Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-14

you might say. with hands down, il
that they won four straight games
from the famous Philadelphia Ath
letics, but they won, in reality. only
after one of the greatest and hardest
struggles ever seen on a diamond.
| To win at all from the Athletics
would have been high honor but tt
humiliate by four straight victoie.
was not even dreamed of. 1t was new
history in the worlds series, and new
history is always interesting When
the Bostons won the first game by
the score of to 1 everybody said
"It's a mistake" When the Bostons
took the second game by the score OF
1 to 0 everybody said More luck
When the Bostons. in the most Won
derful battle ever seen. captured the
third game by 5 to 4. after twelve of
the most strenuous and enervating
innings ever Witnessed, everybody
said, I'VE don't believe it yeti" And.
though Boston has corralled the
fourth and deciding victory, some of
the people are still saying THE bet
ter team didn't wini''
o
But the better team did win. The
Braves are better than the Attn
ietics and they proved it, They
played them off their feet-played
them to a standstill They came
from behind and won and they as
sumed the lead and held it, When
they needed runs they got them and
that is the miracle part of it. When
the score was against them they
fought the harder, and the harder
they fought the weaker became their
opponents defense. In brutal words,
the Braves went right up and
punched the Athletics in the nose,
just as Stallings said he was going
to punch Connie Mack in the nose.
The Braves, though made good,
while Stallings fell down. Perhaps
the chief. in his hour of victory, had
sympathetic touch. Perhaps he
was sorry for what he had said about
Mack, and no doubt, deep down in
his heart, he would have liked
nothing better than to have Connie
come right over to his bunch and
shake hands with him. Stallings
might have done it himself, but big
men are the biggest towards in the
world sometimes. When all was
over Mack waited on his bench for
considerable time. He was abso-
lutely alone, for every ball player
on his team rushed pell-mell over to
the Braves bench and shook each
and every man by the hand. STALL
ings accepted the congratulations in
high spirits, but over on the other
side of the field was a wonder
worker, too, but a wonder worker Of
other days. Time was when he
came in for all the plaudits, all the
attention, but now he sat silent,
alone, a man with a dead heart
Finally he left the bench and walked
out among the boisterous, FOSTERING
fans, some of whom didn't even know
him and some of whom didn't have
any time to spend on him-any time
for a loser. 1t was a sad sight to
those who served, and 1 just hap
pened to watch it closely. Stallings
in his hour of triumph, would have
been bigger man If he went to
Mack, Notwithstanding that it was
really Mack's place to go to him
But as / have remarked before. bis
men are the biggest towards some.
times.
The worlds series of 1914 was no
only a record affair in many re
spects, but it furnished more excit
ing baseball than we have ever seer
before. The first game was prett,
| good, though the score was rather
one-sided one at Z to /, But thu
opening game is always more or les
interesting. There is always some
thing doing. You meet old friends o
other series and you make new ones
So we can safely say that the frs
game was pretty good. Then cam
the second game. with it's scoreles
innings, one following the other
until the good old ninth, as the boy
say, when the Braves thorough.
outgamed the Athletics and abb.
earned the victory by scoring a lon
tally. All this happened in Philadel
phia. We said after the second gam
that it was about the best ever. bu
we reckoned too soon. On to Bosto
we went, feeling as IL the Athletic
must come through with game "a
last and not counting on witnessin
anything startling. Yet in the YER
first game In the Hub we were take
completely off our feet by being in
troduced to twelve innings of s
much baseball-and such excitin
baseball-that the fans aren't over
yet The score was to l. The gam
yesterday, we will say. was a goo
game, and the result was as II shoul
be-s to l. In every way this year
championship was the greatest, an
credit should go where credit is du
o
hero invariably comes out ,
these big series, and this year wa
no exception TO the rule. Han
Gowdy, we would say, was the lion I
: the occasion. His batting was a fei
ture and his playing was beautiful
; watch. He looked thousand TIM
better than Schang, who is considers
the very best in the business. Gowd
! however. was head and shoulde
over him in brain work and in Il
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