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Show Credit Clark Griffith With Creating Phrase Perhaps there is no more used expression ex-pression In sports than "getting the breaks." In doping out any sporting event, the experts always wind up I with the crack that since the teams are so evenly matched, the one that gets the breaks Is sure to be returned the winner. " Harry Davis, In his day one of the game's greatest first Backers, and for years an assistant to Connie Mack at Philadelphia, gives the credit to Clark Griffith for creating this phrase. "Get the break, get the break." Griffith Grif-fith would shout to his base runners as he directed them from the coach-er's coach-er's box, says Davis. "By getting the breaks he meant for them to start with the wlndup of the pitcher and take every advantage of his motion. "As an expression used by Griffith In coaching his runners, it has spread to every angle of sport "Griffith was the first man I ever heard use It. I regard him as the originator." |