New Britain herald., 1918-09-12

To Carl Mays-Carl with the fair hair and inverted delivery-fell the honor of pitching the Red Sox into the baseball kingdom of the world. But it was George Whiteman, whose vicious drive scoring two runs in the third, broke George TyIer'S heart and whose phenomenal diving catch in the eighth bIighted a budding rally and Wrung d gro&n of despair from Fred NIitchclI's lips.
 And upon Max Flack-poor unfor- tunatc Flack--is heaped the blame for the loss of the game. FlacK came in swiftly to catch that vicious drive Of Nhiteman's. The ball struck his hands fairly, but it bounded out and away. However. if Mann, in the fourth inning, had not relapsed into scmi-consciousnes and been caught off first by Schang's quick throw, he would have moved to second when Paskert walked, and two runs instead of one would have resulted from MeYklc's single.
 And if the COW had ever seen a cac- tus plant before she would have been satisfied to keep on chewing her old cud and would have been spared the humiliation of having the farmers
 
 man yanked the barbs out of the roof of her mouth with claw ham, mer. Baseball is baseball,
 The day destined to witness the valedictory of the grand old dame dawned fair but cold. The Septem- Der sun seemed to have no more pow CT to warm the air than the retlec- ton of d musty cheese on the hall mirror The 15,000 fans present were bundled up like a crowd of country folk bound for a moonlight pung ride over the snowy hills of New EIamp- shire. Gov. Mccall stuck to the royal box until the last and by so doing qualified to accompany Ronald Am undsen on his next annual excursion hunt for the south pole.
 Hendrix Part of Camoutiage.
 Hendrix and Tyler warmed up for he Cubs, the exercise on HendriN'S s part being a sort of stratogical ca mounage which Mitchell has indulged rhroughout the series. Just before Tyler began to pitch in BOStOn'S half If the first Deal walked over to him and carefully. selected two blades Of grass, which he deposited in his hip pocket, thus removing from the inn mediate vicinity all evil agencies which might nave q dlStufDlnS eI- feet on George. If Deal preserved the crop he probably will add it to that 5oleful collection which includes the glove that Snodgrass wore in 1912 and the shoes in which Zimmerman pursued Collins in 1917.
 Mays opened that third inning for Boston and walked on four straight balls Hooper went out Tyler to Mer- kle, leaving Mays perChcd on second, Shean walked. Whiteman came up swinging a bat that looked like the last three yards of the fagpolc on the Pittsburgh City hall, and hit the now historic swat which 1'lack almost got. McInnis was safe when HollOchers throw arrived too late. Merkle shot the ball over to Deal. and White. man, who was making t murderouS assault on third. was welcomed by a zap on his breastbone.
 To avoid changing 50 pleasant q subject let us shift to the story of Whiteman's marvellous catch in the eighth. Mitchell, seeing the game slipping from his grasp called for d new deck. Barber was the first man ap. Somehow every one seemed to seel that the critical moment of the game had come. knabc, coaching at first, marked encouraS cement to the aatter but Mitchell watched in si- ence and on his face was an cXprcS- lion such as the poker player wears