Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-19

, are that Chance will have to rebuild his
team in order to be in the next National
League pennant race
Up to the seventh inning Yesterday
Brown had pitched a good game of ba
though the luck was against him at all
umeS But there can be no excuse offer
ed that the Cubs lost because of hard
luck for in that seventh inning the Attn
letlcs pounded the ball for keeps. and
there was no f1ukes about il.
A peculiar feature of the game was
the fact that neither side was retired in
order In any inning during the nine. Roth
had men on the bases in each inning hnt
the Athletics were best at hitting at such
times.
10 give an idea that things were NOT
breaking well for the Cubs the fact that
.hree double plays were made bv the
da rne'ics at critical stages is good evil
dence. Collins. of course. made two of
lnem and he had to kill base hits to do II
II Is mat lnheid and those pitchers that
are beating the Cubs, for to saw the
l Wao,. mere Is nothing impressive about
Mack outf1eld. Young Strunk shows
rack OF experience. and is much too green
10 ne IN such important games Lord
HeIoS We'll enough. but he is not the hit
e yer an outheider should be. and yet hits
from MN nave not been needed, for Col
ms and Baker seem able to SUNNY all
that are necessary "
we're 'oid that the strategy of the
CUBS would more than offset any nat;,ra1
strength the Athletes might have h,It
there mas been no display of strategy or
even good base ball on their part There
was one instance in the latter part of the
game Yesterday when two baSe rnnnere
stood still on their bags with two mo-, 90
Willie an outhelder was chasing fy hall
whenever a good ball club foreets how,
many are out 1t is far from being at it,
sen or Is suffering with a bad case of the
rattleS. VI ZIG
IL Is needless to say that Cub money is
not as plentiful as it was before tho
Selles opened. The hackers Of the Ath-
leucs are offering all kinds of odds TO-DAY
on Inc series or each game
Inc sign language is being used by the
Athletlcs IN communicating with each
tons from the bench II was notice.h,.
mat Collins INDUCED in quite a conversa-
tiorl while at. the bat in the eighth inning
WIN Mack who was on the bench. Then
he hit for two bases.
Lord was guilty of piece Of foolish
pase running in the third inning. but was
lucky enough to get away with it, Sheck
ara mad fielded Collins hit back to Stein
i' DeIore Lord had reached third, but
me never stopped there and kept on going
LOT the plate Fortunate for him Steinv
allowed the ball to drop from his hands
ana Defore he could recover it Lord had
CHASED over the plate and scored the run
WHICH gave the Athletics their first lead
1t Is a mater of general comment that
tne people of Philadelphia seem not to
De taking the slightest interest in the
ura1ly suppose that after the victory YES
teroay there would have been some dis
play or enthusiasm, such as one would
expect TO see in other cities. Well. there
was was some mild cheering. but just as
soon as one left the park the people
along the route from the ball park to
the hotel seemed to be disinterested in
what had happened during the afternoon
III is most peculiar state of affairs and
there does not seem to be any explana-
ton for it.
What a cinch Walter Johnson would
nave II he worked in one of these games
regardless of which team he faced
Bender. of course, performed hri,,iantiv
Monday, but any good pitcher when i'm
form could have beaten the Cubs that
DAY, Tor Chances team is anything but
a good hitting one
The Philadelphia PLAYERS to q man he-
1eVe that the weeks playing with the All
stars did more to put them on edge than
anythlns they could have INDUCED in
racing pitchers of the Johnson-Walsb
type Is sure to make ones batting eve
Keen. and the ordinary pitchers become
eaSy after week of facing those two
speed marvels. 1t is to the experience
they got from facing Johnson and Walsh
that they attribute their hitting Overall
so hard Monday. Overall relies on speed
put he has nothing like the smoke thar
has johnson or Walsh
moving picture machine took pictures
or Ty Cobb. Mrs. Cobb and the baby Sit
ting In the box. Schaefer of course had
10 break into the picture. so he filled the
role of playing with the kid.