The Washington herald., 1914-03-08

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house and tax his vocabulary foI
terms to express himself adequately
about the way the game had beer
played.
McGraw WAKES Warm.
This was following the first contest
| when he felt that Marquard had done
some poor pitching in not working on
the batteries better, according to the way
he had been instructed to pitch to certain
| men. He told Marquard SO in NO un-
certain words. and he also pointed out
| to some of the other players his opinions
Of the mistakes they had made. AS a
rule, managers realize that the player of
today. however. feels badly enough over
his own mistakes, and that q bawling out
will not do him any particular good.
The present big Lacquer In a ball player
by profession. and he ID in the business
to make his living and success out OF
It. When he fans out In a pinch. he
feels worse about 1t than the manager
does.
THE longest walk In the world" said
Larry" Doyle one day after he had
struck out and flung his bat away from
him in a burst of temper, 'is from the
plate back to the bench after tanning :"
All ball players will agree with him.
They know, as soon as they turn from
the plate on the third strike, that the
crowd Is going to howl. and they also
realize that the looks OF the players on
the bench are not going to be very
kindly. although they will probably say
nothing. The ball player who has Just
famed always goes to the water cooler. in
the corner Of the bench for drink
before sitting down. This gives him .
chance to be busy for q minute, and he
fervently hopes the next batter will make
a hit or something while he is staIling
Lover the drink so. that his tanning will
have perhaps faded from the minds of
his fellows before he faces them. Then
he generally snuggies down IN the end of
the bench, He is Just ashamed Of him.
self, plain ashamed. -,e
Great PitchisE IN 1912.
There is more phenomenal pitching in
the season of 1sl2 than any other year.
It was then that '.Rube" Marquard COM
piled his record of nineteen straight yic-t
tories, while both Joe" Wood. of the
Boston Red Sox, and Walter johnson. Of
Washington. ran up records for con-,
secutive wins that almost. but not quite.
equaled the sRube's.' MarQuard made
his record first, but he did not display
any hard feeling whom the other two
got to swinging through their winning
streaks, OF course. he naturally did not
want TO see his record eoualed, but II
never heard him make remark which
used to be common In the big league
circles at such . time: "Oh, they're pick
ing the spots for that guy" rival would
have said in the old days
By .picking the Spots" ball player
means that manager 10 selecting the
soft games for certain pitcher whenl
he win be opposed BY another twirier
not rated to be very high class per-
former. AZ matter Of fact, none of the
three manasers picked spots" for the |
three pitchers have mentioned. Mar
guard, II anything. got all the hard games |
while he was rolling up his nineteen
victories, and appeared against the best |
pitchers IN the league.
Tough spots TOR Giant..
Probably one OF the greatest crises ever
to break IN baseball was when MerkIe |
Jailed TO touch second base. / have been |
asked time and again by outsiders how
The other PLAYERS ON the club treated the
New York hrst basemAn In the club
house alfer that game. II any of US men-.f
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