The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-30
FLORALA TAKES
SECOND FROM
PENSACOLAS
VISITORS WON A HARD FOUGHT
CONTEST ON THE WEST SIDE
GROUNDS, AND THE KNOCKERS
GOT BUSY AZ USUAL.

when they lose the hammer brigade
gets busy and the old familiar strains
OF the Anvil Chorus ring out peal on
peal They do 1t everywhere? One
October afternoon, in 1908, q team Of
detected players fled sadly past the
grandstand on the South Side grounds
in Chicago. For a whole season they
had chung doggedly at the heels of the
leaders, with only one reliable pitcher
and O shot-up inf1eld. It finally mar
rowed down TO the last series with De-
troit. To win they must take the three
games. Ed Walsh relieved White and
saved the first He came back the
next day and grabbed the second 8 to
1. The last game decided It. Twenty
I'VE thousand fans were packed inside
the enclosure to cheer their pets on to
the pennAnt. Twenty-Five thousand
boisterous. confident fans The result
is history. Detroit lit on White at the
very outset and even the redoubtable
Walsh was unable to stem the furious
Tigers tide. The fans were silent
stunned; they couldn't realize that
their pets had suffered this horrible 8
to o drubbing-and for the pennant
too. The players sadly trooped to-
ward the club house with bowed
heads and detected mein, tears coursed
down many a rugged cheek, and the
fingers that had all but clutched a slice
OF the post-season melon twitched
nervously. Did the assembled multi
tude jeer them? No. Twenty-Five
thousand people rose as one man and
cheered as no conquering hero was
ever launded. Thousands who had
money thre wtheir petty personal
losses to the winds and cheered
game though losing battle. Can you
wonder that, backed by such support,
the White Sox always dope several
notches lower than they finished? No;
they don't do 1t everywhere.
Florala grabbed the second yeSter-
day handily. They got under way
without delay. Three hits, a pass and
and sent Turtle to the stable
The locals came right back IN the
last half. Jones beat one out. Ora
ham lined to short and out. Lurton
hit to left, Jones being held on second,
Roache forced Jones at third. Griffin
doubled to right, Lurton and Roache
counting. Griffin was thrown out try
Ing to score on Porter's hit to left.
Antley, the southpaw, went in for
hit game in his clutch until the
seventh. Only one man had reached
first UP TO this time. In the seventh
four hits, q pass, a passed ball and
two wild pitches netted the visitors
two runs.
Jones hit and stole in the eighth.
Gordon walked. Lurton few out to
right, but Patrick furnbled Reaches
grounder and Jones scored by fast
sprinting.
Gordon'S double and Patrick's tumble
Of Abefs grounder produced another
fn the ninth, Abel taking second on
the throw in. Jones bounded a lucky
single off Manning's bosom, Abel go
ing to third. Jones stole second. With
two down and one run needed to tie II
up, Graham smote soIdly, but it went
right into Bowden's nit
Manning proved himself a star of
the purest ray serene. He is easily the
best fnfelder seen on the local grounds
in years and we predict a brilliant
career for him, II he takes up the game
as a profession.
Today tells the tale and we sincerely
hope 1t win not be one Of woe. The
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