New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-03

spirit. Every man was playing right
up to his limit and working his heart
cut. Evers would drop into my room
each night before he went to bed.
What are you worrying about to-
night, George ?" he would ask. 81 know
you are always worrying. You've got
to. It's your job
Careful Of Signals.
Every day at noon we would have a
meeting IN my room al the motel lor
Skull practice to 20 over the plays
and signs Although We had set or
signals that don't think any ball club
in the world could have got on 20, we
heard rumors that the Athletics had
been tipped of TO them. We framed up
an entire new set, and a coacher or
base runner could have looked square
10 the catcher's glove end never have
got these. Mack's men failed TO get a
sign of ours in the series, so far as !
know.
/ want to say that my club was pre-
pared more thoroughly for the world s
series than any team ever was before.
We went after the weaknesses OF the
Athletics as ! had learned them when
in the American League, and we hg-
ured at the daily skull" practice how
10 cover up our own, for every team
ias some weaknesses, and we feco8-
rized ours. | can't tell what they are
naturally. We made It point 10 ASH
everybody that we thought might nave
some accurate information about the
Athletics for pointers, and the warning
that we had fired at US time after tue
was:
Don't let them get your signs. -,
We were told this so often that the
young fellows on the club got TO cream
ing about il, and the result OF THIS was
The series Of signals that ] mentioned
above. We rehearsed these over and
over. One night while the team was
at it's hotel in New York | heard some
body mumbling IN room near mine.
knew that all the rooms IN that part OF
the hotel were occupied by my ball
rlayers, so | walked down the hall and
tound the door OF the room on
crack. ! looked IN.
Rudolph was standing at one end
and Gowdy was crouched at the other.
giving signs in an imaglnery glove.
a. he switched from one code to an
ether Rudolph would call them.
"Curye ball, inside" said Dick.
EAST one. outside Splitter" mum
bled Rudolph. IT,
tintoed away without either one
moving that had seen the rehearsal:
Shirt Of that sort wins victories ana
Rudolph displayed his wonderful game
ness in doing that in his room, Just as
much as he did under actual hre IN tne
series. when he pitched grah1 oaii'
This was the spirit when won loI 10
To show how hard my team ~orheu'
not a man missed sign DURING INV
worlds series.
Catching Sign from Aiar.
Inst 10 give an idea OF what a tlght
Accumulation we had / will relate AZ,
;ncident that occurred during the hhas
series of the season in Brooklyn:
,vss sitting in a field box with fIlenu
and Mitchell was running the SluD on
the bench. Whitfield was at the oas'
with a man on first base and none o ~
TYLER was coaching at third Dssg' IL
glanced at me in the box, ana , ga
him the sign for Whitfield 10 MT ~
flashed the sign 70 Whitted, anu nc &c
"busted" a curve ball for a couple y.
b bases. Tyler, on the held, had eausn
this sign from me out OF All the $50
II would have been the same II ! hau
been sitting upstairs IN the MS boIl
81 the orandstand. II was tight oai'
cIub and the organization OF II count
ed in both the National League i"0
and the worlds series. .;,.h,
Yet / do not run a ball club so tghii
that I Kill a mans individuality. 3,
rave on the bench, it is true, and diq nc
mn 10 the last game Of the Nationa.l
League Ie race, because figured this M
would keep up the pepper during me
worlds series that won for US on ,hI
season. II did too, guess, but
don't order every play and make ma ma
chine of q ball player II you thlhs