Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-12

passed the other; Baker and Deal have
done equally we'll; so have Maranville
and Evers and Barry and Collins: Nc
lnnis has done better work than Schmidt,
while Gowdy has eClipsed Schang, So
much for the fielding.
In the pitching department it cannot be
aenled that the Braves pitchers, Rudolph
and James have shown up superbly.
they have surpassed the expectations of
the most sanguino Bostonians by Jointly
holding the Athletics to seven hits in IS
innings and not allowing the Mackmen a
single earned run The only score made
by the Macks was in the second inning
Oh the first game and was the result of
Morans error. They gave six bases on
oaIIs' against seven for Bender Wyckoff
and Plank, The Athletics pitchers struck
out II Brave batsmen, while their oppo-
nents sent IL Mackmen back to the bench
cooler on strikes
While Plank did not deserve to lose
his game with James, he certainly did
not deserve to win it. II is true that the
run made by Deal had TO be scored as
earned yet 1t was really the result of
double error of judgment by Schang
ana Barry, and not Planks fault. Plank
gave up seven hits to James two, hence
II would not be fair to the Boston pitcher
70 say that he deserved to lose, which is
the same thing as saying that Plank
deserved TO win, and this many followers
oil the White Elephants have said and
incidentally some of the Athletic players
themselves said, Flank deserved to win
but ne didn't according TO our view. He
simply didn't deserve to lose.
When we come to the hitting of the
two teams, it is a sad comparison for
Phlladelphians The difference in the last
two games between the hitting of the
Athletics and that of the Braves hasn't
oeen. even close. OF course the old argu-
ment may be brought up that it was The
superior pitching of the Braves, rather
than the weakness of the Athletics that
caused them to look so bad on the Of
Tense. But they have faced pitchers
many times who were as good, il not
better, than Rudolph and James. and have
seldom batted so weakly in two sue
cesslve contests.
There is no getting away from the fact
that the mighty Mackian mauling ma
chine has been severely silent. They
made hve hits off Rudolph and two off
James. Collins hit Oft James was de-
eidedly scratch, and there were many
including Athletic rooters, who thought
that Evers' throw beat him TO first These
seven hits were made in seven different
innings, which shows how COMPLETELY at
the mercy of the opposing hurlers the
Mackmen were. Then, too the strike-out
record shows as we'll as the base hit col
umn how badly the Athletics were out
guessed.
While the Athletics were making seven
scattered hits for a total of 10 bases
the braves We're piling up IS safeties. for
total OF "a bases. Their batsmen were
better walters than the Macks and they
struck out fewer times
IN base running again the Braves sur
passed the Macks. Barry stole The Atb-
leues only base in the ninth inning Of
saturdays game That the Athletics did
not run the bases with good Judgment
l. 10 SHOWN ny the following facts: In the
hfst game Murphy was thrown out irving
to take third after Schmidt had caught
FOUL; IN the second game the same
PLAYER was out attempting TO make second
on a thrown ball which Schmidt allowed
10 get through him; Strunk was caught
at second IN the irst game, trying 10
stretch a single into a double: in the
second game Collins was caught mapping
off irst and schang was caught trying
10 take third on short passed ball.
The Athletics claim that Umpire Byron
MADE a gross error OF Judgment when he
called Schang out on the occasion re-
ferred to above. But it was a close play,
ana Byron no doubt called 1t as he saw it,
and he was in a position to see. Thera
practically were no kicks made by the
players in Fridays game on the umpir-
ing, although the Braves were constant
ly nagging at Dineen. However both
teams made number Of violent protests
against Hildebrand's decisions on bans
and strikes saturday and the Athletics
several times had words with Byron V-bo
was on the bases that same game
While all these things show that tbs
Braves have big edge on the Athletics
Judging by the two games played the |
scores are the things which count. and
as the Braves have a total Of eight 10 one |
and have been victorious In both con-
rests '-l ana 10 there Is no theory that |
can be advanced which can Show mai |
the Boston club was not superior 10 the |
Athletics in the two games just completed
at shibe Park.