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Show pS REASON FOR I LFJ1GUIPP BUT JKanie Mack Explains Why B?itcher and Catcher Took Sk Regular Turns. pTLES BIG DISPUTE ffHhletic Manager Answers JRCritics of His Actions in SB Third Game. ' wC'jth the title "Honesty in Baseball," "gjjKiager Connlo Mack of tho -world's ?SBniplon Athletics writes an article for IHBsaturday Evening Post, In whloh he -4IBm the "baBoball-ls-crookod" fans a wBlnr blow. SJtBanaSor Mack gives his reasons for not iErr ninch hitters for Jack Lapp and e Plank In the third battle of the Hd'e series between tho Glanta nnd WBletlcs. which tho New Yorkers won, JBsWls particular game caused more XHciSm among followers of the national -SHitac than nny othor contest In tho (SBory of tho game. A few foolish fans JvBJged tho jVfhletlcB of throwing tho MKe', wbllo others upheld Connle Mack, '.rier reviewing that gamo until tho Kh Inning, with two on bnsca, Con-gKtf&ck Con-gKtf&ck ntatcs: wHore Is whero the manager cornea .V for the mnJor haro of tho blame. I I no ono out, or with only one a long fly to the outfleld would. Strunk nnil win the game a (lit wns not required. So experts 'ans called for a long: fly! 1 am Ised. first, because 1 allowed , our first catcher, to gb to bat iccnupc Jio hit very weakly to tho basemnh. who throw home, ins; .Strunk at the plate. Tho nd guess" of exports and fans 3d tlifit II was a mislakn to send to bati that .a utility man 1 have been substituted. "Why? me the KeaKon'a batting record pp hadn't been pood! Also, be-, be-, although this is not an argu-advanced. argu-advanced. ho did not dellvor unch In tho crisis. Had Improved. e'Hniy answer The first time iced Mnthewson In the game struck out. HIb second time at a hit Rharply to Doyle and was J at first. Tho third time ho d. Now, he was up for tho i time, having shown Improve-each Improve-each succeeding turn at the Why should I want to tnko Lapp ,'lth this batting record In tho and substitute an untried man? again, thero -was his attltudo of his strong heart in tho emor-Tho emor-Tho moment Strunk singled .t Inning Lapp Jumped up from ench, grabbed a bat and cx-id cx-id to mo: "Now put your man toeocond and Til win the game ebody said; "It's dogged as most of the criticism heaped me came because I lot Plank Lapp, Instead of putting In a man, and because he also hit i first baseman and Barrv was own between third and "home, look at Plank's batting up to Jme: Ho hadn't struck out; ho jade one safe hit, and ho had id a sizzling liner which the -Bhortston had caught brll-. brll-. It b a fact, which few who iat gume apparently remember, Iank hit that ball harder than mn on our team, "Homo-run" a not oxcepted rs Hit Sometimes, t he's a pitcher!" critics sav. their wholo argument. Plank's cr In the game wo'ro talking wasn't considered. He was to ;cn out merely because he was her. "Who won the game qr VTork; sending In the onlv mn l to win? Ttfathewso'n, a ?ose It had beon tho turn of i to bnt Collins, who hit for an ,'e of .421 for tho series. "Would title have advised tho substltu-f substltu-f a utility man for Collins? But game Collins did not hit tho s hard as Plank did, and hla time up was struck out. fact is. I had been wrestling his situation In a way long he-actually he-actually arose. Whereas, to tho . and to tho fan It was a prob-inexpectedly prob-inexpectedly presented on the at after Doyle'a wild throw to as the manager of the team le director of tho gamo It was uty to be prepared for this !Was Prepared, is prepared. In tho first place w Mathowson. He Is tho sort :chcr wlio gets you tho first then slowly you begin to TTnd Take our record against Mattv. at us. 2 to 1. in tho first game h ,We bcat h,m th second he faced ua Iti that scries, and pd him from tho box the third. Is Inst series ho beat ua tho ;ame tho game I'm discussing, iat him his next game the de-game, de-game, played In Now York, this to the Individual. In the nlng game, with two men on he struck out Bakor the first ip. but afterward Bakor got two So Lapp got to him, as I havo . But tho point I am making it a now man coming Into tho as a plnch-hltter would have mighty . UtUo chance against wons great pitching In that r to confound the 'experts: Lapp and Plank went to bat ry w,a3'"- ny to tJle outfleld asyl" I doubt If twenty men r tho 20.000 at that gamo knew n the eight Innings but one fly far enough out to score a man third, had bean hit by the Ath-And Ath-And yet it was "easy" to pick l to scoro Strunk or Barry from on a fly to tho outfleld 1 As a r of record, Eddie Murphy od the only fly tall whtoh would scorod a man from third. It ho drive between loft and cen-iat cen-iat Burns caught after a sharp But when Murphy faced Math-l Math-l after Lapp and Plank foiled Ivor the punoh. he hit to pltch-i pltch-i was an easy out at first. Even In't knock a long fly to the out-in't out-in't censure the fan because ho to recall tho record of fly balls outfleld. The fan Is not paid Inking, I am. It wuo my busl-o busl-o know this, to be prepared for morgopcy. and I was prepared, what I thoucht was right. CONNIE MACK, Athletics' I manager, who explains why Iapp and Plank batted in the third world's series game. |