The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-08
Has More Stuff Than Bender, but
Loses Game Because of
Ovcrcontidcnce.
LACKS NECESSARY CONTROL
With McGraw, Feels More Ger
tain Than Ever OF Win
ming Series.
ny RUBE NARaUARp.

New York. October II alone lost
the hrst game for the Giants. ANY
poor man who lost money on this bnt
Tie could not feel worse than do over
me defeat. and yet l am more certain
man ever that the Giants will win this
series and McGraw feels the same way.
SIMPLY because the team Is hitting. II
we bag the second game, it is n sure
bet we Will go through, for Tesreau
viii beat the Athletics in the next
game at the Polo Grounds
| mad more stuff than Bender to-day.
ana the only reason lost out was be :
| cause OF overcontidence. You might
I say was nervous. and I cannot say
any more. Bender Won purely Nv
brainy pitching. He did not have as
much on the ball as had, and he was
mighty lucky to get the decision Ben
DER Is not nearly as good Il pitcher as
no was two years ago. and we will
beat the next time he starts
me trouble with me was | could not
get the ball over exactly where l want
ed TO put it. Naturally, 1 was trying
to jam up Baker every time he came
up. and Chief Meyers and l argued that
low ball outside was tho ono tbat
would bother him. The first time Baker
toed the plate | WAS able TO feed him
on this ball, and he scraped a fly TO left.
When he came to bat the second time
Meyers cautioned me to keep the ball
Il
couldn't do 1t. I'll admit that [ was
nervous; L was ton anxious TO win
And YOU can say the same about Mey-
ers. although don't blame him or any
one else; only myself. Baker got a
scratch hit the second time up. Il nasty
Erounder that Doyle went after 1t
was hard ball to handle. but ordi-
narily think Larry would have taken
care of 1t.
Makes No Apologies.
The third time Baker went to bat,
when Collins was on second. after
walking and stealing, the Chief again
tipped me off on keeping the ball out
side L knew then. as well as l know
now. that | had lost control. and
cant explain why I let the ball go
AS soon as it was free | looked for
Baker TO give it ride, for it was
headed for the inside corner-just
where Baker likes them. Furthermore
1T was only n few inches above his
knees. And that suits him to a T.
You see | mako 10 apologies or alibis.
II / had had the control to pitch as
Meyers ordered we would have won
this game.
My control was so rotten then that
when Collins stepped up, the first man
In the fatal fourth, in trying to pitch
as l should have pitched. finally let
one go around his neck. 1t was n bad
BALL. and by rhyme and reason OF the
game he should have let it pass. Col
iins met that ball SQUARE on the face.
tho ball nearly over his head, and he
rode 1t into Tilly Skaters yard Tt
was n fierce slam. and the ball came
curved in Its course. II Shafer had
nailed that drive I think 1t would
have steadied me up, but must con-
fess that when he misjudged 1t got
more nervous.
I havo been so anxious to get into
this series that brooding over the
various games has put me of edge.
Shafer is an inhelder by profession,
and certainly do not blame him for
misiudging Collins's drive.
schang got q triple In this Same
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