The Washington times., 1914-10-14
WON FROM A GREAT MACHINE.

|rtSnt Tor this reason: they prove
At Boston won. not through any rival
f-down or through any unseemly
Ike, but from a great machine play
st it's normal clip. playing better
vi than any beaten club had. played
fore under an eleven-year test
p lite gossip anent a iuke attached
these four victories is dispelled by
ere statistics: In the four games the
raves batted .245, against .172; in the
ur games they got thirty-three hits
Philadelphia's twenty-five; in the
ur games they scored sixteen runs to
hiladelphia's six. and in the four
nss they stole nine bases, against
20 pilfered from the remarkable Mr..
Gowdy. Of Columbus. Ohio.
B7e1y, here Is a great ball club,
fest IN brain, power. experience, and
peed, and in four test games it Is
btoatted, outpitched, outguessed, out
hyed, and outfought. There are sx-
tly two answers to this tangled state
Affairs, viz:
The winning club that turned the
Hex must also be a great bail club
FAR greater in actual physical proper
ties than any one aside from Stallings
has given II credit for being, and the
Braves are exactly this-not a good
fRu club, but q great ball club, built
pon wonderful pitching, miraculous
|eloins. alert work on the bases, and
Keen aggressive attack that has more
the cut Of a rapier than the power
the battleax-
q Exactly eight hours and forty
ent minutes were required to finish
four games. This totals g, go Sec
nnA and In every throbbing, fleeting
boond OF the e, 80 employed from FRI
~ afternoon to Tuesdays dusk, the
raves were fighting and working as
ball club ever fought before. Not
one second out OF more than q,
econds Cid they cease an untiring, ag-
rosstve assault They never quit play
he baseball, and all the baseball they
new how TO play. from the moment
bat Moran foIled out to McInnis at
o'clock last Friday until Mcfnnis
ben. from Deal to Schmidt, at 3:55
Al Of which brings up another most
6te-esting drift Of psychology. The
1nkmen In past years have always
cen praised FOR their ability to take
hch world series as an ordinary occa-
ion. and TO face each battle without a
uttsr In their stolid, untroubled way
1his has always been taken as a big
,aCtOr in their success-this ability to
PTEet the importance Of a champion
3hip game.
Yet 10 our mind. it was in this way
hey were beaten. On this occasion
3hsy met a club that gaze each play of
|ach game tremendous Importance; that
|Eured every angle OF glory and fame
no kale at stake. and then rose above
fs normal plane to meet this extra
|oirted occasion.
~,
lame. The Braves went IN to play a
letter game than they knew how to
|ls ", than any other world series club
We played before, and they made good
y ~ resented the widespread opinion
hat they were joke champions: and
hey were wrought up over Mack's feud
tween these two emotions they
IL ted at top speed from the first gun,
M for four days they fought with
frs ater ferocity and with greater energy
D. 2 any ball club In the sixty-year his
or, OF the game had ever shown.
Jv~ve heard before OF college spirit"
~ for three months in their own
e. Ue, and all through this series these
v eyed Braves made college spirit
ok pallid and insiptd and absolutely
oEnceton or Michigan football team
y - went into four successive battles
> n the spirit OF these Braves have
Il wn. II wasn't sport with them and
{ wasn't business It was war.
hey say thai all the game is COM
r -cialized. Yet when some outsider
n <gested that ZOO additional seats be
,i led in center field to net the players
3 % more, Johnny Tvers reply was
, ITO h with the extra 81 900 or
a.. 900. We are out there TO win this
y les and we want to take no chances
y n cramped field" And every mem
}, Of Stallings' club backed their cap
up Beat a club like this? With
he cry Of other clubs when things
- looking darkly has been this:
Eell. well get 'em tomorrow" Bos-
f, e war cry was Wen get 'em now"
4 what's even more-they got EN-,
J. they kept on getting IN until the
King was clean.
this reTnarka bic series John Frank
Baker hit no home runs He batted
lcuy ESQ. and he got one two-base
"olline was even below this. But while
" cks stars were subsiding, Hank
0wdy topped all past Bakerian records
IN three doubles. a triple. home run,
d the bulky average OF .555 Gowdy
IKE all world series slugging marks,
I'd set new figures that will stand for
. ite a spell.
Back Of Gowdy came Johnny Evers,
Drives Malaria Out of the System