Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-17
CHANCE IS PEEVED
Cubs Leader Fails to Give
Athletics Credit for Winning.
SAYS TEAM MISSED EVERS
Is Anxious for Another Chance at
Connie Mack's Team-Be-
lated Groans.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA. November 17.-Even
though the worlds series Is now history
and the Athletics are champions. 1t Is ap-
parently pleasant for Frank Chance. 1.-THE
peerless and somewhat 'peeved leader"
as a Chicago writer calls him. TO enjoy
post-morten,. And Chance thinks Chi
cago should have won. But here IS what
he says:
NO one can tell what the loss OF Evers
meant. We didn't know It ourselves IN
til later. l don't mean his playing. as
Zimmerman did everything that could
have been expected Of him. but the fight
ing spirit Of Evers was lost to the team.
III that series had been played a week
earlier. with the same pitchers working
the same way they did in their last trial
Games. the Cubs would have won. But
when they went into the series they
didn't have much.
The loss Of the first game didn't trou-
BILE us at all. Bender pitched wonder
full anne, and II would have taken a
shut out to beat him. He needed lot Of
luck OF have his team score four runs,
They ought to have been held to one or
two but for bad breaks In the luck.
But the flrst game did not worry US.
The second was what killed our chances.
And X ever we ought to have won q
game we ought to have won that one.
Everything turned against us and Coonabs
got away with the worst pitched game OF
the series. He needed about all the luck
there Is In base ball to win that game. and
the Cubs would not lost another game
against such pitching in a season. Every
thing We did In that game went wrong.
and we lost.
THE second beating didn't make us
quit. 1t made us desperate and over
anxious. while it gave them all the con-
fdence In the world. 1t was just like
two players at cards. one needing point
70 go out and the other being forced to
bid three every time to keep him from 1t.
Our pitchers realized that single
mistake would be nearly fatal. and it
do too much. The Athletics took advan-
tage Of this condition and won.
AT least that is the way 1 explain the
thing to myself"
pertinent. ask 1.-THE Peeved Leader"
why he fails to give any credit to the
Athlrtics? He makes ali sort. of ex-
cuses tending to show why the Cubs were
defeated. But he fails to even intimate
that the best club won.
He does not say that he was facing In
Bender and Coombs two OF the greatest
twirlers In the world. He makes no men
ton Of the wonderful offensive strength
Of the Mackmen. which really won the
| that Eddie Collins and various other
members Of the Mackmen showed up the
much-touted King and his o her catcher
Archer, while the Cubs were unable to dc
any unusual base running with Ira
Thomas and Jack Lapp backstopping.
Chance, as a matter OF fact. overlooks
SO many Of the little details which COM
lived . defeat his machine ONE grea:
but now sadly in need Of oil, that his
.Atement Will carry no weight with U.S.
. The fact remains that the Athletics
proved to be the better tean-fhe hes,
that ever faced the Cubs in a world
series. And they Won a deserved vic.
tory.
1.-THE Peeved Leader says he hopes the
| Athletics will win the American League
ne~nant newt sea sno-he Is sur" his team
will romp home with the Nationa! League
ae. t. he aec'a es cubs wiz
show Connie Mack that the series Of 1916
was not against the real team.
If Chance srtuaNv feels that war about
| II, Philadelphia fervently hopes that the
Cubs will get another pennant and op-
! pose the Athletics. The result will be the
| same, ! am certain.