The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-10-13
ATHL ET|CS BLAME JUMPS
FOR YESTERDAYS DEFEAT
Claim Darkness in Twelfth Should Have Caused Umpres
Call Game-BeGeve Batting Eyes Have Been Found and
Hopeful of Downing Braves in Todays Contest-Stalngs
Says Boston Shows Its Class and Claim to Hold Premier
Honors of World

ever with the Braves today. Their
three straight victories over a team
that for many years has been regard
ed as 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 a ire
mendous clip, they have felded in
great style throughout, they have run
wild on the bases against Schang, the
greatest throwing backstop in the land,
and their pitchers have outpitched the
Athletics in every one of the three
games.
staIIings Confident.
why shouldn't we feel confident
and happy?' asked Manager Stallings
this morning. 1.-The whole country
seemed to have an idea before this SER
les began that my team was joke out
fit-that it simply won because it was
lucky. l guess we have convinced
them to the contrary this time, and
convinced that the Boston team, in
all-around ability, is the superior of
the so-called peerless Athletics"
Mack may send Lapp behind the
bat for the Athletics in today's game.
! Lapp is far better hitter than
| Schang, who was chosen for world S
series duty because of his throwing.
However Schang's throwing to date has
been miserable, and he may do bench
duty today 1t is likely that StrunK
will be back in center field for the
Athletics. Walsh, who played yester-
day, did not please the Athletics chief
by the way he played. Walsh played
fairly we'll. Gowdy's drive went over
his head and bounded into the bleach
ers for home run. Had Walsh play
ed deep for the heavy-htting Gowdy,
as he should have done, he probably
would have grabbed the drive before
it landed, and killed the Braves
chances for a victory right there.
Blame Umpires.
| However, the Athletics today are
more inclined to blame the umpires
for the loss of that game yesterday
than themselves and their several err
rors of brain and arm. They declare
that the twelfth inning of that game
never should have been ordered tC
| be played because Of the darkness
( And there is considerable weight in
the argument of the Mackmen.
| When the eleventh inning ended
twilight had settled over the field.
| Wnen the ldSL OF the LWol1Ln DeSdL
it was so dark that the forms of the
/ outfielders were hardly visible, the
bleachers doomed up as black mass
and even the infielders we're a blurr
When Moran hunted in the twelfth nc
one in the near stands knew where
the ball went until they saw three
Athletics running to spot near thirt
base.
Bush. Baker and Barry ran for thu
ball. One picked it up and another
ran back to third. From the stands
it looked as if the form that threw thu
ball was that of Bakers and that Bar
ry was the man who stood on the bat
waiting to take the throw to catch thu
man running from second. but afte
a debate the official scorers decided
that it was Bush who threw the bal
and made the wild heave that gave thu
Braves the game. This was found tt
be true after the game was over, ant
Bush was coming in.