The Washington times., 1914-10-10
YOUNG CLUB AGAINST VETERANS.

is something no spectator of that frs
YOUNG CLUB AGA
Here on one side was a ball club
young In victory, unknown to worlds
series warfare and barely emerged
from q drab tradition of ten years de-
feat
On the other was q veteran machine,
conqueror of all rival conQuerors, pow
erful. alert, and buoyed up by the con-
hdenoe Of having crushed all opposi-
ton
And yet It was the young club that
first took the aggressive. rushed to the
assault and with enduring courage and
skill and power literally drove the vet
eran all-star array from its own field
and crushed it beyond all recognition
II was as If the Graves, keyed up for
one desperate charge. had suddenly de-
cidcd to use the bayonet against the
heavy artillery End big siege guns Of
Mack.
But when the charge was over it was
Mack who had to request an armistice
to bury his dead. His big guns were
spiked enectually. and there was no
strategy in his rout- For the one day
Il was utter and complete His great
ball cub had been outbatted and out
pitched. outhelded and outgamed. 1t
had been swept from its feet Give
'em hell. boys" said Stallings as they
took the field, and within ten minutes
they were scattering more Gehcnna
over shtts field than the devil ever
owned. ="
The Braves ere a club of inspiration
of stallings inspiration-and they were
inspired in that first battle beyond even
the days that brought them from last
place to frst They hammered away at
all three wings with such ferocity that
not even the best hall club in the game
could meet. Both started out fighting.
but by the sixth round the Mackmen
had wflted. with the Braves fightins
harder than ever. They had just gotten
warmed up properly to the assignment
when the Athletics decided they had
already had more than enough TO round
out a waning October afternoon.
But getting back TO the vital statistics.
there probably is more meat than color
In what occurred.
First. there was the pitching Of Dick
Rudolph, ex-Giant. Below the average
in height and weight the slender Brave
tablished, and the Mackmen were
through. He varied a fast ball. fired
almost directly at a Mackian head, to
slow. tantalizing curve that had Mack's
best fiuttering and reeliEg in a vain at
tempt TO connect. This slow curve wob-
bled Up with hesitation waltz attach
ed. singing. Swing. You Suckers.
Swing as il Eooped across the plate.
And they all swung, but the big stick
never got hold. But for one ouefeld
tumble by Herb Moran. Mack's club
would have been blanl1ed for the sole
tally complied was strictly an unearned
increment. The war clubs that crushed
both Cubs and Giants battled no run
across the plate.
The second ingredient was the heavy
assault on Charles Albert Bender. led
by Hank Gowdy and Walter Maranv1lle-
For the first time in his world series
career. established back in 1905. the re-
nowned chief was chased from the res
ervation by a fusillade OF swats that
hurtled by his dome as II Doc Krupp
had been the Brave batmaker. There
were no half-hearted. plnk-tea drives
IN this assault. They Travelled as swift
ly and as hard as Mack's PEOPLE ever
HIT them in the good old days when
John Franklin Baker had the high wall
range and the grand-stand groove.
Bender started with terrific speed. and
looked TO be AT his best, but after the
first round he lost control Of his fast
oaIl-the one carrying zip and the hop
aad this forced him to take a chance
and find the groove. And when he
found 4 Hank Gowdy was ready. Hank
simply took a toehold and let fly with
everything In stock And where Hank
left off. Maranvile and others resumed.
until at last the chief passed out as If
IN a trance.
He started smiling and at his ease.
Iut after the third round 10 pafoo'
The smile was gone from BenderH
face, his teeth were clenched in hate,
he hurled with cruel violence his fast
one by the plate: but ere II reached the
catchers mitt upon its onward flow, the
outfeld fence was shattered by the
force Of Gowdys blow"
Bender had no alibi. for the chief was
~ his best so far as speed and curve
may count II was his inability TO put
those where he wanted them 10 go.
The third Ingredient suggested in the
vital statistics. viz, the courage Of the
Brave attack and defense has already
q gamer assault or showed greater as
surance in the face Of supposed odds
In place Of cracking under the strain.
as hrst suggested some months ago, IT
was Col Shibe's outfield fences Ghat
began 10 splinter and give way. II was
the old machine that soon began to
duck and look apprehensively about as
II wondering where the next Zeppelin
bomb would light or the next shrapnel
would explode.
The fourth ingredient. Nack's batting
slump. is the most vital statistic of
them all. Unknown to outfelders, Con-
ME saw several days ago that his club
had picked up cinder in its batting
eye. In the first two pames this week
against the Yanks. playing their best,
thev got but eight hits and three runs
in both affairs. The next da they
piled up a bale of runs on straight
ball pitching. but when Peckinpaugh
changed his pitchers the Mackmen
again ceased firing. Mack admits that
his club is in a heavy slump. But
he expects IL to get going again by
today or " nday.
Unless the Mackmen recover from
this slump they will be beaten to GER
tainty. They looked-Beaker at bat FRI