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Show NATIONAL LEAGUE , TORN WIDE OPEN ii j Boston Came From Behind and Won Out in 1914. Rabbit Maranvllle, recently resrned from the International league to aid In bolstering the fullering St. I -on Is Cardinals, is about the Inst of that gallant band which tore the National Imgue wide open In the hectic summer sum-mer of Iiit4 and won the first and last National pennant for Boston. The story Is now a legend of baseball base-ball how the Host on llraves, despised de-spised , occupants of the Natlonul league cellar up to the middle of the campaign, suddenly begun the niot amazing dash the major leiignes ever saw. t'p went the Braves, up, up and up, from eighth to seventh to nixtti, Into the first division, up, up and up to (he top and Into the world series, where waited the great and glorious Philadelphia Athletics. . The Ilraves were going so fast tht-y didn't bave time to stop and be awed hy the Macklan might, hut tore through that series, winning four straight games and the world championship. And now only Rabbit Maranvllle remains. re-mains. Gone Is the great Infield of rtutch Schmidt, Johnny Evers and Charley Peal. Ooue la the great out. field which boasted Catcher, Connolly and Morun. Dick Rudolph. Rig Illlt James and I.efty Tyler were the pitchers, while Hank Cloudy caught George Sttilllngs, (lie Braves' manager mana-ger and first "miracle man" of baseball, base-ball, Is nlHO out of the big lengnes. He recently resigned as manager of the Rochester International lenguo club to "rest tip" nt least a year. . Rudolph recently pitched In a game for the Braves ogiilnt Cincinnati, but his showing was such that he Is not likely to he called upon for much more duty In the big time and can hnrdly bo called active. Maranvllle showed enough of his old-time stuff while with Rochester In the International that he looks like a fair bet with the Cards. He may be old as baseball men go, but he Is also baseball wise and brains matured on the diamond are often more valuable than youth and springy muscles. Maranvllle's specialty la snagging pop files. - : . |