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Show Three Times Blunders Have Cost McGraw Chance to Win World's Baseball Championship Still Muff by Flack in Lat Series Will Long Be Remembered. ' Caesar, as Patrick Henry said, had his ! Brutus; Charles I his Cromwell, and, 'aa I th orator of Revolutionary days failed to mention, tha man gar a of varioua , run ne nip rluha have, In nearly very raaa, someone on whom to unload the burden of defeat. Th eerie Just closed th laat for tha duration rrf rha tar.and believed Fy" soma to hav been th laat for all tlm added another nam to the list f superlative super-lative unfortunate whoa sins of omission omis-sion and commission hav made- them targets for th gibes of fandom throughout through-out tha country. Conrad Maximilian Flack, Cub outfielder, out-fielder, la tha unfortunate Individual whoa error will ba remembered aa long aa tha "hot stova" league meets to re-f re-f Ight former baaeball bl Ilea, and ha numbers fourt h among i ha men whose bobble dlealpated their cluhe dreama of wear Id dominion In tha field of aport and gained nation wld attention. Mark la, Hitodgraas and Zimmerman ara th other member of the quartette. Flack probably will he known aa the "second fliiodgrHsa." Htrsngely snough. his error ma perpetrated on the aaina field and within a ftw yards of where lha Olant outfielder mad hia hiaioric muff In 1011'. It waa even more costly than Hnodgraaa' bobble, for Kred'g merely mere-ly paved the way for victory, while j Flack' let In two runs winning runs , In th crucial gam of one of the moat bitterly fought sarle ever staged. In tha third Inning of the final game Tyler wavered. Ha passed Maya an unheard of thingbut waa able to get Hooper. Again he crumbled and Rhean walked, fttrunk waa out and the Cuba look heart again when VYhlteman, the hero of the aerlea, aent a long flv to Klack, whoae ranny fielding and mighty arm had proved a distinct a seel In tha famea gone before. And Flack muffed, n romped Mays snd flhean and the eaglea of victory perched on the banners of the Red Hog. It Is noteworthy thkt all three of the other super blunders put crimpa In the campaign a of John Mc'lraw. manager of the New York tilwntw 1'rnhe.hly the moat famotia of all waa Merkle's "hnnsr" In !!;, not committed In a world a eertea, hut which coat the ilanta the National lengue pennant and a rhance to try conclusions con-clusions with the American league wtn-nere. wtn-nere. It waa Merkle's failure to touch second, snd John Kvers qulk comprehension compre-hension of the blunder, which gave the i 'nt. the deciding game of tha sertea and the pennmit. Asam, in ma, rn failure of MKimw'i legions lo play In fWm commensurate with their training coat them tha aerlea In th eighth gam at Hop ton. Snorlgrs. a tower of atrength, both In the field and at bat, dropped Rngle's essy fly In ltef the bobble waa not neceaaarlly fatal, fa-tal, but It marked the beginning of a run of 111 fortun which coat tha Olant th till. Heinle Zimmerman, transplanted from Chicago west aid park' to New York. In 111 C completed the quartette. He claaaea With Merkle In that the error was on of judgment, rather than being unavoidable. Th playa for both Merkla and Zimmerman ara claaaed by tha baseball base-ball public generally aa "boners, pure and km pie." while Hnodgraaa and FlarV ar excused In a measure on the ground That HI luck la likely to faaten Itself on any ball plaer at any time, Inside or outside of a world's series. , In th third game of last year's aerlea, with two men on for the Whit Hoi Kddle Collins on thirdthe batter bounded an eaay on to the Infield and the tlianta wera trying hard for a double play. Ona man waa out when the rallv aturted and the batter had been nabbed at ftret, while tha ball aa relayed to Zimmerman. Instead of returning to third. Collins started home. Frantic efforts of hia teammatrs to persuade Heinle to throw to Mi-Cr;hy at the plate fatlcd to penetrate pene-trate Zimmerman's mentality. Not noted for his anted Heinle nevertheless waa Imbued wilh the Idea that he could outrun out-run Colli na at any time, under any clr-cuinstancea. clr-cuinstancea. He tor down the base line toward th plate In pursuit of the ftox second baseman. who gained at every stride. Th race terminated with Collins several lengths In the lead with I the winning run. and th (.Hants nevr threatened mcnln |