The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-15
Edited by Wagner
MCCORMICK GREAT
 AS PINCH HITTER
GIANTS UTILITY OUTE1EIDER CAN CLOUT BALL AT CRITICAL
 TIMES.

Not more than two or three people
 could have told you three months or
 so ago-ass tuning that you might have
 gone around asking had you happened
 to think of it-why Harry Mccormick
 continued to wear Giant uniform be-
 tween the hours of 1:3O and 5:3O or
 p. n1- each day, unless it was that
 Col. McGraw figured his club needed
 a sort of social arbiter, one who could
 be depended upon to mingle in high
 society without making a mess of the
 job.
 There were those cruel enough to suspect Col. John of an ulterior mo-
 tive, a design to keep Handsome liar
 ry hanging around just long enough
 to fill him with an intense, almost an
 overwhelming, desire to share in the
 division of worlds series spoils-thep
 ship him somewhere west of Omaha
 where it isn't always necessary to
 dress for dinner and where telephones
 are not so plentiful as they are iD
 the more or less effete East, just to
 pay off the Moose for running out on him couple of years ago.
 They all know now. Something like a pinch hitting campaign like unto nothing seen in either big league since Dode Crfss was permitted to escape that was as- potent a factor in the Gints' final rush to the wire as almost any other single contribution to the cause. with the possible exception of Tesreau's mighty pitching.
 And last week Mack proved himself the gosh -derndest emergency hitter series. What his batting average would be if he were going to bat thre- four or even five times day would be awful to contemplate-if one were
 Five times so far the Moose has been called upon to oblige at critical moments. In the first game he smote for Tesreau what time Fletcher repos- ed on first after sforcing Meyers out at second. It was in the seventh in ming and two Giants. had been retired. McCormick's contribution to the battle was a line drive to left that liked to carry Duffy Lewis hands with it. Mccormick then rested his soul in patience until the tenth inning of the tie game at Boston found Merkle on third, Shafer on first and one out.
 Mccormick batted for Fletcher and a long sacrifice fly on which Merk1e scored, breaking the tie in New York's favor. That his team was unable to hold the advantage was no fault of McCormicks. There was no need for McCormfcks services in the following engagement.
 When the scene of battle was shifted back to the Polo Grounds he drew an other chance. Wood seemed to , De young life along about the seventh in ming of last Fridays game. Herzog had already scored and Arthur F1etch- er was on second base, propelled there by his. own double, when Mccormick broke into the pastine-
 He slapped one down the middle al- ley that sped past Wood with all the ceIerity of the last trolley car leaving you behind. Yerkes just man aged to get one fipper on it and xnocked it dead and Yerkes, hurIing it n to Cady, killed Fletcher at the plate. But 1t was hit, and on g, dry | field would have driven in the tying l 'un.
 They dragged Mccormick out of his | corner of the bench again at Boston i ast Saturday. His own double and | Meyers fly to Speaker had put Merkle 1 ,n third base, with two out. McCor- | nick brought him home with a drive | hat almost fractured Larry Gardner's | Lrm. The National Commission | corers charged it as an error against | he Sox infielder, but practically every | ,ther scorer in the press box recorded | he blow as a hit.
 In four times at bat--four actual l rips, not legal lat bats''-McCormick las made good three times. He made 1 wo hits and sacrifice fly, a batting | Lverage of .666, regardless of what the omrnission'S scorers may rule, though II bets will necessarily swing with heir verdict. He has driven in two uns and contributed his share toward till another. Better pinch hitting than las never been seen in a worlds ser es. |
 That's why Mccormick will come in or a full share of the spells, with the nost appreciative consent of his mates, though he has done less man al labor this year than any other man n the club.