Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-13
ATHLETICS FEEL
THEIR BATTING EYES
HAVE RETURNED
Will Wade Into Today S
Game With Renewed Con-
hdence = Stallings, on
Other Hand, Is Certain Of
Concluding Victory.

BOSTON. Oct. l3.-"Four straight is
the Boston slogan today, and Manager
Stallings, of the Braves, in an effort to
accomplish what never has been accom-
pished In worlds series viii send Dick
Rudolph, his slow-ball, curvc-ball pitcher.
to the mound in the afternoons battle
against the Athletics.
Connie Mack will pitch "Chief" Bender,
his Indian twirler, and the man who was
DATED from the mound In the opening
game Friday Upon the frail shoulders of
Bender rests the final hope of the Ath-
lotics in their present desperate situation.
Backed against the wall closer than
they ever have been in all the years of
their worlds series experience, the Mack
men today rallied their scattered forces
and prepared to fight as they never have
fought before. The Philadelphians are
out for blood and they are out for that
game And they mean to get them both.
Facing the seemingly hopeless task of
winning four straight games to win the
big share of the worlds series spoils
the Athletics are not discouraged. They
still have faith in themselves. still be-
lieYe they are superior to their foemcn
and that they ultimately will triumph
The Athletics feel as they long have felt
tnAt they are invincible, and they feel
too, that they lost Saturdays game and
yesterdays game not because they were
outpiayed, but because they were out
tucked.
ATHLETICS HIT BETTER.
The Athletics yesterday hit at a bet
ter clip than they have hit since the
worlds series opened, and they hit
harder and oftener than they hit for sev-
eral weeks before the American League
season ended. That Is one of their rea
sons for confidence and hope today when
all seems hopeless.
The confidence Of the Mackmen. great
as 1t is, does not compare, however, with
the Braves today. Their three straight
victories over team that for many years
has been considered the greatest welded
together, make the Braves feel that only
a miracle can rob them of the honor Of
winning the baseball championship of the
world. They have hit AT n tremendous
clip, they have felded in sensational stvlc
throughout. they have run wild on the
bases against Schang, the greatest throw
ing backstop in the land. and their pitch
ers have outpitched the Athletics i'm
every one of the three games
why shouldn't we feel confident and
happy asked Manager Stallings this
morning. THE whole country seemed 10
have the idea before this series began
that my team was joke outht-that 1t
was simply because it was lucky.
guess We have convinced them to tho
that the Boston team, in all-around abil-
ity is the superior Of the so-called peer
less Athletics"
Mack may send Jack Lapp behind the
bat for the Athletics in today's game.
Lapp is far better hitter than Schang.
who was chosen for worlds series duty
because OF his throwing. However.
Schang's throwing 10 date has been a
miserable exhibition and he may do
bench duty today.
HAMPERED BY DARKNESS
However, the Athletics today are more
inclined 70 blame the umpires for the loss
OF that game yesterday than themselves
and their several errors Of brain and
arm. They declare that the twelfth inn
ing of that game should never have been
ordered to be played. because of the
darkness, and there is considerable
weight i'm the argument Of the MaCkmen.
When the eleventh inning ended twilight
had settled over the field. When TN nlast
half OF the twelfth began, il was so dark
that the forms of the uutelders were
hardly visible, the bleachers doomed up as
black mass, and even the inheldcrs
were a blur. When Moran hunted I'm the
twelfth no one in the stands knew where
the ball went until they saw three Atn-
letics running 10 spot near third base
Bush, Baker and Barry ran for the bail
One picked il up, and another ran back
10 third. From the stands il looked IS
II the form that threw the bail was that
OF Baker and that Barry was the man
who stood on the bag waiting 10 take
the throw TO catch Mann running from
second. But after a debate. the official
scorers decided that IT was Bush VINO
threw the BAN, ana made the wild heave
that gave the Braves the game This
was found TO be true after the game
was over and Bush was questioned.