The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-21

Tom LOTUS, once manager OF the CleNe-
land and Chicago Nationals and later in
charge Of the Washington club, in the
American League, gave one of the most
inteuigentAresumes of the series TO a re-
porter for the Chicago Record-Herald. He
said.
THE Cubs were thoroughly whipped be-
lore the Sunday game ever started. Put
ting Brown in the box when he had
pitched but two days before vas an adj
mission that the Cubs hopes were hang
ing by s. slender thread And Brown got
what ! expected him to set, The Sex
were fun OF confidence after the way they
had slaughtered the Cub pitchers on the
day before, and ! doubt If any pitcher IN
the business could have stopped them
that day
Il see that Chance is being charged
with bad judgment in not putting Overall
In to pitch AT The start Of the Sunday
game. some of the West Side rooters
maintain that overall. after his fine
showing on Saturday, should have been
the logical twirler for Sunday. That's all
tommyrot Chance played the best card
when he sent Brown in. Brown had been
their stake horse all summer long. He it
was who piled up the victories in the
pennant race contests, and in him the
team had the most confidence.
overall doesn't deserve special credit
for the work Of holding the Sox down
after Brown had been knocked out. The
woods are fun of pitchers who can go into
game after it is lost and pitch good
ball. They simply go in with nothing 10
lose and thus, carrying no weight, are
able TO plug along at a fairly successful
rate. I do not doubt that Overall would
have been slammed harder than Brown
had he been in the box for the full nine
innings.
Ginger in sOx Play.
The spirit Of the White Sex in that
final game was enough to carry them to
victory against all the pitchers in
Christendom. / never saw a team so full
of pepper. The extra players on the bench
were yelling their lungs out at every
play, in direct contrast 10 the spirit Of
the Cub bench. The National Leaguers
went on to the field with the spirit OF
Come on and beat Us and put an end TO
our suffering
The Cubs were done fighting in the
last two games. You didn't see them
dancing the coaching lines and showing
signs of life In any other way. The man
whose turn it was to bat next wasn't out
swinging his bat ready to face the pitch
er, but was waiting in seclusion on the
bench until he had 10 get out
The errors of the White Sox, I fear.
were not understood by the fans You
VIII remember the awful errors of Satur-
days game We're made while Walsh was
pitching. and that they We're wild throws.
not fumbles. Well Walsh was using the
spit ball necessarily, and I know it was
the wet bali that caused most of those
frishtlul heaves into the crowd. You
never hear of Davis throwing the ball
over anybody ordinarily. Occasionally he
throws it low or wide, but never over his
man. 1t was that slippery ball that caused
all of those ridiculous looking throws.
The Sex are always a great fielding ag-
sregation, and with any other pitcher
working they would throw as they usually
do OF course. that is no fault of Walsh.
Wild throws must be expected once in a
while with spit ball pitcher who gets as
much moisture on the ball as Walsh does
Both GREAT in Fielding.
The Sox and Cubs are both wonderful
fielding teams Of course, the Sox are at
their best in the fielding line when Tame
hin is on third That fellow is simply air
light as a third baseman. You can't bunt
or him or get away with any hits in his
. direction. For that reason I think it
would have been a good play by Jones TO
have taken Robe out and put fanny" on
third after Inc second inning, when Rohe
had delivered his hit and helped in the
run-getting
Taken an around, it was gameness as
much as anything that decided the series.
The Cubs apparently have been used to
running over their opponents as they
pleased, and this time didn't know what :
DO when somebody fought back at them
and refused to so under the yoke.
The pitching is a big per cent in a short
series. and in that all-imDortant depart
ment the SoX had the better of the ar
gument Chance was up against the
proposition of winning a worlds cham
plonshlp with one pitcher, Brown. Nc
Graw turned the trick a year ago with
Mathewson, but that won't happen often.
Walsh White, and Altrock all looked bet
ter than anybody in q National League
uniform And at that White wasn't night.
but the way White and Altrock feIded
their positions has never been excened
by any pitcher They used the finest
judgment at all times. covered FIRST base
Ia Grand style, and knocked down more
base hits than any one I can think of"