Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-08

-, have a chance to cross the finish
~. ,n front, the breaks of the game
tw., he looked upon as an element to
:. considered when you are picking the
winner.
,e.r,s baseball men say "Rotr when
~, yreut,on breaks in connection with
s.s.hau. THE breaks are what you make
shsr,,.' is their favorite way of putting
Yes. breaks Of a certain kind are
..hat YOU make them. If batsman
somes ND and hits a two-bagger which
would have won the ball game. but fails
J. touch FIRST and is out thereby losing
n, he is giving his team bad break
hst might have been avoided. Early in
~ season, or even in mid-season, that
~ouId he accounted a bone" and 1
.culd not attempt to call IL break"
mich could be blamed for a slump or the
,oss OF a pennant. Right now,> however,
,vot Ia bound to be a factor, and you
can't get away from 1t.
suppose four gentlemen are playing a
came of old-fashioned draw poker. One
holds four deuces, another an ace full,
third an ace-high flush and fourth a
s,gh straight There probably would be a
law chips stacked up in the centre of the
table when they were through betting
an the hands 1t might be about the fag-
end of the evening and the man with
The four deuces would gather in such a
respectable piles of chips on his hand
that he would be a big winner. I have
said that they were gentlemen. so. nat
nrally, the man with the four little ones
would have the luck with HMM other
words, he got the breaks of the game"
That's just the way II is in baseball
There is not a player living who is not
liable to make an error. There is not
d batsman so weak that he can't at some
stage Of a game get in a timely hit. A
misplay by the best fielder in the league
might lose a critical game and have a
declded bearing on our race. A hit by
the weakest batsman might come when
Il would drive home the winning run and
gain a victory which would mean the
pennant for one of the clubs.
Yes. when II comes down to the end of
race a break" is almost certain to
come, and II may be a bit of luck that
will handicap the best club.
on a number of occasions high flies
have been hit in our park which fell on
top Of the right-held wall. Sometimes
they fell over into Broad street, were
home runs and helped win ball games
Again, they dropped back into the field
and the batsman only got a single on
the hit Think what it would mean II
4 We were playing a game that meant the
lead TO us and we lost the battle be-
cause the pesky baseball dropped the
wrong way and one of our hitters got
q single instead of a four-base hit.
But the breaks" hurt the manager
more at this stage of the race than they
Do the team as a whole. Each manager
n our league has a certain campaign
mapped out He figures on using GER
tain pitchers on certain days and against
certain clubs. He has his infield and out
field combinations arranged the way he
wants them.
Now figure out what a serious blow It
would be to managers plans If a
bfeak' happened something like this:
He arrives at the ninth inning with two
runs needed to win and one to tie. The
sallies are on the bases, but he takes
out the pitcher, who is working well, to
send In pinch batsman The "pincher'
drives In one run, tying the score. and
then the club stops. The manager wants