Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-02-13
By GEORGE r. STALLINGS.

By GEORGE tt STALLlNGS.
Much has been written and said
about the breaks Of ball games and
wapt to 90 on record as saying that
most ball games are wen by mani
ager taking advantage of the break,
but never was q contest played In
which a team worked harder to get
the percentage than my club did in
the. third battle Of the worlds series.
The hardest run ever scored was the
one that. the Braves made In the tenth
inning of the third contest, which tied
it up.
AS have said in all these articles.
our, spirit swept the Athletics of their
feet and from the first my little ball
club showed Macks champions we
were not AFRAID q ZEN. their hattig>.
ming which absolutely broke out OPP
ponents Fearts and made our club
sure sffvictory was that tenth. I Jon
believe it has ever been duplicated.
After we had finally won the contest
went iufc the clubhouse and found
my players shouting:
"laurrah for the cnampionsi"
~Hurrah for the next worlds cham
pionsln
They knew that the sseries was
theirs. Since then have been told by
an American league ball player who
visited the clubhouse of the Athletics
after their defeat that the boys as
plainly showed that they realized
they were beaten as my boys did that
they had won. Among themselves they
were grumbling and their heads were
hanging.
In their half of the tenth inning tho
Athletics made two runs and It looked
to every one en- the field as il Mack's
team was finally to hang UP victory
that is, TO every one except the
members of our little. ball club. The
FhiladeiDhia team earned one of those
runs. The other slipped across the
plate when EVers let his head drop
after losing chance to cut the run
off because the ball took bad bound.
could not be fielded and hit him on
the chest. Another run slipped over
then and Mack's club had lead of
two. When Johnny came to the bench
over and spoke to him.
"Never rnind,'' they said. one after
another. We've got three more
games to win it in. You've done
enough for this ball club to afford to
kick one away once in while"
But not man on the team conceded
defeat. The substitutes, who had not
taken any active part in the actual
playing, started to show what they
were worth to the club by tearing up
and down the bench and shouting
their lungs out. Every one was NOV
ing on that bench We intended to
make it Just as difficult as we could
for the Athletics to hold that lead.
PEP Won Crucial Game.
Then Hank Gowdy. the CASTOR of
the Giants, came up to the plate and
busted one for home run. That was
just q plain slam, but. believe me, 1t
took some of the wind out of the Ath-
letics. They then Healized that the
twt-run lead was not a safe one. The.
tying run was at the plate, as we ex-
press it in baseball 1t means that
the man who would tie the score IL
he got around the bases was at the
bat This was the hardest one ever
pushed around. Every man on our
club was working for It, working his
heart out, whether he was In the
coaching box, at the bat or on the.
bench.
Any one who saw. the game will
never forget the spirit Rabbit" Ma
ranville was on the coaching lines at
first base. running wild Every man
On the bench was waving a sweater or
a mackinaw and saying something ex-
cept me- just sat tight 1t was the
typical break of a BAH game, only big.
ger. It is useless to Feeite here just