Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
CONNIE'S MACHINE
IS GOOD AS EVER,
SAYS FULLERTON
Athletics Were Outplayed
Yesterday, But Showed
No Weakness and Will
Come Back Strong.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON

their feet, outplayed. outgeneraled ant
outgamed them in the opening game OF
the series, and they face the worlds
champions today with more confidence
and belief in their ability to win thar
! they ever had.
| In the first clash of the series the
| Braves carried out their plan of attack
! rushed assault, gave Rudolph brilliant
/ support, and drove Chief Bender off the
| mound in less than six rounds. The ter
/ rife hitting of Hank Gowdy and the won
| derful nerve and skill of Rudolph made
| the worlds champions look like sand
| lotters.
| This morn Boston believed the cham
| pionship as good as won. Stallings
| planned to send Tyler at the Athletics
! today and match his left-handed shoots
| against the skill and wisdom of Eddie
| Plank, with the firm confidence that II
Tyler gets by today James will beat them
on Monday. The Athletics. however, nre
far from discouraged, and the defeat had
little or no effect on them.
The champions were stopped by Ru-
dolph, who pitched one of the most re-
markable games in the history of sport
He had everything save a fast ball. He
used his splitter with deadly effect and
q of the champions topped" the ball.
He used slow ball. a curve, his splitter,
and not once during the game did the
Athletics really threaten him. 1t was
not so much what Rudolph had as how
he used It. Twice, when he was 'In the
hole" he broke his curve over at Barry
and outguessed him. Twice he showed
his dinky fast ball across the centre Of
the plate for third strikes and from
start to finish he outguessed the Ath-
letic batters. Three times during the
game he was in bad fix and crept out
by his own nerve mainly.
CHAMPIONS LACK SPEED.
The great crowd that watched the
struggle must have wondered what was
the trouble with the champions. They
could not seem to get up their speed. In
the second inning, in the midst of a
rally, Strunk was so slow coming from
third to the plate that he was cut down
when he should have walked home with
the tying run. In the fourth Strunk,
supposedly one of the feetest of the
Mackmen, was caught at second on a
hit on which Ping Bode could have
made double 1t looked odd. The
Mackmen were doing their best, but
seemed nonplussed Dy the Braves sys-
TEN of attack and defense. Whatever
they tried went wrong and meantime
the Braves were assaulting Bender
viciously and without regard to the rules
of warfare.
The Chief looked good. He was fast
his fast ball hopping, and his curve was
breaking fairly we'll But when he got
the smoke on the ball he lacked con-
troll, and when he slowed down to second
speed to get the ball over the Braves
waded in and hit the tar out of it.
Especially MIR. II. Gowdy, who promises
to be the Frank Baker of this series.
This tall. angular serious young man
whaled out double, triple and single
besides drawing a pass. 1t was his slug
ging that put Bender hors de combat for
the first time in his worlds series career.
Maranville was there with two timely
swats that sent home runs after Gowdy
had pounded a breach in the Athletic de-
fenses. One of Maranville's hits was a
perfectly placed poke over first that was
one of the Willie Keeler kind of hits, and
as it yielded the third run and put Ru-
dolph on easy street, it counted for more
than aid Gowdy's long sraashes.
EVEN ON DEFENSE.
So far as actual defensive work goes,
the battle was about even. Neither team
had many opportunities for brilliant work
and both arose to the occasion whenever
d
Maranville made magnificent catches of
short drop flies over the inield, and
the speed of the two inhelds was at
tested by the five double plays that broke
rallies.
think the greatest play of the game
was Butch" Schmidts in the second
inning when, after catching a foul at a
difficult angle, he made a wonderful
throw to third that cut down a runner
hA I1yr nrba {,
seemed they would even up the count
and start anew. Deal handled the bound
ing fast throw perfectly and deserves a
lot Of credit.
Bostcn's rooters captured Philadelphia
last night and are mad with excitement
but, as a matter of fact, there is small
reason for them to celebrate Even in
defeat the Athletics revealed to students
of the same the weakness of the Bos-
ton team. The loss of Smith could
scarcely have been more vividly revealed
than il was yesterday With Smith at
third the chances are that the Braves
would have scored ten instead of seven
runs. Three times Deal was up in the
pinch and three times hit into double
plays, and the other time he struck out.
Schmidt looked bad a first baseman,
save for his one great play.
There was not a sign of the weakening
of Mack's great machine 1t looked Just
a good as ever. save for the fact that il
was stopped by Rudolphs pitching.
Whenever 1t had anything to do, il did
Il, and did 1t brilliantly, Collins and
Baker pulled one great double play and
Collins made one OF the most wonderful
plays of the game I'm breaking down a
base hit, slappng the ball to Barry while
going the other direction. and Barry, by
a lightning peg 10 first came near turn
ing the base hit into an out
Outside Of Strunk's amazing slowness in
.-NH. f..
letics looked Just the same and they
seemed better ball club than the one
that beat them.
The selection Of pitchers for today's
game was a vital problem. | was with
the Braves last night and they are all
spurred To the TOP tension and all want
10 pitch Stallngs was noncommittal
but the chances favored Tyler, who be-
lieves he can beat the Athletics Mack
frankly declared he would pitch Plank
and that he expected to win today's game
Mack followed set rules in Yesterdays
game save in sending Wyckoff In as the
relief pitcher This fellow looked good
had a lot OF luck and got away with II
save for one run which scored because OF
a high throw 10 the plate.
The outlook now Is for a long-dr wn-out
series. The betting has switched 10 s To
S on the Braves, at which price we re-
ioice 10 say we placed several dimes that
the Athletics will grab the long end Of II.
STABBED IN BALL QUARREL
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