The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-30

pitch a curve ball low and on the out
side corner of the plate. Cobb was
hoping that Brown would pitch pre-
cisely that kind of a ball, and Brown
knew that Cobb was hoping for it, and
it was Browns plan to force Cobb to
do exactly what he was most anxious
to do-to make a perfect bunt toward
third base. Brown pitched perfectly,
and Cobb hunted perfectly 30 feet to-
ward third base and about five feet
inside the foul line. AS Brown pitched
he went forward at top speed, FOL
lowing the ball through" and he was
in front of the ball when it bounded
along. Still running he scooped the
sphere, and whirling made a terrific
throw straight to Steinfeldt and
O'Leary was forced out by Is feet on
a seemingly impossible play, x e
cuted chiefly because Brown knew ex-
actly what Cobb would do.
Chances magnificent machine was
not through. Knowing that the fail.
ure of that play would rattle" the
Tigers they instantly seized the psy-
Geological situation. King gave a
quick signal for a fast inshoot across
Rossman's shoulders, and Brown,
without waiting for Detroit to rally
and plan a play, drove the ball fast
and high. Rossman struck at the ball
and missed it. Like a flash King
hurled the sphere toward second base,
Tinker met it at top speed, touched
Crawford three feet from the base
and standing still, and Detroit was
beaten and in panic. An instant later
as Rossman struck out, Killing threw
to second, and Evers, leaping, stuck
up one hand, dragged down the ball,
and while descending touched Cobb
as he slid. The big crowd, frenzied
over the brilliant series of plays, and
only half understanding them, cheered
for five minutes.
If you watch a baseball game this
season watch and listen. Behind the
"E-Yah' of Jennings and the way he
kicks up one foot, or plucks a blade of
| grass, you may catch his signal 10 the
batter or runner. Back of the war
cries of Chance: "At-a-boy," and
Nov, you're pitching" may be hid
| den q whole command to his team.
| When "Matty" shakes his head one
way he ne: NO." and when he
| shakes it just a little differently he
means "Yes," and is making the bat
ter believe his Eyes" is No"
So, If you sit real still, and watch
the game closely every second, and
see every move, and study its mean
ing, you will enjoy the game lots
more. But you won't watch. The
very first time Speaker bangs a two
Dagger down that right field line you'll
| stand up on your seat and yell the
! top of your head off.
On the Bench.
Runners were on first and third
bases. The game was close, and one
score for either team meant probable
victory. At the plate a batter, tense
and alert churned the inoffensive air
with short nervous motions of his bat.
| Out on the whitewashed lines by first
and third bases two coachers ranted
| and raved, paved the dirt, ran up and
down bowling encouragement to the
batter and words of caution to the
| runners. Stretched sprawling along
| the bench a row of white-garbed ath-
| letes watched the field before them.
| holding their poses as II frozen into
iayed double steal. All that hap
pened afterwards was only mechan-
ical, and although Schultz scored, and
Steinfeldt reached second and Tinker
helped them by his motions as he
struck at the ball, Intentionally miss
ing it, they we're but puppets carrying
out the orders of the general. Chance
had won the game from the bench
when he lifted his cap from his head.
When Chicago and Detroit met fol-
the championship of the world that
same fall, Chance planned and won
one of the most beautiful strategic
struggles ever fought and the cam
paign that he planned and that his
men carried out was worthy a base
ball Napoleon. The game was the
second one of the series and waa
played in Chicago before a huge Sun
| day crowd. Both teams realized that
the game meant almost everything:
to Detroit an even chance for the title
to the Cubs almost certainty of re
tanning their honors. Before the game
meetings Of both teams were held
| Chance planned his campaign depend
| ing entirely upon which pitcher De
troit used, and his orders, issued the
moment Wild Bill Donovan was Sc
lected, we're 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 a 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 tremendous power and
speed, broke almost at right angles.
Inning after inning as Chance sent