Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-22
PECULIAR ANGLES OF GAMES
BROUGHT ABOUT BY UMPIRES
Arbitrators Often Help Teams to Victory
by Decisions That Are Abso-
lutely Correct.

| man had put one over on me. took up
| the argument, with the result that Bob
was also chased, something he also very
| much desired, as the season was all but
over, and the game meant nothing to the
Nationals.
Joe Was Sore.
Now. Manager Cantillon was sore to
| think that his two players had PUT some
| thing over on both of us. and he was
| in anything but an amiable mood. He
! sent Catcher Slattery to play first in
place Of Cnglaub, and Catcher Hardy
to second in place OF Schaefer. It was
Hardy's first appearance as a second
! sacker. and naturally he did not know
how to play for any of the batters. He
was constantly out Of position. and for
that reason he made four or five stops
that a second baseman playing his prop
er position would never have come close
dozen runs. while Slattery drove in four
or five tallies with his bat. Those two
players practically won q twelve-inning
victory all by themselves.
Nationals In over three weeks, and 1t
Is dollars to doughnuts the game would
have resulted in q defeat for them had
not the election OF Unglaub and Schaefer,
1HuSh d6dAlSI lily WILL CdOS0O IWO SuUS
to go in and cop the game.
In the recent worlds series between
Philadelphia and Chicago a decision came
up. in the fourth game. over which the
which was really the turning point in the
game:
In the ninth inning. with the Phillies
run to the good and Chicago man on
the bases. Manager Chance claimed he
had been hit by one Of Bender's fast ones.
Umpire Connolly refused to see it that
way. OF course. the Cub supporters
thought Connolly was showing favoritism,
but you can rest assured that is just
the way he saw the play. Had he given
Chance his base on being hit by a pitch
ed ball. 1t Is probable that the worlds
series would have ended in four games.
AS it was Chance made q triple that tied
up the game, and the Cubs won out in
the tenth.
Close Call for KLEIN.
Billy KLEIN, the National League UNI
pire. says he will never forget the day he
| chased a teams best hitter with the
bases full. and the home team three runs
| behind, only to have the pinch hitter
| knock the ball over the fence and win
| the game. He believes that is all that
saved him from breaking into the death
column.
nave oIl0h SCCiI d pitcher WHO was
getting hit rather hard practically kick
himself out OF the game. after he saw
his manager had no intention Of making
a change. Invariably the pitcher select
ed to succeed him. after the umpire has
sent him to the clubhouse. goes in and
pitches wonderful ball. and in a major
ity Of cases saves the day. either through
ms great pitch1ng or by an unexpected
bit SFnade at the proper moment
Addte Joss rarely gets mt ont of a
ball game. but, strange as 1t may seem,
he chose to disagree with Silk OLough-
lin on one occasion three or four years
ago, and as a result Addie was benched
Dusty Rhodes, always q clever pitcher.
but ordinarily very weak at the bat. re-
placed him. Dusty kept up the excellent
pitching that joss had been doing. and,
wonderful TO say. knocked home run
in the ninth inning that won the game
Otto Hess when a member Of the Cleve-
land staff was one pitcher Fielder Jones,
former manager of the White Sox.
couldn't hit. Hess, with his fast sweep
ing curve. always made trouble for Field
er. Several years ago Chicago was play
ing in Cleveland. and Hess was pitching
Jones struck out on three balls his first
time up. On his second appearance Jack
Sheridan saved Fielder the trouble Of
swinging by calling the first two strikes
Thereupon Fielder, who tried to appear
| much chagrined kicked himself out OF
the game.
Doc White took his place. sent a little
roller down the third base line that Hess
threw badly TO first, and the runner on
third scored. moment later White
scored on an error and hit. Those two
runs won the game. White also STAYED
off defeat by catching a liner that Jones
would have never reached, as White was
playing out of position. some distance
| from where Jones would have played for
Stovall, the man who hit the ball
1t Is. indeed. strange what peculiar
angles OF the game can be brought about
by decisions of the umpire that are emf
oently just and fair