Show CONNIE ADMITS BOSTON IS BETTER TEAM AND LOSES LIKE LIRE GOOD SPORT FAILURE OF or SOME OF TO GET IN CONDITION HAS BEEN PARTLY THE CAUSE OF THEIR POOR SHOWING PHILADELPHIA Sept 10 Connie Connle Connie Mack the ti-ic astute champion of ot the the worlds world's I champions about to be deposed as such ouch today toda frantically said ald Ills his h s first and last I words worda as to wh liy the athletics will In not be bethe bethe bethe II the champions next 8 season son Mack Mac gives 1 seven reasons for fOl oi tho the defeat of ot tho the ath- ath I arc are 1 The Tho Boston red rell sox sos in Is a better team 2 Certain athletic players tailed railed to keep in proper condition 3 Tho The failure ro of ot Cy Morgan who vrho Js is pitching pro semi ball hail 4 4 The young oun pitchers failed to fill In when most needed 6 5 The Tho Injury to Capt Danny Murphy In Chicago on Juno Tuno 2 6 The two weeks week absence of or Jack Barry Rt nt short 7 Claude Derricks Derrick's failure to make inane good during Barrys Barry's Ab absence because Derrick wa was ns out of or condition These Thue are the tho seven rea reasons Mack e gives rl but he might add to them the fact that numerous of his players have been spoiled polled by their love lore for their recently acquired automobiles and their joy rides He could coule prove proe this its assertion by bv by pointing to the tho I I poor work ork of the at home where here the they hM their automobiles I and their fair tar work while a awny from home where thoy they could not use their automobiles Even E had by team te-am been In th the pink of or condition said ald Mack and playing the class of or ball that won them the worlds world's championships champ in 1910 and 1911 It i is doubtful to my mind whether they could have v beaten out Boston's Boston great re t team toun this year Wo Yo all an have ha to take ot oft off our hats to 10 Jako Stahl I I have never mado made any tX excuses when beaten beaton out for the pennant It Is all aU foolishness fool fool- for when a Q team la is beaten eaten out that Is all aJl there thero Is to it Lt There is la such a athing athing thing as a a club getting Retting the worse br breaks sometimes but that Is IB all 11 In the game game- If It a a. man gets hurt and la lIS fOrc forced d out of or ortho tho the game that's not hi hit fault or the clubs club's either cither We all an have ha to run chances anti and It If w We get Iet there its it's all n right and if It we wo don't dont dont don't well its it's not always our fault I must say pay that had a of or my men taken Il a little better care of themselves them them- selves wo we ml might ht have been A n little lIttre closer to tho the Boston Doston team today but dont don't think for a moment I am trying to make any anyone anyone one think that w We would have won the pennant To say ay that tho the rod sox sex are playing great ball is 1 putting rutting It mildly The kind of ball they played against us during the the- recent series erle was the tho biggest surprise I got ot this season Every one of Stahle Stahl players Mayors has that snap with him that Is III b sound bound to win g games m They have the tho fighting spirit Like LIJe our once onoe great asset th the red sox sex have haf nave acquired the knack of ot hitting when the n necessity c alty most moat calls for fr it it and this thle with Ith their fine outfield of Lewis Speaker and Hooper whose whoRe equal for throwing at l least lea t cannot be found round on any club In the country countr accounts for the success of or tho the team learn The chances of the athletics were wore I lessened by our slUng falling to get away aAY to a good start This was WM hardly tho the fault fRuIt of ot the players as every eVer one of or our boys hoos worked hard to get Into condition Still there was wall something wrong and I have bao failed to find out what it isIt is III It Is 15 always natural that certain men show a certain tacit lack of ot ambition but there are aTe six Ix men on th athletics with whom there is no fault to be found I Iam Iam Iam am not referring to pitchers now but to the regular fielders These bo boys have ha not faltered In any anyway anyway WA way since joining the tho team They always Jay have given the hardest In them and have worked hard lard when things t looked worst Yet at some times this season Mason nearly over every one of or them ha has been unable to lo play In several ln Instances the they have been working on their nerve Plank and Coombs have hare done everything everything every vene thin thing that has been expected of them In Inthe Inthe inthe the pitching line Coombs while slightly behind Planks Plank's record has pitched splendid splendid did ball and before the tho thelea lea season on ends I ex expect expect expect ex- ex him to be bl up among th the league leaders lenders in pitching Coombs condition right now Is i. better hetter than it has hu been all aU season while Plank Is eer every bit as good as UI his hIli form |