Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-20
The Bolt Had Been Shot.

The Bolt Had Been Shot.
But. the pennant wor, we sagged back
like bunch of fellows that had been
running away for their lives from sher-
ifs posse and had made the shelter of
the undarbrush. We'd shot our bolt.
There wasn't any more ginj or pep lie t in
us, We were in, that's all You've no.
ticed. on the race track. that no hors- can
make two sprints OF II i'm one race After
he's bambooed his bolt. it's over for him.
He's through. If he shoots the wad in
the middle of the race, he's through be-
fore the finish. II he saves It for the
wind-up he cops. But he couldn't be
taken out right on top of that and cop
again-not often. he couldn't. It's about
the same with humans. We were all to
win the pennant, as they say Of horses
and then, when we were pushed in to
try 10 grab the big end of the main wind
up series. why we were stale and heavy
hoofed and clumsy and ragged all
through. ! speak not only for myself,
but for the other fellows. know how
they all felt. 1t wasn't case of lying
down We'd sure have won If there'd
been the slightest chance. But were
TOO tired The Cubs. too. were as fresh
newly sprouted dandelions. They'd
been under a pull for months They had
their rag won before the middle Of the
season. and all they had to do for the
remainder Of the sea was 10 spread
eagle out in front. with never the whip
nor the spur nor the heel. They Were
the tip-toers of their procession. So
that, when it came time for them to take
us on for the championship. they had us
huffaloed as tn condition and sprightl
ness all down the line.
That's about one-half of the main
answer as to why got beat. What's
the other half? Well, that isn't any
hard guess. It's the fact that they're
pretty sweet mob OF ball players. those
Cubs, and there isn't anybody mixed up
with the Detroit team that isn't giving
all Of that 10 the Cubs. With all due
respect to Fielder Jones and his push
can't dope it out how tho Sox ever put il
on the Cubs last year. and neither can
any man on the Detroit club who DlaYed
against the Cubs this year It's the
neatest lot of hot diamond people I've
ever seen in one mob, that Chicago Ma
tional League layout, and I've been foolin
around the old game for long bit
III all of the cubs of the National
League were like the Cubs we'd have to
give IT TO the National League. But. OF
curse, everybody knows that this isn't
the case It's merely matter in that
league Of the Cubs being comparatively
stake horses against s7lling platers In
most of the other clubs"
Strain Made Players Peevish.
This player had some interesting side
lights TO throw upon the strain of win
ming a base ball pennant. He said. for
example. that the peevishness of the
members o. the Detroit club in their
relations toward each other. during the
final couple of weeks OF the struggle. was
something almost humorous - watch
It's funny to look back to from
here" he said. though II was 10 fun
while II was happening l was as irrita-
Die and cranky myself as a harrelful of
rattlesnakes, and | couldn't help It. So
[ IrT 'ra oh ,ias
OF the team gave each other swift an
swers over little matters We didn't
stake Hughey to any Of that kind of
stuff simply because we didn't have the
heart TO He was too much on the level
and too blamed agreeable through it all
for US 20 act peeyish toward him So we
picked on each other. without meaning a
line OF II. We had strong dreams. most
o, u, in which We were usually being
druhbed 10 death on the ball lot during
the closing days OF the peuDaut race and
when We woke up We were there with
gr'uches as big timber wolves. II
was all tho result Of too much keying
up We hobbled down to the tape on
three legs. 10 put II that way, and
that put something Of the savage i'll us.
Not that all hands on the Detroit team
are not now the greatest of friends and
CroUies-sOmething novel for that club.
too. as ! can say after having belonged
10 IL for q number Of years. Hughey got
the bunch together. not by any OF that
CRATES on q good many ball players: not
with tho use OF any Ostentatous oil at
all. but just by the CHEEKY, impartial spirit
he always showed, his complete under
standing Of the little kinks of each and
oil 90 Us. and all similar. It's got u be
handed 70 that red-head 'or being the
diplomat. He's the know-how ball club
manager. II, some say, he's got a
steel claw under that velvet mitt. he
never let any of US feel II. and l don't
believe he's got II. myself"
How Jennings Managed.
II is the oldest thing when one begins
10 reflect upon it, just how Jennings die
manage TO bring the warning cliques oil
that queer Dstroit club together. They
sure we're far apart. lot OF those Detroi
players, last year and year before last
when pill Armour was managing thu
cub spent a considerable period o
travel with the Detroit club during tht
sulnuNr OF 1S1J as correspondent for tho
D~t-o.t rrcc P=rss. The ciuO was thev
Simply clut;z.ed witA ciques. Not
tsw of the best OF the players were a
dasgers' points. / never got to the bot
- to!a Of the difficulties between the men
for lesTnSd long while ago the utte1