Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30

other way can any team hope to play a
series of games with New York in salts
factory manner. McGraw and his bunch
of rowdies will not stand for defeat unless
they are held down hard and fast under
restraint of the national commission so that
they must take their medicine. Even then
they will try to browbeat the umpires and
resort to all kinds of unSportsmanlke tao
tics to gain an unfair advantage Mr.
Mack might have known that the series
would not be finished unless the umpire
played as tenth man for New York and
things broke nicely for the McGrawites so
that they would win every game. 1t was
foregone conclusion that McGraw would
not submit to defeat: if the tide of battle
went against him from the start he would
find some pretext or other most likely the
umplrfng. to cause a rumpus and have the
games stopped SO as to escape a beating
This was shown yesterday. when. seeing
that Plank was in fine shape which did not
augur well for his team, he started to raise
small-sized riot right in the first inning
when the side should have been out but
with two retired and two on bases one on
a missed grounder by Murphy and the other
on a punky single. his object being two
fold-either to break up the game before
any damage was done, or to bulldoze the
umpire rattle Plank and demoralize the
Athletics.
That's an old trick of McGraw's. The
wonder is that he didn't make trouble the
day before when the game was so close
especially after the Athletics had taken the
lead in the ninth inning; but he could not
very well find an excuse for doing so then
because things were coming his way nicely
and, on the other hand, breaking badly for
the opposition: besides. what few favors
were handed out by the umpire New Or
leans correspondents tell us, went to him.
1t now transpres, according to latest re-
ports. that Dahlen should have been out
on strikes In the fourth inning Wednes-
day, thinner missing good one. which
put Coombs in hole. and the next ball
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the New York shortstop met it for a safety
Had Dahlen been called out on strikes
New York would have been minus two
runs in that inning and victory would
have perched on the Athletics standar I'd.
The Athletic players knew thinner had
missed a costly strike. but they made no
fuss over it. Even after the game they
made no excuses for their defeat by holler-
ing about this missed strike, but took their
medicine like true sportsmen. Had the
conditions been reversed what howl would
have gone up from the New York camp!
There would have been row right there,
and the first game would have ended as did
yesterdays. Knowing as all of them do,
the bad reputation Of McGraw and his ag-
gregation Of hoodlums. no manager has any
business to arrange games with the New
York Nationals unless they are played I'M
der the supervision and direction of the
national commission; they are only bring
Ing the sport into disrepute by meeting the
McGrawites under any other conditions. AS
ball players the Athletics should triumph
over New York at any time with both
teams in their best physical condition; they
should do so even In this series, though
the New Workers.. who have been in train
ing out in California longer than Mack's
men have been in Texas, must necessarily
be in better shape. But rowdies umpire
baiters and DULLES, they are not in the same
class with McGraw and his tribe: hence If
the series Is continued the Athletics must
depend upon just plain base ball skill
against all kinds of unsportsmanlike tactics
to win it.