The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-16
HOW CHANCE WON
 BASEBALL CAME Gets Championship for the
 Chicago Cubs
 DETROIT IS DEFEATED
Frank Plans and Wins One of the Most Beautiful Strategic Struggles Ever Fought on Baseball
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Hugh s. Fullerton, the baseball ex- pert, contributes another interesting arti- cle about the game to the August Amer ican Magazine. He calls his article "On the Bench," and tells how baseball games are won and lost through a wonderful system of signals. MT Fullerton cites as an example of wonderful generalship, the championship game last fall be- tween Chicago and Detroit, which Frank Chance WOE for the Cubs. He says
 Last fall when Chicago and Detroit met to play for tGe championship of the world, Frank Chance, leg der of tile cham pions, planned and won one of the most beautiful strategic struggles ever fought and the campaign that he arranged and that his men carried out was worthy Of a Napoleon. The game was the second one of the series and was played in Chi cago on Sunday before a huge croWl Both teams realized that the game meant almost everything; to Detroit chance for the title, to Chicago almost certain ty of retaining their honors, and before the game meetings of both teams were held. Chance planned a campaign, de- pending entirely upon what pitcher De- troit might choose, and his orders, issued the moment Wild Bill Donovan, one of  selected were conveyed to his men in one word Wait They waited-waited- waited, while the huge crowd went wild as inning after inning reeled away and neither side was able to score run. Donovan in that game had perhaps as much speed as any human being ever possessed His fast ball jumped and darted and his curve, pitched with tre- ,nendous power and speed, broke almost at right angles. Inning after inning, as Chance sent his men to face that human gatling gun which was firing the nation al cannon ball at and around them, he monotonously commanded-Wait, and they went up and waited. One strike, one ball, two strikes, foul, two balls, foul foul; sometimes three strikes. sometimes a weak fly that netted nothing. To the crowd it seemed as if Donovan never could be beaten, the Champions ap- peared helpless before his wonderful speed. Still Chance commanded: Wait wait him out. Every batter went to the plate intent on making Donovan pitch as many balls to them as possible. They fouled they waited, sometimes they let him strike them out, but never hit until compelled to do so. and when the eighth inning came neither had scored. Hoffman led off that inning and still his orders were wait, and he waited until he could wait no longer, then hit and rolled a
 
 Chance, the commanding general ordered the charge. Tinker was the next batter and the order for that charge was con- yeyed in a word, Switch That was all, but Tinker rushing eagerly forward to the batter's position knew that the leash that had held the Champions all day had been cut and that he could hit when he pleased even the first ball. Crash! Tink- CT smote the sphere terrinc blow, and like a swallow the ball darted out to right field, high, higher until soaring over the heads of the crowd it struck high over the right field seats and the crowd went wild Then, like soldiers at taeking a preacher wall, the Champions attacked, and before the inning was over they had made six runs and their waiting game had won.
 "Chance had calculated from the first that Donovan was pitching with too great speed, and that no human being could hold such a pace through nine innings and during all the time that the crowd thought Detroit would win, the leader of the Champions was sitting watching every move, waiting for the first sign that Donovan was tiring or beginning to lose his speed At the start of the seventh inning he thought he detected signs Of weariness, but the Smiling Tiger still was strong. After Hoffman scratched that hit at the start of the eighth, Chance saw Donovan lower his pitching arm as If weary and he issued his order-and after Tinker drove that home run he ordered, Take a crack at the first one.' Like a general, he had found the breach and or dered the charge, and his men, held in leash so long, leaped to the place ana De- gan the boNbardment that brought vic-