000|Fletcher        8 16  23  4  .907
Wagner          8 24  24  3  .941

                             THIRD BASEMEN.
Herzog          8 11  16     1000|Gardner         8  9  12  4  .840

                              OUTFIELDERS.
Murray          8 23   1     1000|Lewis           8 14      1  .933
Becker          1      1     1000|Speaker         8 21   2  2  .920
Hooper          8 16   3     1000|Devore          7 10   2  2  .857
Snodgrass       8 17   1  1  .947|
</pre>
<p>Team fielding average: Boston, .958; New York, .951.</p>
<p>THE PITCHERS' RECORDS.</p>
<p>The pitching averages show Marquad and Bedient the only pitchers
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:</p>
<pre>
              G.  W.  L.  T. TO.    PC. H.  BB.  HB.  SO.  IP.    AB.
Bedient       4   1       1   1   1000  10   7    2    7   17      59
Marquard      2   2               1000  14   2         9   18      66
Wood          4   3   1       1   .750  27   3    1   21   22      88
Tesreau       3   1   2       2   .333  19  11    1   15   23      85
Collins       2           1   1   .000  14             6   14-1/3  52
Hall          2           1   1   .000  11   9         1   10-2/3  41
Mathewson     3       2   1       .000  23   5        10   29-2/3 108
Ames          1                   .000   3   1              2       8
Crandall      1                   .000   1             2    2       6
O'Brien       2       2       2   .000  12   3         4    9      34
</pre>
<p>Wild pitches&mdash;Tesreau 3.</p>
<p>Wiltse, Ames, Hall and Crandall did not pitch a full game and
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'Brien pitched 8 innings of third game and is charged with defeat.
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'Brien pitched only 1 inning, but lost the game.
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.</p>
<p>FINANCIAL RESULT.</p>
<p>The attendance and receipts of the 1912 World's Championship
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's
share, $34,236.25; the players' share for four days, $127,910.61;
each player's share on the Athletic team, $3,654.58; and each
player's share on the New York team, $2,436.30. For purposes of
comparison we give the official statement of the 1911 World's
Series:</p>
<pre>
                                   Attendance.    Receipts.
First game, New York................ 38,281       $77,359.00
Second game, Philadelphia........... 26,286        42,962.50
Third game, New York................ 37,216        75,593.00
Fourth game, Philadelphia........... 24,355        40,957.00
Fifth game, New York................ 33,228        69.384.00
Sixth game, Philadelphia............ 20,485        36,109.00
                                  ---------    -------------
Totals ............................ 179,851      $342,364.50

Each club's share................................ $90,108.72
National Commission's share....................... 34,236.25
Players' share for four games................     127,910.61
</pre>
<p>Herewith is given the official attendance and receipts of the
Giant-Red Sox world's Series of 1912, together with the division of
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.</p>
<pre>
                                    Attendance.    Receipts.
First game, New York................ 35,722       $75,127.00
Second game, Boston................. 30,148        58,369.00
Third game, Boston.................. 34,624        63,142.00
Fourth game, New York............... 36,502        76,644.00
Fifth game, Boston.................. 34,683        63,201.00
Sixth game, New York................ 30,622        66,654.00
Seventh game, Boston................ 32,630        57,004.00
Eighth game, Boston ................ 16,970        30,308.00
                                  ---------    -------------
Totals............................. 251,901      $490,449.00

Each club's share............................... $146,915.91
National Commission's share....................... 49,044.90
Players' share for four games.................... 147,572.28
</pre>
<a name="RULE4_10"><!-- RULE4 10 --></a>
<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912</h2>
<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center>
<p>Spurts of energy on the part of different clubs, unexpected ill
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>
<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.</p>
<p>They were dangerous men to be permitted to get on bases, and
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.</p>
<p>While there were some who were quite sanguine before the
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.</p>
<p>The runaway race which New York made up to the Fourth of July
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>
<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>
<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.</p>
<p>Nothing proves more conclusively the strength of this manner of
compiling pitchers' records than that Rucker, by the old system,
dropped to twenty-eighth place in the list of National League
pitchers, finished third in the earned run computation, showing
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.</p>
<p>The Giants are to be commended for playing clean, sportsmanlike
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's chief executive.</p>
<hr>
<p>The general work of the Pittsburgh team throughout the year was
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: "Pittsburgh
makes me think of a wedding cake without the frosting."</p>
<p>Fred. Clarke, manager of the team, adhered resolutely to his
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>
<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>
<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, comparatively speaking, to watch the New York
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.</p>
<p>Pittsburgh had an excellent pitching staff. Even better results
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, with practically
no major league experience, pushed his way to a commanding position
in the work which he did.</p>
<p>Until the Giants made their last visit to Pittsburgh in the
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.</p>
<p>Fired with the knowledge that they were at the turning point in
the race the New York players battled desperately with their rivals
on Pittsburgh's home field and won. Even the Pittsburgh players
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.</p>
<p>First base had long bothered Clarke. Frequent experiments had
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.</p>
<p>But making a first baseman out of Miller took away a second
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.</p>
<hr>
<p>Two important factors contributed to the success of the Chicagos
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>
<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>
<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.</p>
<p>The most of Chicago's success began to date from the early part
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.</p>
<p>Lavender's physical strength held up well for a month and then
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.</p>
<p>Chicago managed to hold its own fairly well against the New York
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.</p>
<p>The race was not without its bright side for Chicago. Even if
the Cubs did finish third for the first time since Chance had been
manager of the organization, it was a welcome sight to see Evers
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.</p>
<hr>
<p>Cincinnati, under the management of Henry O'Day, finished fourth
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>
<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>
<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.</p>
<p>They did well enough to beat Philadelphia for fourth place, and
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.</p>
<hr>
<p>Misfortune and ill luck always attaches itself in a minor degree
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.</p>
<p>Strangely enough they played an important part in the results of
the race. Frequently they defeated the Chicagos, all too frequently
for the comfort of the Chicago Base Ball enthusiasts, and when the
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, with decided conviction, refused to lose.</p>
<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's success against a team
which was a strong contender against that which finally won the
championship.</p>
<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's success at the most timely
moments.</p>
<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.</p>
<p>Perhaps the worst trouble which the St. Louis team had, take the
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.</p>
<p>Perhaps, if the St. Louis team had been a little stronger to
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.</p>
<hr>
<p>For three seasons in succession Brooklyn seems to have been
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.</p>
<p>When the team began the season at Washington Park a tremendous
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>
<p>A ground rule of two bases into the crowd was established, and
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.</p>
<p>This unfortunate beginning appeared to depress the Brooklyn
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.</p>
<p>Fighting against these odds Brooklyn made the best record that
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.</p>
<p>Boston never was expected to be a championship organization. The
material was not there for a championship organization, but Boston
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.</p>
<hr>
<p>Going back to the beginning of the year and looking over the
contest for the National League championship of 1912, it is not
uninteresting, indeed it is of much interest to call attention to
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.</p>
<p>The first game played by the Giants was against Brooklyn, as has
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.</p>
<p>The Giants lost the next three games. Two of them were to
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.</p>
<p>Then New York won nine straight games from the eastern clubs,
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.</p>
<p>Cincinnati won twice from New York and then the Giants turned
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.</p>
<p>Losing one game they again entered the winning class. This time
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.</p>
<p>Then they won another single game and immediately after that
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.</p>
<p>The morning of the Fourth of July dawned hot and sultry. The air
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.</p>
<p>Perhaps it may have been reaction after the long strain of
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.</p>
<p>The New York team went to Chicago and won twice. Then it lost.
The fourth game was won from Chicago and then the Giants lost two
in succession.</p>
<p>They won one game and immediately after that lost four in
succession. Chicago began to have visions of winning the
pennant.</p>
<p>From Chicago the Giants went to Pittsburgh, stood firm in a
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.</p>
<p>Returning home they were beaten on the Polo Grounds three games
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>
<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.</p>
<p>From Chicago their path led them to Pittsburgh where they lost
the first contest. Then they made the stand of the season when they
beat the Pittsburghs four games in succession.</p>
<p>Cincinnati turned the tables on the Giants to the consternation
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.</p>
<p>Here came another test in a Philadelphia series at 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.</p>
<p>Following that they won three games and then lost to St. Louis.
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.</p>
<p>The Giants atoned for the four defeats at the hands of Chicago
and Cincinnati by winning the next four games in succession, and
while this did not actually settle the championship, that is, the
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.</p>
<p>The semi-monthly standing of the race by percentages
follows:</p>
<pre>
                  STANDING OF CLUBS ON APRIL 30.
     Club.       Won. Lost.  PC.        Club.         Won. Lost.  PC.
Cincinnati        10    3   .769   Pittsburgh           5    7   .417
New York           8    3   .727   Philadelphia         4    6   .400
Boston             6    6   .500   St. Louis            5    8   .385
Chicago            5    7   .417   Brooklyn             4    7   .364
</pre>
<pre>
                  STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 15.
     Club.       Won. Lost.  PC.        Club.         Won. Lost.  PC.
New York          18    4   .810   St. Louis           10   16   .385
Cincinnati        19    5   .792   Boston               9   15   .375
Chicago           12   12   .500   Philadelphia         7   13   .350
Pittsburgh         9   12   .429   Brooklyn             7   14   .333
</pre>
<pre>
                  STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 31.
     Club.       Won. Lost.  PC.        Club.         Won. Lost.  PC.
New York          28    7   .800   St. Louis           20   22   .455
Cincinnati        23   17   .675   Philadelphia       .14   19   .426
Chicago           19   17   .628   Brooklyn            12   22   .353
Pittsburgh        18   17   .514   Boston              13   26   .333
</pre>
<pre>
                  STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 15.
     Club.       Won. Lost.  PC.        Club.         Won. Lost.  PC.
New York          37   10   .787   Philadelphia        20   24   .455
Pittsburgh        27   20   .574   St. Louis           23   31   .426
Chicago           26   21   .563   Brooklyn            16   30   .348
Cincinnati        25   23   .553   Boston              16   35   .314
</pre>
<pre>
                  STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 30.
     Club.       Won. Lost.  PC.        Club.         Won. Lost.  PC.
New York          50   11   .820   Philadelphia        24   33   .421
Pittsburgh        37   25   .597   Brooklyn            24   36   .400
Chicago           34   26   .567   St. Louis           27   42   .391
Cincinnati        35   32   .522   Boston              20   46   .303
</pre>
<pre>
                  STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 15.
     Club.       Won. Lost.  PC.       Club.          Won. Lost.  PC.
New York          58   19   .753   Philadelphia        34   38   .472
Chicago           47   28   .627   St. Louis           34   49   .410
Pittsburgh        45   31   .592   Brooklyn            30   48   .385
Cincinnati        41   39   .513   Boston              22   59   .272
</pre>
<pre>
                  STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 31.
     Club.       Won. Lost.  PC.       Club.          Won. Lost.  PC.
New York          67   24   .736   Cincinnati          45   49   .479
Chicago           57   34   .626   St. Louis           41   55   .427
Pittsburgh        52   37   .684   Brooklyn            35   59   .372
Philadelphia      45   43   .511   Boston              25   66   .275
</pre>
<pre>
                  STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 15.
     Club.       Won. Lost.  PC.       Club.          Won. Lost.  PC.
New York          73   30   .709   Cincinnati          50   58   .463
Chicago           69   36   .657   St. Louis           47   60   .439
Pittsburgh        65   40   .619   Brooklyn            39   69   .361
Philadelphia      50   54   .481   Boston              28   76   .269
</pre>
<pre>
                  STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 31.
     Club.       Won. Lost.  PC.       Club.          Won. Lost.  PC.
New York          82   36   .695   Cincinnati          57   65   .467
Chicago           79   42   .653   St. Louis           53   59   .434
Pittsburgh        71   50   .587   Brooklyn            44   76   .367
Philadelphia      59   60   .496   Boston              37   84   .306
</pre>
<pre>
                  STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 15
     Club.       Won. Lost.  PC.       Club.          Won. Lost.  PC.
New York          95   40   .704   Philadelphia        63   70   .474
Chicago           83   61   .619   St. Louis           57   80   .416
Pittsburgh        82   53   .607   Brooklyn            50   85   .370
Cincinnati        68   68   .500   Boston              42   93   .311
</pre>
<pre>
                  STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 30
     Club.       Won. Lost.  PC.       Club.          Won. Lost.  PC.
New York         101   45   .692   Philadelphia        70   77   .476
Pittsburgh        91   57   .615   St. Louis           62   88   .413
Chicago           89   68   .605   Brooklyn            57   91   .385
Cincinnati        74   76   .493   Boston              42  100   .324
</pre>
<p>STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON.</p>
<pre>
  Club.      N.Y. Pitts. Chi. Cin. Phil. St.L. Bkln. Bos.  Won.  PC.
New York      --    12     9   16   17     15    16   18   103  .682
Pittsburgh     8    --    13   11   14     15    14   18    92  .616
Chicago       13     8    --   11   10     15    17   17    91  .607
Cincinnati     6    11    10   --    8     13    16   11    75  .490
Philadelphia   5     8    10   14   --     11    13   12    73  .480
St. Louis      7     7     7    9   11     --    10   12    63  .412
Brooklyn       6     8     5    6    9     11    --   13    58  .379
Boston         3     4     6   11   10     10     9   --    52  .340
              --    --    --   --   --     --    --   --
    Lost      48    58    59   78   79     90    95  101
</pre>
<p>The Chicago-Pittsburgh game at Chicago, October 2, was protested
by the Pittsburgh club and thrown out of the records, taking a
victory from the Chicago club and a defeat from the Pittsburgh
club.</p>
<a name="RULE4_11"><!-- RULE4 11 --></a>
<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912</h2>
<center>BY IRVING E. SANBORN, CHICAGO.</center>
<p>Pre-season predictions in Base Ball do not carry much weight
individually, but when many minds, looking at the game from
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's championships was good for at
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.</p>
<p>The reason for these form reversals were several. The Boston and
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.</p>
<p>The White Sox were the season's sensations both ways and for a
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.</p>
<p>From the outset there was almost no hope for the other four
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.</p>
<p>Five American League teams started the season under new
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's championship team when the
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>
<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.</p>
<p>The prompt and unyielding stand taken by President Johnson
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>
<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, and of these Foster and Moeller were commended highly.
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's
team.</p>
<p>Baumgardner of the St. Louis Browns was an example of a
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'Brien of Boston, but these had the
advantage over Baumgardner of getting better support both in the
field and at bat. O'Brien in particular was fortunate to break in
with a championship team.</p>
<p>The White Sox introduced three youngsters who made good and
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.</p>
<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's transformation
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>
<p>To Stahl's arrangement of his infield probably is due much of
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'Brien did the rest. It is the ability to discover
just the right combination that differentiates the real manager
from the semi-failure.</p>
<p>The Red Sox were in the race from the start, but they were
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's
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&mdash;June 10 was
the exact date&mdash;and never thereafter did they take any team's
dust.</p>
<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's lead
was thirteen games, but it was not until September 18 that the
American League pennant was actually cinched beyond the possibility
of losing it.</p>
<p>All season Stahl's men were known as a lucky ball team. Delving
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 "Boston's luck." This does not detract
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.</p>
<p>That is the explanation of the unusual consistency that marked
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&mdash;the nearest they came to a slump. In that
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's championship in a record
breaking world's series with the New York Giants was a fitting
climax to their season's achievement.</p>
<hr>
<p>When Clark Griffith stalked through the west on his first
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't. For Griffith kept his men keyed up to the fighting
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's
champions.</p>
<p>The acquisition of Gandil from Montreal plugged a hole at first
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's infield, the inclination is to overestimate
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.</p>
<p>The Washington team at one time or another occupied every
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's men surrendered the runner-up position to the Athletics
for about two weeks, then came back and took it away from the
Mackmen at the end.</p>
<hr>
<p>What happened to the world's champion Athletics the public did
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.</p>
<p>Philadelphia's sterling young infield seemed to stand up all
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's series of 1911 proved more serious and lasting than was
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.</p>
<p>The Mackmen made a bad beginning for champions, and on May 1
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.</p>
<hr>
<p>The White Sox by their meteoric career demonstrated the value of
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's margin
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's
pennant almost every night.</p>
<p>Even the doubters were beginning to believe Manager Callahan had
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>
<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&mdash;and the help of Ed Walsh&mdash;climbed back into the
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's men made up for some of the disappointment
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's series.</p>
<hr>
<p>Cleveland's 1912 experience was almost identical with that of
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.</p>
<p>The Cleveland team never was prominent in the race after the
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.</p>
<p>The management was given to Joe Birmingham, who took hold of it
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.</p>
<hr>
<p>What was left to Manager Jennings from the great Detroit team
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's wrist the season before had not mended as it should
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.</p>
<hr>
<p>St. Louis and New York were outclassed from the start. Two weeks
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>
<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.</p>
<p>St. Louis got a little better start and for a while was inclined
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, retaining seventh place until after the middle of
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.</p>
<hr>
<p>The year was not prolific of freak or record-breaking
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's record of 145.</p>
<p>The longest game of the younger league's season lasted nineteen
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, made by the
Athletics against New York pitchers. The Athletics also run up the
highest score of the league's season when they compounded
twenty-four runs against Detroit In May.</p>
<p>The semi-monthly standing of the race by percentages
follows:</p>
<pre>
  STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 1.

  Club.                Won.    Lost.   PC.
  Chicago               11       4    .733
  Boston                 9       5    .643
  Washington             8       6    .615
  Cleveland              7       6    .538
  Athletics              7       7    .600
  Detroit                6      10    .375
  St. Louis              5       9    .357
  New York               3      10    .231

  STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 15.

  Chicago               21       6    .778
  Boston                16       8    .667
  Washington            12      12    .500
  Cleveland             11      11    .500
  Detroit               13      14    .481
  Athletics             10      12    .466
  New York               6      15    .286
  St. Louis              6      17    .261

  STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 1.

  Chicago               29      12    .707
  Boston                25      14    .641
  Detroit               21      20    .512
  Athletics             17      17    .500
  Cleveland             18      19    .486
  Washington            19      21    .476
  New York              12      23    .343
  St. Louis             12      27    .308

  STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 15.

  Boston                33      19    .635
  Chicago               33      21    .611
  Washington            33      21    .611
  Athletics             27      21    .563
  Detroit               26      29    .473
  Cleveland             23      28    .451
  New York              17      31    .364
  St. Louis             15      37    .288

  STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 1.

  Boston                47      21    .691
  Athletics             39      25    .609
  Chicago               38      28    .576
  Washington            37      31    .551
  Cleveland             33      38    .492
  Detroit               33      36    .478
  New York              18      44    .290
  St. Louis             18      45    .288

  STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 15.

  Boston                56      26    .683
  Washington            60      33    .602
  Athletics             46      36    .668
  Chicago               44      35    .567
  Cleveland             42      42    .500
  Detroit               40      43    .488
  New York              22      53    .298
  St. Louis             22      56    .282

  STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 1.

  Boston                67      31    .684
  Washington            61      37    .622
  Athletics             55      41    .573
  Chicago               49      36    .516
  Detroit               48      42    .485
  Cleveland             45      43    .464
  New York              31      53    .333
  St. Louis             30      56    .312

  STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 15.

  Boston                76      34    .691
  Athletics             66      43    .606
  Washington            67      44    .604
  Chicago               54      55    .495
  Detroit               55      58    .487
  Cleveland             51      59    .464
  New York              36      73    .327
  St. Louis             36      74    .321

  STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 1.

  Boston              87     37   .702
  Washington          77     49   .611
  Athletics           73     50   .593
  Chicago             62     61   .504
  Detroit             57     70   .449
  Cleveland           54     71   .432
  New York            45     78   .366
  St. Louis           43     82   .344

  STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 15.

  Boston              97     39   .713
  Athletics           81     56   .591
  Washington          82     57   .590
  Chicago             67     69   .493
  Detroit             64     75   .461
  Cleveland           62     75   .453
  New York            48     88   .353
  St. Louis           47     89   .346

  STANDING OF CLUBS ON OCTOBER 1.

  Boston             103     48   .691
  Washington          89     60   .567
  Athletics           89     60   .567
  Chicago             74     76   .493
  Cleveland           72     77   .483
  Detroit             69     80   .463
  St. Louis           52     98   .347
  New York            49    100   .329

  STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON

               Bos.  Wash. Ath. Chic. Clev. Det. S.L. N.Y. Won  PC
  Boston         --   12    15   16   11    15    17   19  105  .691
  Washington     10   --     7   13   18    14    14   15   91  .599
  Athletics       7   18    --   10   14    13    16   17   99  .592
  Chicago         6    9    12   --   11    14    13   13   78  .506
  Cleveland      11    4     8   11   --    13    15   13   75  .490
  Detroit         6    8     9    8    9    --    13   16   69  .451
  St. Louis       5    8     6    9    7     9    --    9   58  .344
  New York        3    7     5    9    8     6    13   --   50  .329
                 --   --    --   --   --    --    --   --
         Lost    47   61    62   76   78    84   101   102

  NATIONAL LEAGUE

  STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON.

                 N.Y. Pitts.Chi. Cin. Phil.St.L. Bkln. Bos. Won. PC.

New York           --   12    9   16   17   15   16    18  103  .682
Pittsburgh          8   --   13   11   14   15   14    18   93  .616
Chicago            13    8   --   11   10   15   17    17   91  .607
Cincinnati          6   11   10   --    8   13   16    11   75  .498
Philadelphia        5    8   10   14   --   11   13    12   73  .480
St. Louis           7    7    7    9   11   --   10    12   63  .412
Brooklyn            6    8    5    6    9   11   --    13   58  .379
Boston              3    4    6   11   10   10    9    --   52  .340
                   --   --   --   --   --   --   --    --   --  ----
Lost               48   58   59   78   79   90   95   101
</pre>
<p>The Chicago-Pittsburgh game at Chicago, October 2, was protested
by the Pittsburgh club and thrown out of the records, taking a
victory from the Chicago club and a defeat from the Pittsburgh
club.</p>
<p>CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS IN PREVIOUS YEARS.</p>
<pre>
1871- Athletics  .759 | 1885- Chicago    .770 | 1899- Brooklyn   .682
1872- Boston     .830 | 1886- Chicago    .726 | 1900- Brooklyn   .603
1873- Boston     .729 | 1887- Detroit    .637 | 1901- Pittsburgh .647
1874- Boston     .717 | 1888- New York   .641 | 1902- Pittsburgh .741
1875- Boston     .899 | 1889- New York   .659 | 1903- Pittsburgh .650
1876- Chicago    .788 | 1890- Brooklyn   .667 | 1904- New York   .693
1877- Boston     .646 | 1891- Boston     .630 | 1905- New York   .668
1878- Boston     .683 | 1892- Boston     .680 | 1906- Chicago    .765
1879- Providence .702 | 1893- Boston     .667 | 1907- Chicago    .704
1880- Chicago    .798 | 1894- Baltimore  .695 | 1908- Chicago    .643
1881- Chicago    .667 | 1895- Baltimore  .669 | 1909- Pittsburgh .724
1882- Chicago    .655 | 1896- Baltimore  .698 | 1910- Chicago    .676
1883- Boston     .643 | 1897- Boston     .795 | 1911- New York   .647
1884- Providence .750 | 1898- Boston     .685 |
</pre>
<p>INDIVIDUAL BATTING.</p>
<p>Following are the Official Batting Averages of National League
players who participated in any manner in at least fifteen
championship games during the season of 1912:</p>
<pre>
Name and Club          G.  A.B.  R.  H.  T.B. 2B  3B  HR  SH  SB  PC
Zimmerman, Chicago    145  557   95 207  318  41  14  14  18  23 .372
Meyers, New York      126  371   60 133  177  16   5   6   9   8 .358
Sweeney, Boston       153  593   84 204  264  81  13   1  33  27 .344
Evers, Chicago        143  478   73 163  211  23  11   1  14  16 .341
Bresnaban, St. Louis   48  108    8  36   50   7   2   1  --   4 .333
McCormick, New York    42   39    4  13   19   4   1  --  --   1 .333
Doyle, New York       143  558   98 184  263  33   8  10  13  36 .330
Kuisely, Cincinnati    21   67   10  22   35   7   8  --   1   3 .328
Lobert, Philadelphia   65  257   37  84  112  12   5   2  10  13 .327
Wiltse, New York       28   46    5  15   17   2  --  --   1   1 .326
Wagner, Pittsburgh    145  558   91 181  277  36  20   7  11  26 .324
Hendrix, Pittsburgh    46  121   25  39   64  10   6   1   2   1 .322
Kirke, Boston         103  359   53 115  146  11   4   4   9   7 .320
Kelly, Pittsburgh      48  132   20  42   52   3   2   1   7   8 .318
Marsans, Cincinnati   110  416   59 132  168  19   7   1   9  35 .317
Kling, Boston          81  252   26  80  102  10   3   2   7   8 .317
Donlin, Pittsburgh     77  244   27  77  108   9   8   2  10   8 .316
Stengel, Brooklyn      17   57    9  38   22   1  --   1   1   5 .316
Paskert, Philadelphia 145  540  102 170  221  38   5   1  11  35 .315
Konetchy, St. Louis   143  538   81 169  245  26  13   8  17  35 .314
Crandall, New York     50   80    9  25   25   6   2  --   3  -- .313
Titus,
  Philadelphia-Boston 141  502   99 155  224  32  11   5  15  11 .309
Merkle, New York      129  479   82 148  215  22   6  11   8  37 .309
Daubert, Brooklyn     145  559   81 173  232  19  16   3  14  39 .308

W. Miller, Chicago     86  241   45  74   93  11   4  --   8  11 .307
S. Magee, Phila       132  464   79 142  203  25   9   6  29  30 .306
Wheat, Brooklyn       123  453   70 138  204  28   7   8   7  16 .305
Huggins, St. Louis    120  431   82 131  154  15   4  --  11  35 .304
Carey, Pittsburgh     150  587  114 177  231  23   8   5  37  45 .302
Edington, Pittsburgh   15   53    4  16   20  --   2  --   3  -- .302
Simon, Pittsburgh      42  113   10  34   38   2   1  --  --   1 .301


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