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

am free to confess that the Braves
are the better ball club, yet Hugh
Fullerton and other experts will tell
you that the Athletics are the better
ball club, but that the Braves played
the better ball. That sounds beauti-
full the way it is put, but if that is
so, give me the better BALI and I'll
give the experts the better ball
club
With some people the winner is al
ways great and the loser is no ac-
count. In the case of the Athletics
1t would be foolish to say so. The
Mackmen played fine baseball, but
they didn't play the kind of baseball
that would beat such q gang of fight
ers as the Braves The Athletics,
wouldn't say just great, but
really they didn't play with the same
spirit that has characterized their
work in the past. They seemed to
take the Braves as joke on the
first day, and they were beaten as
much through lack of nervousness as
! through bad baseball On the second
day they were right there and out to
win, and when the Braves again beat
them back they were beaten for good
They made a grand effort in the third
game, but they threw away enough
chances to win a dozen games and
were again defeated. The fourth
game didn't seem to appeal to them,
and they played as If they were sat
isfied they were beaten. The Ath-
letics, might say, were licked at
every turn, and they were spanked
good and properly at that. They
couldn't. stand the battle that was
put up to them day after day, and
they even threw away their chances
when luck was on their side.
} c.
} You can say what you will about
, the Braves having all the luck and
getting all the breaks, but they de-
served them. When anything came
their way they made the most of 1t,
but when luck hit the Athletics side
they generally threw 1t to the winds
The old story. you known, says that
luck always goes to the winner
While this is 80 in this case. the
luck belonged to the Braves. Only
those who witnessed the games can
realize just how wonderfully the
Bostons performed. They simply
played as II they must win and they
went at the Athletics from the very
start, and never stopped. either, as
If they were a gang of mediocre
sand -lotters. You couldn't beat them
you couldn't drive them back. That
why Stallings. who sent them In,
who drove thin in, Is deserving Of
the big credit. Evers, too, who con-
. suited with Stallings, is entitled to
praise for his efforts.
O.
Boston, II must be confessed, pro-
duced two great pitchers in Rudolph
/ and James, and pretty good one in
) George Tyler Pitchers. az a rule
, win worlds series, but 1t has beer
Z said that there wasn't a pitcher ir
n the game who could stop those Ath-
letics. Time has proved otherwise
Rudolph stopped them twioe ant
\ James stopped them, and Tyler ant
T James between them took care o
the Mackmen ALSO The truth is, tina
the great hitters on the Philadelphia
q team were completely buffaloed b!
n the game stand and superior displa.
of ability on the part Of the Braves
4 pitchers, and they finally lost thei
n confidence and then their goat" T.
e SEQ oldring and Collins and Baker an
q McInnis strike, time and time again
J. at balls a mile wide. IL that could be
! one could hardly believe his eyes
"a Rudolph laughed in their faces as h
!. fooled them. and that didn't do Their
Y any good. II was pathetic sometime
o TO see that great Athletic team box
II to the inevitable, but when you CAV
10 thorough thought to the desperat
a and fighting Braves who were doin
j. II you weren't surprised in the leas'
v %
~ The Athletics pitchers were not u
: to the mark. and Mack resorted I
d almost anything He was doing a 10
n OF guessing for the first time In year,
d and he didn't know just how to plac
hts mon He was on the defensiy