The Washington herald., 1911-10-24
Special to The Washington Herald.

! Special to The Washington Herald.
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 23-"There will be
| a game tomorrow.
Manager Connie Mack is hopeful Nay
he is positive that his troubadours and
the Giants will fly at each others throats
for he is banking that the weather will
take pity on the pastimers and be on
the job This series has been the long
est that ever was played in the history
of the worlds championship, and both
factions to the wrangle are anxious to
have the thing over with and finished
BE all right Tomorrow. Wen play
| The grounds are pretty bad. but We'll
have them ready tomorrow. None of us
wants to wait until the snow flies to fin
| ish up these games. The boys are in
pretty good shape. and we ought to be
ready for the Giants"
That's the managerial prophecy of Cor
nelius MCGilIcuddy. which can be taken
by the iconoclastic fans for what they
wish The rest OF the nimble athletes
! feel the same way, so there you are.
| The NaCkmen end Giants both went
! through signal practice to-day. The vis-
| itOrs occupied the FOgcl plaza, while the
Athletics inhabited their own real estate
The section of tine field at Shibe Park
|
looked like a circus ring Cart loads Of
sawdust had been dumped on the grounds
so as to hasten the dryinE-up process
The inield looked good. considering all
the moisture that has fallen on II during
the past five days. So far as the base
paths were concerned. n game could
/ have been played this afternoon, but the
outfield was in wretched condition. There
was not a section of the Outfield that was
not thoroughly soaked, and II would
have been impossible for a player to run
\ on II without taking n header.
In order To hasten the drying up of the
outficld. dozen young men were this
afternoon hitched 10 a big lawn mower.
These men pulled the mower slowly
around the grounds cutting the grass.
Should tho sun come out strong tO-mor-
! dow morning the grounds at Shhe Park
should he in almost perfect condition. and
indications tonight point toward a per-
| feet day.
| PasehaU PLAYERS who have turned news
paper writers for this worlds series have
been laying uH for themselves many hard
| "knoCKs'' in the future. and il Is quite
possible that their criticisms Of plays and
| players will make for much dissatsfaC
| ton and fraction. Hughev Jennings. man
ager Of the Detroit Tigers. has been
| openly accused Of being a traitor 10 the
| American League. Christopher Mathew
! son has been criticised, and justly, for
charge that the base paths at Shibe Park
were oiled for the purpose Of slowing up
] the New York players. Hal Chase did
! not make any friends by what so many
! consider his unfair indictment Of Snod-
grass. while both Meyers and Matty were
laughed at for directing bold attention to
an error Of Judgment by "Ruhe" Mar
guard in pitching high. straight ball to
! Frank Baker. which landed on the wrong
side Of the fence. when this same Frank
Baker picked out a low breaking curve
ball from Mattv's good right arm and
dropped It in the grand stasd.
Yes. Veritas; it takes only one Baker to
make a batter. but more than one Ath-
| letic rooter is eating regular these days
off the New Workers dough.
Joe O'Brien, former president Of the
American Association, shook the Ath-
| letics-Giants mix-up to return to Mil
waukee. Joe came here wearing low
shoes. He said he didn't mind buying
| macintosh and an umbrella, but he
didn't propose to purchase rubber boots
| in the bargain.
It rained enough to even rust Snod-
grass spikes.
The fan who had come 1000 miles
to see the worlds series woke up in
| hotel in the dead of night with a yell
of joy. "Hurrah, hurrah," he shouted.
THE suns shining. They'll play to-day"
The flood watchman grabbed the fan.
led him gently back to his room and
pointed toward the ceiling. The fan
had gone to bed leaving the electric light
lit.
Judging from the expressed opinions of
| many baseball club owners in the major
leagues, the championship season in the
future will not be extended to take in
October z, Columbus Day. It is planned
to frame next years schedules so that
they will end not later than October l.
which will give ample time for the
worlds series to be played under favor
able weather conditions. If such sched
ules had prevailed this year there would
have been no trouble. President Johnl
son, Of the American League, has advo-
Gated an early closing for several years,
and in this he has been sustained by all
of the clubs in his circuit.
The eagle eye Of ]. Franklin Baker is
still in sterling service. This is redhot
and acceptable news to Young America
He smote the sphere on the nose the
| second time up in batting practice at
Shihe Park this afternoon. and every
body in the windows on Twentieth street
outside the field ducked. Sure enough
the ball flew from Twirler Martins fist,
was smashed by Bakers bat. and it
buzZed over the right-held wall.
1t carried no message of victory, as
did his other two drives, but 1t proved
the punching prowess OF the Mack third
bagman is still proficient and powerful
Bakers battin'.' yelled the youngsters
in high glee as they scrambled for the
ball in Twentieth street.
Chief Bender. the star slabsmith OF
the Mackmen, will twirl tomorrow, and
he will oppose Christy Mathewson, the
greatest of the Giant gladiators. Reuben
Oldring, the center fielder of the Ath-
letics, returned to Philadelphia from
Yonkers, N. Y, where he has been to
the funeral Of his sister. He will play
tomorrow.
To-day's session went into the discard
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