Show a AND THEY CALL IT SLOW After reading the story of ot Mondays ball baU game in Philadelphia between the Quakers and the Detroit Tigers one is almost ready to bury bucy bu the old old joke about the cairn cain cal and anI d quiet of ot Philadel Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia phia and nd her people pe Just people paid admissions to see the battle and close to Xo others got by the park police olice and saw it in the grounds or from rom the trees and housetops in the vi vicinity vicinity vicinity The whole town went wild with excitement a riot was one of the fea features features features tures of the performance and all aU the symptoms of baseball bas baU mania were in evidence evl ence for the he seventeen innings dur durIng during Ing ng which the players fought fo for su supremacy supremacy Even at this great distance the reader r catches some of the fever and wishes he might have been one of ol the howling rooters t rs who verged on heart failure and swore and prayed by bO turns as victory or defeat seemed Im un Imminent Imminent for their nine In all U the annals of the great national aJio al game no such fierce enthusiasm has ever eier been known no such widespread Interest all aU over the country as centers about the two teams eams Detroit was 7 points point just seven thousandths of 1 per cent ahead of ot its rival The fate of ot the national cham championship championship championship might be decided ultimately by the tha result In the seventh inning it looked as though Philadelphia had the game when one of the great rallies in baseball history came cam and the Tigers tied up the score inthe in the ninth From then on for eight innings it was a bat battle battle battie tle tie royal one worth crossing the conti continent contin nent n nt to see and only when darkness came fight end in a draw Nothing compared to it for interest for clean sport for courage and endurance and skill has ever been seen in this country Why does the game draw such crowds and hold the national affections for year after year Largely because It has none of the elements of gambling about It and because its professional management has recognized the nieces necessity necessity sity as well as the cash value of keep keepIng keepIng keeping Ing it clean from the taint that at attaches attaches attaches to almost every other protes professional professional sport prizefight prizefighting ing even the college games have been tainted with crooked methods and the odium that attaches to tl crookedness but baseball as it is played in the big leagues has been be b e singularly free from the sinister corruption of other sports and so za attracts men who care tare little for other diversions I IOne IOne One feature alone of Mondays game would have made It notable if tIt it had had haq no other and that was the remark remarkable remarkable remarkable able pitching of ot Donovan of the De trolls Under terrific tension he pitched the whole w ole seventeen Innings and al although although l though in the seventh he recovered and finished stronger than he began It Is safe sate to o say that no pitcher before him ever performed so remark remarkable remarkable able a feat eat under such difficult condi conditions conditions Hone Still as has been remarked before I It seems seem about time to drop the facetious comment on the slowness of the ilie Quaker Quake thy M |