The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-12
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1T OVER
With JOE WILLI8.ds
PHILADELPHIA. oct. /


had a good pitcher out there Fri
day in Guy Joseph Bush OF Mis-
sissippi, and they looked like ma
ior league ball club, no foOling. OF
course, Chere are some prejudiced
folks who insist the Cubs are
major league ball club, no matter
how they look, but the evidence up
to Fridays victory over the Athletics
their first in the series-Was all
against them. Bush changed the
picture completely. He was at once
q pulmotor. a stimulant end a life
saver. While he held the Macks
of. his teammates went out and
pecked away at the rlght-handed
offerings Of George Earnshaw with
sufficient persistence and effect 70
win the ball game.
Thu. the series e bound 70 20 fiye sans ts.
and II mEy 90 longer As long as inc nne
Cubs et1 produce pitching Of the quality
displayed hy the southern side wineer ,ne ,y
inept and lax they may be in the other ether
essentials Pitching is stilI to baseball
and soHp stains TO vests.
The only run the Athletics scored was
the result OF an infeld hit to snort ny
CochrAne to start the NTH lnnlnR anu
S FL othsF s m.s Bush 81 SeP Rsp The plate
Of hostile spikes ana .nfre r Wstg 'i pIuS
S whs9 eoI rag 70 do t. FOR the Athletics
AlWays we're threatening
They had one or more men n LETT on a md
In the third Bush had to dispose oil miher
for the third out with the bases iuI'
which he did. with no excess OF exetuOh'
] might add.
A CURIOUS decision by Umpire
N Charlie Moran in the second
inning gave Bush a break that
lightened his burdens for the mo-
ment If it did nothing else. For all
I know, 1t may have Won the game
for him, because there is no telling
what the effect on him and the
morale of his fraternity brothers
might have been If the decision had
gone the other way.
TWO were out when Dykes singled 70
left. BoleY followed with single 70 Ilgn L
e s5o that tAf base BolsS moved up to second:
Earnshaw was the next hitter, ~ oeInR
too early in the pastims 70 oonsl Tsa cannt
INV i,;'H worked around to two and two.
on the next pitch Bush INDUCED IN one
DYKES :o dashed Tor the plate. The bottle
leeged Philadelphian had caught INC
CUB .h9eo6ed ana IN fanne o dust
Moran motioned him safe;
Ia
test The Cubs surrounded Moran ana Joe
Mccarthy EaIloped from the visitors dug
aerial pore At length the crowd dis
persed and Moran ruled that EsInsnaWT
had 1t5ge II. OT DYKES score null and void
TT appeared that the gentleman IN
blue had overlooked the trivial
fact that some sort of decision had
TO be made on the ball which was
thrown to the plate at the time
DYKES was sliding across the rubber,
SO as an after-thought he calleo
It a strike. In view OF the eX-
istine circumstances 1t was a very
important strike. Moran IS un-
doubtedly a very gifted person and 1t
is altogether probable that ne was
able to follow the fight of the ball
and the progress of Dykes depreda-
tory gesture with a clean and un-
bewiIdered vision; but it would be
interesting to know by what remark
able urocess he made his decision
on the runner ahead Of the pitch be-
cause it is obvious that the ball
must have reached there ahead OF
Dykes.
- .
PerhapS Moran merely forgot that tnS
atrike. N II was . strike, was the tnlIu
one and n so. he committed no serious
ofense aKainst the social or civil CODE
Grsater crimes than that haye been ere
Rted here in the cradle OF hnertX. SS.
fhe same Il was = break that did the Cnos
no harm and certainly II did the Ashieuos
no good.
Prom that point on Bush moved t 6afsbIg
more or less serenely TO notaun
schieved victory during which ne rose W
his highest heights when the pressure was
most Severe which was rne trloute u
TIE Young mans grit.