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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/10028-0.txt b/10028-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6e8069 --- /dev/null +++ b/10028-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4946 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 10028 *** + +Credit for e-text: The Library of Congress, Joshua Hutchinson, David King, +and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + + +SPALDING'S OFFICIAL ATHLETIC LIBRARY + +BASEBALL GUIDE + +1913 + +EDITED BY + +JOHN B. FOSTER + + +PRICE 10 CENTS + +PUBLISHED BY + +AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING CO., +21 Warren Street, New York City. + + + + +[Advertisement] + +AMERICA'S NATIONAL GAME + +By A. G. SPALDING + +PRICE, $2.00 NET + +A book of 600 pages, profusely illustrated with over 100 full page +engravings, and having sixteen forceful cartoons by Homer C. Davenport, +the famous American artist. + +The above work should have a place in every public library in this +country, as also in the libraries of public schools and private houses. + +The author of "America's National Game" is conceded, always, everywhere, +and by everybody, to have the best equipment of any living writer to +treat the subject that forms the text of this remarkable volume, viz., +the story of the origin, development and evolution of Base Ball, the +National Game of our country. + +Almost from the very inception of the game until the present time--as +player, manager and magnate--Mr. Spalding has been closely identified +with its interests. Not infrequently he has been called upon in times of +emergency to prevent threatened disaster. But for him the National Game +would have been syndicated and controlled by elements whose interests +were purely selfish and personal. + +The book is a veritable repository of information concerning players, +clubs and personalities connected with the game in its early days, and +is written in a most interesting style, interspersed with enlivening +anecdotes and accounts of events that have not heretofore been +published. + +The response on the part of the press and the public to Mr. Spalding's +efforts to perpetuate the early history of the National Game has been +very encouraging and he is in receipt of hundreds of letters and +notices, a few of which are here given. + +ROBERT ADAMSON, New York, writing from the office of Mayor Gaynor, +says:--"Seeing the Giants play is my principal recreation and I am +interested in reading everything I can find about the game. I especially +enjoy what you [Mr. Spalding] have written, because you stand as the +highest living authority on the game." + +BARNEY DREYFUSS, owner of the Pittsburg National League club:--"It does +honor to author as well as the game. I have enjoyed reading it very +much." + +WALTER CAMP, well known foot ball expert and athlete, says:--"It is +indeed a remarkable work and one that I have read with a great deal of +interest." + +JOHN B. DAY, formerly President of the New York Nationals:--"Your +wonderful work will outlast all of us." + +W. IRVING SNYDER, formerly of the house of Peck & Snyder:--"I have read +the book from cover to cover with great interest." + +ANDREW PECK, formerly of the celebrated firm of Peck & Snyder:--"All +base ball fans should read and see how the game was conducted in early +years." + +MELVILLE E. STONE, New York, General Manager Associated Press:--"I find +it full of valuable information and very interesting. I prize it very +highly." + +GEORGE BARNARD, Chicago:--"Words fail to express my appreciation of the +book. It carries me back to the early days of base ball and makes me +feel like a young man again." + +CHARLES W. MURPHY, President Chicago National League club:--"The book is +a very valuable work and will become a part of every base ball library +in the country." + +JOHN F. MORILL, Boston, Mass., old time base ball star.--"I did not +think it possible for one to become so interested in a book on base +ball. I do not find anything in it which I can criticise." + +RALPH D. PAINE, popular magazine writer and a leading authority on +college sport:--"I have been reading the book with a great deal of +interest. 'It fills a long felt want,' and you are a national benefactor +for writing it." + +GEN. FRED FUNSTON, hero of the Philippine war:--"I read the book with a +great deal of pleasure and was much interested in seeing the account of +base ball among the Asiatic whalers, which I had written for Harper's +Round Table so many years ago." + +DEWOLF HOPPER, celebrated operatic artist and comedian:--"Apart from the +splendid history of the evolution of the game, it perpetuates the +memories of the many men who so gloriously sustained it. It should be +read by every lover of the sport." + +HUGH NICOL, Director of Athletics, Purdue University, Lafayette, +Ind.:--"No one that has read this book has appreciated it more than I. +Ever since I have been big enough, I have been in professional base +ball, and you can imagine how interesting the book is to me." + +MRS. BRITTON, owner of the St. Louis Nationals, through her treasurer, +H.D. Seekamp, writes:--"Mrs. Britton has been very much interested in +the volume and has read with pleasure a number of chapters, gaining +valuable information as to the history of the game." + +REV. CHARLES H. PARKHURST, D.D., New York:--"Although I am not very much +of a 'sport,' I nevertheless believe in sports, and just at the present +time in base ball particularly. Perhaps if all the Giants had an +opportunity to read the volume before the recent game (with the +Athletics) they might not have been so grievously outdone." + +BRUCE CARTWRIGHT, son of Alexander J. Cartwright, founder of the +Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, the first organization of ball players in +existence, writing from his home at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, +says:--"I have read the book with great interest and it is my opinion +that no better history of base ball could have been written." + +GEORGE W. FROST, San Diego, Calif.:--"You and 'Jim' White, George +Wright, Barnes, McVey, O'Rourke, etc., were little gods to us back there +in Boston in those days of '74 and '75, and I recall how indignant we +were when you 'threw us down' for the Chicago contract. The book is +splendid. I treasure it greatly." + +A.J. REACH, Philadelphia, old time professional expert:--"It certainly +is an interesting revelation of the national game from the time, years +before it was so dignified, up to the present. Those who have played the +game, or taken an interest in it in the past, those at present engaged +in it, together with all who are to engage in it, have a rare treat in +store." + +DR. LUTHER H. GULICK, Russell Sage Foundation:--"Mr. Spalding has been +the largest factor in guiding the development of the game and thus +deserves to rank with other great men of the country who have +contributed to its success. It would have added to the interest of the +book if Mr. Spalding could have given us more of his own personal +experiences, hopes and ambitions in connection with the game." + +_Pittsburg Press_:--"Historical incidents abound and the book is an +excellent authority on the famous sport." + +_Philadelphia Telegraph_:--"In this book Mr. Spalding has written the +most complete and authoritative story of base ball yet published." + +_New York Herald_:--"If there is anyone in the country competent to +write a book on base ball it is A.G. Spalding who has been interested in +the game from its early beginnings." + +I.E. Sanborn, Chicago _Tribune_:--"'America's National Game' has been +added to the _Tribune's_ sporting reference library as an invaluable +contribution to the literature of the national pastime." + +O.C. Reichard, Chicago _Daily News_:--"It is cleverly written and +presents information and dates of great value to the newspaper man of +to-day!" + +George C. Rice, Chicago _Journal_:--"I have read the book through, and +take pleasure in stating that it is a complete history of the game from +the beginning until the present time." + +Sherman R. Duffy, Sporting Editor _Chicago Journal_:--"It is a most +interesting work and one for which there was need. It is the most +valuable addition to base ball literature that has yet been put out." + +Joseph H. Vila, New York _Sun_:--"I have read it carefully and with much +interest. It is the best piece of base ball literature I have ever seen, +and I congratulate you on the work." + +Tim Murnane, Sporting Editor _Boston Globe_:--"You have given to the +world a book of inestimable value, a classic in American history; a book +that should be highly prized in every home library in the country." + +Francis C. Richter, Editor _Sporting Life_, Philadelphia:--"From a +purely literary standpoint, your work is to me amazing. Frankly, I would +not change a line, for the reason that the story is told in a way to +grip the reader and hold his interest continually." + +_Los Angeles Times_ (editorial):--"Spalding's book has been out six +months and ninety thousand copies have been sold. We understand there +will be other editions. America has taken base ball seriously for at +last two generations, and it is time enough that the fad was given an +adequate text book." + +Caspar Whitney, Editor _Outdoor America_, and one of the leading +authorities in the world on sport:--"You have made an invaluable +contribution to the literature of the game, and one none else could have +made. Moreover, you've done some very interesting writing, which is a +distinct novelty in such books--too often dull and uninteresting." + +_New York World_:--"Albert G. Spalding, who really grew up with the +sport, has written 'America's National Game,' which he describes as not +a history, but the simple story of the game as he has come to know it. +His book, therefore, is full of living interest. It is a volume +generously illustrated and abounds in personal memories of base ball in +the making." + +_New York Sun_:--"There is a mass of interesting information regarding +base ball, as might be expected, in Mr. Spalding's 'America's National +Game.' It is safe to say that before Spalding there was no base ball. +The book is no record of games and players, but it is historical in a +broader sense, and the author is able to give his personal decisive +testimony about many disputed points." + +_Evening Telegram_, New York:--"In clear, concise, entertaining, +narrative style, Albert G. Spalding has contributed in many respects the +most interesting work pertaining to base ball, the national game, which +has been written. + +"There is so much in it of interest that the temptation not to put it +down until it is completed is strong within the mind of every person who +begins to read it. As a historical record it is one of those volumes +which will go further to straighten some disputed points than all of the +arguments which could be advanced in good natured disputes which might +last for months." + +_Providence_ (R. I.) _Tribune_:--"The pictures of old time teams players +and magnates of a bygone era will interest every lover of the game, and +no doubt start many discussions and recollections among the old timers." + +_New York Evening Mail_:--"Were it possible to assemble the grand army +of base ball fans in convention, their first act probably would be to +pass a vote of thanks to Mr. A.G. Spalding for his work 'America's +National Game'." + +_Columbus_ (Ohio) _Dispatch_:--"Never before has been put in print so +much of authentic record of this distinctly national game, and it will +be long, if ever, until so thoroughly interesting and useful a volume is +published to cover the same field." + +_New Orleans Picayune_:--"The pictures of old time teams, players and +magnates of a bygone era will interest every lover of the game. Homer +Davenport, America's great cartoonist, has contributed drawings in his +inimitable style of various phases of the game." + +_Indianapolis Star_:--"From cover to cover, the 542 pages are filled +with material for 'fanning bees,' which the average 'fan' never before +encountered. It is an interesting volume for anyone who follows the +national pastime and a valuable addition to any library." + +_Buffalo News_:--"No book on base ball has ever been written that is +superior to this one by A.G. Spalding. The book is admirably written, +yet without any frills. Many of the more notable incidents recounted in +this book are having wide publication by themselves." + +_Brooklyn Times_:--"The book is practically a compendium of the salient +incidents in the evolution of professional base ball. Mr. Spalding is +pre-eminently fitted to perform this service, his connection with the +game having been contemporaneous with its development, as player, club +owner and league director." + +_Washington_ (D. C.) _Star_:--"This work appeals with peculiar force to +the public. Mr. Spalding's name is almost synonymous with base ball. He +has worked to the end of producing a volume which tells the story of the +game vividly and accurately. Taken altogether, this is a most valuable +and entertaining work." + +_New York American_:--"One of the best selling books of the season has +been 'America's National Game,' by A.G. Spalding. The first edition of +five thousand copies has been sold out (in two months) and a second +edition of five thousand is now on the press. As a Christmas gift from +father to son, it is most appropriate." + +_Cincinnati Enquirer_:--"As a veteran of the diamond, well qualified to +do so, Mr. Spalding has committed to print a professional's version of +the distinctly American game. This well known base ball celebrity has a +store of familiar anecdotes embracing the entire period of the game as +now played and the reader will find it most interesting." + +_Teacher and Home, New York_:--"Every live father of a live boy will +want to buy this book. It is said of some of the 'best sellers' that +they hold one to the end. This book holds the reader with its anecdote, +its history, its pictures; but it will have no end; for no home--no +American home--will be complete hereafter without it." + +_Buffalo Times_:--"A.G. Spalding, with whose name every American boy is +familiar, has been prevailed upon to commit to print events which were +instrumental in guiding the destinies of the National League during the +trying period of its early days. To write upon base ball in a historical +manner, and yet not fall into the habit of quoting interminable +statistics, is a feat that few could accomplish." + +_Cincinnati Times-Star_:--"'America's National Game,' A.G. Spalding's +great book upon the diamond sport, is now upon the market and receiving +well merited attention. It tells the story as Mr. Spalding saw it, and +no man has been in position to see more. When 'Al' Spalding, the sinewy +pitcher of nearly forty years ago, came into the arena, the game was +young, and through all the changing seasons that have seen it mature +into full bloom, its closest watcher and strongest friend has been the +same 'Al' Spalding." + +_Cincinnati Time-Star_:--"The book is at once a history, a cyclopaedia +and a most entertaining volume." + +_New York American_:--"'America's National Game' tells for the first +time the history of the national game of base ball." + +_Portland Oregonian_:--"The book is of rare interest and has such +personal value in the story line that one hardly knows where to begin in +making quotations from it--all the stories told are so admirable." + +JOHN T. NICHOLSON, Principal Public School 186, New York:--"It's a great +book." + +REV. W.A. SUNDAY, Evangelist:--"No one in America is better qualified to +talk of base ball, from its inception to its present greatness, than +A.G. Spalding." + +WM. L. VEECK and ED. W. SMITH, of the Chicago _American_:--"We have +found much enjoyment in reading the book, and it is very valuable in our +work." + +W.H. CONANT, Gossamer Rubber Co., Boston, Mass.:--"I have read the book +with great pleasure and it produced a vivid reminiscence of the striking +events in base ball, so full of interest to all lovers of the game." + +JOSEPH B. MACCABE, Editor East Boston (Mass.) _Argus-Advocate_, and +ex-President Amateur Athletic Union:--"I want to express my gratitude, +as a humble follower of manly sport, for the compilation of this +historic work." + +JOHN A. LOWELL, President John A. Lowell Bank Note Company, Boston, +Mass.:--"I have read the book with great interest and it certainly is a +valuable compilation of facts relating to the history of base ball, the +great national game of America. I prize it very highly." + +WM. F. GARCELON, Harvard Athletic Association, Cambridge, Mass.:--"I +think 'America's National Game' is not only intensely interesting but +most valuable, as giving the history of the game. Better still, my nine +year old boy is looking forward to the time when he can get it away from +me." + +GUSTAV T. KIRBY, President of the Amateur Athletic Union:--"Not only as +a historical sketch of this great national game, but also as a technical +dissertation on base ball as it was and is, this book will not only be +of interest but of benefit to all of us Americans who are interested in +sport--and what American is not interested in sport?--and being +interested in sport, chiefly in base ball." + +EVERETT C. BROWN, Chicago, ex-president of the Amateur Athletic Union of +the United States:--"It is very seldom that any history of any sport or +anything pertaining to athletics approaches the interest with which one +reads a popular work of fiction, but I can truthfully say that I have +read the story of the great national game with as much interest as I +have read any recent work of fiction." + +THOMAS F. GRAHAM, Judge Superior Court, San Francisco:--"'America's +National Game' contains matter on the origin and development of base +ball--the greatest game ever devised by man--that will be of the utmost +interest to the base ball loving people, not only of this, but of every +English speaking country; and I am sure it will perpetuate the name of +A.G. Spalding to the end of time." + + + + +SPALDING'S OFFICIAL ATHLETIC LIBRARY + +SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE + +Thirty-seventh Year + +1913 + +EDITED BY + +JOHN B. FOSTER + +AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING COMPANY +21 Warren Street, New York + + + + +CONTENTS + + +A Remarkable Base Ball Tournament + +A World's Series Problem + +American League Averages, Official + +American League Season of 1912 + +Base Ball Writers of the South + +Base Ball Worth While? + +Base Ball Playing Rules, Official + Index to Playing + Ready Reference Index to + +Base Ball Playing Rules, Spalding's Simplified-- + Ball + Ball Ground + Balls, Providing + Balls, Soiling + Base Running Rules + Bat, Regulation + Batting Rules + Benches, Players + Coaching Rules + Definitions, General + Field for Play, Fitness of + Field Rules + Game, Regulation + Gloves and Mitts, Regulation + Ground Rules + Innings, Choice of + Players, Numbers and Position of + Players, Substitute + Pitching Rules + Scoring Rules + Scoring of Runs + Umpires' Authority + Umpires' Duties + Uniforms + +Club Rosters of 1912, Official + +Diagram, Correct, of a Ball Field + +Editorial Comment + +Elementary School Base Ball Tournament + +Introduction + +John Tomlinson Brush + +National League Season of 1912 + +National League Averages, Official + +National Association of Professional Base Ball Leagues-- + American Association + Appalachian League + Blue Grass League + Border League + Canadian League + Central Association + Central Kansas League + Central League + Cotton States League + Eastern Association + Illinois-Missouri League + Indiana-Illinois-Iowa League + International League + Kentucky-Ind.-Tenn. League + Michigan State League + "Mink" League + New York State League + New England League + Nebraska State League + North Carolina League + Northwestern League + Ohio and Pennsylvania League + Ohio State League + Pacific Coast League + South Atlantic League + Southeastern League + Southern Association + Southern Michigan Association + Texas League + Tri-State League + Union Association + Virginia League + Western Canada League + Western League + +New Faces in the Old League + +Notes + +Schedules-- + American League + International League + National League + Northwestern League + Southern Michigan + Texas League + +The Spalding Base Ball Hall of Fame + +The World's Series of 1912 + +The Umpires + +NOTICE--To give adequate representation to College and School Base Ball +Teams, which heretofore has not been possible in the Guide owing to lack +of room, "Spalding's Official Collegiate Base Ball Annual" will be +issued in February. It will contain complete college records, pictures +and information exclusively pertaining to College Base Ball. Price 10 +cents. + + + + +INTRODUCTION + + +In preparing this issue of SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE for the +season of 1913, it has occurred to the Editor that the season of 1912, +and the period which followed its completion, have been filled, with a +great deal of unusual and uncommon vicissitude. + +In the first place the personnel of the National League, the oldest Base +Ball organization in the world, has been greatly changed by reason of +death and purchase of one franchise. New owners have brought new faces +into the game, and when the National League starts on this year's +campaign there will be some younger but equally as ambitious men at the +heads of some of the clubs. + +The players have effected an organization. That, too, is an incident of +interest, for it is well within the memory of the Base Ball "fans" of +this day what happened when another organization was perfected in the +past. For this organization it may be said that the members promise that +it will be their object to bring about better deportment on the part of +their own associates and that they will work their best for the +advancement of Base Ball from a professional standpoint. If they do this +they will be of benefit to the sport. If they work from selfish motives +it is inevitable that eventually there will be a clash, as there was in +the past. + +The last world's series which was played was the greatest special series +of games which has been played in the history of the national pastime. +There may have been single games and there may have been series which +have attracted their full measure of interest from the Base Ball "fans," +but there never has been a special series so filled with thrills and +excitement as that between the New York and Boston clubs. The GUIDE this +year enters into the subject thoroughly with photographs and a story of +the games and feels that the readers will enjoy the account of the +contests. + +Some innovations have been attempted in this number of the GUIDE which +should interest Base Ball readers. Attention is called to the symposium +by prominent Base Ball writers which brings up a subject of interest in +regard to future world's series. There are other special articles, +including something about the Base Ball writers of the South, who have +decided to organize a chapter of their own. + +The year 1912 was one of progress and advancement on the part of Base +Ball throughout the world. To-day it not only is stronger than ever as +America's national game but it is making fast progress in other +countries because of the attractiveness of the pastime. + +The Editor of the GUIDE wishes its thousands of readers an even more +enjoyable Base Ball year in 1913 than they had in 1912. This publication +is now one of worldwide circulation, and carries the gospel of Base +Ball, not only across the Atlantic ocean, but across the Pacific ocean +as well. One of these days it may be its province to report a series for +the international championship, and then Base Ball will have become the +universal game of the world, a place toward which it is rapidly tending. + +THE EDITOR. + + + + +EDITORIAL COMMENT + +BY JOHN B. FOSTER. + + +PROGRESS OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL GAME + +Two more nations have been conquered by the national game of the United +States; a whole race has succumbed to the fascinations of the greatest +of all outdoor sports. Both France and Sweden have announced their +intention of organizing Base Ball leagues. That of Sweden is well under +way. Indeed, they have a club in Stockholm and there are more to follow, +while the French, who have gradually been awakening to the joys of +athletic pastime in which they have hitherto chosen to participate in +other ways, hope to have a new league by the expiration of the present +summer. + +There is no doubt as to their intention to play Base Ball. They are +making efforts to procure suitable players from the United States to +coach them and the French promoters of the sport are determined that +their young men shall be given every opportunity to take advantage of +the game of which they have heard so much, and have seen so little. + +Last year in the GUIDE it was the pleasure of the editor to call +attention to the fact that the Japanese had so thoroughly grasped Base +Ball that they were bent on some day playing an American team for the +international championship. It is not probable that such a series will +take place within the next five years, but not improbable that it will +take place within the next decade. When the Japanese learn to bat +better, and with more effect, they will become more dangerous rivals to +the peace of mind of the American players. They have grasped the general +theory of the game amazingly well, and they field well, but they have +yet to develop some of those good old fashioned "clean up" hitters in +which the "fans" of the United States revel. + +This season it comes to the attention of the editor of the GUIDE that +more progress has been made in China in regard to Base Ball than in any +fifty years preceding. True, there was not much Base Ball in the fifty +years preceding, but now there is. There is a league at Hong Kong. There +are Base Ball teams at Shanghai and other cities. + +Dr. Eliot, former president of Harvard, who recently returned from a +trip around the world, holds that Base Ball has done more to humanize +and civilize the Chinese than any influence which has been introduced by +foreigners, basing his statement on the fact that the introduction of +the sport among the younger Chinese has exerted a tremendous restraint +upon their gambling propensities. + +It is a rather queer fact that where the civilizations are older in the +countries of the Occident there is a greater tendency to gamble, +especially among the young, than there is in the newer America. +Doubtless this is largely due to the lack of athletic pastime. The young +of those countries know little or nothing about simple amusements which +are so popular in the United States, and acquire from their elders their +knowledge of betting and taking part in games of chance, two evils which +unquestionably have done much to degrade the race as a whole. + +Base Ball has caught the fancy of the younger generation and the boys. +Once they get a ball and a bat in their hands they are better satisfied +with them than with all the gambling devices which have been bequeathed +to them by a long and eminent line of forefathers. + +So it would appear that the introduction of the national game of the +United States into China is likely to exert a humanizing influence which +shall go further than legislation or sword, and if only the missionaries +had grasped earlier the wishes and the tendency of the younger element +of the Chinese population, the country might be further along than it is +with its progressive movement. + +In the Philippine Islands the younger generation simply has gone wild +over Base Ball. Progress has been noted in the GUIDE from time to time +of the increase of interest but it is now at such a pitch that the boys +of the islands, wherever Base Ball has been introduced, simply have +deserted everything for it. They will play nothing else. The cockfights +and the gambling games, which were also a part of the amusement of the +younger men, have been given up. The little fellows who wear not much +more than a breechclout play Base Ball. They have picked up many of the +American terms and one of the most amusing of experiences is to stand +outside the walls of old Manila and hear the little brown boys call: +"Shoot it over. Line it out," and the like, returning to their native +language, and jabbering excitedly in Filipino whenever they arrive at +some point of play in which their command of English fails them. + +Twenty years from now a league including cities of the Philippines, +China and Japan, is by no means out of the question, and it may be that +the introduction of Base Ball into all three countries will result in a +better understanding between the peoples and perhaps bring all three +races to a better frame of mind as relates to their personal ambitions +and rivalries. + +In connection with the widespread influence which Base Ball is having on +both sides of the world, on the shores of the Pacific Ocean and on those +of the Atlantic Ocean the editor would like to call attention to the +theory which has been advanced by Mr. A.G. Spalding, the founder of the +GUIDE, as to the efficacy of Base Ball for the purpose of training +athletes, that has a worldwide application. + +Mr. Spalding contends that Base Ball has lent no small assistance to the +athletes of the United States in helping them to win premier honors at +the Olympic Games since their reintroduction. Mr. Spalding was the first +American Commissioner to the Olympic Games appointed to that post, the +honor being conferred upon him in 1900, when the late President McKinley +gave him his commission to represent the United States at Paris in 1900. +Mr. Spalding, with his analytical mind has reasoned out a theory which +is undoubtedly of great accuracy, and which is further corroborated by +an interview given out in London--strangely enough on the same day that +Mr. Spalding gave utterance to his ideas in Los Angeles--by Mr. J.E. +Sullivan, American Commissioner to the Olympic Games at Stockholm last +year, while returning to the United States after witnessing the triumphs +of the Americans. Mr. Spalding said: + +"I cannot say that I am at all surprised at the result at Stockholm. +History has been repeating itself in this way ever since the celebration +of the Olympic games was inaugurated at Athens. America won the victory +there in 1896; she triumphed again at Paris in 1900; our athletes +defeated the contestants at St. Louis in 1904; the victory was ours at +London in 1908, and it was a foregone conclusion that we would win at +Stockholm. + +"But there is food for thought in this uninterrupted succession of +triumphs. Why do our athletes always win? All other things being equal, +the contestants in the country holding the event should naturally come +to the front. Their numbers are always greater than those from any other +country and the home grounds influence is strong. However, that +advantage has not in any case prevented American success. + +"Therefore there must be a cause. What is it? Measured by scale and +tape, our athlete's are not so much superior as a class. The theory of +'more beef' must be discarded. We may not lay claim to having all the +best trainers of the world. We must look to some other source for +American prowess. + +"I may be a prejudiced judge, but I believe the whole secret of these +continued successes is to be found to the kind of training that comes +with the playing of America's national game, and our competitors in +other lands may never hope to reach the standard of American athletes +until they learn this lesson and adopt our pastime. + +"The question, 'When should the training of a child begin?' has been +wisely answered by the statement that it should antedate his birth. The +training of Base Ball may not go back quite that far, but it approaches +the time as nearly as practicable, for America starts training of future +Olympian winners very early in life. Youngsters not yet big enough to +attend school begin quickening their eyesight and sharpening their wits +and strengthening their hands and arms and legs by playing on base ball +fields ready at hand in the meadows of farms, the commons of villages +and the parks of cities all over the land. Base ball combines running, +jumping, throwing and everything that constitutes the athletic events of +the Olympian games. But above all, it imparts to the player that degree +of confidence in competition, that indefinable something that enables +one athlete to win over another who may be his physical equal but who is +lacking the American spirit begotten of base ball. + +"An analysis of the 1912 Olympian games shows that the American showed +to best advantage in contests where the stress of competition was +hardest. In the dashes they were supreme; in the hurdles they were in a +class by themselves, and in the high jump and pole vault there was no +one worthy of their steel. Whenever quick thinking and acting was +required, an American was in front. Does not this fact prove that the +American game of base ball enables the player to determine in the +fraction of a second what to do to defeat his contestant?" + + * * * * * + +WHAT A SEASON OF BASE BALL COSTS + +It may not be out of place to say a few words in regard to the greatly +increased cost of Base Ball. There are some sensational writers whose +hobby is to inform the public about the great receipts in Base Ball. +Usually they exaggerate from twenty-five to thirty-five per cent. + +Now as to the expense of Base Ball. Figures at an approximate for the +National League will be offered. Railroad expenses for mileage alone +$300,000, including spring training trips. Hotel bills $65,000. Sleeping +cars and meals en route, $80,000. Salaries to players, $480,000. Total, +$875,000. Add to this $30,000 for the salaries of umpires and their +traveling expenses. That makes $905,000. + +Now not a penny has been appropriated thus far for the salaries of the +president of the National League, the secretary and expenditures of the +office nor for the salaries of the business departments of the various +clubs, nor for ground rents, taxes and a dozen and one other things, to +say nothing of that well-known old item "wear and tear." + +The receipts of Base Ball barely cover these expenditures. The alleged +profits of Base Ball mostly are fanciful dreams of those who know +nothing of the practical side of the sport and are stunned when they are +made acquainted with the real financial problems which confront club +owners. + +But the money that is contributed to the support of the game almost +immediately finds its way back into public channels. Less than thirty +per cent. of Base Ball clubs realize what a business man would call a +fair return on the amount invested. + +A well-known writer on economic topics interviewed owners of Base Ball +clubs as to their income and outgo. One of the best known of the +National League men took the writer into his office and spread the cash +book of the club's business before him. + +"You may go through it if you wish," said the owner, "but here is the +balance for the last day of the year." + +It read as follows: Receipts, $250,505; expenditures, $246,447. + +"That's answer enough for me," said the writer. "I am through with any +more essays on the affluence of Base Ball 'magnates.' I think it would +be better to extend them the hand of charity than the mailed fist." + + * * * * * + +THE NEW ORGANIZATION OF PLAYERS + +The formation of an organization on the part of the major league ball +players during the closing days of the season of 1912 was looked upon +with some misgivings by those who remember only too well what happened +when a prior organization of ball players was formed. + +In the present instance those foremost in perfecting the organization +have also been foremost in asserting that the players' organization's +principal aim is to co-operate with the club owners. + +If this object is followed with fidelity and to its ultimate conclusion +there is no necessity to fear any grave disturbances, but there is a +dread--that dread which is the fear of the child that has had its hands +burned by the flame, that a selfish coterie of players might obtain +control of the organization, set up a policy of unscrupulous defiance +and destructive opposition and retard for a moment the higher +development of the game. + +There is no organization, either of unscrupulous Base Ball players or +unscrupulous club owners, which will ever find it possible to destroy +organized Base Ball. The results that organized Base Ball have brought +about will never be annihilated although grave injury could be +temporarily wrought by a force defiant to tie unusual demands made by +the sport to perpetuate itself successfully. + +It is simply out of the question to control Base Ball as one would +control the affairs of a department store. Base Ball has its commercial +side, but its commercial side cannot maintain it with success. There +must be a predominant factor based upon the encouragement that brings +forth admiration for a high class sport. This factor can only be +fostered by the ability to maintain not one, but a group of high class +teams. + +Any ball player imbued with the idea that the "stars" should be grouped +together in the city best able to pay the highest salaries simply is an +enemy to his career and to those of his fellow players. + +Without some handicap to assist in the equalizing of the strength of +Base Ball nines of the professional leagues there will be no prosperity +for the leagues or the clubs individually. No better evidence may be +cited to prove this than the fact, repeatedly demonstrated that in the +smaller leagues Base Ball enthusiasts in the city best able to pay the +largest salaries frequently withdraw their support of the team because +"it wins all the time." + +To-day Base Ball, in its professional atmosphere, is nearer an ideal +sport, a better managed sport, and a more fairly and equitably adjusted +sport, than it ever has been, which is manifest proof of its superior +evolution. Had results been otherwise it would have retrograded and +possibly passed out of existence. Carefully comparing its management +with that of all other sports in history the Editor of the GUIDE +believes that it is the best managed sport in the world. + +It is true that improvements can be made. It is evident that there are +still commercialized owners not over capitalized with a spirit of sport. +It is undeniable that there are ball players not imbued with a high tone +of the obligations, which they owe to their employers and to the public, +but it is as certain as the existence of the game that progress has been +made, and that it has not ceased to move forward. + +For that reason players and owners must be guided by a sense of lofty +ideals and not be led astray by foolish outbursts over trivial +differences of opinion, easily to be adjusted by the exercise of a +little common sense. + + * * * * * + +BASE BALL PLAYED IN SWEDEN + +In connection with the subject of "Base Ball For All the World," for +which the GUIDE expounds and spreads the gospel, the Editor would submit +a very interesting letter received by him from Sweden. it reads as +follows: + +Westeras, Sweden, Sept. 14, 1912. + +To the Editor of the GUIDE: + +We hereby have the pleasure of sending you two copies of the rules, +translated and issued by the Westeras Base Ball Club, into Swedish from +the Spalding Base Ball Guide. + +The work of getting the book out has been somewhat slow on account of +that the work of translating, proofreading, etc., all had to be done on +our spare time, but it is done now, and I think we have succeeded pretty +well, everything considered. The books will be distributed by a +well-known book firm, Bjork & Boyeson, Stockholm, and will soon be +available in all the bookstores in Sweden. + +We got some advance copies out just in time for the Olympic Games, and I +had the pleasure of presenting some copies to Commissioner Col. +Thompson, Manager Halpin and others of the American Olympic Committee. + +As you know, so did we have a game of Base Ball at Stockholm with one of +the Finland teams, and as it may be of some interest to you to know the +preliminaries to the game, I am writing to relate how it happened. + +In trying to arrange for some amusements in the evenings at the Stadium, +the Olympic Committee wrote us if we would be willing to take part in a +game of Base Ball at Stadium some evening during the Stadium week. As +our club this year was in poor condition, on account of some of our best +players being out on military duties, we hesitated at first, but then +decided to risk it, knowing very well that whoever we would play +against, they would not rub in to us too hard. We pointed out to the +Olympic Committee that it would not be very hard to get a team of Base +Ball players picked out from the American athletes taking part in the +contests, but as they would not be prepared for Base Ball, suits and +other needed articles had to be provided for. We were then told to get +necessary things ordered, and so we did. We ordered suits from a tailor +in this town, after a pattern that I got from Spalding's this spring. +The suits were of gray flannel, with blue trimmings for our team and red +trimmings for the American. I also ordered bats and gloves, and with the +things our club already had, we were very well equipped. + +The Olympic Committee, Stockholm, then received a letter from the +Olympic Committee, New York, saying that if a game of Base Ball could be +arranged for during the Olympian Games, they would bring two teams along +on the Finland. The Olympic Committee cabled to come along, and sent us +a copy of Mr. Sullivan's letter. I knew, of course, that if the game +could be played by two American teams, it would be a much better game +than if our team took part, and told the Olympic Committee, and wanted +to withdraw, but as they did not know for sure how it would be, told us +to go ahead with the arrangements just the same, and so we did, and by +the time the Finland arrived, everything had been arranged for. + +The Olympic Committee has selected the evening, 7 P.M., of the 10th of +July, for the game, and thought that this would be suitable to the +Americans, but as some of the players had to take part in the contests, +Mr. Halpin would not risk them then, so it was finally decided that a +game should be played the 15th, the Americans to play six innings +between themselves and then six innings against us. + +Well, we had a game at the training grounds. We played six innings, and +Mr. Halpin was kind enough to let us have a pitcher and catcher from his +men. The score was 9 to 3, and it could just as well been 9 to 0, +perhaps. Well, at any rate, it was the first Base Ball game, as far as I +know, that ever took place in Europe between an American team and a +European team, with England possibly excepted. + +Mr. Halpin said that the Americans were going to play a game the next +morning between themselves, but that game did not come off. There was +probably no time for it, as the Finland left Stockholm the same day. +Very likely the American boys were somewhat disappointed in not being +able to play between themselves, as anticipated, and perhaps I should +not have pushed our game ahead, but as long as there was a Base Ball +team in Sweden, it would have been strange if it had not played, and it +gave our boys a chance to see how the game should be played, and they +certainly did take it in. Had the game been played as it was intended +and advertised, on the 10th in the Stadium, there would very likely have +been a bigger crowd present, and the game would also have been more +talked about in the papers, but then we will have to be satisfied as it +is. + +Our club has been practicing all summer, twice a week, and on the 24th +of August we gave an exhibition game here at Westeras, between two teams +from our club, the suits made for the Olympic Games coming in very +handy. I send you herewith a clipping from a local paper describing the +game, and also a picture of the two teams with myself and the umpire +included. + +At our game here we distributed the "Description of Base Ball," written +by you and translated into Swedish, and it came of good use. Next year +we intend to have our teams appear in the nearby cities around here, so +as to give people a chance to see the game, and it will not be long +before they will start it in Stockholm, so I think the game is bound to +be popular here also, + +Mr. George Wright, of Boston, was the umpire at the Stockholm games, and +as he was very kind to us, we would like to send him the picture of the +club, and hope that you will forward us his address. + +I am, for Westeras Base Ball Club, + +Yours truly, + +EDWIN JOHNSON, + +Electrical Engineer. + + * * * * * + +THE NEW NATIONAL AGREEMENT + +Unlimited satisfaction must be had by all who are connected with Base +Ball over the greatly improved conditions by which the season of 1913 is +begun under the new National Agreement. While it perhaps might be +exaggerated boastfulness to affirm that Base Ball, as a professionally +organized sport, has attained perfection, it is not out of reason-- +indeed, quite within reason--to observe that Base Ball never had such a +well balanced and perfect organization as that by which it is regulated +at the present time. + +The principal fact of congratulation lies in the safeguards and +provisions which have been thrown around the players of the minor +leagues and in the equitable and just measures which have been agreed +upon to provide for their future. + +As a general rule it may be taken for granted that the players of the +major leagues can take care of themselves. That is to say, their +positions, if they are expert in their calling, and conscientious in +their deportment, really take care of them. + +No club owner, unless he is maliciously or foolishly inclined, will +jeopardize the interests of his team by acting in a wilfully unjust +manner toward a player who is cheerfully and uprightly offering his +services. We may hear of occasional exceptions to this condition of +things, but if these occasional exceptions chance to arise, it is +inevitably certain that the owner in the long run will suffer to a +greater degree than the player with whom he deals unfairly. + +It is the history of Base Ball that more inequitable treatment has +arisen by fifty per cent in the minor leagues than has had its origin in +the major leagues. The reason for this existed almost wholly in the +inability of Base Ball as a whole to bring the minor league owners to a +realization of the injury that they might be doing and to extend such +punishment and insist upon such regulation as were necessary to change +this undesirable condition. + +By the organization of the National Association of Base Ball clubs the +minor leagues, for the first time in their history, placed themselves in +a position where they could demand proper enforcement of regulations for +the government of the sport, and by their alliance with the major league +clubs, under the articles of the National Agreement, a general working +basis was effected whereby compliance with rules could be insisted upon. + +The result of this admirable condition of affairs is that wisdom and +equity now rule where there once existed chaos and at times something +akin to anarchy in sport. + +At no time in the history of the game, which is so dear to the hearts of +the American people, has the general legislative and executive body been +so well equipped by the adoption of pertinent and virile laws to insist +upon justice to all concerned as at the present moment. + +The new National Agreement is an improvement upon the old and the old +was a long, long step in advance of anything which had preceded it. The +mere fact that club owners and leagues were so willing to adopt a system +better than its predecessor wholly confutes the absurd assertions of the +radical element that there is no consideration shown for the player. + +To the contrary, every consideration has been shown to the player, but +the latter must not confound with the consideration shown to him the +idea that his interests are the only interests at stake in Base Ball. +The man who is willing to furnish the sinews of war has as good standing +in court as the player who furnishes the base hits and the phenomenal +catches. + +So perfect is the system which is being attempted to be set in force by +the new National Agreement that the young man who now essays to play +professional Base Ball may be assured of steady advancement in this +profession and a generally improving condition if he will be as honest +by his employer as he expects his employer to be honest by him. + +The graduated system of assisting players, step by step, from the least +important leagues to the most important is the most perfect plan of its +kind that has ever been devised. There may be flaws in it, but if there +are they will be remedied, and if modifications are necessary to make it +more perfect there is no doubt that such modifications will be agreed +upon. + +As proof of what the new National Agreement may do, although it has +barely had time to be considered, the editor of the GUIDE would submit +the following for consideration: + +Ever since the National Agreement was organized the members have always +striven to aid the players in their efforts to gain the top rank in the +great national game. They have had a hard proposition in handling all of +the cases that have been brought to their attention, but their decisions +in all cases were absolutely fair and impartial. Then the matter of the +new agreement occasioned many hours of laborious work on the part of the +members of the Commission, and when the instrument was finally announced +it meant that all of the parties to such an agreement were satisfied and +that there could be no improvement. There was one detail that covered a +wide field, and that was in the matter of players; drafted by the two +big leagues and later sent back to the minors. Under the old National +Agreement it was possible to pick up a player by means of the annual +draft from one of the Class C leagues and just before the opening of the +season send him back to the club from whence he came without ever having +given him a chance to land with a club in some higher organization. + +Realizing that such players were not given a chance to advance in the +Base Ball profession, this matter was thoroughly thrashed out and the +new ruling under which all of the National Agreement clubs operate was +adopted. Now it is possible for a player in any of the smaller leagues +to be drafted by a major league club, and when the latter party does not +care to retain possession of such a player he is first offered to the +Class AA clubs. All of these clubs must waive on him before he can be +dropped farther down in the list, and if such should be the case he +would then be offered to the Class A clubs. In that way the player, +although he is not fast enough to remain in the two major leagues, is +always given a chance to advance, for if any of the clubs in those +classes higher than that from which he came had grabbed him he was bound +to receive an increase in salary. That meant that he had his chance to +advance, and that was the sole purpose of the National Agreement in +drafting such a rule. + +During the past drafting season there were sixty-nine players drafted by +the two major league clubs, and of that number twenty-seven have already +been sent back to the minor leagues. The Class AA and A clubs claimed +all of these twenty-seven, and it is more than likely that there will +also be many more who will be given trials by the big league clubs +during the spring training season and who may later be turned back to +the minors. Of the twenty-seven players thus far sent back seventeen of +them advanced in their profession, a tribute to the sagacity, wisdom and +impartiality of the members of the National Commission. The decision, as +announced by Chairman Herrmann of the National Commission pertaining to +this return of drafted players, is as follows: + +------------|-----------------|----------|-----------|-------------- + Clubs. | League. | Players. | Drafted | Drafted By + | | | From | +------------|-----------------|----------|-----------|-------------- +Louisville |American Asso. |Stansbury |Louisville |St. Louis N.L. +Chattanooga |Southern Asso. |Balenti |Chattanooga|St. Louis A.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |Berghammer|Lincoln |Chicago N.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |Orr |Sacramento |Phila. A.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |[1]Young |Harrisburg |New York A.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Berghammer|Lincoln |Chicago N.L. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Cathers |Scranton |St. Louis N.L. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Metz |San Antonio|Boston N.L. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Kernan |Oshkosh |Chicago A.L. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Bates |Newp't News|Cleveland. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Betts |San Antonio|Cleveland. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Williams |Newark, O |Washington. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Williams |Newark, O |Washington. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Bates. |Newp't News|Cleveland. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Grubb |Morristown |Cleveland. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Betts |San Antonio|Cleveland. +Milwaukee |American Asso. |Beall |Denver |Cleveland. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Berghammer|Lincoln |Chicago N.L. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Miller |Harrisburg |Pittsburgh. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Booe |Ft. Wayne |Pittsburgh. +St. Paul |American Asso. |House |Kewanee |Detroit. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Beall |Denver |Cleveland. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Balenti |Chattanooga|St. Louis A.L. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Agnew |Vernon |St. Louis A.L. +Omaha |Western League |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +Omaha |Western League |Williams |Newark, O |Washington. +Omaha |Western League |Betts |San Antonio|Cleveland. +Omaha |Western League |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Schang |Buffalo |Phila. A.L. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Dolan |Rochester |Phila. A.L. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Cottrell |Scranton |Chicago N.L. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Clymer |Minneapolis|Chicago N.L. +Columbus |American Asso. |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Rochester |Internat'l League|Dolan |Rochester |Phila. A.L. +Montreal |Internat'l League|Connelly |Montreal |Washington. +Toledo |American Asso. |Hernden |[2] |St. Louis. +Toledo |American Asso. |Stevenson |Oshkosh |St. Louis N.L. +Toledo |American Asso. |Bates |Newp't News|Cleveland. +Toledo |American Asso. |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +Denver |Western League |Heckinger |Racine |Chicago N.L. +Denver |Western League |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +1: Subject to investigation as to whether New York American League Club +has title. + +2: Subject to investigation as to whether St. Louis American or National +League Club has title to this player and how secured. + + * * * * * + +A WORLD'S SERIES PROBLEM + +Much discussion arose after the finish of the last world's series as to +whether the adjustment of dates had worked satisfactorily. The +contention was that playing off a tie game on the ground where the game +had been scheduled might work some inconvenience to "fans" and result in +an inequitable allotment of dates, simply to conform to custom. + +It was asserted that the importance of the series demanded that it be a +home-and-home affair, dates to alternate regularly, regardless of all +ties or drawn games. To obtain opinion that is sound and practical the +Editor of the GUIDE sent forth the following letter: + + +NEW YORK, January 31, 1913. + +During the recent world's series it so happened that a tie was played in +one of the cities, which compelled both teams to remain in that city for +another date. Before the series was over this arrangement resulted in +one club having five games on its home grounds and the other club having +but three games on its home grounds. + +It has seemed to some that it is unjust. It is also contended that it is +unfair to the patrons of the game to schedule a contest and then not +play in the city specified after some had traveled many miles to see it. + +Will you please give the GUIDE your opinion as to whether a change would +be advisable? + +Very truly yours, + +JOHN B. FOSTER, +_Editor Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide._ + + +Answers were received to the request for a "symposium of opinion" as +follows: + + +"So far as having any effect on the chances of the two teams is +concerned, I don't think having to play more games on one ground than on +the other makes any material difference. Where cities are sufficiently +near each other for games to be alternated daily, it would perhaps be +fairer to spectators to do so, irrespective of ties; yet it seems to me +that a tie on one grounds should be played off the next day in the same +city." + +W.B. HANNA, +_New York Sun._ + + * * * * * + +"In my opinion the arrangement on tie games in the post-season contests +is a poor one. I saw the result of it in the series between the Cubs and +White Sox last fall. Two tie games were played and the confusion and +inconvenience it caused the fans was deplorable. It is unjust to the +followers who support Base Ball. It is also unjust, in a small way, to +the club which has to play two or more games on its opponent's field. +Players when away from their home grounds, in a fall series, are more or +less under a nervous strain. If there was confusion, inconvenience and +difficulty in a local series as a result of a tie game, the folly of the +arrangement must appear more absurd when towns like New York and Boston +are involved. Dates should alternate, tie or not tie." + +OSCAR C. REICHOW, +_Chicago Daily News._ + + * * * * * + +"We are in receipt of your favor of the 31st nlt., and wish to thank you +for the opportunity presented. + +"It is our opinion that a tie game was played and it should be +considered as a game. Either side had an opportunity to win and any +advantage that the home club might have had was lost when it failed to +break the tie. + +"It is, therefore, our belief that this game should have been played in +the other city. + +"As to it being unfair to the patrons who had traveled so far to see the +scheduled contest, there is no doubt that they were afforded a +sufficient amount of amusement and excitement for their trouble, in +witnessing a closely played contest." + +J. G. T. SPINK, +_St. Louis Sporting News._ + + * * * * * + +"It seems to me that the game should be alternated between the +contending cities regardless of ties. The tie game gave Boston five +games on the home grounds, while the Giants had only three. Besides, +many persons, who traveled to see the games in New York, were +inconvenienced." + +JOHN E. WHEELER, +_New York Herald._ + + * * * * * + +"I think that the scheduled programme should be played through +irrespective of the results of the respective games, and any extra +playing or playing-off should be done after the originally set schedule +is completed." + +H. P. BORCHELL, +_Sports Editor New York Times._ + + * * * * * + +"I believe it would be inadvisable to change the method that now +prevails. While the situation which arose last season did seem unjust to +the New York club, I think the very fact that Boston had five games on +its home grounds, and the Giants but three on their own diamond, was an +answer to those ill-advised skeptics who are always ready to raise the +cry of hippodroming. + +"That same situation is not likely to again arise for a long time, and I +believe the rule as it stands is a guarantee to the public of the strict +honesty of the world's championship contests." + +DAMON RUNYON, +_The New York American._ + + * * * * * + +"A change in the rules regarding world series games would he fairer to +the patrons of the sport. Here in Chicago this past fall two ties were +played and, as a result, there was considerable confusion over the +ticket arrangements. How much more is the case when two cities are +involved? A condition which allows five games to be played in one city +and only three in another is scarcely fair to the two teams. By making a +schedule calling for alternate games in each city, irrespective of ties, +everybody--fans and players--would get an even break." + +MALCOLM MACLEAN, +_Base Ball Editor Chicago Evening Post._ + + * * * * * + +"I think it might be fairer to both world's series contenders to play a +regular schedule, regardless of the fact that any tie games may arise in +the series. Under the old system of playing the tie off in the city +where the tie game is played, it brings about a great deal of confusion. +Many fans make arrangements to see a game on a certain day and are +greatly disappointed when the game is played in a different city. Of +course, the old rule of playing the play-off game on the same grounds as +the tie game, is fair to both contesting clubs, as it is merely a matter +of chance where a tie game is played." + +FRED. G. LIEB, +_New York Press._ + + * * * * * + +"The rules regarding the manner of scheduling games for the world's +series should not be changed. There are times when they apparently work +a hardship to one team or the followers of one club, but, after all, +they help to throw the necessary safeguards around the contests. As for +the argument for not playing off a tie game on the same grounds, thus +disarranging the dates and inconveniencing the fans, patrons of the +world's series games are accustomed to this, since bad weather +frequently cuts into the event and causes postponements. + +"In a way it does not appear fair that one club should have the +privilege of playing five games at home to three games at home for its +opponents. The rule of playing off a tie game on the same grounds is a +fixture in Base Ball. As to the other game, this was a question of the +luck of the toss of the coin. + +"The fans have to trust to luck as to the number of games they will see +in a world's series, this depending upon the number of games played and +possibly upon the toss for a seventh battle. In 1905 the fans of +Philadelphia saw only two games in a world's series with New York. In +1910 only two games were played here in the series with Chicago. + +"Any time a club has three games on its own grounds in a series where +four victories decide the issue either it or its followers have not much +chance to raise an objection." + +WILLIAM G. WEART, +_The Evening Telegraph._ + + * * * * * + +"It was, of course, to the disadvantage of the Giants to be obliged to +play five of the eight games in the post-season series last fall on the +grounds of their opponents, but this came as a result of one tie game on +the Boston grounds and being outlucked on the toss to determine where +the deciding game should be played. This tie game unquestionably caused +much inconvenience to patrons because of the change in the schedule made +necessary because of it. + +"It is not clear to me, however, just now these things can be remedied +without disturbing the balance of an even break for both teams more +violently than was the case last fall. + +"I do not believe there will be another series just like the one of +1912, and so, in my opinion, an immediate change in the conditions +governing these series would not be advisable. It is not clear to me +just what changes could be made. One club or the other is bound to have +the advantage of an extra game on its own grounds, providing seven games +are necessary. The championship in nine out of ten contests will be +decided in seven games or less. + +"Then, as to having the games played according to an arbitrarily fixed +schedule, so as not to inconvenience patrons--that would be out of the +question, being open to the objection that it would then be possible to +have every game that figures in the result of the series played on the +home grounds of one of the contestants. For instance, tie games or +unfavorable weather which would prevent a game being played in one city, +would throw all the games to the other city where there might be no tie +games nor unfavorable weather. That would mean four straight, if it so +happened that the home team won the games, and the loser would never +have gotten action on its own grounds. That would be considerably worse +than five to three. + +"So it looks to me as if the patrons would have to take their chances in +the future as they have in the past." + +JAMES C. O'LEABT, +_Boston Globe._ + + * * * * * + +"It seems to me that it would be better to alternate (in case of a tie), +as a team able to tie its opponent on a hostile field would be entitled +to consideration for this performance. I am very certain, however, that +the players of both clubs in the recent world's series were satisfied +with an arrangement which minimized the amount of traveling they were +called upon to do. + +"Persons who had seen a five-inning tie game terminated by rain would +hardly be satisfied. It seems to me that the rule as to alternating ball +parks should be applied strictly, but only in case the tie game involved +went nine innings or more." + +FRANCIS EATON, +_Sports Editor Boston Journal._ + + * * * * * + +"To me the feasible thing to do appears to be to insert a clause in +stipulations covering all short series of a special character, such as +intercity, inter-league and world's series, making it compulsory for the +teams to alternate between the cities or grounds of the competing +clubs." + +PURVES T. KNOX, +_New York Evening Telegram._ + + * * * * * + +"Why wouldn't it be a good scheme to toss up for the deciding game only +in cases where an equal number of games had been played in each city, +and, in cases where one city had seen more games than the other, to play +the deciding game in the city which had seen the fewer games? + +"I do not believe it advisable to change the commission's rule regarding +postponed games. The rule now provides that, in case of a postponement, +the clubs shall remain in the city in which the game was scheduled until +it is possible to play. If this rule were changed and there happened to +be a week of bad weather, as in 1911, the teams and many fans might be +forced to travel back and forth from one town to another for a week +without participating in or seeing a single game; and it might happen +some time that the jump would be between St. Louis and Boston." + +R. W. LARDNER, +_Chicago Examiner._ + + * * * * * + +"A change in the rule governing the playing-off of tie games in the +world's series should be made. The teams ought to appear in each city on +the dates named in the schedule drawn up before the series starts, +unless the weather interferes." + +WILLIAM H. WRIGHT, +_New York Tribune._ + + * * * * * + +"Drawn games are as unavoidable as rainy days in world's series, but not +as frequent. They operate the same in their effect on the contest for +the world's pennant and in causing confusion among the patrons by +disarranging the schedule. It would be manifestly unjust if, after a +rain postponement, the competing teams did not remain and play the game +off before playing elsewhere. That might result in playing all of the +games in one city. Since drawn games are treated like postponed games in +the regular season, and are of infrequent occurrence in world's series, +any other arrangement than the present does not seem advisable. The +patrons, who should be considered always, would be among the first to +object if each team did not have an equal show to win. In the last +series only four games that counted were played in Boston and three in +New York and if New York had won the toss for the deciding game the +situation would have been reversed. It would be manifestly fairer to +play the seventh game if necessary in some neutral city." + +L. E. SANBORN, +_Chicago Tribune._ + + + + +NEW FACES IN THE OLD LEAGUE + +BY JOHN B. FOSTER. + + +Not for some time has there been such a turning over of the leaves of +history in the National League as during 1912-13, and because of this +there are many new faces peering out of the album. There have also been +changes in the minor circuits and one prominent change in the American +League. + +The death of John T. Brush removed from Base Ball a dean of the National +League. Wise in the lore of the game, a man more of the future than of +the present, as he always foresaw that which some of his contemporaries +were less alert in perceiving, it meant no easy task to be his +successor. + +Prior to the death of Mr. Brush there was a great deal of curious and +some idle speculation as to his ultimate successor in case of decease, +or, in the event of his retirement because of bodily weariness. One or +two went so far as to say that upon his death Andrew Freedman would +return to prominence in Base Ball, because he was the real owner of the +New York club. Once and for all the writer would like to put the +personal stamp of absolute denial on the repeated statements made by +certain individuals in New York and Chicago that Andrew Freedman +retained the control of the New York club after John T. Brush was +reported to have purchased it. + +Mr. Freedman retained nothing of the kind. Not that Mr. Brush objected +to him as a partner, but when Mr. Brush purchased the stock he purchased +the control outright, although he did request Mr. Freedman to hold a few +shares and not give up his personal interest in Base Ball, for Mr. +Freedman had a great liking for the game in spite of his stormy career. +The assertions that Mr. Freedman was the real owner and Mr. Brush the +nominal owner were made with malicious intent, of which the writer has +proof, and through a desire, if possible, to combat the popularity and +the success of the Giants. + +This digression has been made to call attention to the fact that while +rumor was plentiful as to the future control of the Giants Mr. Brush was +carefully "grooming" a young man--his son-in-law, Mr. H. Hempstead--to +take his place. + +To a few it was known that Mr. Hempstead was acquiring such experience +and information as would be necessary to assume the control of an +undertaking which has grown so big as the organization of the Giants in +New York. The business details of the club have quadrupled and the cares +and anxieties of the man at the head have increased in proportion. + +The Giants, as successful as they have been under the control of John T. +Brush and John J. McGraw, the men who have been the executive heads in +both the business and the playing departments of the game, are as +susceptible to reverses as if they were the lowliest club in the +organization. It is only by constant and severe application that the +club's affairs may be kept at the best pitch. + +Mr. Hempstead brings to Base Ball the advantage of youth, a keen +business sagacity developed beyond his years, coolness, a disposition +that is sunny and not easily ruffled, and a reputation for unvarying +fairness and the highest type of business and sport ideals. Quite a list +of qualities, but they are there. + +If characteristics of that description fail to maintain the high +standard of the New York club, then it will be due to the fact that our +standards of business deportment have turned topsy-turvy. + +William H. Locke is the new president and part owner of the Philadelphia +club. He and Mr. Hempstead are the "junior" presidents of the league. +There is no necessity for the Editor of the GUIDE to enter into any long +and fulsome praise as to William H. Locke. + +His career speaks for itself and he speaks for himself. A young man of +the finest attributes, he has brought nothing to the mill of Base Ball +to grind except that which was the finest and the cleanest grain. + +The writer has known Mr. Locke almost, it seems, from boyhood and +esteems him for his worth, not only as one who has administered the +affairs of Base Ball with skill and intelligence, but as one who wrote +of Base Ball with understanding and excellent taste, for it must not be +forgotten that Mr. Locke is a newspaper graduate into the ranks of the +great sport the affairs of which fill a little corner of the hearts of +so many of America's citizens. + +Perhaps no young man ever left a newspaper office to become a Base Ball +president with more good wishes behind him than William H. Locke. He +served his apprenticeship as secretary of the Pittsburgh club and he +served it well. He is a high class, delightful young man, every inch of +him, and Philadelphia will soon become as proud of him as Pittsburgh is +now. + +Still another newspaper writer has been claimed from the desk by the +National League. He is Herman Nickerson, formerly sporting editor of the +Boston Journal, who is now the secretary of the Boston National League +club. + +"Nick" is known from one end of the National League circuit to the other +as one of the most solid and substantial of the writing force, and also +as one of the most demure and modest. In addition to his great fund of +information on Base Ball topics he is an author, and "The Sword of +Bussy," a book which was published during the winter, is even more +clever than some of the author's best Base Ball yarns, and that is +saying a great deal in behalf of a man wedded to Base Ball. + +Another change in the National League was the selection of Frank M. +Stevens of New York, as one of the Board of Directors of the New York +National League club. + +This brings into Base Ball one of New York's cleverest and brightest +young business men, one who is forging so rapidly to the front in +business circles in the big metropolis that many an older head goes to +him for advice. Mr. Stevens knows a lot about Base Ball, which is of +even greater importance in the game, and is not afraid to swing any +venture that will put with fairness a championship team into the big +city. He is a son of Harry M. Stevens, whom everybody knows, rich and +poor alike. + +In the American League the death of Mr. Thomas D. Noyes, president of +the Washington club, a young man who left behind naught but friends, +left a vacancy in the organization which was filled by the selection of +Mr. Benjamin S. Minor. + +The new president of the club has had practical experience in Base Ball +and perhaps plenty of it, as almost everybody has had in Washington, but +he is a wideawake, progressive and ambitious man, who is of just the +type to keep Base Ball going, now that it has struck its gait in the +national capital, and the future of the sport looks all the brighter for +his connection with it. + + + + +THE UMPIRES + + +The umpires are always with us, and the umpire problem has been a +vexation of Base Ball since the beginning of Base Ball time, yet neither +the umpires, the public, the club owners nor the league officials need +be discouraged, for it was fully proved in 1912 that umpiring, as a fine +art, has advanced a step nearer perfection. We may well doubt that +perfection in its every quality shall ever be achieved, but we may all +feel sanguine that it is possible to realize better results. + +It is true that some men make better umpires than others, exactly as +some men make better ball players than others, but it is also true that +if the men who find it the hardest task to become the most expert +umpires would be given a little more encouragement they might be a +little more successful. + +To the staff of umpires of the National League and the American League +it is but fair to render a compliment for their work of last season. +Some of them made mistakes but the general average of work on the part +of the judges of play was excellent. + +There was less tendency on the part of the umpires to render their +decisions without being in a position to follow the play correctly. They +were occasionally willing to concede that they might have been wrong +when an analysis of the play was brought to their attention and they +were firm in asserting discipline without becoming overheated on their +own account. + +To the mind of the Editor of the GUIDE, in the general light of +observation, the most serious blunders committed by the umpires in 1912 +were in making decisions before the play took place. This did happen and +more than once. To illustrate, by an example, the Editor of the GUIDE +had exhibited to him some photographs taken during 1912 in which a +player had been "waved out" before he actually had arrived at the base. +Granting the desire of the umpires to be alert and ready to render +decisions promptly, it is equally apparent that giving decisions in +advance of the completion of plays is likely to imbue the spectators +with an idea that the umpire is either partisan or incompetent. + +Young umpires, in their haste to "make good" in the major leagues, are +apt to overdo rather than fail to be on time. + +While it is not a pleasant subject to discuss, it is a fact that some +umpires had been accustomed to use the very language to players on the +field that they were presumed in their official capacity as umpires to +correct. The writer knows of instances where this took place. + +It has ever been the policy of the GUIDE to stand for clean and high +class Base Ball. Twenty per cent. more women attend ball games now than +did ten years ago. Eighty per cent. more women spectators are likely to +attend five years from now. To encourage their attendance every effort +should be made to eliminate all disgraceful conversation on the field. +Wherever it may be ascertained that an umpire has used profane or vulgar +language on the field the editor of the GUIDE believes that he should be +fined and punished as sternly as an offending player. + +It is contended that the position of the umpire has been rendered more +arduous by reason of the world's series. The argument is advanced that +the players are more intractable, by reason of their eagerness to play +in the post-season games. That argument would be stronger were it not +for the fact that some of the worst disturbances emanate from the +players of the clubs that have no chance to play in the world's series. + +As a general rule two good reasons may be advanced for disputes on the +part of players. + +First: Desire to "cover up" the player's own blunder. + +Second: General "cussedness." + +There are players who make honest objection on the excitement of the +moment from sheer desire to win, but their lapses from Base Ball +etiquette are so few and far between that their transgressions usually +may be forgiven with some grace. + +The Editor of the GUIDE would offer one suggestion to league presidents +and umpires; it is this: whenever two possible plays occur in +conjunction, instruct the chief umpire always to turn to the spectators +and inform them which player is out. + +For instance, if a player is at bat and another on the bases and two are +out and an attempt is made to steal second, as the chief umpire calls +the batter out on strikes the public should be clearly informed that the +batter is out. If the play looks close at second base the crowd +frequently believes the runner has been called out and resents it +accordingly. In line with the same play, when the runner is called out +and the fourth ball at the same time is called on the batter, the chief +umpire should turn to the spectators and to the press box and make it +clearly understood that the batter has been given a base on balls. It +saves a great deal of annoyance and fault finding. + +By the way, although it has been said elsewhere, the Editor of the GUIDE +would beg the indulgence of repetition by stating that the work of the +umpires during the world's series of 1912 was one of the finest +exhibitions of its kind ever seen on a ball field, and somehow it seemed +as if the players, would they but deport themselves during all series as +they did during the world's series might find that there are more good +umpires in the world after all than bad ones. + + + + +BASE BALL WRITERS OF THE SOUTH + + +While the Base Ball writers of the cities which comprise the Southern +Association have no organized membership similar to the Base Ball +Writers' Association of the major leagues and the organizations which +are best known as the class AA leagues, they are a clever, hard-working +group of young men, who have labored in season and out of season, not +only to build up Base Ball but to build it up on the right lines. + +Experience of more than a quarter of a century has most abundantly +proved that the standard of Base Ball has steadily been elevated. It +needs no compilation of fact nor any dogmatic assertion on the part of +the Editor of the GUIDE to attest that fact. It is a present condition +which speaks for itself. The general tone of the players is far higher +than it was and there has come into evidence a marked improvement in the +spirit of the men who own Base Ball clubs. In the earlier history of the +sport there was a tendency to win by any means that did not actually +cross the line of dishonesty. Later there came a season when the +commercial end of the game tended to encroach upon the limits of the +pastime. This has been repressed in the last two seasons and to-day the +morale of Base Ball is of a higher type than it ever has been in the +history of the pastime. + +It is a high class sport in the main, managed by high class, men for +high class purposes. + +Going through the early stages of building up a successful league, +which, by the way, is the severest of all tasks, and even now at +intervals confronted with changes in the league circuit, the Southern +writers have steadily been sowing the seeds of high class Base Ball and +they have seen results prior to this date, for Base Ball has become +popular and has been handsomely and loyally supported in sections in +which fifteen years ago it would have been considered impossible to +achieve such results. + +It is true that business reverses and adverse conditions have had at +times their effect upon Base Ball in the South and possibly may produce +similar results again, but the admirable offset to this fact is that +none of these conditions at any time has daunted the spirit and the +resolution of the young men who have zealously been preaching the cause +of clean and healthy Base Ball. + +Very likely to their zeal, their courage, their tact and their ability +it is possible to ascribe the increase in good ball players which is +making itself manifest in the South. More high class and attractive +athletes are coming from the Southern states in these days than ever was +the case before. Base Ball is very glad to have them. When a +representative major league team is made up of players who represent +every section in the Union, engaged for their skill, it seems as if Base +Ball has become nearer an ideal and a national pastime than ever before +in the history of the sport. + +To the Southern writers the members of the Base Ball Writers Association +and those of the organizations patterned on like lines send greeting. + + + + +BASE BALL WORTH WHILE? + + +One of the foremost divines in the East who has a deep concern in Base +Ball and Base Ball players is Rev. Dr. Reisner, pastor of the Grace +Methodist Episcopal Church, of New York City. Throughout the season he +attends the games and is greatly interested in the work of the players. +He knows Base Ball well, and in addition to that he knows the +environment of Base Ball players and their character and endeavor as +well as any person in the United States. + +It is Dr. Reisner's custom each year to preach a sermon to the Base Ball +players and their friends in his church in New York, and the building +always is filled to listen to his discourse. In view of the interest +which he takes in the national game and because of his excellent +knowledge as to the general details of the sport, the Editor of the +GUIDE asked him to say a few words to the ball players of the United +States through the medium of this publication, and he has graciously +consented to do so in the following pithy and straightforward talks: + +BY THE REV. CHRISTIAN F. REISNER, NEW YORK. + +The Bible is the Spalding book of rules for the game of life. James B. +Sullivan, beloved by all athletes, gave me these rules for athletes: +"Don't drink, use tobacco or dissipate. Go to bed early and eat +wholesome food!" The boozer gets out of the game as certainly as the +bonehead. + +I have interviewed scores of the most noted players. Every one had a +religious training. Many are church members. All avoid old-time +drinking, as our fathers did smallpox. + +Mathewson belongs to the high type now being generally duplicated. He is +a modern masculine Christian. Base Ball demands brains as well as brawn. +Minds muddled by licentiousness and liquor are too "leady" for leaders. +Hotheadedness topples capable players. + +I am proud to style scores of Base Ball players, I know, as gentlemen. +They are optimists. Defect is unrecognized. Team work makes them +brotherly. Bickerings break a Baseballist. Every member of the team +gives himself wholly to the game. Jeers are as harmless as cheers. + +Every minute he does his best. He sleeps only at night. To do these +things the player must follow Bible rules. If he keeps it up life's +success is certain. Governor Tener and Senator Gorman proved it. No +wonder "Billy" Sunday wrote me "I would not take a million dollars for +my experience on the ball field." + +It taught him how to knock the Devil out of the box. + +Base Ball is invaluable to America. It thrills and so rests tired +nerves. It brings the "shut-in" man into God's healing out-o'-doors. +While yelling he swallows great draughts of lung-expanding, purifying +air and forgets the fear of "taking cold." + +He is pulled out of self-centeredness, while shouting for another. He +stands crowd jostling good-naturedly or gets his cussedness squeezed +out. He chums up with any one with easy comments and so gets out of his +shell and melts again into a real human. + +Base Ball absolutely pulls the brain away from business. It emphasizes +the value of decency and gives healthy and high toned recreation to +millions. If kept clean its good-doing cannot be measured. Nothing is +worth while that does not do that. + + + + +THE SPALDING BASE BALL HALL OF FAME + + +(From Spalding's Official Base Ball Record.) + +New faces enter into the Spalding Base Ball "Hall of Fame" this year. +The object of this "Hall of Fame" is not necessarily to portray the very +top men of each department of the national game, for it frequently +happens in these days, when players take part in only a few innings now +and then, that they become entitled to mention in the records, although +they do not bear the real brunt of the work. + +In the "Hall of Fame" will be found the men who might well be termed the +"regulars." Day in and day out they were on the diamond, or ready to +take their place on the diamond, if they were not injured. + +NATIONAL LEAGUE. + +First of all, Daubert has earned his place at first base for the season +of 1912. Threatening in other years to become one of the group of +leading players, he performed so well in the season past that there is +no doubt as to his right. + +There is a new player at second base. The regularity with which Egan of +Cincinnati performed for the Reds earned him a place as the banner +second baseman. + +At third base the honor goes to J.R. Lobert, the third baseman of the +Philadelphia club. In this particular instance Lobert was crowded, not +for efficiency, but in the number of games played by Byrne, third +baseman of Pittsburgh, and Herzog, third baseman of New York. In the +matter of chances undertaken on the field, Herzog surpassed both Lobert +and Byrne, but, in justice to Lobert, the honor seems to be fairly +deserved by him. + +John H. Wagner, the brilliant veteran of the Pittsburgh club, fought his +way to the position of shortstop in 1912. His fielding was better than +that of his rivals and at times he played the position as only a man of +his sterling worth can play. + +Owing to the fact that the able secretary of the National League, John +A. Heydler, has compiled two methods of comparing pitchers, the "Hall of +Fame" in the National League this year will include two faces. They are +those of Hendrix of the Pittsburgh club and Tesreau of the New York +club. The former won the greater percentage of games under the old rule +in vogue of allotting percentage upon victories. Tesreau, however, under +a new rule which classifies pitchers by earned runs, easily led the +league. The editor of the RECORD is very much inclined toward Mr. +Heydler's earned run record; in fact, has suggested a record based upon +the construction of making every pitcher responsible for runs and +computing his average upon the percentage of runs for which he is +responsible. That places Tesreau in the front row, with Mathewson +second. + +There are two catchers who run a close race for the "Hall of Fame" in +1912. They are Meyers of New York and Gibson of Pittsburgh. Meyers +caught by far the larger number of games, and, basing the work of +catcher upon the average chances per game, seems to lead his Pittsburgh +rival. Both men are sterling performers, and Meyers is an instance of +the greatest improvement on the part of a catcher of any member of the +major leagues. + +For the position of leading outfielder, all things considered, Carey of +Pittsburgh is selected for the "Hall of Fame." Not only did he play in +the greatest number of games of any outfielder, but his general work in +the outfield was sensational. + +For the position of leading batsman the "Hall of Fame" honors Zimmerman, +the powerful batter of the Chicago club. His work with the bat in 1912 +approached in many ways that of the high class and powerful batters of +old. He batted steadily, with the exception of one very slight slump, +and his work as batter undoubtedly was of tremendous assistance to +Chicago. Zimmerman did not shine alone as the best batter, as he was +also the leading maker of home runs and the best two-base hitter of the +season. That gives him a triple honor. + +The best three-base hitter of the league was the quiet Wilson of +Pittsburgh. Though not so high in rank as a batsman as some of his +contemporaries, there was none in the organization who could equal his +ability to get to third base on long hits. + +Bescher, as in 1911, earned in 1912 the position of leading base runner +in the National League. He stole more bases than any other player of the +league, and was also the best run getter--that is to say, scored more +runs than any other player. + +AMERICAN LEAGUE. + +First of all comes Gandil for first base. His greater number of games +played and his steady work at first almost all of the season, as he did +not join the Washingtons at the beginning of the season, places him in +the "Hall of Fame" at first base. + +Rath is a newcomer to the Chicago club, but by all around good work he +earned the place at second base. Not so heavy a batter as some of his +rivals, he covered a great amount of ground for the Chicagos and +steadied the infield throughout the year. + +For the position of shortstop, McBride of Washington is the logical +selection. Day in and day out he was one of the most reliable shortstops +in the American League. + +At third base John Turner of the Cleveland club retains the honor which +he earned for himself in 1911, and he is one of the few players who is a +member of the "Hall of Fame" two years in succession. + +In the outfield, for all around work, the place of honor goes to Amos +Strunk, the young player of the Philadelphia club. He was in center +field and in left field, and he was a busy young man for most of the +year. + +Pitching at a standard higher than the American League had seen for +years, Wood of Boston is given the "Hall of Fame" honor as pitcher. His +average of winning games was very high, and he was compelled to fight +hard for many of his victories. + +The man who caught him seems entitled to be considered the leading +catcher. He is Cady of Boston, although for hard work Carrigan, also of +Boston, gives him a close race. + +Once more Cobb is the leading batsman of the American League. There was +none to dispute his right to the title. He was also leading batsman in +1911 and is another American League player who holds a position in the +"Hall" two years in succession. + +The leading home run batter of the American League was Baker of +Philadelphia. He earned the same title in 1911. It is a double "Hall of +Fame" distinction for him. + +Jackson of Cleveland enters the "Hall of Fame" by being the leading +batter for three-base hits. + +Speaker of Boston becomes a member of the high honor group by being the +leading batter of two-base hits. + +Lewis of Boston is the leading batter of sacrifice hits. + +Collins of Philadelphia was the best run getter. + +Last, but by no means least, of all, Milan, the clever outfielder of +Washington, is the best base stealer of the year, and better than all +the rest, earns his distinction in joining the "Hall of Fame" by +establishing a new record of stolen bases. + + + + +JOHN TOMLINSON BRUSH + +BY JOHN B. FOSTER. + + +John Tomlinson Brush was born in Clintonville, N.Y., on June 15, 1845. +He died November 26, 1912, near St. Charles, Mo., on his way to +California from New York, for his health. Left an orphan at the age of +four years, he went to live at the home of his grandfather, in +Hopkinton, where he remained until he was seventeen years old. At this +age he left school and went to Boston, where he obtained a position in a +clothing establishment, a business with which he was identified up to +his death. He worked as a clerk in several cities in the East, and +finally went to Indianapolis in 1875 to open a clothing store. The store +still occupies the same building, and Mr. Brush continued at the head of +the business until his death. It was in the early '80s that he first +became interested in Base Ball in Indianapolis, and he made himself both +wealthy and famous as a promoter. + +In 1863 Mr. Brush enlisted in the First New York Artillery, and served +as a member of this body until it was discharged, at the close of the +civil war. He was a charter member of George H. Thomas Post, G.A.R.; a +thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason, and was also prominently +identified with several social and commercial organizations of +Indianapolis, notably the Columbia Club, Commercial Club, Board of +Trade, and the Mannerchor Society. In New York Mr. Brush took up +membership in the Lambs' Club and the Larchmont Club. For several years +he made his headquarters at the Lambs' Club. + +Mr. Brush is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elsie Lombard Brush, and two +daughters, Miss Natalie Brush and Mrs. Harry N. Hempstead. His first +wife, Mrs. Agnes Ewart Brush, died in 1888. + +Mr. Brush's career in Base Ball, a sport to which he was devotedly +attached, and for which he had the highest ideals and aims, began with +the Indianapolis club of the National League. + +It has been somewhat inaccurately stated that he entered Base Ball by +chance. This was not, strictly speaking, the case. Prior to his first +immediate association with the national game he was an ardent admirer of +the sport, although not connected with it in any capacity as owner. He +was what might be called, with accurate description, a Base Ball "fan" +in the earlier stages of development. + +An opportunity presented itself by which it was possible to procure for +the city of Indianapolis a franchise in the National League. Mr. Brush +was quick to perceive the advantages which this might have in an +advertising way for the city with which he had cast his lot and +subscribed to the stock. + +Like many such adventures in the early history of the sport there came a +time when the cares and the duties of the club had to be assumed by a +single individual and it was then that he became actively identified as +a managing owner, as the duty of caring for the club fell upon his +shoulders. + +From that date, until the date of his death, he was actively interested +in every detail relating to Base Ball which might pertain to the +advancement of the sport, and his principal effort in his future +participation in the game was to see that it advanced on the lines of +the strictest integrity and in such a manner that its foundation should +be laid in the rock of permanent success. + +Naturally this was bound to bring him into conflict with some who looked +upon Base Ball as an idle pastime, in which only the present moment was +to be consulted. + +The earliest environment of Base Ball was not wholly of a substantial +nature. It was a game, intrinsically good of itself, in which the +hazards had always been against the weak. There was not that +consideration of equity which would have been for its best interests, +but this was not entirely the fault of the separate members of the Base +Ball body, but the result of conditions, in which those whose thought +was only for the moment, overshadowed the best interests of the pastime. + +There was an inequity in regulations governing the sport by which the +clubs in the smaller cities were forced, against the will of their +owners, to be the weaker organizations, and possibly this was less due +to a desire upon the more fortunate and larger clubs to maintain such a +state of affairs, than to the fact that the organization generally had +expanded upon lines with little regard to the future. + +The first general complaint arose from the players who composed the +membership of the smaller clubs. They demurred at the fact that they +were asked to perform equally as well as the players of the clubs in the +larger cities at smaller salaries. Not that they did not try to do their +best, for this they stoutly attempted under all conditions. It was the +effect of a discrimination which was the result of the imperfect +regulations that existed relative to the management of the game. + +This attitude of the players resulted at length in the formation of a +body known as the Brotherhood. To offset not the Brotherhood, but the +cause which led to its formation, Mr. Brush devised the famous +classification plan. Imperfectly understood in what it intended to do +for the players, it was seized upon as a reason for the revolt of the +players and the organization of the Brotherhood League. + +At heart it was the idea of Mr. Brush so to equalize salaries that the +players of all clubs should be reimbursed in an equitable manner. As +always had been the case, and probably always is likely to be, the +players who received the larger salaries were in no mood to share with +their weaker brothers any excess margin of pay which they thought that +they had justly earned, and it was not a difficult matter for them to +obtain the consent of players who might really have benefited by the +plan to co-operate with them on the basis of comradeship. + +The motives of Mr. Brush were thoroughly misconstrued by some, and, if +grasped by others, they were disregarded, because they conflicted with +their immediate temporary prosperity. + +The dead Base Ball organizer had looked further ahead than his time. His +plan was born under the best of intentions, but it unfortunately +devolved upon the theory that players would be willing to share alike +for their common good. Later in life, through another and unquestionably +even better method, he succeeded in bringing forth a plan which attained +the very end for which he sought in the '80s, but in the second resort, +by a far more efficacious method. + +The Brotherhood League came into existence and rivaled the National +League. The players of the National League and the American Association +deserted to join the Brotherhood League, upon a platform that promised +Utopia in Base Ball. Unquestionably it was the idea of the general +Brotherhood organization that the National League would abandon the +fight and succumb, but the National League owners were built of sterner +stuff. + +They fought back resolutely and hard and while for a time they were +combated by a fickle opinion, based upon sentiment, it developed within +two months that the public had learned thoroughly the reasons for the +organization of the new league and declined to lend it that support +which had been predicted and expected. + +Meanwhile, Base Ball had received a setback greater than any which had +befallen the sport in an organized sense from a professional standpoint. + +The Brotherhood League was a pronounced and emphatic failure. This is +not the verdict of personal opinion, but a record which is indelibly +impressed upon Base Ball history. + +It was the theory of the Brotherhood League that it, in part, should be +governed by representative players, but the players would not be +governed by players. Discipline relaxed, teams did pretty much as they +pleased, and the public remained away from the games. It may be added +with truth that the National League games were not much better +patronized, but that was due to the prevalent apathy in Base Ball +affairs throughout the United States. + +When the Brotherhood League was formed and withdrew so many players from +the National League the latter organization undertook to strengthen +itself where it could and when Brooklyn and Cincinnati applied for +membership in the circuit both were admitted. + +The New York National League club had lost many of its players and, upon +the substitution of Cincinnati for Indianapolis in the National League +circuit, procured from Mr. Brush many players of note, among them Rusie, +Glasscock, Buckley, Bassett and Denny. + +Relative to the withdrawal of Indianapolis from the circuit it may be +said that Mr. Brush flatly refused to give up his club, asserting +stoutly that he was perfectly able to continue the fight, but when he +felt that the exigencies of the occasion demanded that Cincinnati become +a member, he agreed to give up the franchise, providing that he be +permitted to retain his membership in the National League, and transfer +such of his players as New York desired to the latter city. It has been +alleged that he demanded an exorbitant price from New York for the +transfer of the players. + +This is untrue. He asked the price of his franchise, the value of his +players, and the worth of giving up a Base Ball year in a city in which +there was to be no conflicting club and, as he had expressed full +confidence in his ability to make a winning fight for the National +League, it was agreed that his rights to be considered could not be +overlooked. To retain his National League membership he accepted stock +in the New York club. + +Toward the close of the Base Ball season the Brotherhood League dealt +what it believed to be a death blow to the National League by the +purchase of the Cincinnati franchise. It proved to be a boomerang, for +before the first day of January, 1891, the Brotherhood League had passed +out of existence. The backers of the organization, tired of the general +conduct of the sport, were only too willing to come to an acceptable +agreement and retire. + +A.G. Spalding, John T. Brush, Frank De Hass Robison, Charles H. Byrne +and A.H. Soden were prominent members of the National League to bringing +this result about. Of these, Mr. Spalding and Mr. Soden survive, but +have retired from active participation in Base Ball affairs. + +It was through this settlement, resulting upon the Base Ball war, that +Mr. Brush's activities were turned toward Cincinnati. The National +League had a franchise in that city, but no one to operate it. Mr. Brush +agreed to take up the franchise and attempt to operate and rebuild that +club. That, however, is a detail which relates purely to the continuance +of a major league circuit. + +The next most noticeable achievement in Mr. Brush's Base Ball career +and, to the mind of more than one, the greatest successful undertaking +in the history of the game, was a complete revolution in the +distribution of financial returns. By his success in effecting this Mr. +Brush brought about the very purpose which he had sought to attain by +his classification plan. + +But the method was better, for the instruments of this readjustment of +conditions were the owners and not the players. Briefly, it was the +following: + +There was still war in Base Ball between the American Association and +the National League. Recognizing that the best method to bring about a +cessation of this war was to effect an amalgamation of the conflicting +forces Mr. Brush sought, with the assistance of others, to weld both +leagues into one. He was aided in this task, though indirectly, because +A.G. Spalding was actively out of Base Ball, by that gentleman, Frank De +Hass Robison, Christopher Von der Abe, and Francis C. Richter, editor of +"Sporting Life" of Philadelphia. The writer also essayed in the task in +an advisory capacity. + +The amalgamation was brought about, though not without some opposition; +indeed, much opposition. It was conceded at that time that a twelve-club +league, which was the object sought, was cumbersome and unwieldy, but +there was no other plan of possible accomplishment which suggested +itself. + +But the principal consideration and the result accomplished in this +consolidation of leagues was that all gate receipts should be divided, +share and share alike, so far as general admissions were concerned. + +That was the greatest and most far-reaching achievement in the history +of Base Ball. Prior to that time the principle of a fixed guarantee for +each game played had given each home club a stupendous bulk of the sums +paid by the public toward the maintenance of the sport. The inevitable +outcome of such an arrangement was that the clubs in the larger cities +completely overshadowed the clubs in the smaller cities. + +The teams in the cities of less population were expected to try to place +rival organizations on the field that would equal in playing strength +those of New York, Boston and Chicago, but they were unable to do so +unless their owners were willing to go on year after year with large +deficits staring them in the face. + +When Mr. Brush and his associates succeeded in placing Base Ball upon a +plane of absolute fairness, so far as the proper distribution of the +returns of the sport could be made between clubs, Base Ball began to +prosper, and, for the first time in all its history, the owners of +so-called smaller clubs felt that they could go forward and try to rival +their bigger fellows with equally strong combinations. + +More than that, and which to the ball player is most important of all, +it "jumped" the salaries of the players in the smaller clubs until they +were on equal terms with their fellow players in the larger clubs, so +that Mr. Brush helped to accomplish by this plan the very aim which he +had at heart when he proposed the classification plan--a just, impartial +and equal reimbursement to every player in the game, so far as the +finances of each club would permit--and without that bane to all +players, a salary limit. + +Thus, while it is always probable that some players may receive more +than others, based upon their preponderance of skill, it is now a fact +that two-thirds of the major league ball players of the present day owe +their handsome salaries to the system which John T. Brush so earnestly +urged and for which he fought against odds which would have daunted a +man with less fixity of purpose. + +Having brought forth this new condition in Base Ball, which was so just +that its results almost immediately began to make themselves manifest, +the owner of the Cincinnati club devoted his time and his energies to +the endeavor to place a championship club in Cincinnati. He never was +successful in that purpose, although his ill fortune was no greater than +that of his predecessors. + +The time came that Mr. Brush learned that the New York Base Ball Club +could be purchased. He obtained the stock necessary to make him owner of +the New York organization from Mr. Andrew Freedman, but before he did so +another Base Ball war had begun between the National League and the +American League, a disagreement starting from the simplest of causes, +but which, like many another such disagreement, resulted in the most +damaging of conditions to the prosperity of the pastime. + +As had been the case in the prior war brought about by the organization +of the Brotherhood League, Mr. Brush fought staunchly for his rights. +Prominent National League players were taken by the American League +clubs, and this brought retaliation. + +At length the National League opened negotiations to obtain certain +American League players and succeeded in doing so. Among these were the +manager of the Baltimore club, John J. McGraw, who felt that he was +acting perfectly within his rights in joining the New York National +League club. Directly upon his acceptance of the management of the New +York club Mr. Brush became its owner and the era of prosperity was +inaugurated in New York, which was soon enjoyed by every club throughout +the United States. + +In its first year under the new management the team was not in condition +to make a good fight, but the next year it was ready and since then has +won four National League championships and one World's Championship. + +In the spring of 1911, at the very dawn of the National League season, +the grand stand of the New York National League club burned to the +ground. A man less determined would have been overcome by such a blow. +Nothing daunted and while the flames were not yet quenched, Mr. Brush +sent for engineers to devise plans for the magnificent stadium which +bears his name and which, on the Polo Grounds in New York, is one of the +greatest and the most massive monument to professional Base Ball in the +world. + +In connection with this wonderful new edifice of steel and stone, which +is one of the wonders of the new world, it is appropriate to add that +two world's series have been played on the field of the Polo Grounds +since it has been erected. + +The rules for these world's series were formulated and adopted upon the +suggestion and by the advice of Mr. Brush and since a regular world's +series season has been a feature of Base Ball the national game has +progressed with even greater strides than was the case in the past. + +At a meeting of the National League the following resolutions were +adopted: + + _Whereas_, The death of Mr. John T. Brush, president of the New York + National League Base Ball Club, comes as a sad blow to organized + professional Base Ball and particularly to us, his associates in the + National League. + + As the dean of organized professional Base Ball, his wise counsel, his + unerring judgment, his fighting qualities and withal his eminent + fairness and integrity in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the + national game will be surely missed. + + He was a citizen of sterling worth, of high moral standards and of + correct business principles, and his death is not only a grievous loss + to us, but to the community at large as well. Be it, therefore, + + _Resolved_, That the members of the National League of Professional + Base Ball Clubs, in session to-day, express their profound grief at + the loss of their friend, associate and counsellor and extend to the + members of his bereaved family their sincere sympathy in the great + loss which they have sustained by his death. Be it further + + _Resolved_, That a copy of these resolutions be spread on the records + of the league. + +In connection with the death of Mr. Brush, Ben Johnson, president of the +American League, said: "Mr. Brush was a power in Base Ball. He will be +missed as much in the American League as in the National League." + +More than three hundred friends, relatives, business acquaintances, +lodge brothers and Base Ball associates attended the funeral of Mr. +Brush, on Friday, November 29, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, +Indianapolis. Fifty or more of Mr. Brush's Base Ball associates and +acquaintances, principally from the East, were present. + +The service was conducted by the Rev. Lewis Brown, rector of St. Paul's, +and was followed by a Scottish Rite ceremony in charge of William Geake, +Sr., of Fort Wayne, acting thrice potent master, and official head of +the thirty-third degree in Indiana. The Scottish Rite delegation +numbered more than 150. There were also in attendance fifty Knights +Templars of Rapier Commandery, under the leadership of Eminent Commander +E.J. Scoonover. + +The Grand Army of the Republic, the Indianapolis Commercial Club and a +number of local and out-of-town clubs and social organizations of which +Mr. Brush was a member also were represented. + +The Episcopal service was given impressively. The Rev. Dr. Brown, in +reviewing the life of Mr. Brush, spoke of him as one of the remarkable +men of America, who, in his youth, gave no promise of being in later +life a national figure. In the course of his remarks Dr. Brown said: + +"The death of John Tomlinson Brush removes from our midst one of the +most remarkable men of our generation. His life was that of a typical +American. He began in the most unpretentious manner and died a figure of +national importance. + +"He went through the Civil War so quietly that the fact was unknown to +some of his most intimate friends. He was mustered out with honor and +entered the business world in Indianapolis. His labors here put him at +the forefront for sagacity, squareness, honorable treatment and +generosity. + +"His love of sport made him a patron of the national game. In a +perfectly natural way, he went from manager of the local team to +proprietor of the New York Giants. He was a Bismarck in plan and a +Napoleon in execution. His aim was pre-eminence and he won place by the +consent of all. The recent spectacular outpouring of people and colossal +financial exhibit in the struggle for the pennant between New York and +Boston were but the legitimate outcome of his marvelous skill. + +"He was an early member of the Masonic fraternity. He took his Blue +Lodge degree in his native town and to demonstrate his attachment he +never removed his membership. Where he had been raised to the sublime +degree of a master there he wished to keep his affiliation always. + +"He became a Knight Templar in Rapier Commandery and was one of its past +eminent commanders. He was a member of the Scottish Rite bodies in the +Valley of Indianapolis in the early days and performed his work with a +ritual perfection unsurpassed. He received the thirty-third and last +degree as a merited honor for proficiency and zeal. + +"The conspicuous feature of his life was its indomitable purpose." + + + + +THE WORLD'S SERIES OF 1912 + +BY JOHN B. FOSTER. + + +No individual, whether player, manager, owner, critic or spectator, who +went through the world's series of 1912 ever will forget it. There never +was another like it. Years may elapse before there shall be a similar +series and it may be that the next to come will be equally sensational, +perhaps more so. + +Viewed from the very strict standpoint that all Base Ball games should +be played without mistake or blunder this world's series may be said to +have been inartistic, but it is only the hypercritical theorist who +would take such a cold-blooded view of the series. + +From the lofty perch of the "bleacherite" it was a series crammed with +thrills and gulps, cheers and gasps, pity and hysteria, dejection and +wild exultation, recrimination and adoration, excuse and condemnation, +and therefore it was what may cheerfully be called "ripping good" Base +Ball. + +There were plays on the field which simply lifted the spectators out of +their seats in frenzy. There were others which caused them to wish to +sink through the hard floor of the stand in humiliation. There were +stops in which fielders seemed to stretch like india rubber and others +in which they shriveled like parchment which has been dried. There were +catches of fly balls which were superhuman and muffs of fly balls which +were "superawful." + +There were beautiful long hits, which threatened to change the outcome +of games and some of them did. There were opportunities for other +beautiful long hits which were not made. + +No ingenuity of stage preparation, no prearranged plot of man, no +cunningly devised theory of a world's series could have originated a +finale equal to that of the eighth and decisive contest. Apparently on +the verge of losing the series after the Saturday game in Boston the +Giants had gamely fought their way to a tie with Boston, and it was one +of the pluckiest and gamest fights ever seen in a similar series, and +just as the golden apple seemed about to drop into the hands of the New +York players they missed it because Dame Fortune rudely jostled them +aside. + +As a matter of fact the New York players were champions of the world for +nine and one half innings, for they led Boston when the first half of +the extra inning of the final game was played. Within the next six +minutes they had lost all the advantage which they had gained. + +It was a combination of bad fielding and lack of fielding which cost the +New York team its title. And if only Mathewson had not given Yerkes a +base on balls in the tenth inning the game might not have been won, even +with the fielding blunders, but Mathewson was pitching with all the +desperation and the cunning which he could muster to fool the batter and +failed to do so. + +Such sudden and complete reversal on the part of the mental demeanor of +spectators was never before seen on a ball field in a world's series. +The Boston enthusiasts had given up and were willing to concede the +championship to New York. In the twinkling of an eye there was a muffed +fly, a wonderful catch by the same player who muffed the +ball--Snodgrass--a base on balls to Yerkes, a missed chance to retire +Speaker easily on a foul fly, then a base hit by Speaker to right field, +on which Engel scored, another base on balls to Lewis and then the long +sacrifice fly to right field by Gardner, which sent Yerkes over the +plate with the winning run. + +Before entering upon a description of the games it is appropriate to say +that the umpiring in this series was as near perfection as it could be. +It was by far the best of any since the series had been inaugurated. The +umpires were William Klem and Charles Rigler of the National League and +Frank O'Loughlin and William Evans of the American League. + +FIRST GAME +New York, Oct. 8, 1912. +Boston 4, New York 3. +Hits--Off Wood 8; off Tesreau 5; Crandall 1. +Struck out--Wood 11; Tesreau 4; Crandall 2. +Bases on balls--Wood 2; Tesreau 4. +Attendance 35,722. + +In the description of the games of the world's series only those innings +will be touched upon in which there were men on bases. Tesreau pitched +the opening game for New York and the first man to bat for Boston was +Hooper. Tesreau gave him a base on balls. The next three batters were +retired in succession. Devore and Doyle, the first two batters for New +York, were retired and Snodgrass hit cleanly to center field, the first +base hit in the series. Murray was given a base on balls, but Merkle +flied to short. In the second inning the Bostons started as bravely as +they had in the first, as Gardner, the first batter, was safe on +Fletcher's fumble. Stahl batted to Tesreau and Gardner was forced out. +Wagner was given a base on balls, after Stahl had been thrown out trying +to steal second, and Cady flied to Murray. + +The Bostons started with a man on base in the third. Wood was given a +base on balls by Tesreau and Hooper sacrificed. Doyle threw Yerkes out +and Speaker was given a base on balls, but Lewis died easily on a weak +fly to short. + +In New York's half of this inning the Giants scored twice. Tesreau, +first at bat, struck out. Devore was given a base on balls and Doyle +batted wickedly to left field for two bases. Snodgrass was fooled into +striking out, but Murray smashed the ball to center field for a single, +and sent two men over the rubber, Murray was caught at second trying to +get around the bases while Doyle was going home. + +With one out Herzog hit safely in the fourth inning, but did not score. +In the fifth, with two out, Doyle batted safely, but failed to score. In +the sixth the Bostons made their first runs on Speaker's triple to left +field and Lewis' out. If Snodgrass, in making a desperate effort to +catch the fly, had permitted the ball to go to Devore the chances are +that Speaker's hit would have resulted in an out, so that New York lost +on the play. + +Snodgrass was safe in the sixth on Wagner's fumble, but was doubled off +first when Murray drove a line hit straight to Stahl. The seventh was +the undoing of the Giants. With one out Wagner batted safely to center +field. Cady followed with another hit to the same place. Wood batted to +Doyle, who made a beautiful stop, but with a double play in hand, was +overbalanced and unable to complete it. That cost New York three runs, +although it was unavoidable. Cady was forced out, but Hooper hit to +right field for two bases sending Wagner and Wood home. Yerkes followed +with a clean hit to left field for a base and won the first game for +Boston with that hit. + +In New York's half of the inning, with one out, Meyers was hit by a +pitched ball, but no damage was done other than to Meyers' feelings. In +the ninth Wagner batted Crandall for a two-base hit, Crandall having +been substituted for Tesreau in the eighth inning, as McCormick had +batted for Tesreau in the seventh. Cady made a sacrifice, but the next +two batters were easily retired. + +Then began the exciting finish, and if the Giants had made but a single +more they probably would have begun the series with a victory instead of +a defeat. With one out Merkle batted the ball over second base for a +single and the spectators, who had started toward the exits, halted. +Herzog followed with a slow low fly to right field, which fell safely. +Meyers crashed into the ball for a two-bagger that struck the wall in +right field and the crowd began to believe that Wood had gone up in +"smoke." + +The Boston players encouraged him with all their best vocal efforts, and +when Fletcher came to the plate Wood was using all the speed with which +he was possessed. It was evident that Fletcher's sole desire was to bat +the ball safely to right field, for if he did so, both of the runners +could cross the plate and the Giants would win. Twice he met the ball, +and both times it sailed in the right direction, but with no result, as +it was foul. Then he struck out. Crandall, perhaps one of the best pinch +hitters in the major leagues, also struck out, and the Boston +enthusiasts who were present fell back in their chairs from sheer +exhaustion, but when they had recovered, with their band leading them, +marched across the field and cheered Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston, who was +present as a spectator of the contest in company with Mayor Gaynor of +New York. Governor Foss of Massachusetts was also present at the opening +of the game. Klem umpired behind the bat in this game. + +SECOND GAME +Boston, Oct. 9, 1912. +New York 6. Boston 6 (eleven innings). +Hits--Off Collins 9, off Hall 2; Mathewson 10. +Struck out--Collins 5, Bedient 1; Mathewson 4 +Bases on balls--Hall 4, Bedient 1. +Attendance 30,148. + +In the second game of the series, which was played October 9 at Boston, +Mathewson pitched for the New York team and Collins, Hall and Bedient +for Boston. The game resulted in a tie, 6 to 6, at the end of the +eleventh inning, being called on account of darkness by Umpire +O'Loughlin, who was acting behind the plate. This contest was remarkable +more for the misplays of the New York players, which gave the Bostons a +chance to save themselves from defeat, than for any undue familiarity +with the pitching of Mathewson. It was the universal opinion of +partisans of both teams that Mathewson deserved to win because he +outpitched his opponents. The weather was fair and the ground in +excellent condition. In the first inning Snodgrass began with a clean +two-base hit into the left field seats but neither Doyle, Becker nor +Murray was able to help him across the plate. A run scored in that +inning, with such a fine start, would probably have won the game for the +Giants. + +In Boston's half Hooper hit safely to center field and stole second +base. Yerkes batted a line drive to Fletcher, and had the New York +shortstop held the ball, which was not difficult to catch, Hooper could +easily have been doubled at second, but Fletcher muffed it. Speaker hit +safely toward third base, filling the bases. Lewis batted to Herzog, who +made a fine play on the ball and caught Hooper at the plate. This should +have been the third out and would have retired Boston without a run. +Gardner was put out by a combination play on the part of Mathewson, +Doyle and Merkle, scoring Yerkes, and Stahl came through with a hard +line hit for a base, which scored Speaker and Lewis. The inning netted +Boston three runs, which were not earned. + +With one out in the second inning Herzog batted for three bases to +center field and scored on Meyers' single. Fletcher flied out and +Mathewson forced Meyers out. Hooper got a two-base hit in the same +inning, but two were out at the time and Fletcher easily threw out +Yerkes, who was the next batter. + +In the fourth inning Murray began with a clean three-base hit to center +field. Merkle fouled out to the third baseman, but Herzog's long fly to +Speaker was an excellent sacrifice and Murray scored. Meyers again hit +for a single, but was left on the bases. The Bostons got this run back +in the last half of the fifth. With one out Hooper hit to center field +for a base, his third hit in succession against Mathewson. Yerkes batted +a three-bagger out of the reach of Snodgrass and Hooper scored. Murray +batted safely in the sixth, with one out, but died trying to steal +second, Carrigan catching for Boston. In the Boston's half of the sixth +Lewis began with a single and got as far as third base, but could not +score. + +The Giants started bravely in the seventh when Herzog hit the ball for a +base and stole second. There were three chances to get him home, but +Meyers, who had been hitting Collins hard, failed to make a single and +Fletcher and Mathewson were both retired. + +In the eighth the New York players made one of the game rallies for +which they became famed all through the series and went ahead of their +rivals. Snodgrass was the first batter and lifted an easy fly to Lewis. +The Boston player got directly under the ball and made a square muff of +it. Doyle followed along with a sharp hit to center field for a base and +although he was forced out by Becker, the latter drove the ball hard. +Murray came through with a long two-bagger to left center and Snodgrass +and Becker scored. That tied the score and also put an end to Collins' +work in the box; Stahl took him out and substituted Hall. Merkle fouled +weakly to the catcher, but Herzog caught the ball on the nose and hit +sharp and clean to center field for two bases, sending Murray home with +the run which put the Giants in the lead. Another base hit would have +won for New York, but Meyers perished on a hard hit to Wagner, which was +fielded to first ahead of the batter. + +Unfortunately for New York, with two out in the last half of the inning +Lewis batted the ball to left field for two bases. Murray made a +desperate effort to get it. He tumbled backward over the fence into the +bleachers and for a few moments there were some who thought that he had +been seriously injured. Gardner followed with a single to center and +Stahl hit to right for a base, but Wagner struck out and the Bostons +were down with only a run. + +In the ninth Hall gave a remarkable exhibition. Fletcher and Mathewson +were retired in succession. Then Snodgrass, Doyle and Becker were given +bases on balls, filling the bags. It seemed certain that a run might +score, and perhaps one would have scored had it not been for an +excellent stop by Wagner. Murray hit the ball at him like a shot, but he +got it and retired Becker at second. + +The Giants took the lead in the tenth and once more it appeared as if +the game would be theirs. Merkle began with a long three-base hit to +center field. Herzog batted to Wagner and Merkle played safe, refusing +to try to score while the batter was being put out at first. Meyers was +given a base on balls and Shafer ran for him. Fletcher lifted a long fly +to left field and Merkle scored from third. Mathewson could not advance +the runners and died on an infield fly. Yerkes was the first batter for +the Bostons and was retired at first base. Speaker hit to deep center +field. There were some scorers who gave the batter but three bases on +the hit, insisting that Wilson, who was then catching for New York, +should have got the throw to the plate and retired the batter. In any +event Wilson missed the ball and Speaker scored. Lewis followed with a +two-bagger, which would have scored Speaker if the latter had not tried +to run home, so Wilson's failure to retrieve the throw became more +conspicuous. Other scorers gave Speaker a clean home run and it is not +far out of the way to say that he deserved the benefit of the doubt. + +Neither team scored in the eleventh inning, although Snodgrass was hit +by a pitched ball. He was the first batter. He tried to steal second, +but failed to make it. + +This contest was conspicuous because of the wonderfully good fielding of +Doyle and Wagner. The former made two stops along the right field line +which seemed to be not far from superhuman. Wagner killed at least two +safe hits over second base for New York and both of the plays were of +the greatest benefit to the Boston team. + +THIRD GAME. +Boston, Oct. 10, 1912. +New York 2; Boston 1. +Hits--Off Marquard 7; O'Brien 6, Bedient 1. +Struck out--Marquard 6, O'Brien 3. +Bases on balls--Marquard 1; O'Brien 3. +Attendance 34,624. + +Because of the tie game the teams remained over in Boston and played on +the following day, October 10. The pitchers were Marquard for New York +and O'Brien and Bedient for Boston. Marquard pitched one of the best +games of his career and not a run was made against him until the ninth +inning. By far the most notable play of the game on the field was made +by Devore in the ninth inning, when he ran for more than thirty feet and +caught an almost impossible fly ball which had been batted by Cady. Had +he missed it the Bostons might have scored two runs and won. Devore +began the first inning with a base hit, but was out trying to steal +second. The next two batters were retired. In the second inning Murray +batted the ball to center field for two bases. Merkle's clever sacrifice +put him on third and Herzog's sacrifice fly sent him over the rubber. +Lewis began the inning for Boston with a safe hit, but could not advance +further than second. + +In the third Fletcher started with a base on balls and was sacrificed to +second, but was unable to score. In the fourth, with one out, Speaker +batted safely, but was forced out at second. Gardner flied to Murray. + +In the fifth Herzog began with a two-base hit to left field. Meyers died +at first, but Fletcher hit safely to right field and Herzog scored. +Fletcher stole second and Marquard was given a base on balls. Devore +forced him out and stole second and Doyle followed with another base on +balls. A long hit would have made the game easy for New York and +Snodgrass tried to get the ball into the bleachers, but Lewis caught it. +Stahl began the Bostons' half of the fifth with a hit, but was out by +ten feet trying to steal second. + +In the sixth, with two out, Yerkes hit safely, but Speaker fouled out. +In the seventh, with two out, Stahl batted the ball to left field for +two bases, but Wagner flied to Devore. + +In the eighth the Giants looked dangerous again. Devore began with a +base-hit to left field. Doyle flied to Lewis. Snodgrass hit safely to +left field and Murray flied to Lewis. Merkle batted the ball very hard, +but Wagner made a good stop and caught Snodgrass at second. With two out +Hooper got a base on balls for Boston, but it did Boston no good. + +In the ninth Herzog was hit by a pitched ball and Meyers swung solidly +to center for a single, after Herzog had died trying to steal. Fletcher +lined to Speaker and Meyers was doubled. In Boston's half, with one out, +Lewis batted to right field for a base. Gardner hit to the same place +for two bases and Lewis scored Boston's only run. Stahl rapped a +grounder to Marquard, who threw Gardner out at third. Wagner should have +been an easy out, and the game would have been over if Merkle had not +dropped a throw to first base. Wagner stole second, no attention being +paid to him, and then Devore made his wonderfully good catch of Cady's +hard drive and the Giants had won their first game in the series. + +Marquard outpitched both of his Boston rivals and in only two innings +were the Bostons able to get the first man on the bases. + +FOURTH GAME. +New York, Oct. 11, 1912. +Boston 3, New York 1. +Hits--Off Wood 9; off Tesreau 5, Ames 3. +Struck out--Wood 8; Tesreau 5. +Bases on balls--Ames 1, Tesreau 2. +Attendance 36,502. + +The fourth game of the series was played in New York on the following +day. For most of the forenoon it looked as if there would be no game +because of rain. Toward noon it cleared up slightly and although the +ground was a little soft it was decided to play, in view of the fact +that so many spectators had come a long distance to witness the contest. +The soft ground was in favor of the Boston players, for the ball was +batted very hard by New York most of the afternoon, but the diamond held +and the infielders were able to get a good grasp on grounders which +would ordinarily have been very difficult to handle. Tesreau pitched for +New York and Wood for Boston, as was the case in the opening game of the +series. Hooper, who batted with much success on the Polo Grounds, began +with a single to center and although Yerkes was safe on Meyers' wild +throw the Giants got out of a bad predicament handily because of the +excellent stops which were made by Fletcher of hits by Speaker and +Lewis. With one out in New York's half of the inning Doyle batted +safely, but Snodgrass forced him out. + +Gardner began the second inning with a three-base hit to right field and +scored on a wild pitch. The next three batters were retired in order. +With one out for New York, Merkle singled and stole second, but was not +helped to get home. + +The third was started by a single by Wood and Hooper was given a base on +balls. Yerkes bunted and Tesreau whipped the ball to third base ahead of +Wood. Doyle and Fletcher made two fine stops and Speaker and Lewis were +retired. + +Boston added another run in the fourth inning, being assisted by +Tesreau's wildness. Gardner, who batted first, was given a base on +balls. Stahl forced him out at second. Then Stahl stole second, to the +immediate surprise of the Boston players and the chagrin of the New York +catcher. Wagner's out at first helped him along and when Cady pushed a +weak single to center field, just out of the reach of the players, Stahl +scored. Wood was retired by Murray. + +With one out in the fifth Yerkes batted for a base, but was thrown out +at second on Speaker's grounder and Speaker died trying to steal. New +York had one out in the same inning, when Herzog hit safely, but neither +Meyers nor Fletcher could help him. + +In the sixth the New York players began with a rush. Tesreau, the first +batter, hit for a base. Devore followed with another single. Doyle with +a "clean up" could have won for the Giants, but he lifted a high fly to +Yerkes. Snodgrass batted to Yerkes, who made an extraordinarily good +stop and threw Devore out at second. Murray forced Snodgrass at second +and all. New York's early advantage went for naught. + +In the seventh the Giants scored their only run. After Merkle had struck +out, Herzog batted for a base. Meyers lifted a terrific line drive to +center field, but Speaker got under the ball. Fletcher hit hard and safe +to right field for two bases and Herzog scored. McCormick batted for a +base, but Fletcher, trying to score on the ball, was thrown out at the +plate by Yerkes. + +In the eighth, with two out, Snodgrass was safe on Wagner's fumble. +Murray rapped a single to left field but Merkle struck out. With two out +for Boston Speaker batted a double to left field and was left. Ames +pitched in the eighth for New York. In the ninth the Giants were scored +upon again when Gardner hit for a single to center field. Stahl +sacrificed, Wagner was given a base on balls and Cady forced Wagner, +while Gardner was scoring. + +FIFTH GAME. +Boston, Oct. 12. 1912. +Boston 2; New York 1. +Hits--Off Mathewson 5; Bedient 3. +Struck out--Mathewson 2; Bedient 4. +Bases on balls--Bedient 3. +Attendance 34,683. + +The game was played on Saturday with Mathewson in the box for New York +and Bedient for Boston. As was the case in the former game pitched by +Mathewson in Boston, the verdict was general that perfect support would +have won the contest for him, even though the score was but 2 to 1 in +favor of Boston. Devore received a base on balls in the first inning and +after Doyle was out on a long fly to right was forced out by Snodgrass +in a double play. By the way this game was played under very adverse +conditions so far as the weather was concerned. It was cold and gloomy. +Hooper, the first Boston batter, as usual, began with his single to +center field. Yerkes flied out to shortstop. Speaker hit safely and +Lewis batted to Herzog, who made a beautiful stop on third, and touched +the base ahead of Hooper. Gardner struck out. + +In the second inning Murray started off with a base on balls and the +next three batters were retired in succession. With one out for Boston, +Wagner batted safely to right field. The next two men were retired +without reaching first. + +With one out in the third, Mathewson batted a single to center field and +Devore followed with a base on balls, but Bedient got the next two +batters. + +The third was the inning which broke the backs of the Giants. Hooper +batted the ball to left center for three bases. Yerkes followed with a +triple to center and Hooper scored. Speaker contributed with a ground +hit, which Doyle should have got, but fumbled. Had he recovered the ball +Boston would have made but one run in the inning. As it was, Yerkes +scored on the misplay and that run lost the game for the Giants. The +next two batters were retired and for the remainder of the contest +Boston never had a man on first base, Mathewson pitching marvelous ball, +by far the best game of the series, as it should easily have been a one +run contest with not a base on balls nor a wild pitch. + +In the seventh inning Merkle began with a two-base hit to left field +Herzog flied out to Wagner. Meyers flied out, but McCormick who batted +for Fletcher, made a hit and Merkle scored. That spurt gave the Giants +their sole run and they returned to New York that night with the series +three to one against them. + +SIXTH GAME. +New York, Oct. 14, 1912 +New York 5; Boston 2. +Hits--Off Marquard 7; O'Brien 6, Collins 5. +Struck out--Marquard 3; O'Brien 1, Collins 1. +Bases on balls--Marquard 1. +Attendance 30,622. + +With a Sunday in which to rest the series was resumed in New York on +Monday, October 14. Marquard pitched for the Giants and O'Brien for the +Bostons. Rest seemed to have recuperated the New York players more than +their opponents. In the first inning of the game the Giants scored five +runs and the contest was never in doubt after that. O'Brien made a +costly balk in the first inning and the Boston players generally seemed +to be less energetic and less confident than would have been expected +from a team which had but one game to win to make the championship +assured. + +The first inning really settled the outcome of the contest. After the +Giants had made five runs Boston played through the other eight innings +perfunctorily. The crowd of Boston enthusiasts, which had come to New +York to see the finishing touches put on the Giants, was bitterly +disappointed, while the New York enthusiasts, not over hopeful on +account of the disposition of the Giants to blunder badly at vital +moments, were at least in a much better frame of mind because of the +rally by their team. + +Hooper was first at bat and as usual hit for a base. He was caught +napping off first. Yerkes was easily retired. Speaker was given a base +on balls and Lewis flied out. + +In New York's half Devore was retired at first. Doyle hit safely to +center field. He stole second after Snodgrass struck out. Murray batted +a single to left field and Doyle went to third. O'Brien made a palpable +balk and Doyle scored from third, Murray going to second. Merkle banged +a hard double to right field, Herzog followed with a double to left +field, Meyers singled to left field, and actually stole second under the +noses of the Boston players. Fletcher singled to right field and Meyers +scored the fifth run of the inning; the other men who had crossed the +plate being Doyle, Murray, Merkle and Herzog. + +In Boston's half of the second inning the Boston players scored twice +and that was all they made in the game. Gardner was safe at first on +Marquard's wild throw; Stahl singled to center. The next two batters +were easily retired, but Engle, who batted for O'Brien, hit to left +field for two bases, Devore missing the ball by pushing it away from him +as he was running into it, and Gardner and Stahl scored. + +Boston began the third inning and the fourth inning with singles, but +the runners failed to get around. In the eighth, with one out, Yerkes +made a single, but was unable to score. + +With one out in the third for New York, Murray singled to right field, +but was out trying to stretch the hit. Merkle hit for a base to left +field and was out trying to steal. + +In the fourth, with one out, Meyers batted to left field for three +bases, but was unable to score. These latter hits were made against +Collins, who had taken O'Brien's place in the box. + +Devore began the fifth with a hit, but Doyle flied to short, and Devore +was doubled off first in a play from right field. Collins continued to +be effective in the next three innings, but the mischief had been done, +so far as Boston was concerned, and the Red Sox simply did not have a +rally in them. + +The teams again took a special train for Boston after the game and the +remainder of the cavalcade followed over at midnight. + +SEVENTH GAME. +Boston, Oct. 15, 1912. +New York 11; Boston 4. +Hits--Off Tesreau 9; Wood 7, Hall 9. +Struck-out--Tesreau 6; Hall 1. +Bases on balls--Hall 5; Tesreau 5. +Attendance 32,630. + +The seventh game was played on Fenway Park, with Wood pitching for +Boston and Tesreau for the Giants. Wood pitched for one inning and was +hammered in every direction by the New York players, who ran riot on the +field. They simply overwhelmed Boston and this contest, more than any +other in the series, was so "one sided" as to be devoid of interest, +except to the New York fans, who were eager to see the Giants win the +championship. Devore, the first batter, hit safely to left field. Doyle +rapped a single to center. Devore and Doyle made a double steal and that +began the fireworks. Snodgrass pushed a double to right field. Murray's +hit was a sacrifice. Merkle singled to center field. Herzog batted to +Wood and Merkle was run down between second and third. Meyers singled to +left field, Fletcher doubled to right field, and Tesreau made his first +hit of the series, a single to left field. That counted all told six +runs for the Giants and Tesreau added cruelty to the sufferings of the +Red Sox by trying to steal second base and almost making it. + +In the second inning Gardner made a home run. Hall took the place of +Wood in the box for Boston and Devore was given a base on balls. He +stole second and Doyle got a base on balls. Devore was caught napping, +but Snodgrass singled to right, scoring Doyle. The two next batters were +retired. + +In the third Hall was safe on Fletcher's wild throw and Hooper singled +but neither scored. Herzog and Meyers began with singles for New York, +but neither of them got home. With one out in the fourth, Gardner was +hit by a pitched ball and Stahl singled to left field. Neither of these +players scored. + +In the fifth Hall began with a two-bagger to left. Hooper was given a +base on balls and was forced out by Yerkes. Speaker was given a base on +balls. The next two batters were retired, leaving Hall on third. There +were two out for New York when Meyers made his third single, but he +failed to get home. + +With one out in the sixth for Boston Wagner hit safely, but Cady was +easily retired. Hall was given a base on balls, but Hooper struck out, +ending the inning. In New York's half, with one out, Devore was given a +base on balls. Doyle batted the ball over the fence in right field for a +home run and Devore scored ahead of him. + +In Boston's half of the seventh, with one out, Speaker singled to +center. Lewis batted to left field for two bases. That put Speaker on +third. While Fletcher was getting Gardner out of the way, Speaker scored +and Lewis reached home on Doyle's fumble of Stahl's grounder. In New +York's half of this inning Merkle began with a single to center. Herzog +flied to left field. Meyers made his fourth single of the afternoon, but +Fletcher flied to right field. Tesreau hit to right for a base and +Merkle scored. + +In the eighth Doyle muffed Cady's fly. Hall singled to right. Hooper's +sacrifice fly gave Cady a run, Doyle began for New York with a single, +but the next three batters were retired in order. + +In the ninth Herzog began with a base on balls. Wilson, who was +catching, singled to center. He was doubled up with Fletcher on a long +fly hit. Herzog, however, eventually scored his run, which was the +seventh of the game for New York. + +In this contest the Giants ran bases with such daring that they had the +Boston players confused and uncertain. Cady did not know whether to +throw the ball or hold it, and the general exhibition of speed on the +bases which was made by New York was characteristic of the team's dash +in the race for the championship of the National League, and a system +which the Boston players could not fathom. + +EIGHTH GAME. +Boston, Oct. 16, 1912. +Boston 3; New York 2 (ten innings.) +Hits--Off Bedient 6, Wood 3; Mathewson 8. +Struck out--Bedient 2, Wood 2; Mathewson 4. +Bases on balls--Bedient 3, Wood 1; Mathewson 5. +Attendance 16,970. + +On the following day, before the smallest crowd of the series, the final +game was played in Boston. Many Boston fans, disgruntled at the manner +in which some of them had been seated, deliberately remained away. The +air was cold and bleak and in addition to all the rest the enthusiasts +of Boston had given up the fight. Which merely goes to show the +uncertainty of Base Ball. The New York players unquestionably had the +championship won for nine and one half innings of the final game and +then, by the simplest of errors, overturned all of the good which they +had accomplished in their wonderful rally of the two days preceding. +After outplaying the Bostons in a manner which showed some thing of the +caliber of the teams when both were going at top speed, the New York +team stopped short. As one wit dryly put it: "Boston did not win the +championship, but New York lost it." + +Mathewson pitched for New York and Bedient for Boston until the end of +the seventh inning. + +With two out for the Giants in the first Snodgrass was given a base on +balls, but Murray was retired. Two were out for Boston when Speaker hit +for a single to right field, but Lewis struck out. Again in the second +two were out for New York when Meyers was safe on Speaker's muff. +Fletcher singled over second, but Mathewson flied out. + +Hooper began the third with a base hit, but was left. Devore started for +New York with a base on balls. Doyle and Snodgrass were out in +succession, Devore advancing, and then Murray doubled to center field +and Devore scored. In the fourth Herzog started with a two-bagger and if +the ground rule had not been changed he would have had an easy triple, +and ultimately a run, which would have changed all the outcome of the +game. As it was, he did not score. In the fifth Devore began with a +single and was out stealing second after Doyle had flied out and Hooper +had made the most wonderful catch of the series, reaching over the right +field fence to get the ball with his bare band. Snodgrass singled and +Murray fouled out. + +In the sixth Meyers received a base on balls with two out but did not +score. With one out Yerkes singled to right field and Speaker got a base +on balls but no run followed. + +In the seventh Mathewson began with a single and was forced out by +Devore, who was left on bases while two batters were retired. For +Boston, with one out, Stahl hit safely to center field. It was a pop +fly, which fell between three men, Fletcher, Murray and Snodgrass. +Wagner was given a base on balls and Cady was an easy out. Henriksen, +batting for Bedient, with two strikes against him, drove the ball on a +line toward third base. In fact, it hit third base. It bounded so far +back that Stahl scored the tieing run of the game. + +No runs were scored by either team in the eighth or the ninth innings. +In the tenth, with one out, Murray lined a double to left field and +scored on Merkle's hard single over second. That put the Giants in the +lead, with Merkle on second. Herzog struck out and Wood threw out +Meyers. The ball had been batted so hard by Meyers to Wood that it +crippled the pitcher's hand and compelled him to cease playing. It was +fortunate for Boston that the hit kept low. So much speed had been put +into it by the stalwart Indian catcher that had the ball got into the +outfield it would have gone to the fence. It was the undoing of Wood, +but it really led to the victory of Boston. + +Engle batted for Wood in the tenth. He rapped a long fly to center field +which was perfectly played by Snodgrass, but the center fielder dropped +the ball. Engle went to second base. + +On top of his simple muff Snodgrass made a magnificent catch of Hooper's +fly, which seemed to be good for three bases. Mathewson bent every +energy to strike out Yerkes, but the batter would not go after the wide +curves which were being served to him by the New York pitcher and +finally was given a base on balls. + +Speaker hit the first ball pitched for an easy foul which should have +been caught by Merkle. The ball dropped between Merkle, Meyers and +Mathewson. As was afterward proved the capture of this foul would have +saved the championship for the Giants. + +Speaker, with another life, singled to right and Engle scored the tieing +run. The Giants still had a chance, but a feeble one, for Yerkes was on +third, with but one out. Gardner flied to Devore. The New York +outfielder caught the ball and made a game effort to stop the flying +Yerkes at the plate, but failed to do so, and the game was over and the +series belonged to Boston. + +Yet so keen had been the struggle, so great the excitement, so wonderful +the rally of the New York club after having once given the series away, +that it was the opinion generally that the defeated were as great in +defeat as the victors were great in victory. + +The scores of the games are as follows: + +FIRST GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 3 1 1 1 0 0 Devore, l.f. 3 1 0 0 0 0 +Yerkes, 2b 4 0 1 0 1 0 Doyle, 2b 4 1 2 2 7 0 +Speaker, c.f 3 1 1 0 1 0 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 2 0 0 +Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 2 0 0 Murray, r.f. 3 0 1 1 0 0 +Gardner, 3b 4 0 0 1 1 0 Merkle, 1b 3 1 1 12 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 4 0 0 6 1 0 Herzog, 3b 4 0 2 1 1 0 +Wagner, ss 3 1 2 5 3 1 Meyers, c 3 0 1 6 1 0 +Cady, c 3 0 1 11 1 0 Fletcher, ss 4 0 0 3 1 1 +Wood, p 3 1 0 1 1 0 Tesreau, p 2 0 0 0 2 0 + McCormick[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + Crandall, p 1 0 0 0 1 0 + Becker[2] 0 0 0 0 0 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 31 4 6 27 9 1 Totals 33 3 8 27 13 1 + +1: McCormick batted for Tesreau in the seventh inning. +2: Becker ran for Meyers in ninth inning. + +Boston 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0-4 +New York 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-3 + +Sacrifice hits--Hooper, Cady. Two-base hits--Hooper, Wagner, Doyle. +Three-base hit--Speaker. Double play--Stahl and Wood. Pitching +record--Off Tesreau, 5 hits and 4 runs in 25 times at bat in 7 innings; +off Crandall, 1 hit, 0 runs in 6 times at bat in 2 innings. Struck +out--By Wood 11, Devore, Snodgrass, Merkle, Herzog, Meyers, Fletcher 3, +Tesreau 2, Crandall; by Tesreau 4, Hooper, Speaker, Stahl, Gardner; by +Crandall 2, Stahl, Gardner. Bases on balls--By Wood 2, Devore, Murray; +by Tesreau 4, Hooper, Speaker, Wagner, Wood. First base on +errors--Boston 1, New York 1. Fumbles--Wagner, Fletcher. Hit by pitched +ball--By Wood, Meyers. Left on bases--Boston 6, New York 6. +Umpires--Klem and Evans; field umpires--Rigler and O'Loughlin. +Scorers--Richter and Spink. Time of game--2.10. Weather--Clear and warm. + +SECOND GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Snodgrass, l.f-r.f 4 1 1 0 0 0 Hooper, r.f. 5 1 3 3 0 0 +Doyle, 2b 5 0 1 2 5 0 Yerkes, 2b 5 1 1 3 4 0 +Becker, c.f. 4 1 0 0 1 0 Speaker, c.f. 5 2 2 2 0 0 +Murray, r.f-l.f 5 2 3 3 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 5 2 2 2 0 1 +Merkle, 1b 5 1 1 19 0 1 Gardner, 3b 4 0 0 2 0 0 +Herzog, 3b 4 1 3 2 4 0 Stahl, 1b 5 2 2 10 0 0 +Meyers, c 4 0 2 5 0 0 Wagner, ss 5 0 0 5 5 5 +Fletcher, ss 4 0 0 1 3 3 Carrigan, c 5 0 0 6 4 0 +McCormick[1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 Collins, p 3 0 0 0 1 0 +Mathewson, p 5 0 0 1 6 0 Hall, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 +Shafer[2], ss 0 0 0 0 3 0 Bedient, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 +Wilson[3], c 0 0 0 0 1 1 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 40 6 11 33 23 5 Totals 44 6 10 33 14 1 + +1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in tenth inning. 2: Shafer ran for +Meyers in tenth inning and succeeded Fletcher as shortstop in same +inning. 3: Wilson succeeded Meyers as catcher in tenth inning. + +New York 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0-6 +Boston 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0-8 + +Left on bases--New York 9, Boston 6. First base on errors--New York 1, +Boston 3. Two-base hits--Snodgrass, Murray, Herzog, Lewis 2, Hooper. +Three-base hits--Murray, Merkle. Herzog, Yerkes, Speaker. Stolen +bases--Snodgrass, Herzog, Hooper 2, Stahl. Sacrifice hit--Gardner. +Sacrifice flies--Herzog, McCormick. Double play--Fletcher and Herzog. +Pitching record--Off Collins, 9 hits and 3 runs in 30 times at bat in +7-1/3 innings; off Hall, 2 hits and 3 runs in 9 times at bat in 2-2/3 +innings; off Bedient, no hits or runs in 1 time at bat in 1 inning. +Struck out--By Mathewson 4, Stahl, Collins 2, Wagner; by Collins 6, +Doyle, Merkle, Mathewson 2, Snodgrass; by Bedient 1, Doyle. Bases on +balls--By Hall 4, Snodgrass, Doyle, Becker, Meyers; by Bedient 1, +Becker. Fumbles--Fletcher 2. Muffed flies--Fletcher, Lewis. Muffed foul +fly--Merkle. Muffed thrown ball--Wilson. Hit by pitcher--By Bedient, +Snodgrass. Umpires--O'Loughlin and Rigler; field umpires--Klem and +Evans. Scorers--Richter and Spink. Time of game--2.38. Weather--Cool and +cloudy. + +THIRD GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Devore, 1.f. 4 0 2 2 0 0 Hooper, r.f. 3 0 0 1 0 0 +Doyle, 2b 3 0 0 3 1 0 Yerkes, 2b 4 0 1 3 1 0 +Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 0 0 0 Speaker, c.f. 4 0 1 3 1 0 +Murray, l.f. 4 1 1 5 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 4 1 2 4 0 0 +Merkle, 1b 3 0 0 5 0 1 Gardner, 3b 3 0 1 0 2 0 +Herzog, 3b 2 1 1 1 3 0 Stahl, 1b 4 0 2 11 1 0 +Meyers, c 4 0 1 8 1 0 Wagner, ss 4 0 0 1 3 0 +Fletcher, ss 3 0 1 3 2 0 Carrigan, c 2 0 0 3 1 0 +Marquard, p 1 0 0 0 2 0 Engle[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + O'Brien, p 2 0 0 1 5 0 + Ball[2] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + Cady, c 1 0 0 0 1 0 + Bedient, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 + Henriksen[3] 0 0 0 0 0 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 28 2 7 27 9 1 Totals 31 1 7 27 15 0 + +1: Engle batted for Carrigan in eighth inning. 2: Ball batted for +O'Brien in eighth inning. 3: Henriksen ran for Stahl in ninth inning. + +New York 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0-2 +Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-1 + +Left on bases--New York 6, Boston 7. First base on errors--Boston 1. +Two-base hits--Murray, Herzog, Stahl, Gardner. Stolen bases--Devore, +Fletcher, Wagner. Sacrifice hits--Merkle, Marquard, Gardner. Sacrifice +fly--Herzog. Double play--Speaker and Stahl. Pitching record--Off +O'Brien, 6 hints and 2 runs in 26 times at bat in 8 innings; off +Bedient, 1 hit and 0 runs in 2 times at bat in 1 inning. Struck out--By +Marquard 6, Hooper, Yerkes, Wagner, O'Brien 2, Ball; by O'Brien 3, +Devore, Merkle, Meyers. Bases on balls--O'Brien 3, Fletcher, Doyle, +Marquard; by Marquard 1, Hooper. Muffed thrown ball--Merkle. Hit by +pitcher--By Bedient, Herzog. Umpires--Evans and Klem; field umpires-- +O'Loughlin and Rigler. Scorers--Richter and Spink. Time of game--2.16. +Weather--Clear and cool. + +FOURTH GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 4 0 1 1 0 0 Devore, l.f. 4 0 1 0 0 0 +Yerkes, 2b 3 0 1 2 5 0 Doyle, 2b 4 0 1 4 1 0 +Speaker, c.f. 4 0 1 2 0 0 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 0 2 0 0 +Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Murray, r.f. 4 0 1 3 0 0 +Gardner, 3b 3 2 2 0 2 0 Merkle, 1b 4 0 1 8 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 3 1 0 9 0 0 Herzog, 3b 4 1 2 2 1 0 +Wagner, ss 3 0 0 2 3 1 Meyers, c 4 0 0 5 1 1 +Cady, c 4 0 1 10 0 0 Fletcher, ss 4 0 1 3 6 0 +Wood, p 4 0 2 0 2 0 Tesreau, p 2 0 1 0 2 0 + McCormick[1] 1 0 1 0 0 0 + Ames, p 0 0 0 0 1 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 32 3 8 27 12 1 Totals 35 1 9 27 12 1 + +1: McCormick batted for Tesreau in seventh inning. + +Boston 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1-3 +New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0-1 + +Left on bases--Boston 7, New York 7. First base on errors--Boston 1, New +York 1. Two-base hits--Speaker, Fletcher. Three-base hit--Gardner. +Stolen bases--Stahl, Merkle. Sacrifice hits--Yerkes, Stahl. Double +play--Fletcher and Merkle. Pitching record--Off Tesreau, 5 hits and 2 +runs in 24 times at bat in 7 innings; off Ames, 3 hits and 1 run in 8 +times at bat in 2 innings. Struck out--By Wood 8, Devore, Snodgrass. +Murray 2, Merkle 2, Meyers, Tesreau; by Tesreau 5, Lewis, Stahl, Wagner, +Cady 2. Bases on balls--By Tesreau 2, Hooper, Gardner; by Ames 1, +Wagner. Fumble--Wagner. Wild throw--Meyers. Wild pitch--Tesreau. +Umpires--Rigler and O'Loughlin; field umpires--Evans and Klem. Scorers-- +Richter and Spink. Time of game--2.06. Weather--Cool and cloudy, and +ground heavy. + +FIFTH GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 4 l 2 4 0 0 Devore, l.f. 2 0 0 0 0 0 +Yerkes, 2b 4 1 1 3 3 0 Doyle, 2b 4 0 0 0 3 1 +Speaker, c.f. 3 0 1 3 0 0 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 0 2 0 0 +Lewis, l.f. 3 0 0 1 0 0 Murray, r.f. 3 0 0 0 1 0 +Gardner, 3b 3 0 0 3 2 1 Merkle, 1b 4 1 1 15 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 3 0 0 7 0 0 Herzog, 3b 4 0 0 2 3 0 +Wagner, ss 3 0 1 1 1 0 Meyers, c 3 0 1 2 0 0 +Cady, c 3 0 0 5 0 0 Fletcher, ss 2 0 0 2 2 0 +Bedient, p 3 0 0 0 0 0 McCormick[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + Shafer[2], ss 0 0 0 1 1 0 + Mathewson, p 3 0 1 0 3 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 29 2 5 27 6 1 Totals 30 1 3 24 13 1 + +1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in seventh inning. 2: Shafer ran for +McCormick in seventh inning and then played shortstop. + +Boston 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 X--2 +New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0--1 + +Left on bases--New York 5, Boston 3. First base on errors--New York 1, +Boston 1. Two-base hit--Merkle. Three-base hits--Hooper, Yerkes. Double +play--Wagner, Yerkes and Stahl. Struck out--By Mathewson 2, Gardner, +Wagner; by Bedient 4, Devore, Snodgrass, Merkle, Mathewson. Bases on +balls--By Bedient 3, Devore 2, Murray. Fumbles--Doyle, Gardner. +Umpires--O'Loughlin and Rigler; field umpires--Klem and Evans. +Scorers--Richter and Spink. Time of game--1.43. Weather--Warm and +cloudy. + +SIXTH GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Devore, l.f. 4 0 1 2 0 1 Hooper, r.f. 4 0 1 2 2 0 +Doyle, 2b 4 1 1 1 1 0 Yerkes, 2b 4 0 2 3 1 1 +Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 6 0 0 Speaker, c.f. 3 0 0 5 0 0 +Murray, r.f. 3 1 2 7 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 0 0 0 +Merkle, 1b 3 1 2 4 1 0 Gardner, 3b 4 1 0 0 1 0 +Herzog, 3b 3 1 1 1 1 0 Stahl, 1b 4 1 2 8 0 0 +Meyers, c 3 1 2 6 0 0 Wagner, 3b 4 0 0 3 0 0 +Fletcher, ss 3 0 1 0 2 0 Cady, c 3 0 1 3 2 1 +Marquard, p 3 0 0 0 2 1 O'Brien, p 0 0 0 0 1 0 + Engle[1] 1 0 1 0 0 0 + Collins, p 2 0 0 0 2 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 30 5 11 27 7 2 Totals 33 2 7 24 9 2 + +1: Engle batted for O'Brien in second inning. + +New York 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X--5 +Boston 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0--2 + +Left on bases--Boston 5, New York 1. First base on errors--Boston 1. +Two-base hits--Engle, Merkle, Herzog. Three-base hit--Meyers. Stolen +bases--Speaker, Doyle, Herzog, Meyers. Double plays--Fletcher, Doyle and +Merkle; Hooper and Stahl. Pitching record--Off O'Brien, 6 hits and 5 +runs in 8 times at bat in 1 inning; off Collins, 5 hits and 0 runs in 22 +times at bat in 7 innings. Struck out--By Marquard 3, Wagner, Gardner, +Stahl; by O'Brien 1, Snodgrass; by Collins 1, Devore. Base on balls--By +Marquard, Speaker. Fumble--Devore. Wild throw--Marquard. Muffed foul +fly--Cady. Balk--O'Brien. Wild throw--Yerkes. Time of game--1.58. +Umpires--Klem and Evans; field umpires--O'Loughlin and Rigler. +Scorers--Richter and Spink. Weather--Warm and cloudy. + +SEVENTH GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Devore, r.f. 4 2 1 3 1 1 Hooper, r.h. 3 0 1 1 1 0 +Doyle, 2b 4 3 3 2 3 2 Yerkes, 2b 4 0 0 1 4 0 +Snodgrass, c.f. 5 1 2 1 0 0 Speaker, c.f. 4 1 1 4 0 1 +Murray, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 4 1 1 3 0 0 +Merkle, 1b 5 1 2 10 0 1 Gardner, 3b 4 1 1 2 0 1 +Herzog, 3b 4 2 1 0 2 0 Stahl, 1b 5 0 1 11 1 0 +Meyers, c 4 1 3 6 0 0 Wagner, ss 5 0 1 4 4 0 +Wilson, c[1] 1 0 1 2 0 0 Cady, c 4 1 0 1 2 0 +Fletcher, ss 5 1 1 2 4 0 Wood, p 0 0 0 0 1 0 +Tesreau, p 4 0 2 0 6 0 Happ, p 3 0 3 0 5 1 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 40 11 16 27 16 4 Totals 36 4 9 27 18 3 + +1: Wilson relieved Meyers in eighth inning. + +New York 6 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1--11 +Boston 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0-- 4 + +Left on bases--New York 8, Boston 12. First base on errors--Boston 1. +Stolen bases--Devore 2, Doyle. Sacrifice hit--Murray. Sacrifice +fly--Hooper. Two-base hits--Snodgrass, Hall, Lewis. Home runs--Doyle, +Gardner. Double plays--Devore and Meyers; Speaker, unassisted. Pitching +record--Off Wood, 7 hits and 6 runs in 8 times at bat in 1 inning; off +Hall, 9 hits and 5 runs in 32 times at bat in 8 innings. Struck out--By +Tesreau 6, Hooper 2, Yerkes, Gardner, Wagner, Cady; by Hall 1, Herzog. +Bases on balls--By Tesreau 5, Hooper, Yerkes, Speaker, Lewis, Hall; by +Hall 5, Devore 2, Doyle, Herzog, Tesreau. Fumbles--Doyle, Devore. Muffed +thrown ball--Gardner. Wild throws--Merkle, Hall, Speaker. Muffed +fly--Doyle. Wild pitches--Tesreau 2. Hit by pitched ball--By Tesreau, +Gardner. Time of game--2.21. Umpires--Evans and Klem; field +umpires--O'Loughlin and Rigler. Scorers--Richter and Spink. +Weather--Cold and windy. + +EIGHTH GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 5 0 0 3 0 0 Devore, r.f. 3 1 1 3 1 0 +Yerkes, 2b 4 1 1 0 3 0 Doyle, 2b 5 0 0 1 5 1 +Speaker, c.f. 4 0 2 2 0 1 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 4 1 1 +Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Murray, l.f. 5 1 2 3 0 0 +Gardner, 3b 3 0 1 1 4 2 Merkle, 1b 5 0 1 10 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 4 1 2 15 0 1 Herzog, 3b 5 0 2 2 1 0 +Wagner, ss 3 0 1 3 5 1 Meyers, c 3 0 0 4 1 0 +Cady, c 4 0 0 5 3 0 Fletcher, ss 3 0 1 2 3 0 +Bedient, p 2 0 0 0 1 0 McCormick[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 +Henriksen[2] 1 0 1 0 0 0 Mathewson, p 4 0 1 0 3 0 +Wood, p 0 0 0 0 2 0 Shafer[3], ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Engle[4] 1 1 0 0 0 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 35 3 8 30 18 5 Totals 38 2 9*29 15 2 + +*: Two out in tenth inning when winning run was scored. + +1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in ninth inning. 2: Henriksen batted +for Bedient in seventh inning. 3: Shafer player shortstop in tenth +inning. 4: Engle batted for Wood in tenth inning. + +Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2--3 +New York 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1--2 + +Left on bases--New York 11, Boston 9. First base on errors--New York 1, +Boston 1. Two-base hits--Murray 2, Herzog, Gardner, Stahl, Henriksen. +Sacrifice hit--Meyers. Sacrifice fly--Gardner. Stolen base--Devore. +Pitching record--Off Bedient, 6 hits and 1 run in 26 times at bat in 7 +innings; off Wood, 3 hits and 1 run in 12 times at bat in 3 innings. +Struck out--By Mathewson 4, Yerkes, Speaker, Lewis, Stahl; by Bedient 2, +Merkle, Fletcher; by Wood 2, Mathewson, Herzog. Bases on balls--By +Mathewson 5, Yerkes, Speaker, Lewis, Gardner, Wagner; by Bedient 3, +Devore, Snodgrass, Meyers; by Wood 1, Devore. Muffed fly--Snodgrass. +Muffed foul fly--Stahl. Muffed thrown balls--Doyle, Wagner, Gardner. +Fumbles--Speaker, Gardner. Time of game--2.39. Umpires--O'Loughlin and +Rigler; field umpires--Klem and Evans. Scorers--Richter and Spink. +Weather--Clear and cold. + +THE COMPOSITE SCORE. + +Following is a composite score of the eight games played, thus +arranged to show at a glance the total work in every department: + +BOSTON. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PO. A. E. +Hooper........................ 8 31 3 9 2 2 16 3 .. +Yerkes........................ 8 32 3 8 .. 1 15 22 1 +Speaker....................... 8 30 4 9 1 .. 21 2 2 +Lewis......................... 8 32 4 5 .. .. 14 .. 1 +Gardner....................... 8 28 4 5 .. 3 9 12 4 +Stahl......................... 8 32 3 9 2 1 77 3 1 +Wagner........................ 8 30 1 5 1 .. 24 24 3 +Cady.......................... 7 22 1 3 .. 1 35 9 1 +Wood.......................... 4 7 1 2 .. .. 1 6 .. +Carrigan...................... 2 7 .. .. .. .. 9 5 .. +Collins....................... 2 5 .. .. .. .. .. 3 .. +Hall.......................... 2 4 .. 3 .. .. .. 5 1 +Bedient....................... 4 6 .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. +[1]Engle...................... 3 3 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. +O'Brien....................... 2 2 .. .. .. .. 1 6 .. +[2]Ball....................... 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. +[3]Henriksen.................. 2 1 .. 1 .. .. .. .. .. + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + 273 25 60 6 8 222 101 14 + +NEW YORK. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PO. A. E. +Devore........................ 7 24 4 6 4 .. 10 2 2 +Doyle......................... 8 33 5 8 2 .. 15 26 4 +Snodgrass..................... 8 33 2 7 1 .. 17 1 1 +Murray........................ 8 31 5 10 .. 1 23 1 .. +Merkle........................ 8 33 5 9 1 1 83 1 3 +Herzog........................ 8 30 6 12 2 2 11 16 .. +[4]Becker..................... 2 4 1 .. .. .. .. 1 .. +Meyers........................ 8 28 2 10 1 1 42 4 1 +Fletcher...................... 8 28 1 5 1 .. 16 23 4 +Wilson........................ 3 1 .. 1 .. .. 2 1 1 +Shafer........................ 3 .. .. .. .. .. 1 4 .. +Tesreau....................... 3 8 .. 3 .. .. .. 10 .. +[5]McCormick.................. 5 4 .. 1 .. 1 .. .. .. +Crandall...................... 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. +Mathewson..................... 3 12 .. 2 .. .. 2 12 .. +Marquard...................... 2 4 .. .. .. 1 .. 4 1 +Ames.......................... 1 .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. + --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + 274 31 74 12 7[6]22l 108 17 + +1: Engle batted for Carrigan in eighth inning of third game; for O'Brien +in second inning of sixth game, and for Wood in tenth inning of eighth +game. + +2: Ball batted for O'Brien in eighth inning of third game. + +3: Henriksen ran for Stahl in ninth inning of third game; and batted for +Bedient in seventh inning of eighth game. + +4: McCormick batted for Tesreau in seventh inning of first game; for +Fletcher in tenth inning of second game; for Tesreau in seventh inning +of fourth game; for Fletcher in seventh inning of fifth game; and for +Fletcher in ninth inning of eighth game. + +5: Becker ran for Meyers in ninth inning of first game. + +6: Two out in tenth inning of eighth game when winning run scored. + + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Tl. +Boston 3 4 2 1 1 1 6 2 2 3 0--25 +New York 11 3 3 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 0--31 + +Left on bases--Boston 55, New York 53. + +Two-base hits--Boston: Lewis 3, Gardner 2, Stahl 2, Hooper 2, Henriksen +1, Hall 1, Engle 1, Speaker 1, Wagner 1; total 14. New York: Murray 4, +Herzog 4, Snodgrass 2, Merkle 2, Fletcher 1, Doyle 1; total 14. + +Three-base hits--Boston: Speaker 2, Yerkes 2, Gardner 1, Hooper 1; total +6. New York: Murray 1, Merkle 1, Herzog 1, Meyers 1; total 4. + +Home runs--Boston: Gardner 1. New York: Doyle 1. + +Double plays--For Boston: Stahl and Wood 1; Speaker and Stahl 1; Wagner, +Yerkes and Stahl 1; Hooper and Stahl 1; Speaker 1 (unassisted). For New +York: Fletcher and Herzog 1; Fletcher and Merkle 1; Fletcher, Doyle and +Merkle 1; Devore and Meyers 1. + +Struck out by Boston pitchers--By Wood: Merkle 3, Tesreau 3, Fletcher 3, +Devore 2, Snodgrass 2, Herzog 2, Meyers 2, Murray 2, Crandall 1, +Mathewson 1, total 21. By Collins: Doyle 1, Merkle 1, Snodgrass 1, +Devore 1, Mathewson 2; total 6. By Bedient: Doyle 1, Devore 1, Snodgrass +1, Mathewson 1, Fletcher 1, Merkle 2; total 7. By O'Brien: Devore 1, +Merkle 1, Meyers 1, Snodgrass 1; total 4. By Hall: Herzog 1; total 1. +Grand total 39. + +Struck out by New York pitchers--By Tesreau: Hooper 3, Cady 3, Stahl 2, +Gardner 2, Wagner 2. Speaker 1, Yerkes 1, Lewis 1; total 15. By +Mathewson: Stahl 2, Collins 2, Wagner 2, Gardner 1, Yerkes 1, Speaker 1, +Lewis 1; total 10. By Marquard: Wagner 2, O'Brien 2, Hooper 1, Yerkes 1, +Ball 1, Gardner 1, Stahl 1; total 9. By Crandall: Stahl 1, Gardner 1; +total 2. Grand total 36. + +Bases on balls off Boston pitchers--Off Wood: Devore 2, Murray 1; total +3. Off Hall: Doyle 2, Devore 2, Snodgrass 1, Becker 1. Meyers 1, Tesreau +1, Herzog 1; total 9. Off Bedient: Devore 3, Becker 1, Murray 1, +Snodgrass 1, Meyers 1; total 7. Off O'Brien: Fletcher 1, Doyle 1. +Marquard 1; total 3. Grand total 22. + +Bases on balls off New York pitchers--Off Tesreau: Hooper 3, Speaker 2, +Wagner 1, Wood 1, Gardner 1, Yerkes 1, Lewis 1, Hall 1: total 11. Off +Marquard: Hooper 1, Speaker 1; total 2. Off Ames: Wagner 1; total 1. Off +Mathewson: Yerkes 1, Speaker 1, Lewis 1, Gardner 1, Wagner 1; total 6. +Grand total 19. + +Relief pitchers' records--Off Tesreau, 5 hits, 4 runs, in 25 times at +bat in 7 innings; off Crandall, 1 hit, 0 runs, in 6 times at bat in 2 +innings in game of October 8. Off Collins, 9 hits. 3 runs, in 30 times +at bat in 7-1/3 innings: off Hall, 2 hits, 3 runs, in 9 times at bat in +2-2/3 innings; off Bedient, 0 hits, 0 runs, in 1 time at bat in 1 +inning, in game of October 9; off O'Brien, 6 hits, 2 runs, in 26 times +at bat in 8 innings; off Bedient, 1 hit, 0 runs, in 2 times at bat in 1 +inning, in game of October 10. Off Tesreau, 5 hits, 2 runs, in 24 times +at bat in 7 innings; off Ames, 3 hits, 1 run, in 8 times at bat in 2 +innings, in game of October 11. Off O'Brien, 8 hits, 5 runs, in 8 times +at bat in 1 inning; off Collins, 5 hits, 0 runs, in 22 times at bat in 7 +innings, in game of October 14. Off Wood, 7 hits, 6 runs, in 8 times at +bat in 1 inning; off Hall, 9 hits. 5 rung, in 32 times at bat in 8 +innings, in game of October 15. Off Bedient, 6 hits, 1 run, in 26 times +at bat in 7 innings; off Wood, 3 hits, 1 runs, in 12 times at bat in 3 +innings, in game of October 16. + +Wild pitches--Tesreau 3. + +Balk--O'Brien 1. + +Muffed fly Balls--Fletcher 1, Lewis 1. Doyle 1, Snodgrass 1; total 4. + +Muffed foul fly--Merkle 1, Cady 1, Stahl 1; total 3. + +Muffed thrown balls--Wilson 1, Merkle 1, Gardner 2, Doyle 1, Wagner 1; +total 6. + +Wild throws--Meyers 1, Marquard 1, Yerkes 1, Merkle 1, Hall 1, Speaker +1; total 6. + +Fumbles--Wagner 2, Fletcher 3, Doyle 2, Gardner 2, Devore 2, Speaker 1; +total 12. + +First base on errors--Boston 11, New York 5. + +Sacrifice flies--Herzog 2, McCormick 1, Hooper 1, Gardner 1; total 5. + +Hit by pitcher--By Bedient: Snodgrass 1, Herzog 1. By Wood: Meyers. By +Tesreau: Gardner. + +Umpires--Evans and O'Loughlin, of the American League; Klem and Rigler, +of the National League. + +Official scorers--Francis C. Richter of Philadelphia, and J. Taylor +Spink of St. Louis, all games. + +Average time--2.13 7-8. + +Average attendance--3l,505. + +Weather--Clear and cool. + +INDIVIDUAL BATTING AVERAGES. + +Following are the official batting averages of all players participating +in the World's Championship Series of 1912. They show that New York +clearly outhit Boston. The team average of the Giants was 50 points +higher than that of Boston. The Boston team had only four batters in the +.300 class, while New York had five. Of the men who played all through +the series, Herzog was high with .400. The figures are: + +INDIVIDUAL BOSTON BATTING. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PC. +Henriksen 2 1 -- 1 -- -- 1000 +Hall 2 4 -- 3 -- -- .750 +Engle 3 3 1 1 -- -- .333 +Speaker 8 30 4 9 1 -- .300 +Hooper 8 31 3 9 2 2 .290 +Wood 4 7 1 2 -- -- .286 +Stahl 8 32 3 9 2 1 .281 +Yerkes 8 32 3 8 -- 1 .250 +Gardner 8 28 4 5 -- 3 .179 +Wagner 8 30 1 5 1 -- .167 +Lewis 8 32 4 5 -- -- .156 +Cady 7 22 1 3 -- 1 .136 +Carrigan 2 7 -- -- -- -- .000 +Collins 2 5 -- -- -- -- .000 +Bedient 4 6 -- -- -- -- .000 +O'Brien 2 2 -- -- -- -- .000 +Ball 1 1 -- -- -- -- .000 + +INDIVIDUAL NEW YORK BATTING. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PC. +Wilson 2 1 -- 1 -- -- 1000 +Herzog 8 30 6 12 2 2 .400 +Tesreau 3 8 -- 3 -- -- .375 +Meyers 8 28 2 10 1 1 .357 +Murray 8 31 5 10 -- 1 .323 +Merkle 8 33 5 9 1 1 .273 +Devore 7 24 4 6 4 -- .250 +McCormick 5 4 -- 1 -- 1 .250 +Doyle 8 33 5 8 2 -- .242 +Snodgrass 8 33 2 7 1 -- .212 +Fletcher 8 28 1 5 1 -- .179 +Mathewson 3 12 -- 2 -- -- .167 +Becker 2 4 1 -- -- -- .000 +Shafer 3 -- -- -- -- -- .000 +Crandall 1 1 -- -- -- -- .000 +Marquard 2 4 -- -- -- -- .000 +Ames 1 -- -- -- -- -- .000 + +Team batting average: New York, .270; Boston, .220. + +INDIVIDUAL FIELDING AVERAGES. + +The individual and team fielding averages show Boston leading by a +slight margin of .958 to .951. The figures follow: + + CATCHERS. + G. PO. A. PB. E. PC. | G. PO. A. PB. E. PC. +Carrigan 2 9 5 1000|Cady 7 35 9 1 .978 +Meyers 8 42 4 1 .979|Wilson 2 2 1 1 .750 + + PITCHERS. + G. PO. A. E. PC. | G. PO. A. E. PC. +Tesreau 3 10 1000|Collins 2 3 1000 +Crandall 1 1 1000|Bedient 4 1 1000 +Mathewson 4 1 12 1000|O'Brien 2 1 6 1000 +Wood 4 1 6 1000|Hall 2 5 1 .833 +Ames 1 1 1000|Marquard 2 4 1 .800 + + FIRST BASEMEN. +Stahl 8 77 3 1 .988|Merkle 8 83 1 3 .966 + + SECOND BASEMEN. +Yerkes 8 15 22 1 .974|Doyle 8 15 26 4 .911 + + SHORTSTOPS. +Shafer 3 1 4 1000|Fletcher 8 16 23 4 .907 +Wagner 8 24 24 3 .941 + + THIRD BASEMEN. +Herzog 8 11 16 1000|Gardner 8 9 12 4 .840 + + OUTFIELDERS. +Murray 8 23 1 1000|Lewis 8 14 1 .933 +Becker 1 1 1000|Speaker 8 21 2 2 .920 +Hooper 8 16 3 1000|Devore 7 10 2 2 .857 +Snodgrass 8 17 1 1 .947| + +Team fielding average: Boston, .958; New York, .951. + +THE PITCHERS' RECORDS. + +The pitching averages show Marquad and Bedient the only pitchers with +clean records. Marquad won two games and did not meet defeat, and +Bedient won one without a defeat. Wood won three and lost one. Following +are the figures: + + G. W. L. T. TO. PC. H. BB. HB. SO. IP. AB. + +Bedient 4 1 1 1 1000 10 7 2 7 17 59 +Marquard 2 2 1000 14 2 9 18 66 +Wood 4 3 1 1 .750 27 3 1 21 22 88 +Tesreau 3 1 2 2 .333 19 11 1 15 23 85 +Collins 2 1 1 .000 14 6 14-1/3 52 +Hall 2 1 1 .000 11 9 1 10-2/3 41 +Mathewson 3 2 1 .000 23 5 10 29-2/3 108 +Ames 1 .000 3 1 2 8 +Crandall 1 .000 1 2 2 6 +O'Brien 2 2 2 .000 12 3 4 9 34 + +Wild pitches--Tesreau 3. + +Wiltse, Ames, Hall and Crandall did not pitch a full game and are +charged with neither defeat nor victory. Tesreau pitched first 7 innings +of first game and is charged with defeat. Crandall finished game. +Collins pitched first 7-1/3 innings of second game, Hall followed for +2-2/3 innings and Bedient for 1 inning, but as game was tie no one has +defeat or victory charged against him. O'Brien pitched 8 innings of +third game and is charged with defeat. Bedient pitched in the last +inning. In fourth game Tesreau pitched first 7 innings and is marked +with defeat. Ames finished the game. In sixth game O'Brien pitched only +1 inning, but lost the game. Collins completed the game. Wood pitched +only one inning of seventh game and is charged with a defeat. Hall +pitched the last 8 innings. Bedient pitched first 7 innings of eighth +game and retired to permit Henriksen to bat for him with New York +leading. Boston then tied score and Wood, who succeeded Bedient, finally +won out in the tenth inning, Wood getting credit for game. + +FINANCIAL RESULT. + +The attendance and receipts of the 1912 World's Championship Series were +the highest of any series ever played, excelling even the receipts of +the 1911 Athletic-Giant series, which reached proportions of such +magnitude that it was thought they would not soon be exceeded, or even +equaled. In the 1911 Athletic-Giant series the total attendance was +179,851 paid; the receipts, $342,364; each club's share, $90,108.72; +National Commission's share, $34,236.25; the players' share for four +days, $127,910.61; each player's share on the Athletic team, $3,654.58; +and each player's share on the New York team, $2,436.30. For purposes of +comparison we give the official statement of the 1911 World's Series: + + Attendance. Receipts. +First game, New York................ 38,281 $77,359.00 +Second game, Philadelphia........... 26,286 42,962.50 +Third game, New York................ 37,216 75,593.00 +Fourth game, Philadelphia........... 24,355 40,957.00 +Fifth game, New York................ 33,228 69.384.00 +Sixth game, Philadelphia............ 20,485 36,109.00 + --------- ------------- +Totals ............................ 179,851 $342,364.50 + + +Each club's share................................ $90,108.72 +National Commission's share....................... 34,236.25 +Players' share for four games................ 127,910.61 + + +Herewith is given the official attendance and receipts of the Giant-Red +Sox world's Series of 1912, together with the division of the receipts, +as announced by the National Commission. The players shared only in the +first four games, divided 60 percent, to the winning team and 40 per +cent, to the losing team. + + Attendance. Receipts. +First game, New York................ 35,722 $75,127.00 +Second game, Boston................. 30,148 58,369.00 +Third game, Boston.................. 34,624 63,142.00 +Fourth game, New York............... 36,502 76,644.00 +Fifth game, Boston.................. 34,683 63,201.00 +Sixth game, New York................ 30,622 66,654.00 +Seventh game, Boston................ 32,630 57,004.00 +Eighth game, Boston ................ 16,970 30,308.00 + --------- ------------- +Totals............................. 251,901 $490,449.00 + + +Each club's share............................... $146,915.91 +National Commission's share....................... 49,044.90 +Players' share for four games.................... 147,572.28 + + + + +NATIONAL LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912 + +BY JOHN B. FOSTER. + + +Spurts of energy on the part of different clubs, unexpected ill fortune +on the part of others, and marked variations of form, which ranged from +the leaders almost to the lowliest teams of the second division, +injected spasmodic moments of excited interest into the National League +race for 1912 and marked it by more vicissitudes than any of its +immediate predecessors. + +By careful analysis it is not a difficult matter to ascertain why the +New Yorks won. Their speed as a run-getting machine was much superior to +that of any of their opponents. Every factor of Base Ball which can be +studied demonstrates that fact. They led the National League in batting +and they led it in base running. They were keenly alive to the +opportunities which were offered to them to win games. Indeed, their +fall from the high standard which they had set prior to the Fourth of +July was quite wholly due to the fact that they failed to take advantage +of the situations daily, as they had earlier in the season, and their +return to that winning form later in the season, which assured them of +the championship, was equally due to the fact that they had regained +their ability to make the one run which was necessary to win. That, +after all, is the vital essential of Base Ball. To earn the winning run, +not by hook or crook, but to earn it by excelling opponents through +superior play in a department where the opponents are weak, is the story +of capturing a pennant. + +They were dangerous men to be permitted to get on bases, and their +dearest and most bitter enemies on the ball field, with marked candor, +confessed that such was the case. Opposing leaders admitted that when +two or three of the New York players were started toward home plate one +or two of them were likely to cross the plate and that, too, when one +run might tie the score and two runs might win the game. + +While there were some who were quite sanguine before the beginning of +the season that the Giants would win the championship, there were others +who were convinced that they would have a hard time to hold their title, +and after the season was over both factions were fairly well satisfied +with their preliminary forecast. + +The runaway race which New York made up to the Fourth of July gave +abundant satisfaction to those who said they would win, and the setback +which the team received after the Fourth of July until the latter part +of August afforded solace to those who were certain in their own minds +that the New Yorks would have much trouble to repeat their victory of +1911. + +It must not be forgotten, too, that the New York team had the benefit of +excellent pitching throughout the year. In the new record for pitchers, +which has been established this season by Secretary Heydler of the +National League, and which in part was the outcome of the agitation in +the GUIDE for a new method of records, in which the various Base Ball +critics of the major league cities so ably contributed their opinions, +Tesreau leads all the pitchers in the matter of runs which were earned +from his delivery. Mathewson is second, Ames is fifth, Marquard seventh +and Wiltse and Crandall lower, and while both the latter were hit freely +in games in which they were occasionally substituted for others, they +pitched admirably in games which they won on their own account. + +In the opinion of the writer this new method, which has been put into +usage by Secretary Heydler, is far superior to anything which has been +offered in years as a valuable record of the actual work of pitchers. It +holds the pitcher responsible for every run which is made from his +delivery. It does not hold him responsible for any runs which may have +been made after the opportunity has been offered to retire the side, nor +does it hold him responsible for runs which are the result of the +fielding errors of his fellow players. On the other hand, if he gives +bases on balls, if he is batted for base hits, if he makes balks, and if +he makes wild pitches, he must stand for his blunders and have all such +runs charged against him as earned runs. + +Nothing proves more conclusively the strength of this manner of +compiling pitchers' records than that Rucker, by the old system, dropped +to twenty-eighth place in the list of National League pitchers, finished +third in the earned run computation, showing that if he had been given +proper support he probably would have been one of the topmost pitchers +of the league, even on the basis of percentage of games won, which is +more vainglorious than absolutely truthful. + +The Giants are to be commended for playing clean, sportsmanlike Base +Ball. There were less than a half dozen instances in which they came +into conflict with the umpires. The president of the National League +complimented Manager McGraw in public upon the excellent conduct of his +team upon the field and the players deserved the approbation of the +league's chief executive. + + * * * * * + +The general work of the Pittsburgh team throughout the year was good. It +must have been good to have enabled the players to finish second in the +championship contest, but the team, speaking in the broadest sense, +seemed to be just good enough not to win the championship. As one man +dryly but graphically put it: "Pittsburgh makes me think of a wedding +cake without the frosting." + +Fred. Clarke, manager of the team, adhered resolutely to his +determination not to play. It was not for the reason that the impulse to +play did not seize upon him more than once, but he had formed a +conviction, or, at least, he seemed to have formed one, that it would be +better for the organization if the younger blood were permitted to make +the fight. It was the opinion of more than one that Clarke incorrectly +estimated his own ball playing ability, in other words, that he was a +better ball player than he credited himself with being. + +As batters the Pittsburghs were successful. As fielders they were +superior to the team that won the championship. As run-getters they were +not the equal of the Giants. In brief, fewer opportunities were accepted +to make runs by a much larger percentage than was the case with the New +York club, which can easily be verified by a careful study of the scores +of the two teams as they opposed one another, and as they played against +the other clubs of the league. + +It took more driving power to get the Pittsburgh players around the +bases than it did those of New York. In tight games, where the advantage +of a single run meant victory, the greater speed of the New York players +could actually be measured by yards in the difference of results. +Naturally it was not always easy for the Pittsburgh enthusiasts to see +why a team, which assuredly fielded better than the champions and batted +almost equally as well, could not gain an advantage over its rivals, but +the inability of Pittsburgh Base Ball patrons to comprehend the lack of +success on the part of their team existed in the fact that they had but +few opportunities, comparatively speaking, to watch the New York players +and found it difficult to grasp the true import of that one great factor +of speed, which had been so insistently demanded by the New York manager +of the men who were under his guidance. + +Pittsburgh had an excellent pitching staff. Even better results would +have been obtained from it if Adams had been in better physical +condition. An ailing arm bothered him. While he fell below the standard +of other years, one splendid young pitcher rapidly developed in Hendrix, +and Robinson, a left-hander, with practically no major league +experience, pushed his way to a commanding position in the work which he +did. + +Until the Giants made their last visit to Pittsburgh in the month of +August the western team threatened to come through with a finish, which +would give them a chance to swing into first place during the month of +September, but the series between New York and Pittsburgh turned the +scale against the latter. + +Fired with the knowledge that they were at the turning point in the race +the New York players battled desperately with their rivals on +Pittsburgh's home field and won. Even the Pittsburgh players were filled +with admiration for the foe whom they had met, and while they were not +in the mood to accept defeat with equanimity, they did accept it +graciously and congratulated the victors as they left Pittsburgh after +playing the last game of the season which had been scheduled between +them on Forbes Field. + +First base had long bothered Clarke. Frequent experiments had been made +to obtain a first baseman, who could play with accuracy on the field and +bat to the standard of the team generally. Clarke transferred Miller +from second base to first and the change worked well. More graceful and +more accurate first basemen have been developed than Miller, but in his +first year of play at the bag he steadied the team perceptibly and +unquestionably gave confidence to the other men. + +But making a first baseman out of Miller took away a second baseman and +second base gave Clarke more or less concern all of the season. At that, +Pittsburgh was not so poorly off in second base play as some other of +the teams of the senior circuit. + + * * * * * + +Two important factors contributed to the success of the Chicagos in +1912. For a few days they threatened to assume the leadership of the +National League. With the opportunity almost within their grasp the +machine, which had been patched for the moment, fell to pieces, and the +Cubs, brought to a climax in their work by all the personal magnetism +and the driving power of which Chance was capable, were exhausted by +their strongest effort. The courage and the wish were there, but the +team lacked the playing strength. + +To return to the factors which contributed to the club's success. They +were the restoration to health of Evers, and a complete change in the +manner of playing second base, added to the consistent and powerful +batting of Zimmerman. The latter led the league in batting and +repeatedly pulled his club through close contests by the forceful manner +in which he met the ball with men on bases. + +A third contributing force, though less continuous, was the brief spurt +which was made by the Chicago pitchers in the middle of the season. They +were strongest at the moment that the New York team was playing its +poorest game, and their temporary success assisted in pushing the +Chicagos somewhat rapidly toward the top of the league. They were not +resourceful enough nor strong enough to maintain their average of +victories and finished the season somewhat as they had begun. + +The most of Chicago's success began to date from the early part of July, +when Lavender, pitching for the Cubs, won from Marquard of the Giants, +who, to that time, had nineteen successive victories to his credit. +Chicago continued to win, and the New York team made a very poor trip +through the west. + +Lavender's physical strength held up well for a month and then it became +quite evident that he had pitched himself out. Then was the time that +the Chicagos could have used to good advantage two and certainly one +steady and reliable pitcher, who had been through the fire of winning +pennants and would not be disturbed by the importance which attached to +games in which his club was for the moment the runner-up in the +championship race. + +Chicago managed to hold its own fairly well against the New York team. +Indeed, the Cubs beat the New Yorks on the series for the season, but +there were other clubs, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Cincinnati, which won +from Chicago when victories were most needed by the Cubs, and their hope +to capture the pennant deserted them as they were making their last trip +through the east. + +The race was not without its bright side for Chicago. Even if the Cubs +did finish third for the first time since Chance had been manager of the +organization, it was a welcome sight to see Evers apparently in as good +form as ever and Zimmerman so strong with the bat that the leadership of +the batters finally returned to Chicago after it had been absent for +years. + + * * * * * + +Cincinnati, under the management of Henry O'Day, finished fourth in the +race. It was by no means a weak showing for the new manager, in view of +the team which he was compelled to handle. Until the New York club +played its first series in Cincinnati, which began May 18, the Reds were +booming along at the top of the league, apparently with no intention +that they might ever drop back. It was New York that won three out of +the five games played and took the lead in the race, and when that +happened Cincinnati never was in front again. + +To the other managers, who had been watching the work of the Cincinnatis +it was apparent that sooner or later the break would have to come for +the reason that, as the season progressed, better pitching would have to +be faced by the Cincinnati club, while it was doubtful whether the +Cincinnati pitchers could do any better than they were doing. The +manager seemed to have known this, for when the break did come and the +Reds began to totter, he said in reference to their downfall that no +team could be expected to win with only ordinary pitching to assist it. + +In this manner Cincinnati played through the middle of the season always +just a little behind most of its opponents. As the latter days of the +year began to dawn the Reds began to improve and not the least of which +was in the better work of the pitchers. + +They did well enough to beat Philadelphia for fourth place, and while +O'Day did not have the satisfaction of finding his first year as a +manager generous enough to him to make him the runner-up for the +championship team, he actually put his club in the first division, which +is something in which many managers have failed and some of them +managers of long experience. + + * * * * * + +Misfortune and ill luck always attaches itself in a minor degree to +every team which engages in a championship contest, but most assuredly +Philadelphia had more of its share of reverses through accidents to +players and illness than any team of the National League. Yet the +Philadelphias were courageous players from whom little complaint was +heard. They took their misfortunes with what grace they could and played +ball with what success they could achieve, whether they had their best +team in the field or their poorest. + +Strangely enough they played an important part in the results of the +race. Frequently they defeated the Chicagos, all too frequently for the +comfort of the Chicago Base Ball enthusiasts, and when the loss of a +game or two by the Philadelphias to the Chicagos might have turned the +race temporarily one way or the other, the Philadelphias, with decided +conviction, refused to lose. + +It may not be necessary to call attention to the fact of absolute +fairness in the contests for championships in the various leagues which +comprise Base Ball in its organized form. The day has passed when the +Base Ball enthusiast permits his mind to dwell much upon that sort of +thing, if ever he did. But if it were necessary to advance an argument +as to the integrity of the sport and the high class of the men who are +engaged in the summer season in playing professional Base Ball, there +could be nothing better to prove that the price of victory is the one +great consideration, greater than the fact of Philadelphia's success +against a team which was a strong contender against that which finally +won the championship. + +As much as Philadelphia desired that New York should be beaten, for +there was no love lost between the teams in a ball playing way, the +fighting spirit and the predominant desire to add to the column of +victories as many games as possible brought forth the best efforts of +the team of ill fortune against Chicago and struck telling blows against +Chicago's success at the most timely moments. + + * * * * * + +As a whole the St. Louis team did not play as well in 1912 as it did in +the preceding year. There was some bad luck for St. Louis as well as +Philadelphia. The players did not get started as well as they had in the +previous two years. Their spring training was more or less disastrous, +for they were one of the clubs to run into the most contrary of spring +weather. + +Perhaps the worst trouble which the St. Louis team had, take the season +through from beginning to finish, was in regard to the pitchers. There +were two or three young men on the team who seemed at the close of the +season of 1911 to be likely to develop into high class pitchers in 1912. +They pitched well in 1912 at intervals. One day it seemed as if they at +last had struck their stride and the next they faltered and their +unsteadiness gave their opponents the advantage which they sought. + +Perhaps, if the St. Louis team had been a little stronger to batting it +would have rated higher among the organization of the National League. +Several games were lost which would have been taken into camp by a +better display at bat. In fielding the team was much stronger and the +success of the infield, combined with some excellent outfield work now +and then, frequently held the team up in close battles, but when the +pitchers faltered on the path the fielders were not able to bear the +force of the attack. + + * * * * * + +For three seasons in succession Brooklyn seems to have been fated to +start the season with bad luck and misfortune. The spring training trip +did not bring to Brooklyn all that had been expected owing to the +inclement weather. + +When the team began the season at Washington Park a tremendous crowd +filled the stands. Long before it was time for the game to begin the +spectators became unruly and swarmed over the field. It was impossible +for the ground police to do anything with the excited enthusiasts and at +last the city police were asked to assist. They tried to clear the +field, but only succeeded in driving the crowd from the infield. +Spectators were so thick in the outfield that they crowded upon the +bases and prevented the players from doing their best. For that matter +the outfielders could not do much of anything. + +A ground rule of two bases into the crowd was established, and the New +York players, who were the opponents of Brooklyn, took advantage of it +to drive the ball with all their force, trusting that it would sail over +the heads of the fielders and drop into the crowd. They were so +successful that they made a record for two-base hits and Brooklyn was +overwhelmed. + +This unfortunate beginning appeared to depress the Brooklyn team. The +players recovered slightly, but had barely got into their stride again +when accidents to the men began to happen. Some of them became ill, and +the manager was put to his wits end to get a team on the field which +should make a good showing. + +Fighting against these odds Brooklyn made the best record that it could. +As the season warmed into the hotter months the infield had to be +rearranged. There was disappointment in the playing of some of the +infielders. It was also necessary to reconstruct the outfield. Unable to +get all of the men whom he would have desired the manager continued to +experiment and his experiments brought forth good fruit, for +unquestionably the excellent work of Moran, who played both right field +and center field for Brooklyn, was a great help to the pitchers. By the +time that the Base Ball playing year was almost concluded Brooklyn had +so far recovered that it was able to place a better nine on the diamond +than had been the case all of the year. + +Boston never was expected to be a championship organization. The +material was not there for a championship organization, but Boston did +play better ball than in 1911 and that is to the credit of players, +manager and owner. The club had changed hands, but the new owner had not +been able to readjust all of the positions to suit him. He put the best +nine possible in the field with what he had. Never threatening to become +a championship winning team Boston played steadily with what strength it +possessed and always a little better than in 1911, so that the year +could not fairly be considered unsuccessful at its finish. + + * * * * * + +Going back to the beginning of the year and looking over the contest for +the National League championship of 1912, it is not uninteresting, +indeed it is of much interest to call attention to the remarkably odd +record which was made by New York to win the pennant. In that record +stands the story of the fight, with striking shifts from week to week. + +The first game played by the Giants was against Brooklyn, as has been +related, and it was won by New York and that, by the way, was the game +in which Marquard began his admirable record as a pitcher for the +season. + +The Giants lost the next three games. Two of them were to Brooklyn and +one to Boston, and the players of the New York team began to wonder a +little as to what had happened to them. + +Then New York won nine straight games from the eastern clubs, being +stopped finally by Philadelphia on the Polo Grounds. But that defeat did +not check them. They started on another winning spurt and played +throughout the west without a defeat until they arrived in Cincinnati. +This total of victories was nine. All of the games on the schedule were +not played because of inclement weather. + +Cincinnati won twice from New York and then the Giants turned the tables +on the Reds, who had been leading the league. They threw them out of the +lead, which they never regained, and won another succession of nine +victories. That made three times consecutively that they had won a total +of twenty-seven games in groups of nine, assuredly an unusual result. + +Losing one game they again entered the winning class. This time they won +six games in succession. Then they lost a game. After this single defeat +they won but three games. Their charm of games in blocks of nine had +deserted them. They were beaten twice after winning three, and +Pittsburgh was the team. + +Then they won another single game and immediately after that victory +lost to Brooklyn. But that was the last defeat for a long time. Well +into the race, with their condition excellent, and playing better ball +than they had played since their wonderful spurt of the month of +September in 1911, they won sixteen games in succession. + +The morning of the Fourth of July dawned hot and sultry. The air was +thick and muggy and without life. The Giants were scheduled to play two +games that day with Brooklyn, the first in the morning and the second in +the afternoon. If they won both of them they would tie a former record, +which had been made by the New York team, for consecutive victories. + +Perhaps it may have been reaction after the long strain of winning or it +may have been an uncommonly good streak of batting on the part of +Brooklyn. Surely Brooklyn batted well enough, as the morning game went +to the latter team by the score of 10 to 4. In the afternoon Brooklyn +again beat the Giants by the score of 5 to 2. Wiltse pitched for New +York and Stack for Brooklyn. + +The New York team went to Chicago and won twice. Then it lost. The +fourth game was won from Chicago and then the Giants lost two in +succession. + +They won one game and immediately after that lost four in succession. +Chicago began to have visions of winning the pennant. + +From Chicago the Giants went to Pittsburgh, stood firm in a series of +three games, winning two and losing one. Their next call was at +Cincinnati and beginning with that series they got back to form a trifle +and won five games in succession. + +Returning home they were beaten on the Polo Grounds three games in +succession by Chicago. After that New York settled into a winning stride +again and won six games in succession. Pittsburgh came to the Polo +Grounds and stopped the winning streak of the champions by defeating +them three times in succession. That was a hard jolt for any team to +stand. Yet the Giants rallied and won the test game of the Pittsburgh +series. + +It was but a momentary pause, for after another victory St. Louis beat +New York. The Giants won another game and the next day lost to St. +Louis. That finished the home games for New York and the team started +west, facing a desperate fight. They lost the first game to Chicago, won +the next and lost the third. Going from Chicago to St. Louis they won +three games in succession, returning to Chicago, lost a postponed game +with the Cubs. + +From Chicago their path led them to Pittsburgh where they lost the first +contest. Then they made the stand of the season when they beat the +Pittsburghs four games in succession. + +Cincinnati turned the tables on the Giants to the consternation of the +New York fans and won twice, when it seemed as if the Giants were about +to start on a career which would safely land the championship. The +Giants returned home and beat Brooklyn in the first game and lost the +second. They won the next two and then lost again. The championship was +still in abeyance. Again they won and then lost to Philadelphia. + +Here came another test in a Philadelphia series at Philadelphia which +contained postponed games, and once more rallying with all their might, +won four games and lost the last of this series of five. + +Following that they won three games and then lost to St. Louis. They won +three times in succession and then lost four games to Chicago and +Cincinnati, but all of this time Chicago was gradually falling away +because it was necessary that the Cubs should continue to win successive +victories if they were to beat New York for the championship. + +The Giants atoned for the four defeats at the hands of Chicago and +Cincinnati by winning the next four games in succession, and while this +did not actually settle the championship, that is, the definite +championship game had not been played, the race was practically over and +all that was left to fight for in the National League was second place, +in which Chicago and Pittsburgh were most interested. The pitching staff +of the Chicagos had worn out under the strain and the Cubs were beaten +out by Pittsburgh. + +The semi-monthly standing of the race by percentages follows: + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON APRIL 30. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +Cincinnati 10 3 .769 Pittsburgh 5 7 .417 +New York 8 3 .727 Philadelphia 4 6 .400 +Boston 6 6 .500 St. Louis 5 8 .385 +Chicago 5 7 .417 Brooklyn 4 7 .364 + + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 18 4 .810 St. Louis 10 16 .385 +Cincinnati 19 5 .792 Boston 9 15 .375 +Chicago 12 12 .500 Philadelphia 7 13 .350 +Pittsburgh 9 12 .429 Brooklyn 7 14 .333 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 31. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 28 7 .800 St. Louis 20 22 .455 +Cincinnati 23 17 .675 Philadelphia .14 19 .426 +Chicago 19 17 .628 Brooklyn 12 22 .353 +Pittsburgh 18 17 .514 Boston 13 26 .333 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 37 10 .787 Philadelphia 20 24 .455 +Pittsburgh 27 20 .574 St. Louis 23 31 .426 +Chicago 26 21 .563 Brooklyn 16 30 .348 +Cincinnati 25 23 .553 Boston 16 35 .314 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 30. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 50 11 .820 Philadelphia 24 33 .421 +Pittsburgh 37 25 .597 Brooklyn 24 36 .400 +Chicago 34 26 .567 St. Louis 27 42 .391 +Cincinnati 35 32 .522 Boston 20 46 .303 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 58 19 .753 Philadelphia 34 38 .472 +Chicago 47 28 .627 St. Louis 34 49 .410 +Pittsburgh 45 31 .592 Brooklyn 30 48 .385 +Cincinnati 41 39 .513 Boston 22 59 .272 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 31. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 67 24 .736 Cincinnati 45 49 .479 +Chicago 57 34 .626 St. Louis 41 55 .427 +Pittsburgh 52 37 .684 Brooklyn 35 59 .372 +Philadelphia 45 43 .511 Boston 25 66 .275 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 73 30 .709 Cincinnati 50 58 .463 +Chicago 69 36 .657 St. Louis 47 60 .439 +Pittsburgh 65 40 .619 Brooklyn 39 69 .361 +Philadelphia 50 54 .481 Boston 28 76 .269 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 31. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 82 36 .695 Cincinnati 57 65 .467 +Chicago 79 42 .653 St. Louis 53 59 .434 +Pittsburgh 71 50 .587 Brooklyn 44 76 .367 +Philadelphia 59 60 .496 Boston 37 84 .306 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 15 + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 95 40 .704 Philadelphia 63 70 .474 +Chicago 83 61 .619 St. Louis 57 80 .416 +Pittsburgh 82 53 .607 Brooklyn 50 85 .370 +Cincinnati 68 68 .500 Boston 42 93 .311 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 30 + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 101 45 .692 Philadelphia 70 77 .476 +Pittsburgh 91 57 .615 St. Louis 62 88 .413 +Chicago 89 68 .605 Brooklyn 57 91 .385 +Cincinnati 74 76 .493 Boston 42 100 .324 + +STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON. + + Club. N.Y. Pitts. Chi. Cin. Phil. St.L. Bkln. Bos. Won. PC. +New York -- 12 9 16 17 15 16 18 103 .682 +Pittsburgh 8 -- 13 11 14 15 14 18 92 .616 +Chicago 13 8 -- 11 10 15 17 17 91 .607 +Cincinnati 6 11 10 -- 8 13 16 11 75 .490 +Philadelphia 5 8 10 14 -- 11 13 12 73 .480 +St. Louis 7 7 7 9 11 -- 10 12 63 .412 +Brooklyn 6 8 5 6 9 11 -- 13 58 .379 +Boston 3 4 6 11 10 10 9 -- 52 .340 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + Lost 48 58 59 78 79 90 95 101 + +The Chicago-Pittsburgh game at Chicago, October 2, was protested by the +Pittsburgh club and thrown out of the records, taking a victory from the +Chicago club and a defeat from the Pittsburgh club. + + + + +AMERICAN LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912 + +BY IRVING E. SANBORN, CHICAGO. + + +Pre-season predictions in Base Ball do not carry much weight +individually, but when many minds, looking at the game from different +angles, agree on the main points there usually is good reason behind +such near unanimity. Outside of Boston it is doubtful if any experienced +critic of Base Ball in the country expected the Red Sox to be converted +from a second division team into pennant winners in one short season. If +such expectancy existed in Boston it was partially a case of the wish +fathering the thought. The majority of men believed the machine with +which Connie Mack had achieved two league and two world's championships +was good for at least one more American League pennant. That expectation +was based on the comparative youth of the important cogs in the Athletic +machine. Yet this dope went all wrong. The Athletics were beaten out by +two teams which were in the second division in 1911, one of them as low +as seventh place. + +The reason for these form reversals were several. The Boston and +Washington teams improved magically in new hands, while the Athletics +went back a bit, partly because of too much prosperity and partly +because of adversity. Having come from behind in 1911 and made a winning +from a wretched start, the Mackmen apparently thought they could do it +again and delayed starting their fight until it was too late. The loss +of the services of Dan Murphy for more than half of the season also was +a prime factor. + +The White Sox were the season's sensations both ways and for a time kept +everybody guessing by their whirlwind start under new management. They +walked over every opponent they tackled for the first few weeks, then +began to slip and it required herculean efforts to keep them in the +first division at the finish. The Chicago team always was a puzzle to +all parties to the race, including itself. + +From the outset there was almost no hope for the other four teams in the +league. Cleveland and Detroit occasionally broke into the upper circles +for a day or two in the early weeks of the season, but not far enough to +rouse any false anticipations among their supporters. St. Louis and New +York quickly gravitated to the lower strata and remained there, the +Yankees finally losing out in their battle with the Browns to keep out +of last place. + +Five American League teams started the season under new managers. One of +the three which began the race under leaders retained from the previous +year changed horses in mid-stream. Jake Stahl, Harry Wolverton, Clark +Griffith, Harry Davis and James Callahan were the new faces in the +managerial gallery. Some of them were not exactly new to the job but +were in new jobs. Of these Stahl, Griffith and Callahan proved +successful leaders and the first named became the hero of a world's +championship team when the last ball of the series was caught. Davis +resigned during the season and was succeeded by Joe Birmingham, who +almost duplicated the feat of George Stovall in 1911, putting new life +into the Cleveland team and starting a spurt which made the race for +position interesting. Wolverton stuck the season out in spite of +handicaps that would have discouraged anybody, then handed in his +resignation. Wallace, who started the year at the helm again in St. +Louis, cheerfully handed over the management to Stovall, who had been +transplanted into the Mound City in the hope of making Davis' task +easier in Cleveland. Stovall made the Browns a hard team to beat and had +the mild satisfaction of hoisting them out of the cellar which they had +occupied for the better part of three seasons. + +An unpleasant feature of the season, but one which had beneficial +results, was the strike of the Detroit players, entailing the staging of +a farcical game in Philadelphia between the Athletics and a team of +semi-professionals. This incident grew out of an attack on a New York +spectator by Ty Cobb while in uniform and the immediate suspension of +the player for an indefinite period. + +The prompt and unyielding stand taken by President Johnson against the +action of the Detroit players and the diplomatic efforts of President +Navin of that club averted serious or extended trouble and undoubtedly +furnished a warning against any similar act in the near future. Another, +excellent result was the effort made by club owners to prevent the abuse +of the right of free speech by that small element of the game's +patronage which finds its greatest joy in abusing the players, secure in +the knowledge that it is practically protected from personal injury in +retaliation. + +In the development of new players of note the league enjoyed an average +season, and a considerable amount of new blood was injected into the +game in the persons of players who made good without attracting freakish +attention. The rise of the Washington team from seventh to second place +brought its youngsters into the limelight prominently, and of these +Foster and Moeller were commended highly. Gandil, who had his second +tryout in fast company, plugged the hole at first base which had worried +Washington managers for some time. Shanks also made a reputation for +himself as a fielder. These men were helped somewhat by the showing of +their team, but the case of Gandil would have been notable In any +company. His first advent into the majors with the White Sox showed him +to be an exceedingly promising player, but for some reason his work fell +off until he was discarded into the International League. There he +quickly recovered his stride and, when he did come back shortly after +the season opened last spring, he demonstrated that he had the ability +to hit consistently and proved a tower of strength to Griffith's team. + +Baumgardner of the St. Louis Browns was an example of a youngster making +good in spite of comparatively poor company. His pitching record with a +team which finished in seventh place stamps him as one of the best, if +not the best, of the slab finds of the year. Jean Dubuc of Detroit was +another find of rare value and still another was Buck O'Brien of Boston, +but these had the advantage over Baumgardner of getting better support +both in the field and at bat. O'Brien in particular was fortunate to +break in with a championship team. + +The White Sox introduced three youngsters who made good and promise to +keep on doing so. Two of them, George Weaver and Morris Rath, started +the season with Chicago and the third, Baker Borton, joined the team +late in the summer. Still later Kay Schalk started in to make what looks +like a name for himself as a catcher. + + * * * * * + +No better illustration of the slight difference between a pennant +winning machine and a losing team in the American League has occurred +recently than the Boston Red Sox furnished last year. It did not differ +materially from the team of 1910 which compelled the use of the nickname +"Speed Boys." Jake Stahl was a member of that team, and except for the +absence of Stahl in 1911, the champions of 1912 were composed of +practically the same men who finished in the second division only the +year before. But for the showing of 1910 the whole credit for last +season's transformation might be attributed to Manager Stahl. Much of it +unquestionably is his by right, and there is no intent here to deprive +him of any of the high honors he achieved. + +To Stahl's arrangement of his infield probably is due much of the +improvement in the team. The outfield trio of wonderful performers did +not perform any more wonders last year than in the previous season, but +what had been holes on the infield were plugged tightly. Many looked +askance when Larry Gardner, supposedly a second baseman, was assigned to +third, but the results more than justified the move, and it made room at +second for Yerkes, a player who had proved only mediocre on the other +side of the diamond. This switch and the return of Stahl, who is a grand +mark to throw at on first base, gave the infield the same dash and +confidence as the outfield possessed, and the addition of some pitching +strength in Bedient and O'Brien did the rest. It is the ability to +discover just the right combination that differentiates the real manager +from the semi-failure. + +The Red Sox were in the race from the start, but they were eclipsed for +a time by the White Sox. In spite of that the Bostonians never faltered +but kept up a mighty consistent gait all the way and wore down all +competitors before the finish. Stahl's men never were lower than second +place in the race with the exception of three days early in May. when +Washington poked its nose in front of the Red Sox and started after the +White Sox, only to be driven back into third place by the men of +Callahan themselves. For more than a week in April Boston was in the +lead. Then Chicago went out and established a lead so long that it +lasted until near the middle of June. Boston attended strictly to its +knitting, however. Without stopping in their steady stride, the Red Sox +hung on, waiting for the Callahans to slump. When their chance came in +June the Bostonians jumped into the lead--June 10 was the exact +date--and never thereafter did they take any team's dust. + +By the Fourth of July Boston had a lead of seven games over the +Athletics. The Red Sox kept right along at their even gait and a month +later were leading by the same margin over Washington, which had +displaced the former champions. On September 1 Boston's lead was +thirteen games, but it was not until September 18 that the American +League pennant was actually cinched beyond the possibility of losing it. + +All season Stahl's men were known as a lucky ball team. Delving into the +files for the dope, revealed the fact that the newspaper reports of +about every third game they played on the average contained some +reference to "Boston's luck." This does not detract anything from their +glory. No team ever won a major league pennant unless it was lucky. No +team ever had as steady a run of luck as Boston enjoyed in 1912, unless +that team made a lot of its own luck by persistently hammering away when +luck was against it and keeping ever on the alert to take advantage of +an opening. + +That is the explanation of the unusual consistency that marked the work +of the Red Sox all season and the fact they did not experience a serious +slump. In the first month of the season they won twelve games and lost +eight. The second month of the race was their poorest one--the nearest +they came to a slump. In that month they won eight and lost ten games. +In the third month Boston won twenty-three and lost seven games. The +fourth month saw them win twenty games and lose eight and in the fifth +month their record was twenty victories and five defeats. In the final +stages of the race the Red Sox were not under as strong pressure from +behind and naturally did not travel as fast after sighting the wire, but +the figures produced explain why Boston won the pennant. It started well +and kept going faster until there was no longer need for speed. The +annexation of the world's championship in a record breaking world's +series with the New York Giants was a fitting climax to their season's +achievement. + + * * * * * + +When Clark Griffith stalked through the west on his first invasion of +the season with a team of youngsters, some of them practically unknown, +and declared he was going after the pennant, everybody laughed or wanted +to. A few weeks later everybody who had laughed was sorry, and those who +only wanted to laugh were glad they didn't. For Griffith kept his men +keyed up to the fighting pitch during the greater part of the season, +and when they did start slumping in September, he made a slight switch +on his infield, applied the brakes and started them going up again. The +result was that Washington finished second for the first time in its +major league history, winning that position in the closing days of the +race after a bitter tussle with the passing world's champions. + +The acquisition of Gandil from Montreal plugged a hole at first base +which had defied the efforts of several predecessors to stop and it +helped make a brilliant infield, for it gave the youngsters something +they were not afraid to throw at. In giving credit for the work of +Griffith's infield, the inclination is to overestimate the worth of the +new stars. But there was a tower of strength at short in George McBride, +who has been playing steadily and consistently at that position for +several seasons without being given one-tenth the credit his work has +merited. + +The Washington team at one time or another occupied every position in +the race except the first and last. The Senators were in seventh place +for a few days in the opening weeks of the season, but not anywhere +nearly as long as they were in second place later on. They climbed out +of the second division by rapid stages and after May 1 they were driven +back into it only once during the rest of the year. That was for three +days in the beginning of June. In the meantime they had knocked Boston +out of second place for a short while in May and, most of the way, had +enjoyed a close fight with Philadelphia for third and fourth spots. Near +the middle of June, after the Red Sox had ousted their White namesakes +from first place, the Senators also passed Chicago and started after +Boston. But the youngsters were not yet hardened to the strain and soon +fell back to third and fourth. On July 5 Washington went into second +place and held onto it, with the exception of three days, for a period +of two months. September brought a slump and Griffith's men surrendered +the runner-up position to the Athletics for about two weeks, then came +back and took it away from the Mackmen at the end. + + * * * * * + +What happened to the world's champion Athletics the public did not +really know until after the middle of the season. Then the suspensions +of Chief Bender and Rube Oldring blazoned the fact that Manager Mack's +splendid system of handling a Base Ball team by moral suasion had fallen +down in the face of overconfidence and too much prosperity. Few people +saw any reason for changing their belief in the prowess of the Athletics +during the first half of the season, because they were in as good +position most of the time as they had been the year previous at the same +stage of the race. They were expected to make the same strong finish +that swept everything before it in 1911. Not until the second half of +the season was well under way did the adherents of the Mackmen give up +the battle. + +Philadelphia's sterling young infield seemed to stand up all right all +the year, but the outfield and the slab staff gave Connie Mack sleepless +nights. When Dan Murphy was injured in Chicago in June it was discovered +what he had meant to the team. Dan was what the final punch is to a +boxing star. His timely batting was missed in knocking out opponents, +and the injury kept him out all the rest of the season. The strain which +Jack Coombs gave his side in the world's series of 1911 proved more +serious and lasting than was expected, and if Eddie Plank had not come +back into grand form it would have been a tougher season than it was for +the Athletics. + +The Mackmen made a bad beginning for champions, and on May 1 were in the +second division. During all of May and part of June they climbed into +the first division and fell out of it with great regularity. Not until +near the middle of June did the Athletics gain a strangle hold on the +upper half of the league standing, from that time on they kept above the +.500 mark, and toward the end of June they met the White Sox coming +back. There was a short scuffle during the early part of July among the +Athletics, Senators and White Sox for the possession of the position +next to Boston. Then Chicago was pushed back, leaving Philadelphia and +Washington to fight it out the rest of the way. Trimming the Phillies +four out of five games in their city series did not lessen the gloom of +the Athletics. + + * * * * * + +The White Sox by their meteoric career demonstrated the value of good +condition at the start. Although the Chicagoans experienced tough +weather in Texas last spring they fared better than any of the other +teams in their league, and that fact, combined with the readiness with +which youth gets into playing trim, enabled the White Sox to walk +through the early weeks of their schedule with an ease that astonished +everybody. Even prophets who were friendly to them had expected no such +showing. So fast did the Callahans travel that on May 3 they had lost +only four games, having won thirteen in that time. But Boston was +hanging on persistently. Chicago's margin over the Red Sox varied from +four to five and a half games; during May, on the fourteenth of that +month the White Sox had won twenty-one games and lost only five, giving +them the percentage of .808. During part of this time they were on their +first invasion of the east. May 18 saw the Chicago men five and a half +games in the lead and their constituents were dreaming of another +world's pennant almost every night. + +Even the doubters were beginning to believe Manager Callahan had found +the right combination. Just then came the awakening. The luck which had +been coming their way began breaking against them with remarkable +persistency. Plays that had won game after game went wrong and youth was +not resourceful enough to offset the breaks. The White Sox began to fall +away fast in percentage, but managed to cling to the lead until June 10. +Boston passed them right there and the Chicagoans kept on going. + +By mid-season Manager Callahan was fighting to keep his men in the first +division and their slump did not end until they landed in fifth place +for a couple of days in August. Then in desperation Callahan began +switching his line-up and by herculean effort--and the help of Ed +Walsh--climbed back into the upper quartet and stuck there to the +finish. It was a desperate remedy to take Harry Lord off third base, +where he had played during most of his professional career, and try to +convert him into an outfielder, a position in which he had had no +experience at all. But Lord was too good an offensive player to take out +of the game, in spite of his slump at third base, and he was willing to +try the outfield. Results justified the move. Lord learned outfielding +rapidly, and Zeider proved that third base was his natural position. The +acquisition of Borton for first base enabled Callahan to put Collins in +the outfield, and the White Sox in reality were a stronger team when +they finished than when they started their runaway race in April. With +one more reliable pitcher to take his turn regularly on the slab all +season the White Sox would have kept in the race. Callahan's men made up +for some of the disappointment they produced by beating the Cubs in a +nine-game post-season series, after the Cubs had won three victories. +Two of the nine games were drawn and one other went into extra innings, +making a more extended combat than the world's series. + + * * * * * + +Cleveland's 1912 experience was almost identical with that of 1911, even +to swapping managers in mid-season. Harry Davis, for years first +lieutenant to Connie Mack, took the management or the Naps under a +severe handicap. He succeeded a temporary manager, George Stovall, who +had made good in the latter half of the previous season, but who could +not be retained without abrogating a previous agreement with Davis. The +public did not take kindly to the situation when the Naps failed to get +into the fight, and the new management had a pitching staff of +youngsters with out much of a catching staff to help them out when in +trouble. + +The Cleveland team never was prominent in the race after the first +fortnight, although it retained a respectable position at the top of the +second division, with an occasional journey into the first division +during the first month or six weeks. In the middle of June the Naps +dropped back into sixth place, below Detroit, for a while, then took a +brace and reclaimed the leadership of the second squad for part of July. +Midway in August found Cleveland apparently anchored in sixth spot and, +with the consent of the Cleveland club owners, Manager Davis resigned +his position. + +The management was given to Joe Birmingham, who took hold of it with +enthusiasm but without experience, just as Stovall did the previous +year. He infused new life into the team, shook it up a bit, and improved +its playing so much that Cleveland passed Detroit before the end of the +race, and was threatening to knock Chicago out of fourth place at one +time. This would have happened but for the brace of the White Sox. +Profiting by previous experience the club owners did not look around for +a permanent manager until they saw what Birmingham could do, and in +consequence were in position to offer him the leadership of the Naps for +the season of 1913. + + * * * * * + +What was left to Manager Jennings from the great Detroit team that had +won three straight pennants was slowing up, with the exception of Tyrus +Cobb, who has yet to reach the meridian of his career, and the Georgian +got into trouble fairly early in the season, with the result that he was +suspended for a considerable period. That and the strike of the Tigers +in Philadelphia threw a monkey-wrench into the machinery, resulting in a +tangle which Jennings was unable to straighten out all the season. There +was a problem at first base which he had a hard time solving. The break +in Del Gainor's wrist the season before had not mended as it should have +done, and he was unable to play the position regularly. Moriarty was +pressed into service there and did good work in an unfamiliar position; +then the infield was shifted several times without marked benefit. +Donovan, who had always been of great help on the slab in hot weather, +was not equal to the task of another year and was made manager of the +Providence team. Jean Dubuc was the only one of the young pitchers who +proved a star, but his work kept the Tigers from being a lot more +disappointing proposition than they were. + + * * * * * + +St. Louis and New York were outclassed from the start. Two weeks after +the season opened it was apparent they were doomed to fight it out for +the last round on the ladder. That the Browns finally escaped the cellar +in the closing days of the race was due largely to the efforts of +Stovall, who was made manager to succeed Wallace near the middle of the +season. + +As early as the first of May it was seen the Browns and Yankees were +destined to trail. The New York team quickly gravitated to the bottom. +It started without the services of Catcher Eddie Sweeney, who held out +for a larger salary, and it had a manager at the helm who was +inexperienced in major league leadership. Not until April 24 did New +York win a game and in that time it had lost seven straight, +postponements accounting for the rest of the time. + +St. Louis got a little better start and for a while was inclined to +dispute sixth place with Detroit, but on May 1 the Browns found only New +York between them and the basement. In the middle of May the Yankees +passed St. Louis and ran seventh in the race until July. 4. But accident +and injury, and the loss of Cree, shot the Yankees to pieces. For nearly +six weeks, however, it was a battle royal between New York and St. Louis +to escape the last hole, but in the middle of August the Yankees again +established their superiority, retaining seventh place until after the +middle of September. In the homestretch the new blood given Stovall +enabled him to pull his men out of the last notch just before the +schedule ran out. This feat was soon forgotten in the defeat of the +Browns by the Cardinals in their post-prandial series for the +championship of the Mound City. + + * * * * * + +The year was not prolific of freak or record-breaking performances in +the American League. Walter Johnson of Washington, and Joe Wood of +Boston were credited with sixteen straight victories, which raised the +American League record in that respect from fourteen straight, formerly +held by Jack Chesbro of the Yankees. Mullin of Detroit and Hamilton of +St. Louis added their names to the list of hurlers who have held +opponents without a safe hit in nine innings. Mullin performed his +hitless feat against St. Louis and Hamilton retaliated by holding +Detroit without a safety. The number of games in which pitchers escaped +with less than four hits against them was smaller than usual, however. +There were only seventy-eight shut-out games recorded last season by +comparison with the American League's record of 145. + +The longest game of the younger league's season lasted nineteen innings, +Washington defeating Philadelphia in that combat 5 to 4, and it was +played late in September when the two teams were scrapping for second +place. The American League record for overtime is twenty-four innings, +held by Philadelphia and Boston. There were a lot of slugging games in +1912, but not as many as during the season of 1911. Philadelphia piled +up the highest total, 25, in eight innings, but it was made against the +semi-professional team which wore Detroit uniforms on the day the Tigers +struck. The highest genuine total of hits was twenty-three, made by the +Athletics against New York pitchers. The Athletics also run up the +highest score of the league's season when they compounded twenty-four +runs against Detroit In May. + +The semi-monthly standing of the race by percentages follows: + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 1. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. + Chicago 11 4 .733 + Boston 9 5 .643 + Washington 8 6 .615 + Cleveland 7 6 .538 + Athletics 7 7 .600 + Detroit 6 10 .375 + St. Louis 5 9 .357 + New York 3 10 .231 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 15. + + Chicago 21 6 .778 + Boston 16 8 .667 + Washington 12 12 .500 + Cleveland 11 11 .500 + Detroit 13 14 .481 + Athletics 10 12 .466 + New York 6 15 .286 + St. Louis 6 17 .261 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 1. + + Chicago 29 12 .707 + Boston 25 14 .641 + Detroit 21 20 .512 + Athletics 17 17 .500 + Cleveland 18 19 .486 + Washington 19 21 .476 + New York 12 23 .343 + St. Louis 12 27 .308 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 15. + + Boston 33 19 .635 + Chicago 33 21 .611 + Washington 33 21 .611 + Athletics 27 21 .563 + Detroit 26 29 .473 + Cleveland 23 28 .451 + New York 17 31 .364 + St. Louis 15 37 .288 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 1. + + Boston 47 21 .691 + Athletics 39 25 .609 + Chicago 38 28 .576 + Washington 37 31 .551 + Cleveland 33 38 .492 + Detroit 33 36 .478 + New York 18 44 .290 + St. Louis 18 45 .288 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 15. + + Boston 56 26 .683 + Washington 60 33 .602 + Athletics 46 36 .668 + Chicago 44 35 .567 + Cleveland 42 42 .500 + Detroit 40 43 .488 + New York 22 53 .298 + St. Louis 22 56 .282 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 1. + + Boston 67 31 .684 + Washington 61 37 .622 + Athletics 55 41 .573 + Chicago 49 36 .516 + Detroit 48 42 .485 + Cleveland 45 43 .464 + New York 31 53 .333 + St. Louis 30 56 .312 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 15. + + Boston 76 34 .691 + Athletics 66 43 .606 + Washington 67 44 .604 + Chicago 54 55 .495 + Detroit 55 58 .487 + Cleveland 51 59 .464 + New York 36 73 .327 + St. Louis 36 74 .321 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 1. + + Boston 87 37 .702 + Washington 77 49 .611 + Athletics 73 50 .593 + Chicago 62 61 .504 + Detroit 57 70 .449 + Cleveland 54 71 .432 + New York 45 78 .366 + St. Louis 43 82 .344 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 15. + + Boston 97 39 .713 + Athletics 81 56 .591 + Washington 82 57 .590 + Chicago 67 69 .493 + Detroit 64 75 .461 + Cleveland 62 75 .453 + New York 48 88 .353 + St. Louis 47 89 .346 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON OCTOBER 1. + + Boston 103 48 .691 + Washington 89 60 .567 + Athletics 89 60 .567 + Chicago 74 76 .493 + Cleveland 72 77 .483 + Detroit 69 80 .463 + St. Louis 52 98 .347 + New York 49 100 .329 + + STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON + + Bos. Wash. Ath. Chic. Clev. Det. S.L. N.Y. Won PC + Boston -- 12 15 16 11 15 17 19 105 .691 + Washington 10 -- 7 13 18 14 14 15 91 .599 + Athletics 7 18 -- 10 14 13 16 17 99 .592 + Chicago 6 9 12 -- 11 14 13 13 78 .506 + Cleveland 11 4 8 11 -- 13 15 13 75 .490 + Detroit 6 8 9 8 9 -- 13 16 69 .451 + St. Louis 5 8 6 9 7 9 -- 9 58 .344 + New York 3 7 5 9 8 6 13 -- 50 .329 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + Lost 47 61 62 76 78 84 101 102 + + NATIONAL LEAGUE + + STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON. + + N.Y. Pitts.Chi. Cin. Phil.St.L. Bkln. Bos. Won. PC. + +New York -- 12 9 16 17 15 16 18 103 .682 +Pittsburgh 8 -- 13 11 14 15 14 18 93 .616 +Chicago 13 8 -- 11 10 15 17 17 91 .607 +Cincinnati 6 11 10 -- 8 13 16 11 75 .498 +Philadelphia 5 8 10 14 -- 11 13 12 73 .480 +St. Louis 7 7 7 9 11 -- 10 12 63 .412 +Brooklyn 6 8 5 6 9 11 -- 13 58 .379 +Boston 3 4 6 11 10 10 9 -- 52 .340 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---- +Lost 48 58 59 78 79 90 95 101 + +The Chicago-Pittsburgh game at Chicago, October 2, was protested by the +Pittsburgh club and thrown out of the records, taking a victory from the +Chicago club and a defeat from the Pittsburgh club. + +CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS IN PREVIOUS YEARS. + +1871- Athletics .759 | 1885- Chicago .770 | 1899- Brooklyn .682 +1872- Boston .830 | 1886- Chicago .726 | 1900- Brooklyn .603 +1873- Boston .729 | 1887- Detroit .637 | 1901- Pittsburgh .647 +1874- Boston .717 | 1888- New York .641 | 1902- Pittsburgh .741 +1875- Boston .899 | 1889- New York .659 | 1903- Pittsburgh .650 +1876- Chicago .788 | 1890- Brooklyn .667 | 1904- New York .693 +1877- Boston .646 | 1891- Boston .630 | 1905- New York .668 +1878- Boston .683 | 1892- Boston .680 | 1906- Chicago .765 +1879- Providence .702 | 1893- Boston .667 | 1907- Chicago .704 +1880- Chicago .798 | 1894- Baltimore .695 | 1908- Chicago .643 +1881- Chicago .667 | 1895- Baltimore .669 | 1909- Pittsburgh .724 +1882- Chicago .655 | 1896- Baltimore .698 | 1910- Chicago .676 +1883- Boston .643 | 1897- Boston .795 | 1911- New York .647 +1884- Providence .750 | 1898- Boston .685 | + +INDIVIDUAL BATTING. + +Following are the Official Batting Averages of National League players +who participated in any manner in at least fifteen championship games +during the season of 1912: + +Name and Club G. A.B. R. H. T.B. 2B 3B HR SH SB PC +Zimmerman, Chicago 145 557 95 207 318 41 14 14 18 23 .372 +Meyers, New York 126 371 60 133 177 16 5 6 9 8 .358 +Sweeney, Boston 153 593 84 204 264 81 13 1 33 27 .344 +Evers, Chicago 143 478 73 163 211 23 11 1 14 16 .341 +Bresnaban, St. Louis 48 108 8 36 50 7 2 1 -- 4 .333 +McCormick, New York 42 39 4 13 19 4 1 -- -- 1 .333 +Doyle, New York 143 558 98 184 263 33 8 10 13 36 .330 +Kuisely, Cincinnati 21 67 10 22 35 7 8 -- 1 3 .328 +Lobert, Philadelphia 65 257 37 84 112 12 5 2 10 13 .327 +Wiltse, New York 28 46 5 15 17 2 -- -- 1 1 .326 +Wagner, Pittsburgh 145 558 91 181 277 36 20 7 11 26 .324 +Hendrix, Pittsburgh 46 121 25 39 64 10 6 1 2 1 .322 +Kirke, Boston 103 359 53 115 146 11 4 4 9 7 .320 +Kelly, Pittsburgh 48 132 20 42 52 3 2 1 7 8 .318 +Marsans, Cincinnati 110 416 59 132 168 19 7 1 9 35 .317 +Kling, Boston 81 252 26 80 102 10 3 2 7 8 .317 +Donlin, Pittsburgh 77 244 27 77 108 9 8 2 10 8 .316 +Stengel, Brooklyn 17 57 9 38 22 1 -- 1 1 5 .316 +Paskert, Philadelphia 145 540 102 170 221 38 5 1 11 35 .315 +Konetchy, St. Louis 143 538 81 169 245 26 13 8 17 35 .314 +Crandall, New York 50 80 9 25 25 6 2 -- 3 -- .313 +Titus, + Philadelphia-Boston 141 502 99 155 224 32 11 5 15 11 .309 +Merkle, New York 129 479 82 148 215 22 6 11 8 37 .309 +Daubert, Brooklyn 145 559 81 173 232 19 16 3 14 39 .308 + +W. 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Foster</h1> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<h3>Credit for this e-text:<br> + The Library of Congress, Joshua Hutchinson, David King,<br> + and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team</h3> +<br> +<br> +<hr class="full"> +<h1>SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASEBALL GUIDE<br> +<br> +1913</h1> + +<center><b>EDITED BY</b></center> +<center><b>JOHN B. FOSTER</b></center> +<br> +<p> </p> +<center>PRICE 10 CENTS</center> +<center>PUBLISHED BY</center> +<center>AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING CO.,</center> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<center>[Advertisement]</center> +<center>AMERICA'S NATIONAL GAME</center> +<center>By A. G. SPALDING</center> +<center>PRICE, $2.00 NET</center> +<p> </p> +<p>A book of 600 pages, profusely illustrated with over 100 full +page engravings, and having sixteen forceful cartoons by Homer C. +Davenport, the famous American artist.</p> +<p>The above work should have a place in every public library in +this country, as also in the libraries of public schools and +private houses.</p> +<p>The author of "America's National Game" is conceded, always, +everywhere, and by everybody, to have the best equipment of any +living writer to treat the subject that forms the text of this +remarkable volume, viz., the story of the origin, development and +evolution of Base Ball, the National Game of our country.</p> +<p>Almost from the very inception of the game until the present +time—as player, manager and magnate—Mr. Spalding has +been closely identified with its interests. Not infrequently he has +been called upon in times of emergency to prevent threatened +disaster. But for him the National Game would have been syndicated +and controlled by elements whose interests were purely selfish and +personal.</p> +<p>The book is a veritable repository of information concerning +players, clubs and personalities connected with the game in its +early days, and is written in a most interesting style, +interspersed with enlivening anecdotes and accounts of events that +have not heretofore been published.</p> +<p>The response on the part of the press and the public to Mr. +Spalding's efforts to perpetuate the early history of the National +Game has been very encouraging and he is in receipt of hundreds of +letters and notices, a few of which are here given.</p> +<p>ROBERT ADAMSON, New York, writing from the office of Mayor +Gaynor, says:—"Seeing the Giants play is my principal +recreation and I am interested in reading everything I can find +about the game. I especially enjoy what you [Mr. Spalding] have +written, because you stand as the highest living authority on the +game."</p> +<p>BARNEY DREYFUSS, owner of the Pittsburg National League +club:—"It does honor to author as well as the game. I have +enjoyed reading it very much."</p> +<p>WALTER CAMP, well known foot ball expert and athlete, +says:—"It is indeed a remarkable work and one that I have +read with a great deal of interest."</p> +<p>JOHN B. DAY, formerly President of the New York +Nationals:—"Your wonderful work will outlast all of us."</p> +<p>W. IRVING SNYDER, formerly of the house of Peck & +Snyder:—"I have read the book from cover to cover with great +interest."</p> +<p>ANDREW PECK, formerly of the celebrated firm of Peck & +Snyder:—"All base ball fans should read and see how the game +was conducted in early years."</p> +<p>MELVILLE E. STONE, New York, General Manager Associated +Press:—"I find it full of valuable information and very +interesting. I prize it very highly."</p> +<p>GEORGE BARNARD, Chicago:—"Words fail to express my +appreciation of the book. It carries me back to the early days of +base ball and makes me feel like a young man again."</p> +<p>CHARLES W. MURPHY, President Chicago National League +club:—"The book is a very valuable work and will become a +part of every base ball library in the country."</p> +<p>JOHN F. MORILL, Boston, Mass., old time base ball star.—"I +did not think it possible for one to become so interested in a book +on base ball. I do not find anything in it which I can +criticise."</p> +<p>RALPH D. PAINE, popular magazine writer and a leading authority +on college sport:—"I have been reading the book with a great +deal of interest. 'It fills a long felt want,' and you are a +national benefactor for writing it."</p> +<p>GEN. FRED FUNSTON, hero of the Philippine war:—"I read the +book with a great deal of pleasure and was much interested in +seeing the account of base ball among the Asiatic whalers, which I +had written for Harper's Round Table so many years ago."</p> +<p>DEWOLF HOPPER, celebrated operatic artist and +comedian:—"Apart from the splendid history of the evolution +of the game, it perpetuates the memories of the many men who so +gloriously sustained it. It should be read by every lover of the +sport."</p> +<p>HUGH NICOL, Director of Athletics, Purdue University, Lafayette, +Ind.:—"No one that has read this book has appreciated it more +than I. Ever since I have been big enough, I have been in +professional base ball, and you can imagine how interesting the +book is to me."</p> +<p>MRS. BRITTON, owner of the St. Louis Nationals, through her +treasurer, H.D. Seekamp, writes:—"Mrs. Britton has been very +much interested in the volume and has read with pleasure a number +of chapters, gaining valuable information as to the history of the +game."</p> +<p>REV. CHARLES H. PARKHURST, D.D., New York:—"Although I am +not very much of a 'sport,' I nevertheless believe in sports, and +just at the present time in base ball particularly. Perhaps if all +the Giants had an opportunity to read the volume before the recent +game (with the Athletics) they might not have been so grievously +outdone."</p> +<p>BRUCE CARTWRIGHT, son of Alexander J. Cartwright, founder of the +Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, the first organization of ball +players in existence, writing from his home at Honolulu, Hawaiian +Islands, says:—"I have read the book with great interest and +it is my opinion that no better history of base ball could have +been written."</p> +<p>GEORGE W. FROST, San Diego, Calif.:—"You and 'Jim' White, +George Wright, Barnes, McVey, O'Rourke, etc., were little gods to +us back there in Boston in those days of '74 and '75, and I recall +how indignant we were when you 'threw us down' for the Chicago +contract. The book is splendid. I treasure it greatly."</p> +<p>A.J. REACH, Philadelphia, old time professional +expert:—"It certainly is an interesting revelation of the +national game from the time, years before it was so dignified, up +to the present. Those who have played the game, or taken an +interest in it in the past, those at present engaged in it, +together with all who are to engage in it, have a rare treat in +store."</p> +<p>DR. LUTHER H. GULICK, Russell Sage Foundation:—"Mr. +Spalding has been the largest factor in guiding the development of +the game and thus deserves to rank with other great men of the +country who have contributed to its success. It would have added to +the interest of the book if Mr. Spalding could have given us more +of his own personal experiences, hopes and ambitions in connection +with the game."</p> +<p><i>Pittsburg Press</i>:—"Historical incidents abound and +the book is an excellent authority on the famous sport."</p> +<p><i>Philadelphia Telegraph</i>:—"In this book Mr. Spalding +has written the most complete and authoritative story of base ball +yet published."</p> +<p><i>New York Herald</i>:—"If there is anyone in the country +competent to write a book on base ball it is A.G. Spalding who has +been interested in the game from its early beginnings."</p> +<p>I.E. Sanborn, Chicago <i>Tribune</i>:—"'America's National +Game' has been added to the <i>Tribune's</i> sporting reference +library as an invaluable contribution to the literature of the +national pastime."</p> +<p>O.C. Reichard, Chicago <i>Daily News</i>:—"It is cleverly +written and presents information and dates of great value to the +newspaper man of to-day!"</p> +<p>George C. Rice, Chicago <i>Journal</i>:—"I have read the +book through, and take pleasure in stating that it is a complete +history of the game from the beginning until the present time."</p> +<p>Sherman R. Duffy, Sporting Editor <i>Chicago +Journal</i>:—"It is a most interesting work and one for which +there was need. It is the most valuable addition to base ball +literature that has yet been put out."</p> +<p>Joseph H. Vila, New York <i>Sun</i>:—"I have read it +carefully and with much interest. It is the best piece of base ball +literature I have ever seen, and I congratulate you on the +work."</p> +<p>Tim Murnane, Sporting Editor <i>Boston Globe</i>:—"You +have given to the world a book of inestimable value, a classic in +American history; a book that should be highly prized in every home +library in the country."</p> +<p>Francis C. Richter, Editor <i>Sporting Life</i>, +Philadelphia:—"From a purely literary standpoint, your work +is to me amazing. Frankly, I would not change a line, for the +reason that the story is told in a way to grip the reader and hold +his interest continually."</p> +<p><i>Los Angeles Times</i> (editorial):—"Spalding's book has +been out six months and ninety thousand copies have been sold. We +understand there will be other editions. America has taken base +ball seriously for at last two generations, and it is time enough +that the fad was given an adequate text book."</p> +<p>Caspar Whitney, Editor <i>Outdoor America</i>, and one of the +leading authorities in the world on sport:—"You have made an +invaluable contribution to the literature of the game, and one none +else could have made. Moreover, you've done some very interesting +writing, which is a distinct novelty in such books—too often +dull and uninteresting."</p> +<p><i>New York World</i>:—"Albert G. Spalding, who really +grew up with the sport, has written 'America's National Game,' +which he describes as not a history, but the simple story of the +game as he has come to know it. His book, therefore, is full of +living interest. It is a volume generously illustrated and abounds +in personal memories of base ball in the making."</p> +<p><i>New York Sun</i>:—"There is a mass of interesting +information regarding base ball, as might be expected, in Mr. +Spalding's 'America's National Game.' It is safe to say that before +Spalding there was no base ball. The book is no record of games and +players, but it is historical in a broader sense, and the author is +able to give his personal decisive testimony about many disputed +points."</p> +<p><i>Evening Telegram</i>, New York:—"In clear, concise, +entertaining, narrative style, Albert G. Spalding has contributed +in many respects the most interesting work pertaining to base ball, +the national game, which has been written.</p> +<p>"There is so much in it of interest that the temptation not to +put it down until it is completed is strong within the mind of +every person who begins to read it. As a historical record it is +one of those volumes which will go further to straighten some +disputed points than all of the arguments which could be advanced +in good natured disputes which might last for months."</p> +<p><i>Providence</i> (R. I.) <i>Tribune</i>:—"The pictures of +old time teams players and magnates of a bygone era will interest +every lover of the game, and no doubt start many discussions and +recollections among the old timers."</p> +<p><i>New York Evening Mail</i>:—"Were it possible to +assemble the grand army of base ball fans in convention, their +first act probably would be to pass a vote of thanks to Mr. A.G. +Spalding for his work 'America's National Game'."</p> +<p><i>Columbus</i> (Ohio) <i>Dispatch</i>:—"Never before has +been put in print so much of authentic record of this distinctly +national game, and it will be long, if ever, until so thoroughly +interesting and useful a volume is published to cover the same +field."</p> +<p><i>New Orleans Picayune</i>:—"The pictures of old time +teams, players and magnates of a bygone era will interest every +lover of the game. Homer Davenport, America's great cartoonist, has +contributed drawings in his inimitable style of various phases of +the game."</p> +<p><i>Indianapolis Star</i>:—"From cover to cover, the 542 +pages are filled with material for 'fanning bees,' which the +average 'fan' never before encountered. It is an interesting volume +for anyone who follows the national pastime and a valuable addition +to any library."</p> +<p><i>Buffalo News</i>:—"No book on base ball has ever been +written that is superior to this one by A.G. Spalding. The book is +admirably written, yet without any frills. Many of the more notable +incidents recounted in this book are having wide publication by +themselves."</p> +<p><i>Brooklyn Times</i>:—"The book is practically a +compendium of the salient incidents in the evolution of +professional base ball. Mr. Spalding is pre-eminently fitted to +perform this service, his connection with the game having been +contemporaneous with its development, as player, club owner and +league director."</p> +<p><i>Washington</i> (D. C.) <i>Star</i>:—"This work appeals +with peculiar force to the public. Mr. Spalding's name is almost +synonymous with base ball. He has worked to the end of producing a +volume which tells the story of the game vividly and accurately. +Taken altogether, this is a most valuable and entertaining +work."</p> +<p><i>New York American</i>:—"One of the best selling books +of the season has been 'America's National Game,' by A.G. Spalding. +The first edition of five thousand copies has been sold out (in two +months) and a second edition of five thousand is now on the press. +As a Christmas gift from father to son, it is most +appropriate."</p> +<p><i>Cincinnati Enquirer</i>:—"As a veteran of the diamond, +well qualified to do so, Mr. Spalding has committed to print a +professional's version of the distinctly American game. This well +known base ball celebrity has a store of familiar anecdotes +embracing the entire period of the game as now played and the +reader will find it most interesting."</p> +<p><i>Teacher and Home, New York</i>:—"Every live father of a +live boy will want to buy this book. It is said of some of the +'best sellers' that they hold one to the end. This book holds the +reader with its anecdote, its history, its pictures; but it will +have no end; for no home—no American home—will be +complete hereafter without it."</p> +<p><i>Buffalo Times</i>:—"A.G. Spalding, with whose name +every American boy is familiar, has been prevailed upon to commit +to print events which were instrumental in guiding the destinies of +the National League during the trying period of its early days. To +write upon base ball in a historical manner, and yet not fall into +the habit of quoting interminable statistics, is a feat that few +could accomplish."</p> +<p><i>Cincinnati Times-Star</i>:—"'America's National Game,' +A.G. Spalding's great book upon the diamond sport, is now upon the +market and receiving well merited attention. It tells the story as +Mr. Spalding saw it, and no man has been in position to see more. +When 'Al' Spalding, the sinewy pitcher of nearly forty years ago, +came into the arena, the game was young, and through all the +changing seasons that have seen it mature into full bloom, its +closest watcher and strongest friend has been the same 'Al' +Spalding."</p> +<p><i>Cincinnati Time-Star</i>:—"The book is at once a +history, a cyclopaedia and a most entertaining volume."</p> +<p><i>New York American</i>:—"'America's National Game' tells +for the first time the history of the national game of base +ball."</p> +<p><i>Portland Oregonian</i>:—"The book is of rare interest +and has such personal value in the story line that one hardly knows +where to begin in making quotations from it—all the stories +told are so admirable."</p> +<p>JOHN T. NICHOLSON, Principal Public School 186, New +York:—"It's a great book."</p> +<p>REV. W.A. SUNDAY, Evangelist:—"No one in America is better +qualified to talk of base ball, from its inception to its present +greatness, than A.G. Spalding."</p> +<p>WM. L. VEECK and ED. W. SMITH, of the Chicago +<i>American</i>:—"We have found much enjoyment in reading the +book, and it is very valuable in our work."</p> +<p>W.H. CONANT, Gossamer Rubber Co., Boston, Mass.:—"I have +read the book with great pleasure and it produced a vivid +reminiscence of the striking events in base ball, so full of +interest to all lovers of the game."</p> +<p>JOSEPH B. MACCABE, Editor East Boston (Mass.) +<i>Argus-Advocate</i>, and ex-President Amateur Athletic +Union:—"I want to express my gratitude, as a humble follower +of manly sport, for the compilation of this historic work."</p> +<p>JOHN A. LOWELL, President John A. Lowell Bank Note Company, +Boston, Mass.:—"I have read the book with great interest and +it certainly is a valuable compilation of facts relating to the +history of base ball, the great national game of America. I prize +it very highly."</p> +<p>WM. F. GARCELON, Harvard Athletic Association, Cambridge, +Mass.:—"I think 'America's National Game' is not only +intensely interesting but most valuable, as giving the history of +the game. Better still, my nine year old boy is looking forward to +the time when he can get it away from me."</p> +<p>GUSTAV T. KIRBY, President of the Amateur Athletic +Union:—"Not only as a historical sketch of this great +national game, but also as a technical dissertation on base ball as +it was and is, this book will not only be of interest but of +benefit to all of us Americans who are interested in +sport—and what American is not interested in sport?—and +being interested in sport, chiefly in base ball."</p> +<p>EVERETT C. BROWN, Chicago, ex-president of the Amateur Athletic +Union of the United States:—"It is very seldom that any +history of any sport or anything pertaining to athletics approaches +the interest with which one reads a popular work of fiction, but I +can truthfully say that I have read the story of the great national +game with as much interest as I have read any recent work of +fiction."</p> +<p>THOMAS F. GRAHAM, Judge Superior Court, San +Francisco:—"'America's National Game' contains matter on the +origin and development of base ball—the greatest game ever +devised by man—that will be of the utmost interest to the +base ball loving people, not only of this, but of every English +speaking country; and I am sure it will perpetuate the name of A.G. +Spalding to the end of time."</p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<h2>SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE</h2> +<center>Thirty-seventh Year</center> +<center>1913</center> +<center>EDITED BY</center> +<center>JOHN B. FOSTER</center> +<center>AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING COMPANY</center> +<hr> +<h2><b>CONTENTS</b></h2> +<p><a href="#INT">INTRODUCTION</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_2">EDITORIAL COMMENT</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_3">NEW FACES IN THE OLD LEAGUE</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_4">THE UMPIRES</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_5">BASE BALL WRITERS OF THE SOUTH</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_6">BASE BALL WORTH WHILE?</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_7">THE SPALDING BASE BALL HALL OF FAME</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_8">JOHN TOMLINSON BRUSH</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_9">THE WORLD'S SERIES OF 1912</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_10">NATIONAL LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_11">AMERICAN LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912</a></p> +<hr> +<a name="INT"><!-- INT --></a> +<h2>INTRODUCTION</h2> +<p>In preparing this issue of SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE +for the season of 1913, it has occurred to the Editor that the +season of 1912, and the period which followed its completion, have +been filled, with a great deal of unusual and uncommon +vicissitude.</p> +<p>In the first place the personnel of the National League, the +oldest Base Ball organization in the world, has been greatly +changed by reason of death and purchase of one franchise. New +owners have brought new faces into the game, and when the National +League starts on this year's campaign there will be some younger +but equally as ambitious men at the heads of some of the clubs.</p> +<p>The players have effected an organization. That, too, is an +incident of interest, for it is well within the memory of the Base +Ball "fans" of this day what happened when another organization was +perfected in the past. For this organization it may be said that +the members promise that it will be their object to bring about +better deportment on the part of their own associates and that they +will work their best for the advancement of Base Ball from a +professional standpoint. If they do this they will be of benefit to +the sport. If they work from selfish motives it is inevitable that +eventually there will be a clash, as there was in the past.</p> +<p>The last world's series which was played was the greatest +special series of games which has been played in the history of the +national pastime. There may have been single games and there may +have been series which have attracted their full measure of +interest from the Base Ball "fans," but there never has been a +special series so filled with thrills and excitement as that +between the New York and Boston clubs. The GUIDE this year enters +into the subject thoroughly with photographs and a story of the +games and feels that the readers will enjoy the account of the +contests.</p> +<p>Some innovations have been attempted in this number of the GUIDE +which should interest Base Ball readers. Attention is called to the +symposium by prominent Base Ball writers which brings up a subject +of interest in regard to future world's series. There are other +special articles, including something about the Base Ball writers +of the South, who have decided to organize a chapter of their +own.</p> +<p>The year 1912 was one of progress and advancement on the part of +Base Ball throughout the world. To-day it not only is stronger than +ever as America's national game but it is making fast progress in +other countries because of the attractiveness of the pastime.</p> +<p>The Editor of the GUIDE wishes its thousands of readers an even +more enjoyable Base Ball year in 1913 than they had in 1912. This +publication is now one of worldwide circulation, and carries the +gospel of Base Ball, not only across the Atlantic ocean, but across +the Pacific ocean as well. One of these days it may be its province +to report a series for the international championship, and then +Base Ball will have become the universal game of the world, a place +toward which it is rapidly tending.</p> +<center>THE EDITOR.</center> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<a name="RULE4_2"><!-- RULE4 2 --></a> +<h2>EDITORIAL COMMENT</h2> +<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center> +<center>PROGRESS OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL GAME</center> +<p>Two more nations have been conquered by the national game of the +United States; a whole race has succumbed to the fascinations of +the greatest of all outdoor sports. Both France and Sweden have +announced their intention of organizing Base Ball leagues. That of +Sweden is well under way. Indeed, they have a club in Stockholm and +there are more to follow, while the French, who have gradually been +awakening to the joys of athletic pastime in which they have +hitherto chosen to participate in other ways, hope to have a new +league by the expiration of the present summer.</p> +<p>There is no doubt as to their intention to play Base Ball. They +are making efforts to procure suitable players from the United +States to coach them and the French promoters of the sport are +determined that their young men shall be given every opportunity to +take advantage of the game of which they have heard so much, and +have seen so little.</p> +<p>Last year in the GUIDE it was the pleasure of the editor to call +attention to the fact that the Japanese had so thoroughly grasped +Base Ball that they were bent on some day playing an American team +for the international championship. It is not probable that such a +series will take place within the next five years, but not +improbable that it will take place within the next decade. When the +Japanese learn to bat better, and with more effect, they will +become more dangerous rivals to the peace of mind of the American +players. They have grasped the general theory of the game amazingly +well, and they field well, but they have yet to develop some of +those good old fashioned "clean up" hitters in which the "fans" of +the United States revel.</p> +<p>This season it comes to the attention of the editor of the GUIDE +that more progress has been made in China in regard to Base Ball +than in any fifty years preceding. True, there was not much Base +Ball in the fifty years preceding, but now there is. There is a +league at Hong Kong. There are Base Ball teams at Shanghai and +other cities.</p> +<p>Dr. Eliot, former president of Harvard, who recently returned +from a trip around the world, holds that Base Ball has done more to +humanize and civilize the Chinese than any influence which has been +introduced by foreigners, basing his statement on the fact that the +introduction of the sport among the younger Chinese has exerted a +tremendous restraint upon their gambling propensities.</p> +<p>It is a rather queer fact that where the civilizations are older +in the countries of the Occident there is a greater tendency to +gamble, especially among the young, than there is in the newer +America. Doubtless this is largely due to the lack of athletic +pastime. The young of those countries know little or nothing about +simple amusements which are so popular in the United States, and +acquire from their elders their knowledge of betting and taking +part in games of chance, two evils which unquestionably have done +much to degrade the race as a whole.</p> +<p>Base Ball has caught the fancy of the younger generation and the +boys. Once they get a ball and a bat in their hands they are better +satisfied with them than with all the gambling devices which have +been bequeathed to them by a long and eminent line of +forefathers.</p> +<p>So it would appear that the introduction of the national game of +the United States into China is likely to exert a humanizing +influence which shall go further than legislation or sword, and if +only the missionaries had grasped earlier the wishes and the +tendency of the younger element of the Chinese population, the +country might be further along than it is with its progressive +movement.</p> +<p>In the Philippine Islands the younger generation simply has gone +wild over Base Ball. Progress has been noted in the GUIDE from time +to time of the increase of interest but it is now at such a pitch +that the boys of the islands, wherever Base Ball has been +introduced, simply have deserted everything for it. They will play +nothing else. The cockfights and the gambling games, which were +also a part of the amusement of the younger men, have been given +up. The little fellows who wear not much more than a breechclout +play Base Ball. They have picked up many of the American terms and +one of the most amusing of experiences is to stand outside the +walls of old Manila and hear the little brown boys call: "Shoot it +over. Line it out," and the like, returning to their native +language, and jabbering excitedly in Filipino whenever they arrive +at some point of play in which their command of English fails +them.</p> +<p>Twenty years from now a league including cities of the +Philippines, China and Japan, is by no means out of the question, +and it may be that the introduction of Base Ball into all three +countries will result in a better understanding between the peoples +and perhaps bring all three races to a better frame of mind as +relates to their personal ambitions and rivalries.</p> +<p>In connection with the widespread influence which Base Ball is +having on both sides of the world, on the shores of the Pacific +Ocean and on those of the Atlantic Ocean the editor would like to +call attention to the theory which has been advanced by Mr. A.G. +Spalding, the founder of the GUIDE, as to the efficacy of Base Ball +for the purpose of training athletes, that has a worldwide +application.</p> +<p>Mr. Spalding contends that Base Ball has lent no small +assistance to the athletes of the United States in helping them to +win premier honors at the Olympic Games since their reintroduction. +Mr. Spalding was the first American Commissioner to the Olympic +Games appointed to that post, the honor being conferred upon him in +1900, when the late President McKinley gave him his commission to +represent the United States at Paris in 1900. Mr. Spalding, with +his analytical mind has reasoned out a theory which is undoubtedly +of great accuracy, and which is further corroborated by an +interview given out in London—strangely enough on the same +day that Mr. Spalding gave utterance to his ideas in Los +Angeles—by Mr. J.E. Sullivan, American Commissioner to the +Olympic Games at Stockholm last year, while returning to the United +States after witnessing the triumphs of the Americans. Mr. Spalding +said:</p> +<p>"I cannot say that I am at all surprised at the result at +Stockholm. History has been repeating itself in this way ever since +the celebration of the Olympic games was inaugurated at Athens. +America won the victory there in 1896; she triumphed again at Paris +in 1900; our athletes defeated the contestants at St. Louis in +1904; the victory was ours at London in 1908, and it was a foregone +conclusion that we would win at Stockholm.</p> +<p>"But there is food for thought in this uninterrupted succession +of triumphs. Why do our athletes always win? All other things being +equal, the contestants in the country holding the event should +naturally come to the front. Their numbers are always greater than +those from any other country and the home grounds influence is +strong. However, that advantage has not in any case prevented +American success.</p> +<p>"Therefore there must be a cause. What is it? Measured by scale +and tape, our athlete's are not so much superior as a class. The +theory of 'more beef' must be discarded. We may not lay claim to +having all the best trainers of the world. We must look to some +other source for American prowess.</p> +<p>"I may be a prejudiced judge, but I believe the whole secret of +these continued successes is to be found to the kind of training +that comes with the playing of America's national game, and our +competitors in other lands may never hope to reach the standard of +American athletes until they learn this lesson and adopt our +pastime.</p> +<p>"The question, 'When should the training of a child begin?' has +been wisely answered by the statement that it should antedate his +birth. The training of Base Ball may not go back quite that far, +but it approaches the time as nearly as practicable, for America +starts training of future Olympian winners very early in life. +Youngsters not yet big enough to attend school begin quickening +their eyesight and sharpening their wits and strengthening their +hands and arms and legs by playing on base ball fields ready at +hand in the meadows of farms, the commons of villages and the parks +of cities all over the land. Base ball combines running, jumping, +throwing and everything that constitutes the athletic events of the +Olympian games. But above all, it imparts to the player that degree +of confidence in competition, that indefinable something that +enables one athlete to win over another who may be his physical +equal but who is lacking the American spirit begotten of base +ball.</p> +<p>"An analysis of the 1912 Olympian games shows that the American +showed to best advantage in contests where the stress of +competition was hardest. In the dashes they were supreme; in the +hurdles they were in a class by themselves, and in the high jump +and pole vault there was no one worthy of their steel. Whenever +quick thinking and acting was required, an American was in front. +Does not this fact prove that the American game of base ball +enables the player to determine in the fraction of a second what to +do to defeat his contestant?"</p> +<hr> +<center>WHAT A SEASON OF BASE BALL COSTS</center> +<p>It may not be out of place to say a few words in regard to the +greatly increased cost of Base Ball. There are some sensational +writers whose hobby is to inform the public about the great +receipts in Base Ball. Usually they exaggerate from twenty-five to +thirty-five per cent.</p> +<p>Now as to the expense of Base Ball. Figures at an approximate +for the National League will be offered. Railroad expenses for +mileage alone $300,000, including spring training trips. Hotel +bills $65,000. Sleeping cars and meals en route, $80,000. Salaries +to players, $480,000. Total, $875,000. Add to this $30,000 for the +salaries of umpires and their traveling expenses. That makes +$905,000.</p> +<p>Now not a penny has been appropriated thus far for the salaries +of the president of the National League, the secretary and +expenditures of the office nor for the salaries of the business +departments of the various clubs, nor for ground rents, taxes and a +dozen and one other things, to say nothing of that well-known old +item "wear and tear."</p> +<p>The receipts of Base Ball barely cover these expenditures. The +alleged profits of Base Ball mostly are fanciful dreams of those +who know nothing of the practical side of the sport and are stunned +when they are made acquainted with the real financial problems +which confront club owners.</p> +<p>But the money that is contributed to the support of the game +almost immediately finds its way back into public channels. Less +than thirty per cent. of Base Ball clubs realize what a business +man would call a fair return on the amount invested.</p> +<p>A well-known writer on economic topics interviewed owners of +Base Ball clubs as to their income and outgo. One of the best known +of the National League men took the writer into his office and +spread the cash book of the club's business before him.</p> +<p>"You may go through it if you wish," said the owner, "but here +is the balance for the last day of the year."</p> +<p>It read as follows: Receipts, $250,505; expenditures, +$246,447.</p> +<p>"That's answer enough for me," said the writer. "I am through +with any more essays on the affluence of Base Ball 'magnates.' I +think it would be better to extend them the hand of charity than +the mailed fist."</p> +<hr> +<center>THE NEW ORGANIZATION OF PLAYERS</center> +<p>The formation of an organization on the part of the major league +ball players during the closing days of the season of 1912 was +looked upon with some misgivings by those who remember only too +well what happened when a prior organization of ball players was +formed.</p> +<p>In the present instance those foremost in perfecting the +organization have also been foremost in asserting that the players' +organization's principal aim is to co-operate with the club +owners.</p> +<p>If this object is followed with fidelity and to its ultimate +conclusion there is no necessity to fear any grave disturbances, +but there is a dread—that dread which is the fear of the +child that has had its hands burned by the flame, that a selfish +coterie of players might obtain control of the organization, set up +a policy of unscrupulous defiance and destructive opposition and +retard for a moment the higher development of the game.</p> +<p>There is no organization, either of unscrupulous Base Ball +players or unscrupulous club owners, which will ever find it +possible to destroy organized Base Ball. The results that organized +Base Ball have brought about will never be annihilated although +grave injury could be temporarily wrought by a force defiant to tie +unusual demands made by the sport to perpetuate itself +successfully.</p> +<p>It is simply out of the question to control Base Ball as one +would control the affairs of a department store. Base Ball has its +commercial side, but its commercial side cannot maintain it with +success. There must be a predominant factor based upon the +encouragement that brings forth admiration for a high class sport. +This factor can only be fostered by the ability to maintain not +one, but a group of high class teams.</p> +<p>Any ball player imbued with the idea that the "stars" should be +grouped together in the city best able to pay the highest salaries +simply is an enemy to his career and to those of his fellow +players.</p> +<p>Without some handicap to assist in the equalizing of the +strength of Base Ball nines of the professional leagues there will +be no prosperity for the leagues or the clubs individually. No +better evidence may be cited to prove this than the fact, +repeatedly demonstrated that in the smaller leagues Base Ball +enthusiasts in the city best able to pay the largest salaries +frequently withdraw their support of the team because "it wins all +the time."</p> +<p>To-day Base Ball, in its professional atmosphere, is nearer an +ideal sport, a better managed sport, and a more fairly and +equitably adjusted sport, than it ever has been, which is manifest +proof of its superior evolution. Had results been otherwise it +would have retrograded and possibly passed out of existence. +Carefully comparing its management with that of all other sports in +history the Editor of the GUIDE believes that it is the best +managed sport in the world.</p> +<p>It is true that improvements can be made. It is evident that +there are still commercialized owners not over capitalized with a +spirit of sport. It is undeniable that there are ball players not +imbued with a high tone of the obligations, which they owe to their +employers and to the public, but it is as certain as the existence +of the game that progress has been made, and that it has not ceased +to move forward.</p> +<p>For that reason players and owners must be guided by a sense of +lofty ideals and not be led astray by foolish outbursts over +trivial differences of opinion, easily to be adjusted by the +exercise of a little common sense.</p> +<hr> +<center>BASE BALL PLAYED IN SWEDEN</center> +<p>In connection with the subject of "Base Ball For All the World," +for which the GUIDE expounds and spreads the gospel, the Editor +would submit a very interesting letter received by him from Sweden. +it reads as follows:</p> +<p>Westeras, Sweden, Sept. 14, 1912.</p> +<p>To the Editor of the GUIDE:</p> +<p>We hereby have the pleasure of sending you two copies of the +rules, translated and issued by the Westeras Base Ball Club, into +Swedish from the Spalding Base Ball Guide.</p> +<p>The work of getting the book out has been somewhat slow on +account of that the work of translating, proofreading, etc., all +had to be done on our spare time, but it is done now, and I think +we have succeeded pretty well, everything considered. The books +will be distributed by a well-known book firm, Bjork & Boyeson, +Stockholm, and will soon be available in all the bookstores in +Sweden.</p> +<p>We got some advance copies out just in time for the Olympic +Games, and I had the pleasure of presenting some copies to +Commissioner Col. Thompson, Manager Halpin and others of the +American Olympic Committee.</p> +<p>As you know, so did we have a game of Base Ball at Stockholm +with one of the Finland teams, and as it may be of some interest to +you to know the preliminaries to the game, I am writing to relate +how it happened.</p> +<p>In trying to arrange for some amusements in the evenings at the +Stadium, the Olympic Committee wrote us if we would be willing to +take part in a game of Base Ball at Stadium some evening during the +Stadium week. As our club this year was in poor condition, on +account of some of our best players being out on military duties, +we hesitated at first, but then decided to risk it, knowing very +well that whoever we would play against, they would not rub in to +us too hard. We pointed out to the Olympic Committee that it would +not be very hard to get a team of Base Ball players picked out from +the American athletes taking part in the contests, but as they +would not be prepared for Base Ball, suits and other needed +articles had to be provided for. We were then told to get necessary +things ordered, and so we did. We ordered suits from a tailor in +this town, after a pattern that I got from Spalding's this spring. +The suits were of gray flannel, with blue trimmings for our team +and red trimmings for the American. I also ordered bats and gloves, +and with the things our club already had, we were very well +equipped.</p> +<p>The Olympic Committee, Stockholm, then received a letter from +the Olympic Committee, New York, saying that if a game of Base Ball +could be arranged for during the Olympian Games, they would bring +two teams along on the Finland. The Olympic Committee cabled to +come along, and sent us a copy of Mr. Sullivan's letter. I knew, of +course, that if the game could be played by two American teams, it +would be a much better game than if our team took part, and told +the Olympic Committee, and wanted to withdraw, but as they did not +know for sure how it would be, told us to go ahead with the +arrangements just the same, and so we did, and by the time the +Finland arrived, everything had been arranged for.</p> +<p>The Olympic Committee has selected the evening, 7 P.M., of the +10th of July, for the game, and thought that this would be suitable +to the Americans, but as some of the players had to take part in +the contests, Mr. Halpin would not risk them then, so it was +finally decided that a game should be played the 15th, the +Americans to play six innings between themselves and then six +innings against us.</p> +<p>Well, we had a game at the training grounds. We played six +innings, and Mr. Halpin was kind enough to let us have a pitcher +and catcher from his men. The score was 9 to 3, and it could just +as well been 9 to 0, perhaps. Well, at any rate, it was the first +Base Ball game, as far as I know, that ever took place in Europe +between an American team and a European team, with England possibly +excepted.</p> +<p>Mr. Halpin said that the Americans were going to play a game the +next morning between themselves, but that game did not come off. +There was probably no time for it, as the Finland left Stockholm +the same day. Very likely the American boys were somewhat +disappointed in not being able to play between themselves, as +anticipated, and perhaps I should not have pushed our game ahead, +but as long as there was a Base Ball team in Sweden, it would have +been strange if it had not played, and it gave our boys a chance to +see how the game should be played, and they certainly did take it +in. Had the game been played as it was intended and advertised, on +the 10th in the Stadium, there would very likely have been a bigger +crowd present, and the game would also have been more talked about +in the papers, but then we will have to be satisfied as it is.</p> +<p>Our club has been practicing all summer, twice a week, and on +the 24th of August we gave an exhibition game here at Westeras, +between two teams from our club, the suits made for the Olympic +Games coming in very handy. I send you herewith a clipping from a +local paper describing the game, and also a picture of the two +teams with myself and the umpire included.</p> +<p>At our game here we distributed the "Description of Base Ball," +written by you and translated into Swedish, and it came of good +use. Next year we intend to have our teams appear in the nearby +cities around here, so as to give people a chance to see the game, +and it will not be long before they will start it in Stockholm, so +I think the game is bound to be popular here also,</p> +<p>Mr. George Wright, of Boston, was the umpire at the Stockholm +games, and as he was very kind to us, we would like to send him the +picture of the club, and hope that you will forward us his +address.</p> +<p>I am, for Westeras Base Ball Club,</p> +<p>Yours truly,</p> +<p>EDWIN JOHNSON,</p> +<p>Electrical Engineer.</p> +<hr> +<center>THE NEW NATIONAL AGREEMENT</center> +<p>Unlimited satisfaction must be had by all who are connected with +Base Ball over the greatly improved conditions by which the season +of 1913 is begun under the new National Agreement. While it perhaps +might be exaggerated boastfulness to affirm that Base Ball, as a +professionally organized sport, has attained perfection, it is not +out of reason— indeed, quite within reason—to observe +that Base Ball never had such a well balanced and perfect +organization as that by which it is regulated at the present +time.</p> +<p>The principal fact of congratulation lies in the safeguards and +provisions which have been thrown around the players of the minor +leagues and in the equitable and just measures which have been +agreed upon to provide for their future.</p> +<p>As a general rule it may be taken for granted that the players +of the major leagues can take care of themselves. That is to say, +their positions, if they are expert in their calling, and +conscientious in their deportment, really take care of them.</p> +<p>No club owner, unless he is maliciously or foolishly inclined, +will jeopardize the interests of his team by acting in a wilfully +unjust manner toward a player who is cheerfully and uprightly +offering his services. We may hear of occasional exceptions to this +condition of things, but if these occasional exceptions chance to +arise, it is inevitably certain that the owner in the long run will +suffer to a greater degree than the player with whom he deals +unfairly.</p> +<p>It is the history of Base Ball that more inequitable treatment +has arisen by fifty per cent in the minor leagues than has had its +origin in the major leagues. The reason for this existed almost +wholly in the inability of Base Ball as a whole to bring the minor +league owners to a realization of the injury that they might be +doing and to extend such punishment and insist upon such regulation +as were necessary to change this undesirable condition.</p> +<p>By the organization of the National Association of Base Ball +clubs the minor leagues, for the first time in their history, +placed themselves in a position where they could demand proper +enforcement of regulations for the government of the sport, and by +their alliance with the major league clubs, under the articles of +the National Agreement, a general working basis was effected +whereby compliance with rules could be insisted upon.</p> +<p>The result of this admirable condition of affairs is that wisdom +and equity now rule where there once existed chaos and at times +something akin to anarchy in sport.</p> +<p>At no time in the history of the game, which is so dear to the +hearts of the American people, has the general legislative and +executive body been so well equipped by the adoption of pertinent +and virile laws to insist upon justice to all concerned as at the +present moment.</p> +<p>The new National Agreement is an improvement upon the old and +the old was a long, long step in advance of anything which had +preceded it. The mere fact that club owners and leagues were so +willing to adopt a system better than its predecessor wholly +confutes the absurd assertions of the radical element that there is +no consideration shown for the player.</p> +<p>To the contrary, every consideration has been shown to the +player, but the latter must not confound with the consideration +shown to him the idea that his interests are the only interests at +stake in Base Ball. The man who is willing to furnish the sinews of +war has as good standing in court as the player who furnishes the +base hits and the phenomenal catches.</p> +<p>So perfect is the system which is being attempted to be set in +force by the new National Agreement that the young man who now +essays to play professional Base Ball may be assured of steady +advancement in this profession and a generally improving condition +if he will be as honest by his employer as he expects his employer +to be honest by him.</p> +<p>The graduated system of assisting players, step by step, from +the least important leagues to the most important is the most +perfect plan of its kind that has ever been devised. There may be +flaws in it, but if there are they will be remedied, and if +modifications are necessary to make it more perfect there is no +doubt that such modifications will be agreed upon.</p> +<p>As proof of what the new National Agreement may do, although it +has barely had time to be considered, the editor of the GUIDE would +submit the following for consideration:</p> +<p>Ever since the National Agreement was organized the members have +always striven to aid the players in their efforts to gain the top +rank in the great national game. They have had a hard proposition +in handling all of the cases that have been brought to their +attention, but their decisions in all cases were absolutely fair +and impartial. Then the matter of the new agreement occasioned many +hours of laborious work on the part of the members of the +Commission, and when the instrument was finally announced it meant +that all of the parties to such an agreement were satisfied and +that there could be no improvement. There was one detail that +covered a wide field, and that was in the matter of players; +drafted by the two big leagues and later sent back to the minors. +Under the old National Agreement it was possible to pick up a +player by means of the annual draft from one of the Class C leagues +and just before the opening of the season send him back to the club +from whence he came without ever having given him a chance to land +with a club in some higher organization.</p> +<p>Realizing that such players were not given a chance to advance +in the Base Ball profession, this matter was thoroughly thrashed +out and the new ruling under which all of the National Agreement +clubs operate was adopted. Now it is possible for a player in any +of the smaller leagues to be drafted by a major league club, and +when the latter party does not care to retain possession of such a +player he is first offered to the Class AA clubs. All of these +clubs must waive on him before he can be dropped farther down in +the list, and if such should be the case he would then be offered +to the Class A clubs. In that way the player, although he is not +fast enough to remain in the two major leagues, is always given a +chance to advance, for if any of the clubs in those classes higher +than that from which he came had grabbed him he was bound to +receive an increase in salary. That meant that he had his chance to +advance, and that was the sole purpose of the National Agreement in +drafting such a rule.</p> +<p>During the past drafting season there were sixty-nine players +drafted by the two major league clubs, and of that number +twenty-seven have already been sent back to the minor leagues. The +Class AA and A clubs claimed all of these twenty-seven, and it is +more than likely that there will also be many more who will be +given trials by the big league clubs during the spring training +season and who may later be turned back to the minors. Of the +twenty-seven players thus far sent back seventeen of them advanced +in their profession, a tribute to the sagacity, wisdom and +impartiality of the members of the National Commission. The +decision, as announced by Chairman Herrmann of the National +Commission pertaining to this return of drafted players, is as +follows:</p> +<pre> +------------|-----------------|----------|-----------|-------------- + Clubs. | League. | Players. | Drafted | Drafted By + | | | From | +------------|-----------------|----------|-----------|-------------- +Louisville |American Asso. |Stansbury |Louisville |St. Louis N.L. +Chattanooga |Southern Asso. |Balenti |Chattanooga|St. Louis A.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |Berghammer|Lincoln |Chicago N.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |Orr |Sacramento |Phila. A.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |[1]Young |Harrisburg |New York A.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Berghammer|Lincoln |Chicago N.L. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Cathers |Scranton |St. Louis N.L. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Metz |San Antonio|Boston N.L. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Kernan |Oshkosh |Chicago A.L. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Bates |Newp't News|Cleveland. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Betts |San Antonio|Cleveland. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Williams |Newark, O |Washington. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Williams |Newark, O |Washington. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Bates. |Newp't News|Cleveland. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Grubb |Morristown |Cleveland. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Betts |San Antonio|Cleveland. +Milwaukee |American Asso. |Beall |Denver |Cleveland. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Berghammer|Lincoln |Chicago N.L. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Miller |Harrisburg |Pittsburgh. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Booe |Ft. Wayne |Pittsburgh. +St. Paul |American Asso. |House |Kewanee |Detroit. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Beall |Denver |Cleveland. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Balenti |Chattanooga|St. Louis A.L. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Agnew |Vernon |St. Louis A.L. +Omaha |Western League |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +Omaha |Western League |Williams |Newark, O |Washington. +Omaha |Western League |Betts |San Antonio|Cleveland. +Omaha |Western League |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Schang |Buffalo |Phila. A.L. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Dolan |Rochester |Phila. A.L. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Cottrell |Scranton |Chicago N.L. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Clymer |Minneapolis|Chicago N.L. +Columbus |American Asso. |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Rochester |Internat'l League|Dolan |Rochester |Phila. A.L. +Montreal |Internat'l League|Connelly |Montreal |Washington. +Toledo |American Asso. |Hernden |[2] |St. Louis. +Toledo |American Asso. |Stevenson |Oshkosh |St. Louis N.L. +Toledo |American Asso. |Bates |Newp't News|Cleveland. +Toledo |American Asso. |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +Denver |Western League |Heckinger |Racine |Chicago N.L. +Denver |Western League |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +</pre> +<p>1: Subject to investigation as to whether New York American +League Club has title.</p> +<p>2: Subject to investigation as to whether St. Louis American or +National League Club has title to this player and how secured.</p> +<hr> +<center>A WORLD'S SERIES PROBLEM</center> +<p>Much discussion arose after the finish of the last world's +series as to whether the adjustment of dates had worked +satisfactorily. The contention was that playing off a tie game on +the ground where the game had been scheduled might work some +inconvenience to "fans" and result in an inequitable allotment of +dates, simply to conform to custom.</p> +<p>It was asserted that the importance of the series demanded that +it be a home-and-home affair, dates to alternate regularly, +regardless of all ties or drawn games. To obtain opinion that is +sound and practical the Editor of the GUIDE sent forth the +following letter:</p> +<p>NEW YORK, January 31, 1913.</p> +<p>During the recent world's series it so happened that a tie was +played in one of the cities, which compelled both teams to remain +in that city for another date. Before the series was over this +arrangement resulted in one club having five games on its home +grounds and the other club having but three games on its home +grounds.</p> +<p>It has seemed to some that it is unjust. It is also contended +that it is unfair to the patrons of the game to schedule a contest +and then not play in the city specified after some had traveled +many miles to see it.</p> +<p>Will you please give the GUIDE your opinion as to whether a +change would be advisable?</p> +<p>Very truly yours,</p> +<p>JOHN B. FOSTER, <i>Editor Spalding's Official Base Ball +Guide.</i></p> +<p>Answers were received to the request for a "symposium of +opinion" as follows:</p> +<p>"So far as having any effect on the chances of the two teams is +concerned, I don't think having to play more games on one ground +than on the other makes any material difference. Where cities are +sufficiently near each other for games to be alternated daily, it +would perhaps be fairer to spectators to do so, irrespective of +ties; yet it seems to me that a tie on one grounds should be played +off the next day in the same city."</p> +<p>W.B. HANNA, <i>New York Sun.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"In my opinion the arrangement on tie games in the post-season +contests is a poor one. I saw the result of it in the series +between the Cubs and White Sox last fall. Two tie games were played +and the confusion and inconvenience it caused the fans was +deplorable. It is unjust to the followers who support Base Ball. It +is also unjust, in a small way, to the club which has to play two +or more games on its opponent's field. Players when away from their +home grounds, in a fall series, are more or less under a nervous +strain. If there was confusion, inconvenience and difficulty in a +local series as a result of a tie game, the folly of the +arrangement must appear more absurd when towns like New York and +Boston are involved. Dates should alternate, tie or not tie."</p> +<p>OSCAR C. REICHOW, <i>Chicago Daily News.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"We are in receipt of your favor of the 31st nlt., and wish to +thank you for the opportunity presented.</p> +<p>"It is our opinion that a tie game was played and it should be +considered as a game. Either side had an opportunity to win and any +advantage that the home club might have had was lost when it failed +to break the tie.</p> +<p>"It is, therefore, our belief that this game should have been +played in the other city.</p> +<p>"As to it being unfair to the patrons who had traveled so far to +see the scheduled contest, there is no doubt that they were +afforded a sufficient amount of amusement and excitement for their +trouble, in witnessing a closely played contest."</p> +<p>J. G. T. SPINK, <i>St. Louis Sporting News.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"It seems to me that the game should be alternated between the +contending cities regardless of ties. The tie game gave Boston five +games on the home grounds, while the Giants had only three. +Besides, many persons, who traveled to see the games in New York, +were inconvenienced."</p> +<p>JOHN E. WHEELER, <i>New York Herald.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"I think that the scheduled programme should be played through +irrespective of the results of the respective games, and any extra +playing or playing-off should be done after the originally set +schedule is completed."</p> +<p>H. P. BORCHELL, <i>Sports Editor New York Times.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"I believe it would be inadvisable to change the method that now +prevails. While the situation which arose last season did seem +unjust to the New York club, I think the very fact that Boston had +five games on its home grounds, and the Giants but three on their +own diamond, was an answer to those ill-advised skeptics who are +always ready to raise the cry of hippodroming.</p> +<p>"That same situation is not likely to again arise for a long +time, and I believe the rule as it stands is a guarantee to the +public of the strict honesty of the world's championship +contests."</p> +<p>DAMON RUNYON, <i>The New York American.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"A change in the rules regarding world series games would he +fairer to the patrons of the sport. Here in Chicago this past fall +two ties were played and, as a result, there was considerable +confusion over the ticket arrangements. How much more is the case +when two cities are involved? A condition which allows five games +to be played in one city and only three in another is scarcely fair +to the two teams. By making a schedule calling for alternate games +in each city, irrespective of ties, everybody—fans and +players—would get an even break."</p> +<p>MALCOLM MACLEAN, <i>Base Ball Editor Chicago Evening +Post.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"I think it might be fairer to both world's series contenders to +play a regular schedule, regardless of the fact that any tie games +may arise in the series. Under the old system of playing the tie +off in the city where the tie game is played, it brings about a +great deal of confusion. Many fans make arrangements to see a game +on a certain day and are greatly disappointed when the game is +played in a different city. Of course, the old rule of playing the +play-off game on the same grounds as the tie game, is fair to both +contesting clubs, as it is merely a matter of chance where a tie +game is played."</p> +<p>FRED. G. LIEB, <i>New York Press.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"The rules regarding the manner of scheduling games for the +world's series should not be changed. There are times when they +apparently work a hardship to one team or the followers of one +club, but, after all, they help to throw the necessary safeguards +around the contests. As for the argument for not playing off a tie +game on the same grounds, thus disarranging the dates and +inconveniencing the fans, patrons of the world's series games are +accustomed to this, since bad weather frequently cuts into the +event and causes postponements.</p> +<p>"In a way it does not appear fair that one club should have the +privilege of playing five games at home to three games at home for +its opponents. The rule of playing off a tie game on the same +grounds is a fixture in Base Ball. As to the other game, this was a +question of the luck of the toss of the coin.</p> +<p>"The fans have to trust to luck as to the number of games they +will see in a world's series, this depending upon the number of +games played and possibly upon the toss for a seventh battle. In +1905 the fans of Philadelphia saw only two games in a world's +series with New York. In 1910 only two games were played here in +the series with Chicago.</p> +<p>"Any time a club has three games on its own grounds in a series +where four victories decide the issue either it or its followers +have not much chance to raise an objection."</p> +<p>WILLIAM G. WEART, <i>The Evening Telegraph.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"It was, of course, to the disadvantage of the Giants to be +obliged to play five of the eight games in the post-season series +last fall on the grounds of their opponents, but this came as a +result of one tie game on the Boston grounds and being outlucked on +the toss to determine where the deciding game should be played. +This tie game unquestionably caused much inconvenience to patrons +because of the change in the schedule made necessary because of +it.</p> +<p>"It is not clear to me, however, just now these things can be +remedied without disturbing the balance of an even break for both +teams more violently than was the case last fall.</p> +<p>"I do not believe there will be another series just like the one +of 1912, and so, in my opinion, an immediate change in the +conditions governing these series would not be advisable. It is not +clear to me just what changes could be made. One club or the other +is bound to have the advantage of an extra game on its own grounds, +providing seven games are necessary. The championship in nine out +of ten contests will be decided in seven games or less.</p> +<p>"Then, as to having the games played according to an arbitrarily +fixed schedule, so as not to inconvenience patrons—that would +be out of the question, being open to the objection that it would +then be possible to have every game that figures in the result of +the series played on the home grounds of one of the contestants. +For instance, tie games or unfavorable weather which would prevent +a game being played in one city, would throw all the games to the +other city where there might be no tie games nor unfavorable +weather. That would mean four straight, if it so happened that the +home team won the games, and the loser would never have gotten +action on its own grounds. That would be considerably worse than +five to three.</p> +<p>"So it looks to me as if the patrons would have to take their +chances in the future as they have in the past."</p> +<p>JAMES C. O'LEABT, <i>Boston Globe.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"It seems to me that it would be better to alternate (in case of +a tie), as a team able to tie its opponent on a hostile field would +be entitled to consideration for this performance. I am very +certain, however, that the players of both clubs in the recent +world's series were satisfied with an arrangement which minimized +the amount of traveling they were called upon to do.</p> +<p>"Persons who had seen a five-inning tie game terminated by rain +would hardly be satisfied. It seems to me that the rule as to +alternating ball parks should be applied strictly, but only in case +the tie game involved went nine innings or more."</p> +<p>FRANCIS EATON, <i>Sports Editor Boston Journal.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"To me the feasible thing to do appears to be to insert a clause +in stipulations covering all short series of a special character, +such as intercity, inter-league and world's series, making it +compulsory for the teams to alternate between the cities or grounds +of the competing clubs."</p> +<p>PURVES T. KNOX, <i>New York Evening Telegram.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"Why wouldn't it be a good scheme to toss up for the deciding +game only in cases where an equal number of games had been played +in each city, and, in cases where one city had seen more games than +the other, to play the deciding game in the city which had seen the +fewer games?</p> +<p>"I do not believe it advisable to change the commission's rule +regarding postponed games. The rule now provides that, in case of a +postponement, the clubs shall remain in the city in which the game +was scheduled until it is possible to play. If this rule were +changed and there happened to be a week of bad weather, as in 1911, +the teams and many fans might be forced to travel back and forth +from one town to another for a week without participating in or +seeing a single game; and it might happen some time that the jump +would be between St. Louis and Boston."</p> +<p>R. W. LARDNER, <i>Chicago Examiner.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"A change in the rule governing the playing-off of tie games in +the world's series should be made. The teams ought to appear in +each city on the dates named in the schedule drawn up before the +series starts, unless the weather interferes."</p> +<p>WILLIAM H. WRIGHT, <i>New York Tribune.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"Drawn games are as unavoidable as rainy days in world's series, +but not as frequent. They operate the same in their effect on the +contest for the world's pennant and in causing confusion among the +patrons by disarranging the schedule. It would be manifestly unjust +if, after a rain postponement, the competing teams did not remain +and play the game off before playing elsewhere. That might result +in playing all of the games in one city. Since drawn games are +treated like postponed games in the regular season, and are of +infrequent occurrence in world's series, any other arrangement than +the present does not seem advisable. The patrons, who should be +considered always, would be among the first to object if each team +did not have an equal show to win. In the last series only four +games that counted were played in Boston and three in New York and +if New York had won the toss for the deciding game the situation +would have been reversed. It would be manifestly fairer to play the +seventh game if necessary in some neutral city."</p> +<p>L. E. SANBORN, <i>Chicago Tribune.</i></p> +<a name="RULE4_3"><!-- RULE4 3 --></a> +<h2>NEW FACES IN THE OLD LEAGUE</h2> +<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center> +<p>Not for some time has there been such a turning over of the +leaves of history in the National League as during 1912-13, and +because of this there are many new faces peering out of the album. +There have also been changes in the minor circuits and one +prominent change in the American League.</p> +<p>The death of John T. Brush removed from Base Ball a dean of the +National League. Wise in the lore of the game, a man more of the +future than of the present, as he always foresaw that which some of +his contemporaries were less alert in perceiving, it meant no easy +task to be his successor.</p> +<p>Prior to the death of Mr. Brush there was a great deal of +curious and some idle speculation as to his ultimate successor in +case of decease, or, in the event of his retirement because of +bodily weariness. One or two went so far as to say that upon his +death Andrew Freedman would return to prominence in Base Ball, +because he was the real owner of the New York club. Once and for +all the writer would like to put the personal stamp of absolute +denial on the repeated statements made by certain individuals in +New York and Chicago that Andrew Freedman retained the control of +the New York club after John T. Brush was reported to have +purchased it.</p> +<p>Mr. Freedman retained nothing of the kind. Not that Mr. Brush +objected to him as a partner, but when Mr. Brush purchased the +stock he purchased the control outright, although he did request +Mr. Freedman to hold a few shares and not give up his personal +interest in Base Ball, for Mr. Freedman had a great liking for the +game in spite of his stormy career. The assertions that Mr. +Freedman was the real owner and Mr. Brush the nominal owner were +made with malicious intent, of which the writer has proof, and +through a desire, if possible, to combat the popularity and the +success of the Giants.</p> +<p>This digression has been made to call attention to the fact that +while rumor was plentiful as to the future control of the Giants +Mr. Brush was carefully "grooming" a young man—his +son-in-law, Mr. H. Hempstead—to take his place.</p> +<p>To a few it was known that Mr. Hempstead was acquiring such +experience and information as would be necessary to assume the +control of an undertaking which has grown so big as the +organization of the Giants in New York. The business details of the +club have quadrupled and the cares and anxieties of the man at the +head have increased in proportion.</p> +<p>The Giants, as successful as they have been under the control of +John T. Brush and John J. McGraw, the men who have been the +executive heads in both the business and the playing departments of +the game, are as susceptible to reverses as if they were the +lowliest club in the organization. It is only by constant and +severe application that the club's affairs may be kept at the best +pitch.</p> +<p>Mr. Hempstead brings to Base Ball the advantage of youth, a keen +business sagacity developed beyond his years, coolness, a +disposition that is sunny and not easily ruffled, and a reputation +for unvarying fairness and the highest type of business and sport +ideals. Quite a list of qualities, but they are there.</p> +<p>If characteristics of that description fail to maintain the high +standard of the New York club, then it will be due to the fact that +our standards of business deportment have turned topsy-turvy.</p> +<p>William H. Locke is the new president and part owner of the +Philadelphia club. He and Mr. Hempstead are the "junior" presidents +of the league. There is no necessity for the Editor of the GUIDE to +enter into any long and fulsome praise as to William H. Locke.</p> +<p>His career speaks for itself and he speaks for himself. A young +man of the finest attributes, he has brought nothing to the mill of +Base Ball to grind except that which was the finest and the +cleanest grain.</p> +<p>The writer has known Mr. Locke almost, it seems, from boyhood +and esteems him for his worth, not only as one who has administered +the affairs of Base Ball with skill and intelligence, but as one +who wrote of Base Ball with understanding and excellent taste, for +it must not be forgotten that Mr. Locke is a newspaper graduate +into the ranks of the great sport the affairs of which fill a +little corner of the hearts of so many of America's citizens.</p> +<p>Perhaps no young man ever left a newspaper office to become a +Base Ball president with more good wishes behind him than William +H. Locke. He served his apprenticeship as secretary of the +Pittsburgh club and he served it well. He is a high class, +delightful young man, every inch of him, and Philadelphia will soon +become as proud of him as Pittsburgh is now.</p> +<p>Still another newspaper writer has been claimed from the desk by +the National League. He is Herman Nickerson, formerly sporting +editor of the Boston Journal, who is now the secretary of the +Boston National League club.</p> +<p>"Nick" is known from one end of the National League circuit to +the other as one of the most solid and substantial of the writing +force, and also as one of the most demure and modest. In addition +to his great fund of information on Base Ball topics he is an +author, and "The Sword of Bussy," a book which was published during +the winter, is even more clever than some of the author's best Base +Ball yarns, and that is saying a great deal in behalf of a man +wedded to Base Ball.</p> +<p>Another change in the National League was the selection of Frank +M. Stevens of New York, as one of the Board of Directors of the New +York National League club.</p> +<p>This brings into Base Ball one of New York's cleverest and +brightest young business men, one who is forging so rapidly to the +front in business circles in the big metropolis that many an older +head goes to him for advice. Mr. Stevens knows a lot about Base +Ball, which is of even greater importance in the game, and is not +afraid to swing any venture that will put with fairness a +championship team into the big city. He is a son of Harry M. +Stevens, whom everybody knows, rich and poor alike.</p> +<p>In the American League the death of Mr. Thomas D. Noyes, +president of the Washington club, a young man who left behind +naught but friends, left a vacancy in the organization which was +filled by the selection of Mr. Benjamin S. Minor.</p> +<p>The new president of the club has had practical experience in +Base Ball and perhaps plenty of it, as almost everybody has had in +Washington, but he is a wideawake, progressive and ambitious man, +who is of just the type to keep Base Ball going, now that it has +struck its gait in the national capital, and the future of the +sport looks all the brighter for his connection with it.</p> +<a name="RULE4_4"><!-- RULE4 4 --></a> +<h2>THE UMPIRES</h2> +<p>The umpires are always with us, and the umpire problem has been +a vexation of Base Ball since the beginning of Base Ball time, yet +neither the umpires, the public, the club owners nor the league +officials need be discouraged, for it was fully proved in 1912 that +umpiring, as a fine art, has advanced a step nearer perfection. We +may well doubt that perfection in its every quality shall ever be +achieved, but we may all feel sanguine that it is possible to +realize better results.</p> +<p>It is true that some men make better umpires than others, +exactly as some men make better ball players than others, but it is +also true that if the men who find it the hardest task to become +the most expert umpires would be given a little more encouragement +they might be a little more successful.</p> +<p>To the staff of umpires of the National League and the American +League it is but fair to render a compliment for their work of last +season. Some of them made mistakes but the general average of work +on the part of the judges of play was excellent.</p> +<p>There was less tendency on the part of the umpires to render +their decisions without being in a position to follow the play +correctly. They were occasionally willing to concede that they +might have been wrong when an analysis of the play was brought to +their attention and they were firm in asserting discipline without +becoming overheated on their own account.</p> +<p>To the mind of the Editor of the GUIDE, in the general light of +observation, the most serious blunders committed by the umpires in +1912 were in making decisions before the play took place. This did +happen and more than once. To illustrate, by an example, the Editor +of the GUIDE had exhibited to him some photographs taken during +1912 in which a player had been "waved out" before he actually had +arrived at the base. Granting the desire of the umpires to be alert +and ready to render decisions promptly, it is equally apparent that +giving decisions in advance of the completion of plays is likely to +imbue the spectators with an idea that the umpire is either +partisan or incompetent.</p> +<p>Young umpires, in their haste to "make good" in the major +leagues, are apt to overdo rather than fail to be on time.</p> +<p>While it is not a pleasant subject to discuss, it is a fact that +some umpires had been accustomed to use the very language to +players on the field that they were presumed in their official +capacity as umpires to correct. The writer knows of instances where +this took place.</p> +<p>It has ever been the policy of the GUIDE to stand for clean and +high class Base Ball. Twenty per cent. more women attend ball games +now than did ten years ago. Eighty per cent. more women spectators +are likely to attend five years from now. To encourage their +attendance every effort should be made to eliminate all disgraceful +conversation on the field. Wherever it may be ascertained that an +umpire has used profane or vulgar language on the field the editor +of the GUIDE believes that he should be fined and punished as +sternly as an offending player.</p> +<p>It is contended that the position of the umpire has been +rendered more arduous by reason of the world's series. The argument +is advanced that the players are more intractable, by reason of +their eagerness to play in the post-season games. That argument +would be stronger were it not for the fact that some of the worst +disturbances emanate from the players of the clubs that have no +chance to play in the world's series.</p> +<p>As a general rule two good reasons may be advanced for disputes +on the part of players.</p> +<p>First: Desire to "cover up" the player's own blunder.</p> +<p>Second: General "cussedness."</p> +<p>There are players who make honest objection on the excitement of +the moment from sheer desire to win, but their lapses from Base +Ball etiquette are so few and far between that their transgressions +usually may be forgiven with some grace.</p> +<p>The Editor of the GUIDE would offer one suggestion to league +presidents and umpires; it is this: whenever two possible plays +occur in conjunction, instruct the chief umpire always to turn to +the spectators and inform them which player is out.</p> +<p>For instance, if a player is at bat and another on the bases and +two are out and an attempt is made to steal second, as the chief +umpire calls the batter out on strikes the public should be clearly +informed that the batter is out. If the play looks close at second +base the crowd frequently believes the runner has been called out +and resents it accordingly. In line with the same play, when the +runner is called out and the fourth ball at the same time is called +on the batter, the chief umpire should turn to the spectators and +to the press box and make it clearly understood that the batter has +been given a base on balls. It saves a great deal of annoyance and +fault finding.</p> +<p>By the way, although it has been said elsewhere, the Editor of +the GUIDE would beg the indulgence of repetition by stating that +the work of the umpires during the world's series of 1912 was one +of the finest exhibitions of its kind ever seen on a ball field, +and somehow it seemed as if the players, would they but deport +themselves during all series as they did during the world's series +might find that there are more good umpires in the world after all +than bad ones.</p> +<a name="RULE4_5"><!-- RULE4 5 --></a> +<h2>BASE BALL WRITERS OF THE SOUTH</h2> +<p>While the Base Ball writers of the cities which comprise the +Southern Association have no organized membership similar to the +Base Ball Writers' Association of the major leagues and the +organizations which are best known as the class AA leagues, they +are a clever, hard-working group of young men, who have labored in +season and out of season, not only to build up Base Ball but to +build it up on the right lines.</p> +<p>Experience of more than a quarter of a century has most +abundantly proved that the standard of Base Ball has steadily been +elevated. It needs no compilation of fact nor any dogmatic +assertion on the part of the Editor of the GUIDE to attest that +fact. It is a present condition which speaks for itself. The +general tone of the players is far higher than it was and there has +come into evidence a marked improvement in the spirit of the men +who own Base Ball clubs. In the earlier history of the sport there +was a tendency to win by any means that did not actually cross the +line of dishonesty. Later there came a season when the commercial +end of the game tended to encroach upon the limits of the pastime. +This has been repressed in the last two seasons and to-day the +morale of Base Ball is of a higher type than it ever has been in +the history of the pastime.</p> +<p>It is a high class sport in the main, managed by high class, men +for high class purposes.</p> +<p>Going through the early stages of building up a successful +league, which, by the way, is the severest of all tasks, and even +now at intervals confronted with changes in the league circuit, the +Southern writers have steadily been sowing the seeds of high class +Base Ball and they have seen results prior to this date, for Base +Ball has become popular and has been handsomely and loyally +supported in sections in which fifteen years ago it would have been +considered impossible to achieve such results.</p> +<p>It is true that business reverses and adverse conditions have +had at times their effect upon Base Ball in the South and possibly +may produce similar results again, but the admirable offset to this +fact is that none of these conditions at any time has daunted the +spirit and the resolution of the young men who have zealously been +preaching the cause of clean and healthy Base Ball.</p> +<p>Very likely to their zeal, their courage, their tact and their +ability it is possible to ascribe the increase in good ball players +which is making itself manifest in the South. More high class and +attractive athletes are coming from the Southern states in these +days than ever was the case before. Base Ball is very glad to have +them. When a representative major league team is made up of players +who represent every section in the Union, engaged for their skill, +it seems as if Base Ball has become nearer an ideal and a national +pastime than ever before in the history of the sport.</p> +<p>To the Southern writers the members of the Base Ball Writers +Association and those of the organizations patterned on like lines +send greeting.</p> +<a name="RULE4_6"><!-- RULE4 6 --></a> +<h2>BASE BALL WORTH WHILE?</h2> +<p>One of the foremost divines in the East who has a deep concern +in Base Ball and Base Ball players is Rev. Dr. Reisner, pastor of +the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, of New York City. Throughout +the season he attends the games and is greatly interested in the +work of the players. He knows Base Ball well, and in addition to +that he knows the environment of Base Ball players and their +character and endeavor as well as any person in the United +States.</p> +<p>It is Dr. Reisner's custom each year to preach a sermon to the +Base Ball players and their friends in his church in New York, and +the building always is filled to listen to his discourse. In view +of the interest which he takes in the national game and because of +his excellent knowledge as to the general details of the sport, the +Editor of the GUIDE asked him to say a few words to the ball +players of the United States through the medium of this +publication, and he has graciously consented to do so in the +following pithy and straightforward talks:</p> +<center>BY THE REV. CHRISTIAN F. REISNER, NEW YORK.</center> +<p>The Bible is the Spalding book of rules for the game of life. +James B. Sullivan, beloved by all athletes, gave me these rules for +athletes: "Don't drink, use tobacco or dissipate. Go to bed early +and eat wholesome food!" The boozer gets out of the game as +certainly as the bonehead.</p> +<p>I have interviewed scores of the most noted players. Every one +had a religious training. Many are church members. All avoid +old-time drinking, as our fathers did smallpox.</p> +<p>Mathewson belongs to the high type now being generally +duplicated. He is a modern masculine Christian. Base Ball demands +brains as well as brawn. Minds muddled by licentiousness and liquor +are too "leady" for leaders. Hotheadedness topples capable +players.</p> +<p>I am proud to style scores of Base Ball players, I know, as +gentlemen. They are optimists. Defect is unrecognized. Team work +makes them brotherly. Bickerings break a Baseballist. Every member +of the team gives himself wholly to the game. Jeers are as harmless +as cheers.</p> +<p>Every minute he does his best. He sleeps only at night. To do +these things the player must follow Bible rules. If he keeps it up +life's success is certain. Governor Tener and Senator Gorman proved +it. No wonder "Billy" Sunday wrote me "I would not take a million +dollars for my experience on the ball field."</p> +<p>It taught him how to knock the Devil out of the box.</p> +<p>Base Ball is invaluable to America. It thrills and so rests +tired nerves. It brings the "shut-in" man into God's healing +out-o'-doors. While yelling he swallows great draughts of +lung-expanding, purifying air and forgets the fear of "taking +cold."</p> +<p>He is pulled out of self-centeredness, while shouting for +another. He stands crowd jostling good-naturedly or gets his +cussedness squeezed out. He chums up with any one with easy +comments and so gets out of his shell and melts again into a real +human.</p> +<p>Base Ball absolutely pulls the brain away from business. It +emphasizes the value of decency and gives healthy and high toned +recreation to millions. If kept clean its good-doing cannot be +measured. Nothing is worth while that does not do that.</p> +<a name="RULE4_7"><!-- RULE4 7 --></a> +<h2>THE SPALDING BASE BALL HALL OF FAME</h2> +<p>(From Spalding's Official Base Ball Record.)</p> +<p>New faces enter into the Spalding Base Ball "Hall of Fame" this +year. The object of this "Hall of Fame" is not necessarily to +portray the very top men of each department of the national game, +for it frequently happens in these days, when players take part in +only a few innings now and then, that they become entitled to +mention in the records, although they do not bear the real brunt of +the work.</p> +<p>In the "Hall of Fame" will be found the men who might well be +termed the "regulars." Day in and day out they were on the diamond, +or ready to take their place on the diamond, if they were not +injured.</p> +<center>NATIONAL LEAGUE.</center> +<p>First of all, Daubert has earned his place at first base for the +season of 1912. Threatening in other years to become one of the +group of leading players, he performed so well in the season past +that there is no doubt as to his right.</p> +<p>There is a new player at second base. The regularity with which +Egan of Cincinnati performed for the Reds earned him a place as the +banner second baseman.</p> +<p>At third base the honor goes to J.R. Lobert, the third baseman +of the Philadelphia club. In this particular instance Lobert was +crowded, not for efficiency, but in the number of games played by +Byrne, third baseman of Pittsburgh, and Herzog, third baseman of +New York. In the matter of chances undertaken on the field, Herzog +surpassed both Lobert and Byrne, but, in justice to Lobert, the +honor seems to be fairly deserved by him.</p> +<p>John H. Wagner, the brilliant veteran of the Pittsburgh club, +fought his way to the position of shortstop in 1912. His fielding +was better than that of his rivals and at times he played the +position as only a man of his sterling worth can play.</p> +<p>Owing to the fact that the able secretary of the National +League, John A. Heydler, has compiled two methods of comparing +pitchers, the "Hall of Fame" in the National League this year will +include two faces. They are those of Hendrix of the Pittsburgh club +and Tesreau of the New York club. The former won the greater +percentage of games under the old rule in vogue of allotting +percentage upon victories. Tesreau, however, under a new rule which +classifies pitchers by earned runs, easily led the league. The +editor of the RECORD is very much inclined toward Mr. Heydler's +earned run record; in fact, has suggested a record based upon the +construction of making every pitcher responsible for runs and +computing his average upon the percentage of runs for which he is +responsible. That places Tesreau in the front row, with Mathewson +second.</p> +<p>There are two catchers who run a close race for the "Hall of +Fame" in 1912. They are Meyers of New York and Gibson of +Pittsburgh. Meyers caught by far the larger number of games, and, +basing the work of catcher upon the average chances per game, seems +to lead his Pittsburgh rival. Both men are sterling performers, and +Meyers is an instance of the greatest improvement on the part of a +catcher of any member of the major leagues.</p> +<p>For the position of leading outfielder, all things considered, +Carey of Pittsburgh is selected for the "Hall of Fame." Not only +did he play in the greatest number of games of any outfielder, but +his general work in the outfield was sensational.</p> +<p>For the position of leading batsman the "Hall of Fame" honors +Zimmerman, the powerful batter of the Chicago club. His work with +the bat in 1912 approached in many ways that of the high class and +powerful batters of old. He batted steadily, with the exception of +one very slight slump, and his work as batter undoubtedly was of +tremendous assistance to Chicago. Zimmerman did not shine alone as +the best batter, as he was also the leading maker of home runs and +the best two-base hitter of the season. That gives him a triple +honor.</p> +<p>The best three-base hitter of the league was the quiet Wilson of +Pittsburgh. Though not so high in rank as a batsman as some of his +contemporaries, there was none in the organization who could equal +his ability to get to third base on long hits.</p> +<p>Bescher, as in 1911, earned in 1912 the position of leading base +runner in the National League. He stole more bases than any other +player of the league, and was also the best run getter—that +is to say, scored more runs than any other player.</p> +<center>AMERICAN LEAGUE.</center> +<p>First of all comes Gandil for first base. His greater number of +games played and his steady work at first almost all of the season, +as he did not join the Washingtons at the beginning of the season, +places him in the "Hall of Fame" at first base.</p> +<p>Rath is a newcomer to the Chicago club, but by all around good +work he earned the place at second base. Not so heavy a batter as +some of his rivals, he covered a great amount of ground for the +Chicagos and steadied the infield throughout the year.</p> +<p>For the position of shortstop, McBride of Washington is the +logical selection. Day in and day out he was one of the most +reliable shortstops in the American League.</p> +<p>At third base John Turner of the Cleveland club retains the +honor which he earned for himself in 1911, and he is one of the few +players who is a member of the "Hall of Fame" two years in +succession.</p> +<p>In the outfield, for all around work, the place of honor goes to +Amos Strunk, the young player of the Philadelphia club. He was in +center field and in left field, and he was a busy young man for +most of the year.</p> +<p>Pitching at a standard higher than the American League had seen +for years, Wood of Boston is given the "Hall of Fame" honor as +pitcher. His average of winning games was very high, and he was +compelled to fight hard for many of his victories.</p> +<p>The man who caught him seems entitled to be considered the +leading catcher. He is Cady of Boston, although for hard work +Carrigan, also of Boston, gives him a close race.</p> +<p>Once more Cobb is the leading batsman of the American League. +There was none to dispute his right to the title. He was also +leading batsman in 1911 and is another American League player who +holds a position in the "Hall" two years in succession.</p> +<p>The leading home run batter of the American League was Baker of +Philadelphia. He earned the same title in 1911. It is a double +"Hall of Fame" distinction for him.</p> +<p>Jackson of Cleveland enters the "Hall of Fame" by being the +leading batter for three-base hits.</p> +<p>Speaker of Boston becomes a member of the high honor group by +being the leading batter of two-base hits.</p> +<p>Lewis of Boston is the leading batter of sacrifice hits.</p> +<p>Collins of Philadelphia was the best run getter.</p> +<p>Last, but by no means least, of all, Milan, the clever +outfielder of Washington, is the best base stealer of the year, and +better than all the rest, earns his distinction in joining the +"Hall of Fame" by establishing a new record of stolen bases.</p> +<a name="RULE4_8"><!-- RULE4 8 --></a> +<h2>JOHN TOMLINSON BRUSH</h2> +<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center> +<p>John Tomlinson Brush was born in Clintonville, N.Y., on June 15, +1845. He died November 26, 1912, near St. Charles, Mo., on his way +to California from New York, for his health. Left an orphan at the +age of four years, he went to live at the home of his grandfather, +in Hopkinton, where he remained until he was seventeen years old. +At this age he left school and went to Boston, where he obtained a +position in a clothing establishment, a business with which he was +identified up to his death. He worked as a clerk in several cities +in the East, and finally went to Indianapolis in 1875 to open a +clothing store. The store still occupies the same building, and Mr. +Brush continued at the head of the business until his death. It was +in the early '80s that he first became interested in Base Ball in +Indianapolis, and he made himself both wealthy and famous as a +promoter.</p> +<p>In 1863 Mr. Brush enlisted in the First New York Artillery, and +served as a member of this body until it was discharged, at the +close of the civil war. He was a charter member of George H. Thomas +Post, G.A.R.; a thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason, and was +also prominently identified with several social and commercial +organizations of Indianapolis, notably the Columbia Club, +Commercial Club, Board of Trade, and the Mannerchor Society. In New +York Mr. Brush took up membership in the Lambs' Club and the +Larchmont Club. For several years he made his headquarters at the +Lambs' Club.</p> +<p>Mr. Brush is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elsie Lombard Brush, +and two daughters, Miss Natalie Brush and Mrs. Harry N. Hempstead. +His first wife, Mrs. Agnes Ewart Brush, died in 1888.</p> +<p>Mr. Brush's career in Base Ball, a sport to which he was +devotedly attached, and for which he had the highest ideals and +aims, began with the Indianapolis club of the National League.</p> +<p>It has been somewhat inaccurately stated that he entered Base +Ball by chance. This was not, strictly speaking, the case. Prior to +his first immediate association with the national game he was an +ardent admirer of the sport, although not connected with it in any +capacity as owner. He was what might be called, with accurate +description, a Base Ball "fan" in the earlier stages of +development.</p> +<p>An opportunity presented itself by which it was possible to +procure for the city of Indianapolis a franchise in the National +League. Mr. Brush was quick to perceive the advantages which this +might have in an advertising way for the city with which he had +cast his lot and subscribed to the stock.</p> +<p>Like many such adventures in the early history of the sport +there came a time when the cares and the duties of the club had to +be assumed by a single individual and it was then that he became +actively identified as a managing owner, as the duty of caring for +the club fell upon his shoulders.</p> +<p>From that date, until the date of his death, he was actively +interested in every detail relating to Base Ball which might +pertain to the advancement of the sport, and his principal effort +in his future participation in the game was to see that it advanced +on the lines of the strictest integrity and in such a manner that +its foundation should be laid in the rock of permanent success.</p> +<p>Naturally this was bound to bring him into conflict with some +who looked upon Base Ball as an idle pastime, in which only the +present moment was to be consulted.</p> +<p>The earliest environment of Base Ball was not wholly of a +substantial nature. It was a game, intrinsically good of itself, in +which the hazards had always been against the weak. There was not +that consideration of equity which would have been for its best +interests, but this was not entirely the fault of the separate +members of the Base Ball body, but the result of conditions, in +which those whose thought was only for the moment, overshadowed the +best interests of the pastime.</p> +<p>There was an inequity in regulations governing the sport by +which the clubs in the smaller cities were forced, against the will +of their owners, to be the weaker organizations, and possibly this +was less due to a desire upon the more fortunate and larger clubs +to maintain such a state of affairs, than to the fact that the +organization generally had expanded upon lines with little regard +to the future.</p> +<p>The first general complaint arose from the players who composed +the membership of the smaller clubs. They demurred at the fact that +they were asked to perform equally as well as the players of the +clubs in the larger cities at smaller salaries. Not that they did +not try to do their best, for this they stoutly attempted under all +conditions. It was the effect of a discrimination which was the +result of the imperfect regulations that existed relative to the +management of the game.</p> +<p>This attitude of the players resulted at length in the formation +of a body known as the Brotherhood. To offset not the Brotherhood, +but the cause which led to its formation, Mr. Brush devised the +famous classification plan. Imperfectly understood in what it +intended to do for the players, it was seized upon as a reason for +the revolt of the players and the organization of the Brotherhood +League.</p> +<p>At heart it was the idea of Mr. Brush so to equalize salaries +that the players of all clubs should be reimbursed in an equitable +manner. As always had been the case, and probably always is likely +to be, the players who received the larger salaries were in no mood +to share with their weaker brothers any excess margin of pay which +they thought that they had justly earned, and it was not a +difficult matter for them to obtain the consent of players who +might really have benefited by the plan to co-operate with them on +the basis of comradeship.</p> +<p>The motives of Mr. Brush were thoroughly misconstrued by some, +and, if grasped by others, they were disregarded, because they +conflicted with their immediate temporary prosperity.</p> +<p>The dead Base Ball organizer had looked further ahead than his +time. His plan was born under the best of intentions, but it +unfortunately devolved upon the theory that players would be +willing to share alike for their common good. Later in life, +through another and unquestionably even better method, he succeeded +in bringing forth a plan which attained the very end for which he +sought in the '80s, but in the second resort, by a far more +efficacious method.</p> +<p>The Brotherhood League came into existence and rivaled the +National League. The players of the National League and the +American Association deserted to join the Brotherhood League, upon +a platform that promised Utopia in Base Ball. Unquestionably it was +the idea of the general Brotherhood organization that the National +League would abandon the fight and succumb, but the National League +owners were built of sterner stuff.</p> +<p>They fought back resolutely and hard and while for a time they +were combated by a fickle opinion, based upon sentiment, it +developed within two months that the public had learned thoroughly +the reasons for the organization of the new league and declined to +lend it that support which had been predicted and expected.</p> +<p>Meanwhile, Base Ball had received a setback greater than any +which had befallen the sport in an organized sense from a +professional standpoint.</p> +<p>The Brotherhood League was a pronounced and emphatic failure. +This is not the verdict of personal opinion, but a record which is +indelibly impressed upon Base Ball history.</p> +<p>It was the theory of the Brotherhood League that it, in part, +should be governed by representative players, but the players would +not be governed by players. Discipline relaxed, teams did pretty +much as they pleased, and the public remained away from the games. +It may be added with truth that the National League games were not +much better patronized, but that was due to the prevalent apathy in +Base Ball affairs throughout the United States.</p> +<p>When the Brotherhood League was formed and withdrew so many +players from the National League the latter organization undertook +to strengthen itself where it could and when Brooklyn and +Cincinnati applied for membership in the circuit both were +admitted.</p> +<p>The New York National League club had lost many of its players +and, upon the substitution of Cincinnati for Indianapolis in the +National League circuit, procured from Mr. Brush many players of +note, among them Rusie, Glasscock, Buckley, Bassett and Denny.</p> +<p>Relative to the withdrawal of Indianapolis from the circuit it +may be said that Mr. Brush flatly refused to give up his club, +asserting stoutly that he was perfectly able to continue the fight, +but when he felt that the exigencies of the occasion demanded that +Cincinnati become a member, he agreed to give up the franchise, +providing that he be permitted to retain his membership in the +National League, and transfer such of his players as New York +desired to the latter city. It has been alleged that he demanded an +exorbitant price from New York for the transfer of the players.</p> +<p>This is untrue. He asked the price of his franchise, the value +of his players, and the worth of giving up a Base Ball year in a +city in which there was to be no conflicting club and, as he had +expressed full confidence in his ability to make a winning fight +for the National League, it was agreed that his rights to be +considered could not be overlooked. To retain his National League +membership he accepted stock in the New York club.</p> +<p>Toward the close of the Base Ball season the Brotherhood League +dealt what it believed to be a death blow to the National League by +the purchase of the Cincinnati franchise. It proved to be a +boomerang, for before the first day of January, 1891, the +Brotherhood League had passed out of existence. The backers of the +organization, tired of the general conduct of the sport, were only +too willing to come to an acceptable agreement and retire.</p> +<p>A.G. Spalding, John T. Brush, Frank De Hass Robison, Charles H. +Byrne and A.H. Soden were prominent members of the National League +to bringing this result about. Of these, Mr. Spalding and Mr. Soden +survive, but have retired from active participation in Base Ball +affairs.</p> +<p>It was through this settlement, resulting upon the Base Ball +war, that Mr. Brush's activities were turned toward Cincinnati. The +National League had a franchise in that city, but no one to operate +it. Mr. Brush agreed to take up the franchise and attempt to +operate and rebuild that club. That, however, is a detail which +relates purely to the continuance of a major league circuit.</p> +<p>The next most noticeable achievement in Mr. Brush's Base Ball +career and, to the mind of more than one, the greatest successful +undertaking in the history of the game, was a complete revolution +in the distribution of financial returns. By his success in +effecting this Mr. Brush brought about the very purpose which he +had sought to attain by his classification plan.</p> +<p>But the method was better, for the instruments of this +readjustment of conditions were the owners and not the players. +Briefly, it was the following:</p> +<p>There was still war in Base Ball between the American +Association and the National League. Recognizing that the best +method to bring about a cessation of this war was to effect an +amalgamation of the conflicting forces Mr. Brush sought, with the +assistance of others, to weld both leagues into one. He was aided +in this task, though indirectly, because A.G. Spalding was actively +out of Base Ball, by that gentleman, Frank De Hass Robison, +Christopher Von der Abe, and Francis C. Richter, editor of +"Sporting Life" of Philadelphia. The writer also essayed in the +task in an advisory capacity.</p> +<p>The amalgamation was brought about, though not without some +opposition; indeed, much opposition. It was conceded at that time +that a twelve-club league, which was the object sought, was +cumbersome and unwieldy, but there was no other plan of possible +accomplishment which suggested itself.</p> +<p>But the principal consideration and the result accomplished in +this consolidation of leagues was that all gate receipts should be +divided, share and share alike, so far as general admissions were +concerned.</p> +<p>That was the greatest and most far-reaching achievement in the +history of Base Ball. Prior to that time the principle of a fixed +guarantee for each game played had given each home club a +stupendous bulk of the sums paid by the public toward the +maintenance of the sport. The inevitable outcome of such an +arrangement was that the clubs in the larger cities completely +overshadowed the clubs in the smaller cities.</p> +<p>The teams in the cities of less population were expected to try +to place rival organizations on the field that would equal in +playing strength those of New York, Boston and Chicago, but they +were unable to do so unless their owners were willing to go on year +after year with large deficits staring them in the face.</p> +<p>When Mr. Brush and his associates succeeded in placing Base Ball +upon a plane of absolute fairness, so far as the proper +distribution of the returns of the sport could be made between +clubs, Base Ball began to prosper, and, for the first time in all +its history, the owners of so-called smaller clubs felt that they +could go forward and try to rival their bigger fellows with equally +strong combinations.</p> +<p>More than that, and which to the ball player is most important +of all, it "jumped" the salaries of the players in the smaller +clubs until they were on equal terms with their fellow players in +the larger clubs, so that Mr. Brush helped to accomplish by this +plan the very aim which he had at heart when he proposed the +classification plan—a just, impartial and equal reimbursement +to every player in the game, so far as the finances of each club +would permit—and without that bane to all players, a salary +limit.</p> +<p>Thus, while it is always probable that some players may receive +more than others, based upon their preponderance of skill, it is +now a fact that two-thirds of the major league ball players of the +present day owe their handsome salaries to the system which John T. +Brush so earnestly urged and for which he fought against odds which +would have daunted a man with less fixity of purpose.</p> +<p>Having brought forth this new condition in Base Ball, which was +so just that its results almost immediately began to make +themselves manifest, the owner of the Cincinnati club devoted his +time and his energies to the endeavor to place a championship club +in Cincinnati. He never was successful in that purpose, although +his ill fortune was no greater than that of his predecessors.</p> +<p>The time came that Mr. Brush learned that the New York Base Ball +Club could be purchased. He obtained the stock necessary to make +him owner of the New York organization from Mr. Andrew Freedman, +but before he did so another Base Ball war had begun between the +National League and the American League, a disagreement starting +from the simplest of causes, but which, like many another such +disagreement, resulted in the most damaging of conditions to the +prosperity of the pastime.</p> +<p>As had been the case in the prior war brought about by the +organization of the Brotherhood League, Mr. Brush fought staunchly +for his rights. Prominent National League players were taken by the +American League clubs, and this brought retaliation.</p> +<p>At length the National League opened negotiations to obtain +certain American League players and succeeded in doing so. Among +these were the manager of the Baltimore club, John J. McGraw, who +felt that he was acting perfectly within his rights in joining the +New York National League club. Directly upon his acceptance of the +management of the New York club Mr. Brush became its owner and the +era of prosperity was inaugurated in New York, which was soon +enjoyed by every club throughout the United States.</p> +<p>In its first year under the new management the team was not in +condition to make a good fight, but the next year it was ready and +since then has won four National League championships and one +World's Championship.</p> +<p>In the spring of 1911, at the very dawn of the National League +season, the grand stand of the New York National League club burned +to the ground. A man less determined would have been overcome by +such a blow. Nothing daunted and while the flames were not yet +quenched, Mr. Brush sent for engineers to devise plans for the +magnificent stadium which bears his name and which, on the Polo +Grounds in New York, is one of the greatest and the most massive +monument to professional Base Ball in the world.</p> +<p>In connection with this wonderful new edifice of steel and +stone, which is one of the wonders of the new world, it is +appropriate to add that two world's series have been played on the +field of the Polo Grounds since it has been erected.</p> +<p>The rules for these world's series were formulated and adopted +upon the suggestion and by the advice of Mr. Brush and since a +regular world's series season has been a feature of Base Ball the +national game has progressed with even greater strides than was the +case in the past.</p> +<p>At a meeting of the National League the following resolutions +were adopted:</p> +<blockquote> +<p><i>Whereas</i>, The death of Mr. John T. Brush, president of the +New York National League Base Ball Club, comes as a sad blow to +organized professional Base Ball and particularly to us, his +associates in the National League.</p> +<p>As the dean of organized professional Base Ball, his wise +counsel, his unerring judgment, his fighting qualities and withal +his eminent fairness and integrity in all matters pertaining to the +welfare of the national game will be surely missed.</p> +<p>He was a citizen of sterling worth, of high moral standards and +of correct business principles, and his death is not only a +grievous loss to us, but to the community at large as well. Be it, +therefore,</p> +<p><i>Resolved</i>, That the members of the National League of +Professional Base Ball Clubs, in session to-day, express their +profound grief at the loss of their friend, associate and +counsellor and extend to the members of his bereaved family their +sincere sympathy in the great loss which they have sustained by his +death. Be it further</p> +<p><i>Resolved</i>, That a copy of these resolutions be spread on +the records of the league.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In connection with the death of Mr. Brush, Ben Johnson, +president of the American League, said: "Mr. Brush was a power in +Base Ball. He will be missed as much in the American League as in +the National League."</p> +<p>More than three hundred friends, relatives, business +acquaintances, lodge brothers and Base Ball associates attended the +funeral of Mr. Brush, on Friday, November 29, at St. Paul's +Episcopal Church, Indianapolis. Fifty or more of Mr. Brush's Base +Ball associates and acquaintances, principally from the East, were +present.</p> +<p>The service was conducted by the Rev. Lewis Brown, rector of St. +Paul's, and was followed by a Scottish Rite ceremony in charge of +William Geake, Sr., of Fort Wayne, acting thrice potent master, and +official head of the thirty-third degree in Indiana. The Scottish +Rite delegation numbered more than 150. There were also in +attendance fifty Knights Templars of Rapier Commandery, under the +leadership of Eminent Commander E.J. Scoonover.</p> +<p>The Grand Army of the Republic, the Indianapolis Commercial Club +and a number of local and out-of-town clubs and social +organizations of which Mr. Brush was a member also were +represented.</p> +<p>The Episcopal service was given impressively. The Rev. Dr. +Brown, in reviewing the life of Mr. Brush, spoke of him as one of +the remarkable men of America, who, in his youth, gave no promise +of being in later life a national figure. In the course of his +remarks Dr. Brown said:</p> +<p>"The death of John Tomlinson Brush removes from our midst one of +the most remarkable men of our generation. His life was that of a +typical American. He began in the most unpretentious manner and +died a figure of national importance.</p> +<p>"He went through the Civil War so quietly that the fact was +unknown to some of his most intimate friends. He was mustered out +with honor and entered the business world in Indianapolis. His +labors here put him at the forefront for sagacity, squareness, +honorable treatment and generosity.</p> +<p>"His love of sport made him a patron of the national game. In a +perfectly natural way, he went from manager of the local team to +proprietor of the New York Giants. He was a Bismarck in plan and a +Napoleon in execution. His aim was pre-eminence and he won place by +the consent of all. The recent spectacular outpouring of people and +colossal financial exhibit in the struggle for the pennant between +New York and Boston were but the legitimate outcome of his +marvelous skill.</p> +<p>"He was an early member of the Masonic fraternity. He took his +Blue Lodge degree in his native town and to demonstrate his +attachment he never removed his membership. Where he had been +raised to the sublime degree of a master there he wished to keep +his affiliation always.</p> +<p>"He became a Knight Templar in Rapier Commandery and was one of +its past eminent commanders. He was a member of the Scottish Rite +bodies in the Valley of Indianapolis in the early days and +performed his work with a ritual perfection unsurpassed. He +received the thirty-third and last degree as a merited honor for +proficiency and zeal.</p> +<p>"The conspicuous feature of his life was its indomitable +purpose."</p> +<a name="RULE4_9"><!-- RULE4 9 --></a> +<h2>THE WORLD'S SERIES OF 1912</h2> +<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center> +<p>No individual, whether player, manager, owner, critic or +spectator, who went through the world's series of 1912 ever will +forget it. There never was another like it. Years may elapse before +there shall be a similar series and it may be that the next to come +will be equally sensational, perhaps more so.</p> +<p>Viewed from the very strict standpoint that all Base Ball games +should be played without mistake or blunder this world's series may +be said to have been inartistic, but it is only the hypercritical +theorist who would take such a cold-blooded view of the series.</p> +<p>From the lofty perch of the "bleacherite" it was a series +crammed with thrills and gulps, cheers and gasps, pity and +hysteria, dejection and wild exultation, recrimination and +adoration, excuse and condemnation, and therefore it was what may +cheerfully be called "ripping good" Base Ball.</p> +<p>There were plays on the field which simply lifted the spectators +out of their seats in frenzy. There were others which caused them +to wish to sink through the hard floor of the stand in humiliation. +There were stops in which fielders seemed to stretch like india +rubber and others in which they shriveled like parchment which has +been dried. There were catches of fly balls which were superhuman +and muffs of fly balls which were "superawful."</p> +<p>There were beautiful long hits, which threatened to change the +outcome of games and some of them did. There were opportunities for +other beautiful long hits which were not made.</p> +<p>No ingenuity of stage preparation, no prearranged plot of man, +no cunningly devised theory of a world's series could have +originated a finale equal to that of the eighth and decisive +contest. Apparently on the verge of losing the series after the +Saturday game in Boston the Giants had gamely fought their way to a +tie with Boston, and it was one of the pluckiest and gamest fights +ever seen in a similar series, and just as the golden apple seemed +about to drop into the hands of the New York players they missed it +because Dame Fortune rudely jostled them aside.</p> +<p>As a matter of fact the New York players were champions of the +world for nine and one half innings, for they led Boston when the +first half of the extra inning of the final game was played. Within +the next six minutes they had lost all the advantage which they had +gained.</p> +<p>It was a combination of bad fielding and lack of fielding which +cost the New York team its title. And if only Mathewson had not +given Yerkes a base on balls in the tenth inning the game might not +have been won, even with the fielding blunders, but Mathewson was +pitching with all the desperation and the cunning which he could +muster to fool the batter and failed to do so.</p> +<p>Such sudden and complete reversal on the part of the mental +demeanor of spectators was never before seen on a ball field in a +world's series. The Boston enthusiasts had given up and were +willing to concede the championship to New York. In the twinkling +of an eye there was a muffed fly, a wonderful catch by the same +player who muffed the ball—Snodgrass—a base on balls to +Yerkes, a missed chance to retire Speaker easily on a foul fly, +then a base hit by Speaker to right field, on which Engel scored, +another base on balls to Lewis and then the long sacrifice fly to +right field by Gardner, which sent Yerkes over the plate with the +winning run.</p> +<p>Before entering upon a description of the games it is +appropriate to say that the umpiring in this series was as near +perfection as it could be. It was by far the best of any since the +series had been inaugurated. The umpires were William Klem and +Charles Rigler of the National League and Frank O'Loughlin and +William Evans of the American League.</p> +<center>FIRST GAME<br> +New York, Oct. 8, 1912.<br> +Boston 4, New York 3.<br> +Hits—Off Wood 8; off Tesreau 5; Crandall 1.<br> +Struck out—Wood 11; Tesreau 4; Crandall 2.<br> +Bases on balls—Wood 2; Tesreau 4.<br> +Attendance 35,722.</center> +<p>In the description of the games of the world's series only those +innings will be touched upon in which there were men on bases. +Tesreau pitched the opening game for New York and the first man to +bat for Boston was Hooper. Tesreau gave him a base on balls. The +next three batters were retired in succession. Devore and Doyle, +the first two batters for New York, were retired and Snodgrass hit +cleanly to center field, the first base hit in the series. Murray +was given a base on balls, but Merkle flied to short. In the second +inning the Bostons started as bravely as they had in the first, as +Gardner, the first batter, was safe on Fletcher's fumble. Stahl +batted to Tesreau and Gardner was forced out. Wagner was given a +base on balls, after Stahl had been thrown out trying to steal +second, and Cady flied to Murray.</p> +<p>The Bostons started with a man on base in the third. Wood was +given a base on balls by Tesreau and Hooper sacrificed. Doyle threw +Yerkes out and Speaker was given a base on balls, but Lewis died +easily on a weak fly to short.</p> +<p>In New York's half of this inning the Giants scored twice. +Tesreau, first at bat, struck out. Devore was given a base on balls +and Doyle batted wickedly to left field for two bases. Snodgrass +was fooled into striking out, but Murray smashed the ball to center +field for a single, and sent two men over the rubber, Murray was +caught at second trying to get around the bases while Doyle was +going home.</p> +<p>With one out Herzog hit safely in the fourth inning, but did not +score. In the fifth, with two out, Doyle batted safely, but failed +to score. In the sixth the Bostons made their first runs on +Speaker's triple to left field and Lewis' out. If Snodgrass, in +making a desperate effort to catch the fly, had permitted the ball +to go to Devore the chances are that Speaker's hit would have +resulted in an out, so that New York lost on the play.</p> +<p>Snodgrass was safe in the sixth on Wagner's fumble, but was +doubled off first when Murray drove a line hit straight to Stahl. +The seventh was the undoing of the Giants. With one out Wagner +batted safely to center field. Cady followed with another hit to +the same place. Wood batted to Doyle, who made a beautiful stop, +but with a double play in hand, was overbalanced and unable to +complete it. That cost New York three runs, although it was +unavoidable. Cady was forced out, but Hooper hit to right field for +two bases sending Wagner and Wood home. Yerkes followed with a +clean hit to left field for a base and won the first game for +Boston with that hit.</p> +<p>In New York's half of the inning, with one out, Meyers was hit +by a pitched ball, but no damage was done other than to Meyers' +feelings. In the ninth Wagner batted Crandall for a two-base hit, +Crandall having been substituted for Tesreau in the eighth inning, +as McCormick had batted for Tesreau in the seventh. Cady made a +sacrifice, but the next two batters were easily retired.</p> +<p>Then began the exciting finish, and if the Giants had made but a +single more they probably would have begun the series with a +victory instead of a defeat. With one out Merkle batted the ball +over second base for a single and the spectators, who had started +toward the exits, halted. Herzog followed with a slow low fly to +right field, which fell safely. Meyers crashed into the ball for a +two-bagger that struck the wall in right field and the crowd began +to believe that Wood had gone up in "smoke."</p> +<p>The Boston players encouraged him with all their best vocal +efforts, and when Fletcher came to the plate Wood was using all the +speed with which he was possessed. It was evident that Fletcher's +sole desire was to bat the ball safely to right field, for if he +did so, both of the runners could cross the plate and the Giants +would win. Twice he met the ball, and both times it sailed in the +right direction, but with no result, as it was foul. Then he struck +out. Crandall, perhaps one of the best pinch hitters in the major +leagues, also struck out, and the Boston enthusiasts who were +present fell back in their chairs from sheer exhaustion, but when +they had recovered, with their band leading them, marched across +the field and cheered Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston, who was present +as a spectator of the contest in company with Mayor Gaynor of New +York. Governor Foss of Massachusetts was also present at the +opening of the game. Klem umpired behind the bat in this game.</p> +<center>SECOND GAME<br> +Boston, Oct. 9, 1912.<br> +New York 6. Boston 6 (eleven innings).<br> +Hits—Off Collins 9, off Hall 2; Mathewson 10.<br> +Struck out—Collins 5, Bedient 1; Mathewson 4<br> +Bases on balls—Hall 4, Bedient 1.<br> +Attendance 30,148.</center> +<p>In the second game of the series, which was played October 9 at +Boston, Mathewson pitched for the New York team and Collins, Hall +and Bedient for Boston. The game resulted in a tie, 6 to 6, at the +end of the eleventh inning, being called on account of darkness by +Umpire O'Loughlin, who was acting behind the plate. This contest +was remarkable more for the misplays of the New York players, which +gave the Bostons a chance to save themselves from defeat, than for +any undue familiarity with the pitching of Mathewson. It was the +universal opinion of partisans of both teams that Mathewson +deserved to win because he outpitched his opponents. The weather +was fair and the ground in excellent condition. In the first inning +Snodgrass began with a clean two-base hit into the left field seats +but neither Doyle, Becker nor Murray was able to help him across +the plate. A run scored in that inning, with such a fine start, +would probably have won the game for the Giants.</p> +<p>In Boston's half Hooper hit safely to center field and stole +second base. Yerkes batted a line drive to Fletcher, and had the +New York shortstop held the ball, which was not difficult to catch, +Hooper could easily have been doubled at second, but Fletcher +muffed it. Speaker hit safely toward third base, filling the bases. +Lewis batted to Herzog, who made a fine play on the ball and caught +Hooper at the plate. This should have been the third out and would +have retired Boston without a run. Gardner was put out by a +combination play on the part of Mathewson, Doyle and Merkle, +scoring Yerkes, and Stahl came through with a hard line hit for a +base, which scored Speaker and Lewis. The inning netted Boston +three runs, which were not earned.</p> +<p>With one out in the second inning Herzog batted for three bases +to center field and scored on Meyers' single. Fletcher flied out +and Mathewson forced Meyers out. Hooper got a two-base hit in the +same inning, but two were out at the time and Fletcher easily threw +out Yerkes, who was the next batter.</p> +<p>In the fourth inning Murray began with a clean three-base hit to +center field. Merkle fouled out to the third baseman, but Herzog's +long fly to Speaker was an excellent sacrifice and Murray scored. +Meyers again hit for a single, but was left on the bases. The +Bostons got this run back in the last half of the fifth. With one +out Hooper hit to center field for a base, his third hit in +succession against Mathewson. Yerkes batted a three-bagger out of +the reach of Snodgrass and Hooper scored. Murray batted safely in +the sixth, with one out, but died trying to steal second, Carrigan +catching for Boston. In the Boston's half of the sixth Lewis began +with a single and got as far as third base, but could not +score.</p> +<p>The Giants started bravely in the seventh when Herzog hit the +ball for a base and stole second. There were three chances to get +him home, but Meyers, who had been hitting Collins hard, failed to +make a single and Fletcher and Mathewson were both retired.</p> +<p>In the eighth the New York players made one of the game rallies +for which they became famed all through the series and went ahead +of their rivals. Snodgrass was the first batter and lifted an easy +fly to Lewis. The Boston player got directly under the ball and +made a square muff of it. Doyle followed along with a sharp hit to +center field for a base and although he was forced out by Becker, +the latter drove the ball hard. Murray came through with a long +two-bagger to left center and Snodgrass and Becker scored. That +tied the score and also put an end to Collins' work in the box; +Stahl took him out and substituted Hall. Merkle fouled weakly to +the catcher, but Herzog caught the ball on the nose and hit sharp +and clean to center field for two bases, sending Murray home with +the run which put the Giants in the lead. Another base hit would +have won for New York, but Meyers perished on a hard hit to Wagner, +which was fielded to first ahead of the batter.</p> +<p>Unfortunately for New York, with two out in the last half of the +inning Lewis batted the ball to left field for two bases. Murray +made a desperate effort to get it. He tumbled backward over the +fence into the bleachers and for a few moments there were some who +thought that he had been seriously injured. Gardner followed with a +single to center and Stahl hit to right for a base, but Wagner +struck out and the Bostons were down with only a run.</p> +<p>In the ninth Hall gave a remarkable exhibition. Fletcher and +Mathewson were retired in succession. Then Snodgrass, Doyle and +Becker were given bases on balls, filling the bags. It seemed +certain that a run might score, and perhaps one would have scored +had it not been for an excellent stop by Wagner. Murray hit the +ball at him like a shot, but he got it and retired Becker at +second.</p> +<p>The Giants took the lead in the tenth and once more it appeared +as if the game would be theirs. Merkle began with a long three-base +hit to center field. Herzog batted to Wagner and Merkle played +safe, refusing to try to score while the batter was being put out +at first. Meyers was given a base on balls and Shafer ran for him. +Fletcher lifted a long fly to left field and Merkle scored from +third. Mathewson could not advance the runners and died on an +infield fly. Yerkes was the first batter for the Bostons and was +retired at first base. Speaker hit to deep center field. There were +some scorers who gave the batter but three bases on the hit, +insisting that Wilson, who was then catching for New York, should +have got the throw to the plate and retired the batter. In any +event Wilson missed the ball and Speaker scored. Lewis followed +with a two-bagger, which would have scored Speaker if the latter +had not tried to run home, so Wilson's failure to retrieve the +throw became more conspicuous. Other scorers gave Speaker a clean +home run and it is not far out of the way to say that he deserved +the benefit of the doubt.</p> +<p>Neither team scored in the eleventh inning, although Snodgrass +was hit by a pitched ball. He was the first batter. He tried to +steal second, but failed to make it.</p> +<p>This contest was conspicuous because of the wonderfully good +fielding of Doyle and Wagner. The former made two stops along the +right field line which seemed to be not far from superhuman. Wagner +killed at least two safe hits over second base for New York and +both of the plays were of the greatest benefit to the Boston +team.</p> +<center>THIRD GAME.<br> +Boston, Oct. 10, 1912.<br> +New York 2; Boston 1.<br> +Hits—Off Marquard 7; O'Brien 6, Bedient 1.<br> +Struck out—Marquard 6, O'Brien 3.<br> +Bases on balls—Marquard 1; O'Brien 3.<br> +Attendance 34,624.</center> +<p>Because of the tie game the teams remained over in Boston and +played on the following day, October 10. The pitchers were Marquard +for New York and O'Brien and Bedient for Boston. Marquard pitched +one of the best games of his career and not a run was made against +him until the ninth inning. By far the most notable play of the +game on the field was made by Devore in the ninth inning, when he +ran for more than thirty feet and caught an almost impossible fly +ball which had been batted by Cady. Had he missed it the Bostons +might have scored two runs and won. Devore began the first inning +with a base hit, but was out trying to steal second. The next two +batters were retired. In the second inning Murray batted the ball +to center field for two bases. Merkle's clever sacrifice put him on +third and Herzog's sacrifice fly sent him over the rubber. Lewis +began the inning for Boston with a safe hit, but could not advance +further than second.</p> +<p>In the third Fletcher started with a base on balls and was +sacrificed to second, but was unable to score. In the fourth, with +one out, Speaker batted safely, but was forced out at second. +Gardner flied to Murray.</p> +<p>In the fifth Herzog began with a two-base hit to left field. +Meyers died at first, but Fletcher hit safely to right field and +Herzog scored. Fletcher stole second and Marquard was given a base +on balls. Devore forced him out and stole second and Doyle followed +with another base on balls. A long hit would have made the game +easy for New York and Snodgrass tried to get the ball into the +bleachers, but Lewis caught it. Stahl began the Bostons' half of +the fifth with a hit, but was out by ten feet trying to steal +second.</p> +<p>In the sixth, with two out, Yerkes hit safely, but Speaker +fouled out. In the seventh, with two out, Stahl batted the ball to +left field for two bases, but Wagner flied to Devore.</p> +<p>In the eighth the Giants looked dangerous again. Devore began +with a base-hit to left field. Doyle flied to Lewis. Snodgrass hit +safely to left field and Murray flied to Lewis. Merkle batted the +ball very hard, but Wagner made a good stop and caught Snodgrass at +second. With two out Hooper got a base on balls for Boston, but it +did Boston no good.</p> +<p>In the ninth Herzog was hit by a pitched ball and Meyers swung +solidly to center for a single, after Herzog had died trying to +steal. Fletcher lined to Speaker and Meyers was doubled. In +Boston's half, with one out, Lewis batted to right field for a +base. Gardner hit to the same place for two bases and Lewis scored +Boston's only run. Stahl rapped a grounder to Marquard, who threw +Gardner out at third. Wagner should have been an easy out, and the +game would have been over if Merkle had not dropped a throw to +first base. Wagner stole second, no attention being paid to him, +and then Devore made his wonderfully good catch of Cady's hard +drive and the Giants had won their first game in the series.</p> +<p>Marquard outpitched both of his Boston rivals and in only two +innings were the Bostons able to get the first man on the +bases.</p> +<center>FOURTH GAME.<br> +New York, Oct. 11, 1912.<br> +Boston 3, New York 1.<br> +Hits—Off Wood 9; off Tesreau 5, Ames 3.<br> +Struck out—Wood 8; Tesreau 5.<br> +Bases on balls—Ames 1, Tesreau 2.<br> +Attendance 36,502.</center> +<p>The fourth game of the series was played in New York on the +following day. For most of the forenoon it looked as if there would +be no game because of rain. Toward noon it cleared up slightly and +although the ground was a little soft it was decided to play, in +view of the fact that so many spectators had come a long distance +to witness the contest. The soft ground was in favor of the Boston +players, for the ball was batted very hard by New York most of the +afternoon, but the diamond held and the infielders were able to get +a good grasp on grounders which would ordinarily have been very +difficult to handle. Tesreau pitched for New York and Wood for +Boston, as was the case in the opening game of the series. Hooper, +who batted with much success on the Polo Grounds, began with a +single to center and although Yerkes was safe on Meyers' wild throw +the Giants got out of a bad predicament handily because of the +excellent stops which were made by Fletcher of hits by Speaker and +Lewis. With one out in New York's half of the inning Doyle batted +safely, but Snodgrass forced him out.</p> +<p>Gardner began the second inning with a three-base hit to right +field and scored on a wild pitch. The next three batters were +retired in order. With one out for New York, Merkle singled and +stole second, but was not helped to get home.</p> +<p>The third was started by a single by Wood and Hooper was given a +base on balls. Yerkes bunted and Tesreau whipped the ball to third +base ahead of Wood. Doyle and Fletcher made two fine stops and +Speaker and Lewis were retired.</p> +<p>Boston added another run in the fourth inning, being assisted by +Tesreau's wildness. Gardner, who batted first, was given a base on +balls. Stahl forced him out at second. Then Stahl stole second, to +the immediate surprise of the Boston players and the chagrin of the +New York catcher. Wagner's out at first helped him along and when +Cady pushed a weak single to center field, just out of the reach of +the players, Stahl scored. Wood was retired by Murray.</p> +<p>With one out in the fifth Yerkes batted for a base, but was +thrown out at second on Speaker's grounder and Speaker died trying +to steal. New York had one out in the same inning, when Herzog hit +safely, but neither Meyers nor Fletcher could help him.</p> +<p>In the sixth the New York players began with a rush. Tesreau, +the first batter, hit for a base. Devore followed with another +single. Doyle with a "clean up" could have won for the Giants, but +he lifted a high fly to Yerkes. Snodgrass batted to Yerkes, who +made an extraordinarily good stop and threw Devore out at second. +Murray forced Snodgrass at second and all. New York's early +advantage went for naught.</p> +<p>In the seventh the Giants scored their only run. After Merkle +had struck out, Herzog batted for a base. Meyers lifted a terrific +line drive to center field, but Speaker got under the ball. +Fletcher hit hard and safe to right field for two bases and Herzog +scored. McCormick batted for a base, but Fletcher, trying to score +on the ball, was thrown out at the plate by Yerkes.</p> +<p>In the eighth, with two out, Snodgrass was safe on Wagner's +fumble. Murray rapped a single to left field but Merkle struck out. +With two out for Boston Speaker batted a double to left field and +was left. Ames pitched in the eighth for New York. In the ninth the +Giants were scored upon again when Gardner hit for a single to +center field. Stahl sacrificed, Wagner was given a base on balls +and Cady forced Wagner, while Gardner was scoring.</p> +<center>FIFTH GAME.<br> +Boston, Oct. 12. 1912.<br> +Boston 2; New York 1.<br> +Hits—Off Mathewson 5; Bedient 3.<br> +Struck out—Mathewson 2; Bedient 4.<br> +Bases on balls—Bedient 3.<br> +Attendance 34,683.</center> +<p>The game was played on Saturday with Mathewson in the box for +New York and Bedient for Boston. As was the case in the former game +pitched by Mathewson in Boston, the verdict was general that +perfect support would have won the contest for him, even though the +score was but 2 to 1 in favor of Boston. Devore received a base on +balls in the first inning and after Doyle was out on a long fly to +right was forced out by Snodgrass in a double play. By the way this +game was played under very adverse conditions so far as the weather +was concerned. It was cold and gloomy. Hooper, the first Boston +batter, as usual, began with his single to center field. Yerkes +flied out to shortstop. Speaker hit safely and Lewis batted to +Herzog, who made a beautiful stop on third, and touched the base +ahead of Hooper. Gardner struck out.</p> +<p>In the second inning Murray started off with a base on balls and +the next three batters were retired in succession. With one out for +Boston, Wagner batted safely to right field. The next two men were +retired without reaching first.</p> +<p>With one out in the third, Mathewson batted a single to center +field and Devore followed with a base on balls, but Bedient got the +next two batters.</p> +<p>The third was the inning which broke the backs of the Giants. +Hooper batted the ball to left center for three bases. Yerkes +followed with a triple to center and Hooper scored. Speaker +contributed with a ground hit, which Doyle should have got, but +fumbled. Had he recovered the ball Boston would have made but one +run in the inning. As it was, Yerkes scored on the misplay and that +run lost the game for the Giants. The next two batters were retired +and for the remainder of the contest Boston never had a man on +first base, Mathewson pitching marvelous ball, by far the best game +of the series, as it should easily have been a one run contest with +not a base on balls nor a wild pitch.</p> +<p>In the seventh inning Merkle began with a two-base hit to left +field Herzog flied out to Wagner. Meyers flied out, but McCormick +who batted for Fletcher, made a hit and Merkle scored. That spurt +gave the Giants their sole run and they returned to New York that +night with the series three to one against them.</p> +<center>SIXTH GAME.<br> +New York, Oct. 14, 1912<br> +New York 5; Boston 2.<br> +Hits—Off Marquard 7; O'Brien 6, Collins 5.<br> +Struck out—Marquard 3; O'Brien 1, Collins 1.<br> +Bases on balls—Marquard 1.<br> +Attendance 30,622.</center> +<p>With a Sunday in which to rest the series was resumed in New +York on Monday, October 14. Marquard pitched for the Giants and +O'Brien for the Bostons. Rest seemed to have recuperated the New +York players more than their opponents. In the first inning of the +game the Giants scored five runs and the contest was never in doubt +after that. O'Brien made a costly balk in the first inning and the +Boston players generally seemed to be less energetic and less +confident than would have been expected from a team which had but +one game to win to make the championship assured.</p> +<p>The first inning really settled the outcome of the contest. +After the Giants had made five runs Boston played through the other +eight innings perfunctorily. The crowd of Boston enthusiasts, which +had come to New York to see the finishing touches put on the +Giants, was bitterly disappointed, while the New York enthusiasts, +not over hopeful on account of the disposition of the Giants to +blunder badly at vital moments, were at least in a much better +frame of mind because of the rally by their team.</p> +<p>Hooper was first at bat and as usual hit for a base. He was +caught napping off first. Yerkes was easily retired. Speaker was +given a base on balls and Lewis flied out.</p> +<p>In New York's half Devore was retired at first. Doyle hit safely +to center field. He stole second after Snodgrass struck out. Murray +batted a single to left field and Doyle went to third. O'Brien made +a palpable balk and Doyle scored from third, Murray going to +second. Merkle banged a hard double to right field, Herzog followed +with a double to left field, Meyers singled to left field, and +actually stole second under the noses of the Boston players. +Fletcher singled to right field and Meyers scored the fifth run of +the inning; the other men who had crossed the plate being Doyle, +Murray, Merkle and Herzog.</p> +<p>In Boston's half of the second inning the Boston players scored +twice and that was all they made in the game. Gardner was safe at +first on Marquard's wild throw; Stahl singled to center. The next +two batters were easily retired, but Engle, who batted for O'Brien, +hit to left field for two bases, Devore missing the ball by pushing +it away from him as he was running into it, and Gardner and Stahl +scored.</p> +<p>Boston began the third inning and the fourth inning with +singles, but the runners failed to get around. In the eighth, with +one out, Yerkes made a single, but was unable to score.</p> +<p>With one out in the third for New York, Murray singled to right +field, but was out trying to stretch the hit. Merkle hit for a base +to left field and was out trying to steal.</p> +<p>In the fourth, with one out, Meyers batted to left field for +three bases, but was unable to score. These latter hits were made +against Collins, who had taken O'Brien's place in the box.</p> +<p>Devore began the fifth with a hit, but Doyle flied to short, and +Devore was doubled off first in a play from right field. Collins +continued to be effective in the next three innings, but the +mischief had been done, so far as Boston was concerned, and the Red +Sox simply did not have a rally in them.</p> +<p>The teams again took a special train for Boston after the game +and the remainder of the cavalcade followed over at midnight.</p> +<center>SEVENTH GAME.<br> +Boston, Oct. 15, 1912.<br> +New York 11; Boston 4.<br> +Hits—Off Tesreau 9; Wood 7, Hall 9.<br> +Struck-out—Tesreau 6; Hall 1.<br> +Bases on balls—Hall 5; Tesreau 5.<br> +Attendance 32,630.</center> +<p>The seventh game was played on Fenway Park, with Wood pitching +for Boston and Tesreau for the Giants. Wood pitched for one inning +and was hammered in every direction by the New York players, who +ran riot on the field. They simply overwhelmed Boston and this +contest, more than any other in the series, was so "one sided" as +to be devoid of interest, except to the New York fans, who were +eager to see the Giants win the championship. Devore, the first +batter, hit safely to left field. Doyle rapped a single to center. +Devore and Doyle made a double steal and that began the fireworks. +Snodgrass pushed a double to right field. Murray's hit was a +sacrifice. Merkle singled to center field. Herzog batted to Wood +and Merkle was run down between second and third. Meyers singled to +left field, Fletcher doubled to right field, and Tesreau made his +first hit of the series, a single to left field. That counted all +told six runs for the Giants and Tesreau added cruelty to the +sufferings of the Red Sox by trying to steal second base and almost +making it.</p> +<p>In the second inning Gardner made a home run. Hall took the +place of Wood in the box for Boston and Devore was given a base on +balls. He stole second and Doyle got a base on balls. Devore was +caught napping, but Snodgrass singled to right, scoring Doyle. The +two next batters were retired.</p> +<p>In the third Hall was safe on Fletcher's wild throw and Hooper +singled but neither scored. Herzog and Meyers began with singles +for New York, but neither of them got home. With one out in the +fourth, Gardner was hit by a pitched ball and Stahl singled to left +field. Neither of these players scored.</p> +<p>In the fifth Hall began with a two-bagger to left. Hooper was +given a base on balls and was forced out by Yerkes. Speaker was +given a base on balls. The next two batters were retired, leaving +Hall on third. There were two out for New York when Meyers made his +third single, but he failed to get home.</p> +<p>With one out in the sixth for Boston Wagner hit safely, but Cady +was easily retired. Hall was given a base on balls, but Hooper +struck out, ending the inning. In New York's half, with one out, +Devore was given a base on balls. Doyle batted the ball over the +fence in right field for a home run and Devore scored ahead of +him.</p> +<p>In Boston's half of the seventh, with one out, Speaker singled +to center. Lewis batted to left field for two bases. That put +Speaker on third. While Fletcher was getting Gardner out of the +way, Speaker scored and Lewis reached home on Doyle's fumble of +Stahl's grounder. In New York's half of this inning Merkle began +with a single to center. Herzog flied to left field. Meyers made +his fourth single of the afternoon, but Fletcher flied to right +field. Tesreau hit to right for a base and Merkle scored.</p> +<p>In the eighth Doyle muffed Cady's fly. Hall singled to right. +Hooper's sacrifice fly gave Cady a run, Doyle began for New York +with a single, but the next three batters were retired in +order.</p> +<p>In the ninth Herzog began with a base on balls. Wilson, who was +catching, singled to center. He was doubled up with Fletcher on a +long fly hit. Herzog, however, eventually scored his run, which was +the seventh of the game for New York.</p> +<p>In this contest the Giants ran bases with such daring that they +had the Boston players confused and uncertain. Cady did not know +whether to throw the ball or hold it, and the general exhibition of +speed on the bases which was made by New York was characteristic of +the team's dash in the race for the championship of the National +League, and a system which the Boston players could not fathom.</p> +<center>EIGHTH GAME.<br> +Boston, Oct. 16, 1912.<br> +Boston 3; New York 2 (ten innings.)<br> +Hits—Off Bedient 6, Wood 3; Mathewson 8.<br> +Struck out—Bedient 2, Wood 2; Mathewson 4.<br> +Bases on balls—Bedient 3, Wood 1; Mathewson 5.<br> +Attendance 16,970.</center> +<p>On the following day, before the smallest crowd of the series, +the final game was played in Boston. Many Boston fans, disgruntled +at the manner in which some of them had been seated, deliberately +remained away. The air was cold and bleak and in addition to all +the rest the enthusiasts of Boston had given up the fight. Which +merely goes to show the uncertainty of Base Ball. The New York +players unquestionably had the championship won for nine and one +half innings of the final game and then, by the simplest of errors, +overturned all of the good which they had accomplished in their +wonderful rally of the two days preceding. After outplaying the +Bostons in a manner which showed some thing of the caliber of the +teams when both were going at top speed, the New York team stopped +short. As one wit dryly put it: "Boston did not win the +championship, but New York lost it."</p> +<p>Mathewson pitched for New York and Bedient for Boston until the +end of the seventh inning.</p> +<p>With two out for the Giants in the first Snodgrass was given a +base on balls, but Murray was retired. Two were out for Boston when +Speaker hit for a single to right field, but Lewis struck out. +Again in the second two were out for New York when Meyers was safe +on Speaker's muff. Fletcher singled over second, but Mathewson +flied out.</p> +<p>Hooper began the third with a base hit, but was left. Devore +started for New York with a base on balls. Doyle and Snodgrass were +out in succession, Devore advancing, and then Murray doubled to +center field and Devore scored. In the fourth Herzog started with a +two-bagger and if the ground rule had not been changed he would +have had an easy triple, and ultimately a run, which would have +changed all the outcome of the game. As it was, he did not score. +In the fifth Devore began with a single and was out stealing second +after Doyle had flied out and Hooper had made the most wonderful +catch of the series, reaching over the right field fence to get the +ball with his bare band. Snodgrass singled and Murray fouled +out.</p> +<p>In the sixth Meyers received a base on balls with two out but +did not score. With one out Yerkes singled to right field and +Speaker got a base on balls but no run followed.</p> +<p>In the seventh Mathewson began with a single and was forced out +by Devore, who was left on bases while two batters were retired. +For Boston, with one out, Stahl hit safely to center field. It was +a pop fly, which fell between three men, Fletcher, Murray and +Snodgrass. Wagner was given a base on balls and Cady was an easy +out. Henriksen, batting for Bedient, with two strikes against him, +drove the ball on a line toward third base. In fact, it hit third +base. It bounded so far back that Stahl scored the tieing run of +the game.</p> +<p>No runs were scored by either team in the eighth or the ninth +innings. In the tenth, with one out, Murray lined a double to left +field and scored on Merkle's hard single over second. That put the +Giants in the lead, with Merkle on second. Herzog struck out and +Wood threw out Meyers. The ball had been batted so hard by Meyers +to Wood that it crippled the pitcher's hand and compelled him to +cease playing. It was fortunate for Boston that the hit kept low. +So much speed had been put into it by the stalwart Indian catcher +that had the ball got into the outfield it would have gone to the +fence. It was the undoing of Wood, but it really led to the victory +of Boston.</p> +<p>Engle batted for Wood in the tenth. He rapped a long fly to +center field which was perfectly played by Snodgrass, but the +center fielder dropped the ball. Engle went to second base.</p> +<p>On top of his simple muff Snodgrass made a magnificent catch of +Hooper's fly, which seemed to be good for three bases. Mathewson +bent every energy to strike out Yerkes, but the batter would not go +after the wide curves which were being served to him by the New +York pitcher and finally was given a base on balls.</p> +<p>Speaker hit the first ball pitched for an easy foul which should +have been caught by Merkle. The ball dropped between Merkle, Meyers +and Mathewson. As was afterward proved the capture of this foul +would have saved the championship for the Giants.</p> +<p>Speaker, with another life, singled to right and Engle scored +the tieing run. The Giants still had a chance, but a feeble one, +for Yerkes was on third, with but one out. Gardner flied to Devore. +The New York outfielder caught the ball and made a game effort to +stop the flying Yerkes at the plate, but failed to do so, and the +game was over and the series belonged to Boston.</p> +<p>Yet so keen had been the struggle, so great the excitement, so +wonderful the rally of the New York club after having once given +the series away, that it was the opinion generally that the +defeated were as great in defeat as the victors were great in +victory.</p> +<p>The scores of the games are as follows:</p> +<pre> +FIRST GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 3 1 1 1 0 0 Devore, l.f. 3 1 0 0 0 0 +Yerkes, 2b 4 0 1 0 1 0 Doyle, 2b 4 1 2 2 7 0 +Speaker, c.f 3 1 1 0 1 0 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 2 0 0 +Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 2 0 0 Murray, r.f. 3 0 1 1 0 0 +Gardner, 3b 4 0 0 1 1 0 Merkle, 1b 3 1 1 12 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 4 0 0 6 1 0 Herzog, 3b 4 0 2 1 1 0 +Wagner, ss 3 1 2 5 3 1 Meyers, c 3 0 1 6 1 0 +Cady, c 3 0 1 11 1 0 Fletcher, ss 4 0 0 3 1 1 +Wood, p 3 1 0 1 1 0 Tesreau, p 2 0 0 0 2 0 + McCormick[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + Crandall, p 1 0 0 0 1 0 + Becker[2] 0 0 0 0 0 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 31 4 6 27 9 1 Totals 33 3 8 27 13 1 +</pre> +<p>1: McCormick batted for Tesreau in the seventh inning. 2: Becker +ran for Meyers in ninth inning.</p> +<pre> +Boston 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0-4 +New York 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-3 +</pre> +<p>Sacrifice hits—Hooper, Cady. Two-base hits—Hooper, +Wagner, Doyle. Three-base hit—Speaker. Double +play—Stahl and Wood. Pitching record—Off Tesreau, 5 +hits and 4 runs in 25 times at bat in 7 innings; off Crandall, 1 +hit, 0 runs in 6 times at bat in 2 innings. Struck out—By +Wood 11, Devore, Snodgrass, Merkle, Herzog, Meyers, Fletcher 3, +Tesreau 2, Crandall; by Tesreau 4, Hooper, Speaker, Stahl, Gardner; +by Crandall 2, Stahl, Gardner. Bases on balls—By Wood 2, +Devore, Murray; by Tesreau 4, Hooper, Speaker, Wagner, Wood. First +base on errors—Boston 1, New York 1. Fumbles—Wagner, +Fletcher. Hit by pitched ball—By Wood, Meyers. Left on +bases—Boston 6, New York 6. Umpires—Klem and Evans; +field umpires—Rigler and O'Loughlin. Scorers—Richter +and Spink. Time of game—2.10. Weather—Clear and +warm.</p> +<pre> +SECOND GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Snodgrass, l.f-r.f 4 1 1 0 0 0 Hooper, r.f. 5 1 3 3 0 0 +Doyle, 2b 5 0 1 2 5 0 Yerkes, 2b 5 1 1 3 4 0 +Becker, c.f. 4 1 0 0 1 0 Speaker, c.f. 5 2 2 2 0 0 +Murray, r.f-l.f 5 2 3 3 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 5 2 2 2 0 1 +Merkle, 1b 5 1 1 19 0 1 Gardner, 3b 4 0 0 2 0 0 +Herzog, 3b 4 1 3 2 4 0 Stahl, 1b 5 2 2 10 0 0 +Meyers, c 4 0 2 5 0 0 Wagner, ss 5 0 0 5 5 5 +Fletcher, ss 4 0 0 1 3 3 Carrigan, c 5 0 0 6 4 0 +McCormick[1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 Collins, p 3 0 0 0 1 0 +Mathewson, p 5 0 0 1 6 0 Hall, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 +Shafer[2], ss 0 0 0 0 3 0 Bedient, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 +Wilson[3], c 0 0 0 0 1 1 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 40 6 11 33 23 5 Totals 44 6 10 33 14 1 +</pre> +<p>1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in tenth inning. 2: Shafer ran +for Meyers in tenth inning and succeeded Fletcher as shortstop in +same inning. 3: Wilson succeeded Meyers as catcher in tenth +inning.</p> +<pre> +New York 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0-6 +Boston 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0-8 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—New York 9, Boston 6. First base on +errors—New York 1, Boston 3. Two-base hits—Snodgrass, +Murray, Herzog, Lewis 2, Hooper. Three-base hits—Murray, +Merkle. Herzog, Yerkes, Speaker. Stolen bases—Snodgrass, +Herzog, Hooper 2, Stahl. Sacrifice hit—Gardner. Sacrifice +flies—Herzog, McCormick. Double play—Fletcher and +Herzog. Pitching record—Off Collins, 9 hits and 3 runs in 30 +times at bat in 7-1/3 innings; off Hall, 2 hits and 3 runs in 9 +times at bat in 2-2/3 innings; off Bedient, no hits or runs in 1 +time at bat in 1 inning. Struck out—By Mathewson 4, Stahl, +Collins 2, Wagner; by Collins 6, Doyle, Merkle, Mathewson 2, +Snodgrass; by Bedient 1, Doyle. Bases on balls—By Hall 4, +Snodgrass, Doyle, Becker, Meyers; by Bedient 1, Becker. +Fumbles—Fletcher 2. Muffed flies—Fletcher, Lewis. +Muffed foul fly—Merkle. Muffed thrown ball—Wilson. Hit +by pitcher—By Bedient, Snodgrass. Umpires—O'Loughlin +and Rigler; field umpires—Klem and Evans. +Scorers—Richter and Spink. Time of game—2.38. +Weather—Cool and cloudy.</p> +<pre> +THIRD GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Devore, 1.f. 4 0 2 2 0 0 Hooper, r.f. 3 0 0 1 0 0 +Doyle, 2b 3 0 0 3 1 0 Yerkes, 2b 4 0 1 3 1 0 +Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 0 0 0 Speaker, c.f. 4 0 1 3 1 0 +Murray, l.f. 4 1 1 5 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 4 1 2 4 0 0 +Merkle, 1b 3 0 0 5 0 1 Gardner, 3b 3 0 1 0 2 0 +Herzog, 3b 2 1 1 1 3 0 Stahl, 1b 4 0 2 11 1 0 +Meyers, c 4 0 1 8 1 0 Wagner, ss 4 0 0 1 3 0 +Fletcher, ss 3 0 1 3 2 0 Carrigan, c 2 0 0 3 1 0 +Marquard, p 1 0 0 0 2 0 Engle[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + O'Brien, p 2 0 0 1 5 0 + Ball[2] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + Cady, c 1 0 0 0 1 0 + Bedient, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 + Henriksen[3] 0 0 0 0 0 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 28 2 7 27 9 1 Totals 31 1 7 27 15 0 +</pre> +<p>1: Engle batted for Carrigan in eighth inning. 2: Ball batted +for O'Brien in eighth inning. 3: Henriksen ran for Stahl in ninth +inning.</p> +<pre> +New York 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0-2 +Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-1 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—New York 6, Boston 7. First base on +errors—Boston 1. Two-base hits—Murray, Herzog, Stahl, +Gardner. Stolen bases—Devore, Fletcher, Wagner. Sacrifice +hits—Merkle, Marquard, Gardner. Sacrifice fly—Herzog. +Double play—Speaker and Stahl. Pitching record—Off +O'Brien, 6 hints and 2 runs in 26 times at bat in 8 innings; off +Bedient, 1 hit and 0 runs in 2 times at bat in 1 inning. Struck +out—By Marquard 6, Hooper, Yerkes, Wagner, O'Brien 2, Ball; +by O'Brien 3, Devore, Merkle, Meyers. Bases on balls—O'Brien +3, Fletcher, Doyle, Marquard; by Marquard 1, Hooper. Muffed thrown +ball—Merkle. Hit by pitcher—By Bedient, Herzog. +Umpires—Evans and Klem; field umpires— O'Loughlin and +Rigler. Scorers—Richter and Spink. Time of game—2.16. +Weather—Clear and cool.</p> +<pre> +FOURTH GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 4 0 1 1 0 0 Devore, l.f. 4 0 1 0 0 0 +Yerkes, 2b 3 0 1 2 5 0 Doyle, 2b 4 0 1 4 1 0 +Speaker, c.f. 4 0 1 2 0 0 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 0 2 0 0 +Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Murray, r.f. 4 0 1 3 0 0 +Gardner, 3b 3 2 2 0 2 0 Merkle, 1b 4 0 1 8 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 3 1 0 9 0 0 Herzog, 3b 4 1 2 2 1 0 +Wagner, ss 3 0 0 2 3 1 Meyers, c 4 0 0 5 1 1 +Cady, c 4 0 1 10 0 0 Fletcher, ss 4 0 1 3 6 0 +Wood, p 4 0 2 0 2 0 Tesreau, p 2 0 1 0 2 0 + McCormick[1] 1 0 1 0 0 0 + Ames, p 0 0 0 0 1 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 32 3 8 27 12 1 Totals 35 1 9 27 12 1 +</pre> +<p>1: McCormick batted for Tesreau in seventh inning.</p> +<pre> +Boston 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1-3 +New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0-1 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—Boston 7, New York 7. First base on +errors—Boston 1, New York 1. Two-base hits—Speaker, +Fletcher. Three-base hit—Gardner. Stolen bases—Stahl, +Merkle. Sacrifice hits—Yerkes, Stahl. Double +play—Fletcher and Merkle. Pitching record—Off Tesreau, +5 hits and 2 runs in 24 times at bat in 7 innings; off Ames, 3 hits +and 1 run in 8 times at bat in 2 innings. Struck out—By Wood +8, Devore, Snodgrass. Murray 2, Merkle 2, Meyers, Tesreau; by +Tesreau 5, Lewis, Stahl, Wagner, Cady 2. Bases on balls—By +Tesreau 2, Hooper, Gardner; by Ames 1, Wagner. Fumble—Wagner. +Wild throw—Meyers. Wild pitch—Tesreau. +Umpires—Rigler and O'Loughlin; field umpires—Evans and +Klem. Scorers— Richter and Spink. Time of game—2.06. +Weather—Cool and cloudy, and ground heavy.</p> +<pre> +FIFTH GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 4 l 2 4 0 0 Devore, l.f. 2 0 0 0 0 0 +Yerkes, 2b 4 1 1 3 3 0 Doyle, 2b 4 0 0 0 3 1 +Speaker, c.f. 3 0 1 3 0 0 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 0 2 0 0 +Lewis, l.f. 3 0 0 1 0 0 Murray, r.f. 3 0 0 0 1 0 +Gardner, 3b 3 0 0 3 2 1 Merkle, 1b 4 1 1 15 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 3 0 0 7 0 0 Herzog, 3b 4 0 0 2 3 0 +Wagner, ss 3 0 1 1 1 0 Meyers, c 3 0 1 2 0 0 +Cady, c 3 0 0 5 0 0 Fletcher, ss 2 0 0 2 2 0 +Bedient, p 3 0 0 0 0 0 McCormick[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + Shafer[2], ss 0 0 0 1 1 0 + Mathewson, p 3 0 1 0 3 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 29 2 5 27 6 1 Totals 30 1 3 24 13 1 +</pre> +<p>1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in seventh inning. 2: Shafer +ran for McCormick in seventh inning and then played shortstop.</p> +<pre> +Boston 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 X—2 +New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0—1 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—New York 5, Boston 3. First base on +errors—New York 1, Boston 1. Two-base hit—Merkle. +Three-base hits—Hooper, Yerkes. Double play—Wagner, +Yerkes and Stahl. Struck out—By Mathewson 2, Gardner, Wagner; +by Bedient 4, Devore, Snodgrass, Merkle, Mathewson. Bases on +balls—By Bedient 3, Devore 2, Murray. Fumbles—Doyle, +Gardner. Umpires—O'Loughlin and Rigler; field +umpires—Klem and Evans. Scorers—Richter and Spink. Time +of game—1.43. Weather—Warm and cloudy.</p> +<pre> +SIXTH GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Devore, l.f. 4 0 1 2 0 1 Hooper, r.f. 4 0 1 2 2 0 +Doyle, 2b 4 1 1 1 1 0 Yerkes, 2b 4 0 2 3 1 1 +Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 6 0 0 Speaker, c.f. 3 0 0 5 0 0 +Murray, r.f. 3 1 2 7 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 0 0 0 +Merkle, 1b 3 1 2 4 1 0 Gardner, 3b 4 1 0 0 1 0 +Herzog, 3b 3 1 1 1 1 0 Stahl, 1b 4 1 2 8 0 0 +Meyers, c 3 1 2 6 0 0 Wagner, 3b 4 0 0 3 0 0 +Fletcher, ss 3 0 1 0 2 0 Cady, c 3 0 1 3 2 1 +Marquard, p 3 0 0 0 2 1 O'Brien, p 0 0 0 0 1 0 + Engle[1] 1 0 1 0 0 0 + Collins, p 2 0 0 0 2 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 30 5 11 27 7 2 Totals 33 2 7 24 9 2 +</pre> +<p>1: Engle batted for O'Brien in second inning.</p> +<pre> +New York 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X—5 +Boston 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—2 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—Boston 5, New York 1. First base on +errors—Boston 1. Two-base hits—Engle, Merkle, Herzog. +Three-base hit—Meyers. Stolen bases—Speaker, Doyle, +Herzog, Meyers. Double plays—Fletcher, Doyle and Merkle; +Hooper and Stahl. Pitching record—Off O'Brien, 6 hits and 5 +runs in 8 times at bat in 1 inning; off Collins, 5 hits and 0 runs +in 22 times at bat in 7 innings. Struck out—By Marquard 3, +Wagner, Gardner, Stahl; by O'Brien 1, Snodgrass; by Collins 1, +Devore. Base on balls—By Marquard, Speaker. +Fumble—Devore. Wild throw—Marquard. Muffed foul +fly—Cady. Balk—O'Brien. Wild throw—Yerkes. Time +of game—1.58. Umpires—Klem and Evans; field +umpires—O'Loughlin and Rigler. Scorers—Richter and +Spink. Weather—Warm and cloudy.</p> +<pre> +SEVENTH GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Devore, r.f. 4 2 1 3 1 1 Hooper, r.h. 3 0 1 1 1 0 +Doyle, 2b 4 3 3 2 3 2 Yerkes, 2b 4 0 0 1 4 0 +Snodgrass, c.f. 5 1 2 1 0 0 Speaker, c.f. 4 1 1 4 0 1 +Murray, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 4 1 1 3 0 0 +Merkle, 1b 5 1 2 10 0 1 Gardner, 3b 4 1 1 2 0 1 +Herzog, 3b 4 2 1 0 2 0 Stahl, 1b 5 0 1 11 1 0 +Meyers, c 4 1 3 6 0 0 Wagner, ss 5 0 1 4 4 0 +Wilson, c[1] 1 0 1 2 0 0 Cady, c 4 1 0 1 2 0 +Fletcher, ss 5 1 1 2 4 0 Wood, p 0 0 0 0 1 0 +Tesreau, p 4 0 2 0 6 0 Happ, p 3 0 3 0 5 1 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 40 11 16 27 16 4 Totals 36 4 9 27 18 3 +</pre> +<p>1: Wilson relieved Meyers in eighth inning.</p> +<pre> +New York 6 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1—11 +Boston 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0— 4 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—New York 8, Boston 12. First base on +errors—Boston 1. Stolen bases—Devore 2, Doyle. +Sacrifice hit—Murray. Sacrifice fly—Hooper. Two-base +hits—Snodgrass, Hall, Lewis. Home runs—Doyle, Gardner. +Double plays—Devore and Meyers; Speaker, unassisted. Pitching +record—Off Wood, 7 hits and 6 runs in 8 times at bat in 1 +inning; off Hall, 9 hits and 5 runs in 32 times at bat in 8 +innings. Struck out—By Tesreau 6, Hooper 2, Yerkes, Gardner, +Wagner, Cady; by Hall 1, Herzog. Bases on balls—By Tesreau 5, +Hooper, Yerkes, Speaker, Lewis, Hall; by Hall 5, Devore 2, Doyle, +Herzog, Tesreau. Fumbles—Doyle, Devore. Muffed thrown +ball—Gardner. Wild throws—Merkle, Hall, Speaker. Muffed +fly—Doyle. Wild pitches—Tesreau 2. Hit by pitched +ball—By Tesreau, Gardner. Time of game—2.21. +Umpires—Evans and Klem; field umpires—O'Loughlin and +Rigler. Scorers—Richter and Spink. Weather—Cold and +windy.</p> +<pre> +EIGHTH GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 5 0 0 3 0 0 Devore, r.f. 3 1 1 3 1 0 +Yerkes, 2b 4 1 1 0 3 0 Doyle, 2b 5 0 0 1 5 1 +Speaker, c.f. 4 0 2 2 0 1 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 4 1 1 +Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Murray, l.f. 5 1 2 3 0 0 +Gardner, 3b 3 0 1 1 4 2 Merkle, 1b 5 0 1 10 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 4 1 2 15 0 1 Herzog, 3b 5 0 2 2 1 0 +Wagner, ss 3 0 1 3 5 1 Meyers, c 3 0 0 4 1 0 +Cady, c 4 0 0 5 3 0 Fletcher, ss 3 0 1 2 3 0 +Bedient, p 2 0 0 0 1 0 McCormick[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 +Henriksen[2] 1 0 1 0 0 0 Mathewson, p 4 0 1 0 3 0 +Wood, p 0 0 0 0 2 0 Shafer[3], ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Engle[4] 1 1 0 0 0 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 35 3 8 30 18 5 Totals 38 2 9*29 15 2 +</pre> +<p>*: Two out in tenth inning when winning run was scored.</p> +<p>1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in ninth inning. 2: Henriksen +batted for Bedient in seventh inning. 3: Shafer player shortstop in +tenth inning. 4: Engle batted for Wood in tenth inning.</p> +<pre> +Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2—3 +New York 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1—2 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—New York 11, Boston 9. First base on +errors—New York 1, Boston 1. Two-base hits—Murray 2, +Herzog, Gardner, Stahl, Henriksen. Sacrifice hit—Meyers. +Sacrifice fly—Gardner. Stolen base—Devore. Pitching +record—Off Bedient, 6 hits and 1 run in 26 times at bat in 7 +innings; off Wood, 3 hits and 1 run in 12 times at bat in 3 +innings. Struck out—By Mathewson 4, Yerkes, Speaker, Lewis, +Stahl; by Bedient 2, Merkle, Fletcher; by Wood 2, Mathewson, +Herzog. Bases on balls—By Mathewson 5, Yerkes, Speaker, +Lewis, Gardner, Wagner; by Bedient 3, Devore, Snodgrass, Meyers; by +Wood 1, Devore. Muffed fly—Snodgrass. Muffed foul +fly—Stahl. Muffed thrown balls—Doyle, Wagner, Gardner. +Fumbles—Speaker, Gardner. Time of game—2.39. +Umpires—O'Loughlin and Rigler; field umpires—Klem and +Evans. Scorers—Richter and Spink. Weather—Clear and +cold.</p> +<p>THE COMPOSITE SCORE.</p> +<p>Following is a composite score of the eight games played, thus +arranged to show at a glance the total work in every +department:</p> +<pre> +BOSTON. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PO. A. E. +Hooper........................ 8 31 3 9 2 2 16 3 .. +Yerkes........................ 8 32 3 8 .. 1 15 22 1 +Speaker....................... 8 30 4 9 1 .. 21 2 2 +Lewis......................... 8 32 4 5 .. .. 14 .. 1 +Gardner....................... 8 28 4 5 .. 3 9 12 4 +Stahl......................... 8 32 3 9 2 1 77 3 1 +Wagner........................ 8 30 1 5 1 .. 24 24 3 +Cady.......................... 7 22 1 3 .. 1 35 9 1 +Wood.......................... 4 7 1 2 .. .. 1 6 .. +Carrigan...................... 2 7 .. .. .. .. 9 5 .. +Collins....................... 2 5 .. .. .. .. .. 3 .. +Hall.......................... 2 4 .. 3 .. .. .. 5 1 +Bedient....................... 4 6 .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. +[1]Engle...................... 3 3 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. +O'Brien....................... 2 2 .. .. .. .. 1 6 .. +[2]Ball....................... 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. +[3]Henriksen.................. 2 1 .. 1 .. .. .. .. .. + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + 273 25 60 6 8 222 101 14 +</pre> +<pre> +NEW YORK. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PO. A. E. +Devore........................ 7 24 4 6 4 .. 10 2 2 +Doyle......................... 8 33 5 8 2 .. 15 26 4 +Snodgrass..................... 8 33 2 7 1 .. 17 1 1 +Murray........................ 8 31 5 10 .. 1 23 1 .. +Merkle........................ 8 33 5 9 1 1 83 1 3 +Herzog........................ 8 30 6 12 2 2 11 16 .. +[4]Becker..................... 2 4 1 .. .. .. .. 1 .. +Meyers........................ 8 28 2 10 1 1 42 4 1 +Fletcher...................... 8 28 1 5 1 .. 16 23 4 +Wilson........................ 3 1 .. 1 .. .. 2 1 1 +Shafer........................ 3 .. .. .. .. .. 1 4 .. +Tesreau....................... 3 8 .. 3 .. .. .. 10 .. +[5]McCormick.................. 5 4 .. 1 .. 1 .. .. .. +Crandall...................... 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. +Mathewson..................... 3 12 .. 2 .. .. 2 12 .. +Marquard...................... 2 4 .. .. .. 1 .. 4 1 +Ames.......................... 1 .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. + --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + 274 31 74 12 7[6]22l 108 17 +</pre> +<p>1: Engle batted for Carrigan in eighth inning of third game; for +O'Brien in second inning of sixth game, and for Wood in tenth +inning of eighth game.</p> +<p>2: Ball batted for O'Brien in eighth inning of third game.</p> +<p>3: Henriksen ran for Stahl in ninth inning of third game; and +batted for Bedient in seventh inning of eighth game.</p> +<p>4: McCormick batted for Tesreau in seventh inning of first game; +for Fletcher in tenth inning of second game; for Tesreau in seventh +inning of fourth game; for Fletcher in seventh inning of fifth +game; and for Fletcher in ninth inning of eighth game.</p> +<p>5: Becker ran for Meyers in ninth inning of first game.</p> +<p>6: Two out in tenth inning of eighth game when winning run +scored.</p> +<pre> + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Tl. +Boston 3 4 2 1 1 1 6 2 2 3 0—25 +New York 11 3 3 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 0—31 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—Boston 55, New York 53.</p> +<p>Two-base hits—Boston: Lewis 3, Gardner 2, Stahl 2, Hooper +2, Henriksen 1, Hall 1, Engle 1, Speaker 1, Wagner 1; total 14. New +York: Murray 4, Herzog 4, Snodgrass 2, Merkle 2, Fletcher 1, Doyle +1; total 14.</p> +<p>Three-base hits—Boston: Speaker 2, Yerkes 2, Gardner 1, +Hooper 1; total 6. New York: Murray 1, Merkle 1, Herzog 1, Meyers +1; total 4.</p> +<p>Home runs—Boston: Gardner 1. New York: Doyle 1.</p> +<p>Double plays—For Boston: Stahl and Wood 1; Speaker and +Stahl 1; Wagner, Yerkes and Stahl 1; Hooper and Stahl 1; Speaker 1 +(unassisted). For New York: Fletcher and Herzog 1; Fletcher and +Merkle 1; Fletcher, Doyle and Merkle 1; Devore and Meyers 1.</p> +<p>Struck out by Boston pitchers—By Wood: Merkle 3, Tesreau +3, Fletcher 3, Devore 2, Snodgrass 2, Herzog 2, Meyers 2, Murray 2, +Crandall 1, Mathewson 1, total 21. By Collins: Doyle 1, Merkle 1, +Snodgrass 1, Devore 1, Mathewson 2; total 6. By Bedient: Doyle 1, +Devore 1, Snodgrass 1, Mathewson 1, Fletcher 1, Merkle 2; total 7. +By O'Brien: Devore 1, Merkle 1, Meyers 1, Snodgrass 1; total 4. By +Hall: Herzog 1; total 1. Grand total 39.</p> +<p>Struck out by New York pitchers—By Tesreau: Hooper 3, Cady +3, Stahl 2, Gardner 2, Wagner 2. Speaker 1, Yerkes 1, Lewis 1; +total 15. By Mathewson: Stahl 2, Collins 2, Wagner 2, Gardner 1, +Yerkes 1, Speaker 1, Lewis 1; total 10. By Marquard: Wagner 2, +O'Brien 2, Hooper 1, Yerkes 1, Ball 1, Gardner 1, Stahl 1; total 9. +By Crandall: Stahl 1, Gardner 1; total 2. Grand total 36.</p> +<p>Bases on balls off Boston pitchers—Off Wood: Devore 2, +Murray 1; total 3. Off Hall: Doyle 2, Devore 2, Snodgrass 1, Becker +1. Meyers 1, Tesreau 1, Herzog 1; total 9. Off Bedient: Devore 3, +Becker 1, Murray 1, Snodgrass 1, Meyers 1; total 7. Off O'Brien: +Fletcher 1, Doyle 1. Marquard 1; total 3. Grand total 22.</p> +<p>Bases on balls off New York pitchers—Off Tesreau: Hooper +3, Speaker 2, Wagner 1, Wood 1, Gardner 1, Yerkes 1, Lewis 1, Hall +1: total 11. Off Marquard: Hooper 1, Speaker 1; total 2. Off Ames: +Wagner 1; total 1. Off Mathewson: Yerkes 1, Speaker 1, Lewis 1, +Gardner 1, Wagner 1; total 6. Grand total 19.</p> +<p>Relief pitchers' records—Off Tesreau, 5 hits, 4 runs, in +25 times at bat in 7 innings; off Crandall, 1 hit, 0 runs, in 6 +times at bat in 2 innings in game of October 8. Off Collins, 9 +hits. 3 runs, in 30 times at bat in 7-1/3 innings: off Hall, 2 +hits, 3 runs, in 9 times at bat in 2-2/3 innings; off Bedient, 0 +hits, 0 runs, in 1 time at bat in 1 inning, in game of October 9; +off O'Brien, 6 hits, 2 runs, in 26 times at bat in 8 innings; off +Bedient, 1 hit, 0 runs, in 2 times at bat in 1 inning, in game of +October 10. Off Tesreau, 5 hits, 2 runs, in 24 times at bat in 7 +innings; off Ames, 3 hits, 1 run, in 8 times at bat in 2 innings, +in game of October 11. Off O'Brien, 8 hits, 5 runs, in 8 times at +bat in 1 inning; off Collins, 5 hits, 0 runs, in 22 times at bat in +7 innings, in game of October 14. Off Wood, 7 hits, 6 runs, in 8 +times at bat in 1 inning; off Hall, 9 hits. 5 rung, in 32 times at +bat in 8 innings, in game of October 15. Off Bedient, 6 hits, 1 +run, in 26 times at bat in 7 innings; off Wood, 3 hits, 1 runs, in +12 times at bat in 3 innings, in game of October 16.</p> +<p>Wild pitches—Tesreau 3.</p> +<p>Balk—O'Brien 1.</p> +<p>Muffed fly Balls—Fletcher 1, Lewis 1. Doyle 1, Snodgrass +1; total 4.</p> +<p>Muffed foul fly—Merkle 1, Cady 1, Stahl 1; total 3.</p> +<p>Muffed thrown balls—Wilson 1, Merkle 1, Gardner 2, Doyle +1, Wagner 1; total 6.</p> +<p>Wild throws—Meyers 1, Marquard 1, Yerkes 1, Merkle 1, Hall +1, Speaker 1; total 6.</p> +<p>Fumbles—Wagner 2, Fletcher 3, Doyle 2, Gardner 2, Devore +2, Speaker 1; total 12.</p> +<p>First base on errors—Boston 11, New York 5.</p> +<p>Sacrifice flies—Herzog 2, McCormick 1, Hooper 1, Gardner +1; total 5.</p> +<p>Hit by pitcher—By Bedient: Snodgrass 1, Herzog 1. By Wood: +Meyers. By Tesreau: Gardner.</p> +<p>Umpires—Evans and O'Loughlin, of the American League; Klem +and Rigler, of the National League.</p> +<p>Official scorers—Francis C. Richter of Philadelphia, and +J. Taylor Spink of St. Louis, all games.</p> +<p>Average time—2.13 7-8.</p> +<p>Average attendance—3l,505.</p> +<p>Weather—Clear and cool.</p> +<p>INDIVIDUAL BATTING AVERAGES.</p> +<p>Following are the official batting averages of all players +participating in the World's Championship Series of 1912. They show +that New York clearly outhit Boston. The team average of the Giants +was 50 points higher than that of Boston. The Boston team had only +four batters in the .300 class, while New York had five. Of the men +who played all through the series, Herzog was high with .400. The +figures are:</p> +<pre> +INDIVIDUAL BOSTON BATTING. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PC. +Henriksen 2 1 -- 1 -- -- 1000 +Hall 2 4 -- 3 -- -- .750 +Engle 3 3 1 1 -- -- .333 +Speaker 8 30 4 9 1 -- .300 +Hooper 8 31 3 9 2 2 .290 +Wood 4 7 1 2 -- -- .286 +Stahl 8 32 3 9 2 1 .281 +Yerkes 8 32 3 8 -- 1 .250 +Gardner 8 28 4 5 -- 3 .179 +Wagner 8 30 1 5 1 -- .167 +Lewis 8 32 4 5 -- -- .156 +Cady 7 22 1 3 -- 1 .136 +Carrigan 2 7 -- -- -- -- .000 +Collins 2 5 -- -- -- -- .000 +Bedient 4 6 -- -- -- -- .000 +O'Brien 2 2 -- -- -- -- .000 +Ball 1 1 -- -- -- -- .000 +</pre> +<pre> +INDIVIDUAL NEW YORK BATTING. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PC. +Wilson 2 1 -- 1 -- -- 1000 +Herzog 8 30 6 12 2 2 .400 +Tesreau 3 8 -- 3 -- -- .375 +Meyers 8 28 2 10 1 1 .357 +Murray 8 31 5 10 -- 1 .323 +Merkle 8 33 5 9 1 1 .273 +Devore 7 24 4 6 4 -- .250 +McCormick 5 4 -- 1 -- 1 .250 +Doyle 8 33 5 8 2 -- .242 +Snodgrass 8 33 2 7 1 -- .212 +Fletcher 8 28 1 5 1 -- .179 +Mathewson 3 12 -- 2 -- -- .167 +Becker 2 4 1 -- -- -- .000 +Shafer 3 -- -- -- -- -- .000 +Crandall 1 1 -- -- -- -- .000 +Marquard 2 4 -- -- -- -- .000 +Ames 1 -- -- -- -- -- .000 +</pre> +<p>Team batting average: New York, .270; Boston, .220.</p> +<p>INDIVIDUAL FIELDING AVERAGES.</p> +<p>The individual and team fielding averages show Boston leading by +a slight margin of .958 to .951. The figures follow:</p> +<pre> + CATCHERS. + G. PO. A. PB. E. PC. | G. PO. A. PB. E. PC. +Carrigan 2 9 5 1000|Cady 7 35 9 1 .978 +Meyers 8 42 4 1 .979|Wilson 2 2 1 1 .750 + + PITCHERS. + G. PO. A. E. PC. | G. PO. A. E. PC. +Tesreau 3 10 1000|Collins 2 3 1000 +Crandall 1 1 1000|Bedient 4 1 1000 +Mathewson 4 1 12 1000|O'Brien 2 1 6 1000 +Wood 4 1 6 1000|Hall 2 5 1 .833 +Ames 1 1 1000|Marquard 2 4 1 .800 + + FIRST BASEMEN. +Stahl 8 77 3 1 .988|Merkle 8 83 1 3 .966 + + SECOND BASEMEN. +Yerkes 8 15 22 1 .974|Doyle 8 15 26 4 .911 + + SHORTSTOPS. +Shafer 3 1 4 1000|Fletcher 8 16 23 4 .907 +Wagner 8 24 24 3 .941 + + THIRD BASEMEN. +Herzog 8 11 16 1000|Gardner 8 9 12 4 .840 + + OUTFIELDERS. +Murray 8 23 1 1000|Lewis 8 14 1 .933 +Becker 1 1 1000|Speaker 8 21 2 2 .920 +Hooper 8 16 3 1000|Devore 7 10 2 2 .857 +Snodgrass 8 17 1 1 .947| +</pre> +<p>Team fielding average: Boston, .958; New York, .951.</p> +<p>THE PITCHERS' RECORDS.</p> +<p>The pitching averages show Marquad and Bedient the only pitchers +with clean records. Marquad won two games and did not meet defeat, +and Bedient won one without a defeat. Wood won three and lost one. +Following are the figures:</p> +<pre> + G. W. L. T. TO. PC. H. BB. HB. SO. IP. AB. +Bedient 4 1 1 1 1000 10 7 2 7 17 59 +Marquard 2 2 1000 14 2 9 18 66 +Wood 4 3 1 1 .750 27 3 1 21 22 88 +Tesreau 3 1 2 2 .333 19 11 1 15 23 85 +Collins 2 1 1 .000 14 6 14-1/3 52 +Hall 2 1 1 .000 11 9 1 10-2/3 41 +Mathewson 3 2 1 .000 23 5 10 29-2/3 108 +Ames 1 .000 3 1 2 8 +Crandall 1 .000 1 2 2 6 +O'Brien 2 2 2 .000 12 3 4 9 34 +</pre> +<p>Wild pitches—Tesreau 3.</p> +<p>Wiltse, Ames, Hall and Crandall did not pitch a full game and +are charged with neither defeat nor victory. Tesreau pitched first +7 innings of first game and is charged with defeat. Crandall +finished game. Collins pitched first 7-1/3 innings of second game, +Hall followed for 2-2/3 innings and Bedient for 1 inning, but as +game was tie no one has defeat or victory charged against him. +O'Brien pitched 8 innings of third game and is charged with defeat. +Bedient pitched in the last inning. In fourth game Tesreau pitched +first 7 innings and is marked with defeat. Ames finished the game. +In sixth game O'Brien pitched only 1 inning, but lost the game. +Collins completed the game. Wood pitched only one inning of seventh +game and is charged with a defeat. Hall pitched the last 8 innings. +Bedient pitched first 7 innings of eighth game and retired to +permit Henriksen to bat for him with New York leading. Boston then +tied score and Wood, who succeeded Bedient, finally won out in the +tenth inning, Wood getting credit for game.</p> +<p>FINANCIAL RESULT.</p> +<p>The attendance and receipts of the 1912 World's Championship +Series were the highest of any series ever played, excelling even +the receipts of the 1911 Athletic-Giant series, which reached +proportions of such magnitude that it was thought they would not +soon be exceeded, or even equaled. In the 1911 Athletic-Giant +series the total attendance was 179,851 paid; the receipts, +$342,364; each club's share, $90,108.72; National Commission's +share, $34,236.25; the players' share for four days, $127,910.61; +each player's share on the Athletic team, $3,654.58; and each +player's share on the New York team, $2,436.30. For purposes of +comparison we give the official statement of the 1911 World's +Series:</p> +<pre> + Attendance. Receipts. +First game, New York................ 38,281 $77,359.00 +Second game, Philadelphia........... 26,286 42,962.50 +Third game, New York................ 37,216 75,593.00 +Fourth game, Philadelphia........... 24,355 40,957.00 +Fifth game, New York................ 33,228 69.384.00 +Sixth game, Philadelphia............ 20,485 36,109.00 + --------- ------------- +Totals ............................ 179,851 $342,364.50 + +Each club's share................................ $90,108.72 +National Commission's share....................... 34,236.25 +Players' share for four games................ 127,910.61 +</pre> +<p>Herewith is given the official attendance and receipts of the +Giant-Red Sox world's Series of 1912, together with the division of +the receipts, as announced by the National Commission. The players +shared only in the first four games, divided 60 percent, to the +winning team and 40 per cent, to the losing team.</p> +<pre> + Attendance. Receipts. +First game, New York................ 35,722 $75,127.00 +Second game, Boston................. 30,148 58,369.00 +Third game, Boston.................. 34,624 63,142.00 +Fourth game, New York............... 36,502 76,644.00 +Fifth game, Boston.................. 34,683 63,201.00 +Sixth game, New York................ 30,622 66,654.00 +Seventh game, Boston................ 32,630 57,004.00 +Eighth game, Boston ................ 16,970 30,308.00 + --------- ------------- +Totals............................. 251,901 $490,449.00 + +Each club's share............................... $146,915.91 +National Commission's share....................... 49,044.90 +Players' share for four games.................... 147,572.28 +</pre> +<a name="RULE4_10"><!-- RULE4 10 --></a> +<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912</h2> +<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center> +<p>Spurts of energy on the part of different clubs, unexpected ill +fortune on the part of others, and marked variations of form, which +ranged from the leaders almost to the lowliest teams of the second +division, injected spasmodic moments of excited interest into the +National League race for 1912 and marked it by more vicissitudes +than any of its immediate predecessors.</p> +<p>By careful analysis it is not a difficult matter to ascertain +why the New Yorks won. Their speed as a run-getting machine was +much superior to that of any of their opponents. Every factor of +Base Ball which can be studied demonstrates that fact. They led the +National League in batting and they led it in base running. They +were keenly alive to the opportunities which were offered to them +to win games. Indeed, their fall from the high standard which they +had set prior to the Fourth of July was quite wholly due to the +fact that they failed to take advantage of the situations daily, as +they had earlier in the season, and their return to that winning +form later in the season, which assured them of the championship, +was equally due to the fact that they had regained their ability to +make the one run which was necessary to win. That, after all, is +the vital essential of Base Ball. To earn the winning run, not by +hook or crook, but to earn it by excelling opponents through +superior play in a department where the opponents are weak, is the +story of capturing a pennant.</p> +<p>They were dangerous men to be permitted to get on bases, and +their dearest and most bitter enemies on the ball field, with +marked candor, confessed that such was the case. Opposing leaders +admitted that when two or three of the New York players were +started toward home plate one or two of them were likely to cross +the plate and that, too, when one run might tie the score and two +runs might win the game.</p> +<p>While there were some who were quite sanguine before the +beginning of the season that the Giants would win the championship, +there were others who were convinced that they would have a hard +time to hold their title, and after the season was over both +factions were fairly well satisfied with their preliminary +forecast.</p> +<p>The runaway race which New York made up to the Fourth of July +gave abundant satisfaction to those who said they would win, and +the setback which the team received after the Fourth of July until +the latter part of August afforded solace to those who were certain +in their own minds that the New Yorks would have much trouble to +repeat their victory of 1911.</p> +<p>It must not be forgotten, too, that the New York team had the +benefit of excellent pitching throughout the year. In the new +record for pitchers, which has been established this season by +Secretary Heydler of the National League, and which in part was the +outcome of the agitation in the GUIDE for a new method of records, +in which the various Base Ball critics of the major league cities +so ably contributed their opinions, Tesreau leads all the pitchers +in the matter of runs which were earned from his delivery. +Mathewson is second, Ames is fifth, Marquard seventh and Wiltse and +Crandall lower, and while both the latter were hit freely in games +in which they were occasionally substituted for others, they +pitched admirably in games which they won on their own account.</p> +<p>In the opinion of the writer this new method, which has been put +into usage by Secretary Heydler, is far superior to anything which +has been offered in years as a valuable record of the actual work +of pitchers. It holds the pitcher responsible for every run which +is made from his delivery. It does not hold him responsible for any +runs which may have been made after the opportunity has been +offered to retire the side, nor does it hold him responsible for +runs which are the result of the fielding errors of his fellow +players. On the other hand, if he gives bases on balls, if he is +batted for base hits, if he makes balks, and if he makes wild +pitches, he must stand for his blunders and have all such runs +charged against him as earned runs.</p> +<p>Nothing proves more conclusively the strength of this manner of +compiling pitchers' records than that Rucker, by the old system, +dropped to twenty-eighth place in the list of National League +pitchers, finished third in the earned run computation, showing +that if he had been given proper support he probably would have +been one of the topmost pitchers of the league, even on the basis +of percentage of games won, which is more vainglorious than +absolutely truthful.</p> +<p>The Giants are to be commended for playing clean, sportsmanlike +Base Ball. There were less than a half dozen instances in which +they came into conflict with the umpires. The president of the +National League complimented Manager McGraw in public upon the +excellent conduct of his team upon the field and the players +deserved the approbation of the league's chief executive.</p> +<hr> +<p>The general work of the Pittsburgh team throughout the year was +good. It must have been good to have enabled the players to finish +second in the championship contest, but the team, speaking in the +broadest sense, seemed to be just good enough not to win the +championship. As one man dryly but graphically put it: "Pittsburgh +makes me think of a wedding cake without the frosting."</p> +<p>Fred. Clarke, manager of the team, adhered resolutely to his +determination not to play. It was not for the reason that the +impulse to play did not seize upon him more than once, but he had +formed a conviction, or, at least, he seemed to have formed one, +that it would be better for the organization if the younger blood +were permitted to make the fight. It was the opinion of more than +one that Clarke incorrectly estimated his own ball playing ability, +in other words, that he was a better ball player than he credited +himself with being.</p> +<p>As batters the Pittsburghs were successful. As fielders they +were superior to the team that won the championship. As run-getters +they were not the equal of the Giants. In brief, fewer +opportunities were accepted to make runs by a much larger +percentage than was the case with the New York club, which can +easily be verified by a careful study of the scores of the two +teams as they opposed one another, and as they played against the +other clubs of the league.</p> +<p>It took more driving power to get the Pittsburgh players around +the bases than it did those of New York. In tight games, where the +advantage of a single run meant victory, the greater speed of the +New York players could actually be measured by yards in the +difference of results. Naturally it was not always easy for the +Pittsburgh enthusiasts to see why a team, which assuredly fielded +better than the champions and batted almost equally as well, could +not gain an advantage over its rivals, but the inability of +Pittsburgh Base Ball patrons to comprehend the lack of success on +the part of their team existed in the fact that they had but few +opportunities, comparatively speaking, to watch the New York +players and found it difficult to grasp the true import of that one +great factor of speed, which had been so insistently demanded by +the New York manager of the men who were under his guidance.</p> +<p>Pittsburgh had an excellent pitching staff. Even better results +would have been obtained from it if Adams had been in better +physical condition. An ailing arm bothered him. While he fell below +the standard of other years, one splendid young pitcher rapidly +developed in Hendrix, and Robinson, a left-hander, with practically +no major league experience, pushed his way to a commanding position +in the work which he did.</p> +<p>Until the Giants made their last visit to Pittsburgh in the +month of August the western team threatened to come through with a +finish, which would give them a chance to swing into first place +during the month of September, but the series between New York and +Pittsburgh turned the scale against the latter.</p> +<p>Fired with the knowledge that they were at the turning point in +the race the New York players battled desperately with their rivals +on Pittsburgh's home field and won. Even the Pittsburgh players +were filled with admiration for the foe whom they had met, and +while they were not in the mood to accept defeat with equanimity, +they did accept it graciously and congratulated the victors as they +left Pittsburgh after playing the last game of the season which had +been scheduled between them on Forbes Field.</p> +<p>First base had long bothered Clarke. Frequent experiments had +been made to obtain a first baseman, who could play with accuracy +on the field and bat to the standard of the team generally. Clarke +transferred Miller from second base to first and the change worked +well. More graceful and more accurate first basemen have been +developed than Miller, but in his first year of play at the bag he +steadied the team perceptibly and unquestionably gave confidence to +the other men.</p> +<p>But making a first baseman out of Miller took away a second +baseman and second base gave Clarke more or less concern all of the +season. At that, Pittsburgh was not so poorly off in second base +play as some other of the teams of the senior circuit.</p> +<hr> +<p>Two important factors contributed to the success of the Chicagos +in 1912. For a few days they threatened to assume the leadership of +the National League. With the opportunity almost within their grasp +the machine, which had been patched for the moment, fell to pieces, +and the Cubs, brought to a climax in their work by all the personal +magnetism and the driving power of which Chance was capable, were +exhausted by their strongest effort. The courage and the wish were +there, but the team lacked the playing strength.</p> +<p>To return to the factors which contributed to the club's +success. They were the restoration to health of Evers, and a +complete change in the manner of playing second base, added to the +consistent and powerful batting of Zimmerman. The latter led the +league in batting and repeatedly pulled his club through close +contests by the forceful manner in which he met the ball with men +on bases.</p> +<p>A third contributing force, though less continuous, was the +brief spurt which was made by the Chicago pitchers in the middle of +the season. They were strongest at the moment that the New York +team was playing its poorest game, and their temporary success +assisted in pushing the Chicagos somewhat rapidly toward the top of +the league. They were not resourceful enough nor strong enough to +maintain their average of victories and finished the season +somewhat as they had begun.</p> +<p>The most of Chicago's success began to date from the early part +of July, when Lavender, pitching for the Cubs, won from Marquard of +the Giants, who, to that time, had nineteen successive victories to +his credit. Chicago continued to win, and the New York team made a +very poor trip through the west.</p> +<p>Lavender's physical strength held up well for a month and then +it became quite evident that he had pitched himself out. Then was +the time that the Chicagos could have used to good advantage two +and certainly one steady and reliable pitcher, who had been through +the fire of winning pennants and would not be disturbed by the +importance which attached to games in which his club was for the +moment the runner-up in the championship race.</p> +<p>Chicago managed to hold its own fairly well against the New York +team. Indeed, the Cubs beat the New Yorks on the series for the +season, but there were other clubs, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and +Cincinnati, which won from Chicago when victories were most needed +by the Cubs, and their hope to capture the pennant deserted them as +they were making their last trip through the east.</p> +<p>The race was not without its bright side for Chicago. Even if +the Cubs did finish third for the first time since Chance had been +manager of the organization, it was a welcome sight to see Evers +apparently in as good form as ever and Zimmerman so strong with the +bat that the leadership of the batters finally returned to Chicago +after it had been absent for years.</p> +<hr> +<p>Cincinnati, under the management of Henry O'Day, finished fourth +in the race. It was by no means a weak showing for the new manager, +in view of the team which he was compelled to handle. Until the New +York club played its first series in Cincinnati, which began May +18, the Reds were booming along at the top of the league, +apparently with no intention that they might ever drop back. It was +New York that won three out of the five games played and took the +lead in the race, and when that happened Cincinnati never was in +front again.</p> +<p>To the other managers, who had been watching the work of the +Cincinnatis it was apparent that sooner or later the break would +have to come for the reason that, as the season progressed, better +pitching would have to be faced by the Cincinnati club, while it +was doubtful whether the Cincinnati pitchers could do any better +than they were doing. The manager seemed to have known this, for +when the break did come and the Reds began to totter, he said in +reference to their downfall that no team could be expected to win +with only ordinary pitching to assist it.</p> +<p>In this manner Cincinnati played through the middle of the +season always just a little behind most of its opponents. As the +latter days of the year began to dawn the Reds began to improve and +not the least of which was in the better work of the pitchers.</p> +<p>They did well enough to beat Philadelphia for fourth place, and +while O'Day did not have the satisfaction of finding his first year +as a manager generous enough to him to make him the runner-up for +the championship team, he actually put his club in the first +division, which is something in which many managers have failed and +some of them managers of long experience.</p> +<hr> +<p>Misfortune and ill luck always attaches itself in a minor degree +to every team which engages in a championship contest, but most +assuredly Philadelphia had more of its share of reverses through +accidents to players and illness than any team of the National +League. Yet the Philadelphias were courageous players from whom +little complaint was heard. They took their misfortunes with what +grace they could and played ball with what success they could +achieve, whether they had their best team in the field or their +poorest.</p> +<p>Strangely enough they played an important part in the results of +the race. Frequently they defeated the Chicagos, all too frequently +for the comfort of the Chicago Base Ball enthusiasts, and when the +loss of a game or two by the Philadelphias to the Chicagos might +have turned the race temporarily one way or the other, the +Philadelphias, with decided conviction, refused to lose.</p> +<p>It may not be necessary to call attention to the fact of +absolute fairness in the contests for championships in the various +leagues which comprise Base Ball in its organized form. The day has +passed when the Base Ball enthusiast permits his mind to dwell much +upon that sort of thing, if ever he did. But if it were necessary +to advance an argument as to the integrity of the sport and the +high class of the men who are engaged in the summer season in +playing professional Base Ball, there could be nothing better to +prove that the price of victory is the one great consideration, +greater than the fact of Philadelphia's success against a team +which was a strong contender against that which finally won the +championship.</p> +<p>As much as Philadelphia desired that New York should be beaten, +for there was no love lost between the teams in a ball playing way, +the fighting spirit and the predominant desire to add to the column +of victories as many games as possible brought forth the best +efforts of the team of ill fortune against Chicago and struck +telling blows against Chicago's success at the most timely +moments.</p> +<hr> +<p>As a whole the St. Louis team did not play as well in 1912 as it +did in the preceding year. There was some bad luck for St. Louis as +well as Philadelphia. The players did not get started as well as +they had in the previous two years. Their spring training was more +or less disastrous, for they were one of the clubs to run into the +most contrary of spring weather.</p> +<p>Perhaps the worst trouble which the St. Louis team had, take the +season through from beginning to finish, was in regard to the +pitchers. There were two or three young men on the team who seemed +at the close of the season of 1911 to be likely to develop into +high class pitchers in 1912. They pitched well in 1912 at +intervals. One day it seemed as if they at last had struck their +stride and the next they faltered and their unsteadiness gave their +opponents the advantage which they sought.</p> +<p>Perhaps, if the St. Louis team had been a little stronger to +batting it would have rated higher among the organization of the +National League. Several games were lost which would have been +taken into camp by a better display at bat. In fielding the team +was much stronger and the success of the infield, combined with +some excellent outfield work now and then, frequently held the team +up in close battles, but when the pitchers faltered on the path the +fielders were not able to bear the force of the attack.</p> +<hr> +<p>For three seasons in succession Brooklyn seems to have been +fated to start the season with bad luck and misfortune. The spring +training trip did not bring to Brooklyn all that had been expected +owing to the inclement weather.</p> +<p>When the team began the season at Washington Park a tremendous +crowd filled the stands. Long before it was time for the game to +begin the spectators became unruly and swarmed over the field. It +was impossible for the ground police to do anything with the +excited enthusiasts and at last the city police were asked to +assist. They tried to clear the field, but only succeeded in +driving the crowd from the infield. Spectators were so thick in the +outfield that they crowded upon the bases and prevented the players +from doing their best. For that matter the outfielders could not do +much of anything.</p> +<p>A ground rule of two bases into the crowd was established, and +the New York players, who were the opponents of Brooklyn, took +advantage of it to drive the ball with all their force, trusting +that it would sail over the heads of the fielders and drop into the +crowd. They were so successful that they made a record for two-base +hits and Brooklyn was overwhelmed.</p> +<p>This unfortunate beginning appeared to depress the Brooklyn +team. The players recovered slightly, but had barely got into their +stride again when accidents to the men began to happen. Some of +them became ill, and the manager was put to his wits end to get a +team on the field which should make a good showing.</p> +<p>Fighting against these odds Brooklyn made the best record that +it could. As the season warmed into the hotter months the infield +had to be rearranged. There was disappointment in the playing of +some of the infielders. It was also necessary to reconstruct the +outfield. Unable to get all of the men whom he would have desired +the manager continued to experiment and his experiments brought +forth good fruit, for unquestionably the excellent work of Moran, +who played both right field and center field for Brooklyn, was a +great help to the pitchers. By the time that the Base Ball playing +year was almost concluded Brooklyn had so far recovered that it was +able to place a better nine on the diamond than had been the case +all of the year.</p> +<p>Boston never was expected to be a championship organization. The +material was not there for a championship organization, but Boston +did play better ball than in 1911 and that is to the credit of +players, manager and owner. The club had changed hands, but the new +owner had not been able to readjust all of the positions to suit +him. He put the best nine possible in the field with what he had. +Never threatening to become a championship winning team Boston +played steadily with what strength it possessed and always a little +better than in 1911, so that the year could not fairly be +considered unsuccessful at its finish.</p> +<hr> +<p>Going back to the beginning of the year and looking over the +contest for the National League championship of 1912, it is not +uninteresting, indeed it is of much interest to call attention to +the remarkably odd record which was made by New York to win the +pennant. In that record stands the story of the fight, with +striking shifts from week to week.</p> +<p>The first game played by the Giants was against Brooklyn, as has +been related, and it was won by New York and that, by the way, was +the game in which Marquard began his admirable record as a pitcher +for the season.</p> +<p>The Giants lost the next three games. Two of them were to +Brooklyn and one to Boston, and the players of the New York team +began to wonder a little as to what had happened to them.</p> +<p>Then New York won nine straight games from the eastern clubs, +being stopped finally by Philadelphia on the Polo Grounds. But that +defeat did not check them. They started on another winning spurt +and played throughout the west without a defeat until they arrived +in Cincinnati. This total of victories was nine. All of the games +on the schedule were not played because of inclement weather.</p> +<p>Cincinnati won twice from New York and then the Giants turned +the tables on the Reds, who had been leading the league. They threw +them out of the lead, which they never regained, and won another +succession of nine victories. That made three times consecutively +that they had won a total of twenty-seven games in groups of nine, +assuredly an unusual result.</p> +<p>Losing one game they again entered the winning class. This time +they won six games in succession. Then they lost a game. After this +single defeat they won but three games. Their charm of games in +blocks of nine had deserted them. They were beaten twice after +winning three, and Pittsburgh was the team.</p> +<p>Then they won another single game and immediately after that +victory lost to Brooklyn. But that was the last defeat for a long +time. Well into the race, with their condition excellent, and +playing better ball than they had played since their wonderful +spurt of the month of September in 1911, they won sixteen games in +succession.</p> +<p>The morning of the Fourth of July dawned hot and sultry. The air +was thick and muggy and without life. The Giants were scheduled to +play two games that day with Brooklyn, the first in the morning and +the second in the afternoon. If they won both of them they would +tie a former record, which had been made by the New York team, for +consecutive victories.</p> +<p>Perhaps it may have been reaction after the long strain of +winning or it may have been an uncommonly good streak of batting on +the part of Brooklyn. Surely Brooklyn batted well enough, as the +morning game went to the latter team by the score of 10 to 4. In +the afternoon Brooklyn again beat the Giants by the score of 5 to +2. Wiltse pitched for New York and Stack for Brooklyn.</p> +<p>The New York team went to Chicago and won twice. Then it lost. +The fourth game was won from Chicago and then the Giants lost two +in succession.</p> +<p>They won one game and immediately after that lost four in +succession. Chicago began to have visions of winning the +pennant.</p> +<p>From Chicago the Giants went to Pittsburgh, stood firm in a +series of three games, winning two and losing one. Their next call +was at Cincinnati and beginning with that series they got back to +form a trifle and won five games in succession.</p> +<p>Returning home they were beaten on the Polo Grounds three games +in succession by Chicago. After that New York settled into a +winning stride again and won six games in succession. Pittsburgh +came to the Polo Grounds and stopped the winning streak of the +champions by defeating them three times in succession. That was a +hard jolt for any team to stand. Yet the Giants rallied and won the +test game of the Pittsburgh series.</p> +<p>It was but a momentary pause, for after another victory St. +Louis beat New York. The Giants won another game and the next day +lost to St. Louis. That finished the home games for New York and +the team started west, facing a desperate fight. They lost the +first game to Chicago, won the next and lost the third. Going from +Chicago to St. Louis they won three games in succession, returning +to Chicago, lost a postponed game with the Cubs.</p> +<p>From Chicago their path led them to Pittsburgh where they lost +the first contest. Then they made the stand of the season when they +beat the Pittsburghs four games in succession.</p> +<p>Cincinnati turned the tables on the Giants to the consternation +of the New York fans and won twice, when it seemed as if the Giants +were about to start on a career which would safely land the +championship. The Giants returned home and beat Brooklyn in the +first game and lost the second. They won the next two and then lost +again. The championship was still in abeyance. Again they won and +then lost to Philadelphia.</p> +<p>Here came another test in a Philadelphia series at Philadelphia +which contained postponed games, and once more rallying with all +their might, won four games and lost the last of this series of +five.</p> +<p>Following that they won three games and then lost to St. Louis. +They won three times in succession and then lost four games to +Chicago and Cincinnati, but all of this time Chicago was gradually +falling away because it was necessary that the Cubs should continue +to win successive victories if they were to beat New York for the +championship.</p> +<p>The Giants atoned for the four defeats at the hands of Chicago +and Cincinnati by winning the next four games in succession, and +while this did not actually settle the championship, that is, the +definite championship game had not been played, the race was +practically over and all that was left to fight for in the National +League was second place, in which Chicago and Pittsburgh were most +interested. The pitching staff of the Chicagos had worn out under +the strain and the Cubs were beaten out by Pittsburgh.</p> +<p>The semi-monthly standing of the race by percentages +follows:</p> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON APRIL 30. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +Cincinnati 10 3 .769 Pittsburgh 5 7 .417 +New York 8 3 .727 Philadelphia 4 6 .400 +Boston 6 6 .500 St. Louis 5 8 .385 +Chicago 5 7 .417 Brooklyn 4 7 .364 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 18 4 .810 St. Louis 10 16 .385 +Cincinnati 19 5 .792 Boston 9 15 .375 +Chicago 12 12 .500 Philadelphia 7 13 .350 +Pittsburgh 9 12 .429 Brooklyn 7 14 .333 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 31. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 28 7 .800 St. Louis 20 22 .455 +Cincinnati 23 17 .675 Philadelphia .14 19 .426 +Chicago 19 17 .628 Brooklyn 12 22 .353 +Pittsburgh 18 17 .514 Boston 13 26 .333 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 37 10 .787 Philadelphia 20 24 .455 +Pittsburgh 27 20 .574 St. Louis 23 31 .426 +Chicago 26 21 .563 Brooklyn 16 30 .348 +Cincinnati 25 23 .553 Boston 16 35 .314 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 30. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 50 11 .820 Philadelphia 24 33 .421 +Pittsburgh 37 25 .597 Brooklyn 24 36 .400 +Chicago 34 26 .567 St. Louis 27 42 .391 +Cincinnati 35 32 .522 Boston 20 46 .303 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 58 19 .753 Philadelphia 34 38 .472 +Chicago 47 28 .627 St. Louis 34 49 .410 +Pittsburgh 45 31 .592 Brooklyn 30 48 .385 +Cincinnati 41 39 .513 Boston 22 59 .272 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 31. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 67 24 .736 Cincinnati 45 49 .479 +Chicago 57 34 .626 St. Louis 41 55 .427 +Pittsburgh 52 37 .684 Brooklyn 35 59 .372 +Philadelphia 45 43 .511 Boston 25 66 .275 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 73 30 .709 Cincinnati 50 58 .463 +Chicago 69 36 .657 St. Louis 47 60 .439 +Pittsburgh 65 40 .619 Brooklyn 39 69 .361 +Philadelphia 50 54 .481 Boston 28 76 .269 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 31. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 82 36 .695 Cincinnati 57 65 .467 +Chicago 79 42 .653 St. Louis 53 59 .434 +Pittsburgh 71 50 .587 Brooklyn 44 76 .367 +Philadelphia 59 60 .496 Boston 37 84 .306 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 15 + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 95 40 .704 Philadelphia 63 70 .474 +Chicago 83 61 .619 St. Louis 57 80 .416 +Pittsburgh 82 53 .607 Brooklyn 50 85 .370 +Cincinnati 68 68 .500 Boston 42 93 .311 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 30 + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 101 45 .692 Philadelphia 70 77 .476 +Pittsburgh 91 57 .615 St. Louis 62 88 .413 +Chicago 89 68 .605 Brooklyn 57 91 .385 +Cincinnati 74 76 .493 Boston 42 100 .324 +</pre> +<p>STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON.</p> +<pre> + Club. N.Y. Pitts. Chi. Cin. Phil. St.L. Bkln. Bos. Won. PC. +New York -- 12 9 16 17 15 16 18 103 .682 +Pittsburgh 8 -- 13 11 14 15 14 18 92 .616 +Chicago 13 8 -- 11 10 15 17 17 91 .607 +Cincinnati 6 11 10 -- 8 13 16 11 75 .490 +Philadelphia 5 8 10 14 -- 11 13 12 73 .480 +St. Louis 7 7 7 9 11 -- 10 12 63 .412 +Brooklyn 6 8 5 6 9 11 -- 13 58 .379 +Boston 3 4 6 11 10 10 9 -- 52 .340 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + Lost 48 58 59 78 79 90 95 101 +</pre> +<p>The Chicago-Pittsburgh game at Chicago, October 2, was protested +by the Pittsburgh club and thrown out of the records, taking a +victory from the Chicago club and a defeat from the Pittsburgh +club.</p> +<a name="RULE4_11"><!-- RULE4 11 --></a> +<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912</h2> +<center>BY IRVING E. SANBORN, CHICAGO.</center> +<p>Pre-season predictions in Base Ball do not carry much weight +individually, but when many minds, looking at the game from +different angles, agree on the main points there usually is good +reason behind such near unanimity. Outside of Boston it is doubtful +if any experienced critic of Base Ball in the country expected the +Red Sox to be converted from a second division team into pennant +winners in one short season. If such expectancy existed in Boston +it was partially a case of the wish fathering the thought. The +majority of men believed the machine with which Connie Mack had +achieved two league and two world's championships was good for at +least one more American League pennant. That expectation was based +on the comparative youth of the important cogs in the Athletic +machine. Yet this dope went all wrong. The Athletics were beaten +out by two teams which were in the second division in 1911, one of +them as low as seventh place.</p> +<p>The reason for these form reversals were several. The Boston and +Washington teams improved magically in new hands, while the +Athletics went back a bit, partly because of too much prosperity +and partly because of adversity. Having come from behind in 1911 +and made a winning from a wretched start, the Mackmen apparently +thought they could do it again and delayed starting their fight +until it was too late. The loss of the services of Dan Murphy for +more than half of the season also was a prime factor.</p> +<p>The White Sox were the season's sensations both ways and for a +time kept everybody guessing by their whirlwind start under new +management. They walked over every opponent they tackled for the +first few weeks, then began to slip and it required herculean +efforts to keep them in the first division at the finish. The +Chicago team always was a puzzle to all parties to the race, +including itself.</p> +<p>From the outset there was almost no hope for the other four +teams in the league. Cleveland and Detroit occasionally broke into +the upper circles for a day or two in the early weeks of the +season, but not far enough to rouse any false anticipations among +their supporters. St. Louis and New York quickly gravitated to the +lower strata and remained there, the Yankees finally losing out in +their battle with the Browns to keep out of last place.</p> +<p>Five American League teams started the season under new +managers. One of the three which began the race under leaders +retained from the previous year changed horses in mid-stream. Jake +Stahl, Harry Wolverton, Clark Griffith, Harry Davis and James +Callahan were the new faces in the managerial gallery. Some of them +were not exactly new to the job but were in new jobs. Of these +Stahl, Griffith and Callahan proved successful leaders and the +first named became the hero of a world's championship team when the +last ball of the series was caught. Davis resigned during the +season and was succeeded by Joe Birmingham, who almost duplicated +the feat of George Stovall in 1911, putting new life into the +Cleveland team and starting a spurt which made the race for +position interesting. Wolverton stuck the season out in spite of +handicaps that would have discouraged anybody, then handed in his +resignation. Wallace, who started the year at the helm again in St. +Louis, cheerfully handed over the management to Stovall, who had +been transplanted into the Mound City in the hope of making Davis' +task easier in Cleveland. Stovall made the Browns a hard team to +beat and had the mild satisfaction of hoisting them out of the +cellar which they had occupied for the better part of three +seasons.</p> +<p>An unpleasant feature of the season, but one which had +beneficial results, was the strike of the Detroit players, +entailing the staging of a farcical game in Philadelphia between +the Athletics and a team of semi-professionals. This incident grew +out of an attack on a New York spectator by Ty Cobb while in +uniform and the immediate suspension of the player for an +indefinite period.</p> +<p>The prompt and unyielding stand taken by President Johnson +against the action of the Detroit players and the diplomatic +efforts of President Navin of that club averted serious or extended +trouble and undoubtedly furnished a warning against any similar act +in the near future. Another, excellent result was the effort made +by club owners to prevent the abuse of the right of free speech by +that small element of the game's patronage which finds its greatest +joy in abusing the players, secure in the knowledge that it is +practically protected from personal injury in retaliation.</p> +<p>In the development of new players of note the league enjoyed an +average season, and a considerable amount of new blood was injected +into the game in the persons of players who made good without +attracting freakish attention. The rise of the Washington team from +seventh to second place brought its youngsters into the limelight +prominently, and of these Foster and Moeller were commended highly. +Gandil, who had his second tryout in fast company, plugged the hole +at first base which had worried Washington managers for some time. +Shanks also made a reputation for himself as a fielder. These men +were helped somewhat by the showing of their team, but the case of +Gandil would have been notable In any company. His first advent +into the majors with the White Sox showed him to be an exceedingly +promising player, but for some reason his work fell off until he +was discarded into the International League. There he quickly +recovered his stride and, when he did come back shortly after the +season opened last spring, he demonstrated that he had the ability +to hit consistently and proved a tower of strength to Griffith's +team.</p> +<p>Baumgardner of the St. Louis Browns was an example of a +youngster making good in spite of comparatively poor company. His +pitching record with a team which finished in seventh place stamps +him as one of the best, if not the best, of the slab finds of the +year. Jean Dubuc of Detroit was another find of rare value and +still another was Buck O'Brien of Boston, but these had the +advantage over Baumgardner of getting better support both in the +field and at bat. O'Brien in particular was fortunate to break in +with a championship team.</p> +<p>The White Sox introduced three youngsters who made good and +promise to keep on doing so. Two of them, George Weaver and Morris +Rath, started the season with Chicago and the third, Baker Borton, +joined the team late in the summer. Still later Kay Schalk started +in to make what looks like a name for himself as a catcher.</p> +<hr> +<p>No better illustration of the slight difference between a +pennant winning machine and a losing team in the American League +has occurred recently than the Boston Red Sox furnished last year. +It did not differ materially from the team of 1910 which compelled +the use of the nickname "Speed Boys." Jake Stahl was a member of +that team, and except for the absence of Stahl in 1911, the +champions of 1912 were composed of practically the same men who +finished in the second division only the year before. But for the +showing of 1910 the whole credit for last season's transformation +might be attributed to Manager Stahl. Much of it unquestionably is +his by right, and there is no intent here to deprive him of any of +the high honors he achieved.</p> +<p>To Stahl's arrangement of his infield probably is due much of +the improvement in the team. The outfield trio of wonderful +performers did not perform any more wonders last year than in the +previous season, but what had been holes on the infield were +plugged tightly. Many looked askance when Larry Gardner, supposedly +a second baseman, was assigned to third, but the results more than +justified the move, and it made room at second for Yerkes, a player +who had proved only mediocre on the other side of the diamond. This +switch and the return of Stahl, who is a grand mark to throw at on +first base, gave the infield the same dash and confidence as the +outfield possessed, and the addition of some pitching strength in +Bedient and O'Brien did the rest. It is the ability to discover +just the right combination that differentiates the real manager +from the semi-failure.</p> +<p>The Red Sox were in the race from the start, but they were +eclipsed for a time by the White Sox. In spite of that the +Bostonians never faltered but kept up a mighty consistent gait all +the way and wore down all competitors before the finish. Stahl's +men never were lower than second place in the race with the +exception of three days early in May. when Washington poked its +nose in front of the Red Sox and started after the White Sox, only +to be driven back into third place by the men of Callahan +themselves. For more than a week in April Boston was in the lead. +Then Chicago went out and established a lead so long that it lasted +until near the middle of June. Boston attended strictly to its +knitting, however. Without stopping in their steady stride, the Red +Sox hung on, waiting for the Callahans to slump. When their chance +came in June the Bostonians jumped into the lead—June 10 was +the exact date—and never thereafter did they take any team's +dust.</p> +<p>By the Fourth of July Boston had a lead of seven games over the +Athletics. The Red Sox kept right along at their even gait and a +month later were leading by the same margin over Washington, which +had displaced the former champions. On September 1 Boston's lead +was thirteen games, but it was not until September 18 that the +American League pennant was actually cinched beyond the possibility +of losing it.</p> +<p>All season Stahl's men were known as a lucky ball team. Delving +into the files for the dope, revealed the fact that the newspaper +reports of about every third game they played on the average +contained some reference to "Boston's luck." This does not detract +anything from their glory. No team ever won a major league pennant +unless it was lucky. No team ever had as steady a run of luck as +Boston enjoyed in 1912, unless that team made a lot of its own luck +by persistently hammering away when luck was against it and keeping +ever on the alert to take advantage of an opening.</p> +<p>That is the explanation of the unusual consistency that marked +the work of the Red Sox all season and the fact they did not +experience a serious slump. In the first month of the season they +won twelve games and lost eight. The second month of the race was +their poorest one—the nearest they came to a slump. In that +month they won eight and lost ten games. In the third month Boston +won twenty-three and lost seven games. The fourth month saw them +win twenty games and lose eight and in the fifth month their record +was twenty victories and five defeats. In the final stages of the +race the Red Sox were not under as strong pressure from behind and +naturally did not travel as fast after sighting the wire, but the +figures produced explain why Boston won the pennant. It started +well and kept going faster until there was no longer need for +speed. The annexation of the world's championship in a record +breaking world's series with the New York Giants was a fitting +climax to their season's achievement.</p> +<hr> +<p>When Clark Griffith stalked through the west on his first +invasion of the season with a team of youngsters, some of them +practically unknown, and declared he was going after the pennant, +everybody laughed or wanted to. A few weeks later everybody who had +laughed was sorry, and those who only wanted to laugh were glad +they didn't. For Griffith kept his men keyed up to the fighting +pitch during the greater part of the season, and when they did +start slumping in September, he made a slight switch on his +infield, applied the brakes and started them going up again. The +result was that Washington finished second for the first time in +its major league history, winning that position in the closing days +of the race after a bitter tussle with the passing world's +champions.</p> +<p>The acquisition of Gandil from Montreal plugged a hole at first +base which had defied the efforts of several predecessors to stop +and it helped make a brilliant infield, for it gave the youngsters +something they were not afraid to throw at. In giving credit for +the work of Griffith's infield, the inclination is to overestimate +the worth of the new stars. But there was a tower of strength at +short in George McBride, who has been playing steadily and +consistently at that position for several seasons without being +given one-tenth the credit his work has merited.</p> +<p>The Washington team at one time or another occupied every +position in the race except the first and last. The Senators were +in seventh place for a few days in the opening weeks of the season, +but not anywhere nearly as long as they were in second place later +on. They climbed out of the second division by rapid stages and +after May 1 they were driven back into it only once during the rest +of the year. That was for three days in the beginning of June. In +the meantime they had knocked Boston out of second place for a +short while in May and, most of the way, had enjoyed a close fight +with Philadelphia for third and fourth spots. Near the middle of +June, after the Red Sox had ousted their White namesakes from first +place, the Senators also passed Chicago and started after Boston. +But the youngsters were not yet hardened to the strain and soon +fell back to third and fourth. On July 5 Washington went into +second place and held onto it, with the exception of three days, +for a period of two months. September brought a slump and +Griffith's men surrendered the runner-up position to the Athletics +for about two weeks, then came back and took it away from the +Mackmen at the end.</p> +<hr> +<p>What happened to the world's champion Athletics the public did +not really know until after the middle of the season. Then the +suspensions of Chief Bender and Rube Oldring blazoned the fact that +Manager Mack's splendid system of handling a Base Ball team by +moral suasion had fallen down in the face of overconfidence and too +much prosperity. Few people saw any reason for changing their +belief in the prowess of the Athletics during the first half of the +season, because they were in as good position most of the time as +they had been the year previous at the same stage of the race. They +were expected to make the same strong finish that swept everything +before it in 1911. Not until the second half of the season was well +under way did the adherents of the Mackmen give up the battle.</p> +<p>Philadelphia's sterling young infield seemed to stand up all +right all the year, but the outfield and the slab staff gave Connie +Mack sleepless nights. When Dan Murphy was injured in Chicago in +June it was discovered what he had meant to the team. Dan was what +the final punch is to a boxing star. His timely batting was missed +in knocking out opponents, and the injury kept him out all the rest +of the season. The strain which Jack Coombs gave his side in the +world's series of 1911 proved more serious and lasting than was +expected, and if Eddie Plank had not come back into grand form it +would have been a tougher season than it was for the Athletics.</p> +<p>The Mackmen made a bad beginning for champions, and on May 1 +were in the second division. During all of May and part of June +they climbed into the first division and fell out of it with great +regularity. Not until near the middle of June did the Athletics +gain a strangle hold on the upper half of the league standing, from +that time on they kept above the .500 mark, and toward the end of +June they met the White Sox coming back. There was a short scuffle +during the early part of July among the Athletics, Senators and +White Sox for the possession of the position next to Boston. Then +Chicago was pushed back, leaving Philadelphia and Washington to +fight it out the rest of the way. Trimming the Phillies four out of +five games in their city series did not lessen the gloom of the +Athletics.</p> +<hr> +<p>The White Sox by their meteoric career demonstrated the value of +good condition at the start. Although the Chicagoans experienced +tough weather in Texas last spring they fared better than any of +the other teams in their league, and that fact, combined with the +readiness with which youth gets into playing trim, enabled the +White Sox to walk through the early weeks of their schedule with an +ease that astonished everybody. Even prophets who were friendly to +them had expected no such showing. So fast did the Callahans travel +that on May 3 they had lost only four games, having won thirteen in +that time. But Boston was hanging on persistently. Chicago's margin +over the Red Sox varied from four to five and a half games; during +May, on the fourteenth of that month the White Sox had won +twenty-one games and lost only five, giving them the percentage of +.808. During part of this time they were on their first invasion of +the east. May 18 saw the Chicago men five and a half games in the +lead and their constituents were dreaming of another world's +pennant almost every night.</p> +<p>Even the doubters were beginning to believe Manager Callahan had +found the right combination. Just then came the awakening. The luck +which had been coming their way began breaking against them with +remarkable persistency. Plays that had won game after game went +wrong and youth was not resourceful enough to offset the breaks. +The White Sox began to fall away fast in percentage, but managed to +cling to the lead until June 10. Boston passed them right there and +the Chicagoans kept on going.</p> +<p>By mid-season Manager Callahan was fighting to keep his men in +the first division and their slump did not end until they landed in +fifth place for a couple of days in August. Then in desperation +Callahan began switching his line-up and by herculean +effort—and the help of Ed Walsh—climbed back into the +upper quartet and stuck there to the finish. It was a desperate +remedy to take Harry Lord off third base, where he had played +during most of his professional career, and try to convert him into +an outfielder, a position in which he had had no experience at all. +But Lord was too good an offensive player to take out of the game, +in spite of his slump at third base, and he was willing to try the +outfield. Results justified the move. Lord learned outfielding +rapidly, and Zeider proved that third base was his natural +position. The acquisition of Borton for first base enabled Callahan +to put Collins in the outfield, and the White Sox in reality were a +stronger team when they finished than when they started their +runaway race in April. With one more reliable pitcher to take his +turn regularly on the slab all season the White Sox would have kept +in the race. Callahan's men made up for some of the disappointment +they produced by beating the Cubs in a nine-game post-season +series, after the Cubs had won three victories. Two of the nine +games were drawn and one other went into extra innings, making a +more extended combat than the world's series.</p> +<hr> +<p>Cleveland's 1912 experience was almost identical with that of +1911, even to swapping managers in mid-season. Harry Davis, for +years first lieutenant to Connie Mack, took the management or the +Naps under a severe handicap. He succeeded a temporary manager, +George Stovall, who had made good in the latter half of the +previous season, but who could not be retained without abrogating a +previous agreement with Davis. The public did not take kindly to +the situation when the Naps failed to get into the fight, and the +new management had a pitching staff of youngsters with out much of +a catching staff to help them out when in trouble.</p> +<p>The Cleveland team never was prominent in the race after the +first fortnight, although it retained a respectable position at the +top of the second division, with an occasional journey into the +first division during the first month or six weeks. In the middle +of June the Naps dropped back into sixth place, below Detroit, for +a while, then took a brace and reclaimed the leadership of the +second squad for part of July. Midway in August found Cleveland +apparently anchored in sixth spot and, with the consent of the +Cleveland club owners, Manager Davis resigned his position.</p> +<p>The management was given to Joe Birmingham, who took hold of it +with enthusiasm but without experience, just as Stovall did the +previous year. He infused new life into the team, shook it up a +bit, and improved its playing so much that Cleveland passed Detroit +before the end of the race, and was threatening to knock Chicago +out of fourth place at one time. This would have happened but for +the brace of the White Sox. Profiting by previous experience the +club owners did not look around for a permanent manager until they +saw what Birmingham could do, and in consequence were in position +to offer him the leadership of the Naps for the season of 1913.</p> +<hr> +<p>What was left to Manager Jennings from the great Detroit team +that had won three straight pennants was slowing up, with the +exception of Tyrus Cobb, who has yet to reach the meridian of his +career, and the Georgian got into trouble fairly early in the +season, with the result that he was suspended for a considerable +period. That and the strike of the Tigers in Philadelphia threw a +monkey-wrench into the machinery, resulting in a tangle which +Jennings was unable to straighten out all the season. There was a +problem at first base which he had a hard time solving. The break +in Del Gainor's wrist the season before had not mended as it should +have done, and he was unable to play the position regularly. +Moriarty was pressed into service there and did good work in an +unfamiliar position; then the infield was shifted several times +without marked benefit. Donovan, who had always been of great help +on the slab in hot weather, was not equal to the task of another +year and was made manager of the Providence team. Jean Dubuc was +the only one of the young pitchers who proved a star, but his work +kept the Tigers from being a lot more disappointing proposition +than they were.</p> +<hr> +<p>St. Louis and New York were outclassed from the start. Two weeks +after the season opened it was apparent they were doomed to fight +it out for the last round on the ladder. That the Browns finally +escaped the cellar in the closing days of the race was due largely +to the efforts of Stovall, who was made manager to succeed Wallace +near the middle of the season.</p> +<p>As early as the first of May it was seen the Browns and Yankees +were destined to trail. The New York team quickly gravitated to the +bottom. It started without the services of Catcher Eddie Sweeney, +who held out for a larger salary, and it had a manager at the helm +who was inexperienced in major league leadership. Not until April +24 did New York win a game and in that time it had lost seven +straight, postponements accounting for the rest of the time.</p> +<p>St. Louis got a little better start and for a while was inclined +to dispute sixth place with Detroit, but on May 1 the Browns found +only New York between them and the basement. In the middle of May +the Yankees passed St. Louis and ran seventh in the race until +July. 4. But accident and injury, and the loss of Cree, shot the +Yankees to pieces. For nearly six weeks, however, it was a battle +royal between New York and St. Louis to escape the last hole, but +in the middle of August the Yankees again established their +superiority, retaining seventh place until after the middle of +September. In the homestretch the new blood given Stovall enabled +him to pull his men out of the last notch just before the schedule +ran out. This feat was soon forgotten in the defeat of the Browns +by the Cardinals in their post-prandial series for the championship +of the Mound City.</p> +<hr> +<p>The year was not prolific of freak or record-breaking +performances in the American League. Walter Johnson of Washington, +and Joe Wood of Boston were credited with sixteen straight +victories, which raised the American League record in that respect +from fourteen straight, formerly held by Jack Chesbro of the +Yankees. Mullin of Detroit and Hamilton of St. Louis added their +names to the list of hurlers who have held opponents without a safe +hit in nine innings. Mullin performed his hitless feat against St. +Louis and Hamilton retaliated by holding Detroit without a safety. +The number of games in which pitchers escaped with less than four +hits against them was smaller than usual, however. There were only +seventy-eight shut-out games recorded last season by comparison +with the American League's record of 145.</p> +<p>The longest game of the younger league's season lasted nineteen +innings, Washington defeating Philadelphia in that combat 5 to 4, +and it was played late in September when the two teams were +scrapping for second place. The American League record for overtime +is twenty-four innings, held by Philadelphia and Boston. There were +a lot of slugging games in 1912, but not as many as during the +season of 1911. Philadelphia piled up the highest total, 25, in +eight innings, but it was made against the semi-professional team +which wore Detroit uniforms on the day the Tigers struck. The +highest genuine total of hits was twenty-three, made by the +Athletics against New York pitchers. The Athletics also run up the +highest score of the league's season when they compounded +twenty-four runs against Detroit In May.</p> +<p>The semi-monthly standing of the race by percentages +follows:</p> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 1. + + Club. Won. Lost. PC. + Chicago 11 4 .733 + Boston 9 5 .643 + Washington 8 6 .615 + Cleveland 7 6 .538 + Athletics 7 7 .600 + Detroit 6 10 .375 + St. Louis 5 9 .357 + New York 3 10 .231 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 15. + + Chicago 21 6 .778 + Boston 16 8 .667 + Washington 12 12 .500 + Cleveland 11 11 .500 + Detroit 13 14 .481 + Athletics 10 12 .466 + New York 6 15 .286 + St. Louis 6 17 .261 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 1. + + Chicago 29 12 .707 + Boston 25 14 .641 + Detroit 21 20 .512 + Athletics 17 17 .500 + Cleveland 18 19 .486 + Washington 19 21 .476 + New York 12 23 .343 + St. Louis 12 27 .308 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 15. + + Boston 33 19 .635 + Chicago 33 21 .611 + Washington 33 21 .611 + Athletics 27 21 .563 + Detroit 26 29 .473 + Cleveland 23 28 .451 + New York 17 31 .364 + St. Louis 15 37 .288 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 1. + + Boston 47 21 .691 + Athletics 39 25 .609 + Chicago 38 28 .576 + Washington 37 31 .551 + Cleveland 33 38 .492 + Detroit 33 36 .478 + New York 18 44 .290 + St. Louis 18 45 .288 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 15. + + Boston 56 26 .683 + Washington 60 33 .602 + Athletics 46 36 .668 + Chicago 44 35 .567 + Cleveland 42 42 .500 + Detroit 40 43 .488 + New York 22 53 .298 + St. Louis 22 56 .282 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 1. + + Boston 67 31 .684 + Washington 61 37 .622 + Athletics 55 41 .573 + Chicago 49 36 .516 + Detroit 48 42 .485 + Cleveland 45 43 .464 + New York 31 53 .333 + St. Louis 30 56 .312 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 15. + + Boston 76 34 .691 + Athletics 66 43 .606 + Washington 67 44 .604 + Chicago 54 55 .495 + Detroit 55 58 .487 + Cleveland 51 59 .464 + New York 36 73 .327 + St. Louis 36 74 .321 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 1. + + Boston 87 37 .702 + Washington 77 49 .611 + Athletics 73 50 .593 + Chicago 62 61 .504 + Detroit 57 70 .449 + Cleveland 54 71 .432 + New York 45 78 .366 + St. Louis 43 82 .344 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 15. + + Boston 97 39 .713 + Athletics 81 56 .591 + Washington 82 57 .590 + Chicago 67 69 .493 + Detroit 64 75 .461 + Cleveland 62 75 .453 + New York 48 88 .353 + St. Louis 47 89 .346 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON OCTOBER 1. + + Boston 103 48 .691 + Washington 89 60 .567 + Athletics 89 60 .567 + Chicago 74 76 .493 + Cleveland 72 77 .483 + Detroit 69 80 .463 + St. Louis 52 98 .347 + New York 49 100 .329 + + STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON + + Bos. Wash. Ath. Chic. Clev. Det. S.L. N.Y. Won PC + Boston -- 12 15 16 11 15 17 19 105 .691 + Washington 10 -- 7 13 18 14 14 15 91 .599 + Athletics 7 18 -- 10 14 13 16 17 99 .592 + Chicago 6 9 12 -- 11 14 13 13 78 .506 + Cleveland 11 4 8 11 -- 13 15 13 75 .490 + Detroit 6 8 9 8 9 -- 13 16 69 .451 + St. Louis 5 8 6 9 7 9 -- 9 58 .344 + New York 3 7 5 9 8 6 13 -- 50 .329 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + Lost 47 61 62 76 78 84 101 102 + + NATIONAL LEAGUE + + STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON. + + N.Y. Pitts.Chi. Cin. Phil.St.L. Bkln. Bos. Won. PC. + +New York -- 12 9 16 17 15 16 18 103 .682 +Pittsburgh 8 -- 13 11 14 15 14 18 93 .616 +Chicago 13 8 -- 11 10 15 17 17 91 .607 +Cincinnati 6 11 10 -- 8 13 16 11 75 .498 +Philadelphia 5 8 10 14 -- 11 13 12 73 .480 +St. Louis 7 7 7 9 11 -- 10 12 63 .412 +Brooklyn 6 8 5 6 9 11 -- 13 58 .379 +Boston 3 4 6 11 10 10 9 -- 52 .340 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---- +Lost 48 58 59 78 79 90 95 101 +</pre> +<p>The Chicago-Pittsburgh game at Chicago, October 2, was protested +by the Pittsburgh club and thrown out of the records, taking a +victory from the Chicago club and a defeat from the Pittsburgh +club.</p> +<p>CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS IN PREVIOUS YEARS.</p> +<pre> +1871- Athletics .759 | 1885- Chicago .770 | 1899- Brooklyn .682 +1872- Boston .830 | 1886- Chicago .726 | 1900- Brooklyn .603 +1873- Boston .729 | 1887- Detroit .637 | 1901- Pittsburgh .647 +1874- Boston .717 | 1888- New York .641 | 1902- Pittsburgh .741 +1875- Boston .899 | 1889- New York .659 | 1903- Pittsburgh .650 +1876- Chicago .788 | 1890- Brooklyn .667 | 1904- New York .693 +1877- Boston .646 | 1891- Boston .630 | 1905- New York .668 +1878- Boston .683 | 1892- Boston .680 | 1906- Chicago .765 +1879- Providence .702 | 1893- Boston .667 | 1907- Chicago .704 +1880- Chicago .798 | 1894- Baltimore .695 | 1908- Chicago .643 +1881- Chicago .667 | 1895- Baltimore .669 | 1909- Pittsburgh .724 +1882- Chicago .655 | 1896- Baltimore .698 | 1910- Chicago .676 +1883- Boston .643 | 1897- Boston .795 | 1911- New York .647 +1884- Providence .750 | 1898- Boston .685 | +</pre> +<p>INDIVIDUAL BATTING.</p> +<p>Following are the Official Batting Averages of National League +players who participated in any manner in at least fifteen +championship games during the season of 1912:</p> +<pre> +Name and Club G. A.B. R. H. T.B. 2B 3B HR SH SB PC +Zimmerman, Chicago 145 557 95 207 318 41 14 14 18 23 .372 +Meyers, New York 126 371 60 133 177 16 5 6 9 8 .358 +Sweeney, Boston 153 593 84 204 264 81 13 1 33 27 .344 +Evers, Chicago 143 478 73 163 211 23 11 1 14 16 .341 +Bresnaban, St. Louis 48 108 8 36 50 7 2 1 -- 4 .333 +McCormick, New York 42 39 4 13 19 4 1 -- -- 1 .333 +Doyle, New York 143 558 98 184 263 33 8 10 13 36 .330 +Kuisely, Cincinnati 21 67 10 22 35 7 8 -- 1 3 .328 +Lobert, Philadelphia 65 257 37 84 112 12 5 2 10 13 .327 +Wiltse, New York 28 46 5 15 17 2 -- -- 1 1 .326 +Wagner, Pittsburgh 145 558 91 181 277 36 20 7 11 26 .324 +Hendrix, Pittsburgh 46 121 25 39 64 10 6 1 2 1 .322 +Kirke, Boston 103 359 53 115 146 11 4 4 9 7 .320 +Kelly, Pittsburgh 48 132 20 42 52 3 2 1 7 8 .318 +Marsans, Cincinnati 110 416 59 132 168 19 7 1 9 35 .317 +Kling, Boston 81 252 26 80 102 10 3 2 7 8 .317 +Donlin, Pittsburgh 77 244 27 77 108 9 8 2 10 8 .316 +Stengel, Brooklyn 17 57 9 38 22 1 -- 1 1 5 .316 +Paskert, Philadelphia 145 540 102 170 221 38 5 1 11 35 .315 +Konetchy, St. Louis 143 538 81 169 245 26 13 8 17 35 .314 +Crandall, New York 50 80 9 25 25 6 2 -- 3 -- .313 +Titus, + Philadelphia-Boston 141 502 99 155 224 32 11 5 15 11 .309 +Merkle, New York 129 479 82 148 215 22 6 11 8 37 .309 +Daubert, Brooklyn 145 559 81 173 232 19 16 3 14 39 .308 + +W. Miller, Chicago 86 241 45 74 93 11 4 -- 8 11 .307 +S. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at <a href = "https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913</p> +<p>Editor: John B. Foster</p> +<p>Release Date: October 12, 2003 [eBook #10028]</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: US-ASCII</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASEBALL GUIDE - 1913***</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<h3>Credit for this e-text:<br> + The Library of Congress, Joshua Hutchinson, David King,<br> + and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team</h3> +<br> +<br> +<hr class="full"> +<h1>SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASEBALL GUIDE<br> +<br> +1913</h1> + +<center><b>EDITED BY</b></center> +<center><b>JOHN B. FOSTER</b></center> +<br> +<p> </p> +<center>PRICE 10 CENTS</center> +<center>PUBLISHED BY</center> +<center>AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING CO.,</center> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<center>[Advertisement]</center> +<center>AMERICA'S NATIONAL GAME</center> +<center>By A. G. SPALDING</center> +<center>PRICE, $2.00 NET</center> +<p> </p> +<p>A book of 600 pages, profusely illustrated with over 100 full +page engravings, and having sixteen forceful cartoons by Homer C. +Davenport, the famous American artist.</p> +<p>The above work should have a place in every public library in +this country, as also in the libraries of public schools and +private houses.</p> +<p>The author of "America's National Game" is conceded, always, +everywhere, and by everybody, to have the best equipment of any +living writer to treat the subject that forms the text of this +remarkable volume, viz., the story of the origin, development and +evolution of Base Ball, the National Game of our country.</p> +<p>Almost from the very inception of the game until the present +time—as player, manager and magnate—Mr. Spalding has +been closely identified with its interests. Not infrequently he has +been called upon in times of emergency to prevent threatened +disaster. But for him the National Game would have been syndicated +and controlled by elements whose interests were purely selfish and +personal.</p> +<p>The book is a veritable repository of information concerning +players, clubs and personalities connected with the game in its +early days, and is written in a most interesting style, +interspersed with enlivening anecdotes and accounts of events that +have not heretofore been published.</p> +<p>The response on the part of the press and the public to Mr. +Spalding's efforts to perpetuate the early history of the National +Game has been very encouraging and he is in receipt of hundreds of +letters and notices, a few of which are here given.</p> +<p>ROBERT ADAMSON, New York, writing from the office of Mayor +Gaynor, says:—"Seeing the Giants play is my principal +recreation and I am interested in reading everything I can find +about the game. I especially enjoy what you [Mr. Spalding] have +written, because you stand as the highest living authority on the +game."</p> +<p>BARNEY DREYFUSS, owner of the Pittsburg National League +club:—"It does honor to author as well as the game. I have +enjoyed reading it very much."</p> +<p>WALTER CAMP, well known foot ball expert and athlete, +says:—"It is indeed a remarkable work and one that I have +read with a great deal of interest."</p> +<p>JOHN B. DAY, formerly President of the New York +Nationals:—"Your wonderful work will outlast all of us."</p> +<p>W. IRVING SNYDER, formerly of the house of Peck & +Snyder:—"I have read the book from cover to cover with great +interest."</p> +<p>ANDREW PECK, formerly of the celebrated firm of Peck & +Snyder:—"All base ball fans should read and see how the game +was conducted in early years."</p> +<p>MELVILLE E. STONE, New York, General Manager Associated +Press:—"I find it full of valuable information and very +interesting. I prize it very highly."</p> +<p>GEORGE BARNARD, Chicago:—"Words fail to express my +appreciation of the book. It carries me back to the early days of +base ball and makes me feel like a young man again."</p> +<p>CHARLES W. MURPHY, President Chicago National League +club:—"The book is a very valuable work and will become a +part of every base ball library in the country."</p> +<p>JOHN F. MORILL, Boston, Mass., old time base ball star.—"I +did not think it possible for one to become so interested in a book +on base ball. I do not find anything in it which I can +criticise."</p> +<p>RALPH D. PAINE, popular magazine writer and a leading authority +on college sport:—"I have been reading the book with a great +deal of interest. 'It fills a long felt want,' and you are a +national benefactor for writing it."</p> +<p>GEN. FRED FUNSTON, hero of the Philippine war:—"I read the +book with a great deal of pleasure and was much interested in +seeing the account of base ball among the Asiatic whalers, which I +had written for Harper's Round Table so many years ago."</p> +<p>DEWOLF HOPPER, celebrated operatic artist and +comedian:—"Apart from the splendid history of the evolution +of the game, it perpetuates the memories of the many men who so +gloriously sustained it. It should be read by every lover of the +sport."</p> +<p>HUGH NICOL, Director of Athletics, Purdue University, Lafayette, +Ind.:—"No one that has read this book has appreciated it more +than I. Ever since I have been big enough, I have been in +professional base ball, and you can imagine how interesting the +book is to me."</p> +<p>MRS. BRITTON, owner of the St. Louis Nationals, through her +treasurer, H.D. Seekamp, writes:—"Mrs. Britton has been very +much interested in the volume and has read with pleasure a number +of chapters, gaining valuable information as to the history of the +game."</p> +<p>REV. CHARLES H. PARKHURST, D.D., New York:—"Although I am +not very much of a 'sport,' I nevertheless believe in sports, and +just at the present time in base ball particularly. Perhaps if all +the Giants had an opportunity to read the volume before the recent +game (with the Athletics) they might not have been so grievously +outdone."</p> +<p>BRUCE CARTWRIGHT, son of Alexander J. Cartwright, founder of the +Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, the first organization of ball +players in existence, writing from his home at Honolulu, Hawaiian +Islands, says:—"I have read the book with great interest and +it is my opinion that no better history of base ball could have +been written."</p> +<p>GEORGE W. FROST, San Diego, Calif.:—"You and 'Jim' White, +George Wright, Barnes, McVey, O'Rourke, etc., were little gods to +us back there in Boston in those days of '74 and '75, and I recall +how indignant we were when you 'threw us down' for the Chicago +contract. The book is splendid. I treasure it greatly."</p> +<p>A.J. REACH, Philadelphia, old time professional +expert:—"It certainly is an interesting revelation of the +national game from the time, years before it was so dignified, up +to the present. Those who have played the game, or taken an +interest in it in the past, those at present engaged in it, +together with all who are to engage in it, have a rare treat in +store."</p> +<p>DR. LUTHER H. GULICK, Russell Sage Foundation:—"Mr. +Spalding has been the largest factor in guiding the development of +the game and thus deserves to rank with other great men of the +country who have contributed to its success. It would have added to +the interest of the book if Mr. Spalding could have given us more +of his own personal experiences, hopes and ambitions in connection +with the game."</p> +<p><i>Pittsburg Press</i>:—"Historical incidents abound and +the book is an excellent authority on the famous sport."</p> +<p><i>Philadelphia Telegraph</i>:—"In this book Mr. Spalding +has written the most complete and authoritative story of base ball +yet published."</p> +<p><i>New York Herald</i>:—"If there is anyone in the country +competent to write a book on base ball it is A.G. Spalding who has +been interested in the game from its early beginnings."</p> +<p>I.E. Sanborn, Chicago <i>Tribune</i>:—"'America's National +Game' has been added to the <i>Tribune's</i> sporting reference +library as an invaluable contribution to the literature of the +national pastime."</p> +<p>O.C. Reichard, Chicago <i>Daily News</i>:—"It is cleverly +written and presents information and dates of great value to the +newspaper man of to-day!"</p> +<p>George C. Rice, Chicago <i>Journal</i>:—"I have read the +book through, and take pleasure in stating that it is a complete +history of the game from the beginning until the present time."</p> +<p>Sherman R. Duffy, Sporting Editor <i>Chicago +Journal</i>:—"It is a most interesting work and one for which +there was need. It is the most valuable addition to base ball +literature that has yet been put out."</p> +<p>Joseph H. Vila, New York <i>Sun</i>:—"I have read it +carefully and with much interest. It is the best piece of base ball +literature I have ever seen, and I congratulate you on the +work."</p> +<p>Tim Murnane, Sporting Editor <i>Boston Globe</i>:—"You +have given to the world a book of inestimable value, a classic in +American history; a book that should be highly prized in every home +library in the country."</p> +<p>Francis C. Richter, Editor <i>Sporting Life</i>, +Philadelphia:—"From a purely literary standpoint, your work +is to me amazing. Frankly, I would not change a line, for the +reason that the story is told in a way to grip the reader and hold +his interest continually."</p> +<p><i>Los Angeles Times</i> (editorial):—"Spalding's book has +been out six months and ninety thousand copies have been sold. We +understand there will be other editions. America has taken base +ball seriously for at last two generations, and it is time enough +that the fad was given an adequate text book."</p> +<p>Caspar Whitney, Editor <i>Outdoor America</i>, and one of the +leading authorities in the world on sport:—"You have made an +invaluable contribution to the literature of the game, and one none +else could have made. Moreover, you've done some very interesting +writing, which is a distinct novelty in such books—too often +dull and uninteresting."</p> +<p><i>New York World</i>:—"Albert G. Spalding, who really +grew up with the sport, has written 'America's National Game,' +which he describes as not a history, but the simple story of the +game as he has come to know it. His book, therefore, is full of +living interest. It is a volume generously illustrated and abounds +in personal memories of base ball in the making."</p> +<p><i>New York Sun</i>:—"There is a mass of interesting +information regarding base ball, as might be expected, in Mr. +Spalding's 'America's National Game.' It is safe to say that before +Spalding there was no base ball. The book is no record of games and +players, but it is historical in a broader sense, and the author is +able to give his personal decisive testimony about many disputed +points."</p> +<p><i>Evening Telegram</i>, New York:—"In clear, concise, +entertaining, narrative style, Albert G. Spalding has contributed +in many respects the most interesting work pertaining to base ball, +the national game, which has been written.</p> +<p>"There is so much in it of interest that the temptation not to +put it down until it is completed is strong within the mind of +every person who begins to read it. As a historical record it is +one of those volumes which will go further to straighten some +disputed points than all of the arguments which could be advanced +in good natured disputes which might last for months."</p> +<p><i>Providence</i> (R. I.) <i>Tribune</i>:—"The pictures of +old time teams players and magnates of a bygone era will interest +every lover of the game, and no doubt start many discussions and +recollections among the old timers."</p> +<p><i>New York Evening Mail</i>:—"Were it possible to +assemble the grand army of base ball fans in convention, their +first act probably would be to pass a vote of thanks to Mr. A.G. +Spalding for his work 'America's National Game'."</p> +<p><i>Columbus</i> (Ohio) <i>Dispatch</i>:—"Never before has +been put in print so much of authentic record of this distinctly +national game, and it will be long, if ever, until so thoroughly +interesting and useful a volume is published to cover the same +field."</p> +<p><i>New Orleans Picayune</i>:—"The pictures of old time +teams, players and magnates of a bygone era will interest every +lover of the game. Homer Davenport, America's great cartoonist, has +contributed drawings in his inimitable style of various phases of +the game."</p> +<p><i>Indianapolis Star</i>:—"From cover to cover, the 542 +pages are filled with material for 'fanning bees,' which the +average 'fan' never before encountered. It is an interesting volume +for anyone who follows the national pastime and a valuable addition +to any library."</p> +<p><i>Buffalo News</i>:—"No book on base ball has ever been +written that is superior to this one by A.G. Spalding. The book is +admirably written, yet without any frills. Many of the more notable +incidents recounted in this book are having wide publication by +themselves."</p> +<p><i>Brooklyn Times</i>:—"The book is practically a +compendium of the salient incidents in the evolution of +professional base ball. Mr. Spalding is pre-eminently fitted to +perform this service, his connection with the game having been +contemporaneous with its development, as player, club owner and +league director."</p> +<p><i>Washington</i> (D. C.) <i>Star</i>:—"This work appeals +with peculiar force to the public. Mr. Spalding's name is almost +synonymous with base ball. He has worked to the end of producing a +volume which tells the story of the game vividly and accurately. +Taken altogether, this is a most valuable and entertaining +work."</p> +<p><i>New York American</i>:—"One of the best selling books +of the season has been 'America's National Game,' by A.G. Spalding. +The first edition of five thousand copies has been sold out (in two +months) and a second edition of five thousand is now on the press. +As a Christmas gift from father to son, it is most +appropriate."</p> +<p><i>Cincinnati Enquirer</i>:—"As a veteran of the diamond, +well qualified to do so, Mr. Spalding has committed to print a +professional's version of the distinctly American game. This well +known base ball celebrity has a store of familiar anecdotes +embracing the entire period of the game as now played and the +reader will find it most interesting."</p> +<p><i>Teacher and Home, New York</i>:—"Every live father of a +live boy will want to buy this book. It is said of some of the +'best sellers' that they hold one to the end. This book holds the +reader with its anecdote, its history, its pictures; but it will +have no end; for no home—no American home—will be +complete hereafter without it."</p> +<p><i>Buffalo Times</i>:—"A.G. Spalding, with whose name +every American boy is familiar, has been prevailed upon to commit +to print events which were instrumental in guiding the destinies of +the National League during the trying period of its early days. To +write upon base ball in a historical manner, and yet not fall into +the habit of quoting interminable statistics, is a feat that few +could accomplish."</p> +<p><i>Cincinnati Times-Star</i>:—"'America's National Game,' +A.G. Spalding's great book upon the diamond sport, is now upon the +market and receiving well merited attention. It tells the story as +Mr. Spalding saw it, and no man has been in position to see more. +When 'Al' Spalding, the sinewy pitcher of nearly forty years ago, +came into the arena, the game was young, and through all the +changing seasons that have seen it mature into full bloom, its +closest watcher and strongest friend has been the same 'Al' +Spalding."</p> +<p><i>Cincinnati Time-Star</i>:—"The book is at once a +history, a cyclopaedia and a most entertaining volume."</p> +<p><i>New York American</i>:—"'America's National Game' tells +for the first time the history of the national game of base +ball."</p> +<p><i>Portland Oregonian</i>:—"The book is of rare interest +and has such personal value in the story line that one hardly knows +where to begin in making quotations from it—all the stories +told are so admirable."</p> +<p>JOHN T. NICHOLSON, Principal Public School 186, New +York:—"It's a great book."</p> +<p>REV. W.A. SUNDAY, Evangelist:—"No one in America is better +qualified to talk of base ball, from its inception to its present +greatness, than A.G. Spalding."</p> +<p>WM. L. VEECK and ED. W. SMITH, of the Chicago +<i>American</i>:—"We have found much enjoyment in reading the +book, and it is very valuable in our work."</p> +<p>W.H. CONANT, Gossamer Rubber Co., Boston, Mass.:—"I have +read the book with great pleasure and it produced a vivid +reminiscence of the striking events in base ball, so full of +interest to all lovers of the game."</p> +<p>JOSEPH B. MACCABE, Editor East Boston (Mass.) +<i>Argus-Advocate</i>, and ex-President Amateur Athletic +Union:—"I want to express my gratitude, as a humble follower +of manly sport, for the compilation of this historic work."</p> +<p>JOHN A. LOWELL, President John A. Lowell Bank Note Company, +Boston, Mass.:—"I have read the book with great interest and +it certainly is a valuable compilation of facts relating to the +history of base ball, the great national game of America. I prize +it very highly."</p> +<p>WM. F. GARCELON, Harvard Athletic Association, Cambridge, +Mass.:—"I think 'America's National Game' is not only +intensely interesting but most valuable, as giving the history of +the game. Better still, my nine year old boy is looking forward to +the time when he can get it away from me."</p> +<p>GUSTAV T. KIRBY, President of the Amateur Athletic +Union:—"Not only as a historical sketch of this great +national game, but also as a technical dissertation on base ball as +it was and is, this book will not only be of interest but of +benefit to all of us Americans who are interested in +sport—and what American is not interested in sport?—and +being interested in sport, chiefly in base ball."</p> +<p>EVERETT C. BROWN, Chicago, ex-president of the Amateur Athletic +Union of the United States:—"It is very seldom that any +history of any sport or anything pertaining to athletics approaches +the interest with which one reads a popular work of fiction, but I +can truthfully say that I have read the story of the great national +game with as much interest as I have read any recent work of +fiction."</p> +<p>THOMAS F. GRAHAM, Judge Superior Court, San +Francisco:—"'America's National Game' contains matter on the +origin and development of base ball—the greatest game ever +devised by man—that will be of the utmost interest to the +base ball loving people, not only of this, but of every English +speaking country; and I am sure it will perpetuate the name of A.G. +Spalding to the end of time."</p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<h2>SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE</h2> +<center>Thirty-seventh Year</center> +<center>1913</center> +<center>EDITED BY</center> +<center>JOHN B. FOSTER</center> +<center>AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING COMPANY</center> +<hr> +<h2><b>CONTENTS</b></h2> +<p><a href="#INT">INTRODUCTION</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_2">EDITORIAL COMMENT</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_3">NEW FACES IN THE OLD LEAGUE</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_4">THE UMPIRES</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_5">BASE BALL WRITERS OF THE SOUTH</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_6">BASE BALL WORTH WHILE?</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_7">THE SPALDING BASE BALL HALL OF FAME</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_8">JOHN TOMLINSON BRUSH</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_9">THE WORLD'S SERIES OF 1912</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_10">NATIONAL LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912</a></p> +<p><a href="#RULE4_11">AMERICAN LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912</a></p> +<hr> +<a name="INT"><!-- INT --></a> +<h2>INTRODUCTION</h2> +<p>In preparing this issue of SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE +for the season of 1913, it has occurred to the Editor that the +season of 1912, and the period which followed its completion, have +been filled, with a great deal of unusual and uncommon +vicissitude.</p> +<p>In the first place the personnel of the National League, the +oldest Base Ball organization in the world, has been greatly +changed by reason of death and purchase of one franchise. New +owners have brought new faces into the game, and when the National +League starts on this year's campaign there will be some younger +but equally as ambitious men at the heads of some of the clubs.</p> +<p>The players have effected an organization. That, too, is an +incident of interest, for it is well within the memory of the Base +Ball "fans" of this day what happened when another organization was +perfected in the past. For this organization it may be said that +the members promise that it will be their object to bring about +better deportment on the part of their own associates and that they +will work their best for the advancement of Base Ball from a +professional standpoint. If they do this they will be of benefit to +the sport. If they work from selfish motives it is inevitable that +eventually there will be a clash, as there was in the past.</p> +<p>The last world's series which was played was the greatest +special series of games which has been played in the history of the +national pastime. There may have been single games and there may +have been series which have attracted their full measure of +interest from the Base Ball "fans," but there never has been a +special series so filled with thrills and excitement as that +between the New York and Boston clubs. The GUIDE this year enters +into the subject thoroughly with photographs and a story of the +games and feels that the readers will enjoy the account of the +contests.</p> +<p>Some innovations have been attempted in this number of the GUIDE +which should interest Base Ball readers. Attention is called to the +symposium by prominent Base Ball writers which brings up a subject +of interest in regard to future world's series. There are other +special articles, including something about the Base Ball writers +of the South, who have decided to organize a chapter of their +own.</p> +<p>The year 1912 was one of progress and advancement on the part of +Base Ball throughout the world. To-day it not only is stronger than +ever as America's national game but it is making fast progress in +other countries because of the attractiveness of the pastime.</p> +<p>The Editor of the GUIDE wishes its thousands of readers an even +more enjoyable Base Ball year in 1913 than they had in 1912. This +publication is now one of worldwide circulation, and carries the +gospel of Base Ball, not only across the Atlantic ocean, but across +the Pacific ocean as well. One of these days it may be its province +to report a series for the international championship, and then +Base Ball will have become the universal game of the world, a place +toward which it is rapidly tending.</p> +<center>THE EDITOR.</center> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<a name="RULE4_2"><!-- RULE4 2 --></a> +<h2>EDITORIAL COMMENT</h2> +<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center> +<center>PROGRESS OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL GAME</center> +<p>Two more nations have been conquered by the national game of the +United States; a whole race has succumbed to the fascinations of +the greatest of all outdoor sports. Both France and Sweden have +announced their intention of organizing Base Ball leagues. That of +Sweden is well under way. Indeed, they have a club in Stockholm and +there are more to follow, while the French, who have gradually been +awakening to the joys of athletic pastime in which they have +hitherto chosen to participate in other ways, hope to have a new +league by the expiration of the present summer.</p> +<p>There is no doubt as to their intention to play Base Ball. They +are making efforts to procure suitable players from the United +States to coach them and the French promoters of the sport are +determined that their young men shall be given every opportunity to +take advantage of the game of which they have heard so much, and +have seen so little.</p> +<p>Last year in the GUIDE it was the pleasure of the editor to call +attention to the fact that the Japanese had so thoroughly grasped +Base Ball that they were bent on some day playing an American team +for the international championship. It is not probable that such a +series will take place within the next five years, but not +improbable that it will take place within the next decade. When the +Japanese learn to bat better, and with more effect, they will +become more dangerous rivals to the peace of mind of the American +players. They have grasped the general theory of the game amazingly +well, and they field well, but they have yet to develop some of +those good old fashioned "clean up" hitters in which the "fans" of +the United States revel.</p> +<p>This season it comes to the attention of the editor of the GUIDE +that more progress has been made in China in regard to Base Ball +than in any fifty years preceding. True, there was not much Base +Ball in the fifty years preceding, but now there is. There is a +league at Hong Kong. There are Base Ball teams at Shanghai and +other cities.</p> +<p>Dr. Eliot, former president of Harvard, who recently returned +from a trip around the world, holds that Base Ball has done more to +humanize and civilize the Chinese than any influence which has been +introduced by foreigners, basing his statement on the fact that the +introduction of the sport among the younger Chinese has exerted a +tremendous restraint upon their gambling propensities.</p> +<p>It is a rather queer fact that where the civilizations are older +in the countries of the Occident there is a greater tendency to +gamble, especially among the young, than there is in the newer +America. Doubtless this is largely due to the lack of athletic +pastime. The young of those countries know little or nothing about +simple amusements which are so popular in the United States, and +acquire from their elders their knowledge of betting and taking +part in games of chance, two evils which unquestionably have done +much to degrade the race as a whole.</p> +<p>Base Ball has caught the fancy of the younger generation and the +boys. Once they get a ball and a bat in their hands they are better +satisfied with them than with all the gambling devices which have +been bequeathed to them by a long and eminent line of +forefathers.</p> +<p>So it would appear that the introduction of the national game of +the United States into China is likely to exert a humanizing +influence which shall go further than legislation or sword, and if +only the missionaries had grasped earlier the wishes and the +tendency of the younger element of the Chinese population, the +country might be further along than it is with its progressive +movement.</p> +<p>In the Philippine Islands the younger generation simply has gone +wild over Base Ball. Progress has been noted in the GUIDE from time +to time of the increase of interest but it is now at such a pitch +that the boys of the islands, wherever Base Ball has been +introduced, simply have deserted everything for it. They will play +nothing else. The cockfights and the gambling games, which were +also a part of the amusement of the younger men, have been given +up. The little fellows who wear not much more than a breechclout +play Base Ball. They have picked up many of the American terms and +one of the most amusing of experiences is to stand outside the +walls of old Manila and hear the little brown boys call: "Shoot it +over. Line it out," and the like, returning to their native +language, and jabbering excitedly in Filipino whenever they arrive +at some point of play in which their command of English fails +them.</p> +<p>Twenty years from now a league including cities of the +Philippines, China and Japan, is by no means out of the question, +and it may be that the introduction of Base Ball into all three +countries will result in a better understanding between the peoples +and perhaps bring all three races to a better frame of mind as +relates to their personal ambitions and rivalries.</p> +<p>In connection with the widespread influence which Base Ball is +having on both sides of the world, on the shores of the Pacific +Ocean and on those of the Atlantic Ocean the editor would like to +call attention to the theory which has been advanced by Mr. A.G. +Spalding, the founder of the GUIDE, as to the efficacy of Base Ball +for the purpose of training athletes, that has a worldwide +application.</p> +<p>Mr. Spalding contends that Base Ball has lent no small +assistance to the athletes of the United States in helping them to +win premier honors at the Olympic Games since their reintroduction. +Mr. Spalding was the first American Commissioner to the Olympic +Games appointed to that post, the honor being conferred upon him in +1900, when the late President McKinley gave him his commission to +represent the United States at Paris in 1900. Mr. Spalding, with +his analytical mind has reasoned out a theory which is undoubtedly +of great accuracy, and which is further corroborated by an +interview given out in London—strangely enough on the same +day that Mr. Spalding gave utterance to his ideas in Los +Angeles—by Mr. J.E. Sullivan, American Commissioner to the +Olympic Games at Stockholm last year, while returning to the United +States after witnessing the triumphs of the Americans. Mr. Spalding +said:</p> +<p>"I cannot say that I am at all surprised at the result at +Stockholm. History has been repeating itself in this way ever since +the celebration of the Olympic games was inaugurated at Athens. +America won the victory there in 1896; she triumphed again at Paris +in 1900; our athletes defeated the contestants at St. Louis in +1904; the victory was ours at London in 1908, and it was a foregone +conclusion that we would win at Stockholm.</p> +<p>"But there is food for thought in this uninterrupted succession +of triumphs. Why do our athletes always win? All other things being +equal, the contestants in the country holding the event should +naturally come to the front. Their numbers are always greater than +those from any other country and the home grounds influence is +strong. However, that advantage has not in any case prevented +American success.</p> +<p>"Therefore there must be a cause. What is it? Measured by scale +and tape, our athlete's are not so much superior as a class. The +theory of 'more beef' must be discarded. We may not lay claim to +having all the best trainers of the world. We must look to some +other source for American prowess.</p> +<p>"I may be a prejudiced judge, but I believe the whole secret of +these continued successes is to be found to the kind of training +that comes with the playing of America's national game, and our +competitors in other lands may never hope to reach the standard of +American athletes until they learn this lesson and adopt our +pastime.</p> +<p>"The question, 'When should the training of a child begin?' has +been wisely answered by the statement that it should antedate his +birth. The training of Base Ball may not go back quite that far, +but it approaches the time as nearly as practicable, for America +starts training of future Olympian winners very early in life. +Youngsters not yet big enough to attend school begin quickening +their eyesight and sharpening their wits and strengthening their +hands and arms and legs by playing on base ball fields ready at +hand in the meadows of farms, the commons of villages and the parks +of cities all over the land. Base ball combines running, jumping, +throwing and everything that constitutes the athletic events of the +Olympian games. But above all, it imparts to the player that degree +of confidence in competition, that indefinable something that +enables one athlete to win over another who may be his physical +equal but who is lacking the American spirit begotten of base +ball.</p> +<p>"An analysis of the 1912 Olympian games shows that the American +showed to best advantage in contests where the stress of +competition was hardest. In the dashes they were supreme; in the +hurdles they were in a class by themselves, and in the high jump +and pole vault there was no one worthy of their steel. Whenever +quick thinking and acting was required, an American was in front. +Does not this fact prove that the American game of base ball +enables the player to determine in the fraction of a second what to +do to defeat his contestant?"</p> +<hr> +<center>WHAT A SEASON OF BASE BALL COSTS</center> +<p>It may not be out of place to say a few words in regard to the +greatly increased cost of Base Ball. There are some sensational +writers whose hobby is to inform the public about the great +receipts in Base Ball. Usually they exaggerate from twenty-five to +thirty-five per cent.</p> +<p>Now as to the expense of Base Ball. Figures at an approximate +for the National League will be offered. Railroad expenses for +mileage alone $300,000, including spring training trips. Hotel +bills $65,000. Sleeping cars and meals en route, $80,000. Salaries +to players, $480,000. Total, $875,000. Add to this $30,000 for the +salaries of umpires and their traveling expenses. That makes +$905,000.</p> +<p>Now not a penny has been appropriated thus far for the salaries +of the president of the National League, the secretary and +expenditures of the office nor for the salaries of the business +departments of the various clubs, nor for ground rents, taxes and a +dozen and one other things, to say nothing of that well-known old +item "wear and tear."</p> +<p>The receipts of Base Ball barely cover these expenditures. The +alleged profits of Base Ball mostly are fanciful dreams of those +who know nothing of the practical side of the sport and are stunned +when they are made acquainted with the real financial problems +which confront club owners.</p> +<p>But the money that is contributed to the support of the game +almost immediately finds its way back into public channels. Less +than thirty per cent. of Base Ball clubs realize what a business +man would call a fair return on the amount invested.</p> +<p>A well-known writer on economic topics interviewed owners of +Base Ball clubs as to their income and outgo. One of the best known +of the National League men took the writer into his office and +spread the cash book of the club's business before him.</p> +<p>"You may go through it if you wish," said the owner, "but here +is the balance for the last day of the year."</p> +<p>It read as follows: Receipts, $250,505; expenditures, +$246,447.</p> +<p>"That's answer enough for me," said the writer. "I am through +with any more essays on the affluence of Base Ball 'magnates.' I +think it would be better to extend them the hand of charity than +the mailed fist."</p> +<hr> +<center>THE NEW ORGANIZATION OF PLAYERS</center> +<p>The formation of an organization on the part of the major league +ball players during the closing days of the season of 1912 was +looked upon with some misgivings by those who remember only too +well what happened when a prior organization of ball players was +formed.</p> +<p>In the present instance those foremost in perfecting the +organization have also been foremost in asserting that the players' +organization's principal aim is to co-operate with the club +owners.</p> +<p>If this object is followed with fidelity and to its ultimate +conclusion there is no necessity to fear any grave disturbances, +but there is a dread—that dread which is the fear of the +child that has had its hands burned by the flame, that a selfish +coterie of players might obtain control of the organization, set up +a policy of unscrupulous defiance and destructive opposition and +retard for a moment the higher development of the game.</p> +<p>There is no organization, either of unscrupulous Base Ball +players or unscrupulous club owners, which will ever find it +possible to destroy organized Base Ball. The results that organized +Base Ball have brought about will never be annihilated although +grave injury could be temporarily wrought by a force defiant to tie +unusual demands made by the sport to perpetuate itself +successfully.</p> +<p>It is simply out of the question to control Base Ball as one +would control the affairs of a department store. Base Ball has its +commercial side, but its commercial side cannot maintain it with +success. There must be a predominant factor based upon the +encouragement that brings forth admiration for a high class sport. +This factor can only be fostered by the ability to maintain not +one, but a group of high class teams.</p> +<p>Any ball player imbued with the idea that the "stars" should be +grouped together in the city best able to pay the highest salaries +simply is an enemy to his career and to those of his fellow +players.</p> +<p>Without some handicap to assist in the equalizing of the +strength of Base Ball nines of the professional leagues there will +be no prosperity for the leagues or the clubs individually. No +better evidence may be cited to prove this than the fact, +repeatedly demonstrated that in the smaller leagues Base Ball +enthusiasts in the city best able to pay the largest salaries +frequently withdraw their support of the team because "it wins all +the time."</p> +<p>To-day Base Ball, in its professional atmosphere, is nearer an +ideal sport, a better managed sport, and a more fairly and +equitably adjusted sport, than it ever has been, which is manifest +proof of its superior evolution. Had results been otherwise it +would have retrograded and possibly passed out of existence. +Carefully comparing its management with that of all other sports in +history the Editor of the GUIDE believes that it is the best +managed sport in the world.</p> +<p>It is true that improvements can be made. It is evident that +there are still commercialized owners not over capitalized with a +spirit of sport. It is undeniable that there are ball players not +imbued with a high tone of the obligations, which they owe to their +employers and to the public, but it is as certain as the existence +of the game that progress has been made, and that it has not ceased +to move forward.</p> +<p>For that reason players and owners must be guided by a sense of +lofty ideals and not be led astray by foolish outbursts over +trivial differences of opinion, easily to be adjusted by the +exercise of a little common sense.</p> +<hr> +<center>BASE BALL PLAYED IN SWEDEN</center> +<p>In connection with the subject of "Base Ball For All the World," +for which the GUIDE expounds and spreads the gospel, the Editor +would submit a very interesting letter received by him from Sweden. +it reads as follows:</p> +<p>Westeras, Sweden, Sept. 14, 1912.</p> +<p>To the Editor of the GUIDE:</p> +<p>We hereby have the pleasure of sending you two copies of the +rules, translated and issued by the Westeras Base Ball Club, into +Swedish from the Spalding Base Ball Guide.</p> +<p>The work of getting the book out has been somewhat slow on +account of that the work of translating, proofreading, etc., all +had to be done on our spare time, but it is done now, and I think +we have succeeded pretty well, everything considered. The books +will be distributed by a well-known book firm, Bjork & Boyeson, +Stockholm, and will soon be available in all the bookstores in +Sweden.</p> +<p>We got some advance copies out just in time for the Olympic +Games, and I had the pleasure of presenting some copies to +Commissioner Col. Thompson, Manager Halpin and others of the +American Olympic Committee.</p> +<p>As you know, so did we have a game of Base Ball at Stockholm +with one of the Finland teams, and as it may be of some interest to +you to know the preliminaries to the game, I am writing to relate +how it happened.</p> +<p>In trying to arrange for some amusements in the evenings at the +Stadium, the Olympic Committee wrote us if we would be willing to +take part in a game of Base Ball at Stadium some evening during the +Stadium week. As our club this year was in poor condition, on +account of some of our best players being out on military duties, +we hesitated at first, but then decided to risk it, knowing very +well that whoever we would play against, they would not rub in to +us too hard. We pointed out to the Olympic Committee that it would +not be very hard to get a team of Base Ball players picked out from +the American athletes taking part in the contests, but as they +would not be prepared for Base Ball, suits and other needed +articles had to be provided for. We were then told to get necessary +things ordered, and so we did. We ordered suits from a tailor in +this town, after a pattern that I got from Spalding's this spring. +The suits were of gray flannel, with blue trimmings for our team +and red trimmings for the American. I also ordered bats and gloves, +and with the things our club already had, we were very well +equipped.</p> +<p>The Olympic Committee, Stockholm, then received a letter from +the Olympic Committee, New York, saying that if a game of Base Ball +could be arranged for during the Olympian Games, they would bring +two teams along on the Finland. The Olympic Committee cabled to +come along, and sent us a copy of Mr. Sullivan's letter. I knew, of +course, that if the game could be played by two American teams, it +would be a much better game than if our team took part, and told +the Olympic Committee, and wanted to withdraw, but as they did not +know for sure how it would be, told us to go ahead with the +arrangements just the same, and so we did, and by the time the +Finland arrived, everything had been arranged for.</p> +<p>The Olympic Committee has selected the evening, 7 P.M., of the +10th of July, for the game, and thought that this would be suitable +to the Americans, but as some of the players had to take part in +the contests, Mr. Halpin would not risk them then, so it was +finally decided that a game should be played the 15th, the +Americans to play six innings between themselves and then six +innings against us.</p> +<p>Well, we had a game at the training grounds. We played six +innings, and Mr. Halpin was kind enough to let us have a pitcher +and catcher from his men. The score was 9 to 3, and it could just +as well been 9 to 0, perhaps. Well, at any rate, it was the first +Base Ball game, as far as I know, that ever took place in Europe +between an American team and a European team, with England possibly +excepted.</p> +<p>Mr. Halpin said that the Americans were going to play a game the +next morning between themselves, but that game did not come off. +There was probably no time for it, as the Finland left Stockholm +the same day. Very likely the American boys were somewhat +disappointed in not being able to play between themselves, as +anticipated, and perhaps I should not have pushed our game ahead, +but as long as there was a Base Ball team in Sweden, it would have +been strange if it had not played, and it gave our boys a chance to +see how the game should be played, and they certainly did take it +in. Had the game been played as it was intended and advertised, on +the 10th in the Stadium, there would very likely have been a bigger +crowd present, and the game would also have been more talked about +in the papers, but then we will have to be satisfied as it is.</p> +<p>Our club has been practicing all summer, twice a week, and on +the 24th of August we gave an exhibition game here at Westeras, +between two teams from our club, the suits made for the Olympic +Games coming in very handy. I send you herewith a clipping from a +local paper describing the game, and also a picture of the two +teams with myself and the umpire included.</p> +<p>At our game here we distributed the "Description of Base Ball," +written by you and translated into Swedish, and it came of good +use. Next year we intend to have our teams appear in the nearby +cities around here, so as to give people a chance to see the game, +and it will not be long before they will start it in Stockholm, so +I think the game is bound to be popular here also,</p> +<p>Mr. George Wright, of Boston, was the umpire at the Stockholm +games, and as he was very kind to us, we would like to send him the +picture of the club, and hope that you will forward us his +address.</p> +<p>I am, for Westeras Base Ball Club,</p> +<p>Yours truly,</p> +<p>EDWIN JOHNSON,</p> +<p>Electrical Engineer.</p> +<hr> +<center>THE NEW NATIONAL AGREEMENT</center> +<p>Unlimited satisfaction must be had by all who are connected with +Base Ball over the greatly improved conditions by which the season +of 1913 is begun under the new National Agreement. While it perhaps +might be exaggerated boastfulness to affirm that Base Ball, as a +professionally organized sport, has attained perfection, it is not +out of reason— indeed, quite within reason—to observe +that Base Ball never had such a well balanced and perfect +organization as that by which it is regulated at the present +time.</p> +<p>The principal fact of congratulation lies in the safeguards and +provisions which have been thrown around the players of the minor +leagues and in the equitable and just measures which have been +agreed upon to provide for their future.</p> +<p>As a general rule it may be taken for granted that the players +of the major leagues can take care of themselves. That is to say, +their positions, if they are expert in their calling, and +conscientious in their deportment, really take care of them.</p> +<p>No club owner, unless he is maliciously or foolishly inclined, +will jeopardize the interests of his team by acting in a wilfully +unjust manner toward a player who is cheerfully and uprightly +offering his services. We may hear of occasional exceptions to this +condition of things, but if these occasional exceptions chance to +arise, it is inevitably certain that the owner in the long run will +suffer to a greater degree than the player with whom he deals +unfairly.</p> +<p>It is the history of Base Ball that more inequitable treatment +has arisen by fifty per cent in the minor leagues than has had its +origin in the major leagues. The reason for this existed almost +wholly in the inability of Base Ball as a whole to bring the minor +league owners to a realization of the injury that they might be +doing and to extend such punishment and insist upon such regulation +as were necessary to change this undesirable condition.</p> +<p>By the organization of the National Association of Base Ball +clubs the minor leagues, for the first time in their history, +placed themselves in a position where they could demand proper +enforcement of regulations for the government of the sport, and by +their alliance with the major league clubs, under the articles of +the National Agreement, a general working basis was effected +whereby compliance with rules could be insisted upon.</p> +<p>The result of this admirable condition of affairs is that wisdom +and equity now rule where there once existed chaos and at times +something akin to anarchy in sport.</p> +<p>At no time in the history of the game, which is so dear to the +hearts of the American people, has the general legislative and +executive body been so well equipped by the adoption of pertinent +and virile laws to insist upon justice to all concerned as at the +present moment.</p> +<p>The new National Agreement is an improvement upon the old and +the old was a long, long step in advance of anything which had +preceded it. The mere fact that club owners and leagues were so +willing to adopt a system better than its predecessor wholly +confutes the absurd assertions of the radical element that there is +no consideration shown for the player.</p> +<p>To the contrary, every consideration has been shown to the +player, but the latter must not confound with the consideration +shown to him the idea that his interests are the only interests at +stake in Base Ball. The man who is willing to furnish the sinews of +war has as good standing in court as the player who furnishes the +base hits and the phenomenal catches.</p> +<p>So perfect is the system which is being attempted to be set in +force by the new National Agreement that the young man who now +essays to play professional Base Ball may be assured of steady +advancement in this profession and a generally improving condition +if he will be as honest by his employer as he expects his employer +to be honest by him.</p> +<p>The graduated system of assisting players, step by step, from +the least important leagues to the most important is the most +perfect plan of its kind that has ever been devised. There may be +flaws in it, but if there are they will be remedied, and if +modifications are necessary to make it more perfect there is no +doubt that such modifications will be agreed upon.</p> +<p>As proof of what the new National Agreement may do, although it +has barely had time to be considered, the editor of the GUIDE would +submit the following for consideration:</p> +<p>Ever since the National Agreement was organized the members have +always striven to aid the players in their efforts to gain the top +rank in the great national game. They have had a hard proposition +in handling all of the cases that have been brought to their +attention, but their decisions in all cases were absolutely fair +and impartial. Then the matter of the new agreement occasioned many +hours of laborious work on the part of the members of the +Commission, and when the instrument was finally announced it meant +that all of the parties to such an agreement were satisfied and +that there could be no improvement. There was one detail that +covered a wide field, and that was in the matter of players; +drafted by the two big leagues and later sent back to the minors. +Under the old National Agreement it was possible to pick up a +player by means of the annual draft from one of the Class C leagues +and just before the opening of the season send him back to the club +from whence he came without ever having given him a chance to land +with a club in some higher organization.</p> +<p>Realizing that such players were not given a chance to advance +in the Base Ball profession, this matter was thoroughly thrashed +out and the new ruling under which all of the National Agreement +clubs operate was adopted. Now it is possible for a player in any +of the smaller leagues to be drafted by a major league club, and +when the latter party does not care to retain possession of such a +player he is first offered to the Class AA clubs. All of these +clubs must waive on him before he can be dropped farther down in +the list, and if such should be the case he would then be offered +to the Class A clubs. In that way the player, although he is not +fast enough to remain in the two major leagues, is always given a +chance to advance, for if any of the clubs in those classes higher +than that from which he came had grabbed him he was bound to +receive an increase in salary. That meant that he had his chance to +advance, and that was the sole purpose of the National Agreement in +drafting such a rule.</p> +<p>During the past drafting season there were sixty-nine players +drafted by the two major league clubs, and of that number +twenty-seven have already been sent back to the minor leagues. The +Class AA and A clubs claimed all of these twenty-seven, and it is +more than likely that there will also be many more who will be +given trials by the big league clubs during the spring training +season and who may later be turned back to the minors. Of the +twenty-seven players thus far sent back seventeen of them advanced +in their profession, a tribute to the sagacity, wisdom and +impartiality of the members of the National Commission. The +decision, as announced by Chairman Herrmann of the National +Commission pertaining to this return of drafted players, is as +follows:</p> +<pre> +------------|-----------------|----------|-----------|-------------- + Clubs. | League. | Players. | Drafted | Drafted By + | | | From | +------------|-----------------|----------|-----------|-------------- +Louisville |American Asso. |Stansbury |Louisville |St. Louis N.L. +Chattanooga |Southern Asso. |Balenti |Chattanooga|St. Louis A.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |Berghammer|Lincoln |Chicago N.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |Orr |Sacramento |Phila. A.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |[1]Young |Harrisburg |New York A.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Berghammer|Lincoln |Chicago N.L. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Cathers |Scranton |St. Louis N.L. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Metz |San Antonio|Boston N.L. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Kernan |Oshkosh |Chicago A.L. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Bates |Newp't News|Cleveland. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Betts |San Antonio|Cleveland. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Williams |Newark, O |Washington. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Williams |Newark, O |Washington. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Bates. |Newp't News|Cleveland. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Grubb |Morristown |Cleveland. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Betts |San Antonio|Cleveland. +Milwaukee |American Asso. |Beall |Denver |Cleveland. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Berghammer|Lincoln |Chicago N.L. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Miller |Harrisburg |Pittsburgh. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Booe |Ft. Wayne |Pittsburgh. +St. Paul |American Asso. |House |Kewanee |Detroit. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Beall |Denver |Cleveland. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Balenti |Chattanooga|St. Louis A.L. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Agnew |Vernon |St. Louis A.L. +Omaha |Western League |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +Omaha |Western League |Williams |Newark, O |Washington. +Omaha |Western League |Betts |San Antonio|Cleveland. +Omaha |Western League |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Schang |Buffalo |Phila. A.L. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Dolan |Rochester |Phila. A.L. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Cottrell |Scranton |Chicago N.L. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Clymer |Minneapolis|Chicago N.L. +Columbus |American Asso. |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Rochester |Internat'l League|Dolan |Rochester |Phila. A.L. +Montreal |Internat'l League|Connelly |Montreal |Washington. +Toledo |American Asso. |Hernden |[2] |St. Louis. +Toledo |American Asso. |Stevenson |Oshkosh |St. Louis N.L. +Toledo |American Asso. |Bates |Newp't News|Cleveland. +Toledo |American Asso. |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +Denver |Western League |Heckinger |Racine |Chicago N.L. +Denver |Western League |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +</pre> +<p>1: Subject to investigation as to whether New York American +League Club has title.</p> +<p>2: Subject to investigation as to whether St. Louis American or +National League Club has title to this player and how secured.</p> +<hr> +<center>A WORLD'S SERIES PROBLEM</center> +<p>Much discussion arose after the finish of the last world's +series as to whether the adjustment of dates had worked +satisfactorily. The contention was that playing off a tie game on +the ground where the game had been scheduled might work some +inconvenience to "fans" and result in an inequitable allotment of +dates, simply to conform to custom.</p> +<p>It was asserted that the importance of the series demanded that +it be a home-and-home affair, dates to alternate regularly, +regardless of all ties or drawn games. To obtain opinion that is +sound and practical the Editor of the GUIDE sent forth the +following letter:</p> +<p>NEW YORK, January 31, 1913.</p> +<p>During the recent world's series it so happened that a tie was +played in one of the cities, which compelled both teams to remain +in that city for another date. Before the series was over this +arrangement resulted in one club having five games on its home +grounds and the other club having but three games on its home +grounds.</p> +<p>It has seemed to some that it is unjust. It is also contended +that it is unfair to the patrons of the game to schedule a contest +and then not play in the city specified after some had traveled +many miles to see it.</p> +<p>Will you please give the GUIDE your opinion as to whether a +change would be advisable?</p> +<p>Very truly yours,</p> +<p>JOHN B. FOSTER, <i>Editor Spalding's Official Base Ball +Guide.</i></p> +<p>Answers were received to the request for a "symposium of +opinion" as follows:</p> +<p>"So far as having any effect on the chances of the two teams is +concerned, I don't think having to play more games on one ground +than on the other makes any material difference. Where cities are +sufficiently near each other for games to be alternated daily, it +would perhaps be fairer to spectators to do so, irrespective of +ties; yet it seems to me that a tie on one grounds should be played +off the next day in the same city."</p> +<p>W.B. HANNA, <i>New York Sun.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"In my opinion the arrangement on tie games in the post-season +contests is a poor one. I saw the result of it in the series +between the Cubs and White Sox last fall. Two tie games were played +and the confusion and inconvenience it caused the fans was +deplorable. It is unjust to the followers who support Base Ball. It +is also unjust, in a small way, to the club which has to play two +or more games on its opponent's field. Players when away from their +home grounds, in a fall series, are more or less under a nervous +strain. If there was confusion, inconvenience and difficulty in a +local series as a result of a tie game, the folly of the +arrangement must appear more absurd when towns like New York and +Boston are involved. Dates should alternate, tie or not tie."</p> +<p>OSCAR C. REICHOW, <i>Chicago Daily News.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"We are in receipt of your favor of the 31st nlt., and wish to +thank you for the opportunity presented.</p> +<p>"It is our opinion that a tie game was played and it should be +considered as a game. Either side had an opportunity to win and any +advantage that the home club might have had was lost when it failed +to break the tie.</p> +<p>"It is, therefore, our belief that this game should have been +played in the other city.</p> +<p>"As to it being unfair to the patrons who had traveled so far to +see the scheduled contest, there is no doubt that they were +afforded a sufficient amount of amusement and excitement for their +trouble, in witnessing a closely played contest."</p> +<p>J. G. T. SPINK, <i>St. Louis Sporting News.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"It seems to me that the game should be alternated between the +contending cities regardless of ties. The tie game gave Boston five +games on the home grounds, while the Giants had only three. +Besides, many persons, who traveled to see the games in New York, +were inconvenienced."</p> +<p>JOHN E. WHEELER, <i>New York Herald.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"I think that the scheduled programme should be played through +irrespective of the results of the respective games, and any extra +playing or playing-off should be done after the originally set +schedule is completed."</p> +<p>H. P. BORCHELL, <i>Sports Editor New York Times.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"I believe it would be inadvisable to change the method that now +prevails. While the situation which arose last season did seem +unjust to the New York club, I think the very fact that Boston had +five games on its home grounds, and the Giants but three on their +own diamond, was an answer to those ill-advised skeptics who are +always ready to raise the cry of hippodroming.</p> +<p>"That same situation is not likely to again arise for a long +time, and I believe the rule as it stands is a guarantee to the +public of the strict honesty of the world's championship +contests."</p> +<p>DAMON RUNYON, <i>The New York American.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"A change in the rules regarding world series games would he +fairer to the patrons of the sport. Here in Chicago this past fall +two ties were played and, as a result, there was considerable +confusion over the ticket arrangements. How much more is the case +when two cities are involved? A condition which allows five games +to be played in one city and only three in another is scarcely fair +to the two teams. By making a schedule calling for alternate games +in each city, irrespective of ties, everybody—fans and +players—would get an even break."</p> +<p>MALCOLM MACLEAN, <i>Base Ball Editor Chicago Evening +Post.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"I think it might be fairer to both world's series contenders to +play a regular schedule, regardless of the fact that any tie games +may arise in the series. Under the old system of playing the tie +off in the city where the tie game is played, it brings about a +great deal of confusion. Many fans make arrangements to see a game +on a certain day and are greatly disappointed when the game is +played in a different city. Of course, the old rule of playing the +play-off game on the same grounds as the tie game, is fair to both +contesting clubs, as it is merely a matter of chance where a tie +game is played."</p> +<p>FRED. G. LIEB, <i>New York Press.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"The rules regarding the manner of scheduling games for the +world's series should not be changed. There are times when they +apparently work a hardship to one team or the followers of one +club, but, after all, they help to throw the necessary safeguards +around the contests. As for the argument for not playing off a tie +game on the same grounds, thus disarranging the dates and +inconveniencing the fans, patrons of the world's series games are +accustomed to this, since bad weather frequently cuts into the +event and causes postponements.</p> +<p>"In a way it does not appear fair that one club should have the +privilege of playing five games at home to three games at home for +its opponents. The rule of playing off a tie game on the same +grounds is a fixture in Base Ball. As to the other game, this was a +question of the luck of the toss of the coin.</p> +<p>"The fans have to trust to luck as to the number of games they +will see in a world's series, this depending upon the number of +games played and possibly upon the toss for a seventh battle. In +1905 the fans of Philadelphia saw only two games in a world's +series with New York. In 1910 only two games were played here in +the series with Chicago.</p> +<p>"Any time a club has three games on its own grounds in a series +where four victories decide the issue either it or its followers +have not much chance to raise an objection."</p> +<p>WILLIAM G. WEART, <i>The Evening Telegraph.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"It was, of course, to the disadvantage of the Giants to be +obliged to play five of the eight games in the post-season series +last fall on the grounds of their opponents, but this came as a +result of one tie game on the Boston grounds and being outlucked on +the toss to determine where the deciding game should be played. +This tie game unquestionably caused much inconvenience to patrons +because of the change in the schedule made necessary because of +it.</p> +<p>"It is not clear to me, however, just now these things can be +remedied without disturbing the balance of an even break for both +teams more violently than was the case last fall.</p> +<p>"I do not believe there will be another series just like the one +of 1912, and so, in my opinion, an immediate change in the +conditions governing these series would not be advisable. It is not +clear to me just what changes could be made. One club or the other +is bound to have the advantage of an extra game on its own grounds, +providing seven games are necessary. The championship in nine out +of ten contests will be decided in seven games or less.</p> +<p>"Then, as to having the games played according to an arbitrarily +fixed schedule, so as not to inconvenience patrons—that would +be out of the question, being open to the objection that it would +then be possible to have every game that figures in the result of +the series played on the home grounds of one of the contestants. +For instance, tie games or unfavorable weather which would prevent +a game being played in one city, would throw all the games to the +other city where there might be no tie games nor unfavorable +weather. That would mean four straight, if it so happened that the +home team won the games, and the loser would never have gotten +action on its own grounds. That would be considerably worse than +five to three.</p> +<p>"So it looks to me as if the patrons would have to take their +chances in the future as they have in the past."</p> +<p>JAMES C. O'LEABT, <i>Boston Globe.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"It seems to me that it would be better to alternate (in case of +a tie), as a team able to tie its opponent on a hostile field would +be entitled to consideration for this performance. I am very +certain, however, that the players of both clubs in the recent +world's series were satisfied with an arrangement which minimized +the amount of traveling they were called upon to do.</p> +<p>"Persons who had seen a five-inning tie game terminated by rain +would hardly be satisfied. It seems to me that the rule as to +alternating ball parks should be applied strictly, but only in case +the tie game involved went nine innings or more."</p> +<p>FRANCIS EATON, <i>Sports Editor Boston Journal.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"To me the feasible thing to do appears to be to insert a clause +in stipulations covering all short series of a special character, +such as intercity, inter-league and world's series, making it +compulsory for the teams to alternate between the cities or grounds +of the competing clubs."</p> +<p>PURVES T. KNOX, <i>New York Evening Telegram.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"Why wouldn't it be a good scheme to toss up for the deciding +game only in cases where an equal number of games had been played +in each city, and, in cases where one city had seen more games than +the other, to play the deciding game in the city which had seen the +fewer games?</p> +<p>"I do not believe it advisable to change the commission's rule +regarding postponed games. The rule now provides that, in case of a +postponement, the clubs shall remain in the city in which the game +was scheduled until it is possible to play. If this rule were +changed and there happened to be a week of bad weather, as in 1911, +the teams and many fans might be forced to travel back and forth +from one town to another for a week without participating in or +seeing a single game; and it might happen some time that the jump +would be between St. Louis and Boston."</p> +<p>R. W. LARDNER, <i>Chicago Examiner.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"A change in the rule governing the playing-off of tie games in +the world's series should be made. The teams ought to appear in +each city on the dates named in the schedule drawn up before the +series starts, unless the weather interferes."</p> +<p>WILLIAM H. WRIGHT, <i>New York Tribune.</i></p> +<hr> +<p>"Drawn games are as unavoidable as rainy days in world's series, +but not as frequent. They operate the same in their effect on the +contest for the world's pennant and in causing confusion among the +patrons by disarranging the schedule. It would be manifestly unjust +if, after a rain postponement, the competing teams did not remain +and play the game off before playing elsewhere. That might result +in playing all of the games in one city. Since drawn games are +treated like postponed games in the regular season, and are of +infrequent occurrence in world's series, any other arrangement than +the present does not seem advisable. The patrons, who should be +considered always, would be among the first to object if each team +did not have an equal show to win. In the last series only four +games that counted were played in Boston and three in New York and +if New York had won the toss for the deciding game the situation +would have been reversed. It would be manifestly fairer to play the +seventh game if necessary in some neutral city."</p> +<p>L. E. SANBORN, <i>Chicago Tribune.</i></p> +<a name="RULE4_3"><!-- RULE4 3 --></a> +<h2>NEW FACES IN THE OLD LEAGUE</h2> +<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center> +<p>Not for some time has there been such a turning over of the +leaves of history in the National League as during 1912-13, and +because of this there are many new faces peering out of the album. +There have also been changes in the minor circuits and one +prominent change in the American League.</p> +<p>The death of John T. Brush removed from Base Ball a dean of the +National League. Wise in the lore of the game, a man more of the +future than of the present, as he always foresaw that which some of +his contemporaries were less alert in perceiving, it meant no easy +task to be his successor.</p> +<p>Prior to the death of Mr. Brush there was a great deal of +curious and some idle speculation as to his ultimate successor in +case of decease, or, in the event of his retirement because of +bodily weariness. One or two went so far as to say that upon his +death Andrew Freedman would return to prominence in Base Ball, +because he was the real owner of the New York club. Once and for +all the writer would like to put the personal stamp of absolute +denial on the repeated statements made by certain individuals in +New York and Chicago that Andrew Freedman retained the control of +the New York club after John T. Brush was reported to have +purchased it.</p> +<p>Mr. Freedman retained nothing of the kind. Not that Mr. Brush +objected to him as a partner, but when Mr. Brush purchased the +stock he purchased the control outright, although he did request +Mr. Freedman to hold a few shares and not give up his personal +interest in Base Ball, for Mr. Freedman had a great liking for the +game in spite of his stormy career. The assertions that Mr. +Freedman was the real owner and Mr. Brush the nominal owner were +made with malicious intent, of which the writer has proof, and +through a desire, if possible, to combat the popularity and the +success of the Giants.</p> +<p>This digression has been made to call attention to the fact that +while rumor was plentiful as to the future control of the Giants +Mr. Brush was carefully "grooming" a young man—his +son-in-law, Mr. H. Hempstead—to take his place.</p> +<p>To a few it was known that Mr. Hempstead was acquiring such +experience and information as would be necessary to assume the +control of an undertaking which has grown so big as the +organization of the Giants in New York. The business details of the +club have quadrupled and the cares and anxieties of the man at the +head have increased in proportion.</p> +<p>The Giants, as successful as they have been under the control of +John T. Brush and John J. McGraw, the men who have been the +executive heads in both the business and the playing departments of +the game, are as susceptible to reverses as if they were the +lowliest club in the organization. It is only by constant and +severe application that the club's affairs may be kept at the best +pitch.</p> +<p>Mr. Hempstead brings to Base Ball the advantage of youth, a keen +business sagacity developed beyond his years, coolness, a +disposition that is sunny and not easily ruffled, and a reputation +for unvarying fairness and the highest type of business and sport +ideals. Quite a list of qualities, but they are there.</p> +<p>If characteristics of that description fail to maintain the high +standard of the New York club, then it will be due to the fact that +our standards of business deportment have turned topsy-turvy.</p> +<p>William H. Locke is the new president and part owner of the +Philadelphia club. He and Mr. Hempstead are the "junior" presidents +of the league. There is no necessity for the Editor of the GUIDE to +enter into any long and fulsome praise as to William H. Locke.</p> +<p>His career speaks for itself and he speaks for himself. A young +man of the finest attributes, he has brought nothing to the mill of +Base Ball to grind except that which was the finest and the +cleanest grain.</p> +<p>The writer has known Mr. Locke almost, it seems, from boyhood +and esteems him for his worth, not only as one who has administered +the affairs of Base Ball with skill and intelligence, but as one +who wrote of Base Ball with understanding and excellent taste, for +it must not be forgotten that Mr. Locke is a newspaper graduate +into the ranks of the great sport the affairs of which fill a +little corner of the hearts of so many of America's citizens.</p> +<p>Perhaps no young man ever left a newspaper office to become a +Base Ball president with more good wishes behind him than William +H. Locke. He served his apprenticeship as secretary of the +Pittsburgh club and he served it well. He is a high class, +delightful young man, every inch of him, and Philadelphia will soon +become as proud of him as Pittsburgh is now.</p> +<p>Still another newspaper writer has been claimed from the desk by +the National League. He is Herman Nickerson, formerly sporting +editor of the Boston Journal, who is now the secretary of the +Boston National League club.</p> +<p>"Nick" is known from one end of the National League circuit to +the other as one of the most solid and substantial of the writing +force, and also as one of the most demure and modest. In addition +to his great fund of information on Base Ball topics he is an +author, and "The Sword of Bussy," a book which was published during +the winter, is even more clever than some of the author's best Base +Ball yarns, and that is saying a great deal in behalf of a man +wedded to Base Ball.</p> +<p>Another change in the National League was the selection of Frank +M. Stevens of New York, as one of the Board of Directors of the New +York National League club.</p> +<p>This brings into Base Ball one of New York's cleverest and +brightest young business men, one who is forging so rapidly to the +front in business circles in the big metropolis that many an older +head goes to him for advice. Mr. Stevens knows a lot about Base +Ball, which is of even greater importance in the game, and is not +afraid to swing any venture that will put with fairness a +championship team into the big city. He is a son of Harry M. +Stevens, whom everybody knows, rich and poor alike.</p> +<p>In the American League the death of Mr. Thomas D. Noyes, +president of the Washington club, a young man who left behind +naught but friends, left a vacancy in the organization which was +filled by the selection of Mr. Benjamin S. Minor.</p> +<p>The new president of the club has had practical experience in +Base Ball and perhaps plenty of it, as almost everybody has had in +Washington, but he is a wideawake, progressive and ambitious man, +who is of just the type to keep Base Ball going, now that it has +struck its gait in the national capital, and the future of the +sport looks all the brighter for his connection with it.</p> +<a name="RULE4_4"><!-- RULE4 4 --></a> +<h2>THE UMPIRES</h2> +<p>The umpires are always with us, and the umpire problem has been +a vexation of Base Ball since the beginning of Base Ball time, yet +neither the umpires, the public, the club owners nor the league +officials need be discouraged, for it was fully proved in 1912 that +umpiring, as a fine art, has advanced a step nearer perfection. We +may well doubt that perfection in its every quality shall ever be +achieved, but we may all feel sanguine that it is possible to +realize better results.</p> +<p>It is true that some men make better umpires than others, +exactly as some men make better ball players than others, but it is +also true that if the men who find it the hardest task to become +the most expert umpires would be given a little more encouragement +they might be a little more successful.</p> +<p>To the staff of umpires of the National League and the American +League it is but fair to render a compliment for their work of last +season. Some of them made mistakes but the general average of work +on the part of the judges of play was excellent.</p> +<p>There was less tendency on the part of the umpires to render +their decisions without being in a position to follow the play +correctly. They were occasionally willing to concede that they +might have been wrong when an analysis of the play was brought to +their attention and they were firm in asserting discipline without +becoming overheated on their own account.</p> +<p>To the mind of the Editor of the GUIDE, in the general light of +observation, the most serious blunders committed by the umpires in +1912 were in making decisions before the play took place. This did +happen and more than once. To illustrate, by an example, the Editor +of the GUIDE had exhibited to him some photographs taken during +1912 in which a player had been "waved out" before he actually had +arrived at the base. Granting the desire of the umpires to be alert +and ready to render decisions promptly, it is equally apparent that +giving decisions in advance of the completion of plays is likely to +imbue the spectators with an idea that the umpire is either +partisan or incompetent.</p> +<p>Young umpires, in their haste to "make good" in the major +leagues, are apt to overdo rather than fail to be on time.</p> +<p>While it is not a pleasant subject to discuss, it is a fact that +some umpires had been accustomed to use the very language to +players on the field that they were presumed in their official +capacity as umpires to correct. The writer knows of instances where +this took place.</p> +<p>It has ever been the policy of the GUIDE to stand for clean and +high class Base Ball. Twenty per cent. more women attend ball games +now than did ten years ago. Eighty per cent. more women spectators +are likely to attend five years from now. To encourage their +attendance every effort should be made to eliminate all disgraceful +conversation on the field. Wherever it may be ascertained that an +umpire has used profane or vulgar language on the field the editor +of the GUIDE believes that he should be fined and punished as +sternly as an offending player.</p> +<p>It is contended that the position of the umpire has been +rendered more arduous by reason of the world's series. The argument +is advanced that the players are more intractable, by reason of +their eagerness to play in the post-season games. That argument +would be stronger were it not for the fact that some of the worst +disturbances emanate from the players of the clubs that have no +chance to play in the world's series.</p> +<p>As a general rule two good reasons may be advanced for disputes +on the part of players.</p> +<p>First: Desire to "cover up" the player's own blunder.</p> +<p>Second: General "cussedness."</p> +<p>There are players who make honest objection on the excitement of +the moment from sheer desire to win, but their lapses from Base +Ball etiquette are so few and far between that their transgressions +usually may be forgiven with some grace.</p> +<p>The Editor of the GUIDE would offer one suggestion to league +presidents and umpires; it is this: whenever two possible plays +occur in conjunction, instruct the chief umpire always to turn to +the spectators and inform them which player is out.</p> +<p>For instance, if a player is at bat and another on the bases and +two are out and an attempt is made to steal second, as the chief +umpire calls the batter out on strikes the public should be clearly +informed that the batter is out. If the play looks close at second +base the crowd frequently believes the runner has been called out +and resents it accordingly. In line with the same play, when the +runner is called out and the fourth ball at the same time is called +on the batter, the chief umpire should turn to the spectators and +to the press box and make it clearly understood that the batter has +been given a base on balls. It saves a great deal of annoyance and +fault finding.</p> +<p>By the way, although it has been said elsewhere, the Editor of +the GUIDE would beg the indulgence of repetition by stating that +the work of the umpires during the world's series of 1912 was one +of the finest exhibitions of its kind ever seen on a ball field, +and somehow it seemed as if the players, would they but deport +themselves during all series as they did during the world's series +might find that there are more good umpires in the world after all +than bad ones.</p> +<a name="RULE4_5"><!-- RULE4 5 --></a> +<h2>BASE BALL WRITERS OF THE SOUTH</h2> +<p>While the Base Ball writers of the cities which comprise the +Southern Association have no organized membership similar to the +Base Ball Writers' Association of the major leagues and the +organizations which are best known as the class AA leagues, they +are a clever, hard-working group of young men, who have labored in +season and out of season, not only to build up Base Ball but to +build it up on the right lines.</p> +<p>Experience of more than a quarter of a century has most +abundantly proved that the standard of Base Ball has steadily been +elevated. It needs no compilation of fact nor any dogmatic +assertion on the part of the Editor of the GUIDE to attest that +fact. It is a present condition which speaks for itself. The +general tone of the players is far higher than it was and there has +come into evidence a marked improvement in the spirit of the men +who own Base Ball clubs. In the earlier history of the sport there +was a tendency to win by any means that did not actually cross the +line of dishonesty. Later there came a season when the commercial +end of the game tended to encroach upon the limits of the pastime. +This has been repressed in the last two seasons and to-day the +morale of Base Ball is of a higher type than it ever has been in +the history of the pastime.</p> +<p>It is a high class sport in the main, managed by high class, men +for high class purposes.</p> +<p>Going through the early stages of building up a successful +league, which, by the way, is the severest of all tasks, and even +now at intervals confronted with changes in the league circuit, the +Southern writers have steadily been sowing the seeds of high class +Base Ball and they have seen results prior to this date, for Base +Ball has become popular and has been handsomely and loyally +supported in sections in which fifteen years ago it would have been +considered impossible to achieve such results.</p> +<p>It is true that business reverses and adverse conditions have +had at times their effect upon Base Ball in the South and possibly +may produce similar results again, but the admirable offset to this +fact is that none of these conditions at any time has daunted the +spirit and the resolution of the young men who have zealously been +preaching the cause of clean and healthy Base Ball.</p> +<p>Very likely to their zeal, their courage, their tact and their +ability it is possible to ascribe the increase in good ball players +which is making itself manifest in the South. More high class and +attractive athletes are coming from the Southern states in these +days than ever was the case before. Base Ball is very glad to have +them. When a representative major league team is made up of players +who represent every section in the Union, engaged for their skill, +it seems as if Base Ball has become nearer an ideal and a national +pastime than ever before in the history of the sport.</p> +<p>To the Southern writers the members of the Base Ball Writers +Association and those of the organizations patterned on like lines +send greeting.</p> +<a name="RULE4_6"><!-- RULE4 6 --></a> +<h2>BASE BALL WORTH WHILE?</h2> +<p>One of the foremost divines in the East who has a deep concern +in Base Ball and Base Ball players is Rev. Dr. Reisner, pastor of +the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, of New York City. Throughout +the season he attends the games and is greatly interested in the +work of the players. He knows Base Ball well, and in addition to +that he knows the environment of Base Ball players and their +character and endeavor as well as any person in the United +States.</p> +<p>It is Dr. Reisner's custom each year to preach a sermon to the +Base Ball players and their friends in his church in New York, and +the building always is filled to listen to his discourse. In view +of the interest which he takes in the national game and because of +his excellent knowledge as to the general details of the sport, the +Editor of the GUIDE asked him to say a few words to the ball +players of the United States through the medium of this +publication, and he has graciously consented to do so in the +following pithy and straightforward talks:</p> +<center>BY THE REV. CHRISTIAN F. REISNER, NEW YORK.</center> +<p>The Bible is the Spalding book of rules for the game of life. +James B. Sullivan, beloved by all athletes, gave me these rules for +athletes: "Don't drink, use tobacco or dissipate. Go to bed early +and eat wholesome food!" The boozer gets out of the game as +certainly as the bonehead.</p> +<p>I have interviewed scores of the most noted players. Every one +had a religious training. Many are church members. All avoid +old-time drinking, as our fathers did smallpox.</p> +<p>Mathewson belongs to the high type now being generally +duplicated. He is a modern masculine Christian. Base Ball demands +brains as well as brawn. Minds muddled by licentiousness and liquor +are too "leady" for leaders. Hotheadedness topples capable +players.</p> +<p>I am proud to style scores of Base Ball players, I know, as +gentlemen. They are optimists. Defect is unrecognized. Team work +makes them brotherly. Bickerings break a Baseballist. Every member +of the team gives himself wholly to the game. Jeers are as harmless +as cheers.</p> +<p>Every minute he does his best. He sleeps only at night. To do +these things the player must follow Bible rules. If he keeps it up +life's success is certain. Governor Tener and Senator Gorman proved +it. No wonder "Billy" Sunday wrote me "I would not take a million +dollars for my experience on the ball field."</p> +<p>It taught him how to knock the Devil out of the box.</p> +<p>Base Ball is invaluable to America. It thrills and so rests +tired nerves. It brings the "shut-in" man into God's healing +out-o'-doors. While yelling he swallows great draughts of +lung-expanding, purifying air and forgets the fear of "taking +cold."</p> +<p>He is pulled out of self-centeredness, while shouting for +another. He stands crowd jostling good-naturedly or gets his +cussedness squeezed out. He chums up with any one with easy +comments and so gets out of his shell and melts again into a real +human.</p> +<p>Base Ball absolutely pulls the brain away from business. It +emphasizes the value of decency and gives healthy and high toned +recreation to millions. If kept clean its good-doing cannot be +measured. Nothing is worth while that does not do that.</p> +<a name="RULE4_7"><!-- RULE4 7 --></a> +<h2>THE SPALDING BASE BALL HALL OF FAME</h2> +<p>(From Spalding's Official Base Ball Record.)</p> +<p>New faces enter into the Spalding Base Ball "Hall of Fame" this +year. The object of this "Hall of Fame" is not necessarily to +portray the very top men of each department of the national game, +for it frequently happens in these days, when players take part in +only a few innings now and then, that they become entitled to +mention in the records, although they do not bear the real brunt of +the work.</p> +<p>In the "Hall of Fame" will be found the men who might well be +termed the "regulars." Day in and day out they were on the diamond, +or ready to take their place on the diamond, if they were not +injured.</p> +<center>NATIONAL LEAGUE.</center> +<p>First of all, Daubert has earned his place at first base for the +season of 1912. Threatening in other years to become one of the +group of leading players, he performed so well in the season past +that there is no doubt as to his right.</p> +<p>There is a new player at second base. The regularity with which +Egan of Cincinnati performed for the Reds earned him a place as the +banner second baseman.</p> +<p>At third base the honor goes to J.R. Lobert, the third baseman +of the Philadelphia club. In this particular instance Lobert was +crowded, not for efficiency, but in the number of games played by +Byrne, third baseman of Pittsburgh, and Herzog, third baseman of +New York. In the matter of chances undertaken on the field, Herzog +surpassed both Lobert and Byrne, but, in justice to Lobert, the +honor seems to be fairly deserved by him.</p> +<p>John H. Wagner, the brilliant veteran of the Pittsburgh club, +fought his way to the position of shortstop in 1912. His fielding +was better than that of his rivals and at times he played the +position as only a man of his sterling worth can play.</p> +<p>Owing to the fact that the able secretary of the National +League, John A. Heydler, has compiled two methods of comparing +pitchers, the "Hall of Fame" in the National League this year will +include two faces. They are those of Hendrix of the Pittsburgh club +and Tesreau of the New York club. The former won the greater +percentage of games under the old rule in vogue of allotting +percentage upon victories. Tesreau, however, under a new rule which +classifies pitchers by earned runs, easily led the league. The +editor of the RECORD is very much inclined toward Mr. Heydler's +earned run record; in fact, has suggested a record based upon the +construction of making every pitcher responsible for runs and +computing his average upon the percentage of runs for which he is +responsible. That places Tesreau in the front row, with Mathewson +second.</p> +<p>There are two catchers who run a close race for the "Hall of +Fame" in 1912. They are Meyers of New York and Gibson of +Pittsburgh. Meyers caught by far the larger number of games, and, +basing the work of catcher upon the average chances per game, seems +to lead his Pittsburgh rival. Both men are sterling performers, and +Meyers is an instance of the greatest improvement on the part of a +catcher of any member of the major leagues.</p> +<p>For the position of leading outfielder, all things considered, +Carey of Pittsburgh is selected for the "Hall of Fame." Not only +did he play in the greatest number of games of any outfielder, but +his general work in the outfield was sensational.</p> +<p>For the position of leading batsman the "Hall of Fame" honors +Zimmerman, the powerful batter of the Chicago club. His work with +the bat in 1912 approached in many ways that of the high class and +powerful batters of old. He batted steadily, with the exception of +one very slight slump, and his work as batter undoubtedly was of +tremendous assistance to Chicago. Zimmerman did not shine alone as +the best batter, as he was also the leading maker of home runs and +the best two-base hitter of the season. That gives him a triple +honor.</p> +<p>The best three-base hitter of the league was the quiet Wilson of +Pittsburgh. Though not so high in rank as a batsman as some of his +contemporaries, there was none in the organization who could equal +his ability to get to third base on long hits.</p> +<p>Bescher, as in 1911, earned in 1912 the position of leading base +runner in the National League. He stole more bases than any other +player of the league, and was also the best run getter—that +is to say, scored more runs than any other player.</p> +<center>AMERICAN LEAGUE.</center> +<p>First of all comes Gandil for first base. His greater number of +games played and his steady work at first almost all of the season, +as he did not join the Washingtons at the beginning of the season, +places him in the "Hall of Fame" at first base.</p> +<p>Rath is a newcomer to the Chicago club, but by all around good +work he earned the place at second base. Not so heavy a batter as +some of his rivals, he covered a great amount of ground for the +Chicagos and steadied the infield throughout the year.</p> +<p>For the position of shortstop, McBride of Washington is the +logical selection. Day in and day out he was one of the most +reliable shortstops in the American League.</p> +<p>At third base John Turner of the Cleveland club retains the +honor which he earned for himself in 1911, and he is one of the few +players who is a member of the "Hall of Fame" two years in +succession.</p> +<p>In the outfield, for all around work, the place of honor goes to +Amos Strunk, the young player of the Philadelphia club. He was in +center field and in left field, and he was a busy young man for +most of the year.</p> +<p>Pitching at a standard higher than the American League had seen +for years, Wood of Boston is given the "Hall of Fame" honor as +pitcher. His average of winning games was very high, and he was +compelled to fight hard for many of his victories.</p> +<p>The man who caught him seems entitled to be considered the +leading catcher. He is Cady of Boston, although for hard work +Carrigan, also of Boston, gives him a close race.</p> +<p>Once more Cobb is the leading batsman of the American League. +There was none to dispute his right to the title. He was also +leading batsman in 1911 and is another American League player who +holds a position in the "Hall" two years in succession.</p> +<p>The leading home run batter of the American League was Baker of +Philadelphia. He earned the same title in 1911. It is a double +"Hall of Fame" distinction for him.</p> +<p>Jackson of Cleveland enters the "Hall of Fame" by being the +leading batter for three-base hits.</p> +<p>Speaker of Boston becomes a member of the high honor group by +being the leading batter of two-base hits.</p> +<p>Lewis of Boston is the leading batter of sacrifice hits.</p> +<p>Collins of Philadelphia was the best run getter.</p> +<p>Last, but by no means least, of all, Milan, the clever +outfielder of Washington, is the best base stealer of the year, and +better than all the rest, earns his distinction in joining the +"Hall of Fame" by establishing a new record of stolen bases.</p> +<a name="RULE4_8"><!-- RULE4 8 --></a> +<h2>JOHN TOMLINSON BRUSH</h2> +<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center> +<p>John Tomlinson Brush was born in Clintonville, N.Y., on June 15, +1845. He died November 26, 1912, near St. Charles, Mo., on his way +to California from New York, for his health. Left an orphan at the +age of four years, he went to live at the home of his grandfather, +in Hopkinton, where he remained until he was seventeen years old. +At this age he left school and went to Boston, where he obtained a +position in a clothing establishment, a business with which he was +identified up to his death. He worked as a clerk in several cities +in the East, and finally went to Indianapolis in 1875 to open a +clothing store. The store still occupies the same building, and Mr. +Brush continued at the head of the business until his death. It was +in the early '80s that he first became interested in Base Ball in +Indianapolis, and he made himself both wealthy and famous as a +promoter.</p> +<p>In 1863 Mr. Brush enlisted in the First New York Artillery, and +served as a member of this body until it was discharged, at the +close of the civil war. He was a charter member of George H. Thomas +Post, G.A.R.; a thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason, and was +also prominently identified with several social and commercial +organizations of Indianapolis, notably the Columbia Club, +Commercial Club, Board of Trade, and the Mannerchor Society. In New +York Mr. Brush took up membership in the Lambs' Club and the +Larchmont Club. For several years he made his headquarters at the +Lambs' Club.</p> +<p>Mr. Brush is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elsie Lombard Brush, +and two daughters, Miss Natalie Brush and Mrs. Harry N. Hempstead. +His first wife, Mrs. Agnes Ewart Brush, died in 1888.</p> +<p>Mr. Brush's career in Base Ball, a sport to which he was +devotedly attached, and for which he had the highest ideals and +aims, began with the Indianapolis club of the National League.</p> +<p>It has been somewhat inaccurately stated that he entered Base +Ball by chance. This was not, strictly speaking, the case. Prior to +his first immediate association with the national game he was an +ardent admirer of the sport, although not connected with it in any +capacity as owner. He was what might be called, with accurate +description, a Base Ball "fan" in the earlier stages of +development.</p> +<p>An opportunity presented itself by which it was possible to +procure for the city of Indianapolis a franchise in the National +League. Mr. Brush was quick to perceive the advantages which this +might have in an advertising way for the city with which he had +cast his lot and subscribed to the stock.</p> +<p>Like many such adventures in the early history of the sport +there came a time when the cares and the duties of the club had to +be assumed by a single individual and it was then that he became +actively identified as a managing owner, as the duty of caring for +the club fell upon his shoulders.</p> +<p>From that date, until the date of his death, he was actively +interested in every detail relating to Base Ball which might +pertain to the advancement of the sport, and his principal effort +in his future participation in the game was to see that it advanced +on the lines of the strictest integrity and in such a manner that +its foundation should be laid in the rock of permanent success.</p> +<p>Naturally this was bound to bring him into conflict with some +who looked upon Base Ball as an idle pastime, in which only the +present moment was to be consulted.</p> +<p>The earliest environment of Base Ball was not wholly of a +substantial nature. It was a game, intrinsically good of itself, in +which the hazards had always been against the weak. There was not +that consideration of equity which would have been for its best +interests, but this was not entirely the fault of the separate +members of the Base Ball body, but the result of conditions, in +which those whose thought was only for the moment, overshadowed the +best interests of the pastime.</p> +<p>There was an inequity in regulations governing the sport by +which the clubs in the smaller cities were forced, against the will +of their owners, to be the weaker organizations, and possibly this +was less due to a desire upon the more fortunate and larger clubs +to maintain such a state of affairs, than to the fact that the +organization generally had expanded upon lines with little regard +to the future.</p> +<p>The first general complaint arose from the players who composed +the membership of the smaller clubs. They demurred at the fact that +they were asked to perform equally as well as the players of the +clubs in the larger cities at smaller salaries. Not that they did +not try to do their best, for this they stoutly attempted under all +conditions. It was the effect of a discrimination which was the +result of the imperfect regulations that existed relative to the +management of the game.</p> +<p>This attitude of the players resulted at length in the formation +of a body known as the Brotherhood. To offset not the Brotherhood, +but the cause which led to its formation, Mr. Brush devised the +famous classification plan. Imperfectly understood in what it +intended to do for the players, it was seized upon as a reason for +the revolt of the players and the organization of the Brotherhood +League.</p> +<p>At heart it was the idea of Mr. Brush so to equalize salaries +that the players of all clubs should be reimbursed in an equitable +manner. As always had been the case, and probably always is likely +to be, the players who received the larger salaries were in no mood +to share with their weaker brothers any excess margin of pay which +they thought that they had justly earned, and it was not a +difficult matter for them to obtain the consent of players who +might really have benefited by the plan to co-operate with them on +the basis of comradeship.</p> +<p>The motives of Mr. Brush were thoroughly misconstrued by some, +and, if grasped by others, they were disregarded, because they +conflicted with their immediate temporary prosperity.</p> +<p>The dead Base Ball organizer had looked further ahead than his +time. His plan was born under the best of intentions, but it +unfortunately devolved upon the theory that players would be +willing to share alike for their common good. Later in life, +through another and unquestionably even better method, he succeeded +in bringing forth a plan which attained the very end for which he +sought in the '80s, but in the second resort, by a far more +efficacious method.</p> +<p>The Brotherhood League came into existence and rivaled the +National League. The players of the National League and the +American Association deserted to join the Brotherhood League, upon +a platform that promised Utopia in Base Ball. Unquestionably it was +the idea of the general Brotherhood organization that the National +League would abandon the fight and succumb, but the National League +owners were built of sterner stuff.</p> +<p>They fought back resolutely and hard and while for a time they +were combated by a fickle opinion, based upon sentiment, it +developed within two months that the public had learned thoroughly +the reasons for the organization of the new league and declined to +lend it that support which had been predicted and expected.</p> +<p>Meanwhile, Base Ball had received a setback greater than any +which had befallen the sport in an organized sense from a +professional standpoint.</p> +<p>The Brotherhood League was a pronounced and emphatic failure. +This is not the verdict of personal opinion, but a record which is +indelibly impressed upon Base Ball history.</p> +<p>It was the theory of the Brotherhood League that it, in part, +should be governed by representative players, but the players would +not be governed by players. Discipline relaxed, teams did pretty +much as they pleased, and the public remained away from the games. +It may be added with truth that the National League games were not +much better patronized, but that was due to the prevalent apathy in +Base Ball affairs throughout the United States.</p> +<p>When the Brotherhood League was formed and withdrew so many +players from the National League the latter organization undertook +to strengthen itself where it could and when Brooklyn and +Cincinnati applied for membership in the circuit both were +admitted.</p> +<p>The New York National League club had lost many of its players +and, upon the substitution of Cincinnati for Indianapolis in the +National League circuit, procured from Mr. Brush many players of +note, among them Rusie, Glasscock, Buckley, Bassett and Denny.</p> +<p>Relative to the withdrawal of Indianapolis from the circuit it +may be said that Mr. Brush flatly refused to give up his club, +asserting stoutly that he was perfectly able to continue the fight, +but when he felt that the exigencies of the occasion demanded that +Cincinnati become a member, he agreed to give up the franchise, +providing that he be permitted to retain his membership in the +National League, and transfer such of his players as New York +desired to the latter city. It has been alleged that he demanded an +exorbitant price from New York for the transfer of the players.</p> +<p>This is untrue. He asked the price of his franchise, the value +of his players, and the worth of giving up a Base Ball year in a +city in which there was to be no conflicting club and, as he had +expressed full confidence in his ability to make a winning fight +for the National League, it was agreed that his rights to be +considered could not be overlooked. To retain his National League +membership he accepted stock in the New York club.</p> +<p>Toward the close of the Base Ball season the Brotherhood League +dealt what it believed to be a death blow to the National League by +the purchase of the Cincinnati franchise. It proved to be a +boomerang, for before the first day of January, 1891, the +Brotherhood League had passed out of existence. The backers of the +organization, tired of the general conduct of the sport, were only +too willing to come to an acceptable agreement and retire.</p> +<p>A.G. Spalding, John T. Brush, Frank De Hass Robison, Charles H. +Byrne and A.H. Soden were prominent members of the National League +to bringing this result about. Of these, Mr. Spalding and Mr. Soden +survive, but have retired from active participation in Base Ball +affairs.</p> +<p>It was through this settlement, resulting upon the Base Ball +war, that Mr. Brush's activities were turned toward Cincinnati. The +National League had a franchise in that city, but no one to operate +it. Mr. Brush agreed to take up the franchise and attempt to +operate and rebuild that club. That, however, is a detail which +relates purely to the continuance of a major league circuit.</p> +<p>The next most noticeable achievement in Mr. Brush's Base Ball +career and, to the mind of more than one, the greatest successful +undertaking in the history of the game, was a complete revolution +in the distribution of financial returns. By his success in +effecting this Mr. Brush brought about the very purpose which he +had sought to attain by his classification plan.</p> +<p>But the method was better, for the instruments of this +readjustment of conditions were the owners and not the players. +Briefly, it was the following:</p> +<p>There was still war in Base Ball between the American +Association and the National League. Recognizing that the best +method to bring about a cessation of this war was to effect an +amalgamation of the conflicting forces Mr. Brush sought, with the +assistance of others, to weld both leagues into one. He was aided +in this task, though indirectly, because A.G. Spalding was actively +out of Base Ball, by that gentleman, Frank De Hass Robison, +Christopher Von der Abe, and Francis C. Richter, editor of +"Sporting Life" of Philadelphia. The writer also essayed in the +task in an advisory capacity.</p> +<p>The amalgamation was brought about, though not without some +opposition; indeed, much opposition. It was conceded at that time +that a twelve-club league, which was the object sought, was +cumbersome and unwieldy, but there was no other plan of possible +accomplishment which suggested itself.</p> +<p>But the principal consideration and the result accomplished in +this consolidation of leagues was that all gate receipts should be +divided, share and share alike, so far as general admissions were +concerned.</p> +<p>That was the greatest and most far-reaching achievement in the +history of Base Ball. Prior to that time the principle of a fixed +guarantee for each game played had given each home club a +stupendous bulk of the sums paid by the public toward the +maintenance of the sport. The inevitable outcome of such an +arrangement was that the clubs in the larger cities completely +overshadowed the clubs in the smaller cities.</p> +<p>The teams in the cities of less population were expected to try +to place rival organizations on the field that would equal in +playing strength those of New York, Boston and Chicago, but they +were unable to do so unless their owners were willing to go on year +after year with large deficits staring them in the face.</p> +<p>When Mr. Brush and his associates succeeded in placing Base Ball +upon a plane of absolute fairness, so far as the proper +distribution of the returns of the sport could be made between +clubs, Base Ball began to prosper, and, for the first time in all +its history, the owners of so-called smaller clubs felt that they +could go forward and try to rival their bigger fellows with equally +strong combinations.</p> +<p>More than that, and which to the ball player is most important +of all, it "jumped" the salaries of the players in the smaller +clubs until they were on equal terms with their fellow players in +the larger clubs, so that Mr. Brush helped to accomplish by this +plan the very aim which he had at heart when he proposed the +classification plan—a just, impartial and equal reimbursement +to every player in the game, so far as the finances of each club +would permit—and without that bane to all players, a salary +limit.</p> +<p>Thus, while it is always probable that some players may receive +more than others, based upon their preponderance of skill, it is +now a fact that two-thirds of the major league ball players of the +present day owe their handsome salaries to the system which John T. +Brush so earnestly urged and for which he fought against odds which +would have daunted a man with less fixity of purpose.</p> +<p>Having brought forth this new condition in Base Ball, which was +so just that its results almost immediately began to make +themselves manifest, the owner of the Cincinnati club devoted his +time and his energies to the endeavor to place a championship club +in Cincinnati. He never was successful in that purpose, although +his ill fortune was no greater than that of his predecessors.</p> +<p>The time came that Mr. Brush learned that the New York Base Ball +Club could be purchased. He obtained the stock necessary to make +him owner of the New York organization from Mr. Andrew Freedman, +but before he did so another Base Ball war had begun between the +National League and the American League, a disagreement starting +from the simplest of causes, but which, like many another such +disagreement, resulted in the most damaging of conditions to the +prosperity of the pastime.</p> +<p>As had been the case in the prior war brought about by the +organization of the Brotherhood League, Mr. Brush fought staunchly +for his rights. Prominent National League players were taken by the +American League clubs, and this brought retaliation.</p> +<p>At length the National League opened negotiations to obtain +certain American League players and succeeded in doing so. Among +these were the manager of the Baltimore club, John J. McGraw, who +felt that he was acting perfectly within his rights in joining the +New York National League club. Directly upon his acceptance of the +management of the New York club Mr. Brush became its owner and the +era of prosperity was inaugurated in New York, which was soon +enjoyed by every club throughout the United States.</p> +<p>In its first year under the new management the team was not in +condition to make a good fight, but the next year it was ready and +since then has won four National League championships and one +World's Championship.</p> +<p>In the spring of 1911, at the very dawn of the National League +season, the grand stand of the New York National League club burned +to the ground. A man less determined would have been overcome by +such a blow. Nothing daunted and while the flames were not yet +quenched, Mr. Brush sent for engineers to devise plans for the +magnificent stadium which bears his name and which, on the Polo +Grounds in New York, is one of the greatest and the most massive +monument to professional Base Ball in the world.</p> +<p>In connection with this wonderful new edifice of steel and +stone, which is one of the wonders of the new world, it is +appropriate to add that two world's series have been played on the +field of the Polo Grounds since it has been erected.</p> +<p>The rules for these world's series were formulated and adopted +upon the suggestion and by the advice of Mr. Brush and since a +regular world's series season has been a feature of Base Ball the +national game has progressed with even greater strides than was the +case in the past.</p> +<p>At a meeting of the National League the following resolutions +were adopted:</p> +<blockquote> +<p><i>Whereas</i>, The death of Mr. John T. Brush, president of the +New York National League Base Ball Club, comes as a sad blow to +organized professional Base Ball and particularly to us, his +associates in the National League.</p> +<p>As the dean of organized professional Base Ball, his wise +counsel, his unerring judgment, his fighting qualities and withal +his eminent fairness and integrity in all matters pertaining to the +welfare of the national game will be surely missed.</p> +<p>He was a citizen of sterling worth, of high moral standards and +of correct business principles, and his death is not only a +grievous loss to us, but to the community at large as well. Be it, +therefore,</p> +<p><i>Resolved</i>, That the members of the National League of +Professional Base Ball Clubs, in session to-day, express their +profound grief at the loss of their friend, associate and +counsellor and extend to the members of his bereaved family their +sincere sympathy in the great loss which they have sustained by his +death. Be it further</p> +<p><i>Resolved</i>, That a copy of these resolutions be spread on +the records of the league.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>In connection with the death of Mr. Brush, Ben Johnson, +president of the American League, said: "Mr. Brush was a power in +Base Ball. He will be missed as much in the American League as in +the National League."</p> +<p>More than three hundred friends, relatives, business +acquaintances, lodge brothers and Base Ball associates attended the +funeral of Mr. Brush, on Friday, November 29, at St. Paul's +Episcopal Church, Indianapolis. Fifty or more of Mr. Brush's Base +Ball associates and acquaintances, principally from the East, were +present.</p> +<p>The service was conducted by the Rev. Lewis Brown, rector of St. +Paul's, and was followed by a Scottish Rite ceremony in charge of +William Geake, Sr., of Fort Wayne, acting thrice potent master, and +official head of the thirty-third degree in Indiana. The Scottish +Rite delegation numbered more than 150. There were also in +attendance fifty Knights Templars of Rapier Commandery, under the +leadership of Eminent Commander E.J. Scoonover.</p> +<p>The Grand Army of the Republic, the Indianapolis Commercial Club +and a number of local and out-of-town clubs and social +organizations of which Mr. Brush was a member also were +represented.</p> +<p>The Episcopal service was given impressively. The Rev. Dr. +Brown, in reviewing the life of Mr. Brush, spoke of him as one of +the remarkable men of America, who, in his youth, gave no promise +of being in later life a national figure. In the course of his +remarks Dr. Brown said:</p> +<p>"The death of John Tomlinson Brush removes from our midst one of +the most remarkable men of our generation. His life was that of a +typical American. He began in the most unpretentious manner and +died a figure of national importance.</p> +<p>"He went through the Civil War so quietly that the fact was +unknown to some of his most intimate friends. He was mustered out +with honor and entered the business world in Indianapolis. His +labors here put him at the forefront for sagacity, squareness, +honorable treatment and generosity.</p> +<p>"His love of sport made him a patron of the national game. In a +perfectly natural way, he went from manager of the local team to +proprietor of the New York Giants. He was a Bismarck in plan and a +Napoleon in execution. His aim was pre-eminence and he won place by +the consent of all. The recent spectacular outpouring of people and +colossal financial exhibit in the struggle for the pennant between +New York and Boston were but the legitimate outcome of his +marvelous skill.</p> +<p>"He was an early member of the Masonic fraternity. He took his +Blue Lodge degree in his native town and to demonstrate his +attachment he never removed his membership. Where he had been +raised to the sublime degree of a master there he wished to keep +his affiliation always.</p> +<p>"He became a Knight Templar in Rapier Commandery and was one of +its past eminent commanders. He was a member of the Scottish Rite +bodies in the Valley of Indianapolis in the early days and +performed his work with a ritual perfection unsurpassed. He +received the thirty-third and last degree as a merited honor for +proficiency and zeal.</p> +<p>"The conspicuous feature of his life was its indomitable +purpose."</p> +<a name="RULE4_9"><!-- RULE4 9 --></a> +<h2>THE WORLD'S SERIES OF 1912</h2> +<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center> +<p>No individual, whether player, manager, owner, critic or +spectator, who went through the world's series of 1912 ever will +forget it. There never was another like it. Years may elapse before +there shall be a similar series and it may be that the next to come +will be equally sensational, perhaps more so.</p> +<p>Viewed from the very strict standpoint that all Base Ball games +should be played without mistake or blunder this world's series may +be said to have been inartistic, but it is only the hypercritical +theorist who would take such a cold-blooded view of the series.</p> +<p>From the lofty perch of the "bleacherite" it was a series +crammed with thrills and gulps, cheers and gasps, pity and +hysteria, dejection and wild exultation, recrimination and +adoration, excuse and condemnation, and therefore it was what may +cheerfully be called "ripping good" Base Ball.</p> +<p>There were plays on the field which simply lifted the spectators +out of their seats in frenzy. There were others which caused them +to wish to sink through the hard floor of the stand in humiliation. +There were stops in which fielders seemed to stretch like india +rubber and others in which they shriveled like parchment which has +been dried. There were catches of fly balls which were superhuman +and muffs of fly balls which were "superawful."</p> +<p>There were beautiful long hits, which threatened to change the +outcome of games and some of them did. There were opportunities for +other beautiful long hits which were not made.</p> +<p>No ingenuity of stage preparation, no prearranged plot of man, +no cunningly devised theory of a world's series could have +originated a finale equal to that of the eighth and decisive +contest. Apparently on the verge of losing the series after the +Saturday game in Boston the Giants had gamely fought their way to a +tie with Boston, and it was one of the pluckiest and gamest fights +ever seen in a similar series, and just as the golden apple seemed +about to drop into the hands of the New York players they missed it +because Dame Fortune rudely jostled them aside.</p> +<p>As a matter of fact the New York players were champions of the +world for nine and one half innings, for they led Boston when the +first half of the extra inning of the final game was played. Within +the next six minutes they had lost all the advantage which they had +gained.</p> +<p>It was a combination of bad fielding and lack of fielding which +cost the New York team its title. And if only Mathewson had not +given Yerkes a base on balls in the tenth inning the game might not +have been won, even with the fielding blunders, but Mathewson was +pitching with all the desperation and the cunning which he could +muster to fool the batter and failed to do so.</p> +<p>Such sudden and complete reversal on the part of the mental +demeanor of spectators was never before seen on a ball field in a +world's series. The Boston enthusiasts had given up and were +willing to concede the championship to New York. In the twinkling +of an eye there was a muffed fly, a wonderful catch by the same +player who muffed the ball—Snodgrass—a base on balls to +Yerkes, a missed chance to retire Speaker easily on a foul fly, +then a base hit by Speaker to right field, on which Engel scored, +another base on balls to Lewis and then the long sacrifice fly to +right field by Gardner, which sent Yerkes over the plate with the +winning run.</p> +<p>Before entering upon a description of the games it is +appropriate to say that the umpiring in this series was as near +perfection as it could be. It was by far the best of any since the +series had been inaugurated. The umpires were William Klem and +Charles Rigler of the National League and Frank O'Loughlin and +William Evans of the American League.</p> +<center>FIRST GAME<br> +New York, Oct. 8, 1912.<br> +Boston 4, New York 3.<br> +Hits—Off Wood 8; off Tesreau 5; Crandall 1.<br> +Struck out—Wood 11; Tesreau 4; Crandall 2.<br> +Bases on balls—Wood 2; Tesreau 4.<br> +Attendance 35,722.</center> +<p>In the description of the games of the world's series only those +innings will be touched upon in which there were men on bases. +Tesreau pitched the opening game for New York and the first man to +bat for Boston was Hooper. Tesreau gave him a base on balls. The +next three batters were retired in succession. Devore and Doyle, +the first two batters for New York, were retired and Snodgrass hit +cleanly to center field, the first base hit in the series. Murray +was given a base on balls, but Merkle flied to short. In the second +inning the Bostons started as bravely as they had in the first, as +Gardner, the first batter, was safe on Fletcher's fumble. Stahl +batted to Tesreau and Gardner was forced out. Wagner was given a +base on balls, after Stahl had been thrown out trying to steal +second, and Cady flied to Murray.</p> +<p>The Bostons started with a man on base in the third. Wood was +given a base on balls by Tesreau and Hooper sacrificed. Doyle threw +Yerkes out and Speaker was given a base on balls, but Lewis died +easily on a weak fly to short.</p> +<p>In New York's half of this inning the Giants scored twice. +Tesreau, first at bat, struck out. Devore was given a base on balls +and Doyle batted wickedly to left field for two bases. Snodgrass +was fooled into striking out, but Murray smashed the ball to center +field for a single, and sent two men over the rubber, Murray was +caught at second trying to get around the bases while Doyle was +going home.</p> +<p>With one out Herzog hit safely in the fourth inning, but did not +score. In the fifth, with two out, Doyle batted safely, but failed +to score. In the sixth the Bostons made their first runs on +Speaker's triple to left field and Lewis' out. If Snodgrass, in +making a desperate effort to catch the fly, had permitted the ball +to go to Devore the chances are that Speaker's hit would have +resulted in an out, so that New York lost on the play.</p> +<p>Snodgrass was safe in the sixth on Wagner's fumble, but was +doubled off first when Murray drove a line hit straight to Stahl. +The seventh was the undoing of the Giants. With one out Wagner +batted safely to center field. Cady followed with another hit to +the same place. Wood batted to Doyle, who made a beautiful stop, +but with a double play in hand, was overbalanced and unable to +complete it. That cost New York three runs, although it was +unavoidable. Cady was forced out, but Hooper hit to right field for +two bases sending Wagner and Wood home. Yerkes followed with a +clean hit to left field for a base and won the first game for +Boston with that hit.</p> +<p>In New York's half of the inning, with one out, Meyers was hit +by a pitched ball, but no damage was done other than to Meyers' +feelings. In the ninth Wagner batted Crandall for a two-base hit, +Crandall having been substituted for Tesreau in the eighth inning, +as McCormick had batted for Tesreau in the seventh. Cady made a +sacrifice, but the next two batters were easily retired.</p> +<p>Then began the exciting finish, and if the Giants had made but a +single more they probably would have begun the series with a +victory instead of a defeat. With one out Merkle batted the ball +over second base for a single and the spectators, who had started +toward the exits, halted. Herzog followed with a slow low fly to +right field, which fell safely. Meyers crashed into the ball for a +two-bagger that struck the wall in right field and the crowd began +to believe that Wood had gone up in "smoke."</p> +<p>The Boston players encouraged him with all their best vocal +efforts, and when Fletcher came to the plate Wood was using all the +speed with which he was possessed. It was evident that Fletcher's +sole desire was to bat the ball safely to right field, for if he +did so, both of the runners could cross the plate and the Giants +would win. Twice he met the ball, and both times it sailed in the +right direction, but with no result, as it was foul. Then he struck +out. Crandall, perhaps one of the best pinch hitters in the major +leagues, also struck out, and the Boston enthusiasts who were +present fell back in their chairs from sheer exhaustion, but when +they had recovered, with their band leading them, marched across +the field and cheered Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston, who was present +as a spectator of the contest in company with Mayor Gaynor of New +York. Governor Foss of Massachusetts was also present at the +opening of the game. Klem umpired behind the bat in this game.</p> +<center>SECOND GAME<br> +Boston, Oct. 9, 1912.<br> +New York 6. Boston 6 (eleven innings).<br> +Hits—Off Collins 9, off Hall 2; Mathewson 10.<br> +Struck out—Collins 5, Bedient 1; Mathewson 4<br> +Bases on balls—Hall 4, Bedient 1.<br> +Attendance 30,148.</center> +<p>In the second game of the series, which was played October 9 at +Boston, Mathewson pitched for the New York team and Collins, Hall +and Bedient for Boston. The game resulted in a tie, 6 to 6, at the +end of the eleventh inning, being called on account of darkness by +Umpire O'Loughlin, who was acting behind the plate. This contest +was remarkable more for the misplays of the New York players, which +gave the Bostons a chance to save themselves from defeat, than for +any undue familiarity with the pitching of Mathewson. It was the +universal opinion of partisans of both teams that Mathewson +deserved to win because he outpitched his opponents. The weather +was fair and the ground in excellent condition. In the first inning +Snodgrass began with a clean two-base hit into the left field seats +but neither Doyle, Becker nor Murray was able to help him across +the plate. A run scored in that inning, with such a fine start, +would probably have won the game for the Giants.</p> +<p>In Boston's half Hooper hit safely to center field and stole +second base. Yerkes batted a line drive to Fletcher, and had the +New York shortstop held the ball, which was not difficult to catch, +Hooper could easily have been doubled at second, but Fletcher +muffed it. Speaker hit safely toward third base, filling the bases. +Lewis batted to Herzog, who made a fine play on the ball and caught +Hooper at the plate. This should have been the third out and would +have retired Boston without a run. Gardner was put out by a +combination play on the part of Mathewson, Doyle and Merkle, +scoring Yerkes, and Stahl came through with a hard line hit for a +base, which scored Speaker and Lewis. The inning netted Boston +three runs, which were not earned.</p> +<p>With one out in the second inning Herzog batted for three bases +to center field and scored on Meyers' single. Fletcher flied out +and Mathewson forced Meyers out. Hooper got a two-base hit in the +same inning, but two were out at the time and Fletcher easily threw +out Yerkes, who was the next batter.</p> +<p>In the fourth inning Murray began with a clean three-base hit to +center field. Merkle fouled out to the third baseman, but Herzog's +long fly to Speaker was an excellent sacrifice and Murray scored. +Meyers again hit for a single, but was left on the bases. The +Bostons got this run back in the last half of the fifth. With one +out Hooper hit to center field for a base, his third hit in +succession against Mathewson. Yerkes batted a three-bagger out of +the reach of Snodgrass and Hooper scored. Murray batted safely in +the sixth, with one out, but died trying to steal second, Carrigan +catching for Boston. In the Boston's half of the sixth Lewis began +with a single and got as far as third base, but could not +score.</p> +<p>The Giants started bravely in the seventh when Herzog hit the +ball for a base and stole second. There were three chances to get +him home, but Meyers, who had been hitting Collins hard, failed to +make a single and Fletcher and Mathewson were both retired.</p> +<p>In the eighth the New York players made one of the game rallies +for which they became famed all through the series and went ahead +of their rivals. Snodgrass was the first batter and lifted an easy +fly to Lewis. The Boston player got directly under the ball and +made a square muff of it. Doyle followed along with a sharp hit to +center field for a base and although he was forced out by Becker, +the latter drove the ball hard. Murray came through with a long +two-bagger to left center and Snodgrass and Becker scored. That +tied the score and also put an end to Collins' work in the box; +Stahl took him out and substituted Hall. Merkle fouled weakly to +the catcher, but Herzog caught the ball on the nose and hit sharp +and clean to center field for two bases, sending Murray home with +the run which put the Giants in the lead. Another base hit would +have won for New York, but Meyers perished on a hard hit to Wagner, +which was fielded to first ahead of the batter.</p> +<p>Unfortunately for New York, with two out in the last half of the +inning Lewis batted the ball to left field for two bases. Murray +made a desperate effort to get it. He tumbled backward over the +fence into the bleachers and for a few moments there were some who +thought that he had been seriously injured. Gardner followed with a +single to center and Stahl hit to right for a base, but Wagner +struck out and the Bostons were down with only a run.</p> +<p>In the ninth Hall gave a remarkable exhibition. Fletcher and +Mathewson were retired in succession. Then Snodgrass, Doyle and +Becker were given bases on balls, filling the bags. It seemed +certain that a run might score, and perhaps one would have scored +had it not been for an excellent stop by Wagner. Murray hit the +ball at him like a shot, but he got it and retired Becker at +second.</p> +<p>The Giants took the lead in the tenth and once more it appeared +as if the game would be theirs. Merkle began with a long three-base +hit to center field. Herzog batted to Wagner and Merkle played +safe, refusing to try to score while the batter was being put out +at first. Meyers was given a base on balls and Shafer ran for him. +Fletcher lifted a long fly to left field and Merkle scored from +third. Mathewson could not advance the runners and died on an +infield fly. Yerkes was the first batter for the Bostons and was +retired at first base. Speaker hit to deep center field. There were +some scorers who gave the batter but three bases on the hit, +insisting that Wilson, who was then catching for New York, should +have got the throw to the plate and retired the batter. In any +event Wilson missed the ball and Speaker scored. Lewis followed +with a two-bagger, which would have scored Speaker if the latter +had not tried to run home, so Wilson's failure to retrieve the +throw became more conspicuous. Other scorers gave Speaker a clean +home run and it is not far out of the way to say that he deserved +the benefit of the doubt.</p> +<p>Neither team scored in the eleventh inning, although Snodgrass +was hit by a pitched ball. He was the first batter. He tried to +steal second, but failed to make it.</p> +<p>This contest was conspicuous because of the wonderfully good +fielding of Doyle and Wagner. The former made two stops along the +right field line which seemed to be not far from superhuman. Wagner +killed at least two safe hits over second base for New York and +both of the plays were of the greatest benefit to the Boston +team.</p> +<center>THIRD GAME.<br> +Boston, Oct. 10, 1912.<br> +New York 2; Boston 1.<br> +Hits—Off Marquard 7; O'Brien 6, Bedient 1.<br> +Struck out—Marquard 6, O'Brien 3.<br> +Bases on balls—Marquard 1; O'Brien 3.<br> +Attendance 34,624.</center> +<p>Because of the tie game the teams remained over in Boston and +played on the following day, October 10. The pitchers were Marquard +for New York and O'Brien and Bedient for Boston. Marquard pitched +one of the best games of his career and not a run was made against +him until the ninth inning. By far the most notable play of the +game on the field was made by Devore in the ninth inning, when he +ran for more than thirty feet and caught an almost impossible fly +ball which had been batted by Cady. Had he missed it the Bostons +might have scored two runs and won. Devore began the first inning +with a base hit, but was out trying to steal second. The next two +batters were retired. In the second inning Murray batted the ball +to center field for two bases. Merkle's clever sacrifice put him on +third and Herzog's sacrifice fly sent him over the rubber. Lewis +began the inning for Boston with a safe hit, but could not advance +further than second.</p> +<p>In the third Fletcher started with a base on balls and was +sacrificed to second, but was unable to score. In the fourth, with +one out, Speaker batted safely, but was forced out at second. +Gardner flied to Murray.</p> +<p>In the fifth Herzog began with a two-base hit to left field. +Meyers died at first, but Fletcher hit safely to right field and +Herzog scored. Fletcher stole second and Marquard was given a base +on balls. Devore forced him out and stole second and Doyle followed +with another base on balls. A long hit would have made the game +easy for New York and Snodgrass tried to get the ball into the +bleachers, but Lewis caught it. Stahl began the Bostons' half of +the fifth with a hit, but was out by ten feet trying to steal +second.</p> +<p>In the sixth, with two out, Yerkes hit safely, but Speaker +fouled out. In the seventh, with two out, Stahl batted the ball to +left field for two bases, but Wagner flied to Devore.</p> +<p>In the eighth the Giants looked dangerous again. Devore began +with a base-hit to left field. Doyle flied to Lewis. Snodgrass hit +safely to left field and Murray flied to Lewis. Merkle batted the +ball very hard, but Wagner made a good stop and caught Snodgrass at +second. With two out Hooper got a base on balls for Boston, but it +did Boston no good.</p> +<p>In the ninth Herzog was hit by a pitched ball and Meyers swung +solidly to center for a single, after Herzog had died trying to +steal. Fletcher lined to Speaker and Meyers was doubled. In +Boston's half, with one out, Lewis batted to right field for a +base. Gardner hit to the same place for two bases and Lewis scored +Boston's only run. Stahl rapped a grounder to Marquard, who threw +Gardner out at third. Wagner should have been an easy out, and the +game would have been over if Merkle had not dropped a throw to +first base. Wagner stole second, no attention being paid to him, +and then Devore made his wonderfully good catch of Cady's hard +drive and the Giants had won their first game in the series.</p> +<p>Marquard outpitched both of his Boston rivals and in only two +innings were the Bostons able to get the first man on the +bases.</p> +<center>FOURTH GAME.<br> +New York, Oct. 11, 1912.<br> +Boston 3, New York 1.<br> +Hits—Off Wood 9; off Tesreau 5, Ames 3.<br> +Struck out—Wood 8; Tesreau 5.<br> +Bases on balls—Ames 1, Tesreau 2.<br> +Attendance 36,502.</center> +<p>The fourth game of the series was played in New York on the +following day. For most of the forenoon it looked as if there would +be no game because of rain. Toward noon it cleared up slightly and +although the ground was a little soft it was decided to play, in +view of the fact that so many spectators had come a long distance +to witness the contest. The soft ground was in favor of the Boston +players, for the ball was batted very hard by New York most of the +afternoon, but the diamond held and the infielders were able to get +a good grasp on grounders which would ordinarily have been very +difficult to handle. Tesreau pitched for New York and Wood for +Boston, as was the case in the opening game of the series. Hooper, +who batted with much success on the Polo Grounds, began with a +single to center and although Yerkes was safe on Meyers' wild throw +the Giants got out of a bad predicament handily because of the +excellent stops which were made by Fletcher of hits by Speaker and +Lewis. With one out in New York's half of the inning Doyle batted +safely, but Snodgrass forced him out.</p> +<p>Gardner began the second inning with a three-base hit to right +field and scored on a wild pitch. The next three batters were +retired in order. With one out for New York, Merkle singled and +stole second, but was not helped to get home.</p> +<p>The third was started by a single by Wood and Hooper was given a +base on balls. Yerkes bunted and Tesreau whipped the ball to third +base ahead of Wood. Doyle and Fletcher made two fine stops and +Speaker and Lewis were retired.</p> +<p>Boston added another run in the fourth inning, being assisted by +Tesreau's wildness. Gardner, who batted first, was given a base on +balls. Stahl forced him out at second. Then Stahl stole second, to +the immediate surprise of the Boston players and the chagrin of the +New York catcher. Wagner's out at first helped him along and when +Cady pushed a weak single to center field, just out of the reach of +the players, Stahl scored. Wood was retired by Murray.</p> +<p>With one out in the fifth Yerkes batted for a base, but was +thrown out at second on Speaker's grounder and Speaker died trying +to steal. New York had one out in the same inning, when Herzog hit +safely, but neither Meyers nor Fletcher could help him.</p> +<p>In the sixth the New York players began with a rush. Tesreau, +the first batter, hit for a base. Devore followed with another +single. Doyle with a "clean up" could have won for the Giants, but +he lifted a high fly to Yerkes. Snodgrass batted to Yerkes, who +made an extraordinarily good stop and threw Devore out at second. +Murray forced Snodgrass at second and all. New York's early +advantage went for naught.</p> +<p>In the seventh the Giants scored their only run. After Merkle +had struck out, Herzog batted for a base. Meyers lifted a terrific +line drive to center field, but Speaker got under the ball. +Fletcher hit hard and safe to right field for two bases and Herzog +scored. McCormick batted for a base, but Fletcher, trying to score +on the ball, was thrown out at the plate by Yerkes.</p> +<p>In the eighth, with two out, Snodgrass was safe on Wagner's +fumble. Murray rapped a single to left field but Merkle struck out. +With two out for Boston Speaker batted a double to left field and +was left. Ames pitched in the eighth for New York. In the ninth the +Giants were scored upon again when Gardner hit for a single to +center field. Stahl sacrificed, Wagner was given a base on balls +and Cady forced Wagner, while Gardner was scoring.</p> +<center>FIFTH GAME.<br> +Boston, Oct. 12. 1912.<br> +Boston 2; New York 1.<br> +Hits—Off Mathewson 5; Bedient 3.<br> +Struck out—Mathewson 2; Bedient 4.<br> +Bases on balls—Bedient 3.<br> +Attendance 34,683.</center> +<p>The game was played on Saturday with Mathewson in the box for +New York and Bedient for Boston. As was the case in the former game +pitched by Mathewson in Boston, the verdict was general that +perfect support would have won the contest for him, even though the +score was but 2 to 1 in favor of Boston. Devore received a base on +balls in the first inning and after Doyle was out on a long fly to +right was forced out by Snodgrass in a double play. By the way this +game was played under very adverse conditions so far as the weather +was concerned. It was cold and gloomy. Hooper, the first Boston +batter, as usual, began with his single to center field. Yerkes +flied out to shortstop. Speaker hit safely and Lewis batted to +Herzog, who made a beautiful stop on third, and touched the base +ahead of Hooper. Gardner struck out.</p> +<p>In the second inning Murray started off with a base on balls and +the next three batters were retired in succession. With one out for +Boston, Wagner batted safely to right field. The next two men were +retired without reaching first.</p> +<p>With one out in the third, Mathewson batted a single to center +field and Devore followed with a base on balls, but Bedient got the +next two batters.</p> +<p>The third was the inning which broke the backs of the Giants. +Hooper batted the ball to left center for three bases. Yerkes +followed with a triple to center and Hooper scored. Speaker +contributed with a ground hit, which Doyle should have got, but +fumbled. Had he recovered the ball Boston would have made but one +run in the inning. As it was, Yerkes scored on the misplay and that +run lost the game for the Giants. The next two batters were retired +and for the remainder of the contest Boston never had a man on +first base, Mathewson pitching marvelous ball, by far the best game +of the series, as it should easily have been a one run contest with +not a base on balls nor a wild pitch.</p> +<p>In the seventh inning Merkle began with a two-base hit to left +field Herzog flied out to Wagner. Meyers flied out, but McCormick +who batted for Fletcher, made a hit and Merkle scored. That spurt +gave the Giants their sole run and they returned to New York that +night with the series three to one against them.</p> +<center>SIXTH GAME.<br> +New York, Oct. 14, 1912<br> +New York 5; Boston 2.<br> +Hits—Off Marquard 7; O'Brien 6, Collins 5.<br> +Struck out—Marquard 3; O'Brien 1, Collins 1.<br> +Bases on balls—Marquard 1.<br> +Attendance 30,622.</center> +<p>With a Sunday in which to rest the series was resumed in New +York on Monday, October 14. Marquard pitched for the Giants and +O'Brien for the Bostons. Rest seemed to have recuperated the New +York players more than their opponents. In the first inning of the +game the Giants scored five runs and the contest was never in doubt +after that. O'Brien made a costly balk in the first inning and the +Boston players generally seemed to be less energetic and less +confident than would have been expected from a team which had but +one game to win to make the championship assured.</p> +<p>The first inning really settled the outcome of the contest. +After the Giants had made five runs Boston played through the other +eight innings perfunctorily. The crowd of Boston enthusiasts, which +had come to New York to see the finishing touches put on the +Giants, was bitterly disappointed, while the New York enthusiasts, +not over hopeful on account of the disposition of the Giants to +blunder badly at vital moments, were at least in a much better +frame of mind because of the rally by their team.</p> +<p>Hooper was first at bat and as usual hit for a base. He was +caught napping off first. Yerkes was easily retired. Speaker was +given a base on balls and Lewis flied out.</p> +<p>In New York's half Devore was retired at first. Doyle hit safely +to center field. He stole second after Snodgrass struck out. Murray +batted a single to left field and Doyle went to third. O'Brien made +a palpable balk and Doyle scored from third, Murray going to +second. Merkle banged a hard double to right field, Herzog followed +with a double to left field, Meyers singled to left field, and +actually stole second under the noses of the Boston players. +Fletcher singled to right field and Meyers scored the fifth run of +the inning; the other men who had crossed the plate being Doyle, +Murray, Merkle and Herzog.</p> +<p>In Boston's half of the second inning the Boston players scored +twice and that was all they made in the game. Gardner was safe at +first on Marquard's wild throw; Stahl singled to center. The next +two batters were easily retired, but Engle, who batted for O'Brien, +hit to left field for two bases, Devore missing the ball by pushing +it away from him as he was running into it, and Gardner and Stahl +scored.</p> +<p>Boston began the third inning and the fourth inning with +singles, but the runners failed to get around. In the eighth, with +one out, Yerkes made a single, but was unable to score.</p> +<p>With one out in the third for New York, Murray singled to right +field, but was out trying to stretch the hit. Merkle hit for a base +to left field and was out trying to steal.</p> +<p>In the fourth, with one out, Meyers batted to left field for +three bases, but was unable to score. These latter hits were made +against Collins, who had taken O'Brien's place in the box.</p> +<p>Devore began the fifth with a hit, but Doyle flied to short, and +Devore was doubled off first in a play from right field. Collins +continued to be effective in the next three innings, but the +mischief had been done, so far as Boston was concerned, and the Red +Sox simply did not have a rally in them.</p> +<p>The teams again took a special train for Boston after the game +and the remainder of the cavalcade followed over at midnight.</p> +<center>SEVENTH GAME.<br> +Boston, Oct. 15, 1912.<br> +New York 11; Boston 4.<br> +Hits—Off Tesreau 9; Wood 7, Hall 9.<br> +Struck-out—Tesreau 6; Hall 1.<br> +Bases on balls—Hall 5; Tesreau 5.<br> +Attendance 32,630.</center> +<p>The seventh game was played on Fenway Park, with Wood pitching +for Boston and Tesreau for the Giants. Wood pitched for one inning +and was hammered in every direction by the New York players, who +ran riot on the field. They simply overwhelmed Boston and this +contest, more than any other in the series, was so "one sided" as +to be devoid of interest, except to the New York fans, who were +eager to see the Giants win the championship. Devore, the first +batter, hit safely to left field. Doyle rapped a single to center. +Devore and Doyle made a double steal and that began the fireworks. +Snodgrass pushed a double to right field. Murray's hit was a +sacrifice. Merkle singled to center field. Herzog batted to Wood +and Merkle was run down between second and third. Meyers singled to +left field, Fletcher doubled to right field, and Tesreau made his +first hit of the series, a single to left field. That counted all +told six runs for the Giants and Tesreau added cruelty to the +sufferings of the Red Sox by trying to steal second base and almost +making it.</p> +<p>In the second inning Gardner made a home run. Hall took the +place of Wood in the box for Boston and Devore was given a base on +balls. He stole second and Doyle got a base on balls. Devore was +caught napping, but Snodgrass singled to right, scoring Doyle. The +two next batters were retired.</p> +<p>In the third Hall was safe on Fletcher's wild throw and Hooper +singled but neither scored. Herzog and Meyers began with singles +for New York, but neither of them got home. With one out in the +fourth, Gardner was hit by a pitched ball and Stahl singled to left +field. Neither of these players scored.</p> +<p>In the fifth Hall began with a two-bagger to left. Hooper was +given a base on balls and was forced out by Yerkes. Speaker was +given a base on balls. The next two batters were retired, leaving +Hall on third. There were two out for New York when Meyers made his +third single, but he failed to get home.</p> +<p>With one out in the sixth for Boston Wagner hit safely, but Cady +was easily retired. Hall was given a base on balls, but Hooper +struck out, ending the inning. In New York's half, with one out, +Devore was given a base on balls. Doyle batted the ball over the +fence in right field for a home run and Devore scored ahead of +him.</p> +<p>In Boston's half of the seventh, with one out, Speaker singled +to center. Lewis batted to left field for two bases. That put +Speaker on third. While Fletcher was getting Gardner out of the +way, Speaker scored and Lewis reached home on Doyle's fumble of +Stahl's grounder. In New York's half of this inning Merkle began +with a single to center. Herzog flied to left field. Meyers made +his fourth single of the afternoon, but Fletcher flied to right +field. Tesreau hit to right for a base and Merkle scored.</p> +<p>In the eighth Doyle muffed Cady's fly. Hall singled to right. +Hooper's sacrifice fly gave Cady a run, Doyle began for New York +with a single, but the next three batters were retired in +order.</p> +<p>In the ninth Herzog began with a base on balls. Wilson, who was +catching, singled to center. He was doubled up with Fletcher on a +long fly hit. Herzog, however, eventually scored his run, which was +the seventh of the game for New York.</p> +<p>In this contest the Giants ran bases with such daring that they +had the Boston players confused and uncertain. Cady did not know +whether to throw the ball or hold it, and the general exhibition of +speed on the bases which was made by New York was characteristic of +the team's dash in the race for the championship of the National +League, and a system which the Boston players could not fathom.</p> +<center>EIGHTH GAME.<br> +Boston, Oct. 16, 1912.<br> +Boston 3; New York 2 (ten innings.)<br> +Hits—Off Bedient 6, Wood 3; Mathewson 8.<br> +Struck out—Bedient 2, Wood 2; Mathewson 4.<br> +Bases on balls—Bedient 3, Wood 1; Mathewson 5.<br> +Attendance 16,970.</center> +<p>On the following day, before the smallest crowd of the series, +the final game was played in Boston. Many Boston fans, disgruntled +at the manner in which some of them had been seated, deliberately +remained away. The air was cold and bleak and in addition to all +the rest the enthusiasts of Boston had given up the fight. Which +merely goes to show the uncertainty of Base Ball. The New York +players unquestionably had the championship won for nine and one +half innings of the final game and then, by the simplest of errors, +overturned all of the good which they had accomplished in their +wonderful rally of the two days preceding. After outplaying the +Bostons in a manner which showed some thing of the caliber of the +teams when both were going at top speed, the New York team stopped +short. As one wit dryly put it: "Boston did not win the +championship, but New York lost it."</p> +<p>Mathewson pitched for New York and Bedient for Boston until the +end of the seventh inning.</p> +<p>With two out for the Giants in the first Snodgrass was given a +base on balls, but Murray was retired. Two were out for Boston when +Speaker hit for a single to right field, but Lewis struck out. +Again in the second two were out for New York when Meyers was safe +on Speaker's muff. Fletcher singled over second, but Mathewson +flied out.</p> +<p>Hooper began the third with a base hit, but was left. Devore +started for New York with a base on balls. Doyle and Snodgrass were +out in succession, Devore advancing, and then Murray doubled to +center field and Devore scored. In the fourth Herzog started with a +two-bagger and if the ground rule had not been changed he would +have had an easy triple, and ultimately a run, which would have +changed all the outcome of the game. As it was, he did not score. +In the fifth Devore began with a single and was out stealing second +after Doyle had flied out and Hooper had made the most wonderful +catch of the series, reaching over the right field fence to get the +ball with his bare band. Snodgrass singled and Murray fouled +out.</p> +<p>In the sixth Meyers received a base on balls with two out but +did not score. With one out Yerkes singled to right field and +Speaker got a base on balls but no run followed.</p> +<p>In the seventh Mathewson began with a single and was forced out +by Devore, who was left on bases while two batters were retired. +For Boston, with one out, Stahl hit safely to center field. It was +a pop fly, which fell between three men, Fletcher, Murray and +Snodgrass. Wagner was given a base on balls and Cady was an easy +out. Henriksen, batting for Bedient, with two strikes against him, +drove the ball on a line toward third base. In fact, it hit third +base. It bounded so far back that Stahl scored the tieing run of +the game.</p> +<p>No runs were scored by either team in the eighth or the ninth +innings. In the tenth, with one out, Murray lined a double to left +field and scored on Merkle's hard single over second. That put the +Giants in the lead, with Merkle on second. Herzog struck out and +Wood threw out Meyers. The ball had been batted so hard by Meyers +to Wood that it crippled the pitcher's hand and compelled him to +cease playing. It was fortunate for Boston that the hit kept low. +So much speed had been put into it by the stalwart Indian catcher +that had the ball got into the outfield it would have gone to the +fence. It was the undoing of Wood, but it really led to the victory +of Boston.</p> +<p>Engle batted for Wood in the tenth. He rapped a long fly to +center field which was perfectly played by Snodgrass, but the +center fielder dropped the ball. Engle went to second base.</p> +<p>On top of his simple muff Snodgrass made a magnificent catch of +Hooper's fly, which seemed to be good for three bases. Mathewson +bent every energy to strike out Yerkes, but the batter would not go +after the wide curves which were being served to him by the New +York pitcher and finally was given a base on balls.</p> +<p>Speaker hit the first ball pitched for an easy foul which should +have been caught by Merkle. The ball dropped between Merkle, Meyers +and Mathewson. As was afterward proved the capture of this foul +would have saved the championship for the Giants.</p> +<p>Speaker, with another life, singled to right and Engle scored +the tieing run. The Giants still had a chance, but a feeble one, +for Yerkes was on third, with but one out. Gardner flied to Devore. +The New York outfielder caught the ball and made a game effort to +stop the flying Yerkes at the plate, but failed to do so, and the +game was over and the series belonged to Boston.</p> +<p>Yet so keen had been the struggle, so great the excitement, so +wonderful the rally of the New York club after having once given +the series away, that it was the opinion generally that the +defeated were as great in defeat as the victors were great in +victory.</p> +<p>The scores of the games are as follows:</p> +<pre> +FIRST GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 3 1 1 1 0 0 Devore, l.f. 3 1 0 0 0 0 +Yerkes, 2b 4 0 1 0 1 0 Doyle, 2b 4 1 2 2 7 0 +Speaker, c.f 3 1 1 0 1 0 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 2 0 0 +Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 2 0 0 Murray, r.f. 3 0 1 1 0 0 +Gardner, 3b 4 0 0 1 1 0 Merkle, 1b 3 1 1 12 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 4 0 0 6 1 0 Herzog, 3b 4 0 2 1 1 0 +Wagner, ss 3 1 2 5 3 1 Meyers, c 3 0 1 6 1 0 +Cady, c 3 0 1 11 1 0 Fletcher, ss 4 0 0 3 1 1 +Wood, p 3 1 0 1 1 0 Tesreau, p 2 0 0 0 2 0 + McCormick[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + Crandall, p 1 0 0 0 1 0 + Becker[2] 0 0 0 0 0 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 31 4 6 27 9 1 Totals 33 3 8 27 13 1 +</pre> +<p>1: McCormick batted for Tesreau in the seventh inning. 2: Becker +ran for Meyers in ninth inning.</p> +<pre> +Boston 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0-4 +New York 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-3 +</pre> +<p>Sacrifice hits—Hooper, Cady. Two-base hits—Hooper, +Wagner, Doyle. Three-base hit—Speaker. Double +play—Stahl and Wood. Pitching record—Off Tesreau, 5 +hits and 4 runs in 25 times at bat in 7 innings; off Crandall, 1 +hit, 0 runs in 6 times at bat in 2 innings. Struck out—By +Wood 11, Devore, Snodgrass, Merkle, Herzog, Meyers, Fletcher 3, +Tesreau 2, Crandall; by Tesreau 4, Hooper, Speaker, Stahl, Gardner; +by Crandall 2, Stahl, Gardner. Bases on balls—By Wood 2, +Devore, Murray; by Tesreau 4, Hooper, Speaker, Wagner, Wood. First +base on errors—Boston 1, New York 1. Fumbles—Wagner, +Fletcher. Hit by pitched ball—By Wood, Meyers. Left on +bases—Boston 6, New York 6. Umpires—Klem and Evans; +field umpires—Rigler and O'Loughlin. Scorers—Richter +and Spink. Time of game—2.10. Weather—Clear and +warm.</p> +<pre> +SECOND GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Snodgrass, l.f-r.f 4 1 1 0 0 0 Hooper, r.f. 5 1 3 3 0 0 +Doyle, 2b 5 0 1 2 5 0 Yerkes, 2b 5 1 1 3 4 0 +Becker, c.f. 4 1 0 0 1 0 Speaker, c.f. 5 2 2 2 0 0 +Murray, r.f-l.f 5 2 3 3 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 5 2 2 2 0 1 +Merkle, 1b 5 1 1 19 0 1 Gardner, 3b 4 0 0 2 0 0 +Herzog, 3b 4 1 3 2 4 0 Stahl, 1b 5 2 2 10 0 0 +Meyers, c 4 0 2 5 0 0 Wagner, ss 5 0 0 5 5 5 +Fletcher, ss 4 0 0 1 3 3 Carrigan, c 5 0 0 6 4 0 +McCormick[1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 Collins, p 3 0 0 0 1 0 +Mathewson, p 5 0 0 1 6 0 Hall, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 +Shafer[2], ss 0 0 0 0 3 0 Bedient, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 +Wilson[3], c 0 0 0 0 1 1 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 40 6 11 33 23 5 Totals 44 6 10 33 14 1 +</pre> +<p>1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in tenth inning. 2: Shafer ran +for Meyers in tenth inning and succeeded Fletcher as shortstop in +same inning. 3: Wilson succeeded Meyers as catcher in tenth +inning.</p> +<pre> +New York 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0-6 +Boston 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0-8 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—New York 9, Boston 6. First base on +errors—New York 1, Boston 3. Two-base hits—Snodgrass, +Murray, Herzog, Lewis 2, Hooper. Three-base hits—Murray, +Merkle. Herzog, Yerkes, Speaker. Stolen bases—Snodgrass, +Herzog, Hooper 2, Stahl. Sacrifice hit—Gardner. Sacrifice +flies—Herzog, McCormick. Double play—Fletcher and +Herzog. Pitching record—Off Collins, 9 hits and 3 runs in 30 +times at bat in 7-1/3 innings; off Hall, 2 hits and 3 runs in 9 +times at bat in 2-2/3 innings; off Bedient, no hits or runs in 1 +time at bat in 1 inning. Struck out—By Mathewson 4, Stahl, +Collins 2, Wagner; by Collins 6, Doyle, Merkle, Mathewson 2, +Snodgrass; by Bedient 1, Doyle. Bases on balls—By Hall 4, +Snodgrass, Doyle, Becker, Meyers; by Bedient 1, Becker. +Fumbles—Fletcher 2. Muffed flies—Fletcher, Lewis. +Muffed foul fly—Merkle. Muffed thrown ball—Wilson. Hit +by pitcher—By Bedient, Snodgrass. Umpires—O'Loughlin +and Rigler; field umpires—Klem and Evans. +Scorers—Richter and Spink. Time of game—2.38. +Weather—Cool and cloudy.</p> +<pre> +THIRD GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Devore, 1.f. 4 0 2 2 0 0 Hooper, r.f. 3 0 0 1 0 0 +Doyle, 2b 3 0 0 3 1 0 Yerkes, 2b 4 0 1 3 1 0 +Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 0 0 0 Speaker, c.f. 4 0 1 3 1 0 +Murray, l.f. 4 1 1 5 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 4 1 2 4 0 0 +Merkle, 1b 3 0 0 5 0 1 Gardner, 3b 3 0 1 0 2 0 +Herzog, 3b 2 1 1 1 3 0 Stahl, 1b 4 0 2 11 1 0 +Meyers, c 4 0 1 8 1 0 Wagner, ss 4 0 0 1 3 0 +Fletcher, ss 3 0 1 3 2 0 Carrigan, c 2 0 0 3 1 0 +Marquard, p 1 0 0 0 2 0 Engle[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + O'Brien, p 2 0 0 1 5 0 + Ball[2] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + Cady, c 1 0 0 0 1 0 + Bedient, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 + Henriksen[3] 0 0 0 0 0 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 28 2 7 27 9 1 Totals 31 1 7 27 15 0 +</pre> +<p>1: Engle batted for Carrigan in eighth inning. 2: Ball batted +for O'Brien in eighth inning. 3: Henriksen ran for Stahl in ninth +inning.</p> +<pre> +New York 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0-2 +Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-1 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—New York 6, Boston 7. First base on +errors—Boston 1. Two-base hits—Murray, Herzog, Stahl, +Gardner. Stolen bases—Devore, Fletcher, Wagner. Sacrifice +hits—Merkle, Marquard, Gardner. Sacrifice fly—Herzog. +Double play—Speaker and Stahl. Pitching record—Off +O'Brien, 6 hints and 2 runs in 26 times at bat in 8 innings; off +Bedient, 1 hit and 0 runs in 2 times at bat in 1 inning. Struck +out—By Marquard 6, Hooper, Yerkes, Wagner, O'Brien 2, Ball; +by O'Brien 3, Devore, Merkle, Meyers. Bases on balls—O'Brien +3, Fletcher, Doyle, Marquard; by Marquard 1, Hooper. Muffed thrown +ball—Merkle. Hit by pitcher—By Bedient, Herzog. +Umpires—Evans and Klem; field umpires— O'Loughlin and +Rigler. Scorers—Richter and Spink. Time of game—2.16. +Weather—Clear and cool.</p> +<pre> +FOURTH GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 4 0 1 1 0 0 Devore, l.f. 4 0 1 0 0 0 +Yerkes, 2b 3 0 1 2 5 0 Doyle, 2b 4 0 1 4 1 0 +Speaker, c.f. 4 0 1 2 0 0 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 0 2 0 0 +Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Murray, r.f. 4 0 1 3 0 0 +Gardner, 3b 3 2 2 0 2 0 Merkle, 1b 4 0 1 8 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 3 1 0 9 0 0 Herzog, 3b 4 1 2 2 1 0 +Wagner, ss 3 0 0 2 3 1 Meyers, c 4 0 0 5 1 1 +Cady, c 4 0 1 10 0 0 Fletcher, ss 4 0 1 3 6 0 +Wood, p 4 0 2 0 2 0 Tesreau, p 2 0 1 0 2 0 + McCormick[1] 1 0 1 0 0 0 + Ames, p 0 0 0 0 1 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 32 3 8 27 12 1 Totals 35 1 9 27 12 1 +</pre> +<p>1: McCormick batted for Tesreau in seventh inning.</p> +<pre> +Boston 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1-3 +New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0-1 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—Boston 7, New York 7. First base on +errors—Boston 1, New York 1. Two-base hits—Speaker, +Fletcher. Three-base hit—Gardner. Stolen bases—Stahl, +Merkle. Sacrifice hits—Yerkes, Stahl. Double +play—Fletcher and Merkle. Pitching record—Off Tesreau, +5 hits and 2 runs in 24 times at bat in 7 innings; off Ames, 3 hits +and 1 run in 8 times at bat in 2 innings. Struck out—By Wood +8, Devore, Snodgrass. Murray 2, Merkle 2, Meyers, Tesreau; by +Tesreau 5, Lewis, Stahl, Wagner, Cady 2. Bases on balls—By +Tesreau 2, Hooper, Gardner; by Ames 1, Wagner. Fumble—Wagner. +Wild throw—Meyers. Wild pitch—Tesreau. +Umpires—Rigler and O'Loughlin; field umpires—Evans and +Klem. Scorers— Richter and Spink. Time of game—2.06. +Weather—Cool and cloudy, and ground heavy.</p> +<pre> +FIFTH GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 4 l 2 4 0 0 Devore, l.f. 2 0 0 0 0 0 +Yerkes, 2b 4 1 1 3 3 0 Doyle, 2b 4 0 0 0 3 1 +Speaker, c.f. 3 0 1 3 0 0 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 0 2 0 0 +Lewis, l.f. 3 0 0 1 0 0 Murray, r.f. 3 0 0 0 1 0 +Gardner, 3b 3 0 0 3 2 1 Merkle, 1b 4 1 1 15 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 3 0 0 7 0 0 Herzog, 3b 4 0 0 2 3 0 +Wagner, ss 3 0 1 1 1 0 Meyers, c 3 0 1 2 0 0 +Cady, c 3 0 0 5 0 0 Fletcher, ss 2 0 0 2 2 0 +Bedient, p 3 0 0 0 0 0 McCormick[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + Shafer[2], ss 0 0 0 1 1 0 + Mathewson, p 3 0 1 0 3 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 29 2 5 27 6 1 Totals 30 1 3 24 13 1 +</pre> +<p>1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in seventh inning. 2: Shafer +ran for McCormick in seventh inning and then played shortstop.</p> +<pre> +Boston 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 X—2 +New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0—1 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—New York 5, Boston 3. First base on +errors—New York 1, Boston 1. Two-base hit—Merkle. +Three-base hits—Hooper, Yerkes. Double play—Wagner, +Yerkes and Stahl. Struck out—By Mathewson 2, Gardner, Wagner; +by Bedient 4, Devore, Snodgrass, Merkle, Mathewson. Bases on +balls—By Bedient 3, Devore 2, Murray. Fumbles—Doyle, +Gardner. Umpires—O'Loughlin and Rigler; field +umpires—Klem and Evans. Scorers—Richter and Spink. Time +of game—1.43. Weather—Warm and cloudy.</p> +<pre> +SIXTH GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Devore, l.f. 4 0 1 2 0 1 Hooper, r.f. 4 0 1 2 2 0 +Doyle, 2b 4 1 1 1 1 0 Yerkes, 2b 4 0 2 3 1 1 +Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 6 0 0 Speaker, c.f. 3 0 0 5 0 0 +Murray, r.f. 3 1 2 7 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 0 0 0 +Merkle, 1b 3 1 2 4 1 0 Gardner, 3b 4 1 0 0 1 0 +Herzog, 3b 3 1 1 1 1 0 Stahl, 1b 4 1 2 8 0 0 +Meyers, c 3 1 2 6 0 0 Wagner, 3b 4 0 0 3 0 0 +Fletcher, ss 3 0 1 0 2 0 Cady, c 3 0 1 3 2 1 +Marquard, p 3 0 0 0 2 1 O'Brien, p 0 0 0 0 1 0 + Engle[1] 1 0 1 0 0 0 + Collins, p 2 0 0 0 2 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 30 5 11 27 7 2 Totals 33 2 7 24 9 2 +</pre> +<p>1: Engle batted for O'Brien in second inning.</p> +<pre> +New York 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X—5 +Boston 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—2 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—Boston 5, New York 1. First base on +errors—Boston 1. Two-base hits—Engle, Merkle, Herzog. +Three-base hit—Meyers. Stolen bases—Speaker, Doyle, +Herzog, Meyers. Double plays—Fletcher, Doyle and Merkle; +Hooper and Stahl. Pitching record—Off O'Brien, 6 hits and 5 +runs in 8 times at bat in 1 inning; off Collins, 5 hits and 0 runs +in 22 times at bat in 7 innings. Struck out—By Marquard 3, +Wagner, Gardner, Stahl; by O'Brien 1, Snodgrass; by Collins 1, +Devore. Base on balls—By Marquard, Speaker. +Fumble—Devore. Wild throw—Marquard. Muffed foul +fly—Cady. Balk—O'Brien. Wild throw—Yerkes. Time +of game—1.58. Umpires—Klem and Evans; field +umpires—O'Loughlin and Rigler. Scorers—Richter and +Spink. Weather—Warm and cloudy.</p> +<pre> +SEVENTH GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Devore, r.f. 4 2 1 3 1 1 Hooper, r.h. 3 0 1 1 1 0 +Doyle, 2b 4 3 3 2 3 2 Yerkes, 2b 4 0 0 1 4 0 +Snodgrass, c.f. 5 1 2 1 0 0 Speaker, c.f. 4 1 1 4 0 1 +Murray, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 4 1 1 3 0 0 +Merkle, 1b 5 1 2 10 0 1 Gardner, 3b 4 1 1 2 0 1 +Herzog, 3b 4 2 1 0 2 0 Stahl, 1b 5 0 1 11 1 0 +Meyers, c 4 1 3 6 0 0 Wagner, ss 5 0 1 4 4 0 +Wilson, c[1] 1 0 1 2 0 0 Cady, c 4 1 0 1 2 0 +Fletcher, ss 5 1 1 2 4 0 Wood, p 0 0 0 0 1 0 +Tesreau, p 4 0 2 0 6 0 Happ, p 3 0 3 0 5 1 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 40 11 16 27 16 4 Totals 36 4 9 27 18 3 +</pre> +<p>1: Wilson relieved Meyers in eighth inning.</p> +<pre> +New York 6 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1—11 +Boston 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0— 4 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—New York 8, Boston 12. First base on +errors—Boston 1. Stolen bases—Devore 2, Doyle. +Sacrifice hit—Murray. Sacrifice fly—Hooper. Two-base +hits—Snodgrass, Hall, Lewis. Home runs—Doyle, Gardner. +Double plays—Devore and Meyers; Speaker, unassisted. Pitching +record—Off Wood, 7 hits and 6 runs in 8 times at bat in 1 +inning; off Hall, 9 hits and 5 runs in 32 times at bat in 8 +innings. Struck out—By Tesreau 6, Hooper 2, Yerkes, Gardner, +Wagner, Cady; by Hall 1, Herzog. Bases on balls—By Tesreau 5, +Hooper, Yerkes, Speaker, Lewis, Hall; by Hall 5, Devore 2, Doyle, +Herzog, Tesreau. Fumbles—Doyle, Devore. Muffed thrown +ball—Gardner. Wild throws—Merkle, Hall, Speaker. Muffed +fly—Doyle. Wild pitches—Tesreau 2. Hit by pitched +ball—By Tesreau, Gardner. Time of game—2.21. +Umpires—Evans and Klem; field umpires—O'Loughlin and +Rigler. Scorers—Richter and Spink. Weather—Cold and +windy.</p> +<pre> +EIGHTH GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 5 0 0 3 0 0 Devore, r.f. 3 1 1 3 1 0 +Yerkes, 2b 4 1 1 0 3 0 Doyle, 2b 5 0 0 1 5 1 +Speaker, c.f. 4 0 2 2 0 1 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 4 1 1 +Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Murray, l.f. 5 1 2 3 0 0 +Gardner, 3b 3 0 1 1 4 2 Merkle, 1b 5 0 1 10 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 4 1 2 15 0 1 Herzog, 3b 5 0 2 2 1 0 +Wagner, ss 3 0 1 3 5 1 Meyers, c 3 0 0 4 1 0 +Cady, c 4 0 0 5 3 0 Fletcher, ss 3 0 1 2 3 0 +Bedient, p 2 0 0 0 1 0 McCormick[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 +Henriksen[2] 1 0 1 0 0 0 Mathewson, p 4 0 1 0 3 0 +Wood, p 0 0 0 0 2 0 Shafer[3], ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Engle[4] 1 1 0 0 0 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 35 3 8 30 18 5 Totals 38 2 9*29 15 2 +</pre> +<p>*: Two out in tenth inning when winning run was scored.</p> +<p>1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in ninth inning. 2: Henriksen +batted for Bedient in seventh inning. 3: Shafer player shortstop in +tenth inning. 4: Engle batted for Wood in tenth inning.</p> +<pre> +Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2—3 +New York 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1—2 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—New York 11, Boston 9. First base on +errors—New York 1, Boston 1. Two-base hits—Murray 2, +Herzog, Gardner, Stahl, Henriksen. Sacrifice hit—Meyers. +Sacrifice fly—Gardner. Stolen base—Devore. Pitching +record—Off Bedient, 6 hits and 1 run in 26 times at bat in 7 +innings; off Wood, 3 hits and 1 run in 12 times at bat in 3 +innings. Struck out—By Mathewson 4, Yerkes, Speaker, Lewis, +Stahl; by Bedient 2, Merkle, Fletcher; by Wood 2, Mathewson, +Herzog. Bases on balls—By Mathewson 5, Yerkes, Speaker, +Lewis, Gardner, Wagner; by Bedient 3, Devore, Snodgrass, Meyers; by +Wood 1, Devore. Muffed fly—Snodgrass. Muffed foul +fly—Stahl. Muffed thrown balls—Doyle, Wagner, Gardner. +Fumbles—Speaker, Gardner. Time of game—2.39. +Umpires—O'Loughlin and Rigler; field umpires—Klem and +Evans. Scorers—Richter and Spink. Weather—Clear and +cold.</p> +<p>THE COMPOSITE SCORE.</p> +<p>Following is a composite score of the eight games played, thus +arranged to show at a glance the total work in every +department:</p> +<pre> +BOSTON. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PO. A. E. +Hooper........................ 8 31 3 9 2 2 16 3 .. +Yerkes........................ 8 32 3 8 .. 1 15 22 1 +Speaker....................... 8 30 4 9 1 .. 21 2 2 +Lewis......................... 8 32 4 5 .. .. 14 .. 1 +Gardner....................... 8 28 4 5 .. 3 9 12 4 +Stahl......................... 8 32 3 9 2 1 77 3 1 +Wagner........................ 8 30 1 5 1 .. 24 24 3 +Cady.......................... 7 22 1 3 .. 1 35 9 1 +Wood.......................... 4 7 1 2 .. .. 1 6 .. +Carrigan...................... 2 7 .. .. .. .. 9 5 .. +Collins....................... 2 5 .. .. .. .. .. 3 .. +Hall.......................... 2 4 .. 3 .. .. .. 5 1 +Bedient....................... 4 6 .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. +[1]Engle...................... 3 3 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. +O'Brien....................... 2 2 .. .. .. .. 1 6 .. +[2]Ball....................... 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. +[3]Henriksen.................. 2 1 .. 1 .. .. .. .. .. + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + 273 25 60 6 8 222 101 14 +</pre> +<pre> +NEW YORK. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PO. A. E. +Devore........................ 7 24 4 6 4 .. 10 2 2 +Doyle......................... 8 33 5 8 2 .. 15 26 4 +Snodgrass..................... 8 33 2 7 1 .. 17 1 1 +Murray........................ 8 31 5 10 .. 1 23 1 .. +Merkle........................ 8 33 5 9 1 1 83 1 3 +Herzog........................ 8 30 6 12 2 2 11 16 .. +[4]Becker..................... 2 4 1 .. .. .. .. 1 .. +Meyers........................ 8 28 2 10 1 1 42 4 1 +Fletcher...................... 8 28 1 5 1 .. 16 23 4 +Wilson........................ 3 1 .. 1 .. .. 2 1 1 +Shafer........................ 3 .. .. .. .. .. 1 4 .. +Tesreau....................... 3 8 .. 3 .. .. .. 10 .. +[5]McCormick.................. 5 4 .. 1 .. 1 .. .. .. +Crandall...................... 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. +Mathewson..................... 3 12 .. 2 .. .. 2 12 .. +Marquard...................... 2 4 .. .. .. 1 .. 4 1 +Ames.......................... 1 .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. + --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + 274 31 74 12 7[6]22l 108 17 +</pre> +<p>1: Engle batted for Carrigan in eighth inning of third game; for +O'Brien in second inning of sixth game, and for Wood in tenth +inning of eighth game.</p> +<p>2: Ball batted for O'Brien in eighth inning of third game.</p> +<p>3: Henriksen ran for Stahl in ninth inning of third game; and +batted for Bedient in seventh inning of eighth game.</p> +<p>4: McCormick batted for Tesreau in seventh inning of first game; +for Fletcher in tenth inning of second game; for Tesreau in seventh +inning of fourth game; for Fletcher in seventh inning of fifth +game; and for Fletcher in ninth inning of eighth game.</p> +<p>5: Becker ran for Meyers in ninth inning of first game.</p> +<p>6: Two out in tenth inning of eighth game when winning run +scored.</p> +<pre> + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Tl. +Boston 3 4 2 1 1 1 6 2 2 3 0—25 +New York 11 3 3 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 0—31 +</pre> +<p>Left on bases—Boston 55, New York 53.</p> +<p>Two-base hits—Boston: Lewis 3, Gardner 2, Stahl 2, Hooper +2, Henriksen 1, Hall 1, Engle 1, Speaker 1, Wagner 1; total 14. New +York: Murray 4, Herzog 4, Snodgrass 2, Merkle 2, Fletcher 1, Doyle +1; total 14.</p> +<p>Three-base hits—Boston: Speaker 2, Yerkes 2, Gardner 1, +Hooper 1; total 6. New York: Murray 1, Merkle 1, Herzog 1, Meyers +1; total 4.</p> +<p>Home runs—Boston: Gardner 1. New York: Doyle 1.</p> +<p>Double plays—For Boston: Stahl and Wood 1; Speaker and +Stahl 1; Wagner, Yerkes and Stahl 1; Hooper and Stahl 1; Speaker 1 +(unassisted). For New York: Fletcher and Herzog 1; Fletcher and +Merkle 1; Fletcher, Doyle and Merkle 1; Devore and Meyers 1.</p> +<p>Struck out by Boston pitchers—By Wood: Merkle 3, Tesreau +3, Fletcher 3, Devore 2, Snodgrass 2, Herzog 2, Meyers 2, Murray 2, +Crandall 1, Mathewson 1, total 21. By Collins: Doyle 1, Merkle 1, +Snodgrass 1, Devore 1, Mathewson 2; total 6. By Bedient: Doyle 1, +Devore 1, Snodgrass 1, Mathewson 1, Fletcher 1, Merkle 2; total 7. +By O'Brien: Devore 1, Merkle 1, Meyers 1, Snodgrass 1; total 4. By +Hall: Herzog 1; total 1. Grand total 39.</p> +<p>Struck out by New York pitchers—By Tesreau: Hooper 3, Cady +3, Stahl 2, Gardner 2, Wagner 2. Speaker 1, Yerkes 1, Lewis 1; +total 15. By Mathewson: Stahl 2, Collins 2, Wagner 2, Gardner 1, +Yerkes 1, Speaker 1, Lewis 1; total 10. By Marquard: Wagner 2, +O'Brien 2, Hooper 1, Yerkes 1, Ball 1, Gardner 1, Stahl 1; total 9. +By Crandall: Stahl 1, Gardner 1; total 2. Grand total 36.</p> +<p>Bases on balls off Boston pitchers—Off Wood: Devore 2, +Murray 1; total 3. Off Hall: Doyle 2, Devore 2, Snodgrass 1, Becker +1. Meyers 1, Tesreau 1, Herzog 1; total 9. Off Bedient: Devore 3, +Becker 1, Murray 1, Snodgrass 1, Meyers 1; total 7. Off O'Brien: +Fletcher 1, Doyle 1. Marquard 1; total 3. Grand total 22.</p> +<p>Bases on balls off New York pitchers—Off Tesreau: Hooper +3, Speaker 2, Wagner 1, Wood 1, Gardner 1, Yerkes 1, Lewis 1, Hall +1: total 11. Off Marquard: Hooper 1, Speaker 1; total 2. Off Ames: +Wagner 1; total 1. Off Mathewson: Yerkes 1, Speaker 1, Lewis 1, +Gardner 1, Wagner 1; total 6. Grand total 19.</p> +<p>Relief pitchers' records—Off Tesreau, 5 hits, 4 runs, in +25 times at bat in 7 innings; off Crandall, 1 hit, 0 runs, in 6 +times at bat in 2 innings in game of October 8. Off Collins, 9 +hits. 3 runs, in 30 times at bat in 7-1/3 innings: off Hall, 2 +hits, 3 runs, in 9 times at bat in 2-2/3 innings; off Bedient, 0 +hits, 0 runs, in 1 time at bat in 1 inning, in game of October 9; +off O'Brien, 6 hits, 2 runs, in 26 times at bat in 8 innings; off +Bedient, 1 hit, 0 runs, in 2 times at bat in 1 inning, in game of +October 10. Off Tesreau, 5 hits, 2 runs, in 24 times at bat in 7 +innings; off Ames, 3 hits, 1 run, in 8 times at bat in 2 innings, +in game of October 11. Off O'Brien, 8 hits, 5 runs, in 8 times at +bat in 1 inning; off Collins, 5 hits, 0 runs, in 22 times at bat in +7 innings, in game of October 14. Off Wood, 7 hits, 6 runs, in 8 +times at bat in 1 inning; off Hall, 9 hits. 5 rung, in 32 times at +bat in 8 innings, in game of October 15. Off Bedient, 6 hits, 1 +run, in 26 times at bat in 7 innings; off Wood, 3 hits, 1 runs, in +12 times at bat in 3 innings, in game of October 16.</p> +<p>Wild pitches—Tesreau 3.</p> +<p>Balk—O'Brien 1.</p> +<p>Muffed fly Balls—Fletcher 1, Lewis 1. Doyle 1, Snodgrass +1; total 4.</p> +<p>Muffed foul fly—Merkle 1, Cady 1, Stahl 1; total 3.</p> +<p>Muffed thrown balls—Wilson 1, Merkle 1, Gardner 2, Doyle +1, Wagner 1; total 6.</p> +<p>Wild throws—Meyers 1, Marquard 1, Yerkes 1, Merkle 1, Hall +1, Speaker 1; total 6.</p> +<p>Fumbles—Wagner 2, Fletcher 3, Doyle 2, Gardner 2, Devore +2, Speaker 1; total 12.</p> +<p>First base on errors—Boston 11, New York 5.</p> +<p>Sacrifice flies—Herzog 2, McCormick 1, Hooper 1, Gardner +1; total 5.</p> +<p>Hit by pitcher—By Bedient: Snodgrass 1, Herzog 1. By Wood: +Meyers. By Tesreau: Gardner.</p> +<p>Umpires—Evans and O'Loughlin, of the American League; Klem +and Rigler, of the National League.</p> +<p>Official scorers—Francis C. Richter of Philadelphia, and +J. Taylor Spink of St. Louis, all games.</p> +<p>Average time—2.13 7-8.</p> +<p>Average attendance—3l,505.</p> +<p>Weather—Clear and cool.</p> +<p>INDIVIDUAL BATTING AVERAGES.</p> +<p>Following are the official batting averages of all players +participating in the World's Championship Series of 1912. They show +that New York clearly outhit Boston. The team average of the Giants +was 50 points higher than that of Boston. The Boston team had only +four batters in the .300 class, while New York had five. Of the men +who played all through the series, Herzog was high with .400. The +figures are:</p> +<pre> +INDIVIDUAL BOSTON BATTING. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PC. +Henriksen 2 1 -- 1 -- -- 1000 +Hall 2 4 -- 3 -- -- .750 +Engle 3 3 1 1 -- -- .333 +Speaker 8 30 4 9 1 -- .300 +Hooper 8 31 3 9 2 2 .290 +Wood 4 7 1 2 -- -- .286 +Stahl 8 32 3 9 2 1 .281 +Yerkes 8 32 3 8 -- 1 .250 +Gardner 8 28 4 5 -- 3 .179 +Wagner 8 30 1 5 1 -- .167 +Lewis 8 32 4 5 -- -- .156 +Cady 7 22 1 3 -- 1 .136 +Carrigan 2 7 -- -- -- -- .000 +Collins 2 5 -- -- -- -- .000 +Bedient 4 6 -- -- -- -- .000 +O'Brien 2 2 -- -- -- -- .000 +Ball 1 1 -- -- -- -- .000 +</pre> +<pre> +INDIVIDUAL NEW YORK BATTING. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PC. +Wilson 2 1 -- 1 -- -- 1000 +Herzog 8 30 6 12 2 2 .400 +Tesreau 3 8 -- 3 -- -- .375 +Meyers 8 28 2 10 1 1 .357 +Murray 8 31 5 10 -- 1 .323 +Merkle 8 33 5 9 1 1 .273 +Devore 7 24 4 6 4 -- .250 +McCormick 5 4 -- 1 -- 1 .250 +Doyle 8 33 5 8 2 -- .242 +Snodgrass 8 33 2 7 1 -- .212 +Fletcher 8 28 1 5 1 -- .179 +Mathewson 3 12 -- 2 -- -- .167 +Becker 2 4 1 -- -- -- .000 +Shafer 3 -- -- -- -- -- .000 +Crandall 1 1 -- -- -- -- .000 +Marquard 2 4 -- -- -- -- .000 +Ames 1 -- -- -- -- -- .000 +</pre> +<p>Team batting average: New York, .270; Boston, .220.</p> +<p>INDIVIDUAL FIELDING AVERAGES.</p> +<p>The individual and team fielding averages show Boston leading by +a slight margin of .958 to .951. The figures follow:</p> +<pre> + CATCHERS. + G. PO. A. PB. E. PC. | G. PO. A. PB. E. PC. +Carrigan 2 9 5 1000|Cady 7 35 9 1 .978 +Meyers 8 42 4 1 .979|Wilson 2 2 1 1 .750 + + PITCHERS. + G. PO. A. E. PC. | G. PO. A. E. PC. +Tesreau 3 10 1000|Collins 2 3 1000 +Crandall 1 1 1000|Bedient 4 1 1000 +Mathewson 4 1 12 1000|O'Brien 2 1 6 1000 +Wood 4 1 6 1000|Hall 2 5 1 .833 +Ames 1 1 1000|Marquard 2 4 1 .800 + + FIRST BASEMEN. +Stahl 8 77 3 1 .988|Merkle 8 83 1 3 .966 + + SECOND BASEMEN. +Yerkes 8 15 22 1 .974|Doyle 8 15 26 4 .911 + + SHORTSTOPS. +Shafer 3 1 4 1000|Fletcher 8 16 23 4 .907 +Wagner 8 24 24 3 .941 + + THIRD BASEMEN. +Herzog 8 11 16 1000|Gardner 8 9 12 4 .840 + + OUTFIELDERS. +Murray 8 23 1 1000|Lewis 8 14 1 .933 +Becker 1 1 1000|Speaker 8 21 2 2 .920 +Hooper 8 16 3 1000|Devore 7 10 2 2 .857 +Snodgrass 8 17 1 1 .947| +</pre> +<p>Team fielding average: Boston, .958; New York, .951.</p> +<p>THE PITCHERS' RECORDS.</p> +<p>The pitching averages show Marquad and Bedient the only pitchers +with clean records. Marquad won two games and did not meet defeat, +and Bedient won one without a defeat. Wood won three and lost one. +Following are the figures:</p> +<pre> + G. W. L. T. TO. PC. H. BB. HB. SO. IP. AB. +Bedient 4 1 1 1 1000 10 7 2 7 17 59 +Marquard 2 2 1000 14 2 9 18 66 +Wood 4 3 1 1 .750 27 3 1 21 22 88 +Tesreau 3 1 2 2 .333 19 11 1 15 23 85 +Collins 2 1 1 .000 14 6 14-1/3 52 +Hall 2 1 1 .000 11 9 1 10-2/3 41 +Mathewson 3 2 1 .000 23 5 10 29-2/3 108 +Ames 1 .000 3 1 2 8 +Crandall 1 .000 1 2 2 6 +O'Brien 2 2 2 .000 12 3 4 9 34 +</pre> +<p>Wild pitches—Tesreau 3.</p> +<p>Wiltse, Ames, Hall and Crandall did not pitch a full game and +are charged with neither defeat nor victory. Tesreau pitched first +7 innings of first game and is charged with defeat. Crandall +finished game. Collins pitched first 7-1/3 innings of second game, +Hall followed for 2-2/3 innings and Bedient for 1 inning, but as +game was tie no one has defeat or victory charged against him. +O'Brien pitched 8 innings of third game and is charged with defeat. +Bedient pitched in the last inning. In fourth game Tesreau pitched +first 7 innings and is marked with defeat. Ames finished the game. +In sixth game O'Brien pitched only 1 inning, but lost the game. +Collins completed the game. Wood pitched only one inning of seventh +game and is charged with a defeat. Hall pitched the last 8 innings. +Bedient pitched first 7 innings of eighth game and retired to +permit Henriksen to bat for him with New York leading. Boston then +tied score and Wood, who succeeded Bedient, finally won out in the +tenth inning, Wood getting credit for game.</p> +<p>FINANCIAL RESULT.</p> +<p>The attendance and receipts of the 1912 World's Championship +Series were the highest of any series ever played, excelling even +the receipts of the 1911 Athletic-Giant series, which reached +proportions of such magnitude that it was thought they would not +soon be exceeded, or even equaled. In the 1911 Athletic-Giant +series the total attendance was 179,851 paid; the receipts, +$342,364; each club's share, $90,108.72; National Commission's +share, $34,236.25; the players' share for four days, $127,910.61; +each player's share on the Athletic team, $3,654.58; and each +player's share on the New York team, $2,436.30. For purposes of +comparison we give the official statement of the 1911 World's +Series:</p> +<pre> + Attendance. Receipts. +First game, New York................ 38,281 $77,359.00 +Second game, Philadelphia........... 26,286 42,962.50 +Third game, New York................ 37,216 75,593.00 +Fourth game, Philadelphia........... 24,355 40,957.00 +Fifth game, New York................ 33,228 69.384.00 +Sixth game, Philadelphia............ 20,485 36,109.00 + --------- ------------- +Totals ............................ 179,851 $342,364.50 + +Each club's share................................ $90,108.72 +National Commission's share....................... 34,236.25 +Players' share for four games................ 127,910.61 +</pre> +<p>Herewith is given the official attendance and receipts of the +Giant-Red Sox world's Series of 1912, together with the division of +the receipts, as announced by the National Commission. The players +shared only in the first four games, divided 60 percent, to the +winning team and 40 per cent, to the losing team.</p> +<pre> + Attendance. Receipts. +First game, New York................ 35,722 $75,127.00 +Second game, Boston................. 30,148 58,369.00 +Third game, Boston.................. 34,624 63,142.00 +Fourth game, New York............... 36,502 76,644.00 +Fifth game, Boston.................. 34,683 63,201.00 +Sixth game, New York................ 30,622 66,654.00 +Seventh game, Boston................ 32,630 57,004.00 +Eighth game, Boston ................ 16,970 30,308.00 + --------- ------------- +Totals............................. 251,901 $490,449.00 + +Each club's share............................... $146,915.91 +National Commission's share....................... 49,044.90 +Players' share for four games.................... 147,572.28 +</pre> +<a name="RULE4_10"><!-- RULE4 10 --></a> +<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912</h2> +<center>BY JOHN B. FOSTER.</center> +<p>Spurts of energy on the part of different clubs, unexpected ill +fortune on the part of others, and marked variations of form, which +ranged from the leaders almost to the lowliest teams of the second +division, injected spasmodic moments of excited interest into the +National League race for 1912 and marked it by more vicissitudes +than any of its immediate predecessors.</p> +<p>By careful analysis it is not a difficult matter to ascertain +why the New Yorks won. Their speed as a run-getting machine was +much superior to that of any of their opponents. Every factor of +Base Ball which can be studied demonstrates that fact. They led the +National League in batting and they led it in base running. They +were keenly alive to the opportunities which were offered to them +to win games. Indeed, their fall from the high standard which they +had set prior to the Fourth of July was quite wholly due to the +fact that they failed to take advantage of the situations daily, as +they had earlier in the season, and their return to that winning +form later in the season, which assured them of the championship, +was equally due to the fact that they had regained their ability to +make the one run which was necessary to win. That, after all, is +the vital essential of Base Ball. To earn the winning run, not by +hook or crook, but to earn it by excelling opponents through +superior play in a department where the opponents are weak, is the +story of capturing a pennant.</p> +<p>They were dangerous men to be permitted to get on bases, and +their dearest and most bitter enemies on the ball field, with +marked candor, confessed that such was the case. Opposing leaders +admitted that when two or three of the New York players were +started toward home plate one or two of them were likely to cross +the plate and that, too, when one run might tie the score and two +runs might win the game.</p> +<p>While there were some who were quite sanguine before the +beginning of the season that the Giants would win the championship, +there were others who were convinced that they would have a hard +time to hold their title, and after the season was over both +factions were fairly well satisfied with their preliminary +forecast.</p> +<p>The runaway race which New York made up to the Fourth of July +gave abundant satisfaction to those who said they would win, and +the setback which the team received after the Fourth of July until +the latter part of August afforded solace to those who were certain +in their own minds that the New Yorks would have much trouble to +repeat their victory of 1911.</p> +<p>It must not be forgotten, too, that the New York team had the +benefit of excellent pitching throughout the year. In the new +record for pitchers, which has been established this season by +Secretary Heydler of the National League, and which in part was the +outcome of the agitation in the GUIDE for a new method of records, +in which the various Base Ball critics of the major league cities +so ably contributed their opinions, Tesreau leads all the pitchers +in the matter of runs which were earned from his delivery. +Mathewson is second, Ames is fifth, Marquard seventh and Wiltse and +Crandall lower, and while both the latter were hit freely in games +in which they were occasionally substituted for others, they +pitched admirably in games which they won on their own account.</p> +<p>In the opinion of the writer this new method, which has been put +into usage by Secretary Heydler, is far superior to anything which +has been offered in years as a valuable record of the actual work +of pitchers. It holds the pitcher responsible for every run which +is made from his delivery. It does not hold him responsible for any +runs which may have been made after the opportunity has been +offered to retire the side, nor does it hold him responsible for +runs which are the result of the fielding errors of his fellow +players. On the other hand, if he gives bases on balls, if he is +batted for base hits, if he makes balks, and if he makes wild +pitches, he must stand for his blunders and have all such runs +charged against him as earned runs.</p> +<p>Nothing proves more conclusively the strength of this manner of +compiling pitchers' records than that Rucker, by the old system, +dropped to twenty-eighth place in the list of National League +pitchers, finished third in the earned run computation, showing +that if he had been given proper support he probably would have +been one of the topmost pitchers of the league, even on the basis +of percentage of games won, which is more vainglorious than +absolutely truthful.</p> +<p>The Giants are to be commended for playing clean, sportsmanlike +Base Ball. There were less than a half dozen instances in which +they came into conflict with the umpires. The president of the +National League complimented Manager McGraw in public upon the +excellent conduct of his team upon the field and the players +deserved the approbation of the league's chief executive.</p> +<hr> +<p>The general work of the Pittsburgh team throughout the year was +good. It must have been good to have enabled the players to finish +second in the championship contest, but the team, speaking in the +broadest sense, seemed to be just good enough not to win the +championship. As one man dryly but graphically put it: "Pittsburgh +makes me think of a wedding cake without the frosting."</p> +<p>Fred. Clarke, manager of the team, adhered resolutely to his +determination not to play. It was not for the reason that the +impulse to play did not seize upon him more than once, but he had +formed a conviction, or, at least, he seemed to have formed one, +that it would be better for the organization if the younger blood +were permitted to make the fight. It was the opinion of more than +one that Clarke incorrectly estimated his own ball playing ability, +in other words, that he was a better ball player than he credited +himself with being.</p> +<p>As batters the Pittsburghs were successful. As fielders they +were superior to the team that won the championship. As run-getters +they were not the equal of the Giants. In brief, fewer +opportunities were accepted to make runs by a much larger +percentage than was the case with the New York club, which can +easily be verified by a careful study of the scores of the two +teams as they opposed one another, and as they played against the +other clubs of the league.</p> +<p>It took more driving power to get the Pittsburgh players around +the bases than it did those of New York. In tight games, where the +advantage of a single run meant victory, the greater speed of the +New York players could actually be measured by yards in the +difference of results. Naturally it was not always easy for the +Pittsburgh enthusiasts to see why a team, which assuredly fielded +better than the champions and batted almost equally as well, could +not gain an advantage over its rivals, but the inability of +Pittsburgh Base Ball patrons to comprehend the lack of success on +the part of their team existed in the fact that they had but few +opportunities, comparatively speaking, to watch the New York +players and found it difficult to grasp the true import of that one +great factor of speed, which had been so insistently demanded by +the New York manager of the men who were under his guidance.</p> +<p>Pittsburgh had an excellent pitching staff. Even better results +would have been obtained from it if Adams had been in better +physical condition. An ailing arm bothered him. While he fell below +the standard of other years, one splendid young pitcher rapidly +developed in Hendrix, and Robinson, a left-hander, with practically +no major league experience, pushed his way to a commanding position +in the work which he did.</p> +<p>Until the Giants made their last visit to Pittsburgh in the +month of August the western team threatened to come through with a +finish, which would give them a chance to swing into first place +during the month of September, but the series between New York and +Pittsburgh turned the scale against the latter.</p> +<p>Fired with the knowledge that they were at the turning point in +the race the New York players battled desperately with their rivals +on Pittsburgh's home field and won. Even the Pittsburgh players +were filled with admiration for the foe whom they had met, and +while they were not in the mood to accept defeat with equanimity, +they did accept it graciously and congratulated the victors as they +left Pittsburgh after playing the last game of the season which had +been scheduled between them on Forbes Field.</p> +<p>First base had long bothered Clarke. Frequent experiments had +been made to obtain a first baseman, who could play with accuracy +on the field and bat to the standard of the team generally. Clarke +transferred Miller from second base to first and the change worked +well. More graceful and more accurate first basemen have been +developed than Miller, but in his first year of play at the bag he +steadied the team perceptibly and unquestionably gave confidence to +the other men.</p> +<p>But making a first baseman out of Miller took away a second +baseman and second base gave Clarke more or less concern all of the +season. At that, Pittsburgh was not so poorly off in second base +play as some other of the teams of the senior circuit.</p> +<hr> +<p>Two important factors contributed to the success of the Chicagos +in 1912. For a few days they threatened to assume the leadership of +the National League. With the opportunity almost within their grasp +the machine, which had been patched for the moment, fell to pieces, +and the Cubs, brought to a climax in their work by all the personal +magnetism and the driving power of which Chance was capable, were +exhausted by their strongest effort. The courage and the wish were +there, but the team lacked the playing strength.</p> +<p>To return to the factors which contributed to the club's +success. They were the restoration to health of Evers, and a +complete change in the manner of playing second base, added to the +consistent and powerful batting of Zimmerman. The latter led the +league in batting and repeatedly pulled his club through close +contests by the forceful manner in which he met the ball with men +on bases.</p> +<p>A third contributing force, though less continuous, was the +brief spurt which was made by the Chicago pitchers in the middle of +the season. They were strongest at the moment that the New York +team was playing its poorest game, and their temporary success +assisted in pushing the Chicagos somewhat rapidly toward the top of +the league. They were not resourceful enough nor strong enough to +maintain their average of victories and finished the season +somewhat as they had begun.</p> +<p>The most of Chicago's success began to date from the early part +of July, when Lavender, pitching for the Cubs, won from Marquard of +the Giants, who, to that time, had nineteen successive victories to +his credit. Chicago continued to win, and the New York team made a +very poor trip through the west.</p> +<p>Lavender's physical strength held up well for a month and then +it became quite evident that he had pitched himself out. Then was +the time that the Chicagos could have used to good advantage two +and certainly one steady and reliable pitcher, who had been through +the fire of winning pennants and would not be disturbed by the +importance which attached to games in which his club was for the +moment the runner-up in the championship race.</p> +<p>Chicago managed to hold its own fairly well against the New York +team. Indeed, the Cubs beat the New Yorks on the series for the +season, but there were other clubs, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and +Cincinnati, which won from Chicago when victories were most needed +by the Cubs, and their hope to capture the pennant deserted them as +they were making their last trip through the east.</p> +<p>The race was not without its bright side for Chicago. Even if +the Cubs did finish third for the first time since Chance had been +manager of the organization, it was a welcome sight to see Evers +apparently in as good form as ever and Zimmerman so strong with the +bat that the leadership of the batters finally returned to Chicago +after it had been absent for years.</p> +<hr> +<p>Cincinnati, under the management of Henry O'Day, finished fourth +in the race. It was by no means a weak showing for the new manager, +in view of the team which he was compelled to handle. Until the New +York club played its first series in Cincinnati, which began May +18, the Reds were booming along at the top of the league, +apparently with no intention that they might ever drop back. It was +New York that won three out of the five games played and took the +lead in the race, and when that happened Cincinnati never was in +front again.</p> +<p>To the other managers, who had been watching the work of the +Cincinnatis it was apparent that sooner or later the break would +have to come for the reason that, as the season progressed, better +pitching would have to be faced by the Cincinnati club, while it +was doubtful whether the Cincinnati pitchers could do any better +than they were doing. The manager seemed to have known this, for +when the break did come and the Reds began to totter, he said in +reference to their downfall that no team could be expected to win +with only ordinary pitching to assist it.</p> +<p>In this manner Cincinnati played through the middle of the +season always just a little behind most of its opponents. As the +latter days of the year began to dawn the Reds began to improve and +not the least of which was in the better work of the pitchers.</p> +<p>They did well enough to beat Philadelphia for fourth place, and +while O'Day did not have the satisfaction of finding his first year +as a manager generous enough to him to make him the runner-up for +the championship team, he actually put his club in the first +division, which is something in which many managers have failed and +some of them managers of long experience.</p> +<hr> +<p>Misfortune and ill luck always attaches itself in a minor degree +to every team which engages in a championship contest, but most +assuredly Philadelphia had more of its share of reverses through +accidents to players and illness than any team of the National +League. Yet the Philadelphias were courageous players from whom +little complaint was heard. They took their misfortunes with what +grace they could and played ball with what success they could +achieve, whether they had their best team in the field or their +poorest.</p> +<p>Strangely enough they played an important part in the results of +the race. Frequently they defeated the Chicagos, all too frequently +for the comfort of the Chicago Base Ball enthusiasts, and when the +loss of a game or two by the Philadelphias to the Chicagos might +have turned the race temporarily one way or the other, the +Philadelphias, with decided conviction, refused to lose.</p> +<p>It may not be necessary to call attention to the fact of +absolute fairness in the contests for championships in the various +leagues which comprise Base Ball in its organized form. The day has +passed when the Base Ball enthusiast permits his mind to dwell much +upon that sort of thing, if ever he did. But if it were necessary +to advance an argument as to the integrity of the sport and the +high class of the men who are engaged in the summer season in +playing professional Base Ball, there could be nothing better to +prove that the price of victory is the one great consideration, +greater than the fact of Philadelphia's success against a team +which was a strong contender against that which finally won the +championship.</p> +<p>As much as Philadelphia desired that New York should be beaten, +for there was no love lost between the teams in a ball playing way, +the fighting spirit and the predominant desire to add to the column +of victories as many games as possible brought forth the best +efforts of the team of ill fortune against Chicago and struck +telling blows against Chicago's success at the most timely +moments.</p> +<hr> +<p>As a whole the St. Louis team did not play as well in 1912 as it +did in the preceding year. There was some bad luck for St. Louis as +well as Philadelphia. The players did not get started as well as +they had in the previous two years. Their spring training was more +or less disastrous, for they were one of the clubs to run into the +most contrary of spring weather.</p> +<p>Perhaps the worst trouble which the St. Louis team had, take the +season through from beginning to finish, was in regard to the +pitchers. There were two or three young men on the team who seemed +at the close of the season of 1911 to be likely to develop into +high class pitchers in 1912. They pitched well in 1912 at +intervals. One day it seemed as if they at last had struck their +stride and the next they faltered and their unsteadiness gave their +opponents the advantage which they sought.</p> +<p>Perhaps, if the St. Louis team had been a little stronger to +batting it would have rated higher among the organization of the +National League. Several games were lost which would have been +taken into camp by a better display at bat. In fielding the team +was much stronger and the success of the infield, combined with +some excellent outfield work now and then, frequently held the team +up in close battles, but when the pitchers faltered on the path the +fielders were not able to bear the force of the attack.</p> +<hr> +<p>For three seasons in succession Brooklyn seems to have been +fated to start the season with bad luck and misfortune. The spring +training trip did not bring to Brooklyn all that had been expected +owing to the inclement weather.</p> +<p>When the team began the season at Washington Park a tremendous +crowd filled the stands. Long before it was time for the game to +begin the spectators became unruly and swarmed over the field. It +was impossible for the ground police to do anything with the +excited enthusiasts and at last the city police were asked to +assist. They tried to clear the field, but only succeeded in +driving the crowd from the infield. Spectators were so thick in the +outfield that they crowded upon the bases and prevented the players +from doing their best. For that matter the outfielders could not do +much of anything.</p> +<p>A ground rule of two bases into the crowd was established, and +the New York players, who were the opponents of Brooklyn, took +advantage of it to drive the ball with all their force, trusting +that it would sail over the heads of the fielders and drop into the +crowd. They were so successful that they made a record for two-base +hits and Brooklyn was overwhelmed.</p> +<p>This unfortunate beginning appeared to depress the Brooklyn +team. The players recovered slightly, but had barely got into their +stride again when accidents to the men began to happen. Some of +them became ill, and the manager was put to his wits end to get a +team on the field which should make a good showing.</p> +<p>Fighting against these odds Brooklyn made the best record that +it could. As the season warmed into the hotter months the infield +had to be rearranged. There was disappointment in the playing of +some of the infielders. It was also necessary to reconstruct the +outfield. Unable to get all of the men whom he would have desired +the manager continued to experiment and his experiments brought +forth good fruit, for unquestionably the excellent work of Moran, +who played both right field and center field for Brooklyn, was a +great help to the pitchers. By the time that the Base Ball playing +year was almost concluded Brooklyn had so far recovered that it was +able to place a better nine on the diamond than had been the case +all of the year.</p> +<p>Boston never was expected to be a championship organization. The +material was not there for a championship organization, but Boston +did play better ball than in 1911 and that is to the credit of +players, manager and owner. The club had changed hands, but the new +owner had not been able to readjust all of the positions to suit +him. He put the best nine possible in the field with what he had. +Never threatening to become a championship winning team Boston +played steadily with what strength it possessed and always a little +better than in 1911, so that the year could not fairly be +considered unsuccessful at its finish.</p> +<hr> +<p>Going back to the beginning of the year and looking over the +contest for the National League championship of 1912, it is not +uninteresting, indeed it is of much interest to call attention to +the remarkably odd record which was made by New York to win the +pennant. In that record stands the story of the fight, with +striking shifts from week to week.</p> +<p>The first game played by the Giants was against Brooklyn, as has +been related, and it was won by New York and that, by the way, was +the game in which Marquard began his admirable record as a pitcher +for the season.</p> +<p>The Giants lost the next three games. Two of them were to +Brooklyn and one to Boston, and the players of the New York team +began to wonder a little as to what had happened to them.</p> +<p>Then New York won nine straight games from the eastern clubs, +being stopped finally by Philadelphia on the Polo Grounds. But that +defeat did not check them. They started on another winning spurt +and played throughout the west without a defeat until they arrived +in Cincinnati. This total of victories was nine. All of the games +on the schedule were not played because of inclement weather.</p> +<p>Cincinnati won twice from New York and then the Giants turned +the tables on the Reds, who had been leading the league. They threw +them out of the lead, which they never regained, and won another +succession of nine victories. That made three times consecutively +that they had won a total of twenty-seven games in groups of nine, +assuredly an unusual result.</p> +<p>Losing one game they again entered the winning class. This time +they won six games in succession. Then they lost a game. After this +single defeat they won but three games. Their charm of games in +blocks of nine had deserted them. They were beaten twice after +winning three, and Pittsburgh was the team.</p> +<p>Then they won another single game and immediately after that +victory lost to Brooklyn. But that was the last defeat for a long +time. Well into the race, with their condition excellent, and +playing better ball than they had played since their wonderful +spurt of the month of September in 1911, they won sixteen games in +succession.</p> +<p>The morning of the Fourth of July dawned hot and sultry. The air +was thick and muggy and without life. The Giants were scheduled to +play two games that day with Brooklyn, the first in the morning and +the second in the afternoon. If they won both of them they would +tie a former record, which had been made by the New York team, for +consecutive victories.</p> +<p>Perhaps it may have been reaction after the long strain of +winning or it may have been an uncommonly good streak of batting on +the part of Brooklyn. Surely Brooklyn batted well enough, as the +morning game went to the latter team by the score of 10 to 4. In +the afternoon Brooklyn again beat the Giants by the score of 5 to +2. Wiltse pitched for New York and Stack for Brooklyn.</p> +<p>The New York team went to Chicago and won twice. Then it lost. +The fourth game was won from Chicago and then the Giants lost two +in succession.</p> +<p>They won one game and immediately after that lost four in +succession. Chicago began to have visions of winning the +pennant.</p> +<p>From Chicago the Giants went to Pittsburgh, stood firm in a +series of three games, winning two and losing one. Their next call +was at Cincinnati and beginning with that series they got back to +form a trifle and won five games in succession.</p> +<p>Returning home they were beaten on the Polo Grounds three games +in succession by Chicago. After that New York settled into a +winning stride again and won six games in succession. Pittsburgh +came to the Polo Grounds and stopped the winning streak of the +champions by defeating them three times in succession. That was a +hard jolt for any team to stand. Yet the Giants rallied and won the +test game of the Pittsburgh series.</p> +<p>It was but a momentary pause, for after another victory St. +Louis beat New York. The Giants won another game and the next day +lost to St. Louis. That finished the home games for New York and +the team started west, facing a desperate fight. They lost the +first game to Chicago, won the next and lost the third. Going from +Chicago to St. Louis they won three games in succession, returning +to Chicago, lost a postponed game with the Cubs.</p> +<p>From Chicago their path led them to Pittsburgh where they lost +the first contest. Then they made the stand of the season when they +beat the Pittsburghs four games in succession.</p> +<p>Cincinnati turned the tables on the Giants to the consternation +of the New York fans and won twice, when it seemed as if the Giants +were about to start on a career which would safely land the +championship. The Giants returned home and beat Brooklyn in the +first game and lost the second. They won the next two and then lost +again. The championship was still in abeyance. Again they won and +then lost to Philadelphia.</p> +<p>Here came another test in a Philadelphia series at Philadelphia +which contained postponed games, and once more rallying with all +their might, won four games and lost the last of this series of +five.</p> +<p>Following that they won three games and then lost to St. Louis. +They won three times in succession and then lost four games to +Chicago and Cincinnati, but all of this time Chicago was gradually +falling away because it was necessary that the Cubs should continue +to win successive victories if they were to beat New York for the +championship.</p> +<p>The Giants atoned for the four defeats at the hands of Chicago +and Cincinnati by winning the next four games in succession, and +while this did not actually settle the championship, that is, the +definite championship game had not been played, the race was +practically over and all that was left to fight for in the National +League was second place, in which Chicago and Pittsburgh were most +interested. The pitching staff of the Chicagos had worn out under +the strain and the Cubs were beaten out by Pittsburgh.</p> +<p>The semi-monthly standing of the race by percentages +follows:</p> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON APRIL 30. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +Cincinnati 10 3 .769 Pittsburgh 5 7 .417 +New York 8 3 .727 Philadelphia 4 6 .400 +Boston 6 6 .500 St. Louis 5 8 .385 +Chicago 5 7 .417 Brooklyn 4 7 .364 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 18 4 .810 St. Louis 10 16 .385 +Cincinnati 19 5 .792 Boston 9 15 .375 +Chicago 12 12 .500 Philadelphia 7 13 .350 +Pittsburgh 9 12 .429 Brooklyn 7 14 .333 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 31. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 28 7 .800 St. Louis 20 22 .455 +Cincinnati 23 17 .675 Philadelphia .14 19 .426 +Chicago 19 17 .628 Brooklyn 12 22 .353 +Pittsburgh 18 17 .514 Boston 13 26 .333 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 37 10 .787 Philadelphia 20 24 .455 +Pittsburgh 27 20 .574 St. Louis 23 31 .426 +Chicago 26 21 .563 Brooklyn 16 30 .348 +Cincinnati 25 23 .553 Boston 16 35 .314 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 30. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 50 11 .820 Philadelphia 24 33 .421 +Pittsburgh 37 25 .597 Brooklyn 24 36 .400 +Chicago 34 26 .567 St. Louis 27 42 .391 +Cincinnati 35 32 .522 Boston 20 46 .303 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 58 19 .753 Philadelphia 34 38 .472 +Chicago 47 28 .627 St. Louis 34 49 .410 +Pittsburgh 45 31 .592 Brooklyn 30 48 .385 +Cincinnati 41 39 .513 Boston 22 59 .272 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 31. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 67 24 .736 Cincinnati 45 49 .479 +Chicago 57 34 .626 St. Louis 41 55 .427 +Pittsburgh 52 37 .684 Brooklyn 35 59 .372 +Philadelphia 45 43 .511 Boston 25 66 .275 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 73 30 .709 Cincinnati 50 58 .463 +Chicago 69 36 .657 St. Louis 47 60 .439 +Pittsburgh 65 40 .619 Brooklyn 39 69 .361 +Philadelphia 50 54 .481 Boston 28 76 .269 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 31. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 82 36 .695 Cincinnati 57 65 .467 +Chicago 79 42 .653 St. Louis 53 59 .434 +Pittsburgh 71 50 .587 Brooklyn 44 76 .367 +Philadelphia 59 60 .496 Boston 37 84 .306 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 15 + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 95 40 .704 Philadelphia 63 70 .474 +Chicago 83 61 .619 St. Louis 57 80 .416 +Pittsburgh 82 53 .607 Brooklyn 50 85 .370 +Cincinnati 68 68 .500 Boston 42 93 .311 +</pre> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 30 + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 101 45 .692 Philadelphia 70 77 .476 +Pittsburgh 91 57 .615 St. Louis 62 88 .413 +Chicago 89 68 .605 Brooklyn 57 91 .385 +Cincinnati 74 76 .493 Boston 42 100 .324 +</pre> +<p>STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON.</p> +<pre> + Club. N.Y. Pitts. Chi. Cin. Phil. St.L. Bkln. Bos. Won. PC. +New York -- 12 9 16 17 15 16 18 103 .682 +Pittsburgh 8 -- 13 11 14 15 14 18 92 .616 +Chicago 13 8 -- 11 10 15 17 17 91 .607 +Cincinnati 6 11 10 -- 8 13 16 11 75 .490 +Philadelphia 5 8 10 14 -- 11 13 12 73 .480 +St. Louis 7 7 7 9 11 -- 10 12 63 .412 +Brooklyn 6 8 5 6 9 11 -- 13 58 .379 +Boston 3 4 6 11 10 10 9 -- 52 .340 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + Lost 48 58 59 78 79 90 95 101 +</pre> +<p>The Chicago-Pittsburgh game at Chicago, October 2, was protested +by the Pittsburgh club and thrown out of the records, taking a +victory from the Chicago club and a defeat from the Pittsburgh +club.</p> +<a name="RULE4_11"><!-- RULE4 11 --></a> +<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912</h2> +<center>BY IRVING E. SANBORN, CHICAGO.</center> +<p>Pre-season predictions in Base Ball do not carry much weight +individually, but when many minds, looking at the game from +different angles, agree on the main points there usually is good +reason behind such near unanimity. Outside of Boston it is doubtful +if any experienced critic of Base Ball in the country expected the +Red Sox to be converted from a second division team into pennant +winners in one short season. If such expectancy existed in Boston +it was partially a case of the wish fathering the thought. The +majority of men believed the machine with which Connie Mack had +achieved two league and two world's championships was good for at +least one more American League pennant. That expectation was based +on the comparative youth of the important cogs in the Athletic +machine. Yet this dope went all wrong. The Athletics were beaten +out by two teams which were in the second division in 1911, one of +them as low as seventh place.</p> +<p>The reason for these form reversals were several. The Boston and +Washington teams improved magically in new hands, while the +Athletics went back a bit, partly because of too much prosperity +and partly because of adversity. Having come from behind in 1911 +and made a winning from a wretched start, the Mackmen apparently +thought they could do it again and delayed starting their fight +until it was too late. The loss of the services of Dan Murphy for +more than half of the season also was a prime factor.</p> +<p>The White Sox were the season's sensations both ways and for a +time kept everybody guessing by their whirlwind start under new +management. They walked over every opponent they tackled for the +first few weeks, then began to slip and it required herculean +efforts to keep them in the first division at the finish. The +Chicago team always was a puzzle to all parties to the race, +including itself.</p> +<p>From the outset there was almost no hope for the other four +teams in the league. Cleveland and Detroit occasionally broke into +the upper circles for a day or two in the early weeks of the +season, but not far enough to rouse any false anticipations among +their supporters. St. Louis and New York quickly gravitated to the +lower strata and remained there, the Yankees finally losing out in +their battle with the Browns to keep out of last place.</p> +<p>Five American League teams started the season under new +managers. One of the three which began the race under leaders +retained from the previous year changed horses in mid-stream. Jake +Stahl, Harry Wolverton, Clark Griffith, Harry Davis and James +Callahan were the new faces in the managerial gallery. Some of them +were not exactly new to the job but were in new jobs. Of these +Stahl, Griffith and Callahan proved successful leaders and the +first named became the hero of a world's championship team when the +last ball of the series was caught. Davis resigned during the +season and was succeeded by Joe Birmingham, who almost duplicated +the feat of George Stovall in 1911, putting new life into the +Cleveland team and starting a spurt which made the race for +position interesting. Wolverton stuck the season out in spite of +handicaps that would have discouraged anybody, then handed in his +resignation. Wallace, who started the year at the helm again in St. +Louis, cheerfully handed over the management to Stovall, who had +been transplanted into the Mound City in the hope of making Davis' +task easier in Cleveland. Stovall made the Browns a hard team to +beat and had the mild satisfaction of hoisting them out of the +cellar which they had occupied for the better part of three +seasons.</p> +<p>An unpleasant feature of the season, but one which had +beneficial results, was the strike of the Detroit players, +entailing the staging of a farcical game in Philadelphia between +the Athletics and a team of semi-professionals. This incident grew +out of an attack on a New York spectator by Ty Cobb while in +uniform and the immediate suspension of the player for an +indefinite period.</p> +<p>The prompt and unyielding stand taken by President Johnson +against the action of the Detroit players and the diplomatic +efforts of President Navin of that club averted serious or extended +trouble and undoubtedly furnished a warning against any similar act +in the near future. Another, excellent result was the effort made +by club owners to prevent the abuse of the right of free speech by +that small element of the game's patronage which finds its greatest +joy in abusing the players, secure in the knowledge that it is +practically protected from personal injury in retaliation.</p> +<p>In the development of new players of note the league enjoyed an +average season, and a considerable amount of new blood was injected +into the game in the persons of players who made good without +attracting freakish attention. The rise of the Washington team from +seventh to second place brought its youngsters into the limelight +prominently, and of these Foster and Moeller were commended highly. +Gandil, who had his second tryout in fast company, plugged the hole +at first base which had worried Washington managers for some time. +Shanks also made a reputation for himself as a fielder. These men +were helped somewhat by the showing of their team, but the case of +Gandil would have been notable In any company. His first advent +into the majors with the White Sox showed him to be an exceedingly +promising player, but for some reason his work fell off until he +was discarded into the International League. There he quickly +recovered his stride and, when he did come back shortly after the +season opened last spring, he demonstrated that he had the ability +to hit consistently and proved a tower of strength to Griffith's +team.</p> +<p>Baumgardner of the St. Louis Browns was an example of a +youngster making good in spite of comparatively poor company. His +pitching record with a team which finished in seventh place stamps +him as one of the best, if not the best, of the slab finds of the +year. Jean Dubuc of Detroit was another find of rare value and +still another was Buck O'Brien of Boston, but these had the +advantage over Baumgardner of getting better support both in the +field and at bat. O'Brien in particular was fortunate to break in +with a championship team.</p> +<p>The White Sox introduced three youngsters who made good and +promise to keep on doing so. Two of them, George Weaver and Morris +Rath, started the season with Chicago and the third, Baker Borton, +joined the team late in the summer. Still later Kay Schalk started +in to make what looks like a name for himself as a catcher.</p> +<hr> +<p>No better illustration of the slight difference between a +pennant winning machine and a losing team in the American League +has occurred recently than the Boston Red Sox furnished last year. +It did not differ materially from the team of 1910 which compelled +the use of the nickname "Speed Boys." Jake Stahl was a member of +that team, and except for the absence of Stahl in 1911, the +champions of 1912 were composed of practically the same men who +finished in the second division only the year before. But for the +showing of 1910 the whole credit for last season's transformation +might be attributed to Manager Stahl. Much of it unquestionably is +his by right, and there is no intent here to deprive him of any of +the high honors he achieved.</p> +<p>To Stahl's arrangement of his infield probably is due much of +the improvement in the team. The outfield trio of wonderful +performers did not perform any more wonders last year than in the +previous season, but what had been holes on the infield were +plugged tightly. Many looked askance when Larry Gardner, supposedly +a second baseman, was assigned to third, but the results more than +justified the move, and it made room at second for Yerkes, a player +who had proved only mediocre on the other side of the diamond. This +switch and the return of Stahl, who is a grand mark to throw at on +first base, gave the infield the same dash and confidence as the +outfield possessed, and the addition of some pitching strength in +Bedient and O'Brien did the rest. It is the ability to discover +just the right combination that differentiates the real manager +from the semi-failure.</p> +<p>The Red Sox were in the race from the start, but they were +eclipsed for a time by the White Sox. In spite of that the +Bostonians never faltered but kept up a mighty consistent gait all +the way and wore down all competitors before the finish. Stahl's +men never were lower than second place in the race with the +exception of three days early in May. when Washington poked its +nose in front of the Red Sox and started after the White Sox, only +to be driven back into third place by the men of Callahan +themselves. For more than a week in April Boston was in the lead. +Then Chicago went out and established a lead so long that it lasted +until near the middle of June. Boston attended strictly to its +knitting, however. Without stopping in their steady stride, the Red +Sox hung on, waiting for the Callahans to slump. When their chance +came in June the Bostonians jumped into the lead—June 10 was +the exact date—and never thereafter did they take any team's +dust.</p> +<p>By the Fourth of July Boston had a lead of seven games over the +Athletics. The Red Sox kept right along at their even gait and a +month later were leading by the same margin over Washington, which +had displaced the former champions. On September 1 Boston's lead +was thirteen games, but it was not until September 18 that the +American League pennant was actually cinched beyond the possibility +of losing it.</p> +<p>All season Stahl's men were known as a lucky ball team. Delving +into the files for the dope, revealed the fact that the newspaper +reports of about every third game they played on the average +contained some reference to "Boston's luck." This does not detract +anything from their glory. No team ever won a major league pennant +unless it was lucky. No team ever had as steady a run of luck as +Boston enjoyed in 1912, unless that team made a lot of its own luck +by persistently hammering away when luck was against it and keeping +ever on the alert to take advantage of an opening.</p> +<p>That is the explanation of the unusual consistency that marked +the work of the Red Sox all season and the fact they did not +experience a serious slump. In the first month of the season they +won twelve games and lost eight. The second month of the race was +their poorest one—the nearest they came to a slump. In that +month they won eight and lost ten games. In the third month Boston +won twenty-three and lost seven games. The fourth month saw them +win twenty games and lose eight and in the fifth month their record +was twenty victories and five defeats. In the final stages of the +race the Red Sox were not under as strong pressure from behind and +naturally did not travel as fast after sighting the wire, but the +figures produced explain why Boston won the pennant. It started +well and kept going faster until there was no longer need for +speed. The annexation of the world's championship in a record +breaking world's series with the New York Giants was a fitting +climax to their season's achievement.</p> +<hr> +<p>When Clark Griffith stalked through the west on his first +invasion of the season with a team of youngsters, some of them +practically unknown, and declared he was going after the pennant, +everybody laughed or wanted to. A few weeks later everybody who had +laughed was sorry, and those who only wanted to laugh were glad +they didn't. For Griffith kept his men keyed up to the fighting +pitch during the greater part of the season, and when they did +start slumping in September, he made a slight switch on his +infield, applied the brakes and started them going up again. The +result was that Washington finished second for the first time in +its major league history, winning that position in the closing days +of the race after a bitter tussle with the passing world's +champions.</p> +<p>The acquisition of Gandil from Montreal plugged a hole at first +base which had defied the efforts of several predecessors to stop +and it helped make a brilliant infield, for it gave the youngsters +something they were not afraid to throw at. In giving credit for +the work of Griffith's infield, the inclination is to overestimate +the worth of the new stars. But there was a tower of strength at +short in George McBride, who has been playing steadily and +consistently at that position for several seasons without being +given one-tenth the credit his work has merited.</p> +<p>The Washington team at one time or another occupied every +position in the race except the first and last. The Senators were +in seventh place for a few days in the opening weeks of the season, +but not anywhere nearly as long as they were in second place later +on. They climbed out of the second division by rapid stages and +after May 1 they were driven back into it only once during the rest +of the year. That was for three days in the beginning of June. In +the meantime they had knocked Boston out of second place for a +short while in May and, most of the way, had enjoyed a close fight +with Philadelphia for third and fourth spots. Near the middle of +June, after the Red Sox had ousted their White namesakes from first +place, the Senators also passed Chicago and started after Boston. +But the youngsters were not yet hardened to the strain and soon +fell back to third and fourth. On July 5 Washington went into +second place and held onto it, with the exception of three days, +for a period of two months. September brought a slump and +Griffith's men surrendered the runner-up position to the Athletics +for about two weeks, then came back and took it away from the +Mackmen at the end.</p> +<hr> +<p>What happened to the world's champion Athletics the public did +not really know until after the middle of the season. Then the +suspensions of Chief Bender and Rube Oldring blazoned the fact that +Manager Mack's splendid system of handling a Base Ball team by +moral suasion had fallen down in the face of overconfidence and too +much prosperity. Few people saw any reason for changing their +belief in the prowess of the Athletics during the first half of the +season, because they were in as good position most of the time as +they had been the year previous at the same stage of the race. They +were expected to make the same strong finish that swept everything +before it in 1911. Not until the second half of the season was well +under way did the adherents of the Mackmen give up the battle.</p> +<p>Philadelphia's sterling young infield seemed to stand up all +right all the year, but the outfield and the slab staff gave Connie +Mack sleepless nights. When Dan Murphy was injured in Chicago in +June it was discovered what he had meant to the team. Dan was what +the final punch is to a boxing star. His timely batting was missed +in knocking out opponents, and the injury kept him out all the rest +of the season. The strain which Jack Coombs gave his side in the +world's series of 1911 proved more serious and lasting than was +expected, and if Eddie Plank had not come back into grand form it +would have been a tougher season than it was for the Athletics.</p> +<p>The Mackmen made a bad beginning for champions, and on May 1 +were in the second division. During all of May and part of June +they climbed into the first division and fell out of it with great +regularity. Not until near the middle of June did the Athletics +gain a strangle hold on the upper half of the league standing, from +that time on they kept above the .500 mark, and toward the end of +June they met the White Sox coming back. There was a short scuffle +during the early part of July among the Athletics, Senators and +White Sox for the possession of the position next to Boston. Then +Chicago was pushed back, leaving Philadelphia and Washington to +fight it out the rest of the way. Trimming the Phillies four out of +five games in their city series did not lessen the gloom of the +Athletics.</p> +<hr> +<p>The White Sox by their meteoric career demonstrated the value of +good condition at the start. Although the Chicagoans experienced +tough weather in Texas last spring they fared better than any of +the other teams in their league, and that fact, combined with the +readiness with which youth gets into playing trim, enabled the +White Sox to walk through the early weeks of their schedule with an +ease that astonished everybody. Even prophets who were friendly to +them had expected no such showing. So fast did the Callahans travel +that on May 3 they had lost only four games, having won thirteen in +that time. But Boston was hanging on persistently. Chicago's margin +over the Red Sox varied from four to five and a half games; during +May, on the fourteenth of that month the White Sox had won +twenty-one games and lost only five, giving them the percentage of +.808. During part of this time they were on their first invasion of +the east. May 18 saw the Chicago men five and a half games in the +lead and their constituents were dreaming of another world's +pennant almost every night.</p> +<p>Even the doubters were beginning to believe Manager Callahan had +found the right combination. Just then came the awakening. The luck +which had been coming their way began breaking against them with +remarkable persistency. Plays that had won game after game went +wrong and youth was not resourceful enough to offset the breaks. +The White Sox began to fall away fast in percentage, but managed to +cling to the lead until June 10. Boston passed them right there and +the Chicagoans kept on going.</p> +<p>By mid-season Manager Callahan was fighting to keep his men in +the first division and their slump did not end until they landed in +fifth place for a couple of days in August. Then in desperation +Callahan began switching his line-up and by herculean +effort—and the help of Ed Walsh—climbed back into the +upper quartet and stuck there to the finish. It was a desperate +remedy to take Harry Lord off third base, where he had played +during most of his professional career, and try to convert him into +an outfielder, a position in which he had had no experience at all. +But Lord was too good an offensive player to take out of the game, +in spite of his slump at third base, and he was willing to try the +outfield. Results justified the move. Lord learned outfielding +rapidly, and Zeider proved that third base was his natural +position. The acquisition of Borton for first base enabled Callahan +to put Collins in the outfield, and the White Sox in reality were a +stronger team when they finished than when they started their +runaway race in April. With one more reliable pitcher to take his +turn regularly on the slab all season the White Sox would have kept +in the race. Callahan's men made up for some of the disappointment +they produced by beating the Cubs in a nine-game post-season +series, after the Cubs had won three victories. Two of the nine +games were drawn and one other went into extra innings, making a +more extended combat than the world's series.</p> +<hr> +<p>Cleveland's 1912 experience was almost identical with that of +1911, even to swapping managers in mid-season. Harry Davis, for +years first lieutenant to Connie Mack, took the management or the +Naps under a severe handicap. He succeeded a temporary manager, +George Stovall, who had made good in the latter half of the +previous season, but who could not be retained without abrogating a +previous agreement with Davis. The public did not take kindly to +the situation when the Naps failed to get into the fight, and the +new management had a pitching staff of youngsters with out much of +a catching staff to help them out when in trouble.</p> +<p>The Cleveland team never was prominent in the race after the +first fortnight, although it retained a respectable position at the +top of the second division, with an occasional journey into the +first division during the first month or six weeks. In the middle +of June the Naps dropped back into sixth place, below Detroit, for +a while, then took a brace and reclaimed the leadership of the +second squad for part of July. Midway in August found Cleveland +apparently anchored in sixth spot and, with the consent of the +Cleveland club owners, Manager Davis resigned his position.</p> +<p>The management was given to Joe Birmingham, who took hold of it +with enthusiasm but without experience, just as Stovall did the +previous year. He infused new life into the team, shook it up a +bit, and improved its playing so much that Cleveland passed Detroit +before the end of the race, and was threatening to knock Chicago +out of fourth place at one time. This would have happened but for +the brace of the White Sox. Profiting by previous experience the +club owners did not look around for a permanent manager until they +saw what Birmingham could do, and in consequence were in position +to offer him the leadership of the Naps for the season of 1913.</p> +<hr> +<p>What was left to Manager Jennings from the great Detroit team +that had won three straight pennants was slowing up, with the +exception of Tyrus Cobb, who has yet to reach the meridian of his +career, and the Georgian got into trouble fairly early in the +season, with the result that he was suspended for a considerable +period. That and the strike of the Tigers in Philadelphia threw a +monkey-wrench into the machinery, resulting in a tangle which +Jennings was unable to straighten out all the season. There was a +problem at first base which he had a hard time solving. The break +in Del Gainor's wrist the season before had not mended as it should +have done, and he was unable to play the position regularly. +Moriarty was pressed into service there and did good work in an +unfamiliar position; then the infield was shifted several times +without marked benefit. Donovan, who had always been of great help +on the slab in hot weather, was not equal to the task of another +year and was made manager of the Providence team. Jean Dubuc was +the only one of the young pitchers who proved a star, but his work +kept the Tigers from being a lot more disappointing proposition +than they were.</p> +<hr> +<p>St. Louis and New York were outclassed from the start. Two weeks +after the season opened it was apparent they were doomed to fight +it out for the last round on the ladder. That the Browns finally +escaped the cellar in the closing days of the race was due largely +to the efforts of Stovall, who was made manager to succeed Wallace +near the middle of the season.</p> +<p>As early as the first of May it was seen the Browns and Yankees +were destined to trail. The New York team quickly gravitated to the +bottom. It started without the services of Catcher Eddie Sweeney, +who held out for a larger salary, and it had a manager at the helm +who was inexperienced in major league leadership. Not until April +24 did New York win a game and in that time it had lost seven +straight, postponements accounting for the rest of the time.</p> +<p>St. Louis got a little better start and for a while was inclined +to dispute sixth place with Detroit, but on May 1 the Browns found +only New York between them and the basement. In the middle of May +the Yankees passed St. Louis and ran seventh in the race until +July. 4. But accident and injury, and the loss of Cree, shot the +Yankees to pieces. For nearly six weeks, however, it was a battle +royal between New York and St. Louis to escape the last hole, but +in the middle of August the Yankees again established their +superiority, retaining seventh place until after the middle of +September. In the homestretch the new blood given Stovall enabled +him to pull his men out of the last notch just before the schedule +ran out. This feat was soon forgotten in the defeat of the Browns +by the Cardinals in their post-prandial series for the championship +of the Mound City.</p> +<hr> +<p>The year was not prolific of freak or record-breaking +performances in the American League. Walter Johnson of Washington, +and Joe Wood of Boston were credited with sixteen straight +victories, which raised the American League record in that respect +from fourteen straight, formerly held by Jack Chesbro of the +Yankees. Mullin of Detroit and Hamilton of St. Louis added their +names to the list of hurlers who have held opponents without a safe +hit in nine innings. Mullin performed his hitless feat against St. +Louis and Hamilton retaliated by holding Detroit without a safety. +The number of games in which pitchers escaped with less than four +hits against them was smaller than usual, however. There were only +seventy-eight shut-out games recorded last season by comparison +with the American League's record of 145.</p> +<p>The longest game of the younger league's season lasted nineteen +innings, Washington defeating Philadelphia in that combat 5 to 4, +and it was played late in September when the two teams were +scrapping for second place. The American League record for overtime +is twenty-four innings, held by Philadelphia and Boston. There were +a lot of slugging games in 1912, but not as many as during the +season of 1911. Philadelphia piled up the highest total, 25, in +eight innings, but it was made against the semi-professional team +which wore Detroit uniforms on the day the Tigers struck. The +highest genuine total of hits was twenty-three, made by the +Athletics against New York pitchers. The Athletics also run up the +highest score of the league's season when they compounded +twenty-four runs against Detroit In May.</p> +<p>The semi-monthly standing of the race by percentages +follows:</p> +<pre> + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 1. + + Club. Won. Lost. PC. + Chicago 11 4 .733 + Boston 9 5 .643 + Washington 8 6 .615 + Cleveland 7 6 .538 + Athletics 7 7 .600 + Detroit 6 10 .375 + St. Louis 5 9 .357 + New York 3 10 .231 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 15. + + Chicago 21 6 .778 + Boston 16 8 .667 + Washington 12 12 .500 + Cleveland 11 11 .500 + Detroit 13 14 .481 + Athletics 10 12 .466 + New York 6 15 .286 + St. Louis 6 17 .261 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 1. + + Chicago 29 12 .707 + Boston 25 14 .641 + Detroit 21 20 .512 + Athletics 17 17 .500 + Cleveland 18 19 .486 + Washington 19 21 .476 + New York 12 23 .343 + St. Louis 12 27 .308 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 15. + + Boston 33 19 .635 + Chicago 33 21 .611 + Washington 33 21 .611 + Athletics 27 21 .563 + Detroit 26 29 .473 + Cleveland 23 28 .451 + New York 17 31 .364 + St. Louis 15 37 .288 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 1. + + Boston 47 21 .691 + Athletics 39 25 .609 + Chicago 38 28 .576 + Washington 37 31 .551 + Cleveland 33 38 .492 + Detroit 33 36 .478 + New York 18 44 .290 + St. Louis 18 45 .288 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 15. + + Boston 56 26 .683 + Washington 60 33 .602 + Athletics 46 36 .668 + Chicago 44 35 .567 + Cleveland 42 42 .500 + Detroit 40 43 .488 + New York 22 53 .298 + St. Louis 22 56 .282 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 1. + + Boston 67 31 .684 + Washington 61 37 .622 + Athletics 55 41 .573 + Chicago 49 36 .516 + Detroit 48 42 .485 + Cleveland 45 43 .464 + New York 31 53 .333 + St. Louis 30 56 .312 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 15. + + Boston 76 34 .691 + Athletics 66 43 .606 + Washington 67 44 .604 + Chicago 54 55 .495 + Detroit 55 58 .487 + Cleveland 51 59 .464 + New York 36 73 .327 + St. Louis 36 74 .321 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 1. + + Boston 87 37 .702 + Washington 77 49 .611 + Athletics 73 50 .593 + Chicago 62 61 .504 + Detroit 57 70 .449 + Cleveland 54 71 .432 + New York 45 78 .366 + St. Louis 43 82 .344 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 15. + + Boston 97 39 .713 + Athletics 81 56 .591 + Washington 82 57 .590 + Chicago 67 69 .493 + Detroit 64 75 .461 + Cleveland 62 75 .453 + New York 48 88 .353 + St. Louis 47 89 .346 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON OCTOBER 1. + + Boston 103 48 .691 + Washington 89 60 .567 + Athletics 89 60 .567 + Chicago 74 76 .493 + Cleveland 72 77 .483 + Detroit 69 80 .463 + St. Louis 52 98 .347 + New York 49 100 .329 + + STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON + + Bos. Wash. Ath. Chic. Clev. Det. S.L. N.Y. Won PC + Boston -- 12 15 16 11 15 17 19 105 .691 + Washington 10 -- 7 13 18 14 14 15 91 .599 + Athletics 7 18 -- 10 14 13 16 17 99 .592 + Chicago 6 9 12 -- 11 14 13 13 78 .506 + Cleveland 11 4 8 11 -- 13 15 13 75 .490 + Detroit 6 8 9 8 9 -- 13 16 69 .451 + St. Louis 5 8 6 9 7 9 -- 9 58 .344 + New York 3 7 5 9 8 6 13 -- 50 .329 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + Lost 47 61 62 76 78 84 101 102 + + NATIONAL LEAGUE + + STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON. + + N.Y. Pitts.Chi. Cin. Phil.St.L. Bkln. Bos. Won. PC. + +New York -- 12 9 16 17 15 16 18 103 .682 +Pittsburgh 8 -- 13 11 14 15 14 18 93 .616 +Chicago 13 8 -- 11 10 15 17 17 91 .607 +Cincinnati 6 11 10 -- 8 13 16 11 75 .498 +Philadelphia 5 8 10 14 -- 11 13 12 73 .480 +St. Louis 7 7 7 9 11 -- 10 12 63 .412 +Brooklyn 6 8 5 6 9 11 -- 13 58 .379 +Boston 3 4 6 11 10 10 9 -- 52 .340 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---- +Lost 48 58 59 78 79 90 95 101 +</pre> +<p>The Chicago-Pittsburgh game at Chicago, October 2, was protested +by the Pittsburgh club and thrown out of the records, taking a +victory from the Chicago club and a defeat from the Pittsburgh +club.</p> +<p>CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS IN PREVIOUS YEARS.</p> +<pre> +1871- Athletics .759 | 1885- Chicago .770 | 1899- Brooklyn .682 +1872- Boston .830 | 1886- Chicago .726 | 1900- Brooklyn .603 +1873- Boston .729 | 1887- Detroit .637 | 1901- Pittsburgh .647 +1874- Boston .717 | 1888- New York .641 | 1902- Pittsburgh .741 +1875- Boston .899 | 1889- New York .659 | 1903- Pittsburgh .650 +1876- Chicago .788 | 1890- Brooklyn .667 | 1904- New York .693 +1877- Boston .646 | 1891- Boston .630 | 1905- New York .668 +1878- Boston .683 | 1892- Boston .680 | 1906- Chicago .765 +1879- Providence .702 | 1893- Boston .667 | 1907- Chicago .704 +1880- Chicago .798 | 1894- Baltimore .695 | 1908- Chicago .643 +1881- Chicago .667 | 1895- Baltimore .669 | 1909- Pittsburgh .724 +1882- Chicago .655 | 1896- Baltimore .698 | 1910- Chicago .676 +1883- Boston .643 | 1897- Boston .795 | 1911- New York .647 +1884- Providence .750 | 1898- Boston .685 | +</pre> +<p>INDIVIDUAL BATTING.</p> +<p>Following are the Official Batting Averages of National League +players who participated in any manner in at least fifteen +championship games during the season of 1912:</p> +<pre> +Name and Club G. A.B. R. H. T.B. 2B 3B HR SH SB PC +Zimmerman, Chicago 145 557 95 207 318 41 14 14 18 23 .372 +Meyers, New York 126 371 60 133 177 16 5 6 9 8 .358 +Sweeney, Boston 153 593 84 204 264 81 13 1 33 27 .344 +Evers, Chicago 143 478 73 163 211 23 11 1 14 16 .341 +Bresnaban, St. Louis 48 108 8 36 50 7 2 1 -- 4 .333 +McCormick, New York 42 39 4 13 19 4 1 -- -- 1 .333 +Doyle, New York 143 558 98 184 263 33 8 10 13 36 .330 +Kuisely, Cincinnati 21 67 10 22 35 7 8 -- 1 3 .328 +Lobert, Philadelphia 65 257 37 84 112 12 5 2 10 13 .327 +Wiltse, New York 28 46 5 15 17 2 -- -- 1 1 .326 +Wagner, Pittsburgh 145 558 91 181 277 36 20 7 11 26 .324 +Hendrix, Pittsburgh 46 121 25 39 64 10 6 1 2 1 .322 +Kirke, Boston 103 359 53 115 146 11 4 4 9 7 .320 +Kelly, Pittsburgh 48 132 20 42 52 3 2 1 7 8 .318 +Marsans, Cincinnati 110 416 59 132 168 19 7 1 9 35 .317 +Kling, Boston 81 252 26 80 102 10 3 2 7 8 .317 +Donlin, Pittsburgh 77 244 27 77 108 9 8 2 10 8 .316 +Stengel, Brooklyn 17 57 9 38 22 1 -- 1 1 5 .316 +Paskert, Philadelphia 145 540 102 170 221 38 5 1 11 35 .315 +Konetchy, St. Louis 143 538 81 169 245 26 13 8 17 35 .314 +Crandall, New York 50 80 9 25 25 6 2 -- 3 -- .313 +Titus, + Philadelphia-Boston 141 502 99 155 224 32 11 5 15 11 .309 +Merkle, New York 129 479 82 148 215 22 6 11 8 37 .309 +Daubert, Brooklyn 145 559 81 173 232 19 16 3 14 39 .308 + +W. Miller, Chicago 86 241 45 74 93 11 4 -- 8 11 .307 +S. Magee, Phila 132 464 79 142 203 25 9 6 29 30 .306 +Wheat, Brooklyn 123 453 70 138 204 28 7 8 7 16 .305 +Huggins, St. Louis 120 431 82 131 154 15 4 -- 11 35 .304 +Carey, Pittsburgh 150 587 114 177 231 23 8 5 37 45 .302 +Edington, Pittsburgh 15 53 4 16 20 -- 2 -- 3 -- .302 +Simon, Pittsburgh 42 113 10 34 38 2 1 -- -- 1 .301 + + +</pre> +<hr class="full"> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASEBALL GUIDE - 1913***</p> +<p>******* This file should be named 10028-h.txt or 10028-h.zip *******</p> +<p>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> +<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/1/0/0/2/10028">https://www.gutenberg.org/1/0/0/2/10028</a></p> +<p>Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed.</p> + +<p>Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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Foster + +Release Date: October 12, 2003 [eBook #10028] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASEBALL GUIDE +- 1913*** + + +Credit for e-text: The Library of Congress, Joshua Hutchinson, David King, +and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + + +SPALDING'S OFFICIAL ATHLETIC LIBRARY + +BASEBALL GUIDE + +1913 + +EDITED BY + +JOHN B. FOSTER + + +PRICE 10 CENTS + +PUBLISHED BY + +AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING CO., +21 Warren Street, New York City. + + + + +[Advertisement] + +AMERICA'S NATIONAL GAME + +By A. G. SPALDING + +PRICE, $2.00 NET + +A book of 600 pages, profusely illustrated with over 100 full page +engravings, and having sixteen forceful cartoons by Homer C. Davenport, +the famous American artist. + +The above work should have a place in every public library in this +country, as also in the libraries of public schools and private houses. + +The author of "America's National Game" is conceded, always, everywhere, +and by everybody, to have the best equipment of any living writer to +treat the subject that forms the text of this remarkable volume, viz., +the story of the origin, development and evolution of Base Ball, the +National Game of our country. + +Almost from the very inception of the game until the present time--as +player, manager and magnate--Mr. Spalding has been closely identified +with its interests. Not infrequently he has been called upon in times of +emergency to prevent threatened disaster. But for him the National Game +would have been syndicated and controlled by elements whose interests +were purely selfish and personal. + +The book is a veritable repository of information concerning players, +clubs and personalities connected with the game in its early days, and +is written in a most interesting style, interspersed with enlivening +anecdotes and accounts of events that have not heretofore been +published. + +The response on the part of the press and the public to Mr. Spalding's +efforts to perpetuate the early history of the National Game has been +very encouraging and he is in receipt of hundreds of letters and +notices, a few of which are here given. + +ROBERT ADAMSON, New York, writing from the office of Mayor Gaynor, +says:--"Seeing the Giants play is my principal recreation and I am +interested in reading everything I can find about the game. I especially +enjoy what you [Mr. Spalding] have written, because you stand as the +highest living authority on the game." + +BARNEY DREYFUSS, owner of the Pittsburg National League club:--"It does +honor to author as well as the game. I have enjoyed reading it very +much." + +WALTER CAMP, well known foot ball expert and athlete, says:--"It is +indeed a remarkable work and one that I have read with a great deal of +interest." + +JOHN B. DAY, formerly President of the New York Nationals:--"Your +wonderful work will outlast all of us." + +W. IRVING SNYDER, formerly of the house of Peck & Snyder:--"I have read +the book from cover to cover with great interest." + +ANDREW PECK, formerly of the celebrated firm of Peck & Snyder:--"All +base ball fans should read and see how the game was conducted in early +years." + +MELVILLE E. STONE, New York, General Manager Associated Press:--"I find +it full of valuable information and very interesting. I prize it very +highly." + +GEORGE BARNARD, Chicago:--"Words fail to express my appreciation of the +book. It carries me back to the early days of base ball and makes me +feel like a young man again." + +CHARLES W. MURPHY, President Chicago National League club:--"The book is +a very valuable work and will become a part of every base ball library +in the country." + +JOHN F. MORILL, Boston, Mass., old time base ball star.--"I did not +think it possible for one to become so interested in a book on base +ball. I do not find anything in it which I can criticise." + +RALPH D. PAINE, popular magazine writer and a leading authority on +college sport:--"I have been reading the book with a great deal of +interest. 'It fills a long felt want,' and you are a national benefactor +for writing it." + +GEN. FRED FUNSTON, hero of the Philippine war:--"I read the book with a +great deal of pleasure and was much interested in seeing the account of +base ball among the Asiatic whalers, which I had written for Harper's +Round Table so many years ago." + +DEWOLF HOPPER, celebrated operatic artist and comedian:--"Apart from the +splendid history of the evolution of the game, it perpetuates the +memories of the many men who so gloriously sustained it. It should be +read by every lover of the sport." + +HUGH NICOL, Director of Athletics, Purdue University, Lafayette, +Ind.:--"No one that has read this book has appreciated it more than I. +Ever since I have been big enough, I have been in professional base +ball, and you can imagine how interesting the book is to me." + +MRS. BRITTON, owner of the St. Louis Nationals, through her treasurer, +H.D. Seekamp, writes:--"Mrs. Britton has been very much interested in +the volume and has read with pleasure a number of chapters, gaining +valuable information as to the history of the game." + +REV. CHARLES H. PARKHURST, D.D., New York:--"Although I am not very much +of a 'sport,' I nevertheless believe in sports, and just at the present +time in base ball particularly. Perhaps if all the Giants had an +opportunity to read the volume before the recent game (with the +Athletics) they might not have been so grievously outdone." + +BRUCE CARTWRIGHT, son of Alexander J. Cartwright, founder of the +Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, the first organization of ball players in +existence, writing from his home at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, +says:--"I have read the book with great interest and it is my opinion +that no better history of base ball could have been written." + +GEORGE W. FROST, San Diego, Calif.:--"You and 'Jim' White, George +Wright, Barnes, McVey, O'Rourke, etc., were little gods to us back there +in Boston in those days of '74 and '75, and I recall how indignant we +were when you 'threw us down' for the Chicago contract. The book is +splendid. I treasure it greatly." + +A.J. REACH, Philadelphia, old time professional expert:--"It certainly +is an interesting revelation of the national game from the time, years +before it was so dignified, up to the present. Those who have played the +game, or taken an interest in it in the past, those at present engaged +in it, together with all who are to engage in it, have a rare treat in +store." + +DR. LUTHER H. GULICK, Russell Sage Foundation:--"Mr. Spalding has been +the largest factor in guiding the development of the game and thus +deserves to rank with other great men of the country who have +contributed to its success. It would have added to the interest of the +book if Mr. Spalding could have given us more of his own personal +experiences, hopes and ambitions in connection with the game." + +_Pittsburg Press_:--"Historical incidents abound and the book is an +excellent authority on the famous sport." + +_Philadelphia Telegraph_:--"In this book Mr. Spalding has written the +most complete and authoritative story of base ball yet published." + +_New York Herald_:--"If there is anyone in the country competent to +write a book on base ball it is A.G. Spalding who has been interested in +the game from its early beginnings." + +I.E. Sanborn, Chicago _Tribune_:--"'America's National Game' has been +added to the _Tribune's_ sporting reference library as an invaluable +contribution to the literature of the national pastime." + +O.C. Reichard, Chicago _Daily News_:--"It is cleverly written and +presents information and dates of great value to the newspaper man of +to-day!" + +George C. Rice, Chicago _Journal_:--"I have read the book through, and +take pleasure in stating that it is a complete history of the game from +the beginning until the present time." + +Sherman R. Duffy, Sporting Editor _Chicago Journal_:--"It is a most +interesting work and one for which there was need. It is the most +valuable addition to base ball literature that has yet been put out." + +Joseph H. Vila, New York _Sun_:--"I have read it carefully and with much +interest. It is the best piece of base ball literature I have ever seen, +and I congratulate you on the work." + +Tim Murnane, Sporting Editor _Boston Globe_:--"You have given to the +world a book of inestimable value, a classic in American history; a book +that should be highly prized in every home library in the country." + +Francis C. Richter, Editor _Sporting Life_, Philadelphia:--"From a +purely literary standpoint, your work is to me amazing. Frankly, I would +not change a line, for the reason that the story is told in a way to +grip the reader and hold his interest continually." + +_Los Angeles Times_ (editorial):--"Spalding's book has been out six +months and ninety thousand copies have been sold. We understand there +will be other editions. America has taken base ball seriously for at +last two generations, and it is time enough that the fad was given an +adequate text book." + +Caspar Whitney, Editor _Outdoor America_, and one of the leading +authorities in the world on sport:--"You have made an invaluable +contribution to the literature of the game, and one none else could have +made. Moreover, you've done some very interesting writing, which is a +distinct novelty in such books--too often dull and uninteresting." + +_New York World_:--"Albert G. Spalding, who really grew up with the +sport, has written 'America's National Game,' which he describes as not +a history, but the simple story of the game as he has come to know it. +His book, therefore, is full of living interest. It is a volume +generously illustrated and abounds in personal memories of base ball in +the making." + +_New York Sun_:--"There is a mass of interesting information regarding +base ball, as might be expected, in Mr. Spalding's 'America's National +Game.' It is safe to say that before Spalding there was no base ball. +The book is no record of games and players, but it is historical in a +broader sense, and the author is able to give his personal decisive +testimony about many disputed points." + +_Evening Telegram_, New York:--"In clear, concise, entertaining, +narrative style, Albert G. Spalding has contributed in many respects the +most interesting work pertaining to base ball, the national game, which +has been written. + +"There is so much in it of interest that the temptation not to put it +down until it is completed is strong within the mind of every person who +begins to read it. As a historical record it is one of those volumes +which will go further to straighten some disputed points than all of the +arguments which could be advanced in good natured disputes which might +last for months." + +_Providence_ (R. I.) _Tribune_:--"The pictures of old time teams players +and magnates of a bygone era will interest every lover of the game, and +no doubt start many discussions and recollections among the old timers." + +_New York Evening Mail_:--"Were it possible to assemble the grand army +of base ball fans in convention, their first act probably would be to +pass a vote of thanks to Mr. A.G. Spalding for his work 'America's +National Game'." + +_Columbus_ (Ohio) _Dispatch_:--"Never before has been put in print so +much of authentic record of this distinctly national game, and it will +be long, if ever, until so thoroughly interesting and useful a volume is +published to cover the same field." + +_New Orleans Picayune_:--"The pictures of old time teams, players and +magnates of a bygone era will interest every lover of the game. Homer +Davenport, America's great cartoonist, has contributed drawings in his +inimitable style of various phases of the game." + +_Indianapolis Star_:--"From cover to cover, the 542 pages are filled +with material for 'fanning bees,' which the average 'fan' never before +encountered. It is an interesting volume for anyone who follows the +national pastime and a valuable addition to any library." + +_Buffalo News_:--"No book on base ball has ever been written that is +superior to this one by A.G. Spalding. The book is admirably written, +yet without any frills. Many of the more notable incidents recounted in +this book are having wide publication by themselves." + +_Brooklyn Times_:--"The book is practically a compendium of the salient +incidents in the evolution of professional base ball. Mr. Spalding is +pre-eminently fitted to perform this service, his connection with the +game having been contemporaneous with its development, as player, club +owner and league director." + +_Washington_ (D. C.) _Star_:--"This work appeals with peculiar force to +the public. Mr. Spalding's name is almost synonymous with base ball. He +has worked to the end of producing a volume which tells the story of the +game vividly and accurately. Taken altogether, this is a most valuable +and entertaining work." + +_New York American_:--"One of the best selling books of the season has +been 'America's National Game,' by A.G. Spalding. The first edition of +five thousand copies has been sold out (in two months) and a second +edition of five thousand is now on the press. As a Christmas gift from +father to son, it is most appropriate." + +_Cincinnati Enquirer_:--"As a veteran of the diamond, well qualified to +do so, Mr. Spalding has committed to print a professional's version of +the distinctly American game. This well known base ball celebrity has a +store of familiar anecdotes embracing the entire period of the game as +now played and the reader will find it most interesting." + +_Teacher and Home, New York_:--"Every live father of a live boy will +want to buy this book. It is said of some of the 'best sellers' that +they hold one to the end. This book holds the reader with its anecdote, +its history, its pictures; but it will have no end; for no home--no +American home--will be complete hereafter without it." + +_Buffalo Times_:--"A.G. Spalding, with whose name every American boy is +familiar, has been prevailed upon to commit to print events which were +instrumental in guiding the destinies of the National League during the +trying period of its early days. To write upon base ball in a historical +manner, and yet not fall into the habit of quoting interminable +statistics, is a feat that few could accomplish." + +_Cincinnati Times-Star_:--"'America's National Game,' A.G. Spalding's +great book upon the diamond sport, is now upon the market and receiving +well merited attention. It tells the story as Mr. Spalding saw it, and +no man has been in position to see more. When 'Al' Spalding, the sinewy +pitcher of nearly forty years ago, came into the arena, the game was +young, and through all the changing seasons that have seen it mature +into full bloom, its closest watcher and strongest friend has been the +same 'Al' Spalding." + +_Cincinnati Time-Star_:--"The book is at once a history, a cyclopaedia +and a most entertaining volume." + +_New York American_:--"'America's National Game' tells for the first +time the history of the national game of base ball." + +_Portland Oregonian_:--"The book is of rare interest and has such +personal value in the story line that one hardly knows where to begin in +making quotations from it--all the stories told are so admirable." + +JOHN T. NICHOLSON, Principal Public School 186, New York:--"It's a great +book." + +REV. W.A. SUNDAY, Evangelist:--"No one in America is better qualified to +talk of base ball, from its inception to its present greatness, than +A.G. Spalding." + +WM. L. VEECK and ED. W. SMITH, of the Chicago _American_:--"We have +found much enjoyment in reading the book, and it is very valuable in our +work." + +W.H. CONANT, Gossamer Rubber Co., Boston, Mass.:--"I have read the book +with great pleasure and it produced a vivid reminiscence of the striking +events in base ball, so full of interest to all lovers of the game." + +JOSEPH B. MACCABE, Editor East Boston (Mass.) _Argus-Advocate_, and +ex-President Amateur Athletic Union:--"I want to express my gratitude, +as a humble follower of manly sport, for the compilation of this +historic work." + +JOHN A. LOWELL, President John A. Lowell Bank Note Company, Boston, +Mass.:--"I have read the book with great interest and it certainly is a +valuable compilation of facts relating to the history of base ball, the +great national game of America. I prize it very highly." + +WM. F. GARCELON, Harvard Athletic Association, Cambridge, Mass.:--"I +think 'America's National Game' is not only intensely interesting but +most valuable, as giving the history of the game. Better still, my nine +year old boy is looking forward to the time when he can get it away from +me." + +GUSTAV T. KIRBY, President of the Amateur Athletic Union:--"Not only as +a historical sketch of this great national game, but also as a technical +dissertation on base ball as it was and is, this book will not only be +of interest but of benefit to all of us Americans who are interested in +sport--and what American is not interested in sport?--and being +interested in sport, chiefly in base ball." + +EVERETT C. BROWN, Chicago, ex-president of the Amateur Athletic Union of +the United States:--"It is very seldom that any history of any sport or +anything pertaining to athletics approaches the interest with which one +reads a popular work of fiction, but I can truthfully say that I have +read the story of the great national game with as much interest as I +have read any recent work of fiction." + +THOMAS F. GRAHAM, Judge Superior Court, San Francisco:--"'America's +National Game' contains matter on the origin and development of base +ball--the greatest game ever devised by man--that will be of the utmost +interest to the base ball loving people, not only of this, but of every +English speaking country; and I am sure it will perpetuate the name of +A.G. Spalding to the end of time." + + + + +SPALDING'S OFFICIAL ATHLETIC LIBRARY + +SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE + +Thirty-seventh Year + +1913 + +EDITED BY + +JOHN B. FOSTER + +AMERICAN SPORTS PUBLISHING COMPANY +21 Warren Street, New York + + + + +CONTENTS + + +A Remarkable Base Ball Tournament + +A World's Series Problem + +American League Averages, Official + +American League Season of 1912 + +Base Ball Writers of the South + +Base Ball Worth While? + +Base Ball Playing Rules, Official + Index to Playing + Ready Reference Index to + +Base Ball Playing Rules, Spalding's Simplified-- + Ball + Ball Ground + Balls, Providing + Balls, Soiling + Base Running Rules + Bat, Regulation + Batting Rules + Benches, Players + Coaching Rules + Definitions, General + Field for Play, Fitness of + Field Rules + Game, Regulation + Gloves and Mitts, Regulation + Ground Rules + Innings, Choice of + Players, Numbers and Position of + Players, Substitute + Pitching Rules + Scoring Rules + Scoring of Runs + Umpires' Authority + Umpires' Duties + Uniforms + +Club Rosters of 1912, Official + +Diagram, Correct, of a Ball Field + +Editorial Comment + +Elementary School Base Ball Tournament + +Introduction + +John Tomlinson Brush + +National League Season of 1912 + +National League Averages, Official + +National Association of Professional Base Ball Leagues-- + American Association + Appalachian League + Blue Grass League + Border League + Canadian League + Central Association + Central Kansas League + Central League + Cotton States League + Eastern Association + Illinois-Missouri League + Indiana-Illinois-Iowa League + International League + Kentucky-Ind.-Tenn. League + Michigan State League + "Mink" League + New York State League + New England League + Nebraska State League + North Carolina League + Northwestern League + Ohio and Pennsylvania League + Ohio State League + Pacific Coast League + South Atlantic League + Southeastern League + Southern Association + Southern Michigan Association + Texas League + Tri-State League + Union Association + Virginia League + Western Canada League + Western League + +New Faces in the Old League + +Notes + +Schedules-- + American League + International League + National League + Northwestern League + Southern Michigan + Texas League + +The Spalding Base Ball Hall of Fame + +The World's Series of 1912 + +The Umpires + +NOTICE--To give adequate representation to College and School Base Ball +Teams, which heretofore has not been possible in the Guide owing to lack +of room, "Spalding's Official Collegiate Base Ball Annual" will be +issued in February. It will contain complete college records, pictures +and information exclusively pertaining to College Base Ball. Price 10 +cents. + + + + +INTRODUCTION + + +In preparing this issue of SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE for the +season of 1913, it has occurred to the Editor that the season of 1912, +and the period which followed its completion, have been filled, with a +great deal of unusual and uncommon vicissitude. + +In the first place the personnel of the National League, the oldest Base +Ball organization in the world, has been greatly changed by reason of +death and purchase of one franchise. New owners have brought new faces +into the game, and when the National League starts on this year's +campaign there will be some younger but equally as ambitious men at the +heads of some of the clubs. + +The players have effected an organization. That, too, is an incident of +interest, for it is well within the memory of the Base Ball "fans" of +this day what happened when another organization was perfected in the +past. For this organization it may be said that the members promise that +it will be their object to bring about better deportment on the part of +their own associates and that they will work their best for the +advancement of Base Ball from a professional standpoint. If they do this +they will be of benefit to the sport. If they work from selfish motives +it is inevitable that eventually there will be a clash, as there was in +the past. + +The last world's series which was played was the greatest special series +of games which has been played in the history of the national pastime. +There may have been single games and there may have been series which +have attracted their full measure of interest from the Base Ball "fans," +but there never has been a special series so filled with thrills and +excitement as that between the New York and Boston clubs. The GUIDE this +year enters into the subject thoroughly with photographs and a story of +the games and feels that the readers will enjoy the account of the +contests. + +Some innovations have been attempted in this number of the GUIDE which +should interest Base Ball readers. Attention is called to the symposium +by prominent Base Ball writers which brings up a subject of interest in +regard to future world's series. There are other special articles, +including something about the Base Ball writers of the South, who have +decided to organize a chapter of their own. + +The year 1912 was one of progress and advancement on the part of Base +Ball throughout the world. To-day it not only is stronger than ever as +America's national game but it is making fast progress in other +countries because of the attractiveness of the pastime. + +The Editor of the GUIDE wishes its thousands of readers an even more +enjoyable Base Ball year in 1913 than they had in 1912. This publication +is now one of worldwide circulation, and carries the gospel of Base +Ball, not only across the Atlantic ocean, but across the Pacific ocean +as well. One of these days it may be its province to report a series for +the international championship, and then Base Ball will have become the +universal game of the world, a place toward which it is rapidly tending. + +THE EDITOR. + + + + +EDITORIAL COMMENT + +BY JOHN B. FOSTER. + + +PROGRESS OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL GAME + +Two more nations have been conquered by the national game of the United +States; a whole race has succumbed to the fascinations of the greatest +of all outdoor sports. Both France and Sweden have announced their +intention of organizing Base Ball leagues. That of Sweden is well under +way. Indeed, they have a club in Stockholm and there are more to follow, +while the French, who have gradually been awakening to the joys of +athletic pastime in which they have hitherto chosen to participate in +other ways, hope to have a new league by the expiration of the present +summer. + +There is no doubt as to their intention to play Base Ball. They are +making efforts to procure suitable players from the United States to +coach them and the French promoters of the sport are determined that +their young men shall be given every opportunity to take advantage of +the game of which they have heard so much, and have seen so little. + +Last year in the GUIDE it was the pleasure of the editor to call +attention to the fact that the Japanese had so thoroughly grasped Base +Ball that they were bent on some day playing an American team for the +international championship. It is not probable that such a series will +take place within the next five years, but not improbable that it will +take place within the next decade. When the Japanese learn to bat +better, and with more effect, they will become more dangerous rivals to +the peace of mind of the American players. They have grasped the general +theory of the game amazingly well, and they field well, but they have +yet to develop some of those good old fashioned "clean up" hitters in +which the "fans" of the United States revel. + +This season it comes to the attention of the editor of the GUIDE that +more progress has been made in China in regard to Base Ball than in any +fifty years preceding. True, there was not much Base Ball in the fifty +years preceding, but now there is. There is a league at Hong Kong. There +are Base Ball teams at Shanghai and other cities. + +Dr. Eliot, former president of Harvard, who recently returned from a +trip around the world, holds that Base Ball has done more to humanize +and civilize the Chinese than any influence which has been introduced by +foreigners, basing his statement on the fact that the introduction of +the sport among the younger Chinese has exerted a tremendous restraint +upon their gambling propensities. + +It is a rather queer fact that where the civilizations are older in the +countries of the Occident there is a greater tendency to gamble, +especially among the young, than there is in the newer America. +Doubtless this is largely due to the lack of athletic pastime. The young +of those countries know little or nothing about simple amusements which +are so popular in the United States, and acquire from their elders their +knowledge of betting and taking part in games of chance, two evils which +unquestionably have done much to degrade the race as a whole. + +Base Ball has caught the fancy of the younger generation and the boys. +Once they get a ball and a bat in their hands they are better satisfied +with them than with all the gambling devices which have been bequeathed +to them by a long and eminent line of forefathers. + +So it would appear that the introduction of the national game of the +United States into China is likely to exert a humanizing influence which +shall go further than legislation or sword, and if only the missionaries +had grasped earlier the wishes and the tendency of the younger element +of the Chinese population, the country might be further along than it is +with its progressive movement. + +In the Philippine Islands the younger generation simply has gone wild +over Base Ball. Progress has been noted in the GUIDE from time to time +of the increase of interest but it is now at such a pitch that the boys +of the islands, wherever Base Ball has been introduced, simply have +deserted everything for it. They will play nothing else. The cockfights +and the gambling games, which were also a part of the amusement of the +younger men, have been given up. The little fellows who wear not much +more than a breechclout play Base Ball. They have picked up many of the +American terms and one of the most amusing of experiences is to stand +outside the walls of old Manila and hear the little brown boys call: +"Shoot it over. Line it out," and the like, returning to their native +language, and jabbering excitedly in Filipino whenever they arrive at +some point of play in which their command of English fails them. + +Twenty years from now a league including cities of the Philippines, +China and Japan, is by no means out of the question, and it may be that +the introduction of Base Ball into all three countries will result in a +better understanding between the peoples and perhaps bring all three +races to a better frame of mind as relates to their personal ambitions +and rivalries. + +In connection with the widespread influence which Base Ball is having on +both sides of the world, on the shores of the Pacific Ocean and on those +of the Atlantic Ocean the editor would like to call attention to the +theory which has been advanced by Mr. A.G. Spalding, the founder of the +GUIDE, as to the efficacy of Base Ball for the purpose of training +athletes, that has a worldwide application. + +Mr. Spalding contends that Base Ball has lent no small assistance to the +athletes of the United States in helping them to win premier honors at +the Olympic Games since their reintroduction. Mr. Spalding was the first +American Commissioner to the Olympic Games appointed to that post, the +honor being conferred upon him in 1900, when the late President McKinley +gave him his commission to represent the United States at Paris in 1900. +Mr. Spalding, with his analytical mind has reasoned out a theory which +is undoubtedly of great accuracy, and which is further corroborated by +an interview given out in London--strangely enough on the same day that +Mr. Spalding gave utterance to his ideas in Los Angeles--by Mr. J.E. +Sullivan, American Commissioner to the Olympic Games at Stockholm last +year, while returning to the United States after witnessing the triumphs +of the Americans. Mr. Spalding said: + +"I cannot say that I am at all surprised at the result at Stockholm. +History has been repeating itself in this way ever since the celebration +of the Olympic games was inaugurated at Athens. America won the victory +there in 1896; she triumphed again at Paris in 1900; our athletes +defeated the contestants at St. Louis in 1904; the victory was ours at +London in 1908, and it was a foregone conclusion that we would win at +Stockholm. + +"But there is food for thought in this uninterrupted succession of +triumphs. Why do our athletes always win? All other things being equal, +the contestants in the country holding the event should naturally come +to the front. Their numbers are always greater than those from any other +country and the home grounds influence is strong. However, that +advantage has not in any case prevented American success. + +"Therefore there must be a cause. What is it? Measured by scale and +tape, our athlete's are not so much superior as a class. The theory of +'more beef' must be discarded. We may not lay claim to having all the +best trainers of the world. We must look to some other source for +American prowess. + +"I may be a prejudiced judge, but I believe the whole secret of these +continued successes is to be found to the kind of training that comes +with the playing of America's national game, and our competitors in +other lands may never hope to reach the standard of American athletes +until they learn this lesson and adopt our pastime. + +"The question, 'When should the training of a child begin?' has been +wisely answered by the statement that it should antedate his birth. The +training of Base Ball may not go back quite that far, but it approaches +the time as nearly as practicable, for America starts training of future +Olympian winners very early in life. Youngsters not yet big enough to +attend school begin quickening their eyesight and sharpening their wits +and strengthening their hands and arms and legs by playing on base ball +fields ready at hand in the meadows of farms, the commons of villages +and the parks of cities all over the land. Base ball combines running, +jumping, throwing and everything that constitutes the athletic events of +the Olympian games. But above all, it imparts to the player that degree +of confidence in competition, that indefinable something that enables +one athlete to win over another who may be his physical equal but who is +lacking the American spirit begotten of base ball. + +"An analysis of the 1912 Olympian games shows that the American showed +to best advantage in contests where the stress of competition was +hardest. In the dashes they were supreme; in the hurdles they were in a +class by themselves, and in the high jump and pole vault there was no +one worthy of their steel. Whenever quick thinking and acting was +required, an American was in front. Does not this fact prove that the +American game of base ball enables the player to determine in the +fraction of a second what to do to defeat his contestant?" + + * * * * * + +WHAT A SEASON OF BASE BALL COSTS + +It may not be out of place to say a few words in regard to the greatly +increased cost of Base Ball. There are some sensational writers whose +hobby is to inform the public about the great receipts in Base Ball. +Usually they exaggerate from twenty-five to thirty-five per cent. + +Now as to the expense of Base Ball. Figures at an approximate for the +National League will be offered. Railroad expenses for mileage alone +$300,000, including spring training trips. Hotel bills $65,000. Sleeping +cars and meals en route, $80,000. Salaries to players, $480,000. Total, +$875,000. Add to this $30,000 for the salaries of umpires and their +traveling expenses. That makes $905,000. + +Now not a penny has been appropriated thus far for the salaries of the +president of the National League, the secretary and expenditures of the +office nor for the salaries of the business departments of the various +clubs, nor for ground rents, taxes and a dozen and one other things, to +say nothing of that well-known old item "wear and tear." + +The receipts of Base Ball barely cover these expenditures. The alleged +profits of Base Ball mostly are fanciful dreams of those who know +nothing of the practical side of the sport and are stunned when they are +made acquainted with the real financial problems which confront club +owners. + +But the money that is contributed to the support of the game almost +immediately finds its way back into public channels. Less than thirty +per cent. of Base Ball clubs realize what a business man would call a +fair return on the amount invested. + +A well-known writer on economic topics interviewed owners of Base Ball +clubs as to their income and outgo. One of the best known of the +National League men took the writer into his office and spread the cash +book of the club's business before him. + +"You may go through it if you wish," said the owner, "but here is the +balance for the last day of the year." + +It read as follows: Receipts, $250,505; expenditures, $246,447. + +"That's answer enough for me," said the writer. "I am through with any +more essays on the affluence of Base Ball 'magnates.' I think it would +be better to extend them the hand of charity than the mailed fist." + + * * * * * + +THE NEW ORGANIZATION OF PLAYERS + +The formation of an organization on the part of the major league ball +players during the closing days of the season of 1912 was looked upon +with some misgivings by those who remember only too well what happened +when a prior organization of ball players was formed. + +In the present instance those foremost in perfecting the organization +have also been foremost in asserting that the players' organization's +principal aim is to co-operate with the club owners. + +If this object is followed with fidelity and to its ultimate conclusion +there is no necessity to fear any grave disturbances, but there is a +dread--that dread which is the fear of the child that has had its hands +burned by the flame, that a selfish coterie of players might obtain +control of the organization, set up a policy of unscrupulous defiance +and destructive opposition and retard for a moment the higher +development of the game. + +There is no organization, either of unscrupulous Base Ball players or +unscrupulous club owners, which will ever find it possible to destroy +organized Base Ball. The results that organized Base Ball have brought +about will never be annihilated although grave injury could be +temporarily wrought by a force defiant to tie unusual demands made by +the sport to perpetuate itself successfully. + +It is simply out of the question to control Base Ball as one would +control the affairs of a department store. Base Ball has its commercial +side, but its commercial side cannot maintain it with success. There +must be a predominant factor based upon the encouragement that brings +forth admiration for a high class sport. This factor can only be +fostered by the ability to maintain not one, but a group of high class +teams. + +Any ball player imbued with the idea that the "stars" should be grouped +together in the city best able to pay the highest salaries simply is an +enemy to his career and to those of his fellow players. + +Without some handicap to assist in the equalizing of the strength of +Base Ball nines of the professional leagues there will be no prosperity +for the leagues or the clubs individually. No better evidence may be +cited to prove this than the fact, repeatedly demonstrated that in the +smaller leagues Base Ball enthusiasts in the city best able to pay the +largest salaries frequently withdraw their support of the team because +"it wins all the time." + +To-day Base Ball, in its professional atmosphere, is nearer an ideal +sport, a better managed sport, and a more fairly and equitably adjusted +sport, than it ever has been, which is manifest proof of its superior +evolution. Had results been otherwise it would have retrograded and +possibly passed out of existence. Carefully comparing its management +with that of all other sports in history the Editor of the GUIDE +believes that it is the best managed sport in the world. + +It is true that improvements can be made. It is evident that there are +still commercialized owners not over capitalized with a spirit of sport. +It is undeniable that there are ball players not imbued with a high tone +of the obligations, which they owe to their employers and to the public, +but it is as certain as the existence of the game that progress has been +made, and that it has not ceased to move forward. + +For that reason players and owners must be guided by a sense of lofty +ideals and not be led astray by foolish outbursts over trivial +differences of opinion, easily to be adjusted by the exercise of a +little common sense. + + * * * * * + +BASE BALL PLAYED IN SWEDEN + +In connection with the subject of "Base Ball For All the World," for +which the GUIDE expounds and spreads the gospel, the Editor would submit +a very interesting letter received by him from Sweden. it reads as +follows: + +Westeras, Sweden, Sept. 14, 1912. + +To the Editor of the GUIDE: + +We hereby have the pleasure of sending you two copies of the rules, +translated and issued by the Westeras Base Ball Club, into Swedish from +the Spalding Base Ball Guide. + +The work of getting the book out has been somewhat slow on account of +that the work of translating, proofreading, etc., all had to be done on +our spare time, but it is done now, and I think we have succeeded pretty +well, everything considered. The books will be distributed by a +well-known book firm, Bjork & Boyeson, Stockholm, and will soon be +available in all the bookstores in Sweden. + +We got some advance copies out just in time for the Olympic Games, and I +had the pleasure of presenting some copies to Commissioner Col. +Thompson, Manager Halpin and others of the American Olympic Committee. + +As you know, so did we have a game of Base Ball at Stockholm with one of +the Finland teams, and as it may be of some interest to you to know the +preliminaries to the game, I am writing to relate how it happened. + +In trying to arrange for some amusements in the evenings at the Stadium, +the Olympic Committee wrote us if we would be willing to take part in a +game of Base Ball at Stadium some evening during the Stadium week. As +our club this year was in poor condition, on account of some of our best +players being out on military duties, we hesitated at first, but then +decided to risk it, knowing very well that whoever we would play +against, they would not rub in to us too hard. We pointed out to the +Olympic Committee that it would not be very hard to get a team of Base +Ball players picked out from the American athletes taking part in the +contests, but as they would not be prepared for Base Ball, suits and +other needed articles had to be provided for. We were then told to get +necessary things ordered, and so we did. We ordered suits from a tailor +in this town, after a pattern that I got from Spalding's this spring. +The suits were of gray flannel, with blue trimmings for our team and red +trimmings for the American. I also ordered bats and gloves, and with the +things our club already had, we were very well equipped. + +The Olympic Committee, Stockholm, then received a letter from the +Olympic Committee, New York, saying that if a game of Base Ball could be +arranged for during the Olympian Games, they would bring two teams along +on the Finland. The Olympic Committee cabled to come along, and sent us +a copy of Mr. Sullivan's letter. I knew, of course, that if the game +could be played by two American teams, it would be a much better game +than if our team took part, and told the Olympic Committee, and wanted +to withdraw, but as they did not know for sure how it would be, told us +to go ahead with the arrangements just the same, and so we did, and by +the time the Finland arrived, everything had been arranged for. + +The Olympic Committee has selected the evening, 7 P.M., of the 10th of +July, for the game, and thought that this would be suitable to the +Americans, but as some of the players had to take part in the contests, +Mr. Halpin would not risk them then, so it was finally decided that a +game should be played the 15th, the Americans to play six innings +between themselves and then six innings against us. + +Well, we had a game at the training grounds. We played six innings, and +Mr. Halpin was kind enough to let us have a pitcher and catcher from his +men. The score was 9 to 3, and it could just as well been 9 to 0, +perhaps. Well, at any rate, it was the first Base Ball game, as far as I +know, that ever took place in Europe between an American team and a +European team, with England possibly excepted. + +Mr. Halpin said that the Americans were going to play a game the next +morning between themselves, but that game did not come off. There was +probably no time for it, as the Finland left Stockholm the same day. +Very likely the American boys were somewhat disappointed in not being +able to play between themselves, as anticipated, and perhaps I should +not have pushed our game ahead, but as long as there was a Base Ball +team in Sweden, it would have been strange if it had not played, and it +gave our boys a chance to see how the game should be played, and they +certainly did take it in. Had the game been played as it was intended +and advertised, on the 10th in the Stadium, there would very likely have +been a bigger crowd present, and the game would also have been more +talked about in the papers, but then we will have to be satisfied as it +is. + +Our club has been practicing all summer, twice a week, and on the 24th +of August we gave an exhibition game here at Westeras, between two teams +from our club, the suits made for the Olympic Games coming in very +handy. I send you herewith a clipping from a local paper describing the +game, and also a picture of the two teams with myself and the umpire +included. + +At our game here we distributed the "Description of Base Ball," written +by you and translated into Swedish, and it came of good use. Next year +we intend to have our teams appear in the nearby cities around here, so +as to give people a chance to see the game, and it will not be long +before they will start it in Stockholm, so I think the game is bound to +be popular here also, + +Mr. George Wright, of Boston, was the umpire at the Stockholm games, and +as he was very kind to us, we would like to send him the picture of the +club, and hope that you will forward us his address. + +I am, for Westeras Base Ball Club, + +Yours truly, + +EDWIN JOHNSON, + +Electrical Engineer. + + * * * * * + +THE NEW NATIONAL AGREEMENT + +Unlimited satisfaction must be had by all who are connected with Base +Ball over the greatly improved conditions by which the season of 1913 is +begun under the new National Agreement. While it perhaps might be +exaggerated boastfulness to affirm that Base Ball, as a professionally +organized sport, has attained perfection, it is not out of reason-- +indeed, quite within reason--to observe that Base Ball never had such a +well balanced and perfect organization as that by which it is regulated +at the present time. + +The principal fact of congratulation lies in the safeguards and +provisions which have been thrown around the players of the minor +leagues and in the equitable and just measures which have been agreed +upon to provide for their future. + +As a general rule it may be taken for granted that the players of the +major leagues can take care of themselves. That is to say, their +positions, if they are expert in their calling, and conscientious in +their deportment, really take care of them. + +No club owner, unless he is maliciously or foolishly inclined, will +jeopardize the interests of his team by acting in a wilfully unjust +manner toward a player who is cheerfully and uprightly offering his +services. We may hear of occasional exceptions to this condition of +things, but if these occasional exceptions chance to arise, it is +inevitably certain that the owner in the long run will suffer to a +greater degree than the player with whom he deals unfairly. + +It is the history of Base Ball that more inequitable treatment has +arisen by fifty per cent in the minor leagues than has had its origin in +the major leagues. The reason for this existed almost wholly in the +inability of Base Ball as a whole to bring the minor league owners to a +realization of the injury that they might be doing and to extend such +punishment and insist upon such regulation as were necessary to change +this undesirable condition. + +By the organization of the National Association of Base Ball clubs the +minor leagues, for the first time in their history, placed themselves in +a position where they could demand proper enforcement of regulations for +the government of the sport, and by their alliance with the major league +clubs, under the articles of the National Agreement, a general working +basis was effected whereby compliance with rules could be insisted upon. + +The result of this admirable condition of affairs is that wisdom and +equity now rule where there once existed chaos and at times something +akin to anarchy in sport. + +At no time in the history of the game, which is so dear to the hearts of +the American people, has the general legislative and executive body been +so well equipped by the adoption of pertinent and virile laws to insist +upon justice to all concerned as at the present moment. + +The new National Agreement is an improvement upon the old and the old +was a long, long step in advance of anything which had preceded it. The +mere fact that club owners and leagues were so willing to adopt a system +better than its predecessor wholly confutes the absurd assertions of the +radical element that there is no consideration shown for the player. + +To the contrary, every consideration has been shown to the player, but +the latter must not confound with the consideration shown to him the +idea that his interests are the only interests at stake in Base Ball. +The man who is willing to furnish the sinews of war has as good standing +in court as the player who furnishes the base hits and the phenomenal +catches. + +So perfect is the system which is being attempted to be set in force by +the new National Agreement that the young man who now essays to play +professional Base Ball may be assured of steady advancement in this +profession and a generally improving condition if he will be as honest +by his employer as he expects his employer to be honest by him. + +The graduated system of assisting players, step by step, from the least +important leagues to the most important is the most perfect plan of its +kind that has ever been devised. There may be flaws in it, but if there +are they will be remedied, and if modifications are necessary to make it +more perfect there is no doubt that such modifications will be agreed +upon. + +As proof of what the new National Agreement may do, although it has +barely had time to be considered, the editor of the GUIDE would submit +the following for consideration: + +Ever since the National Agreement was organized the members have always +striven to aid the players in their efforts to gain the top rank in the +great national game. They have had a hard proposition in handling all of +the cases that have been brought to their attention, but their decisions +in all cases were absolutely fair and impartial. Then the matter of the +new agreement occasioned many hours of laborious work on the part of the +members of the Commission, and when the instrument was finally announced +it meant that all of the parties to such an agreement were satisfied and +that there could be no improvement. There was one detail that covered a +wide field, and that was in the matter of players; drafted by the two +big leagues and later sent back to the minors. Under the old National +Agreement it was possible to pick up a player by means of the annual +draft from one of the Class C leagues and just before the opening of the +season send him back to the club from whence he came without ever having +given him a chance to land with a club in some higher organization. + +Realizing that such players were not given a chance to advance in the +Base Ball profession, this matter was thoroughly thrashed out and the +new ruling under which all of the National Agreement clubs operate was +adopted. Now it is possible for a player in any of the smaller leagues +to be drafted by a major league club, and when the latter party does not +care to retain possession of such a player he is first offered to the +Class AA clubs. All of these clubs must waive on him before he can be +dropped farther down in the list, and if such should be the case he +would then be offered to the Class A clubs. In that way the player, +although he is not fast enough to remain in the two major leagues, is +always given a chance to advance, for if any of the clubs in those +classes higher than that from which he came had grabbed him he was bound +to receive an increase in salary. That meant that he had his chance to +advance, and that was the sole purpose of the National Agreement in +drafting such a rule. + +During the past drafting season there were sixty-nine players drafted by +the two major league clubs, and of that number twenty-seven have already +been sent back to the minor leagues. The Class AA and A clubs claimed +all of these twenty-seven, and it is more than likely that there will +also be many more who will be given trials by the big league clubs +during the spring training season and who may later be turned back to +the minors. Of the twenty-seven players thus far sent back seventeen of +them advanced in their profession, a tribute to the sagacity, wisdom and +impartiality of the members of the National Commission. The decision, as +announced by Chairman Herrmann of the National Commission pertaining to +this return of drafted players, is as follows: + +------------|-----------------|----------|-----------|-------------- + Clubs. | League. | Players. | Drafted | Drafted By + | | | From | +------------|-----------------|----------|-----------|-------------- +Louisville |American Asso. |Stansbury |Louisville |St. Louis N.L. +Chattanooga |Southern Asso. |Balenti |Chattanooga|St. Louis A.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |Berghammer|Lincoln |Chicago N.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |Orr |Sacramento |Phila. A.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |[1]Young |Harrisburg |New York A.L. +Sacramento |Pacific Coast |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Berghammer|Lincoln |Chicago N.L. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Cathers |Scranton |St. Louis N.L. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Metz |San Antonio|Boston N.L. +Indianapolis|American Asso. |Kernan |Oshkosh |Chicago A.L. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Bates |Newp't News|Cleveland. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Betts |San Antonio|Cleveland. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +New Orleans |Southern Asso. |Williams |Newark, O |Washington. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Williams |Newark, O |Washington. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Bates. |Newp't News|Cleveland. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Grubb |Morristown |Cleveland. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +Portland |Pacific Coast |Betts |San Antonio|Cleveland. +Milwaukee |American Asso. |Beall |Denver |Cleveland. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Berghammer|Lincoln |Chicago N.L. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Miller |Harrisburg |Pittsburgh. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Booe |Ft. Wayne |Pittsburgh. +St. Paul |American Asso. |House |Kewanee |Detroit. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Beall |Denver |Cleveland. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Balenti |Chattanooga|St. Louis A.L. +St. Paul |American Asso. |Agnew |Vernon |St. Louis A.L. +Omaha |Western League |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +Omaha |Western League |Williams |Newark, O |Washington. +Omaha |Western League |Betts |San Antonio|Cleveland. +Omaha |Western League |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Schang |Buffalo |Phila. A.L. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Dolan |Rochester |Phila. A.L. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Cottrell |Scranton |Chicago N.L. +Buffalo |Internat'l League|Clymer |Minneapolis|Chicago N.L. +Columbus |American Asso. |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +Rochester |Internat'l League|Dolan |Rochester |Phila. A.L. +Montreal |Internat'l League|Connelly |Montreal |Washington. +Toledo |American Asso. |Hernden |[2] |St. Louis. +Toledo |American Asso. |Stevenson |Oshkosh |St. Louis N.L. +Toledo |American Asso. |Bates |Newp't News|Cleveland. +Toledo |American Asso. |Wilson |Knoxville |Cleveland. +Denver |Western League |Heckinger |Racine |Chicago N.L. +Denver |Western League |Drohan |Kewanee |Washington. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +1: Subject to investigation as to whether New York American League Club +has title. + +2: Subject to investigation as to whether St. Louis American or National +League Club has title to this player and how secured. + + * * * * * + +A WORLD'S SERIES PROBLEM + +Much discussion arose after the finish of the last world's series as to +whether the adjustment of dates had worked satisfactorily. The +contention was that playing off a tie game on the ground where the game +had been scheduled might work some inconvenience to "fans" and result in +an inequitable allotment of dates, simply to conform to custom. + +It was asserted that the importance of the series demanded that it be a +home-and-home affair, dates to alternate regularly, regardless of all +ties or drawn games. To obtain opinion that is sound and practical the +Editor of the GUIDE sent forth the following letter: + + +NEW YORK, January 31, 1913. + +During the recent world's series it so happened that a tie was played in +one of the cities, which compelled both teams to remain in that city for +another date. Before the series was over this arrangement resulted in +one club having five games on its home grounds and the other club having +but three games on its home grounds. + +It has seemed to some that it is unjust. It is also contended that it is +unfair to the patrons of the game to schedule a contest and then not +play in the city specified after some had traveled many miles to see it. + +Will you please give the GUIDE your opinion as to whether a change would +be advisable? + +Very truly yours, + +JOHN B. FOSTER, +_Editor Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide._ + + +Answers were received to the request for a "symposium of opinion" as +follows: + + +"So far as having any effect on the chances of the two teams is +concerned, I don't think having to play more games on one ground than on +the other makes any material difference. Where cities are sufficiently +near each other for games to be alternated daily, it would perhaps be +fairer to spectators to do so, irrespective of ties; yet it seems to me +that a tie on one grounds should be played off the next day in the same +city." + +W.B. HANNA, +_New York Sun._ + + * * * * * + +"In my opinion the arrangement on tie games in the post-season contests +is a poor one. I saw the result of it in the series between the Cubs and +White Sox last fall. Two tie games were played and the confusion and +inconvenience it caused the fans was deplorable. It is unjust to the +followers who support Base Ball. It is also unjust, in a small way, to +the club which has to play two or more games on its opponent's field. +Players when away from their home grounds, in a fall series, are more or +less under a nervous strain. If there was confusion, inconvenience and +difficulty in a local series as a result of a tie game, the folly of the +arrangement must appear more absurd when towns like New York and Boston +are involved. Dates should alternate, tie or not tie." + +OSCAR C. REICHOW, +_Chicago Daily News._ + + * * * * * + +"We are in receipt of your favor of the 31st nlt., and wish to thank you +for the opportunity presented. + +"It is our opinion that a tie game was played and it should be +considered as a game. Either side had an opportunity to win and any +advantage that the home club might have had was lost when it failed to +break the tie. + +"It is, therefore, our belief that this game should have been played in +the other city. + +"As to it being unfair to the patrons who had traveled so far to see the +scheduled contest, there is no doubt that they were afforded a +sufficient amount of amusement and excitement for their trouble, in +witnessing a closely played contest." + +J. G. T. SPINK, +_St. Louis Sporting News._ + + * * * * * + +"It seems to me that the game should be alternated between the +contending cities regardless of ties. The tie game gave Boston five +games on the home grounds, while the Giants had only three. Besides, +many persons, who traveled to see the games in New York, were +inconvenienced." + +JOHN E. WHEELER, +_New York Herald._ + + * * * * * + +"I think that the scheduled programme should be played through +irrespective of the results of the respective games, and any extra +playing or playing-off should be done after the originally set schedule +is completed." + +H. P. BORCHELL, +_Sports Editor New York Times._ + + * * * * * + +"I believe it would be inadvisable to change the method that now +prevails. While the situation which arose last season did seem unjust to +the New York club, I think the very fact that Boston had five games on +its home grounds, and the Giants but three on their own diamond, was an +answer to those ill-advised skeptics who are always ready to raise the +cry of hippodroming. + +"That same situation is not likely to again arise for a long time, and I +believe the rule as it stands is a guarantee to the public of the strict +honesty of the world's championship contests." + +DAMON RUNYON, +_The New York American._ + + * * * * * + +"A change in the rules regarding world series games would he fairer to +the patrons of the sport. Here in Chicago this past fall two ties were +played and, as a result, there was considerable confusion over the +ticket arrangements. How much more is the case when two cities are +involved? A condition which allows five games to be played in one city +and only three in another is scarcely fair to the two teams. By making a +schedule calling for alternate games in each city, irrespective of ties, +everybody--fans and players--would get an even break." + +MALCOLM MACLEAN, +_Base Ball Editor Chicago Evening Post._ + + * * * * * + +"I think it might be fairer to both world's series contenders to play a +regular schedule, regardless of the fact that any tie games may arise in +the series. Under the old system of playing the tie off in the city +where the tie game is played, it brings about a great deal of confusion. +Many fans make arrangements to see a game on a certain day and are +greatly disappointed when the game is played in a different city. Of +course, the old rule of playing the play-off game on the same grounds as +the tie game, is fair to both contesting clubs, as it is merely a matter +of chance where a tie game is played." + +FRED. G. LIEB, +_New York Press._ + + * * * * * + +"The rules regarding the manner of scheduling games for the world's +series should not be changed. There are times when they apparently work +a hardship to one team or the followers of one club, but, after all, +they help to throw the necessary safeguards around the contests. As for +the argument for not playing off a tie game on the same grounds, thus +disarranging the dates and inconveniencing the fans, patrons of the +world's series games are accustomed to this, since bad weather +frequently cuts into the event and causes postponements. + +"In a way it does not appear fair that one club should have the +privilege of playing five games at home to three games at home for its +opponents. The rule of playing off a tie game on the same grounds is a +fixture in Base Ball. As to the other game, this was a question of the +luck of the toss of the coin. + +"The fans have to trust to luck as to the number of games they will see +in a world's series, this depending upon the number of games played and +possibly upon the toss for a seventh battle. In 1905 the fans of +Philadelphia saw only two games in a world's series with New York. In +1910 only two games were played here in the series with Chicago. + +"Any time a club has three games on its own grounds in a series where +four victories decide the issue either it or its followers have not much +chance to raise an objection." + +WILLIAM G. WEART, +_The Evening Telegraph._ + + * * * * * + +"It was, of course, to the disadvantage of the Giants to be obliged to +play five of the eight games in the post-season series last fall on the +grounds of their opponents, but this came as a result of one tie game on +the Boston grounds and being outlucked on the toss to determine where +the deciding game should be played. This tie game unquestionably caused +much inconvenience to patrons because of the change in the schedule made +necessary because of it. + +"It is not clear to me, however, just now these things can be remedied +without disturbing the balance of an even break for both teams more +violently than was the case last fall. + +"I do not believe there will be another series just like the one of +1912, and so, in my opinion, an immediate change in the conditions +governing these series would not be advisable. It is not clear to me +just what changes could be made. One club or the other is bound to have +the advantage of an extra game on its own grounds, providing seven games +are necessary. The championship in nine out of ten contests will be +decided in seven games or less. + +"Then, as to having the games played according to an arbitrarily fixed +schedule, so as not to inconvenience patrons--that would be out of the +question, being open to the objection that it would then be possible to +have every game that figures in the result of the series played on the +home grounds of one of the contestants. For instance, tie games or +unfavorable weather which would prevent a game being played in one city, +would throw all the games to the other city where there might be no tie +games nor unfavorable weather. That would mean four straight, if it so +happened that the home team won the games, and the loser would never +have gotten action on its own grounds. That would be considerably worse +than five to three. + +"So it looks to me as if the patrons would have to take their chances in +the future as they have in the past." + +JAMES C. O'LEABT, +_Boston Globe._ + + * * * * * + +"It seems to me that it would be better to alternate (in case of a tie), +as a team able to tie its opponent on a hostile field would be entitled +to consideration for this performance. I am very certain, however, that +the players of both clubs in the recent world's series were satisfied +with an arrangement which minimized the amount of traveling they were +called upon to do. + +"Persons who had seen a five-inning tie game terminated by rain would +hardly be satisfied. It seems to me that the rule as to alternating ball +parks should be applied strictly, but only in case the tie game involved +went nine innings or more." + +FRANCIS EATON, +_Sports Editor Boston Journal._ + + * * * * * + +"To me the feasible thing to do appears to be to insert a clause in +stipulations covering all short series of a special character, such as +intercity, inter-league and world's series, making it compulsory for the +teams to alternate between the cities or grounds of the competing +clubs." + +PURVES T. KNOX, +_New York Evening Telegram._ + + * * * * * + +"Why wouldn't it be a good scheme to toss up for the deciding game only +in cases where an equal number of games had been played in each city, +and, in cases where one city had seen more games than the other, to play +the deciding game in the city which had seen the fewer games? + +"I do not believe it advisable to change the commission's rule regarding +postponed games. The rule now provides that, in case of a postponement, +the clubs shall remain in the city in which the game was scheduled until +it is possible to play. If this rule were changed and there happened to +be a week of bad weather, as in 1911, the teams and many fans might be +forced to travel back and forth from one town to another for a week +without participating in or seeing a single game; and it might happen +some time that the jump would be between St. Louis and Boston." + +R. W. LARDNER, +_Chicago Examiner._ + + * * * * * + +"A change in the rule governing the playing-off of tie games in the +world's series should be made. The teams ought to appear in each city on +the dates named in the schedule drawn up before the series starts, +unless the weather interferes." + +WILLIAM H. WRIGHT, +_New York Tribune._ + + * * * * * + +"Drawn games are as unavoidable as rainy days in world's series, but not +as frequent. They operate the same in their effect on the contest for +the world's pennant and in causing confusion among the patrons by +disarranging the schedule. It would be manifestly unjust if, after a +rain postponement, the competing teams did not remain and play the game +off before playing elsewhere. That might result in playing all of the +games in one city. Since drawn games are treated like postponed games in +the regular season, and are of infrequent occurrence in world's series, +any other arrangement than the present does not seem advisable. The +patrons, who should be considered always, would be among the first to +object if each team did not have an equal show to win. In the last +series only four games that counted were played in Boston and three in +New York and if New York had won the toss for the deciding game the +situation would have been reversed. It would be manifestly fairer to +play the seventh game if necessary in some neutral city." + +L. E. SANBORN, +_Chicago Tribune._ + + + + +NEW FACES IN THE OLD LEAGUE + +BY JOHN B. FOSTER. + + +Not for some time has there been such a turning over of the leaves of +history in the National League as during 1912-13, and because of this +there are many new faces peering out of the album. There have also been +changes in the minor circuits and one prominent change in the American +League. + +The death of John T. Brush removed from Base Ball a dean of the National +League. Wise in the lore of the game, a man more of the future than of +the present, as he always foresaw that which some of his contemporaries +were less alert in perceiving, it meant no easy task to be his +successor. + +Prior to the death of Mr. Brush there was a great deal of curious and +some idle speculation as to his ultimate successor in case of decease, +or, in the event of his retirement because of bodily weariness. One or +two went so far as to say that upon his death Andrew Freedman would +return to prominence in Base Ball, because he was the real owner of the +New York club. Once and for all the writer would like to put the +personal stamp of absolute denial on the repeated statements made by +certain individuals in New York and Chicago that Andrew Freedman +retained the control of the New York club after John T. Brush was +reported to have purchased it. + +Mr. Freedman retained nothing of the kind. Not that Mr. Brush objected +to him as a partner, but when Mr. Brush purchased the stock he purchased +the control outright, although he did request Mr. Freedman to hold a few +shares and not give up his personal interest in Base Ball, for Mr. +Freedman had a great liking for the game in spite of his stormy career. +The assertions that Mr. Freedman was the real owner and Mr. Brush the +nominal owner were made with malicious intent, of which the writer has +proof, and through a desire, if possible, to combat the popularity and +the success of the Giants. + +This digression has been made to call attention to the fact that while +rumor was plentiful as to the future control of the Giants Mr. Brush was +carefully "grooming" a young man--his son-in-law, Mr. H. Hempstead--to +take his place. + +To a few it was known that Mr. Hempstead was acquiring such experience +and information as would be necessary to assume the control of an +undertaking which has grown so big as the organization of the Giants in +New York. The business details of the club have quadrupled and the cares +and anxieties of the man at the head have increased in proportion. + +The Giants, as successful as they have been under the control of John T. +Brush and John J. McGraw, the men who have been the executive heads in +both the business and the playing departments of the game, are as +susceptible to reverses as if they were the lowliest club in the +organization. It is only by constant and severe application that the +club's affairs may be kept at the best pitch. + +Mr. Hempstead brings to Base Ball the advantage of youth, a keen +business sagacity developed beyond his years, coolness, a disposition +that is sunny and not easily ruffled, and a reputation for unvarying +fairness and the highest type of business and sport ideals. Quite a list +of qualities, but they are there. + +If characteristics of that description fail to maintain the high +standard of the New York club, then it will be due to the fact that our +standards of business deportment have turned topsy-turvy. + +William H. Locke is the new president and part owner of the Philadelphia +club. He and Mr. Hempstead are the "junior" presidents of the league. +There is no necessity for the Editor of the GUIDE to enter into any long +and fulsome praise as to William H. Locke. + +His career speaks for itself and he speaks for himself. A young man of +the finest attributes, he has brought nothing to the mill of Base Ball +to grind except that which was the finest and the cleanest grain. + +The writer has known Mr. Locke almost, it seems, from boyhood and +esteems him for his worth, not only as one who has administered the +affairs of Base Ball with skill and intelligence, but as one who wrote +of Base Ball with understanding and excellent taste, for it must not be +forgotten that Mr. Locke is a newspaper graduate into the ranks of the +great sport the affairs of which fill a little corner of the hearts of +so many of America's citizens. + +Perhaps no young man ever left a newspaper office to become a Base Ball +president with more good wishes behind him than William H. Locke. He +served his apprenticeship as secretary of the Pittsburgh club and he +served it well. He is a high class, delightful young man, every inch of +him, and Philadelphia will soon become as proud of him as Pittsburgh is +now. + +Still another newspaper writer has been claimed from the desk by the +National League. He is Herman Nickerson, formerly sporting editor of the +Boston Journal, who is now the secretary of the Boston National League +club. + +"Nick" is known from one end of the National League circuit to the other +as one of the most solid and substantial of the writing force, and also +as one of the most demure and modest. In addition to his great fund of +information on Base Ball topics he is an author, and "The Sword of +Bussy," a book which was published during the winter, is even more +clever than some of the author's best Base Ball yarns, and that is +saying a great deal in behalf of a man wedded to Base Ball. + +Another change in the National League was the selection of Frank M. +Stevens of New York, as one of the Board of Directors of the New York +National League club. + +This brings into Base Ball one of New York's cleverest and brightest +young business men, one who is forging so rapidly to the front in +business circles in the big metropolis that many an older head goes to +him for advice. Mr. Stevens knows a lot about Base Ball, which is of +even greater importance in the game, and is not afraid to swing any +venture that will put with fairness a championship team into the big +city. He is a son of Harry M. Stevens, whom everybody knows, rich and +poor alike. + +In the American League the death of Mr. Thomas D. Noyes, president of +the Washington club, a young man who left behind naught but friends, +left a vacancy in the organization which was filled by the selection of +Mr. Benjamin S. Minor. + +The new president of the club has had practical experience in Base Ball +and perhaps plenty of it, as almost everybody has had in Washington, but +he is a wideawake, progressive and ambitious man, who is of just the +type to keep Base Ball going, now that it has struck its gait in the +national capital, and the future of the sport looks all the brighter for +his connection with it. + + + + +THE UMPIRES + + +The umpires are always with us, and the umpire problem has been a +vexation of Base Ball since the beginning of Base Ball time, yet neither +the umpires, the public, the club owners nor the league officials need +be discouraged, for it was fully proved in 1912 that umpiring, as a fine +art, has advanced a step nearer perfection. We may well doubt that +perfection in its every quality shall ever be achieved, but we may all +feel sanguine that it is possible to realize better results. + +It is true that some men make better umpires than others, exactly as +some men make better ball players than others, but it is also true that +if the men who find it the hardest task to become the most expert +umpires would be given a little more encouragement they might be a +little more successful. + +To the staff of umpires of the National League and the American League +it is but fair to render a compliment for their work of last season. +Some of them made mistakes but the general average of work on the part +of the judges of play was excellent. + +There was less tendency on the part of the umpires to render their +decisions without being in a position to follow the play correctly. They +were occasionally willing to concede that they might have been wrong +when an analysis of the play was brought to their attention and they +were firm in asserting discipline without becoming overheated on their +own account. + +To the mind of the Editor of the GUIDE, in the general light of +observation, the most serious blunders committed by the umpires in 1912 +were in making decisions before the play took place. This did happen and +more than once. To illustrate, by an example, the Editor of the GUIDE +had exhibited to him some photographs taken during 1912 in which a +player had been "waved out" before he actually had arrived at the base. +Granting the desire of the umpires to be alert and ready to render +decisions promptly, it is equally apparent that giving decisions in +advance of the completion of plays is likely to imbue the spectators +with an idea that the umpire is either partisan or incompetent. + +Young umpires, in their haste to "make good" in the major leagues, are +apt to overdo rather than fail to be on time. + +While it is not a pleasant subject to discuss, it is a fact that some +umpires had been accustomed to use the very language to players on the +field that they were presumed in their official capacity as umpires to +correct. The writer knows of instances where this took place. + +It has ever been the policy of the GUIDE to stand for clean and high +class Base Ball. Twenty per cent. more women attend ball games now than +did ten years ago. Eighty per cent. more women spectators are likely to +attend five years from now. To encourage their attendance every effort +should be made to eliminate all disgraceful conversation on the field. +Wherever it may be ascertained that an umpire has used profane or vulgar +language on the field the editor of the GUIDE believes that he should be +fined and punished as sternly as an offending player. + +It is contended that the position of the umpire has been rendered more +arduous by reason of the world's series. The argument is advanced that +the players are more intractable, by reason of their eagerness to play +in the post-season games. That argument would be stronger were it not +for the fact that some of the worst disturbances emanate from the +players of the clubs that have no chance to play in the world's series. + +As a general rule two good reasons may be advanced for disputes on the +part of players. + +First: Desire to "cover up" the player's own blunder. + +Second: General "cussedness." + +There are players who make honest objection on the excitement of the +moment from sheer desire to win, but their lapses from Base Ball +etiquette are so few and far between that their transgressions usually +may be forgiven with some grace. + +The Editor of the GUIDE would offer one suggestion to league presidents +and umpires; it is this: whenever two possible plays occur in +conjunction, instruct the chief umpire always to turn to the spectators +and inform them which player is out. + +For instance, if a player is at bat and another on the bases and two are +out and an attempt is made to steal second, as the chief umpire calls +the batter out on strikes the public should be clearly informed that the +batter is out. If the play looks close at second base the crowd +frequently believes the runner has been called out and resents it +accordingly. In line with the same play, when the runner is called out +and the fourth ball at the same time is called on the batter, the chief +umpire should turn to the spectators and to the press box and make it +clearly understood that the batter has been given a base on balls. It +saves a great deal of annoyance and fault finding. + +By the way, although it has been said elsewhere, the Editor of the GUIDE +would beg the indulgence of repetition by stating that the work of the +umpires during the world's series of 1912 was one of the finest +exhibitions of its kind ever seen on a ball field, and somehow it seemed +as if the players, would they but deport themselves during all series as +they did during the world's series might find that there are more good +umpires in the world after all than bad ones. + + + + +BASE BALL WRITERS OF THE SOUTH + + +While the Base Ball writers of the cities which comprise the Southern +Association have no organized membership similar to the Base Ball +Writers' Association of the major leagues and the organizations which +are best known as the class AA leagues, they are a clever, hard-working +group of young men, who have labored in season and out of season, not +only to build up Base Ball but to build it up on the right lines. + +Experience of more than a quarter of a century has most abundantly +proved that the standard of Base Ball has steadily been elevated. It +needs no compilation of fact nor any dogmatic assertion on the part of +the Editor of the GUIDE to attest that fact. It is a present condition +which speaks for itself. The general tone of the players is far higher +than it was and there has come into evidence a marked improvement in the +spirit of the men who own Base Ball clubs. In the earlier history of the +sport there was a tendency to win by any means that did not actually +cross the line of dishonesty. Later there came a season when the +commercial end of the game tended to encroach upon the limits of the +pastime. This has been repressed in the last two seasons and to-day the +morale of Base Ball is of a higher type than it ever has been in the +history of the pastime. + +It is a high class sport in the main, managed by high class, men for +high class purposes. + +Going through the early stages of building up a successful league, +which, by the way, is the severest of all tasks, and even now at +intervals confronted with changes in the league circuit, the Southern +writers have steadily been sowing the seeds of high class Base Ball and +they have seen results prior to this date, for Base Ball has become +popular and has been handsomely and loyally supported in sections in +which fifteen years ago it would have been considered impossible to +achieve such results. + +It is true that business reverses and adverse conditions have had at +times their effect upon Base Ball in the South and possibly may produce +similar results again, but the admirable offset to this fact is that +none of these conditions at any time has daunted the spirit and the +resolution of the young men who have zealously been preaching the cause +of clean and healthy Base Ball. + +Very likely to their zeal, their courage, their tact and their ability +it is possible to ascribe the increase in good ball players which is +making itself manifest in the South. More high class and attractive +athletes are coming from the Southern states in these days than ever was +the case before. Base Ball is very glad to have them. When a +representative major league team is made up of players who represent +every section in the Union, engaged for their skill, it seems as if Base +Ball has become nearer an ideal and a national pastime than ever before +in the history of the sport. + +To the Southern writers the members of the Base Ball Writers Association +and those of the organizations patterned on like lines send greeting. + + + + +BASE BALL WORTH WHILE? + + +One of the foremost divines in the East who has a deep concern in Base +Ball and Base Ball players is Rev. Dr. Reisner, pastor of the Grace +Methodist Episcopal Church, of New York City. Throughout the season he +attends the games and is greatly interested in the work of the players. +He knows Base Ball well, and in addition to that he knows the +environment of Base Ball players and their character and endeavor as +well as any person in the United States. + +It is Dr. Reisner's custom each year to preach a sermon to the Base Ball +players and their friends in his church in New York, and the building +always is filled to listen to his discourse. In view of the interest +which he takes in the national game and because of his excellent +knowledge as to the general details of the sport, the Editor of the +GUIDE asked him to say a few words to the ball players of the United +States through the medium of this publication, and he has graciously +consented to do so in the following pithy and straightforward talks: + +BY THE REV. CHRISTIAN F. REISNER, NEW YORK. + +The Bible is the Spalding book of rules for the game of life. James B. +Sullivan, beloved by all athletes, gave me these rules for athletes: +"Don't drink, use tobacco or dissipate. Go to bed early and eat +wholesome food!" The boozer gets out of the game as certainly as the +bonehead. + +I have interviewed scores of the most noted players. Every one had a +religious training. Many are church members. All avoid old-time +drinking, as our fathers did smallpox. + +Mathewson belongs to the high type now being generally duplicated. He is +a modern masculine Christian. Base Ball demands brains as well as brawn. +Minds muddled by licentiousness and liquor are too "leady" for leaders. +Hotheadedness topples capable players. + +I am proud to style scores of Base Ball players, I know, as gentlemen. +They are optimists. Defect is unrecognized. Team work makes them +brotherly. Bickerings break a Baseballist. Every member of the team +gives himself wholly to the game. Jeers are as harmless as cheers. + +Every minute he does his best. He sleeps only at night. To do these +things the player must follow Bible rules. If he keeps it up life's +success is certain. Governor Tener and Senator Gorman proved it. No +wonder "Billy" Sunday wrote me "I would not take a million dollars for +my experience on the ball field." + +It taught him how to knock the Devil out of the box. + +Base Ball is invaluable to America. It thrills and so rests tired +nerves. It brings the "shut-in" man into God's healing out-o'-doors. +While yelling he swallows great draughts of lung-expanding, purifying +air and forgets the fear of "taking cold." + +He is pulled out of self-centeredness, while shouting for another. He +stands crowd jostling good-naturedly or gets his cussedness squeezed +out. He chums up with any one with easy comments and so gets out of his +shell and melts again into a real human. + +Base Ball absolutely pulls the brain away from business. It emphasizes +the value of decency and gives healthy and high toned recreation to +millions. If kept clean its good-doing cannot be measured. Nothing is +worth while that does not do that. + + + + +THE SPALDING BASE BALL HALL OF FAME + + +(From Spalding's Official Base Ball Record.) + +New faces enter into the Spalding Base Ball "Hall of Fame" this year. +The object of this "Hall of Fame" is not necessarily to portray the very +top men of each department of the national game, for it frequently +happens in these days, when players take part in only a few innings now +and then, that they become entitled to mention in the records, although +they do not bear the real brunt of the work. + +In the "Hall of Fame" will be found the men who might well be termed the +"regulars." Day in and day out they were on the diamond, or ready to +take their place on the diamond, if they were not injured. + +NATIONAL LEAGUE. + +First of all, Daubert has earned his place at first base for the season +of 1912. Threatening in other years to become one of the group of +leading players, he performed so well in the season past that there is +no doubt as to his right. + +There is a new player at second base. The regularity with which Egan of +Cincinnati performed for the Reds earned him a place as the banner +second baseman. + +At third base the honor goes to J.R. Lobert, the third baseman of the +Philadelphia club. In this particular instance Lobert was crowded, not +for efficiency, but in the number of games played by Byrne, third +baseman of Pittsburgh, and Herzog, third baseman of New York. In the +matter of chances undertaken on the field, Herzog surpassed both Lobert +and Byrne, but, in justice to Lobert, the honor seems to be fairly +deserved by him. + +John H. Wagner, the brilliant veteran of the Pittsburgh club, fought his +way to the position of shortstop in 1912. His fielding was better than +that of his rivals and at times he played the position as only a man of +his sterling worth can play. + +Owing to the fact that the able secretary of the National League, John +A. Heydler, has compiled two methods of comparing pitchers, the "Hall of +Fame" in the National League this year will include two faces. They are +those of Hendrix of the Pittsburgh club and Tesreau of the New York +club. The former won the greater percentage of games under the old rule +in vogue of allotting percentage upon victories. Tesreau, however, under +a new rule which classifies pitchers by earned runs, easily led the +league. The editor of the RECORD is very much inclined toward Mr. +Heydler's earned run record; in fact, has suggested a record based upon +the construction of making every pitcher responsible for runs and +computing his average upon the percentage of runs for which he is +responsible. That places Tesreau in the front row, with Mathewson +second. + +There are two catchers who run a close race for the "Hall of Fame" in +1912. They are Meyers of New York and Gibson of Pittsburgh. Meyers +caught by far the larger number of games, and, basing the work of +catcher upon the average chances per game, seems to lead his Pittsburgh +rival. Both men are sterling performers, and Meyers is an instance of +the greatest improvement on the part of a catcher of any member of the +major leagues. + +For the position of leading outfielder, all things considered, Carey of +Pittsburgh is selected for the "Hall of Fame." Not only did he play in +the greatest number of games of any outfielder, but his general work in +the outfield was sensational. + +For the position of leading batsman the "Hall of Fame" honors Zimmerman, +the powerful batter of the Chicago club. His work with the bat in 1912 +approached in many ways that of the high class and powerful batters of +old. He batted steadily, with the exception of one very slight slump, +and his work as batter undoubtedly was of tremendous assistance to +Chicago. Zimmerman did not shine alone as the best batter, as he was +also the leading maker of home runs and the best two-base hitter of the +season. That gives him a triple honor. + +The best three-base hitter of the league was the quiet Wilson of +Pittsburgh. Though not so high in rank as a batsman as some of his +contemporaries, there was none in the organization who could equal his +ability to get to third base on long hits. + +Bescher, as in 1911, earned in 1912 the position of leading base runner +in the National League. He stole more bases than any other player of the +league, and was also the best run getter--that is to say, scored more +runs than any other player. + +AMERICAN LEAGUE. + +First of all comes Gandil for first base. His greater number of games +played and his steady work at first almost all of the season, as he did +not join the Washingtons at the beginning of the season, places him in +the "Hall of Fame" at first base. + +Rath is a newcomer to the Chicago club, but by all around good work he +earned the place at second base. Not so heavy a batter as some of his +rivals, he covered a great amount of ground for the Chicagos and +steadied the infield throughout the year. + +For the position of shortstop, McBride of Washington is the logical +selection. Day in and day out he was one of the most reliable shortstops +in the American League. + +At third base John Turner of the Cleveland club retains the honor which +he earned for himself in 1911, and he is one of the few players who is a +member of the "Hall of Fame" two years in succession. + +In the outfield, for all around work, the place of honor goes to Amos +Strunk, the young player of the Philadelphia club. He was in center +field and in left field, and he was a busy young man for most of the +year. + +Pitching at a standard higher than the American League had seen for +years, Wood of Boston is given the "Hall of Fame" honor as pitcher. His +average of winning games was very high, and he was compelled to fight +hard for many of his victories. + +The man who caught him seems entitled to be considered the leading +catcher. He is Cady of Boston, although for hard work Carrigan, also of +Boston, gives him a close race. + +Once more Cobb is the leading batsman of the American League. There was +none to dispute his right to the title. He was also leading batsman in +1911 and is another American League player who holds a position in the +"Hall" two years in succession. + +The leading home run batter of the American League was Baker of +Philadelphia. He earned the same title in 1911. It is a double "Hall of +Fame" distinction for him. + +Jackson of Cleveland enters the "Hall of Fame" by being the leading +batter for three-base hits. + +Speaker of Boston becomes a member of the high honor group by being the +leading batter of two-base hits. + +Lewis of Boston is the leading batter of sacrifice hits. + +Collins of Philadelphia was the best run getter. + +Last, but by no means least, of all, Milan, the clever outfielder of +Washington, is the best base stealer of the year, and better than all +the rest, earns his distinction in joining the "Hall of Fame" by +establishing a new record of stolen bases. + + + + +JOHN TOMLINSON BRUSH + +BY JOHN B. FOSTER. + + +John Tomlinson Brush was born in Clintonville, N.Y., on June 15, 1845. +He died November 26, 1912, near St. Charles, Mo., on his way to +California from New York, for his health. Left an orphan at the age of +four years, he went to live at the home of his grandfather, in +Hopkinton, where he remained until he was seventeen years old. At this +age he left school and went to Boston, where he obtained a position in a +clothing establishment, a business with which he was identified up to +his death. He worked as a clerk in several cities in the East, and +finally went to Indianapolis in 1875 to open a clothing store. The store +still occupies the same building, and Mr. Brush continued at the head of +the business until his death. It was in the early '80s that he first +became interested in Base Ball in Indianapolis, and he made himself both +wealthy and famous as a promoter. + +In 1863 Mr. Brush enlisted in the First New York Artillery, and served +as a member of this body until it was discharged, at the close of the +civil war. He was a charter member of George H. Thomas Post, G.A.R.; a +thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Mason, and was also prominently +identified with several social and commercial organizations of +Indianapolis, notably the Columbia Club, Commercial Club, Board of +Trade, and the Mannerchor Society. In New York Mr. Brush took up +membership in the Lambs' Club and the Larchmont Club. For several years +he made his headquarters at the Lambs' Club. + +Mr. Brush is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elsie Lombard Brush, and two +daughters, Miss Natalie Brush and Mrs. Harry N. Hempstead. His first +wife, Mrs. Agnes Ewart Brush, died in 1888. + +Mr. Brush's career in Base Ball, a sport to which he was devotedly +attached, and for which he had the highest ideals and aims, began with +the Indianapolis club of the National League. + +It has been somewhat inaccurately stated that he entered Base Ball by +chance. This was not, strictly speaking, the case. Prior to his first +immediate association with the national game he was an ardent admirer of +the sport, although not connected with it in any capacity as owner. He +was what might be called, with accurate description, a Base Ball "fan" +in the earlier stages of development. + +An opportunity presented itself by which it was possible to procure for +the city of Indianapolis a franchise in the National League. Mr. Brush +was quick to perceive the advantages which this might have in an +advertising way for the city with which he had cast his lot and +subscribed to the stock. + +Like many such adventures in the early history of the sport there came a +time when the cares and the duties of the club had to be assumed by a +single individual and it was then that he became actively identified as +a managing owner, as the duty of caring for the club fell upon his +shoulders. + +From that date, until the date of his death, he was actively interested +in every detail relating to Base Ball which might pertain to the +advancement of the sport, and his principal effort in his future +participation in the game was to see that it advanced on the lines of +the strictest integrity and in such a manner that its foundation should +be laid in the rock of permanent success. + +Naturally this was bound to bring him into conflict with some who looked +upon Base Ball as an idle pastime, in which only the present moment was +to be consulted. + +The earliest environment of Base Ball was not wholly of a substantial +nature. It was a game, intrinsically good of itself, in which the +hazards had always been against the weak. There was not that +consideration of equity which would have been for its best interests, +but this was not entirely the fault of the separate members of the Base +Ball body, but the result of conditions, in which those whose thought +was only for the moment, overshadowed the best interests of the pastime. + +There was an inequity in regulations governing the sport by which the +clubs in the smaller cities were forced, against the will of their +owners, to be the weaker organizations, and possibly this was less due +to a desire upon the more fortunate and larger clubs to maintain such a +state of affairs, than to the fact that the organization generally had +expanded upon lines with little regard to the future. + +The first general complaint arose from the players who composed the +membership of the smaller clubs. They demurred at the fact that they +were asked to perform equally as well as the players of the clubs in the +larger cities at smaller salaries. Not that they did not try to do their +best, for this they stoutly attempted under all conditions. It was the +effect of a discrimination which was the result of the imperfect +regulations that existed relative to the management of the game. + +This attitude of the players resulted at length in the formation of a +body known as the Brotherhood. To offset not the Brotherhood, but the +cause which led to its formation, Mr. Brush devised the famous +classification plan. Imperfectly understood in what it intended to do +for the players, it was seized upon as a reason for the revolt of the +players and the organization of the Brotherhood League. + +At heart it was the idea of Mr. Brush so to equalize salaries that the +players of all clubs should be reimbursed in an equitable manner. As +always had been the case, and probably always is likely to be, the +players who received the larger salaries were in no mood to share with +their weaker brothers any excess margin of pay which they thought that +they had justly earned, and it was not a difficult matter for them to +obtain the consent of players who might really have benefited by the +plan to co-operate with them on the basis of comradeship. + +The motives of Mr. Brush were thoroughly misconstrued by some, and, if +grasped by others, they were disregarded, because they conflicted with +their immediate temporary prosperity. + +The dead Base Ball organizer had looked further ahead than his time. His +plan was born under the best of intentions, but it unfortunately +devolved upon the theory that players would be willing to share alike +for their common good. Later in life, through another and unquestionably +even better method, he succeeded in bringing forth a plan which attained +the very end for which he sought in the '80s, but in the second resort, +by a far more efficacious method. + +The Brotherhood League came into existence and rivaled the National +League. The players of the National League and the American Association +deserted to join the Brotherhood League, upon a platform that promised +Utopia in Base Ball. Unquestionably it was the idea of the general +Brotherhood organization that the National League would abandon the +fight and succumb, but the National League owners were built of sterner +stuff. + +They fought back resolutely and hard and while for a time they were +combated by a fickle opinion, based upon sentiment, it developed within +two months that the public had learned thoroughly the reasons for the +organization of the new league and declined to lend it that support +which had been predicted and expected. + +Meanwhile, Base Ball had received a setback greater than any which had +befallen the sport in an organized sense from a professional standpoint. + +The Brotherhood League was a pronounced and emphatic failure. This is +not the verdict of personal opinion, but a record which is indelibly +impressed upon Base Ball history. + +It was the theory of the Brotherhood League that it, in part, should be +governed by representative players, but the players would not be +governed by players. Discipline relaxed, teams did pretty much as they +pleased, and the public remained away from the games. It may be added +with truth that the National League games were not much better +patronized, but that was due to the prevalent apathy in Base Ball +affairs throughout the United States. + +When the Brotherhood League was formed and withdrew so many players from +the National League the latter organization undertook to strengthen +itself where it could and when Brooklyn and Cincinnati applied for +membership in the circuit both were admitted. + +The New York National League club had lost many of its players and, upon +the substitution of Cincinnati for Indianapolis in the National League +circuit, procured from Mr. Brush many players of note, among them Rusie, +Glasscock, Buckley, Bassett and Denny. + +Relative to the withdrawal of Indianapolis from the circuit it may be +said that Mr. Brush flatly refused to give up his club, asserting +stoutly that he was perfectly able to continue the fight, but when he +felt that the exigencies of the occasion demanded that Cincinnati become +a member, he agreed to give up the franchise, providing that he be +permitted to retain his membership in the National League, and transfer +such of his players as New York desired to the latter city. It has been +alleged that he demanded an exorbitant price from New York for the +transfer of the players. + +This is untrue. He asked the price of his franchise, the value of his +players, and the worth of giving up a Base Ball year in a city in which +there was to be no conflicting club and, as he had expressed full +confidence in his ability to make a winning fight for the National +League, it was agreed that his rights to be considered could not be +overlooked. To retain his National League membership he accepted stock +in the New York club. + +Toward the close of the Base Ball season the Brotherhood League dealt +what it believed to be a death blow to the National League by the +purchase of the Cincinnati franchise. It proved to be a boomerang, for +before the first day of January, 1891, the Brotherhood League had passed +out of existence. The backers of the organization, tired of the general +conduct of the sport, were only too willing to come to an acceptable +agreement and retire. + +A.G. Spalding, John T. Brush, Frank De Hass Robison, Charles H. Byrne +and A.H. Soden were prominent members of the National League to bringing +this result about. Of these, Mr. Spalding and Mr. Soden survive, but +have retired from active participation in Base Ball affairs. + +It was through this settlement, resulting upon the Base Ball war, that +Mr. Brush's activities were turned toward Cincinnati. The National +League had a franchise in that city, but no one to operate it. Mr. Brush +agreed to take up the franchise and attempt to operate and rebuild that +club. That, however, is a detail which relates purely to the continuance +of a major league circuit. + +The next most noticeable achievement in Mr. Brush's Base Ball career +and, to the mind of more than one, the greatest successful undertaking +in the history of the game, was a complete revolution in the +distribution of financial returns. By his success in effecting this Mr. +Brush brought about the very purpose which he had sought to attain by +his classification plan. + +But the method was better, for the instruments of this readjustment of +conditions were the owners and not the players. Briefly, it was the +following: + +There was still war in Base Ball between the American Association and +the National League. Recognizing that the best method to bring about a +cessation of this war was to effect an amalgamation of the conflicting +forces Mr. Brush sought, with the assistance of others, to weld both +leagues into one. He was aided in this task, though indirectly, because +A.G. Spalding was actively out of Base Ball, by that gentleman, Frank De +Hass Robison, Christopher Von der Abe, and Francis C. Richter, editor of +"Sporting Life" of Philadelphia. The writer also essayed in the task in +an advisory capacity. + +The amalgamation was brought about, though not without some opposition; +indeed, much opposition. It was conceded at that time that a twelve-club +league, which was the object sought, was cumbersome and unwieldy, but +there was no other plan of possible accomplishment which suggested +itself. + +But the principal consideration and the result accomplished in this +consolidation of leagues was that all gate receipts should be divided, +share and share alike, so far as general admissions were concerned. + +That was the greatest and most far-reaching achievement in the history +of Base Ball. Prior to that time the principle of a fixed guarantee for +each game played had given each home club a stupendous bulk of the sums +paid by the public toward the maintenance of the sport. The inevitable +outcome of such an arrangement was that the clubs in the larger cities +completely overshadowed the clubs in the smaller cities. + +The teams in the cities of less population were expected to try to place +rival organizations on the field that would equal in playing strength +those of New York, Boston and Chicago, but they were unable to do so +unless their owners were willing to go on year after year with large +deficits staring them in the face. + +When Mr. Brush and his associates succeeded in placing Base Ball upon a +plane of absolute fairness, so far as the proper distribution of the +returns of the sport could be made between clubs, Base Ball began to +prosper, and, for the first time in all its history, the owners of +so-called smaller clubs felt that they could go forward and try to rival +their bigger fellows with equally strong combinations. + +More than that, and which to the ball player is most important of all, +it "jumped" the salaries of the players in the smaller clubs until they +were on equal terms with their fellow players in the larger clubs, so +that Mr. Brush helped to accomplish by this plan the very aim which he +had at heart when he proposed the classification plan--a just, impartial +and equal reimbursement to every player in the game, so far as the +finances of each club would permit--and without that bane to all +players, a salary limit. + +Thus, while it is always probable that some players may receive more +than others, based upon their preponderance of skill, it is now a fact +that two-thirds of the major league ball players of the present day owe +their handsome salaries to the system which John T. Brush so earnestly +urged and for which he fought against odds which would have daunted a +man with less fixity of purpose. + +Having brought forth this new condition in Base Ball, which was so just +that its results almost immediately began to make themselves manifest, +the owner of the Cincinnati club devoted his time and his energies to +the endeavor to place a championship club in Cincinnati. He never was +successful in that purpose, although his ill fortune was no greater than +that of his predecessors. + +The time came that Mr. Brush learned that the New York Base Ball Club +could be purchased. He obtained the stock necessary to make him owner of +the New York organization from Mr. Andrew Freedman, but before he did so +another Base Ball war had begun between the National League and the +American League, a disagreement starting from the simplest of causes, +but which, like many another such disagreement, resulted in the most +damaging of conditions to the prosperity of the pastime. + +As had been the case in the prior war brought about by the organization +of the Brotherhood League, Mr. Brush fought staunchly for his rights. +Prominent National League players were taken by the American League +clubs, and this brought retaliation. + +At length the National League opened negotiations to obtain certain +American League players and succeeded in doing so. Among these were the +manager of the Baltimore club, John J. McGraw, who felt that he was +acting perfectly within his rights in joining the New York National +League club. Directly upon his acceptance of the management of the New +York club Mr. Brush became its owner and the era of prosperity was +inaugurated in New York, which was soon enjoyed by every club throughout +the United States. + +In its first year under the new management the team was not in condition +to make a good fight, but the next year it was ready and since then has +won four National League championships and one World's Championship. + +In the spring of 1911, at the very dawn of the National League season, +the grand stand of the New York National League club burned to the +ground. A man less determined would have been overcome by such a blow. +Nothing daunted and while the flames were not yet quenched, Mr. Brush +sent for engineers to devise plans for the magnificent stadium which +bears his name and which, on the Polo Grounds in New York, is one of the +greatest and the most massive monument to professional Base Ball in the +world. + +In connection with this wonderful new edifice of steel and stone, which +is one of the wonders of the new world, it is appropriate to add that +two world's series have been played on the field of the Polo Grounds +since it has been erected. + +The rules for these world's series were formulated and adopted upon the +suggestion and by the advice of Mr. Brush and since a regular world's +series season has been a feature of Base Ball the national game has +progressed with even greater strides than was the case in the past. + +At a meeting of the National League the following resolutions were +adopted: + + _Whereas_, The death of Mr. John T. Brush, president of the New York + National League Base Ball Club, comes as a sad blow to organized + professional Base Ball and particularly to us, his associates in the + National League. + + As the dean of organized professional Base Ball, his wise counsel, his + unerring judgment, his fighting qualities and withal his eminent + fairness and integrity in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the + national game will be surely missed. + + He was a citizen of sterling worth, of high moral standards and of + correct business principles, and his death is not only a grievous loss + to us, but to the community at large as well. Be it, therefore, + + _Resolved_, That the members of the National League of Professional + Base Ball Clubs, in session to-day, express their profound grief at + the loss of their friend, associate and counsellor and extend to the + members of his bereaved family their sincere sympathy in the great + loss which they have sustained by his death. Be it further + + _Resolved_, That a copy of these resolutions be spread on the records + of the league. + +In connection with the death of Mr. Brush, Ben Johnson, president of the +American League, said: "Mr. Brush was a power in Base Ball. He will be +missed as much in the American League as in the National League." + +More than three hundred friends, relatives, business acquaintances, +lodge brothers and Base Ball associates attended the funeral of Mr. +Brush, on Friday, November 29, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, +Indianapolis. Fifty or more of Mr. Brush's Base Ball associates and +acquaintances, principally from the East, were present. + +The service was conducted by the Rev. Lewis Brown, rector of St. Paul's, +and was followed by a Scottish Rite ceremony in charge of William Geake, +Sr., of Fort Wayne, acting thrice potent master, and official head of +the thirty-third degree in Indiana. The Scottish Rite delegation +numbered more than 150. There were also in attendance fifty Knights +Templars of Rapier Commandery, under the leadership of Eminent Commander +E.J. Scoonover. + +The Grand Army of the Republic, the Indianapolis Commercial Club and a +number of local and out-of-town clubs and social organizations of which +Mr. Brush was a member also were represented. + +The Episcopal service was given impressively. The Rev. Dr. Brown, in +reviewing the life of Mr. Brush, spoke of him as one of the remarkable +men of America, who, in his youth, gave no promise of being in later +life a national figure. In the course of his remarks Dr. Brown said: + +"The death of John Tomlinson Brush removes from our midst one of the +most remarkable men of our generation. His life was that of a typical +American. He began in the most unpretentious manner and died a figure of +national importance. + +"He went through the Civil War so quietly that the fact was unknown to +some of his most intimate friends. He was mustered out with honor and +entered the business world in Indianapolis. His labors here put him at +the forefront for sagacity, squareness, honorable treatment and +generosity. + +"His love of sport made him a patron of the national game. In a +perfectly natural way, he went from manager of the local team to +proprietor of the New York Giants. He was a Bismarck in plan and a +Napoleon in execution. His aim was pre-eminence and he won place by the +consent of all. The recent spectacular outpouring of people and colossal +financial exhibit in the struggle for the pennant between New York and +Boston were but the legitimate outcome of his marvelous skill. + +"He was an early member of the Masonic fraternity. He took his Blue +Lodge degree in his native town and to demonstrate his attachment he +never removed his membership. Where he had been raised to the sublime +degree of a master there he wished to keep his affiliation always. + +"He became a Knight Templar in Rapier Commandery and was one of its past +eminent commanders. He was a member of the Scottish Rite bodies in the +Valley of Indianapolis in the early days and performed his work with a +ritual perfection unsurpassed. He received the thirty-third and last +degree as a merited honor for proficiency and zeal. + +"The conspicuous feature of his life was its indomitable purpose." + + + + +THE WORLD'S SERIES OF 1912 + +BY JOHN B. FOSTER. + + +No individual, whether player, manager, owner, critic or spectator, who +went through the world's series of 1912 ever will forget it. There never +was another like it. Years may elapse before there shall be a similar +series and it may be that the next to come will be equally sensational, +perhaps more so. + +Viewed from the very strict standpoint that all Base Ball games should +be played without mistake or blunder this world's series may be said to +have been inartistic, but it is only the hypercritical theorist who +would take such a cold-blooded view of the series. + +From the lofty perch of the "bleacherite" it was a series crammed with +thrills and gulps, cheers and gasps, pity and hysteria, dejection and +wild exultation, recrimination and adoration, excuse and condemnation, +and therefore it was what may cheerfully be called "ripping good" Base +Ball. + +There were plays on the field which simply lifted the spectators out of +their seats in frenzy. There were others which caused them to wish to +sink through the hard floor of the stand in humiliation. There were +stops in which fielders seemed to stretch like india rubber and others +in which they shriveled like parchment which has been dried. There were +catches of fly balls which were superhuman and muffs of fly balls which +were "superawful." + +There were beautiful long hits, which threatened to change the outcome +of games and some of them did. There were opportunities for other +beautiful long hits which were not made. + +No ingenuity of stage preparation, no prearranged plot of man, no +cunningly devised theory of a world's series could have originated a +finale equal to that of the eighth and decisive contest. Apparently on +the verge of losing the series after the Saturday game in Boston the +Giants had gamely fought their way to a tie with Boston, and it was one +of the pluckiest and gamest fights ever seen in a similar series, and +just as the golden apple seemed about to drop into the hands of the New +York players they missed it because Dame Fortune rudely jostled them +aside. + +As a matter of fact the New York players were champions of the world for +nine and one half innings, for they led Boston when the first half of +the extra inning of the final game was played. Within the next six +minutes they had lost all the advantage which they had gained. + +It was a combination of bad fielding and lack of fielding which cost the +New York team its title. And if only Mathewson had not given Yerkes a +base on balls in the tenth inning the game might not have been won, even +with the fielding blunders, but Mathewson was pitching with all the +desperation and the cunning which he could muster to fool the batter and +failed to do so. + +Such sudden and complete reversal on the part of the mental demeanor of +spectators was never before seen on a ball field in a world's series. +The Boston enthusiasts had given up and were willing to concede the +championship to New York. In the twinkling of an eye there was a muffed +fly, a wonderful catch by the same player who muffed the +ball--Snodgrass--a base on balls to Yerkes, a missed chance to retire +Speaker easily on a foul fly, then a base hit by Speaker to right field, +on which Engel scored, another base on balls to Lewis and then the long +sacrifice fly to right field by Gardner, which sent Yerkes over the +plate with the winning run. + +Before entering upon a description of the games it is appropriate to say +that the umpiring in this series was as near perfection as it could be. +It was by far the best of any since the series had been inaugurated. The +umpires were William Klem and Charles Rigler of the National League and +Frank O'Loughlin and William Evans of the American League. + +FIRST GAME +New York, Oct. 8, 1912. +Boston 4, New York 3. +Hits--Off Wood 8; off Tesreau 5; Crandall 1. +Struck out--Wood 11; Tesreau 4; Crandall 2. +Bases on balls--Wood 2; Tesreau 4. +Attendance 35,722. + +In the description of the games of the world's series only those innings +will be touched upon in which there were men on bases. Tesreau pitched +the opening game for New York and the first man to bat for Boston was +Hooper. Tesreau gave him a base on balls. The next three batters were +retired in succession. Devore and Doyle, the first two batters for New +York, were retired and Snodgrass hit cleanly to center field, the first +base hit in the series. Murray was given a base on balls, but Merkle +flied to short. In the second inning the Bostons started as bravely as +they had in the first, as Gardner, the first batter, was safe on +Fletcher's fumble. Stahl batted to Tesreau and Gardner was forced out. +Wagner was given a base on balls, after Stahl had been thrown out trying +to steal second, and Cady flied to Murray. + +The Bostons started with a man on base in the third. Wood was given a +base on balls by Tesreau and Hooper sacrificed. Doyle threw Yerkes out +and Speaker was given a base on balls, but Lewis died easily on a weak +fly to short. + +In New York's half of this inning the Giants scored twice. Tesreau, +first at bat, struck out. Devore was given a base on balls and Doyle +batted wickedly to left field for two bases. Snodgrass was fooled into +striking out, but Murray smashed the ball to center field for a single, +and sent two men over the rubber, Murray was caught at second trying to +get around the bases while Doyle was going home. + +With one out Herzog hit safely in the fourth inning, but did not score. +In the fifth, with two out, Doyle batted safely, but failed to score. In +the sixth the Bostons made their first runs on Speaker's triple to left +field and Lewis' out. If Snodgrass, in making a desperate effort to +catch the fly, had permitted the ball to go to Devore the chances are +that Speaker's hit would have resulted in an out, so that New York lost +on the play. + +Snodgrass was safe in the sixth on Wagner's fumble, but was doubled off +first when Murray drove a line hit straight to Stahl. The seventh was +the undoing of the Giants. With one out Wagner batted safely to center +field. Cady followed with another hit to the same place. Wood batted to +Doyle, who made a beautiful stop, but with a double play in hand, was +overbalanced and unable to complete it. That cost New York three runs, +although it was unavoidable. Cady was forced out, but Hooper hit to +right field for two bases sending Wagner and Wood home. Yerkes followed +with a clean hit to left field for a base and won the first game for +Boston with that hit. + +In New York's half of the inning, with one out, Meyers was hit by a +pitched ball, but no damage was done other than to Meyers' feelings. In +the ninth Wagner batted Crandall for a two-base hit, Crandall having +been substituted for Tesreau in the eighth inning, as McCormick had +batted for Tesreau in the seventh. Cady made a sacrifice, but the next +two batters were easily retired. + +Then began the exciting finish, and if the Giants had made but a single +more they probably would have begun the series with a victory instead of +a defeat. With one out Merkle batted the ball over second base for a +single and the spectators, who had started toward the exits, halted. +Herzog followed with a slow low fly to right field, which fell safely. +Meyers crashed into the ball for a two-bagger that struck the wall in +right field and the crowd began to believe that Wood had gone up in +"smoke." + +The Boston players encouraged him with all their best vocal efforts, and +when Fletcher came to the plate Wood was using all the speed with which +he was possessed. It was evident that Fletcher's sole desire was to bat +the ball safely to right field, for if he did so, both of the runners +could cross the plate and the Giants would win. Twice he met the ball, +and both times it sailed in the right direction, but with no result, as +it was foul. Then he struck out. Crandall, perhaps one of the best pinch +hitters in the major leagues, also struck out, and the Boston +enthusiasts who were present fell back in their chairs from sheer +exhaustion, but when they had recovered, with their band leading them, +marched across the field and cheered Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston, who was +present as a spectator of the contest in company with Mayor Gaynor of +New York. Governor Foss of Massachusetts was also present at the opening +of the game. Klem umpired behind the bat in this game. + +SECOND GAME +Boston, Oct. 9, 1912. +New York 6. Boston 6 (eleven innings). +Hits--Off Collins 9, off Hall 2; Mathewson 10. +Struck out--Collins 5, Bedient 1; Mathewson 4 +Bases on balls--Hall 4, Bedient 1. +Attendance 30,148. + +In the second game of the series, which was played October 9 at Boston, +Mathewson pitched for the New York team and Collins, Hall and Bedient +for Boston. The game resulted in a tie, 6 to 6, at the end of the +eleventh inning, being called on account of darkness by Umpire +O'Loughlin, who was acting behind the plate. This contest was remarkable +more for the misplays of the New York players, which gave the Bostons a +chance to save themselves from defeat, than for any undue familiarity +with the pitching of Mathewson. It was the universal opinion of +partisans of both teams that Mathewson deserved to win because he +outpitched his opponents. The weather was fair and the ground in +excellent condition. In the first inning Snodgrass began with a clean +two-base hit into the left field seats but neither Doyle, Becker nor +Murray was able to help him across the plate. A run scored in that +inning, with such a fine start, would probably have won the game for the +Giants. + +In Boston's half Hooper hit safely to center field and stole second +base. Yerkes batted a line drive to Fletcher, and had the New York +shortstop held the ball, which was not difficult to catch, Hooper could +easily have been doubled at second, but Fletcher muffed it. Speaker hit +safely toward third base, filling the bases. Lewis batted to Herzog, who +made a fine play on the ball and caught Hooper at the plate. This should +have been the third out and would have retired Boston without a run. +Gardner was put out by a combination play on the part of Mathewson, +Doyle and Merkle, scoring Yerkes, and Stahl came through with a hard +line hit for a base, which scored Speaker and Lewis. The inning netted +Boston three runs, which were not earned. + +With one out in the second inning Herzog batted for three bases to +center field and scored on Meyers' single. Fletcher flied out and +Mathewson forced Meyers out. Hooper got a two-base hit in the same +inning, but two were out at the time and Fletcher easily threw out +Yerkes, who was the next batter. + +In the fourth inning Murray began with a clean three-base hit to center +field. Merkle fouled out to the third baseman, but Herzog's long fly to +Speaker was an excellent sacrifice and Murray scored. Meyers again hit +for a single, but was left on the bases. The Bostons got this run back +in the last half of the fifth. With one out Hooper hit to center field +for a base, his third hit in succession against Mathewson. Yerkes batted +a three-bagger out of the reach of Snodgrass and Hooper scored. Murray +batted safely in the sixth, with one out, but died trying to steal +second, Carrigan catching for Boston. In the Boston's half of the sixth +Lewis began with a single and got as far as third base, but could not +score. + +The Giants started bravely in the seventh when Herzog hit the ball for a +base and stole second. There were three chances to get him home, but +Meyers, who had been hitting Collins hard, failed to make a single and +Fletcher and Mathewson were both retired. + +In the eighth the New York players made one of the game rallies for +which they became famed all through the series and went ahead of their +rivals. Snodgrass was the first batter and lifted an easy fly to Lewis. +The Boston player got directly under the ball and made a square muff of +it. Doyle followed along with a sharp hit to center field for a base and +although he was forced out by Becker, the latter drove the ball hard. +Murray came through with a long two-bagger to left center and Snodgrass +and Becker scored. That tied the score and also put an end to Collins' +work in the box; Stahl took him out and substituted Hall. Merkle fouled +weakly to the catcher, but Herzog caught the ball on the nose and hit +sharp and clean to center field for two bases, sending Murray home with +the run which put the Giants in the lead. Another base hit would have +won for New York, but Meyers perished on a hard hit to Wagner, which was +fielded to first ahead of the batter. + +Unfortunately for New York, with two out in the last half of the inning +Lewis batted the ball to left field for two bases. Murray made a +desperate effort to get it. He tumbled backward over the fence into the +bleachers and for a few moments there were some who thought that he had +been seriously injured. Gardner followed with a single to center and +Stahl hit to right for a base, but Wagner struck out and the Bostons +were down with only a run. + +In the ninth Hall gave a remarkable exhibition. Fletcher and Mathewson +were retired in succession. Then Snodgrass, Doyle and Becker were given +bases on balls, filling the bags. It seemed certain that a run might +score, and perhaps one would have scored had it not been for an +excellent stop by Wagner. Murray hit the ball at him like a shot, but he +got it and retired Becker at second. + +The Giants took the lead in the tenth and once more it appeared as if +the game would be theirs. Merkle began with a long three-base hit to +center field. Herzog batted to Wagner and Merkle played safe, refusing +to try to score while the batter was being put out at first. Meyers was +given a base on balls and Shafer ran for him. Fletcher lifted a long fly +to left field and Merkle scored from third. Mathewson could not advance +the runners and died on an infield fly. Yerkes was the first batter for +the Bostons and was retired at first base. Speaker hit to deep center +field. There were some scorers who gave the batter but three bases on +the hit, insisting that Wilson, who was then catching for New York, +should have got the throw to the plate and retired the batter. In any +event Wilson missed the ball and Speaker scored. Lewis followed with a +two-bagger, which would have scored Speaker if the latter had not tried +to run home, so Wilson's failure to retrieve the throw became more +conspicuous. Other scorers gave Speaker a clean home run and it is not +far out of the way to say that he deserved the benefit of the doubt. + +Neither team scored in the eleventh inning, although Snodgrass was hit +by a pitched ball. He was the first batter. He tried to steal second, +but failed to make it. + +This contest was conspicuous because of the wonderfully good fielding of +Doyle and Wagner. The former made two stops along the right field line +which seemed to be not far from superhuman. Wagner killed at least two +safe hits over second base for New York and both of the plays were of +the greatest benefit to the Boston team. + +THIRD GAME. +Boston, Oct. 10, 1912. +New York 2; Boston 1. +Hits--Off Marquard 7; O'Brien 6, Bedient 1. +Struck out--Marquard 6, O'Brien 3. +Bases on balls--Marquard 1; O'Brien 3. +Attendance 34,624. + +Because of the tie game the teams remained over in Boston and played on +the following day, October 10. The pitchers were Marquard for New York +and O'Brien and Bedient for Boston. Marquard pitched one of the best +games of his career and not a run was made against him until the ninth +inning. By far the most notable play of the game on the field was made +by Devore in the ninth inning, when he ran for more than thirty feet and +caught an almost impossible fly ball which had been batted by Cady. Had +he missed it the Bostons might have scored two runs and won. Devore +began the first inning with a base hit, but was out trying to steal +second. The next two batters were retired. In the second inning Murray +batted the ball to center field for two bases. Merkle's clever sacrifice +put him on third and Herzog's sacrifice fly sent him over the rubber. +Lewis began the inning for Boston with a safe hit, but could not advance +further than second. + +In the third Fletcher started with a base on balls and was sacrificed to +second, but was unable to score. In the fourth, with one out, Speaker +batted safely, but was forced out at second. Gardner flied to Murray. + +In the fifth Herzog began with a two-base hit to left field. Meyers died +at first, but Fletcher hit safely to right field and Herzog scored. +Fletcher stole second and Marquard was given a base on balls. Devore +forced him out and stole second and Doyle followed with another base on +balls. A long hit would have made the game easy for New York and +Snodgrass tried to get the ball into the bleachers, but Lewis caught it. +Stahl began the Bostons' half of the fifth with a hit, but was out by +ten feet trying to steal second. + +In the sixth, with two out, Yerkes hit safely, but Speaker fouled out. +In the seventh, with two out, Stahl batted the ball to left field for +two bases, but Wagner flied to Devore. + +In the eighth the Giants looked dangerous again. Devore began with a +base-hit to left field. Doyle flied to Lewis. Snodgrass hit safely to +left field and Murray flied to Lewis. Merkle batted the ball very hard, +but Wagner made a good stop and caught Snodgrass at second. With two out +Hooper got a base on balls for Boston, but it did Boston no good. + +In the ninth Herzog was hit by a pitched ball and Meyers swung solidly +to center for a single, after Herzog had died trying to steal. Fletcher +lined to Speaker and Meyers was doubled. In Boston's half, with one out, +Lewis batted to right field for a base. Gardner hit to the same place +for two bases and Lewis scored Boston's only run. Stahl rapped a +grounder to Marquard, who threw Gardner out at third. Wagner should have +been an easy out, and the game would have been over if Merkle had not +dropped a throw to first base. Wagner stole second, no attention being +paid to him, and then Devore made his wonderfully good catch of Cady's +hard drive and the Giants had won their first game in the series. + +Marquard outpitched both of his Boston rivals and in only two innings +were the Bostons able to get the first man on the bases. + +FOURTH GAME. +New York, Oct. 11, 1912. +Boston 3, New York 1. +Hits--Off Wood 9; off Tesreau 5, Ames 3. +Struck out--Wood 8; Tesreau 5. +Bases on balls--Ames 1, Tesreau 2. +Attendance 36,502. + +The fourth game of the series was played in New York on the following +day. For most of the forenoon it looked as if there would be no game +because of rain. Toward noon it cleared up slightly and although the +ground was a little soft it was decided to play, in view of the fact +that so many spectators had come a long distance to witness the contest. +The soft ground was in favor of the Boston players, for the ball was +batted very hard by New York most of the afternoon, but the diamond held +and the infielders were able to get a good grasp on grounders which +would ordinarily have been very difficult to handle. Tesreau pitched for +New York and Wood for Boston, as was the case in the opening game of the +series. Hooper, who batted with much success on the Polo Grounds, began +with a single to center and although Yerkes was safe on Meyers' wild +throw the Giants got out of a bad predicament handily because of the +excellent stops which were made by Fletcher of hits by Speaker and +Lewis. With one out in New York's half of the inning Doyle batted +safely, but Snodgrass forced him out. + +Gardner began the second inning with a three-base hit to right field and +scored on a wild pitch. The next three batters were retired in order. +With one out for New York, Merkle singled and stole second, but was not +helped to get home. + +The third was started by a single by Wood and Hooper was given a base on +balls. Yerkes bunted and Tesreau whipped the ball to third base ahead of +Wood. Doyle and Fletcher made two fine stops and Speaker and Lewis were +retired. + +Boston added another run in the fourth inning, being assisted by +Tesreau's wildness. Gardner, who batted first, was given a base on +balls. Stahl forced him out at second. Then Stahl stole second, to the +immediate surprise of the Boston players and the chagrin of the New York +catcher. Wagner's out at first helped him along and when Cady pushed a +weak single to center field, just out of the reach of the players, Stahl +scored. Wood was retired by Murray. + +With one out in the fifth Yerkes batted for a base, but was thrown out +at second on Speaker's grounder and Speaker died trying to steal. New +York had one out in the same inning, when Herzog hit safely, but neither +Meyers nor Fletcher could help him. + +In the sixth the New York players began with a rush. Tesreau, the first +batter, hit for a base. Devore followed with another single. Doyle with +a "clean up" could have won for the Giants, but he lifted a high fly to +Yerkes. Snodgrass batted to Yerkes, who made an extraordinarily good +stop and threw Devore out at second. Murray forced Snodgrass at second +and all. New York's early advantage went for naught. + +In the seventh the Giants scored their only run. After Merkle had struck +out, Herzog batted for a base. Meyers lifted a terrific line drive to +center field, but Speaker got under the ball. Fletcher hit hard and safe +to right field for two bases and Herzog scored. McCormick batted for a +base, but Fletcher, trying to score on the ball, was thrown out at the +plate by Yerkes. + +In the eighth, with two out, Snodgrass was safe on Wagner's fumble. +Murray rapped a single to left field but Merkle struck out. With two out +for Boston Speaker batted a double to left field and was left. Ames +pitched in the eighth for New York. In the ninth the Giants were scored +upon again when Gardner hit for a single to center field. Stahl +sacrificed, Wagner was given a base on balls and Cady forced Wagner, +while Gardner was scoring. + +FIFTH GAME. +Boston, Oct. 12. 1912. +Boston 2; New York 1. +Hits--Off Mathewson 5; Bedient 3. +Struck out--Mathewson 2; Bedient 4. +Bases on balls--Bedient 3. +Attendance 34,683. + +The game was played on Saturday with Mathewson in the box for New York +and Bedient for Boston. As was the case in the former game pitched by +Mathewson in Boston, the verdict was general that perfect support would +have won the contest for him, even though the score was but 2 to 1 in +favor of Boston. Devore received a base on balls in the first inning and +after Doyle was out on a long fly to right was forced out by Snodgrass +in a double play. By the way this game was played under very adverse +conditions so far as the weather was concerned. It was cold and gloomy. +Hooper, the first Boston batter, as usual, began with his single to +center field. Yerkes flied out to shortstop. Speaker hit safely and +Lewis batted to Herzog, who made a beautiful stop on third, and touched +the base ahead of Hooper. Gardner struck out. + +In the second inning Murray started off with a base on balls and the +next three batters were retired in succession. With one out for Boston, +Wagner batted safely to right field. The next two men were retired +without reaching first. + +With one out in the third, Mathewson batted a single to center field and +Devore followed with a base on balls, but Bedient got the next two +batters. + +The third was the inning which broke the backs of the Giants. Hooper +batted the ball to left center for three bases. Yerkes followed with a +triple to center and Hooper scored. Speaker contributed with a ground +hit, which Doyle should have got, but fumbled. Had he recovered the ball +Boston would have made but one run in the inning. As it was, Yerkes +scored on the misplay and that run lost the game for the Giants. The +next two batters were retired and for the remainder of the contest +Boston never had a man on first base, Mathewson pitching marvelous ball, +by far the best game of the series, as it should easily have been a one +run contest with not a base on balls nor a wild pitch. + +In the seventh inning Merkle began with a two-base hit to left field +Herzog flied out to Wagner. Meyers flied out, but McCormick who batted +for Fletcher, made a hit and Merkle scored. That spurt gave the Giants +their sole run and they returned to New York that night with the series +three to one against them. + +SIXTH GAME. +New York, Oct. 14, 1912 +New York 5; Boston 2. +Hits--Off Marquard 7; O'Brien 6, Collins 5. +Struck out--Marquard 3; O'Brien 1, Collins 1. +Bases on balls--Marquard 1. +Attendance 30,622. + +With a Sunday in which to rest the series was resumed in New York on +Monday, October 14. Marquard pitched for the Giants and O'Brien for the +Bostons. Rest seemed to have recuperated the New York players more than +their opponents. In the first inning of the game the Giants scored five +runs and the contest was never in doubt after that. O'Brien made a +costly balk in the first inning and the Boston players generally seemed +to be less energetic and less confident than would have been expected +from a team which had but one game to win to make the championship +assured. + +The first inning really settled the outcome of the contest. After the +Giants had made five runs Boston played through the other eight innings +perfunctorily. The crowd of Boston enthusiasts, which had come to New +York to see the finishing touches put on the Giants, was bitterly +disappointed, while the New York enthusiasts, not over hopeful on +account of the disposition of the Giants to blunder badly at vital +moments, were at least in a much better frame of mind because of the +rally by their team. + +Hooper was first at bat and as usual hit for a base. He was caught +napping off first. Yerkes was easily retired. Speaker was given a base +on balls and Lewis flied out. + +In New York's half Devore was retired at first. Doyle hit safely to +center field. He stole second after Snodgrass struck out. Murray batted +a single to left field and Doyle went to third. O'Brien made a palpable +balk and Doyle scored from third, Murray going to second. Merkle banged +a hard double to right field, Herzog followed with a double to left +field, Meyers singled to left field, and actually stole second under the +noses of the Boston players. Fletcher singled to right field and Meyers +scored the fifth run of the inning; the other men who had crossed the +plate being Doyle, Murray, Merkle and Herzog. + +In Boston's half of the second inning the Boston players scored twice +and that was all they made in the game. Gardner was safe at first on +Marquard's wild throw; Stahl singled to center. The next two batters +were easily retired, but Engle, who batted for O'Brien, hit to left +field for two bases, Devore missing the ball by pushing it away from him +as he was running into it, and Gardner and Stahl scored. + +Boston began the third inning and the fourth inning with singles, but +the runners failed to get around. In the eighth, with one out, Yerkes +made a single, but was unable to score. + +With one out in the third for New York, Murray singled to right field, +but was out trying to stretch the hit. Merkle hit for a base to left +field and was out trying to steal. + +In the fourth, with one out, Meyers batted to left field for three +bases, but was unable to score. These latter hits were made against +Collins, who had taken O'Brien's place in the box. + +Devore began the fifth with a hit, but Doyle flied to short, and Devore +was doubled off first in a play from right field. Collins continued to +be effective in the next three innings, but the mischief had been done, +so far as Boston was concerned, and the Red Sox simply did not have a +rally in them. + +The teams again took a special train for Boston after the game and the +remainder of the cavalcade followed over at midnight. + +SEVENTH GAME. +Boston, Oct. 15, 1912. +New York 11; Boston 4. +Hits--Off Tesreau 9; Wood 7, Hall 9. +Struck-out--Tesreau 6; Hall 1. +Bases on balls--Hall 5; Tesreau 5. +Attendance 32,630. + +The seventh game was played on Fenway Park, with Wood pitching for +Boston and Tesreau for the Giants. Wood pitched for one inning and was +hammered in every direction by the New York players, who ran riot on the +field. They simply overwhelmed Boston and this contest, more than any +other in the series, was so "one sided" as to be devoid of interest, +except to the New York fans, who were eager to see the Giants win the +championship. Devore, the first batter, hit safely to left field. Doyle +rapped a single to center. Devore and Doyle made a double steal and that +began the fireworks. Snodgrass pushed a double to right field. Murray's +hit was a sacrifice. Merkle singled to center field. Herzog batted to +Wood and Merkle was run down between second and third. Meyers singled to +left field, Fletcher doubled to right field, and Tesreau made his first +hit of the series, a single to left field. That counted all told six +runs for the Giants and Tesreau added cruelty to the sufferings of the +Red Sox by trying to steal second base and almost making it. + +In the second inning Gardner made a home run. Hall took the place of +Wood in the box for Boston and Devore was given a base on balls. He +stole second and Doyle got a base on balls. Devore was caught napping, +but Snodgrass singled to right, scoring Doyle. The two next batters were +retired. + +In the third Hall was safe on Fletcher's wild throw and Hooper singled +but neither scored. Herzog and Meyers began with singles for New York, +but neither of them got home. With one out in the fourth, Gardner was +hit by a pitched ball and Stahl singled to left field. Neither of these +players scored. + +In the fifth Hall began with a two-bagger to left. Hooper was given a +base on balls and was forced out by Yerkes. Speaker was given a base on +balls. The next two batters were retired, leaving Hall on third. There +were two out for New York when Meyers made his third single, but he +failed to get home. + +With one out in the sixth for Boston Wagner hit safely, but Cady was +easily retired. Hall was given a base on balls, but Hooper struck out, +ending the inning. In New York's half, with one out, Devore was given a +base on balls. Doyle batted the ball over the fence in right field for a +home run and Devore scored ahead of him. + +In Boston's half of the seventh, with one out, Speaker singled to +center. Lewis batted to left field for two bases. That put Speaker on +third. While Fletcher was getting Gardner out of the way, Speaker scored +and Lewis reached home on Doyle's fumble of Stahl's grounder. In New +York's half of this inning Merkle began with a single to center. Herzog +flied to left field. Meyers made his fourth single of the afternoon, but +Fletcher flied to right field. Tesreau hit to right for a base and +Merkle scored. + +In the eighth Doyle muffed Cady's fly. Hall singled to right. Hooper's +sacrifice fly gave Cady a run, Doyle began for New York with a single, +but the next three batters were retired in order. + +In the ninth Herzog began with a base on balls. Wilson, who was +catching, singled to center. He was doubled up with Fletcher on a long +fly hit. Herzog, however, eventually scored his run, which was the +seventh of the game for New York. + +In this contest the Giants ran bases with such daring that they had the +Boston players confused and uncertain. Cady did not know whether to +throw the ball or hold it, and the general exhibition of speed on the +bases which was made by New York was characteristic of the team's dash +in the race for the championship of the National League, and a system +which the Boston players could not fathom. + +EIGHTH GAME. +Boston, Oct. 16, 1912. +Boston 3; New York 2 (ten innings.) +Hits--Off Bedient 6, Wood 3; Mathewson 8. +Struck out--Bedient 2, Wood 2; Mathewson 4. +Bases on balls--Bedient 3, Wood 1; Mathewson 5. +Attendance 16,970. + +On the following day, before the smallest crowd of the series, the final +game was played in Boston. Many Boston fans, disgruntled at the manner +in which some of them had been seated, deliberately remained away. The +air was cold and bleak and in addition to all the rest the enthusiasts +of Boston had given up the fight. Which merely goes to show the +uncertainty of Base Ball. The New York players unquestionably had the +championship won for nine and one half innings of the final game and +then, by the simplest of errors, overturned all of the good which they +had accomplished in their wonderful rally of the two days preceding. +After outplaying the Bostons in a manner which showed some thing of the +caliber of the teams when both were going at top speed, the New York +team stopped short. As one wit dryly put it: "Boston did not win the +championship, but New York lost it." + +Mathewson pitched for New York and Bedient for Boston until the end of +the seventh inning. + +With two out for the Giants in the first Snodgrass was given a base on +balls, but Murray was retired. Two were out for Boston when Speaker hit +for a single to right field, but Lewis struck out. Again in the second +two were out for New York when Meyers was safe on Speaker's muff. +Fletcher singled over second, but Mathewson flied out. + +Hooper began the third with a base hit, but was left. Devore started for +New York with a base on balls. Doyle and Snodgrass were out in +succession, Devore advancing, and then Murray doubled to center field +and Devore scored. In the fourth Herzog started with a two-bagger and if +the ground rule had not been changed he would have had an easy triple, +and ultimately a run, which would have changed all the outcome of the +game. As it was, he did not score. In the fifth Devore began with a +single and was out stealing second after Doyle had flied out and Hooper +had made the most wonderful catch of the series, reaching over the right +field fence to get the ball with his bare band. Snodgrass singled and +Murray fouled out. + +In the sixth Meyers received a base on balls with two out but did not +score. With one out Yerkes singled to right field and Speaker got a base +on balls but no run followed. + +In the seventh Mathewson began with a single and was forced out by +Devore, who was left on bases while two batters were retired. For +Boston, with one out, Stahl hit safely to center field. It was a pop +fly, which fell between three men, Fletcher, Murray and Snodgrass. +Wagner was given a base on balls and Cady was an easy out. Henriksen, +batting for Bedient, with two strikes against him, drove the ball on a +line toward third base. In fact, it hit third base. It bounded so far +back that Stahl scored the tieing run of the game. + +No runs were scored by either team in the eighth or the ninth innings. +In the tenth, with one out, Murray lined a double to left field and +scored on Merkle's hard single over second. That put the Giants in the +lead, with Merkle on second. Herzog struck out and Wood threw out +Meyers. The ball had been batted so hard by Meyers to Wood that it +crippled the pitcher's hand and compelled him to cease playing. It was +fortunate for Boston that the hit kept low. So much speed had been put +into it by the stalwart Indian catcher that had the ball got into the +outfield it would have gone to the fence. It was the undoing of Wood, +but it really led to the victory of Boston. + +Engle batted for Wood in the tenth. He rapped a long fly to center field +which was perfectly played by Snodgrass, but the center fielder dropped +the ball. Engle went to second base. + +On top of his simple muff Snodgrass made a magnificent catch of Hooper's +fly, which seemed to be good for three bases. Mathewson bent every +energy to strike out Yerkes, but the batter would not go after the wide +curves which were being served to him by the New York pitcher and +finally was given a base on balls. + +Speaker hit the first ball pitched for an easy foul which should have +been caught by Merkle. The ball dropped between Merkle, Meyers and +Mathewson. As was afterward proved the capture of this foul would have +saved the championship for the Giants. + +Speaker, with another life, singled to right and Engle scored the tieing +run. The Giants still had a chance, but a feeble one, for Yerkes was on +third, with but one out. Gardner flied to Devore. The New York +outfielder caught the ball and made a game effort to stop the flying +Yerkes at the plate, but failed to do so, and the game was over and the +series belonged to Boston. + +Yet so keen had been the struggle, so great the excitement, so wonderful +the rally of the New York club after having once given the series away, +that it was the opinion generally that the defeated were as great in +defeat as the victors were great in victory. + +The scores of the games are as follows: + +FIRST GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 3 1 1 1 0 0 Devore, l.f. 3 1 0 0 0 0 +Yerkes, 2b 4 0 1 0 1 0 Doyle, 2b 4 1 2 2 7 0 +Speaker, c.f 3 1 1 0 1 0 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 2 0 0 +Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 2 0 0 Murray, r.f. 3 0 1 1 0 0 +Gardner, 3b 4 0 0 1 1 0 Merkle, 1b 3 1 1 12 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 4 0 0 6 1 0 Herzog, 3b 4 0 2 1 1 0 +Wagner, ss 3 1 2 5 3 1 Meyers, c 3 0 1 6 1 0 +Cady, c 3 0 1 11 1 0 Fletcher, ss 4 0 0 3 1 1 +Wood, p 3 1 0 1 1 0 Tesreau, p 2 0 0 0 2 0 + McCormick[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + Crandall, p 1 0 0 0 1 0 + Becker[2] 0 0 0 0 0 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 31 4 6 27 9 1 Totals 33 3 8 27 13 1 + +1: McCormick batted for Tesreau in the seventh inning. +2: Becker ran for Meyers in ninth inning. + +Boston 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0-4 +New York 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-3 + +Sacrifice hits--Hooper, Cady. Two-base hits--Hooper, Wagner, Doyle. +Three-base hit--Speaker. Double play--Stahl and Wood. Pitching +record--Off Tesreau, 5 hits and 4 runs in 25 times at bat in 7 innings; +off Crandall, 1 hit, 0 runs in 6 times at bat in 2 innings. Struck +out--By Wood 11, Devore, Snodgrass, Merkle, Herzog, Meyers, Fletcher 3, +Tesreau 2, Crandall; by Tesreau 4, Hooper, Speaker, Stahl, Gardner; by +Crandall 2, Stahl, Gardner. Bases on balls--By Wood 2, Devore, Murray; +by Tesreau 4, Hooper, Speaker, Wagner, Wood. First base on +errors--Boston 1, New York 1. Fumbles--Wagner, Fletcher. Hit by pitched +ball--By Wood, Meyers. Left on bases--Boston 6, New York 6. +Umpires--Klem and Evans; field umpires--Rigler and O'Loughlin. +Scorers--Richter and Spink. Time of game--2.10. Weather--Clear and warm. + +SECOND GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Snodgrass, l.f-r.f 4 1 1 0 0 0 Hooper, r.f. 5 1 3 3 0 0 +Doyle, 2b 5 0 1 2 5 0 Yerkes, 2b 5 1 1 3 4 0 +Becker, c.f. 4 1 0 0 1 0 Speaker, c.f. 5 2 2 2 0 0 +Murray, r.f-l.f 5 2 3 3 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 5 2 2 2 0 1 +Merkle, 1b 5 1 1 19 0 1 Gardner, 3b 4 0 0 2 0 0 +Herzog, 3b 4 1 3 2 4 0 Stahl, 1b 5 2 2 10 0 0 +Meyers, c 4 0 2 5 0 0 Wagner, ss 5 0 0 5 5 5 +Fletcher, ss 4 0 0 1 3 3 Carrigan, c 5 0 0 6 4 0 +McCormick[1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 Collins, p 3 0 0 0 1 0 +Mathewson, p 5 0 0 1 6 0 Hall, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 +Shafer[2], ss 0 0 0 0 3 0 Bedient, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 +Wilson[3], c 0 0 0 0 1 1 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 40 6 11 33 23 5 Totals 44 6 10 33 14 1 + +1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in tenth inning. 2: Shafer ran for +Meyers in tenth inning and succeeded Fletcher as shortstop in same +inning. 3: Wilson succeeded Meyers as catcher in tenth inning. + +New York 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0-6 +Boston 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0-8 + +Left on bases--New York 9, Boston 6. First base on errors--New York 1, +Boston 3. Two-base hits--Snodgrass, Murray, Herzog, Lewis 2, Hooper. +Three-base hits--Murray, Merkle. Herzog, Yerkes, Speaker. Stolen +bases--Snodgrass, Herzog, Hooper 2, Stahl. Sacrifice hit--Gardner. +Sacrifice flies--Herzog, McCormick. Double play--Fletcher and Herzog. +Pitching record--Off Collins, 9 hits and 3 runs in 30 times at bat in +7-1/3 innings; off Hall, 2 hits and 3 runs in 9 times at bat in 2-2/3 +innings; off Bedient, no hits or runs in 1 time at bat in 1 inning. +Struck out--By Mathewson 4, Stahl, Collins 2, Wagner; by Collins 6, +Doyle, Merkle, Mathewson 2, Snodgrass; by Bedient 1, Doyle. Bases on +balls--By Hall 4, Snodgrass, Doyle, Becker, Meyers; by Bedient 1, +Becker. Fumbles--Fletcher 2. Muffed flies--Fletcher, Lewis. Muffed foul +fly--Merkle. Muffed thrown ball--Wilson. Hit by pitcher--By Bedient, +Snodgrass. Umpires--O'Loughlin and Rigler; field umpires--Klem and +Evans. Scorers--Richter and Spink. Time of game--2.38. Weather--Cool and +cloudy. + +THIRD GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Devore, 1.f. 4 0 2 2 0 0 Hooper, r.f. 3 0 0 1 0 0 +Doyle, 2b 3 0 0 3 1 0 Yerkes, 2b 4 0 1 3 1 0 +Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 0 0 0 Speaker, c.f. 4 0 1 3 1 0 +Murray, l.f. 4 1 1 5 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 4 1 2 4 0 0 +Merkle, 1b 3 0 0 5 0 1 Gardner, 3b 3 0 1 0 2 0 +Herzog, 3b 2 1 1 1 3 0 Stahl, 1b 4 0 2 11 1 0 +Meyers, c 4 0 1 8 1 0 Wagner, ss 4 0 0 1 3 0 +Fletcher, ss 3 0 1 3 2 0 Carrigan, c 2 0 0 3 1 0 +Marquard, p 1 0 0 0 2 0 Engle[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + O'Brien, p 2 0 0 1 5 0 + Ball[2] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + Cady, c 1 0 0 0 1 0 + Bedient, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 + Henriksen[3] 0 0 0 0 0 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 28 2 7 27 9 1 Totals 31 1 7 27 15 0 + +1: Engle batted for Carrigan in eighth inning. 2: Ball batted for +O'Brien in eighth inning. 3: Henriksen ran for Stahl in ninth inning. + +New York 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0-2 +Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-1 + +Left on bases--New York 6, Boston 7. First base on errors--Boston 1. +Two-base hits--Murray, Herzog, Stahl, Gardner. Stolen bases--Devore, +Fletcher, Wagner. Sacrifice hits--Merkle, Marquard, Gardner. Sacrifice +fly--Herzog. Double play--Speaker and Stahl. Pitching record--Off +O'Brien, 6 hints and 2 runs in 26 times at bat in 8 innings; off +Bedient, 1 hit and 0 runs in 2 times at bat in 1 inning. Struck out--By +Marquard 6, Hooper, Yerkes, Wagner, O'Brien 2, Ball; by O'Brien 3, +Devore, Merkle, Meyers. Bases on balls--O'Brien 3, Fletcher, Doyle, +Marquard; by Marquard 1, Hooper. Muffed thrown ball--Merkle. Hit by +pitcher--By Bedient, Herzog. Umpires--Evans and Klem; field umpires-- +O'Loughlin and Rigler. Scorers--Richter and Spink. Time of game--2.16. +Weather--Clear and cool. + +FOURTH GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 4 0 1 1 0 0 Devore, l.f. 4 0 1 0 0 0 +Yerkes, 2b 3 0 1 2 5 0 Doyle, 2b 4 0 1 4 1 0 +Speaker, c.f. 4 0 1 2 0 0 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 0 2 0 0 +Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Murray, r.f. 4 0 1 3 0 0 +Gardner, 3b 3 2 2 0 2 0 Merkle, 1b 4 0 1 8 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 3 1 0 9 0 0 Herzog, 3b 4 1 2 2 1 0 +Wagner, ss 3 0 0 2 3 1 Meyers, c 4 0 0 5 1 1 +Cady, c 4 0 1 10 0 0 Fletcher, ss 4 0 1 3 6 0 +Wood, p 4 0 2 0 2 0 Tesreau, p 2 0 1 0 2 0 + McCormick[1] 1 0 1 0 0 0 + Ames, p 0 0 0 0 1 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 32 3 8 27 12 1 Totals 35 1 9 27 12 1 + +1: McCormick batted for Tesreau in seventh inning. + +Boston 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1-3 +New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0-1 + +Left on bases--Boston 7, New York 7. First base on errors--Boston 1, New +York 1. Two-base hits--Speaker, Fletcher. Three-base hit--Gardner. +Stolen bases--Stahl, Merkle. Sacrifice hits--Yerkes, Stahl. Double +play--Fletcher and Merkle. Pitching record--Off Tesreau, 5 hits and 2 +runs in 24 times at bat in 7 innings; off Ames, 3 hits and 1 run in 8 +times at bat in 2 innings. Struck out--By Wood 8, Devore, Snodgrass. +Murray 2, Merkle 2, Meyers, Tesreau; by Tesreau 5, Lewis, Stahl, Wagner, +Cady 2. Bases on balls--By Tesreau 2, Hooper, Gardner; by Ames 1, +Wagner. Fumble--Wagner. Wild throw--Meyers. Wild pitch--Tesreau. +Umpires--Rigler and O'Loughlin; field umpires--Evans and Klem. Scorers-- +Richter and Spink. Time of game--2.06. Weather--Cool and cloudy, and +ground heavy. + +FIFTH GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 4 l 2 4 0 0 Devore, l.f. 2 0 0 0 0 0 +Yerkes, 2b 4 1 1 3 3 0 Doyle, 2b 4 0 0 0 3 1 +Speaker, c.f. 3 0 1 3 0 0 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 0 2 0 0 +Lewis, l.f. 3 0 0 1 0 0 Murray, r.f. 3 0 0 0 1 0 +Gardner, 3b 3 0 0 3 2 1 Merkle, 1b 4 1 1 15 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 3 0 0 7 0 0 Herzog, 3b 4 0 0 2 3 0 +Wagner, ss 3 0 1 1 1 0 Meyers, c 3 0 1 2 0 0 +Cady, c 3 0 0 5 0 0 Fletcher, ss 2 0 0 2 2 0 +Bedient, p 3 0 0 0 0 0 McCormick[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 + Shafer[2], ss 0 0 0 1 1 0 + Mathewson, p 3 0 1 0 3 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 29 2 5 27 6 1 Totals 30 1 3 24 13 1 + +1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in seventh inning. 2: Shafer ran for +McCormick in seventh inning and then played shortstop. + +Boston 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 X--2 +New York 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0--1 + +Left on bases--New York 5, Boston 3. First base on errors--New York 1, +Boston 1. Two-base hit--Merkle. Three-base hits--Hooper, Yerkes. Double +play--Wagner, Yerkes and Stahl. Struck out--By Mathewson 2, Gardner, +Wagner; by Bedient 4, Devore, Snodgrass, Merkle, Mathewson. Bases on +balls--By Bedient 3, Devore 2, Murray. Fumbles--Doyle, Gardner. +Umpires--O'Loughlin and Rigler; field umpires--Klem and Evans. +Scorers--Richter and Spink. Time of game--1.43. Weather--Warm and +cloudy. + +SIXTH GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Devore, l.f. 4 0 1 2 0 1 Hooper, r.f. 4 0 1 2 2 0 +Doyle, 2b 4 1 1 1 1 0 Yerkes, 2b 4 0 2 3 1 1 +Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 6 0 0 Speaker, c.f. 3 0 0 5 0 0 +Murray, r.f. 3 1 2 7 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 0 0 0 +Merkle, 1b 3 1 2 4 1 0 Gardner, 3b 4 1 0 0 1 0 +Herzog, 3b 3 1 1 1 1 0 Stahl, 1b 4 1 2 8 0 0 +Meyers, c 3 1 2 6 0 0 Wagner, 3b 4 0 0 3 0 0 +Fletcher, ss 3 0 1 0 2 0 Cady, c 3 0 1 3 2 1 +Marquard, p 3 0 0 0 2 1 O'Brien, p 0 0 0 0 1 0 + Engle[1] 1 0 1 0 0 0 + Collins, p 2 0 0 0 2 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 30 5 11 27 7 2 Totals 33 2 7 24 9 2 + +1: Engle batted for O'Brien in second inning. + +New York 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X--5 +Boston 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0--2 + +Left on bases--Boston 5, New York 1. First base on errors--Boston 1. +Two-base hits--Engle, Merkle, Herzog. Three-base hit--Meyers. Stolen +bases--Speaker, Doyle, Herzog, Meyers. Double plays--Fletcher, Doyle and +Merkle; Hooper and Stahl. Pitching record--Off O'Brien, 6 hits and 5 +runs in 8 times at bat in 1 inning; off Collins, 5 hits and 0 runs in 22 +times at bat in 7 innings. Struck out--By Marquard 3, Wagner, Gardner, +Stahl; by O'Brien 1, Snodgrass; by Collins 1, Devore. Base on balls--By +Marquard, Speaker. Fumble--Devore. Wild throw--Marquard. Muffed foul +fly--Cady. Balk--O'Brien. Wild throw--Yerkes. Time of game--1.58. +Umpires--Klem and Evans; field umpires--O'Loughlin and Rigler. +Scorers--Richter and Spink. Weather--Warm and cloudy. + +SEVENTH GAME. + +NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Devore, r.f. 4 2 1 3 1 1 Hooper, r.h. 3 0 1 1 1 0 +Doyle, 2b 4 3 3 2 3 2 Yerkes, 2b 4 0 0 1 4 0 +Snodgrass, c.f. 5 1 2 1 0 0 Speaker, c.f. 4 1 1 4 0 1 +Murray, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Lewis, l.f. 4 1 1 3 0 0 +Merkle, 1b 5 1 2 10 0 1 Gardner, 3b 4 1 1 2 0 1 +Herzog, 3b 4 2 1 0 2 0 Stahl, 1b 5 0 1 11 1 0 +Meyers, c 4 1 3 6 0 0 Wagner, ss 5 0 1 4 4 0 +Wilson, c[1] 1 0 1 2 0 0 Cady, c 4 1 0 1 2 0 +Fletcher, ss 5 1 1 2 4 0 Wood, p 0 0 0 0 1 0 +Tesreau, p 4 0 2 0 6 0 Happ, p 3 0 3 0 5 1 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 40 11 16 27 16 4 Totals 36 4 9 27 18 3 + +1: Wilson relieved Meyers in eighth inning. + +New York 6 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 1--11 +Boston 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0-- 4 + +Left on bases--New York 8, Boston 12. First base on errors--Boston 1. +Stolen bases--Devore 2, Doyle. Sacrifice hit--Murray. Sacrifice +fly--Hooper. Two-base hits--Snodgrass, Hall, Lewis. Home runs--Doyle, +Gardner. Double plays--Devore and Meyers; Speaker, unassisted. Pitching +record--Off Wood, 7 hits and 6 runs in 8 times at bat in 1 inning; off +Hall, 9 hits and 5 runs in 32 times at bat in 8 innings. Struck out--By +Tesreau 6, Hooper 2, Yerkes, Gardner, Wagner, Cady; by Hall 1, Herzog. +Bases on balls--By Tesreau 5, Hooper, Yerkes, Speaker, Lewis, Hall; by +Hall 5, Devore 2, Doyle, Herzog, Tesreau. Fumbles--Doyle, Devore. Muffed +thrown ball--Gardner. Wild throws--Merkle, Hall, Speaker. Muffed +fly--Doyle. Wild pitches--Tesreau 2. Hit by pitched ball--By Tesreau, +Gardner. Time of game--2.21. Umpires--Evans and Klem; field +umpires--O'Loughlin and Rigler. Scorers--Richter and Spink. +Weather--Cold and windy. + +EIGHTH GAME. + +BOSTON. AB. R. H. P. A. E. NEW YORK. AB. R. H. P. A. E. +Hooper, r.f. 5 0 0 3 0 0 Devore, r.f. 3 1 1 3 1 0 +Yerkes, 2b 4 1 1 0 3 0 Doyle, 2b 5 0 0 1 5 1 +Speaker, c.f. 4 0 2 2 0 1 Snodgrass, c.f. 4 0 1 4 1 1 +Lewis, l.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Murray, l.f. 5 1 2 3 0 0 +Gardner, 3b 3 0 1 1 4 2 Merkle, 1b 5 0 1 10 0 0 +Stahl, 1b 4 1 2 15 0 1 Herzog, 3b 5 0 2 2 1 0 +Wagner, ss 3 0 1 3 5 1 Meyers, c 3 0 0 4 1 0 +Cady, c 4 0 0 5 3 0 Fletcher, ss 3 0 1 2 3 0 +Bedient, p 2 0 0 0 1 0 McCormick[1] 1 0 0 0 0 0 +Henriksen[2] 1 0 1 0 0 0 Mathewson, p 4 0 1 0 3 0 +Wood, p 0 0 0 0 2 0 Shafer[3], ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 +Engle[4] 1 1 0 0 0 0 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +Totals 35 3 8 30 18 5 Totals 38 2 9*29 15 2 + +*: Two out in tenth inning when winning run was scored. + +1: McCormick batted for Fletcher in ninth inning. 2: Henriksen batted +for Bedient in seventh inning. 3: Shafer player shortstop in tenth +inning. 4: Engle batted for Wood in tenth inning. + +Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2--3 +New York 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1--2 + +Left on bases--New York 11, Boston 9. First base on errors--New York 1, +Boston 1. Two-base hits--Murray 2, Herzog, Gardner, Stahl, Henriksen. +Sacrifice hit--Meyers. Sacrifice fly--Gardner. Stolen base--Devore. +Pitching record--Off Bedient, 6 hits and 1 run in 26 times at bat in 7 +innings; off Wood, 3 hits and 1 run in 12 times at bat in 3 innings. +Struck out--By Mathewson 4, Yerkes, Speaker, Lewis, Stahl; by Bedient 2, +Merkle, Fletcher; by Wood 2, Mathewson, Herzog. Bases on balls--By +Mathewson 5, Yerkes, Speaker, Lewis, Gardner, Wagner; by Bedient 3, +Devore, Snodgrass, Meyers; by Wood 1, Devore. Muffed fly--Snodgrass. +Muffed foul fly--Stahl. Muffed thrown balls--Doyle, Wagner, Gardner. +Fumbles--Speaker, Gardner. Time of game--2.39. Umpires--O'Loughlin and +Rigler; field umpires--Klem and Evans. Scorers--Richter and Spink. +Weather--Clear and cold. + +THE COMPOSITE SCORE. + +Following is a composite score of the eight games played, thus +arranged to show at a glance the total work in every department: + +BOSTON. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PO. A. E. +Hooper........................ 8 31 3 9 2 2 16 3 .. +Yerkes........................ 8 32 3 8 .. 1 15 22 1 +Speaker....................... 8 30 4 9 1 .. 21 2 2 +Lewis......................... 8 32 4 5 .. .. 14 .. 1 +Gardner....................... 8 28 4 5 .. 3 9 12 4 +Stahl......................... 8 32 3 9 2 1 77 3 1 +Wagner........................ 8 30 1 5 1 .. 24 24 3 +Cady.......................... 7 22 1 3 .. 1 35 9 1 +Wood.......................... 4 7 1 2 .. .. 1 6 .. +Carrigan...................... 2 7 .. .. .. .. 9 5 .. +Collins....................... 2 5 .. .. .. .. .. 3 .. +Hall.......................... 2 4 .. 3 .. .. .. 5 1 +Bedient....................... 4 6 .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. +[1]Engle...................... 3 3 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. +O'Brien....................... 2 2 .. .. .. .. 1 6 .. +[2]Ball....................... 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. +[3]Henriksen.................. 2 1 .. 1 .. .. .. .. .. + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + 273 25 60 6 8 222 101 14 + +NEW YORK. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PO. A. E. +Devore........................ 7 24 4 6 4 .. 10 2 2 +Doyle......................... 8 33 5 8 2 .. 15 26 4 +Snodgrass..................... 8 33 2 7 1 .. 17 1 1 +Murray........................ 8 31 5 10 .. 1 23 1 .. +Merkle........................ 8 33 5 9 1 1 83 1 3 +Herzog........................ 8 30 6 12 2 2 11 16 .. +[4]Becker..................... 2 4 1 .. .. .. .. 1 .. +Meyers........................ 8 28 2 10 1 1 42 4 1 +Fletcher...................... 8 28 1 5 1 .. 16 23 4 +Wilson........................ 3 1 .. 1 .. .. 2 1 1 +Shafer........................ 3 .. .. .. .. .. 1 4 .. +Tesreau....................... 3 8 .. 3 .. .. .. 10 .. +[5]McCormick.................. 5 4 .. 1 .. 1 .. .. .. +Crandall...................... 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. +Mathewson..................... 3 12 .. 2 .. .. 2 12 .. +Marquard...................... 2 4 .. .. .. 1 .. 4 1 +Ames.......................... 1 .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. + --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + 274 31 74 12 7[6]22l 108 17 + +1: Engle batted for Carrigan in eighth inning of third game; for O'Brien +in second inning of sixth game, and for Wood in tenth inning of eighth +game. + +2: Ball batted for O'Brien in eighth inning of third game. + +3: Henriksen ran for Stahl in ninth inning of third game; and batted for +Bedient in seventh inning of eighth game. + +4: McCormick batted for Tesreau in seventh inning of first game; for +Fletcher in tenth inning of second game; for Tesreau in seventh inning +of fourth game; for Fletcher in seventh inning of fifth game; and for +Fletcher in ninth inning of eighth game. + +5: Becker ran for Meyers in ninth inning of first game. + +6: Two out in tenth inning of eighth game when winning run scored. + + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Tl. +Boston 3 4 2 1 1 1 6 2 2 3 0--25 +New York 11 3 3 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 0--31 + +Left on bases--Boston 55, New York 53. + +Two-base hits--Boston: Lewis 3, Gardner 2, Stahl 2, Hooper 2, Henriksen +1, Hall 1, Engle 1, Speaker 1, Wagner 1; total 14. New York: Murray 4, +Herzog 4, Snodgrass 2, Merkle 2, Fletcher 1, Doyle 1; total 14. + +Three-base hits--Boston: Speaker 2, Yerkes 2, Gardner 1, Hooper 1; total +6. New York: Murray 1, Merkle 1, Herzog 1, Meyers 1; total 4. + +Home runs--Boston: Gardner 1. New York: Doyle 1. + +Double plays--For Boston: Stahl and Wood 1; Speaker and Stahl 1; Wagner, +Yerkes and Stahl 1; Hooper and Stahl 1; Speaker 1 (unassisted). For New +York: Fletcher and Herzog 1; Fletcher and Merkle 1; Fletcher, Doyle and +Merkle 1; Devore and Meyers 1. + +Struck out by Boston pitchers--By Wood: Merkle 3, Tesreau 3, Fletcher 3, +Devore 2, Snodgrass 2, Herzog 2, Meyers 2, Murray 2, Crandall 1, +Mathewson 1, total 21. By Collins: Doyle 1, Merkle 1, Snodgrass 1, +Devore 1, Mathewson 2; total 6. By Bedient: Doyle 1, Devore 1, Snodgrass +1, Mathewson 1, Fletcher 1, Merkle 2; total 7. By O'Brien: Devore 1, +Merkle 1, Meyers 1, Snodgrass 1; total 4. By Hall: Herzog 1; total 1. +Grand total 39. + +Struck out by New York pitchers--By Tesreau: Hooper 3, Cady 3, Stahl 2, +Gardner 2, Wagner 2. Speaker 1, Yerkes 1, Lewis 1; total 15. By +Mathewson: Stahl 2, Collins 2, Wagner 2, Gardner 1, Yerkes 1, Speaker 1, +Lewis 1; total 10. By Marquard: Wagner 2, O'Brien 2, Hooper 1, Yerkes 1, +Ball 1, Gardner 1, Stahl 1; total 9. By Crandall: Stahl 1, Gardner 1; +total 2. Grand total 36. + +Bases on balls off Boston pitchers--Off Wood: Devore 2, Murray 1; total +3. Off Hall: Doyle 2, Devore 2, Snodgrass 1, Becker 1. Meyers 1, Tesreau +1, Herzog 1; total 9. Off Bedient: Devore 3, Becker 1, Murray 1, +Snodgrass 1, Meyers 1; total 7. Off O'Brien: Fletcher 1, Doyle 1. +Marquard 1; total 3. Grand total 22. + +Bases on balls off New York pitchers--Off Tesreau: Hooper 3, Speaker 2, +Wagner 1, Wood 1, Gardner 1, Yerkes 1, Lewis 1, Hall 1: total 11. Off +Marquard: Hooper 1, Speaker 1; total 2. Off Ames: Wagner 1; total 1. Off +Mathewson: Yerkes 1, Speaker 1, Lewis 1, Gardner 1, Wagner 1; total 6. +Grand total 19. + +Relief pitchers' records--Off Tesreau, 5 hits, 4 runs, in 25 times at +bat in 7 innings; off Crandall, 1 hit, 0 runs, in 6 times at bat in 2 +innings in game of October 8. Off Collins, 9 hits. 3 runs, in 30 times +at bat in 7-1/3 innings: off Hall, 2 hits, 3 runs, in 9 times at bat in +2-2/3 innings; off Bedient, 0 hits, 0 runs, in 1 time at bat in 1 +inning, in game of October 9; off O'Brien, 6 hits, 2 runs, in 26 times +at bat in 8 innings; off Bedient, 1 hit, 0 runs, in 2 times at bat in 1 +inning, in game of October 10. Off Tesreau, 5 hits, 2 runs, in 24 times +at bat in 7 innings; off Ames, 3 hits, 1 run, in 8 times at bat in 2 +innings, in game of October 11. Off O'Brien, 8 hits, 5 runs, in 8 times +at bat in 1 inning; off Collins, 5 hits, 0 runs, in 22 times at bat in 7 +innings, in game of October 14. Off Wood, 7 hits, 6 runs, in 8 times at +bat in 1 inning; off Hall, 9 hits. 5 rung, in 32 times at bat in 8 +innings, in game of October 15. Off Bedient, 6 hits, 1 run, in 26 times +at bat in 7 innings; off Wood, 3 hits, 1 runs, in 12 times at bat in 3 +innings, in game of October 16. + +Wild pitches--Tesreau 3. + +Balk--O'Brien 1. + +Muffed fly Balls--Fletcher 1, Lewis 1. Doyle 1, Snodgrass 1; total 4. + +Muffed foul fly--Merkle 1, Cady 1, Stahl 1; total 3. + +Muffed thrown balls--Wilson 1, Merkle 1, Gardner 2, Doyle 1, Wagner 1; +total 6. + +Wild throws--Meyers 1, Marquard 1, Yerkes 1, Merkle 1, Hall 1, Speaker +1; total 6. + +Fumbles--Wagner 2, Fletcher 3, Doyle 2, Gardner 2, Devore 2, Speaker 1; +total 12. + +First base on errors--Boston 11, New York 5. + +Sacrifice flies--Herzog 2, McCormick 1, Hooper 1, Gardner 1; total 5. + +Hit by pitcher--By Bedient: Snodgrass 1, Herzog 1. By Wood: Meyers. By +Tesreau: Gardner. + +Umpires--Evans and O'Loughlin, of the American League; Klem and Rigler, +of the National League. + +Official scorers--Francis C. Richter of Philadelphia, and J. Taylor +Spink of St. Louis, all games. + +Average time--2.13 7-8. + +Average attendance--3l,505. + +Weather--Clear and cool. + +INDIVIDUAL BATTING AVERAGES. + +Following are the official batting averages of all players participating +in the World's Championship Series of 1912. They show that New York +clearly outhit Boston. The team average of the Giants was 50 points +higher than that of Boston. The Boston team had only four batters in the +.300 class, while New York had five. Of the men who played all through +the series, Herzog was high with .400. The figures are: + +INDIVIDUAL BOSTON BATTING. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PC. +Henriksen 2 1 -- 1 -- -- 1000 +Hall 2 4 -- 3 -- -- .750 +Engle 3 3 1 1 -- -- .333 +Speaker 8 30 4 9 1 -- .300 +Hooper 8 31 3 9 2 2 .290 +Wood 4 7 1 2 -- -- .286 +Stahl 8 32 3 9 2 1 .281 +Yerkes 8 32 3 8 -- 1 .250 +Gardner 8 28 4 5 -- 3 .179 +Wagner 8 30 1 5 1 -- .167 +Lewis 8 32 4 5 -- -- .156 +Cady 7 22 1 3 -- 1 .136 +Carrigan 2 7 -- -- -- -- .000 +Collins 2 5 -- -- -- -- .000 +Bedient 4 6 -- -- -- -- .000 +O'Brien 2 2 -- -- -- -- .000 +Ball 1 1 -- -- -- -- .000 + +INDIVIDUAL NEW YORK BATTING. + + G. AB. R. H. SB. SH. PC. +Wilson 2 1 -- 1 -- -- 1000 +Herzog 8 30 6 12 2 2 .400 +Tesreau 3 8 -- 3 -- -- .375 +Meyers 8 28 2 10 1 1 .357 +Murray 8 31 5 10 -- 1 .323 +Merkle 8 33 5 9 1 1 .273 +Devore 7 24 4 6 4 -- .250 +McCormick 5 4 -- 1 -- 1 .250 +Doyle 8 33 5 8 2 -- .242 +Snodgrass 8 33 2 7 1 -- .212 +Fletcher 8 28 1 5 1 -- .179 +Mathewson 3 12 -- 2 -- -- .167 +Becker 2 4 1 -- -- -- .000 +Shafer 3 -- -- -- -- -- .000 +Crandall 1 1 -- -- -- -- .000 +Marquard 2 4 -- -- -- -- .000 +Ames 1 -- -- -- -- -- .000 + +Team batting average: New York, .270; Boston, .220. + +INDIVIDUAL FIELDING AVERAGES. + +The individual and team fielding averages show Boston leading by a +slight margin of .958 to .951. The figures follow: + + CATCHERS. + G. PO. A. PB. E. PC. | G. PO. A. PB. E. PC. +Carrigan 2 9 5 1000|Cady 7 35 9 1 .978 +Meyers 8 42 4 1 .979|Wilson 2 2 1 1 .750 + + PITCHERS. + G. PO. A. E. PC. | G. PO. A. E. PC. +Tesreau 3 10 1000|Collins 2 3 1000 +Crandall 1 1 1000|Bedient 4 1 1000 +Mathewson 4 1 12 1000|O'Brien 2 1 6 1000 +Wood 4 1 6 1000|Hall 2 5 1 .833 +Ames 1 1 1000|Marquard 2 4 1 .800 + + FIRST BASEMEN. +Stahl 8 77 3 1 .988|Merkle 8 83 1 3 .966 + + SECOND BASEMEN. +Yerkes 8 15 22 1 .974|Doyle 8 15 26 4 .911 + + SHORTSTOPS. +Shafer 3 1 4 1000|Fletcher 8 16 23 4 .907 +Wagner 8 24 24 3 .941 + + THIRD BASEMEN. +Herzog 8 11 16 1000|Gardner 8 9 12 4 .840 + + OUTFIELDERS. +Murray 8 23 1 1000|Lewis 8 14 1 .933 +Becker 1 1 1000|Speaker 8 21 2 2 .920 +Hooper 8 16 3 1000|Devore 7 10 2 2 .857 +Snodgrass 8 17 1 1 .947| + +Team fielding average: Boston, .958; New York, .951. + +THE PITCHERS' RECORDS. + +The pitching averages show Marquad and Bedient the only pitchers with +clean records. Marquad won two games and did not meet defeat, and +Bedient won one without a defeat. Wood won three and lost one. Following +are the figures: + + G. W. L. T. TO. PC. H. BB. HB. SO. IP. AB. + +Bedient 4 1 1 1 1000 10 7 2 7 17 59 +Marquard 2 2 1000 14 2 9 18 66 +Wood 4 3 1 1 .750 27 3 1 21 22 88 +Tesreau 3 1 2 2 .333 19 11 1 15 23 85 +Collins 2 1 1 .000 14 6 14-1/3 52 +Hall 2 1 1 .000 11 9 1 10-2/3 41 +Mathewson 3 2 1 .000 23 5 10 29-2/3 108 +Ames 1 .000 3 1 2 8 +Crandall 1 .000 1 2 2 6 +O'Brien 2 2 2 .000 12 3 4 9 34 + +Wild pitches--Tesreau 3. + +Wiltse, Ames, Hall and Crandall did not pitch a full game and are +charged with neither defeat nor victory. Tesreau pitched first 7 innings +of first game and is charged with defeat. Crandall finished game. +Collins pitched first 7-1/3 innings of second game, Hall followed for +2-2/3 innings and Bedient for 1 inning, but as game was tie no one has +defeat or victory charged against him. O'Brien pitched 8 innings of +third game and is charged with defeat. Bedient pitched in the last +inning. In fourth game Tesreau pitched first 7 innings and is marked +with defeat. Ames finished the game. In sixth game O'Brien pitched only +1 inning, but lost the game. Collins completed the game. Wood pitched +only one inning of seventh game and is charged with a defeat. Hall +pitched the last 8 innings. Bedient pitched first 7 innings of eighth +game and retired to permit Henriksen to bat for him with New York +leading. Boston then tied score and Wood, who succeeded Bedient, finally +won out in the tenth inning, Wood getting credit for game. + +FINANCIAL RESULT. + +The attendance and receipts of the 1912 World's Championship Series were +the highest of any series ever played, excelling even the receipts of +the 1911 Athletic-Giant series, which reached proportions of such +magnitude that it was thought they would not soon be exceeded, or even +equaled. In the 1911 Athletic-Giant series the total attendance was +179,851 paid; the receipts, $342,364; each club's share, $90,108.72; +National Commission's share, $34,236.25; the players' share for four +days, $127,910.61; each player's share on the Athletic team, $3,654.58; +and each player's share on the New York team, $2,436.30. For purposes of +comparison we give the official statement of the 1911 World's Series: + + Attendance. Receipts. +First game, New York................ 38,281 $77,359.00 +Second game, Philadelphia........... 26,286 42,962.50 +Third game, New York................ 37,216 75,593.00 +Fourth game, Philadelphia........... 24,355 40,957.00 +Fifth game, New York................ 33,228 69.384.00 +Sixth game, Philadelphia............ 20,485 36,109.00 + --------- ------------- +Totals ............................ 179,851 $342,364.50 + + +Each club's share................................ $90,108.72 +National Commission's share....................... 34,236.25 +Players' share for four games................ 127,910.61 + + +Herewith is given the official attendance and receipts of the Giant-Red +Sox world's Series of 1912, together with the division of the receipts, +as announced by the National Commission. The players shared only in the +first four games, divided 60 percent, to the winning team and 40 per +cent, to the losing team. + + Attendance. Receipts. +First game, New York................ 35,722 $75,127.00 +Second game, Boston................. 30,148 58,369.00 +Third game, Boston.................. 34,624 63,142.00 +Fourth game, New York............... 36,502 76,644.00 +Fifth game, Boston.................. 34,683 63,201.00 +Sixth game, New York................ 30,622 66,654.00 +Seventh game, Boston................ 32,630 57,004.00 +Eighth game, Boston ................ 16,970 30,308.00 + --------- ------------- +Totals............................. 251,901 $490,449.00 + + +Each club's share............................... $146,915.91 +National Commission's share....................... 49,044.90 +Players' share for four games.................... 147,572.28 + + + + +NATIONAL LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912 + +BY JOHN B. FOSTER. + + +Spurts of energy on the part of different clubs, unexpected ill fortune +on the part of others, and marked variations of form, which ranged from +the leaders almost to the lowliest teams of the second division, +injected spasmodic moments of excited interest into the National League +race for 1912 and marked it by more vicissitudes than any of its +immediate predecessors. + +By careful analysis it is not a difficult matter to ascertain why the +New Yorks won. Their speed as a run-getting machine was much superior to +that of any of their opponents. Every factor of Base Ball which can be +studied demonstrates that fact. They led the National League in batting +and they led it in base running. They were keenly alive to the +opportunities which were offered to them to win games. Indeed, their +fall from the high standard which they had set prior to the Fourth of +July was quite wholly due to the fact that they failed to take advantage +of the situations daily, as they had earlier in the season, and their +return to that winning form later in the season, which assured them of +the championship, was equally due to the fact that they had regained +their ability to make the one run which was necessary to win. That, +after all, is the vital essential of Base Ball. To earn the winning run, +not by hook or crook, but to earn it by excelling opponents through +superior play in a department where the opponents are weak, is the story +of capturing a pennant. + +They were dangerous men to be permitted to get on bases, and their +dearest and most bitter enemies on the ball field, with marked candor, +confessed that such was the case. Opposing leaders admitted that when +two or three of the New York players were started toward home plate one +or two of them were likely to cross the plate and that, too, when one +run might tie the score and two runs might win the game. + +While there were some who were quite sanguine before the beginning of +the season that the Giants would win the championship, there were others +who were convinced that they would have a hard time to hold their title, +and after the season was over both factions were fairly well satisfied +with their preliminary forecast. + +The runaway race which New York made up to the Fourth of July gave +abundant satisfaction to those who said they would win, and the setback +which the team received after the Fourth of July until the latter part +of August afforded solace to those who were certain in their own minds +that the New Yorks would have much trouble to repeat their victory of +1911. + +It must not be forgotten, too, that the New York team had the benefit of +excellent pitching throughout the year. In the new record for pitchers, +which has been established this season by Secretary Heydler of the +National League, and which in part was the outcome of the agitation in +the GUIDE for a new method of records, in which the various Base Ball +critics of the major league cities so ably contributed their opinions, +Tesreau leads all the pitchers in the matter of runs which were earned +from his delivery. Mathewson is second, Ames is fifth, Marquard seventh +and Wiltse and Crandall lower, and while both the latter were hit freely +in games in which they were occasionally substituted for others, they +pitched admirably in games which they won on their own account. + +In the opinion of the writer this new method, which has been put into +usage by Secretary Heydler, is far superior to anything which has been +offered in years as a valuable record of the actual work of pitchers. It +holds the pitcher responsible for every run which is made from his +delivery. It does not hold him responsible for any runs which may have +been made after the opportunity has been offered to retire the side, nor +does it hold him responsible for runs which are the result of the +fielding errors of his fellow players. On the other hand, if he gives +bases on balls, if he is batted for base hits, if he makes balks, and if +he makes wild pitches, he must stand for his blunders and have all such +runs charged against him as earned runs. + +Nothing proves more conclusively the strength of this manner of +compiling pitchers' records than that Rucker, by the old system, dropped +to twenty-eighth place in the list of National League pitchers, finished +third in the earned run computation, showing that if he had been given +proper support he probably would have been one of the topmost pitchers +of the league, even on the basis of percentage of games won, which is +more vainglorious than absolutely truthful. + +The Giants are to be commended for playing clean, sportsmanlike Base +Ball. There were less than a half dozen instances in which they came +into conflict with the umpires. The president of the National League +complimented Manager McGraw in public upon the excellent conduct of his +team upon the field and the players deserved the approbation of the +league's chief executive. + + * * * * * + +The general work of the Pittsburgh team throughout the year was good. It +must have been good to have enabled the players to finish second in the +championship contest, but the team, speaking in the broadest sense, +seemed to be just good enough not to win the championship. As one man +dryly but graphically put it: "Pittsburgh makes me think of a wedding +cake without the frosting." + +Fred. Clarke, manager of the team, adhered resolutely to his +determination not to play. It was not for the reason that the impulse to +play did not seize upon him more than once, but he had formed a +conviction, or, at least, he seemed to have formed one, that it would be +better for the organization if the younger blood were permitted to make +the fight. It was the opinion of more than one that Clarke incorrectly +estimated his own ball playing ability, in other words, that he was a +better ball player than he credited himself with being. + +As batters the Pittsburghs were successful. As fielders they were +superior to the team that won the championship. As run-getters they were +not the equal of the Giants. In brief, fewer opportunities were accepted +to make runs by a much larger percentage than was the case with the New +York club, which can easily be verified by a careful study of the scores +of the two teams as they opposed one another, and as they played against +the other clubs of the league. + +It took more driving power to get the Pittsburgh players around the +bases than it did those of New York. In tight games, where the advantage +of a single run meant victory, the greater speed of the New York players +could actually be measured by yards in the difference of results. +Naturally it was not always easy for the Pittsburgh enthusiasts to see +why a team, which assuredly fielded better than the champions and batted +almost equally as well, could not gain an advantage over its rivals, but +the inability of Pittsburgh Base Ball patrons to comprehend the lack of +success on the part of their team existed in the fact that they had but +few opportunities, comparatively speaking, to watch the New York players +and found it difficult to grasp the true import of that one great factor +of speed, which had been so insistently demanded by the New York manager +of the men who were under his guidance. + +Pittsburgh had an excellent pitching staff. Even better results would +have been obtained from it if Adams had been in better physical +condition. An ailing arm bothered him. While he fell below the standard +of other years, one splendid young pitcher rapidly developed in Hendrix, +and Robinson, a left-hander, with practically no major league +experience, pushed his way to a commanding position in the work which he +did. + +Until the Giants made their last visit to Pittsburgh in the month of +August the western team threatened to come through with a finish, which +would give them a chance to swing into first place during the month of +September, but the series between New York and Pittsburgh turned the +scale against the latter. + +Fired with the knowledge that they were at the turning point in the race +the New York players battled desperately with their rivals on +Pittsburgh's home field and won. Even the Pittsburgh players were filled +with admiration for the foe whom they had met, and while they were not +in the mood to accept defeat with equanimity, they did accept it +graciously and congratulated the victors as they left Pittsburgh after +playing the last game of the season which had been scheduled between +them on Forbes Field. + +First base had long bothered Clarke. Frequent experiments had been made +to obtain a first baseman, who could play with accuracy on the field and +bat to the standard of the team generally. Clarke transferred Miller +from second base to first and the change worked well. More graceful and +more accurate first basemen have been developed than Miller, but in his +first year of play at the bag he steadied the team perceptibly and +unquestionably gave confidence to the other men. + +But making a first baseman out of Miller took away a second baseman and +second base gave Clarke more or less concern all of the season. At that, +Pittsburgh was not so poorly off in second base play as some other of +the teams of the senior circuit. + + * * * * * + +Two important factors contributed to the success of the Chicagos in +1912. For a few days they threatened to assume the leadership of the +National League. With the opportunity almost within their grasp the +machine, which had been patched for the moment, fell to pieces, and the +Cubs, brought to a climax in their work by all the personal magnetism +and the driving power of which Chance was capable, were exhausted by +their strongest effort. The courage and the wish were there, but the +team lacked the playing strength. + +To return to the factors which contributed to the club's success. They +were the restoration to health of Evers, and a complete change in the +manner of playing second base, added to the consistent and powerful +batting of Zimmerman. The latter led the league in batting and +repeatedly pulled his club through close contests by the forceful manner +in which he met the ball with men on bases. + +A third contributing force, though less continuous, was the brief spurt +which was made by the Chicago pitchers in the middle of the season. They +were strongest at the moment that the New York team was playing its +poorest game, and their temporary success assisted in pushing the +Chicagos somewhat rapidly toward the top of the league. They were not +resourceful enough nor strong enough to maintain their average of +victories and finished the season somewhat as they had begun. + +The most of Chicago's success began to date from the early part of July, +when Lavender, pitching for the Cubs, won from Marquard of the Giants, +who, to that time, had nineteen successive victories to his credit. +Chicago continued to win, and the New York team made a very poor trip +through the west. + +Lavender's physical strength held up well for a month and then it became +quite evident that he had pitched himself out. Then was the time that +the Chicagos could have used to good advantage two and certainly one +steady and reliable pitcher, who had been through the fire of winning +pennants and would not be disturbed by the importance which attached to +games in which his club was for the moment the runner-up in the +championship race. + +Chicago managed to hold its own fairly well against the New York team. +Indeed, the Cubs beat the New Yorks on the series for the season, but +there were other clubs, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Cincinnati, which won +from Chicago when victories were most needed by the Cubs, and their hope +to capture the pennant deserted them as they were making their last trip +through the east. + +The race was not without its bright side for Chicago. Even if the Cubs +did finish third for the first time since Chance had been manager of the +organization, it was a welcome sight to see Evers apparently in as good +form as ever and Zimmerman so strong with the bat that the leadership of +the batters finally returned to Chicago after it had been absent for +years. + + * * * * * + +Cincinnati, under the management of Henry O'Day, finished fourth in the +race. It was by no means a weak showing for the new manager, in view of +the team which he was compelled to handle. Until the New York club +played its first series in Cincinnati, which began May 18, the Reds were +booming along at the top of the league, apparently with no intention +that they might ever drop back. It was New York that won three out of +the five games played and took the lead in the race, and when that +happened Cincinnati never was in front again. + +To the other managers, who had been watching the work of the Cincinnatis +it was apparent that sooner or later the break would have to come for +the reason that, as the season progressed, better pitching would have to +be faced by the Cincinnati club, while it was doubtful whether the +Cincinnati pitchers could do any better than they were doing. The +manager seemed to have known this, for when the break did come and the +Reds began to totter, he said in reference to their downfall that no +team could be expected to win with only ordinary pitching to assist it. + +In this manner Cincinnati played through the middle of the season always +just a little behind most of its opponents. As the latter days of the +year began to dawn the Reds began to improve and not the least of which +was in the better work of the pitchers. + +They did well enough to beat Philadelphia for fourth place, and while +O'Day did not have the satisfaction of finding his first year as a +manager generous enough to him to make him the runner-up for the +championship team, he actually put his club in the first division, which +is something in which many managers have failed and some of them +managers of long experience. + + * * * * * + +Misfortune and ill luck always attaches itself in a minor degree to +every team which engages in a championship contest, but most assuredly +Philadelphia had more of its share of reverses through accidents to +players and illness than any team of the National League. Yet the +Philadelphias were courageous players from whom little complaint was +heard. They took their misfortunes with what grace they could and played +ball with what success they could achieve, whether they had their best +team in the field or their poorest. + +Strangely enough they played an important part in the results of the +race. Frequently they defeated the Chicagos, all too frequently for the +comfort of the Chicago Base Ball enthusiasts, and when the loss of a +game or two by the Philadelphias to the Chicagos might have turned the +race temporarily one way or the other, the Philadelphias, with decided +conviction, refused to lose. + +It may not be necessary to call attention to the fact of absolute +fairness in the contests for championships in the various leagues which +comprise Base Ball in its organized form. The day has passed when the +Base Ball enthusiast permits his mind to dwell much upon that sort of +thing, if ever he did. But if it were necessary to advance an argument +as to the integrity of the sport and the high class of the men who are +engaged in the summer season in playing professional Base Ball, there +could be nothing better to prove that the price of victory is the one +great consideration, greater than the fact of Philadelphia's success +against a team which was a strong contender against that which finally +won the championship. + +As much as Philadelphia desired that New York should be beaten, for +there was no love lost between the teams in a ball playing way, the +fighting spirit and the predominant desire to add to the column of +victories as many games as possible brought forth the best efforts of +the team of ill fortune against Chicago and struck telling blows against +Chicago's success at the most timely moments. + + * * * * * + +As a whole the St. Louis team did not play as well in 1912 as it did in +the preceding year. There was some bad luck for St. Louis as well as +Philadelphia. The players did not get started as well as they had in the +previous two years. Their spring training was more or less disastrous, +for they were one of the clubs to run into the most contrary of spring +weather. + +Perhaps the worst trouble which the St. Louis team had, take the season +through from beginning to finish, was in regard to the pitchers. There +were two or three young men on the team who seemed at the close of the +season of 1911 to be likely to develop into high class pitchers in 1912. +They pitched well in 1912 at intervals. One day it seemed as if they at +last had struck their stride and the next they faltered and their +unsteadiness gave their opponents the advantage which they sought. + +Perhaps, if the St. Louis team had been a little stronger to batting it +would have rated higher among the organization of the National League. +Several games were lost which would have been taken into camp by a +better display at bat. In fielding the team was much stronger and the +success of the infield, combined with some excellent outfield work now +and then, frequently held the team up in close battles, but when the +pitchers faltered on the path the fielders were not able to bear the +force of the attack. + + * * * * * + +For three seasons in succession Brooklyn seems to have been fated to +start the season with bad luck and misfortune. The spring training trip +did not bring to Brooklyn all that had been expected owing to the +inclement weather. + +When the team began the season at Washington Park a tremendous crowd +filled the stands. Long before it was time for the game to begin the +spectators became unruly and swarmed over the field. It was impossible +for the ground police to do anything with the excited enthusiasts and at +last the city police were asked to assist. They tried to clear the +field, but only succeeded in driving the crowd from the infield. +Spectators were so thick in the outfield that they crowded upon the +bases and prevented the players from doing their best. For that matter +the outfielders could not do much of anything. + +A ground rule of two bases into the crowd was established, and the New +York players, who were the opponents of Brooklyn, took advantage of it +to drive the ball with all their force, trusting that it would sail over +the heads of the fielders and drop into the crowd. They were so +successful that they made a record for two-base hits and Brooklyn was +overwhelmed. + +This unfortunate beginning appeared to depress the Brooklyn team. The +players recovered slightly, but had barely got into their stride again +when accidents to the men began to happen. Some of them became ill, and +the manager was put to his wits end to get a team on the field which +should make a good showing. + +Fighting against these odds Brooklyn made the best record that it could. +As the season warmed into the hotter months the infield had to be +rearranged. There was disappointment in the playing of some of the +infielders. It was also necessary to reconstruct the outfield. Unable to +get all of the men whom he would have desired the manager continued to +experiment and his experiments brought forth good fruit, for +unquestionably the excellent work of Moran, who played both right field +and center field for Brooklyn, was a great help to the pitchers. By the +time that the Base Ball playing year was almost concluded Brooklyn had +so far recovered that it was able to place a better nine on the diamond +than had been the case all of the year. + +Boston never was expected to be a championship organization. The +material was not there for a championship organization, but Boston did +play better ball than in 1911 and that is to the credit of players, +manager and owner. The club had changed hands, but the new owner had not +been able to readjust all of the positions to suit him. He put the best +nine possible in the field with what he had. Never threatening to become +a championship winning team Boston played steadily with what strength it +possessed and always a little better than in 1911, so that the year +could not fairly be considered unsuccessful at its finish. + + * * * * * + +Going back to the beginning of the year and looking over the contest for +the National League championship of 1912, it is not uninteresting, +indeed it is of much interest to call attention to the remarkably odd +record which was made by New York to win the pennant. In that record +stands the story of the fight, with striking shifts from week to week. + +The first game played by the Giants was against Brooklyn, as has been +related, and it was won by New York and that, by the way, was the game +in which Marquard began his admirable record as a pitcher for the +season. + +The Giants lost the next three games. Two of them were to Brooklyn and +one to Boston, and the players of the New York team began to wonder a +little as to what had happened to them. + +Then New York won nine straight games from the eastern clubs, being +stopped finally by Philadelphia on the Polo Grounds. But that defeat did +not check them. They started on another winning spurt and played +throughout the west without a defeat until they arrived in Cincinnati. +This total of victories was nine. All of the games on the schedule were +not played because of inclement weather. + +Cincinnati won twice from New York and then the Giants turned the tables +on the Reds, who had been leading the league. They threw them out of the +lead, which they never regained, and won another succession of nine +victories. That made three times consecutively that they had won a total +of twenty-seven games in groups of nine, assuredly an unusual result. + +Losing one game they again entered the winning class. This time they won +six games in succession. Then they lost a game. After this single defeat +they won but three games. Their charm of games in blocks of nine had +deserted them. They were beaten twice after winning three, and +Pittsburgh was the team. + +Then they won another single game and immediately after that victory +lost to Brooklyn. But that was the last defeat for a long time. Well +into the race, with their condition excellent, and playing better ball +than they had played since their wonderful spurt of the month of +September in 1911, they won sixteen games in succession. + +The morning of the Fourth of July dawned hot and sultry. The air was +thick and muggy and without life. The Giants were scheduled to play two +games that day with Brooklyn, the first in the morning and the second in +the afternoon. If they won both of them they would tie a former record, +which had been made by the New York team, for consecutive victories. + +Perhaps it may have been reaction after the long strain of winning or it +may have been an uncommonly good streak of batting on the part of +Brooklyn. Surely Brooklyn batted well enough, as the morning game went +to the latter team by the score of 10 to 4. In the afternoon Brooklyn +again beat the Giants by the score of 5 to 2. Wiltse pitched for New +York and Stack for Brooklyn. + +The New York team went to Chicago and won twice. Then it lost. The +fourth game was won from Chicago and then the Giants lost two in +succession. + +They won one game and immediately after that lost four in succession. +Chicago began to have visions of winning the pennant. + +From Chicago the Giants went to Pittsburgh, stood firm in a series of +three games, winning two and losing one. Their next call was at +Cincinnati and beginning with that series they got back to form a trifle +and won five games in succession. + +Returning home they were beaten on the Polo Grounds three games in +succession by Chicago. After that New York settled into a winning stride +again and won six games in succession. Pittsburgh came to the Polo +Grounds and stopped the winning streak of the champions by defeating +them three times in succession. That was a hard jolt for any team to +stand. Yet the Giants rallied and won the test game of the Pittsburgh +series. + +It was but a momentary pause, for after another victory St. Louis beat +New York. The Giants won another game and the next day lost to St. +Louis. That finished the home games for New York and the team started +west, facing a desperate fight. They lost the first game to Chicago, won +the next and lost the third. Going from Chicago to St. Louis they won +three games in succession, returning to Chicago, lost a postponed game +with the Cubs. + +From Chicago their path led them to Pittsburgh where they lost the first +contest. Then they made the stand of the season when they beat the +Pittsburghs four games in succession. + +Cincinnati turned the tables on the Giants to the consternation of the +New York fans and won twice, when it seemed as if the Giants were about +to start on a career which would safely land the championship. The +Giants returned home and beat Brooklyn in the first game and lost the +second. They won the next two and then lost again. The championship was +still in abeyance. Again they won and then lost to Philadelphia. + +Here came another test in a Philadelphia series at Philadelphia which +contained postponed games, and once more rallying with all their might, +won four games and lost the last of this series of five. + +Following that they won three games and then lost to St. Louis. They won +three times in succession and then lost four games to Chicago and +Cincinnati, but all of this time Chicago was gradually falling away +because it was necessary that the Cubs should continue to win successive +victories if they were to beat New York for the championship. + +The Giants atoned for the four defeats at the hands of Chicago and +Cincinnati by winning the next four games in succession, and while this +did not actually settle the championship, that is, the definite +championship game had not been played, the race was practically over and +all that was left to fight for in the National League was second place, +in which Chicago and Pittsburgh were most interested. The pitching staff +of the Chicagos had worn out under the strain and the Cubs were beaten +out by Pittsburgh. + +The semi-monthly standing of the race by percentages follows: + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON APRIL 30. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +Cincinnati 10 3 .769 Pittsburgh 5 7 .417 +New York 8 3 .727 Philadelphia 4 6 .400 +Boston 6 6 .500 St. Louis 5 8 .385 +Chicago 5 7 .417 Brooklyn 4 7 .364 + + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 18 4 .810 St. Louis 10 16 .385 +Cincinnati 19 5 .792 Boston 9 15 .375 +Chicago 12 12 .500 Philadelphia 7 13 .350 +Pittsburgh 9 12 .429 Brooklyn 7 14 .333 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 31. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 28 7 .800 St. Louis 20 22 .455 +Cincinnati 23 17 .675 Philadelphia .14 19 .426 +Chicago 19 17 .628 Brooklyn 12 22 .353 +Pittsburgh 18 17 .514 Boston 13 26 .333 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 37 10 .787 Philadelphia 20 24 .455 +Pittsburgh 27 20 .574 St. Louis 23 31 .426 +Chicago 26 21 .563 Brooklyn 16 30 .348 +Cincinnati 25 23 .553 Boston 16 35 .314 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 30. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 50 11 .820 Philadelphia 24 33 .421 +Pittsburgh 37 25 .597 Brooklyn 24 36 .400 +Chicago 34 26 .567 St. Louis 27 42 .391 +Cincinnati 35 32 .522 Boston 20 46 .303 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 58 19 .753 Philadelphia 34 38 .472 +Chicago 47 28 .627 St. Louis 34 49 .410 +Pittsburgh 45 31 .592 Brooklyn 30 48 .385 +Cincinnati 41 39 .513 Boston 22 59 .272 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 31. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 67 24 .736 Cincinnati 45 49 .479 +Chicago 57 34 .626 St. Louis 41 55 .427 +Pittsburgh 52 37 .684 Brooklyn 35 59 .372 +Philadelphia 45 43 .511 Boston 25 66 .275 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 15. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 73 30 .709 Cincinnati 50 58 .463 +Chicago 69 36 .657 St. Louis 47 60 .439 +Pittsburgh 65 40 .619 Brooklyn 39 69 .361 +Philadelphia 50 54 .481 Boston 28 76 .269 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 31. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 82 36 .695 Cincinnati 57 65 .467 +Chicago 79 42 .653 St. Louis 53 59 .434 +Pittsburgh 71 50 .587 Brooklyn 44 76 .367 +Philadelphia 59 60 .496 Boston 37 84 .306 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 15 + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 95 40 .704 Philadelphia 63 70 .474 +Chicago 83 61 .619 St. Louis 57 80 .416 +Pittsburgh 82 53 .607 Brooklyn 50 85 .370 +Cincinnati 68 68 .500 Boston 42 93 .311 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 30 + Club. Won. Lost. PC. Club. Won. Lost. PC. +New York 101 45 .692 Philadelphia 70 77 .476 +Pittsburgh 91 57 .615 St. Louis 62 88 .413 +Chicago 89 68 .605 Brooklyn 57 91 .385 +Cincinnati 74 76 .493 Boston 42 100 .324 + +STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON. + + Club. N.Y. Pitts. Chi. Cin. Phil. St.L. Bkln. Bos. Won. PC. +New York -- 12 9 16 17 15 16 18 103 .682 +Pittsburgh 8 -- 13 11 14 15 14 18 92 .616 +Chicago 13 8 -- 11 10 15 17 17 91 .607 +Cincinnati 6 11 10 -- 8 13 16 11 75 .490 +Philadelphia 5 8 10 14 -- 11 13 12 73 .480 +St. Louis 7 7 7 9 11 -- 10 12 63 .412 +Brooklyn 6 8 5 6 9 11 -- 13 58 .379 +Boston 3 4 6 11 10 10 9 -- 52 .340 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + Lost 48 58 59 78 79 90 95 101 + +The Chicago-Pittsburgh game at Chicago, October 2, was protested by the +Pittsburgh club and thrown out of the records, taking a victory from the +Chicago club and a defeat from the Pittsburgh club. + + + + +AMERICAN LEAGUE SEASON OF 1912 + +BY IRVING E. SANBORN, CHICAGO. + + +Pre-season predictions in Base Ball do not carry much weight +individually, but when many minds, looking at the game from different +angles, agree on the main points there usually is good reason behind +such near unanimity. Outside of Boston it is doubtful if any experienced +critic of Base Ball in the country expected the Red Sox to be converted +from a second division team into pennant winners in one short season. If +such expectancy existed in Boston it was partially a case of the wish +fathering the thought. The majority of men believed the machine with +which Connie Mack had achieved two league and two world's championships +was good for at least one more American League pennant. That expectation +was based on the comparative youth of the important cogs in the Athletic +machine. Yet this dope went all wrong. The Athletics were beaten out by +two teams which were in the second division in 1911, one of them as low +as seventh place. + +The reason for these form reversals were several. The Boston and +Washington teams improved magically in new hands, while the Athletics +went back a bit, partly because of too much prosperity and partly +because of adversity. Having come from behind in 1911 and made a winning +from a wretched start, the Mackmen apparently thought they could do it +again and delayed starting their fight until it was too late. The loss +of the services of Dan Murphy for more than half of the season also was +a prime factor. + +The White Sox were the season's sensations both ways and for a time kept +everybody guessing by their whirlwind start under new management. They +walked over every opponent they tackled for the first few weeks, then +began to slip and it required herculean efforts to keep them in the +first division at the finish. The Chicago team always was a puzzle to +all parties to the race, including itself. + +From the outset there was almost no hope for the other four teams in the +league. Cleveland and Detroit occasionally broke into the upper circles +for a day or two in the early weeks of the season, but not far enough to +rouse any false anticipations among their supporters. St. Louis and New +York quickly gravitated to the lower strata and remained there, the +Yankees finally losing out in their battle with the Browns to keep out +of last place. + +Five American League teams started the season under new managers. One of +the three which began the race under leaders retained from the previous +year changed horses in mid-stream. Jake Stahl, Harry Wolverton, Clark +Griffith, Harry Davis and James Callahan were the new faces in the +managerial gallery. Some of them were not exactly new to the job but +were in new jobs. Of these Stahl, Griffith and Callahan proved +successful leaders and the first named became the hero of a world's +championship team when the last ball of the series was caught. Davis +resigned during the season and was succeeded by Joe Birmingham, who +almost duplicated the feat of George Stovall in 1911, putting new life +into the Cleveland team and starting a spurt which made the race for +position interesting. Wolverton stuck the season out in spite of +handicaps that would have discouraged anybody, then handed in his +resignation. Wallace, who started the year at the helm again in St. +Louis, cheerfully handed over the management to Stovall, who had been +transplanted into the Mound City in the hope of making Davis' task +easier in Cleveland. Stovall made the Browns a hard team to beat and had +the mild satisfaction of hoisting them out of the cellar which they had +occupied for the better part of three seasons. + +An unpleasant feature of the season, but one which had beneficial +results, was the strike of the Detroit players, entailing the staging of +a farcical game in Philadelphia between the Athletics and a team of +semi-professionals. This incident grew out of an attack on a New York +spectator by Ty Cobb while in uniform and the immediate suspension of +the player for an indefinite period. + +The prompt and unyielding stand taken by President Johnson against the +action of the Detroit players and the diplomatic efforts of President +Navin of that club averted serious or extended trouble and undoubtedly +furnished a warning against any similar act in the near future. Another, +excellent result was the effort made by club owners to prevent the abuse +of the right of free speech by that small element of the game's +patronage which finds its greatest joy in abusing the players, secure in +the knowledge that it is practically protected from personal injury in +retaliation. + +In the development of new players of note the league enjoyed an average +season, and a considerable amount of new blood was injected into the +game in the persons of players who made good without attracting freakish +attention. The rise of the Washington team from seventh to second place +brought its youngsters into the limelight prominently, and of these +Foster and Moeller were commended highly. Gandil, who had his second +tryout in fast company, plugged the hole at first base which had worried +Washington managers for some time. Shanks also made a reputation for +himself as a fielder. These men were helped somewhat by the showing of +their team, but the case of Gandil would have been notable In any +company. His first advent into the majors with the White Sox showed him +to be an exceedingly promising player, but for some reason his work fell +off until he was discarded into the International League. There he +quickly recovered his stride and, when he did come back shortly after +the season opened last spring, he demonstrated that he had the ability +to hit consistently and proved a tower of strength to Griffith's team. + +Baumgardner of the St. Louis Browns was an example of a youngster making +good in spite of comparatively poor company. His pitching record with a +team which finished in seventh place stamps him as one of the best, if +not the best, of the slab finds of the year. Jean Dubuc of Detroit was +another find of rare value and still another was Buck O'Brien of Boston, +but these had the advantage over Baumgardner of getting better support +both in the field and at bat. O'Brien in particular was fortunate to +break in with a championship team. + +The White Sox introduced three youngsters who made good and promise to +keep on doing so. Two of them, George Weaver and Morris Rath, started +the season with Chicago and the third, Baker Borton, joined the team +late in the summer. Still later Kay Schalk started in to make what looks +like a name for himself as a catcher. + + * * * * * + +No better illustration of the slight difference between a pennant +winning machine and a losing team in the American League has occurred +recently than the Boston Red Sox furnished last year. It did not differ +materially from the team of 1910 which compelled the use of the nickname +"Speed Boys." Jake Stahl was a member of that team, and except for the +absence of Stahl in 1911, the champions of 1912 were composed of +practically the same men who finished in the second division only the +year before. But for the showing of 1910 the whole credit for last +season's transformation might be attributed to Manager Stahl. Much of it +unquestionably is his by right, and there is no intent here to deprive +him of any of the high honors he achieved. + +To Stahl's arrangement of his infield probably is due much of the +improvement in the team. The outfield trio of wonderful performers did +not perform any more wonders last year than in the previous season, but +what had been holes on the infield were plugged tightly. Many looked +askance when Larry Gardner, supposedly a second baseman, was assigned to +third, but the results more than justified the move, and it made room at +second for Yerkes, a player who had proved only mediocre on the other +side of the diamond. This switch and the return of Stahl, who is a grand +mark to throw at on first base, gave the infield the same dash and +confidence as the outfield possessed, and the addition of some pitching +strength in Bedient and O'Brien did the rest. It is the ability to +discover just the right combination that differentiates the real manager +from the semi-failure. + +The Red Sox were in the race from the start, but they were eclipsed for +a time by the White Sox. In spite of that the Bostonians never faltered +but kept up a mighty consistent gait all the way and wore down all +competitors before the finish. Stahl's men never were lower than second +place in the race with the exception of three days early in May. when +Washington poked its nose in front of the Red Sox and started after the +White Sox, only to be driven back into third place by the men of +Callahan themselves. For more than a week in April Boston was in the +lead. Then Chicago went out and established a lead so long that it +lasted until near the middle of June. Boston attended strictly to its +knitting, however. Without stopping in their steady stride, the Red Sox +hung on, waiting for the Callahans to slump. When their chance came in +June the Bostonians jumped into the lead--June 10 was the exact +date--and never thereafter did they take any team's dust. + +By the Fourth of July Boston had a lead of seven games over the +Athletics. The Red Sox kept right along at their even gait and a month +later were leading by the same margin over Washington, which had +displaced the former champions. On September 1 Boston's lead was +thirteen games, but it was not until September 18 that the American +League pennant was actually cinched beyond the possibility of losing it. + +All season Stahl's men were known as a lucky ball team. Delving into the +files for the dope, revealed the fact that the newspaper reports of +about every third game they played on the average contained some +reference to "Boston's luck." This does not detract anything from their +glory. No team ever won a major league pennant unless it was lucky. No +team ever had as steady a run of luck as Boston enjoyed in 1912, unless +that team made a lot of its own luck by persistently hammering away when +luck was against it and keeping ever on the alert to take advantage of +an opening. + +That is the explanation of the unusual consistency that marked the work +of the Red Sox all season and the fact they did not experience a serious +slump. In the first month of the season they won twelve games and lost +eight. The second month of the race was their poorest one--the nearest +they came to a slump. In that month they won eight and lost ten games. +In the third month Boston won twenty-three and lost seven games. The +fourth month saw them win twenty games and lose eight and in the fifth +month their record was twenty victories and five defeats. In the final +stages of the race the Red Sox were not under as strong pressure from +behind and naturally did not travel as fast after sighting the wire, but +the figures produced explain why Boston won the pennant. It started well +and kept going faster until there was no longer need for speed. The +annexation of the world's championship in a record breaking world's +series with the New York Giants was a fitting climax to their season's +achievement. + + * * * * * + +When Clark Griffith stalked through the west on his first invasion of +the season with a team of youngsters, some of them practically unknown, +and declared he was going after the pennant, everybody laughed or wanted +to. A few weeks later everybody who had laughed was sorry, and those who +only wanted to laugh were glad they didn't. For Griffith kept his men +keyed up to the fighting pitch during the greater part of the season, +and when they did start slumping in September, he made a slight switch +on his infield, applied the brakes and started them going up again. The +result was that Washington finished second for the first time in its +major league history, winning that position in the closing days of the +race after a bitter tussle with the passing world's champions. + +The acquisition of Gandil from Montreal plugged a hole at first base +which had defied the efforts of several predecessors to stop and it +helped make a brilliant infield, for it gave the youngsters something +they were not afraid to throw at. In giving credit for the work of +Griffith's infield, the inclination is to overestimate the worth of the +new stars. But there was a tower of strength at short in George McBride, +who has been playing steadily and consistently at that position for +several seasons without being given one-tenth the credit his work has +merited. + +The Washington team at one time or another occupied every position in +the race except the first and last. The Senators were in seventh place +for a few days in the opening weeks of the season, but not anywhere +nearly as long as they were in second place later on. They climbed out +of the second division by rapid stages and after May 1 they were driven +back into it only once during the rest of the year. That was for three +days in the beginning of June. In the meantime they had knocked Boston +out of second place for a short while in May and, most of the way, had +enjoyed a close fight with Philadelphia for third and fourth spots. Near +the middle of June, after the Red Sox had ousted their White namesakes +from first place, the Senators also passed Chicago and started after +Boston. But the youngsters were not yet hardened to the strain and soon +fell back to third and fourth. On July 5 Washington went into second +place and held onto it, with the exception of three days, for a period +of two months. September brought a slump and Griffith's men surrendered +the runner-up position to the Athletics for about two weeks, then came +back and took it away from the Mackmen at the end. + + * * * * * + +What happened to the world's champion Athletics the public did not +really know until after the middle of the season. Then the suspensions +of Chief Bender and Rube Oldring blazoned the fact that Manager Mack's +splendid system of handling a Base Ball team by moral suasion had fallen +down in the face of overconfidence and too much prosperity. Few people +saw any reason for changing their belief in the prowess of the Athletics +during the first half of the season, because they were in as good +position most of the time as they had been the year previous at the same +stage of the race. They were expected to make the same strong finish +that swept everything before it in 1911. Not until the second half of +the season was well under way did the adherents of the Mackmen give up +the battle. + +Philadelphia's sterling young infield seemed to stand up all right all +the year, but the outfield and the slab staff gave Connie Mack sleepless +nights. When Dan Murphy was injured in Chicago in June it was discovered +what he had meant to the team. Dan was what the final punch is to a +boxing star. His timely batting was missed in knocking out opponents, +and the injury kept him out all the rest of the season. The strain which +Jack Coombs gave his side in the world's series of 1911 proved more +serious and lasting than was expected, and if Eddie Plank had not come +back into grand form it would have been a tougher season than it was for +the Athletics. + +The Mackmen made a bad beginning for champions, and on May 1 were in the +second division. During all of May and part of June they climbed into +the first division and fell out of it with great regularity. Not until +near the middle of June did the Athletics gain a strangle hold on the +upper half of the league standing, from that time on they kept above the +.500 mark, and toward the end of June they met the White Sox coming +back. There was a short scuffle during the early part of July among the +Athletics, Senators and White Sox for the possession of the position +next to Boston. Then Chicago was pushed back, leaving Philadelphia and +Washington to fight it out the rest of the way. Trimming the Phillies +four out of five games in their city series did not lessen the gloom of +the Athletics. + + * * * * * + +The White Sox by their meteoric career demonstrated the value of good +condition at the start. Although the Chicagoans experienced tough +weather in Texas last spring they fared better than any of the other +teams in their league, and that fact, combined with the readiness with +which youth gets into playing trim, enabled the White Sox to walk +through the early weeks of their schedule with an ease that astonished +everybody. Even prophets who were friendly to them had expected no such +showing. So fast did the Callahans travel that on May 3 they had lost +only four games, having won thirteen in that time. But Boston was +hanging on persistently. Chicago's margin over the Red Sox varied from +four to five and a half games; during May, on the fourteenth of that +month the White Sox had won twenty-one games and lost only five, giving +them the percentage of .808. During part of this time they were on their +first invasion of the east. May 18 saw the Chicago men five and a half +games in the lead and their constituents were dreaming of another +world's pennant almost every night. + +Even the doubters were beginning to believe Manager Callahan had found +the right combination. Just then came the awakening. The luck which had +been coming their way began breaking against them with remarkable +persistency. Plays that had won game after game went wrong and youth was +not resourceful enough to offset the breaks. The White Sox began to fall +away fast in percentage, but managed to cling to the lead until June 10. +Boston passed them right there and the Chicagoans kept on going. + +By mid-season Manager Callahan was fighting to keep his men in the first +division and their slump did not end until they landed in fifth place +for a couple of days in August. Then in desperation Callahan began +switching his line-up and by herculean effort--and the help of Ed +Walsh--climbed back into the upper quartet and stuck there to the +finish. It was a desperate remedy to take Harry Lord off third base, +where he had played during most of his professional career, and try to +convert him into an outfielder, a position in which he had had no +experience at all. But Lord was too good an offensive player to take out +of the game, in spite of his slump at third base, and he was willing to +try the outfield. Results justified the move. Lord learned outfielding +rapidly, and Zeider proved that third base was his natural position. The +acquisition of Borton for first base enabled Callahan to put Collins in +the outfield, and the White Sox in reality were a stronger team when +they finished than when they started their runaway race in April. With +one more reliable pitcher to take his turn regularly on the slab all +season the White Sox would have kept in the race. Callahan's men made up +for some of the disappointment they produced by beating the Cubs in a +nine-game post-season series, after the Cubs had won three victories. +Two of the nine games were drawn and one other went into extra innings, +making a more extended combat than the world's series. + + * * * * * + +Cleveland's 1912 experience was almost identical with that of 1911, even +to swapping managers in mid-season. Harry Davis, for years first +lieutenant to Connie Mack, took the management or the Naps under a +severe handicap. He succeeded a temporary manager, George Stovall, who +had made good in the latter half of the previous season, but who could +not be retained without abrogating a previous agreement with Davis. The +public did not take kindly to the situation when the Naps failed to get +into the fight, and the new management had a pitching staff of +youngsters with out much of a catching staff to help them out when in +trouble. + +The Cleveland team never was prominent in the race after the first +fortnight, although it retained a respectable position at the top of the +second division, with an occasional journey into the first division +during the first month or six weeks. In the middle of June the Naps +dropped back into sixth place, below Detroit, for a while, then took a +brace and reclaimed the leadership of the second squad for part of July. +Midway in August found Cleveland apparently anchored in sixth spot and, +with the consent of the Cleveland club owners, Manager Davis resigned +his position. + +The management was given to Joe Birmingham, who took hold of it with +enthusiasm but without experience, just as Stovall did the previous +year. He infused new life into the team, shook it up a bit, and improved +its playing so much that Cleveland passed Detroit before the end of the +race, and was threatening to knock Chicago out of fourth place at one +time. This would have happened but for the brace of the White Sox. +Profiting by previous experience the club owners did not look around for +a permanent manager until they saw what Birmingham could do, and in +consequence were in position to offer him the leadership of the Naps for +the season of 1913. + + * * * * * + +What was left to Manager Jennings from the great Detroit team that had +won three straight pennants was slowing up, with the exception of Tyrus +Cobb, who has yet to reach the meridian of his career, and the Georgian +got into trouble fairly early in the season, with the result that he was +suspended for a considerable period. That and the strike of the Tigers +in Philadelphia threw a monkey-wrench into the machinery, resulting in a +tangle which Jennings was unable to straighten out all the season. There +was a problem at first base which he had a hard time solving. The break +in Del Gainor's wrist the season before had not mended as it should have +done, and he was unable to play the position regularly. Moriarty was +pressed into service there and did good work in an unfamiliar position; +then the infield was shifted several times without marked benefit. +Donovan, who had always been of great help on the slab in hot weather, +was not equal to the task of another year and was made manager of the +Providence team. Jean Dubuc was the only one of the young pitchers who +proved a star, but his work kept the Tigers from being a lot more +disappointing proposition than they were. + + * * * * * + +St. Louis and New York were outclassed from the start. Two weeks after +the season opened it was apparent they were doomed to fight it out for +the last round on the ladder. That the Browns finally escaped the cellar +in the closing days of the race was due largely to the efforts of +Stovall, who was made manager to succeed Wallace near the middle of the +season. + +As early as the first of May it was seen the Browns and Yankees were +destined to trail. The New York team quickly gravitated to the bottom. +It started without the services of Catcher Eddie Sweeney, who held out +for a larger salary, and it had a manager at the helm who was +inexperienced in major league leadership. Not until April 24 did New +York win a game and in that time it had lost seven straight, +postponements accounting for the rest of the time. + +St. Louis got a little better start and for a while was inclined to +dispute sixth place with Detroit, but on May 1 the Browns found only New +York between them and the basement. In the middle of May the Yankees +passed St. Louis and ran seventh in the race until July. 4. But accident +and injury, and the loss of Cree, shot the Yankees to pieces. For nearly +six weeks, however, it was a battle royal between New York and St. Louis +to escape the last hole, but in the middle of August the Yankees again +established their superiority, retaining seventh place until after the +middle of September. In the homestretch the new blood given Stovall +enabled him to pull his men out of the last notch just before the +schedule ran out. This feat was soon forgotten in the defeat of the +Browns by the Cardinals in their post-prandial series for the +championship of the Mound City. + + * * * * * + +The year was not prolific of freak or record-breaking performances in +the American League. Walter Johnson of Washington, and Joe Wood of +Boston were credited with sixteen straight victories, which raised the +American League record in that respect from fourteen straight, formerly +held by Jack Chesbro of the Yankees. Mullin of Detroit and Hamilton of +St. Louis added their names to the list of hurlers who have held +opponents without a safe hit in nine innings. Mullin performed his +hitless feat against St. Louis and Hamilton retaliated by holding +Detroit without a safety. The number of games in which pitchers escaped +with less than four hits against them was smaller than usual, however. +There were only seventy-eight shut-out games recorded last season by +comparison with the American League's record of 145. + +The longest game of the younger league's season lasted nineteen innings, +Washington defeating Philadelphia in that combat 5 to 4, and it was +played late in September when the two teams were scrapping for second +place. The American League record for overtime is twenty-four innings, +held by Philadelphia and Boston. There were a lot of slugging games in +1912, but not as many as during the season of 1911. Philadelphia piled +up the highest total, 25, in eight innings, but it was made against the +semi-professional team which wore Detroit uniforms on the day the Tigers +struck. The highest genuine total of hits was twenty-three, made by the +Athletics against New York pitchers. The Athletics also run up the +highest score of the league's season when they compounded twenty-four +runs against Detroit In May. + +The semi-monthly standing of the race by percentages follows: + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 1. + Club. Won. Lost. PC. + Chicago 11 4 .733 + Boston 9 5 .643 + Washington 8 6 .615 + Cleveland 7 6 .538 + Athletics 7 7 .600 + Detroit 6 10 .375 + St. Louis 5 9 .357 + New York 3 10 .231 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON MAY 15. + + Chicago 21 6 .778 + Boston 16 8 .667 + Washington 12 12 .500 + Cleveland 11 11 .500 + Detroit 13 14 .481 + Athletics 10 12 .466 + New York 6 15 .286 + St. Louis 6 17 .261 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 1. + + Chicago 29 12 .707 + Boston 25 14 .641 + Detroit 21 20 .512 + Athletics 17 17 .500 + Cleveland 18 19 .486 + Washington 19 21 .476 + New York 12 23 .343 + St. Louis 12 27 .308 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JUNE 15. + + Boston 33 19 .635 + Chicago 33 21 .611 + Washington 33 21 .611 + Athletics 27 21 .563 + Detroit 26 29 .473 + Cleveland 23 28 .451 + New York 17 31 .364 + St. Louis 15 37 .288 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 1. + + Boston 47 21 .691 + Athletics 39 25 .609 + Chicago 38 28 .576 + Washington 37 31 .551 + Cleveland 33 38 .492 + Detroit 33 36 .478 + New York 18 44 .290 + St. Louis 18 45 .288 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON JULY 15. + + Boston 56 26 .683 + Washington 60 33 .602 + Athletics 46 36 .668 + Chicago 44 35 .567 + Cleveland 42 42 .500 + Detroit 40 43 .488 + New York 22 53 .298 + St. Louis 22 56 .282 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 1. + + Boston 67 31 .684 + Washington 61 37 .622 + Athletics 55 41 .573 + Chicago 49 36 .516 + Detroit 48 42 .485 + Cleveland 45 43 .464 + New York 31 53 .333 + St. Louis 30 56 .312 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON AUGUST 15. + + Boston 76 34 .691 + Athletics 66 43 .606 + Washington 67 44 .604 + Chicago 54 55 .495 + Detroit 55 58 .487 + Cleveland 51 59 .464 + New York 36 73 .327 + St. Louis 36 74 .321 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 1. + + Boston 87 37 .702 + Washington 77 49 .611 + Athletics 73 50 .593 + Chicago 62 61 .504 + Detroit 57 70 .449 + Cleveland 54 71 .432 + New York 45 78 .366 + St. Louis 43 82 .344 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON SEPTEMBER 15. + + Boston 97 39 .713 + Athletics 81 56 .591 + Washington 82 57 .590 + Chicago 67 69 .493 + Detroit 64 75 .461 + Cleveland 62 75 .453 + New York 48 88 .353 + St. Louis 47 89 .346 + + STANDING OF CLUBS ON OCTOBER 1. + + Boston 103 48 .691 + Washington 89 60 .567 + Athletics 89 60 .567 + Chicago 74 76 .493 + Cleveland 72 77 .483 + Detroit 69 80 .463 + St. Louis 52 98 .347 + New York 49 100 .329 + + STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON + + Bos. Wash. Ath. Chic. Clev. Det. S.L. N.Y. Won PC + Boston -- 12 15 16 11 15 17 19 105 .691 + Washington 10 -- 7 13 18 14 14 15 91 .599 + Athletics 7 18 -- 10 14 13 16 17 99 .592 + Chicago 6 9 12 -- 11 14 13 13 78 .506 + Cleveland 11 4 8 11 -- 13 15 13 75 .490 + Detroit 6 8 9 8 9 -- 13 16 69 .451 + St. Louis 5 8 6 9 7 9 -- 9 58 .344 + New York 3 7 5 9 8 6 13 -- 50 .329 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + Lost 47 61 62 76 78 84 101 102 + + NATIONAL LEAGUE + + STANDING OF CLUBS AT CLOSE OF SEASON. + + N.Y. Pitts.Chi. Cin. Phil.St.L. Bkln. Bos. Won. PC. + +New York -- 12 9 16 17 15 16 18 103 .682 +Pittsburgh 8 -- 13 11 14 15 14 18 93 .616 +Chicago 13 8 -- 11 10 15 17 17 91 .607 +Cincinnati 6 11 10 -- 8 13 16 11 75 .498 +Philadelphia 5 8 10 14 -- 11 13 12 73 .480 +St. Louis 7 7 7 9 11 -- 10 12 63 .412 +Brooklyn 6 8 5 6 9 11 -- 13 58 .379 +Boston 3 4 6 11 10 10 9 -- 52 .340 + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---- +Lost 48 58 59 78 79 90 95 101 + +The Chicago-Pittsburgh game at Chicago, October 2, was protested by the +Pittsburgh club and thrown out of the records, taking a victory from the +Chicago club and a defeat from the Pittsburgh club. + +CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS IN PREVIOUS YEARS. + +1871- Athletics .759 | 1885- Chicago .770 | 1899- Brooklyn .682 +1872- Boston .830 | 1886- Chicago .726 | 1900- Brooklyn .603 +1873- Boston .729 | 1887- Detroit .637 | 1901- Pittsburgh .647 +1874- Boston .717 | 1888- New York .641 | 1902- Pittsburgh .741 +1875- Boston .899 | 1889- New York .659 | 1903- Pittsburgh .650 +1876- Chicago .788 | 1890- Brooklyn .667 | 1904- New York .693 +1877- Boston .646 | 1891- Boston .630 | 1905- New York .668 +1878- Boston .683 | 1892- Boston .680 | 1906- Chicago .765 +1879- Providence .702 | 1893- Boston .667 | 1907- Chicago .704 +1880- Chicago .798 | 1894- Baltimore .695 | 1908- Chicago .643 +1881- Chicago .667 | 1895- Baltimore .669 | 1909- Pittsburgh .724 +1882- Chicago .655 | 1896- Baltimore .698 | 1910- Chicago .676 +1883- Boston .643 | 1897- Boston .795 | 1911- New York .647 +1884- Providence .750 | 1898- Boston .685 | + +INDIVIDUAL BATTING. + +Following are the Official Batting Averages of National League players +who participated in any manner in at least fifteen championship games +during the season of 1912: + +Name and Club G. A.B. R. H. T.B. 2B 3B HR SH SB PC +Zimmerman, Chicago 145 557 95 207 318 41 14 14 18 23 .372 +Meyers, New York 126 371 60 133 177 16 5 6 9 8 .358 +Sweeney, Boston 153 593 84 204 264 81 13 1 33 27 .344 +Evers, Chicago 143 478 73 163 211 23 11 1 14 16 .341 +Bresnaban, St. Louis 48 108 8 36 50 7 2 1 -- 4 .333 +McCormick, New York 42 39 4 13 19 4 1 -- -- 1 .333 +Doyle, New York 143 558 98 184 263 33 8 10 13 36 .330 +Kuisely, Cincinnati 21 67 10 22 35 7 8 -- 1 3 .328 +Lobert, Philadelphia 65 257 37 84 112 12 5 2 10 13 .327 +Wiltse, New York 28 46 5 15 17 2 -- -- 1 1 .326 +Wagner, Pittsburgh 145 558 91 181 277 36 20 7 11 26 .324 +Hendrix, Pittsburgh 46 121 25 39 64 10 6 1 2 1 .322 +Kirke, Boston 103 359 53 115 146 11 4 4 9 7 .320 +Kelly, Pittsburgh 48 132 20 42 52 3 2 1 7 8 .318 +Marsans, Cincinnati 110 416 59 132 168 19 7 1 9 35 .317 +Kling, Boston 81 252 26 80 102 10 3 2 7 8 .317 +Donlin, Pittsburgh 77 244 27 77 108 9 8 2 10 8 .316 +Stengel, Brooklyn 17 57 9 38 22 1 -- 1 1 5 .316 +Paskert, Philadelphia 145 540 102 170 221 38 5 1 11 35 .315 +Konetchy, St. Louis 143 538 81 169 245 26 13 8 17 35 .314 +Crandall, New York 50 80 9 25 25 6 2 -- 3 -- .313 +Titus, + Philadelphia-Boston 141 502 99 155 224 32 11 5 15 11 .309 +Merkle, New York 129 479 82 148 215 22 6 11 8 37 .309 +Daubert, Brooklyn 145 559 81 173 232 19 16 3 14 39 .308 + +W. 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