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Show AGE AND YOUTH IN DESPERATE EFFOHTTO WIN Plank, the Veteran, and James, the Youngster, I Engage in a Great ! Pitching Duel BARRY'S FAILURE TO THROW IS EXPLAINED Fear of Striking Deal in Back Gives Brave Run ner Credit for Stolen Base By DAMON RUNYON B lnte natonal News Ser 1 e. 1 PHILAD PHIA Oct to Supers ou od eball men gra ey wag I eir eads a d te ou t at sue t gs as appened at "5h be field ere this atte noon are the manjfest,at ons of d amond a e A.n a n ost u canny qu rk 1 t e Ijck bat came n 0 e n nth nn g ga e the Bos on Bra es a otl er ctory over t e Ph adelphla A etlcs b a score Of 1 0 i and he g a beards of t e game say ha h s atra ge qui If came because It as been vr tten hat the Boston B a es sha be t e c an i ons of he aseba wo Id Men a e s I debat thet p ay o n g as t e see e of tno o Id s ber es s fts to Boston and doubt ng that tbej w be cal ed upo to return to P a de p a for a y subsequent games T e tar of t3 e Amer ca league seems o be sojt s twlng E g t Innings of a bitter p to log batt e between Edd a Plank the Gettysbu g cat Ing last of he Athlet cs Od Cad adBU Janes tho g ant young i ave f om the far northwest, had passed and w llle It was p aln to be ee t a the Hoston ars were s on y cut n ot n t e eteran from be nd the r breastworks of s x feet three of ou ful bone and s new the Mackmen were at no d sad vantage as the ninth ca.me o The 'Vital Ninth Rabb t Maranv e was qu ckly re tired on a ro e to L a k Jack Bam accounted one of tl e afest surest and stead est men of h s t n e Then C ar ey Deal who got Into the Brave 1 neup on y because Red Sn 1 b oke his leg Just , befo a the sires ope ed and who had ' done no hitting up to this time dro e & 1 ner over An os Strunk S head to deop center Held Strunk seemed to misjudge tl e ba He started forward then began to slag ger backward as the drive kept mov rig onward and gather ng force. F nailv the hall landed In the grass well out of Amos s roach a d Deal reached second A moment later as James came to bat Walter Schang the Ath etlo bac stop noted that the bat,e runner was p aying very far oft the m dd e bag -R hi e many spe tators thought th a was a b t of stup d base running by Deal for tak ng such a long ead oil second they fo got he had pu ed that dent cat p ay earl er In the game and Boston p ai ers say he has been pu g it on .a tlonal league catd ers a 1 season It therefore takes rank as a most br Ilia t maneuver and had much to do with the turn of the game as It seemed to upset the Ath etlcs nde d Deal Steals. Third As P ank b azed a a de arm s ant across the etters on Bill James s chest S hang wh pped t e ball do 1 to sec ond to catch Deal napping and Barry took the throw Instead of tr Ing to re turn to second howe er Deal tore on toward third It may be that sudden fear of the wrat to come from the g ow ering figure of Oeo ge S all ngs on the bench of t e Bra es lent w gs to h s hee s but t seemed to the spectators that he woud be a su e out To the amazement of everyone Barry (Continued on Following Page ) THE COMPOSITE SCORE BOSTON Games ABR.HIB !B HR TB SO BB SH. SB PC PO A E TC Moran rf. 150000001001 000 001 000 Mann rf 150200021000 400 000 000 Fvers 2b 1 2813000 31100 85261 80 Conno ylf 1311000 11100 833 1001 000 1 Cather If 13 0 0 0 0 0 01000 000 2001 000 r Wh ed cr- 2 G 1 0 1 0 3 0 2 0 0 167 0 0 1 00O I Schmidt lb 818000 30001 36 23 201 000 r GowdJ c 2521110 G0301 600 17 201 000 Maranv e, ss 603000 31010 o00 471 917 Dea 3b 2S11100 20002 125 8401 000 1 Rudo php 1401000 11000 50 0801 000 James p 1400000 04000 000 0301 000 Tota 9 67 8 13 2 2 0 24 11 7 1 a 269 H 27 3 "964 PHILADELPHIA Games, AB R H B B HR TB SO BB SH SB PC PO A E PC I Mnpvrf 2701000 1 100 143 2001 000 Odgf 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 000 2 0 0 1 000 i Consb 2601000 10100 167 74 0 1 000 1 Bake b 2701100 21000 143 5 7 0 1 000 3 Mclnnes lb 2610000 08200 000 17 11 047 I Stnnk f 270 00022000 286 4001 000 Barjs 2600000 02101 000 5901 000 ' S ang c 2 5 0110 0 3 2 0 0 0 00 8 2 0 1 000 I app 11 0000 00000 000 2101 000 Bender p 1200000 00000 000 1301 000 WS koff p t 1 0 1 1 0 0 200001 000 1001 000 Pank p 120000001000 000 0101 000 vas 00000 00100 000 000 000 I" 5 1 7 3 0 0 10 16 6 1 1 127 64 28 "l "s!8 CTilsh batted for rank in i Inth Inning of second game ore by Inn ngs Bos on R ns 02001301 1 8 H ,.12133813 U Ph ddep (i Runs 01000000 01 Hts 1101011117 ummary Earned runiBoston 8 Phi ade phla 0 Left on bases Boston 14 Plil ade p a Doub e plays Boston Schmidt to Deal Maranv e ti k Schmidt Ph lade phla Barry to Coll ns to Mclnnes Bender to Barry to Mclnnes , Bender to Mclnnes Baker to Mclnnes Struck out By Boston pitchers By Ru I d0 ph.?Iurph?. , drlns 2 Baker Mclnnes Barry Kchang by James Mr 5 phy Oldrng Mclnnes 2 Strunk 2 Schang Pank By Phi ade phla p tchers Bi A Bender Mo an Conno ! Rudo ph bj Wyckoff E ers Maran e b P ank Mann Cather James 4 Eases on ba s Off Boston p tchers Off Pudolph Col 11ns Mclnnes 2 off James Murphy Barr Wa sh Off Phi ade phla v tc ers t Off Bender Oonno 1 Wh tted off Wvckoff Gowdy off Plank V era Vt Itted i Oowdv 2 Muffed fou play Maranv! e Muffed thrown ba Mclnnes r m f b es Evers Moran F rst base on erro s Bos on 1 Ph adelphla 1 Passed ba Schang Hit h p tc ed a! Ma anv e Pank A n age tine of gumes i ho r find o m n es mp res Klem n on N ona eague) Hldeb and H and D neen me can league f Additional Sports in News Section I 1 BE II YOUTH 1 0ESPE1TE mL (Continued from Preceding Page.) ; id not throw to Tinker. Ho drew back Lis arm.' hut the throw never came.. I-ater it. developed t:iat Deal was directly in line wit 1 1 ! hiker and the throw miKht have' !)it the , miner in the back and ended th chances of the Athletics rijiht i here-. The spectators never fully comprehended com-prehended tluit fa.-t, liowover, They were f.lumfoundd !iv Carry's' hesitation. With I I oit third. James fanned for t he four i h time. Leslie Mann, playing his th-st .une in iiie series, took a ball nnd then "ch.npp. d a ionir. loopinsr fly to vh-ht ileld luck of t-.;ond. Cddio Collins ade ri .'..M'.r.fe err'ort euteh it. falr- I v hurling liim-elf ba.-kward. Hi? fingers l-iirv '".:- i.r.i 'he i-all. Ln t. even so. it 's rioiibtfiil if way man in the game could . have (.nv. as c'os to getting it. Braves Go sViid. V'.-al s-vred and the men on the Boston bench re.-:une jiiomcntn r'.ly demented. Lank IIr.uk tawny, arrayed in his shin-puards shin-puards as though he had no nope of any reeuit that imdr:. rushed, out in front of he coop n nd leaned high in the air, crpekimr Ids hcfls together. Josh Dovore co nld bo hea rd vol liny high above tno tumult from the stands and the rest of the R-'SCon players acted like men possessed. pos-sessed. ., . A shadow' of the Stalling smile passed ever the fa-'e of the big manager, and then he lu-nan harshly ordering the next plav. De:il sot credit for a stolen huse from the official scorer when he went to j Third or. that plav whieh will bo discussed for man- a day. Whether Ueal had real-Jv real-Jv started' (nr. to .steal is a o.K-sUun, but j it is d-uiotful whether Stallings would have ordered snci: a plav at such a time. parsed hall bv Schang- put Mann on P--ennd and K-crs walked, bat the inning prided when father lolled to Barry, who tossed to Collins forcing the captain of the Braves at se-'ond. Maekmen's Last Chance. In the. Mackmen's end of the ninth Ba rr." drew a base on balls from Jamed. and then he: a n a last etTort at victory on the v.zvt of Connie Mack. Sehang Hied to bunt but failed, and finally tr.uk a Fwiag at a third strike as Barry raced for second. (lowly dropped tlie ball, but Scharur was o it anyway under the rules, and Barrv gut a stolen base. Jimmv Walsh, former member of the Yankees, was i"iit up to bat for Plank, a iid James passed him with four straight halls while StaHincs raved from the tnch. labile Jhinii'.v tried to bunt alter James had twice failed to get the ball across the plate on him, and then Umpire Um-pire I-iildebrand called a strike. On the ii. -t pitch Murt-bv h.it a sharp roller to MdranviUc. ho s -o.ed up ihe ball with a single mot km. leard over on second T-ae for a for--o-out on Walsh, then shot the had over to Schmidt ahead of Murphy. Mur-phy. ciomg the game with the most spectacular "double play of the series. James Uses Speed. For five inninss big Bill James poured his speed acioss the plat-'1 with such bunding velocity that the Maekmen did nor g-H a safe hit. Tn that time only one reached first base, and that was the first man up in the came. Thereii fter the Athletics hung helpless before tlie huge youngster from (Carbonado. Wash. Meu': while, however, Eddie Blank, 40 ye;!?'3 young and one of the wisest men of the mound, was kohiing the Braves in cheek by tlie power m his old leit arm-They arm-They hit hiin freely enough, they got on bases often enough, but tiiey could not is core. It was a mar' elous exhibition by both the youth ar.-l the veteran. The Athletics p hayed with more life tori? to-ri? v than, they did the day before, but the eld pur; eh whs lacking. It i;-: said that the young Braves "rode" I I ! r ri v a ! s u r. m e r c i f u i 1 y a y a m to 1 a eha'.tenng thimrs a.t the M ..-Kmen wh.ich v. ire ::il"';hi'.ed to wound the feMings of t'.-.' !,ier players nd to "geri their g-ats." Ye3'erd.:y the Bryvea r':rsue.:i this r 't:(- urtil ti;ey hd tr.e ordinarily ' ""-":' ky rr-rhi-is grf'itiy annoyeJ. Xo team, r.r't even t'.v- Tiers or the Washington "'!'..; in the flays "f iheir greatest rivalry v 'hh th-j B.-iidehpihar.s. ever went afte.r 'c- :" -.howers or" "'o:;nte Ma k as r'cthies-"; r'cthies-"; ;-r, the Br-.ve- in Ti-:s rerie.i. ' rxi'-'''"-';'ie iror-i the siard. Op re 1 ' . '-':: rh, ;-;-v-.' niny roac'acrs are you i";.' ah',-." in this gar.Te? Whv don't ' ' roke rf.at Ponton fvrh shut up?" ' 'h-'ehrard rr.id r." a; t : :r r, and a n-.:r-:-ir rnrrnw"" i'.:r.-' "ut nf the - -.-.tn. CO',r- t:ie Braves talked hg::t!y |
