The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-11
RUDE" THINKS He
COULD HAVE WON
Had the Stuff and Knew the Bat
ters-That's Where Demaree
Fell Down.
BY "RUBE- MARoUARD.

Philadelphia, October 1o.-If McGraw
had started me I'd have trimmed the
Athletics to-day. Nothing 10 IT, I
faded this Baker. striking him out on
a fast one outside. / made a couple
OF mistakes in the four innings l
worked. and they made two runs off
me. but they would not have scored
any more in nine innings | was right.
! had the stuff, and knew the batters.
That's where Deinaree fell down No
manager can tell pitcher how to
pitch. McGraw Went over TO Phla-
delphia and watched these Athletics.
and he saw what they were weak and
strong on. He told us. but If a pitcher
does not learn these things for himself
he cannot follow out. / got my lessons
In that first. ! flivvercd slightly to-
day. but / had absolute care.
Warm up, Rube," said McGraw. I'm
going 10 give YOU another chance"
Smart bunch of Hitters.
Not TO be too cock-sure on this series.
| want 10 say that | never saw a
smarter bunch OF htters than the Ath-
letics. They don't take any chances
on pitcher slipping over the fast
ball and that's when they made us
look bad. The Indian pokcd over a
strike on every one OF our hitters. the
first ball pitched. We let il go by.
Then he had the batter in a hole, and
he had something to work on.
Demaree was not exactly nervous
but he did not have the same care |
had. simply because l had faced the
Athletics recently. II was just the
same as meeting a club that you had
been pitching against all season, and
IL our team was not so badly crippled
feel certain that we could beat the
American League champions in a long
= C
Merkle and Snodgrass crippled. we
sure have battle ahead of us. These
fellows have five men hitting 800, and
we only have one player in that class
--Meyers-and he's out of the game.
Where we should win is in pitching,
and there is chance yet, take it from
me.
Defect in Demnree.
Demaree got in Dutch" at the start
by giving Rube OldrinS a high. fast
ball when he should have worked him
on n slow one or curve. Oldring
picked one for three bases. Oldring
was nailed at the plate on Collins $
Egan had the say, and the National
League players do not think a great
deal of his umpiring. Collins then
stole, and ! only mention it to bring
up n defect in Demaree's pitching.
lie has a good motion with men on
paSe, out lie Is SLOW. Inc AlnleIlCS
We're lucky to score their first run, a
hit by McInnis starting the trouble.
II was q short fly in centre, and Shafer
would have gotten that. Snodgrass
asked McCiraw to let him play before
the game. and he said that his leg was
all right. Mac took him at his word
and sent him in. Well. you saw that
Snodgrass could not run fast enough
TO get under the lift, and that probably
lost us tho game. Another cripple
had trouble. when Merkle failed to
grab that foul off Barry. who after
wards doubled, scoring McInns This
Barry was another surprise to us. He
had not hit lick up to this afternoon.
Just shows you what a dangerous ball
club the Athletics are.
Any man on the team is liable to
break up n game.
Some persons criticized McGraw for
not playing Wiltse at first after his
good showing the other day, but Mac
figured that Wiltse would not hit
much, and he was right, for NIerkle
got to his stride, cracking out clean
homer.