Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-14
FIGHTING SPIRIT
BROUGHT VICTORY
OVER COOL SCIENCE
Athletics Went Along Stol-
idly, While the Braves
Were Hustlin g and
Scratching Gravel.
By HUGH S. FULLERTON

BOSTON, Oct 4.-The thing that
couldn't has occurred The utterly ab-
surd has become a reality. The impos-
sible and vain is true. Bostons Braves
are worlds champions after the most as
founding worlds series ever played
Ihey beat the great Athletics so easily
that yesterday the crowd seemed more
like congregation at a wake than a
throng watching the finale Of u worlds
championship series.
1t was not as If the Athletics broke
and threw away their games. They did
not. They played their game and played
1t perfectly and We're beaten by the rush
and determination of the Braves The
Athletics played just as they always do,
figured the plays the same way and were
stopped by pitching.
The Braves played more truly to their
form than any team in a worlds series
ever did. They We're less than per cent.
above what was expected of them, and
the Athletics We're less than per cent.
below what he expected them to do. But
the Braves. by that invncIble and un-
understandable courage that carried them
through the National League season.
swept the Athletics off their feet and
beat them.
1t was not youth against age; weary
team against young and hustlIng one
but 1t was fighting aggressive, un-
daunted club against one playing the
s saile according 70 prescribed ruLe and
trying to match skill and science against
nerve and verve and aggressive attacks.
The final game was almost n foregone
conclusion The Braves were filled U,itb
that indomitable spirit that has carried
armies and men to victory, and the Ath-
!eties' beaten and whipped at every turn
and stopped by every kind of pitching.
dropped.
1t was calm and Unconditional game
in spite of the fact that the ex and pres
ent Mayors of Boston cluttered up the |
playing held and press-agented them. |
selves. There was about as much OF the |
emotional as there Is 10 killing day on |
the IaFm' The Athletics went along |
steadily, stolidly, and Father Mack re- /
mained like a long iclcle on the bench |
while his men retired inning after inning /
without forcing the assault upon Rudolph. |
VINO was pitching magnificent game OF |
ball. on the other hand. Stallngs' men
were hustllng, fighting, rioting on the
bench, scratching gravel and winning
/
though the Mackmen evened 1t up, they
came through with two more smashes
that drove In runs.
Today j. Eyers, eX-shoe-shop man, of
Troy y. Y, Is the greatest man in the
world. 1t was his fierce drive over sec
md base that sent two Braves scurFyIng
lomeward and put the result beyond
.oubt Up to that point it had been a
Ons series OF question marks. The Ath-
stcs We're hitting hard for I'VE innings.
ut always after the chance 10 score
vas gone Once they managed TO get
wo hits together. but sharp work by the
Brave inheld uulled the hits. The smash
Z the game was caused b. a runner try
ng TO take two bases, He had them
ron. although he never should have tried
o take two bags on a hit at that stage
I the game, and he was crowded on
he bag and nailed. The other chance
hat the Athletics lost was when Walsh,
fter seemingly slowing away the game
nth a hit walked into a trap and was
aught OF second with no one out. Evers
ook the throw with one hand, showed
onto the runner and broke up the
attic.
From that play on the Athletics were
beaten club. They showed it in their
very movement and they went to de-
tructon In the same quiet, constrained /
'ay they have won championships,