The Washington times., 1912-10-15

why the umpires let them quit play
Ing when they did" said Petey as he
sprinted for the subway after the
sixth dickering between the Giants
and Red sox. "The game wasn't
over. II should have gone nine in
nings." -. -.
But It did," objected. Mar
guard and Collins were putting them
out 90 fast that you must have over
looked few sudden deaths at first"
Mary a funeral" said Petey, de-
cisively, but there were only eight
innings Of baseball. Just the same.
There was one inning Of pollywab-
bles, mollycoddles, blind staggers.
yellow fever, and farce comedy 1t
was very Interesting. but wouldn't
20 80 far as to call 1t baseball. They
ought to have played another inning
to make up for It.
Always So at Siwash.
Funny how a little nervousness will
get into a baseball game for a short
space Of time and reduce 1t to a state
Of beastly intoxication.' Petey contin-
ued. 1T was always that way at 81
wash.
eve generally had a neat, orderly
baseball team which could play nine
innings without more than two or three
Jungle fingered spasms. but sometimes.
while II was sailing along peacefully,
stacking up the enemy In one. two,
three order. with sky clear and root
ers doing their full duty, It would sud
denly explode with a horrifying bang
and scatter pieces OF Its fielding aver
ages all over the lot. Chuck" Allen. our
family horse. would pass two men and
then pick up roller and throw 1t
through the Fourth street trolley cars.
This would agitate Pug Norris. the
shortstop. and he would stoop down
ana pick UP handful Of dust and dis
appointment instead Of grounder.
Then Harve Nowlan. the catcher, would
discern some foe stealing second in the
din and he would throw the ball at the
courthouse clock with all the careful
ness for which he was noted, after
which Alien would hit q batter In the
ribs and the second bsssman would
stop q batted ball with his manly chest
and ruin would arrive In vast masses.
0'Brisa Good Pitcher, But
That's what happened to Boston to-
day. or course. in the big leagues they
don't do things In just this childish
manner. but they. mislay their heads,
iust the same. You couldn't point a
long, frowning forefnser At any one
Boston man and tell him that he mnde
.No .x,ssa ~ tvaa tE,
the shocking second half Of the first
inning. But you could say without fear
of contradiction that the reason why
New York scored Ave runs on two full
pokes was because the Boston men
| suddenly began to do their thinking
with their hands and feet, instead of
with their large, throbbing domes OF
reason. NOW they have the most highly
and could beat almost any team with
out using their heads at all. But when
you get q collection Of ! IaS.ns-mcdasl
"O'Brien 10 a good pitcher. The rec
ords show that. Yesterday he went into
the game without his speed. his curves.
/ his control, or his head, but otherwise
he was in fine fine shape a pei, ana af..tiun the game
II the real Boston team had been play
ing. There were two outs In the sec
| ond, you remember. and Just one man
on base. That was Doyle. Il takes
when he is on base. and 5ust because
| O'Brien removed his one eye from Doyle
long enough to wink It, Doyle had
stolen second. Murray was at bat ane
scare it. 1t wouldn't have been Ave.
eighths of q hit any time last week
when both Boston and New York were
reading minds IN fine print and meet.