The Washington times., 1914-10-13
GOWDY'S DOUBLE RATHER COSTLY.

That tWO-h2Se DloN NnlCn mann
-owdy delivered in the twelfth cost
zch club owner $4,000. for minus
rank's costly and unseemly wallop the
anne would have been called at a draw,
.,rCine another session. The club own
IS only begin to get rea! money atter
he first four games. Hank killed
IRE chance for at least one extra bat
= with that ultimate double. He kill
q q sure Mackian victory. with ms
nth inning home run. II the Mack
zen had won the series would almost
Irely have gone to six games.
So those two extra base clouts of the
4. Giant ripped a hole in the sack
trough which at least 100000 slipped
I'd disappeared from sight. They came
Ugh. but Hank wouldn't sell either for
million, much less a begSarly plttance
G. 10000 bones.
The Braves have harassed the Mack
tneu in M, ways than one. Ihey nave
Ot only p,.I tically era uhed their long
,areer Of gIoly and anstracted tne lapI1i
from their ClaE,my brows, but they
have driven John Franklin Baker, the
MARYLAND mauler, into the batting mlsts:
For Baker, in the cleaning purple OF
his fame. never saw the dav or the
year when he reached the heights now
hold by C;owdy.- Baker hit one out of
ne lot on three world series occasions.
l}ut Yesterday Gowdy hit three out OF
. ne lot in one game. Two were heid 10
wo-base blows by ground rules, but
hey were hit on the nose as Justify AS
my blows Baker ever made.
There was a loud cry, too, that Baker
rsch year maintained the wonderful
w orld series average of .4l2. But TO-DAY
owdv is batting .6S7, and his allotmenl
u six hits includes three doubles. a
-riple and homo run. His six hits to-
al fourteen bases, ard, in addition TO
This they have walked him four times
10 try and keep the ball somewhere in
he lot
Hank has given the greatest world
-ar1eS batting exhibition ever seen. OF
.uch is baseball On past occasions such
JrooDle as cobb. Wagner, Baker, Col
us, crawford, and the other notables
fn the school of swat have had their
multiplied chances. but it remains for
Jsnk Hank in three games to set a
mark they never dreamed Of, and Hank.
'nTough the season. had batted $50 yet
'ndsY he has hit for more bases than
'oliins, Baker, MCInnis. Oldring, Barry
nd Schang have compiled all put to-
Eether.
Back in 1905 Cubs and Tigers played a
lie game and then the Cubs won four
straight. That is the closest call TO
four straight defeats by any world
cries club. The Mackmcn are closer
a club that has oUtplayed and outfought
'h"m all along the line, with Rudolph
feady after a fOur-daE rest to resume
where he left of Friday, and il Rudolph
'aiis there is Bill James for the We'd
nesdal struggle. The series may go 70
nve games, but it. will never go to six,
uHleSs the MaCkmen can secure one of
hose French medicine guns that scat
,"rs deadly fumes in all directions and
50 IpeS out entire lines with one dis
barge
AS for that battle on Monday. Boston
had the ansD or last night as each fan
showed to his fellow Wei lever see
mother like 1t, That one game showed
AGAIN the gamest ball club that ever
jook the FIELD. Threo times L came from
behind TO tie the score. AI.1 j.. the
icuth with TWO runs needed and even
tho stricken royal rooters surrendering
hope il continued the fight with such
alor that it was not 70 be stopped.
We've all secn ball clubs that fought
; srd. and fought hard most Of the way
l5u' Of the three hours and fifteen min
Utcs required to finish Yesterdays bat
lie there was rot one feeting second
ir which the Braves were not tearing
1T Ma khan throals and Working at TOP
>peed They fought all the time, and
when they fell behind they merely
fought just twice as nard.
There were several s!Grights TO VI on-
0aNs contest Of more than passing In
,erest One was the abnormal amount
Uf gloom in the Athletic camp. After
yrcsI~ Of conquest. defeat, ana especially
crushed defeat. comes doublV hard. The
ulsyers sat around as II dazed, as n
they had been suddenly struck from be-
hind But the tear-stained eyes Of the
plavers' wives told OF additional sorrow.
- least two Of them broke down after