The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-20
CONNIE MACK'S MISTAKES
AIDED BRAVES TO WIN
His Greatest Error Was Not Re-
placing Busl, With Bender In
Tenth Inning OF Third Game
BIG CROWD COT PITcHER,s GOAT
Din Was Terrific, and Youngster
= Went IN Aii-.lthletics' Leader
Made Three Other Bad Guesses
During Series.

NEW YORK. October Ia.--Connie
Mack went into the 1911 world series
with fandom mailing him rs the crifti-
est, brainest man in baseball. Tic
emerged with fandom wondering IL
the halls were justified. for Connie. in
the four battles against the braves.
made four mistakes that proba bly,
killed the Athletics chances.
In the opinion of the fans WHO saw
the third game in Boston, Comics big
scst mistake WAS made In the tenth
inning OF that game. when he permit
TED Bush to remain In the box. after
the Athletics. in the first half Of the
tenth. had broken the deadlock by
scoring two runs.
Connie certainly must have known
that the crowd would got after Hush
as no crowd ever before got after ~
pitcher. And that crowd did get after
the Athletic youngster. over $4,000
fans hooted and yelled and howled in
chorus at Bush as he took his place in
the box In the tenth--and tho: kept
II up throughout the inning rh- hand
I'm tho left 6e!d blcachers opened up
with the most horrible discords ever
heard anywhere. at any time.
The betlam WAS of Kind that beg
CARS real description. It VAS trc-
mendous. horrible and nerve wracking,
even for the spectators themselves.
What must IL have bean for Bush. the
target of II all: the boy who was in
trusted with the burden of thwarting
nine determined baseball warriors-and
35,62O shricking maniacs?
Bush tried TO ignore the boots and
howls. Bush. steady and sure up to
that moment. crumpled--and the
Braves tied the score and eventually
won n game that seemed hopelessiy
lost when they went to bat In the
tenth
to al A, ,,,,I
put In Chief Bender. the chances are
ten to one that the Indian would have
held the Braves III check and saved
the game for the Athletics Times
without number I'm his big league
career Bender has lived through situa-
lions similar to that which Bush faced
in the last half OF the tenth. and lien
der. old In pitching experience, old In
standing UP under the most terrific
5ombardment of hostile fans. would
have faced the encmy's fire ana with
stood it,
Braves couldn't tie UP the score---iig
urcd that Bush would stand up under
tho strain. And. In figuring SO. Connie
made an error that cost his team a
game and made the count 3 to 0 against
them. Instead OF > to /, az II should
have been.
Those who saw the four games can
not understand why Connie sent his
men TO the plate with orders to kill
the ball" Those orders more than
anything else sent the Mackmen to
their world series death Instead OF
waiting out the Boston pitchers, they
swung at nearly everything that was
! offered. Rcsult-instead OF getting
passes to first or chance to hit the
good ones, they famed or got them
selves into holes from Mhich the:
couldn't emerge.
.i.z "A .t,N.t l.t,
Connie sent Shawkey to the box In the
final game-Shnwey, who never be-
fore had pitched in world Ids. series les; bat.
on oae' ki e %mfI the sH kid i lost.
Why didn't Connie use Bender in
that inal game? Bender was the loei-
was wild for another chance at the
Braves. True. the Braves hammered
him out or the box in the opening game.
but the chances OF their repeating were
remote.
Another prize mistake OF Comics
was TO leave SchanG behind the bat.
was miserable. His throwing was Off
color from the start. The slow footed
Braves stole eight bases on him. and
schang caught only one, man, pilfering.
four games. When hit meant much
for the Athletics chances he famed.
in the game and he's a hitter. Lapp
blindfolded couldn't have done much
worse than SChanS.
The Braves beat the Athletics be-
cause they outclassed them in every
way. They won because they played
the greatest world series baseball ever
seen. But they ought to thank Connie
Mack, and his blunders, for the fact
thnt they won with such speed. Hut
for Comics error i'll the tenth inning
OF that third game the series would
have gone 1--WE games at least. Were it
not for his other mistakes the series
might have been longer
But Connie blundered four times in
q row, and the wonderful Braves took
advantage of each of them and dashed
OF 10 victory in record time.