The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06
WON REMNANT BY
BEING CAREFUL
Worlds Champions Kept Close
Watch on All the Little
Details of Game.

The complete history of a baseball
season is never written promptly. Ev-
cry campaign teaches its lessons, the
results of which are not at once made
manifest but which crop out in sue
ceeding campaigns. Wise manager is
- he who looks back over the work of
his aggregation, sees the errors that
have been made and profits in the fu-
ture by his experiences. Some of the
mistakes appear mighty trivial at the
time, but loom up disastrously in the
light of future happenings.
If there is one thing that should he
learned more clearly than anything else
from the great National League race
which closed with the Cubs victory
over the Giants at New York, Thurs
day, Oct s, 1t is the necessity of keep
ing careful track of the little details
and never passing over the seemingly
insignificant things. A local fan said
TO me the other day: II believe Chicago
owes its pennant to the fact that some
member of the team was wise enough
to discover that in many games, where
the winning run was scored in the ninth
inning, with a man on first, the runner
failed to advance to second while the
man on third was scoring. No doubt
that thing has happened scores of
times, but it was never discovered I'M
til Evers made the. claim in Pittsburg
that Gill had failed 10 advance TO sec
ond on a hit which scored runner
from third with the decisive tally. The
CUBS rallied to gain the point they
raised that time, but they called the
attention of the umpire to the possibili-
tles under such circumstances, with the
result that the next time the bone
headed play was made it was detected
ana II saved the Cubs from a defeat
Some people say that Chicago's win
nlnS the pennant was on a fiuke, but I
think such people forget what constf-
tutes real ball player. The stars have
not only physical prowess and mechan-
ical ability-they have brains. and
brains win out in the end All of
which sounds very much like the truth
to the writer
There is no doubt that the managers
of the two teams which lost out in the
National League after making such A
grand fight for honors can now look
back and figure out scores of places
where tiny mistakes were made. and
where victory might have perched upon
their banners had the right thing been
done. How many times has a batsman
failed 10 reach first base, because he
had popped up what appeared TO he a
dead easy fly, and taken il for granted
that the ball would drop safe into the
glove of an opposing fielder, when the
latter has missed the ball, but thrown
out The runner because he was not in
terested enough 10 run it out? OF
course. nine times out of ten such
WatchfulneSS may avail nothing bur
the winning of the pennant may hang
on what happens in the tenth instance.
Without going further into the mat
ter IT seems safe to predict that one
big result of the great 1908 race will he
more careful play next season on the
part OF all teams that seem from the
start to have chance to win the FAC
Their managers viii surely overlook
nothing nor leave a stone unturned TO
gain every victory that is possible. This
means another great race. and it means
additional interest on the part of the
people, who never tire of watching the
grand old game when it is earnestly
and enthusiastically played