The Washington times., 1912-10-10
FITCH BELIEVES.
f. FRANTIC GAME
AIDED DOCTORS
Declares Eighteen Athletes
Work Was Hard
On Nerves.
By GEORGE FITCH.

BOSTON. Mass, Oct. 10.--some-
times eighteen highly talented ath-
letes will toll through nine innings
Of baseball in q skillful and work.
manlike manner without producing
enough excitement to agitat. the
taxicab drivers outside the park.
Then again the same professors of
ballistics and swatology will tear of
days work that contains half a
lifetime Of hope. triumph. fear, re-
Lief. despair, surprise. romance, fren-
med enthusiasm, palpitating fear,
nervous dyspepsia, heroic effort,
spectacular blundering, and unfet-
tered hysteria. It is such baseball
games as these latter that are put
ting the, nerve specialists Of this
country into limousine automobiles
At Q fearful rate and are giving the
poor, tired business man the kind of
recreation that brings him to q sani-
tarium with tangled nervous sys-
tenn and in need Of bronchial re-
lining.
Nerve-Shattering Contest.
Yesterday's world series game between
New York and Boston with the rest of the
country on the sidelines was this sort
Of q parlying pastime. 1t sliced whole
years OF the latter end Of thousands Of
Boston lives. Not that Boston will feel
the loss now, but there will come q
time when those Of her citisens who
blew out q flue during yesterdays
doinss will fade away just before some
important census. And then she will
wish. even more madly than she now
does, that Lewis had thawed out his
hands in q chestnut cooker in the roar
ing eighth before attempting to engulf
Snodgrass mammoth fly.
This Europeans claim we take our
pleasures sadly-which ID no nearer
right than the Europeans are on most
Of our affairs. We take them gladly.
and, sometimes badly. but In baseball
we take them madly. There Is no more
impressive sight In our vast and busi-
nesslfke nation than that of thirty or
forty thousand captains of Industry. rail-
road presidents, governors. Senators. al
dermen merchant princes. ministers, loaf
ers, grandfathers, college professors,
undertakers, preachers. pie-sellers,
farmers, scientists. hod carriers, and
authors tossing their arms and hats to
and appealing to Providence. Jupiter.
Minerva, rabbit s-foot and iris Speak.
er for one little single.
What Might Have Happened.
II Lewis had caught that ball-but
here we enter the boundiess realm Of
post-mortem speculation in baseball. II
Lewis had stuck his thumbs into the
auivering tanks Of that horsehide instead
Of stroking 1t gently as It went by: II
Fletcher had had shins eighteen inches
wide in the tenth; II Murray had not
backed over the low right field fence
and sunk from view. his feet waving
the seventh; II Wagner had not reached
one OBTAINING paw half league into
the sullen sunset, and II Stahl had noe
beaten sSsIn this record sSpr fGi city block in
had merely addressed the ball during
the game as he did last wear instead
OF beating the rind on Of II on three
cattclysmic occasions-if any one Of
had not happened. then yesterdays
game would not have been tie, which
must be played over today.
Won and Lost Many Time.
And yet It was fitting that yesterdays 8
frantic pastiming should have been a
tie. Anybody's victory would have been
ante-climax. The game had already
been won half a dozen times. As
matter Of fact. the worlds series
should really stand at this minute
three-all-Boston having won yester-
days session twice and New York
three times-at very reasonable COM
With 5000 Bostonese and others in at
tendance, the royal rooters detonating
frightfully on the right wing, and a
fringe Of humanity blackening the near
by roofs like bees at swarming time,
Boston went to work in the first inning
and battered three runs.
Mathewson, with the assistance of
Fletcher, spurned the ball three times
yesterday In naughty and distant
manner. The game was clinched right
there and about $4,000 people remarked
about 1t in manner which made con-
yersation difficult as far east as Copley
Square.
Il was all over but the shouting. which