The Washington times., 1936-09-19

you are INFORMED CnaC ADner
Doubleday didn't invent baseball
at all in the year 1889 at Coopers-
town, N. Y, where a monument
is soon to be built concentrating
the alleged birth Of the national
sport at that place and time.
The Electric Horse
Then there is a two-page treatise
on the electrified horse, having to
do with the use of batteries or
buzzers in making a thorough
bred come to life.
A spade is so called in an article
having to do with Avrey Brun-
dagee, car Of amateur sports.
"DiMaggio Speaks" is a 10-para-
graph gem you can devour while
your shoes are being Shined.
Tennis, quail, boxing, golf and
story on the duck carnage by
Howard Zahniser, of the u. S.
Biological Survey here in Wash
ington are few of the other sub
jectS touched on abSorbingly in
the October issue.
If the remaining editions are as
well worth the Is cents as the
original mold, I'm going to be
tempted to rewrite a lot Of the
yarns in the months ahead and
serve them up to you warmed over
with perhaps a dash of watercreSS
or parsley on the side.
Menke calls the world series
game played in Washington Octo-
Der 10, 1924, in which the Giants
lost by 43, the SUPER THRILL
Err of all baseball history-and
rightly so.
Other Great Games
Those of you who saw it, need
not be reminded of such fact;
but still many may think they
have seen games more fully
charged with the stuff that holds
men and women glued to their
seats, awe-stricken.
Menke stamps that final Wash
ington-G Giant 1924 effort as the
most fantastic soul-stirring game
ever played. I am nobody to dis
pute him, but I nominate as the
runner-up that fourth game Of
October IL Of the 1929 world series
between the Cubs and Athletics in
which Connie Mack's crew came
from nowhere in the seventh in
ming of the game to turn an 8-to-0
deficit into a 10-to-8 victory.
thought never saw so many
hits ring off anybody's bats to
turn the tide of battle in such a
short span.
Next, in my memory book,
comes the Yankee Cardinal games
in which Babe Ruth hit three
home runs, two in successive in
ning3 on both october 6, 1925,
and October 9, 1928. That should
be something to tell the grand
children about-if any.
But Menke picks out elements
of the final 1924 world series game
which make it stand alone, and
it was even thrilling to review in
type what these eyes had actually
beheld IL years ago, in that
memorable thinning game.
One for the Book
In the language of the street,
that was a cock-eyed game for
your book or mine.
Menke says:
There never was a game Of
ball remotely approaching that
epic struggle, and there never
will be another.
Hits were dribbled to the in
field, and out of it.; doubles
rained off the bats of rival ar
tillery. A triple was made, a
homer was scored, a base was
stolen, sacrifice hits were
achieved. errors were made,
both Of head and hand; brilliant
plays were made to offset mex
cuSable blunders that appalled,
=. rallies came and runs re-
suited, and rallies came to end
in naught."
A tiny pebble twice figured in
frustrating the fielding efforts Of
Freddy Lindstrom, the young,
slim Giant Shortstop. Menke says
it was 10000 to / that the first
pebble incident happened and
10000, 900 to l a pebble would de-
fleet another hit ball in the same
game.
RueI the Hero
Ruel, hitless throughout the six
previous games, became the hero
of the hour with a twelfth
inning hit which came by dint Of
an additional time at bat result
ing when Hank Gowdy became
entangled in his catcher's mask
in trying to field Ruel's pop foul
which would have been the
second out.
Muddy connected for a double
on the next pitched ball. Nc
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