Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-10-20
DAILY SPORTING LETTER
By Frank c. Menke, lnteFnal


beggars a real description. 1t was
tremendous, +, horrible and nerve
wracking even for the spectators
themselves. What must it have been
for Bush, the target of ii all; the
boy who was entrusted with the bur
den of thwarting nine determined
baseball warriors-and 35,520 Shrek
ing maniacs.
Bush tried to ignore the boots and
davis. Bush steady, and sure up 10
that moment crumpled-and the
Braves tied the score and eventually
won a game that seemed hopelessly
lost when they went 10 bat in the
( tenth.
/ Had Connie taken out Bush and
put in Chief Bender the chances are
/ 10 to | that the Indian would have
held the Braves in check and saved
the game for the Athletics. Times
without number in his big league
career Bender has lived through stu
ations similar to that which Bush
faced in the last half of the tenth,
and Bender, old in pitching expert
ence, old in standing up under the
most terrific bombardment Of hostile
fans, would have faced the enemys
fire and withstood it.
Connie probably figured that the
Braves couldn't tie up the score
figured that Bush would stand up
under the strain. And in figuring so
Connie made bone that cost his
team game and made the count
3 to against them, instead OF 2 to
l. as il should have been.
Those who saw the four games
cannot understand why Connie sent
his men to the plate with orders to
kill the ball" These orders more
than anything else, sent the Mack
men to their world series death. In
stead OF waiting out the Boston
pitchers they swung at nearly every
thing that was offered Result-ln
stead of getting free walks to first
or chance to hit the good ones
they famed or got themselves into
holes from which they couldn't
emerge.
With the count to 0 against hin
Connie sent Shawkey to the boN
: in the final game-Shawkey VINO
j never before had pitched in a worlt
series battle. He staked the Athletic
L chances on kid-and the kid lost
4 Why did't Connie use Bender II
that final game? Bender was the
a logical selection He was ready ant
he was wild for another chance a
+ the Braves. True the Braves ham
? mered him out OF the box in thu
opening game but the chances o
Z their repeating were remote.
Another prize bone of Comics wal
u to leave Schang behind the bat
!. Schang's work both at bat and II
~ the field, was miserable. His throw
n ing was off color from the start. TIL
n slow-footed Braves stole eight base
q on him and Schang caught only on
Q man pilfering. Schang made onl
a two hits during the four games, whel
II hit meant much for the Athletics
chances, he famed Jack l.app
- one of the best catchers in the gam'
y And he's a hitter. Lapp, blindfoldet
Is couldn't have done much worse tina
" Schang.
lg The Braves beat the Athletics b.
- cause they outclassed them in ever
20 way They won because they playe
~ against the greatest world serie
ie baseball ever saw, But they ougf
10 to thank Connie Mack and his blu
- ders for the fact that they won wit
IN such speed. But for Comics bon
III in the tenth inning of that gam
e the series would have gone tiy
NJ games at least. We're it not for hi
y other bones the series might hay
III been even longer,
w But Connie Numbered, Comm
40 boned four times in rom, and tn
p wonderful Braves took advantage I
,h each of them and dashed on to vi
~ tory in record time.
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