Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
EDDIE COLLINS
SAYS MACKMEN
HAVE NO EXCUSE
Champions Outpitched and
Outbatted, but Overanx-
iety to Hit Aided in Down
fall in First Contest.
By EDDIE COLLINS


enough to all to make their superiority
marked one over us in the first game Of
the series. And no one Is more aware Of
the fact than we are right at the present
moment. However as the saying goes,
Experience is the best teacher" and be-
lieve me. we learned not a few things
in the game of yesterday
We have no excuses to offer. Our de-
feat was decisive enough to forbid the
use of any butts" and "ifs" by me at
this late hour As is usually the case in
a losing game, it Is easy to look back and
see just what led up to the play that
was the start of our eventual ruin so
will try to enllghten you as to what we
new believe to be our mistakes as we'll
as what we figured were the important
winning plays of our opponents.
We started off quite auspiciously, and
when Bender retired Moran and rveis on
easy flies, and famed Connolly. one OF
the Braves best hitters, on three pitched
balls, he looked to be what is termed
right in baseball slang. On the other
hand our inning showed a little brighter.
Oldrng sacrificed, and a base on halls
followed to the next man. After this
Baker lifted high foul back of first,
which Schmidt, the Boston first basemaa,
was able to get, and on which Eddie
Murphy ossayed to go to third. and with
a little luck would have made It, as he
beat schmidt's throw, but unfortunately
ba he lNor
So good was Bender's performance in
the first that his sudden transRression
In the second was most unexpected Al
least, 1t came without warning to us
and, as 1t later developed it was only
the beginning of the end. Whitfield the
first batter got Chief in a hole right
off the reel but the count came down
to three and two, only to have him walk
anyway. Likewise with Gowdy. as tho
latter had our twirler three balls and
nothing before Chief could get over a
strike The next ball pitched. a fast
one, trife high. was the ball that
won the game for Boston. True other
timely swats followed, but this crack
of the lanky Boston maskman turned the
tide of the battle. 1t was double, on
which Whitted easily scored. With the
count one ball and nothing on Rabbit"
Maranville, Chief served another fast
one up which was sent out to centre
raster AlldH IL went ana NIOWQY reg
istered run number two for Boston, which
was enough to win.
CHANCE IN SECOND.
A golden opportunity was made pos
sibe In our half when McInnis walked
and came all the way home when
Strunks single to right went through
Moran's legs to the fence. This put a
man on third for us and no one out.
Rudolph appeared none too sure of HIM
self and seemed to experience consider
able difficulty in locating the plate Cen
orally speaking, our chances looked
bright for several runs, but they sim
ply did not materialize. With two strikes
and one ball called Barry helped Rudolph
out immensely by tanning on A ball
almost a foot outside. Schang followed
and hit bad ball. inside, weakly to
the inhed, on which Strunk was retired
on a close play at the plate, and with
which went our last good chance to
make any headway.
Thereafter until the seventh we never
were dangerous; in fact. we never had a
chance to be Baker renewed hope with
US when he was allowed to reach first on
a tumble by EVers-a hard chance-and
1t could have been scored base hit Ru-
dolph never got n ball near the plate for
McInnis, and he walked But that was
all. for Strunk rolled to the first base
man, Barry famed and Lapp expired,
Rudolph TO Schmidt.
l do not want to take any credit away
from Rudolph, because no deserves all
that Is coming to him and he pitched a
masterful game, but my contention about
the outcome of yesterdays game is that
we did more TO beat ourselves, and really
can attribute our defeat to nothing else
That is the angle from which we view H.
and it Is only natural that We as losers
should Just what l mean l will try to
explain. In the first place, we were TOO
anxious to hit that ball. and Rudolph's
tendency 10 be wild was really an asset,
when II should have been just the oppo-
site. To illustrate more clearly, analyzs
the count on the different batters that he
famed; every one swung at a bad ball;
there was not single exception. We
could not seem 10 wait for his ball 10
get up TO the plate, and every man on
our club except Eddie Murphy. one or
more times during the game, either struck
out or hit bad balls that nine times out
of ten we would never offer at again
But that Is Just the way II goes some-
times; no matter what you do YOU do
wrong And so It was with us yester-
day, and II all depends on which way
you look at il, whether it was Rudolph's
effectiveness or overanxiety on our part,
because / have seen many pitchers with
a better fast ball, better curve and a
better breaking splitter than Rudolph had
yesterday; but he got away with it, and
you have got to hand 1t to him, and
rightly. too.
PRAISE FOR HANK GOWDY.
From a Boston standpoint Hank Gowdy
stands out head and shoulders above the
rest. What Rudolph was on the defensive
the Boston catcher was on the offensive
and then some, He had a perfect day at
bat, and his stickwOrk alone beat US He
drove In the first run, as was previously
mentioned with double. scored the third
on his triple and was also tangled up in
the riot that put Chief TO the bad in the
sixth ana caused the first retirement OF
ms career from a world series game
Next 10 him. MaranWlle, the dimlnutfve
shoFstop OF the Braves aided our down
lAl' although "A triple by Whitted was
most damaging
IL was Just one Of those games in which
one club does all tho hitting and the other
naturally looks bad by comparison In
spite thls' am Just as firm in my opinion
that We Will eventually win the series,
ana furthermore, believe the next time
me Chief shows which he Is bound 10
90 probably in the opening game In Bos-
Ton there viii be a different tale TO tell.
IN lslI we lost the opening game Of the
series and came back stronger than ever.
ana am sure that We will do the same
IN thls- / imagine Eddie Plank will do
our pitching today. which VIII probably
make a change IN the Boston lineup,
Ia IN