The evening world. Newspaper, November 9, 1908, Page 10

THE Merkle’s Failure to “Touch| Second” Has Cost Him Twenty Pounds in Weight —He Can't Forget It; the Public Can. town, says that he has wor- M ried off twenty pounds weight since the fatal day when he “failed to touch second.” “This has been a terrible strain on me,” he says, “for I can't forget a” Merkle is surely to be pitied. His misplay did directly cost the Glants| the pennant, of course, for it hap-| ened to come jist at the crucial! moment when a winning game would | bave given them a safe lead, consid- @ring the cinch games to follow. And coming as it did the play was Roticed about a thousand times as much as it would have been earlier in the sea- ERKLE, back in his home UP TO DATE AND NEWSY of the Cubs, leads the pitchers with 24 games won and 7 lost, ‘Averages Show “Matty” to Be | Greatest Pitcher in World —_.—_ at third base, while Tenney leads the am | HORSE SHOW SNAPS. “Tas Ruesernecis - basemen who took part in a majority | of games in number of chances taken, but ts tled with Ganzel, of the Reds, in percentage with .99. Devlin’s percent- t third 1s .947, | pitching and fielding HE official averages of the National League twirlers show that Ed Reulbach, age a a percentage of | “5! gon. “Failed to touch second’ became Knabe, of the Phillies, and Abley, of | 77 th joints @ national Joke. It was on everybody's 7" barat a Sa Pomt® | pittsburg, are tied for the second base tongue. No doubt Merkle heard behing Enna ‘ * ay /honor , Doyle standing elev- ard that C es Mordeca! percentage of .771, then comes Mordecai Pree etre eaen hundreds of tlmes when the joker didn't |RYren' “St req ‘while Pittsburg pitch- ne best shortstop, Brid- BETAS EE Eee ne cat ¥*>) creinteadox, Lever!) Willla) and Cam: such In the list, ‘Clarke BY JOHN POLLOCK. If Merkle went to a show the catch |Niz follow in the order named, with ick last. Slagle was LTHOUGH the middleweight cha} phrase fell lightly from the tongue or |Percentases of .742, 676 and .640, fielder, with Mesmour | AV plonship fight between Bi om yne tongue of |" syathewson led the league in number away down in fourteenth place Ketchel the comedian, always to bring a laugh | from everybody but the unfortunate vic- tim. He,heard it on the cars and along with 258, and in shut out games with ley over two we Pepke and n Francisco is still off, the fans in , led all the outfield- having 2 to his credit. Was second, with rd with of games pitched with 48, in strike outs and Donlin stood the streets. No wonder he “couldn't |Deing the only pitcher to have double the, Dest showing ef ine ove | already begun forget it.” figures in this respect, Brown, of th Glants Guifleldera, standing whinge | the result of ling second wi) Two no- ss, of Cincinna in seventeen been made the favorite The misplay In itself was nothing that |CUDS, stan: p i 4 merited all this attention. In fast, if |hit games were pitched during the em ey perteceatecord- ay odds of 10 to 8, this being the first time Was a common play with many clubs 80m, Wiltse turning the trick against ty-nine games, ‘accepting 125 that Ketchel has been ¢ jong end ail through the season. Frank Chance Philadelphia in a ten-inning game on ances in the betting n fight himself did tho same thing more than |the morning of July 4, while But when Merkle did it with the [ef of Brooklyn, rep in ton in a nine-in: ‘ence. struggle so close Chance jumped quickly ond demanded his pound of fiesh in the strict observance of a rule |the two local players who lead that had become practically a dead let- ter. | It wasn’t Merkle's fault so much as} hat of a manager who failed to re || opponent on that | ig for every possible @ @ protest on a technical- The Giants’ manager is a far more experienced player than Merkle. He knew what to expect. But It was poor Merkle who was tn the public eye at the moment, and Whose name was linked with the Joke Of the season an hour Probably mistals s tructive of the Giants’ chances occurred during the game instead of at the very end of 1t, and many a time in games played before that and afterward Tn any case, it's too bad that Merkle has worried off twenty pounds. He may need all of his batting weight next 35 | Bon, n he begins to wipe that “touch second” joke off the slate. clean lead of seyen points over ce he beg: ap Ruck- ed {t against Bos. ng game on Sept. 6. Tenney and Devlin, of the Giants, are Louis, led the cate! of Brooklyn, being Roger Bresnahan’ third 1 2 games, while was in 140. In club in California. Bergen, cee ‘and i twelve pounds overweight nel | Be lead, with Pittsburg, | the th followers are t respective positions, Deylin YING @ )Oincin . Louis following in the | ion that. ne Ww making infeldt Ve named, the weight. FORWARD P. SETTLE CHAS t both lost on the forward pass. The smaller colleg knew how to use the Minor Gare Have Made’ new d had the nerve to try it Means rey ree Play in Games pened ui ~ 9 A e es. Dartmouth worked it Good Showing in Mod- —veaitituly, and those who saw the Between Princeton, Yale = ae game say that Brown ern Football y well. and Harvard. S up to the point of be- at Harvard is stronger Yale or Princeton They Ss well as a BULGER, | than either Ir a BY LOZEMAN he Ilne. At Yale st very muc s a a8 If Coy ts the on ; on whom AMENESS on the football field ts W's Py sone Ig) eas Indians to place any depen G @ common thing, and, as a rule, Baaeata i Te TN Will Be Open Game. excites little comment, for there 18 / +e gevelopment of a forward pass. As| This would seem to Indicate that the Rothing unexpected about it to gaining ground on straigit great game of Saturday next between But the variety displayed Baturday by | rasnioneds tootbal ers are | Inceton and Yale ts to be one of open Lee Warren, of Yale, in the game 1shions ! | throughout. Princeton has a god > against Brown ts too unique to escape PO Aan i Ya 8 Kero ON handito [pews ee ret Pte RRR RRO! hotice, With two ribs and a collur-bone ‘the game with Dartm ni Inceton play, and an equal num. |Onside kick that ought to be a good broken, Warren continued playing as “!4 #f at | ber of Orange 1 were at hard as he could without a whimper or sf Haven t @ sign of distress. When it was noti that he seemed unable to get into action effectively, time was taken out and he was told to lift his arms. He was un- eiane ae to come out victorious. It ble to do so, and a quick examination BES Gree h as if both were simply E aay sa Meee as if both were simply showed the damage done. When taken Ceeded 1p Pui Ber Re ene BERKS out of the game he protested and be; over. ™ . Tibbotts e Tige! Y to be allowed to remain on the fel 1p the game withiBronn, Yale showed tb ¢ Heat iy ‘ Oe uA have until he was sent to the hospital, He is the same weakne ait Rp wai n depenc Out of the game for the year, but if he ‘Though the score between Y: A 60 Crohan and Read were the ball ould be allowed on field no doubt. prow ne) Hanae thrown for losses repeutedly on which fe'd go out again, splin i Brown boas S only three th * If Cooney, the victor for n, as the t i ; € es during 4s put out of the r Peete eas re © entire did Princeton r a by the injuries received Saturday it wi Lengel) a t dowr ght as well e e tou, h luck for old El} 8 pie if ~ Ir f 6 received | Ok one goa! out of two 2 Hea Ps ting an oppon: minor games of the en AGIs. Elen Jost the big e tion the & outht toug! Results of Koothall Games ithe won salt —— NSYLVANIA f# to the lime: ette. Lafayette before the ga had @hance to win, but once the Quake They piled up ts, while they held their opponents to @ single goal from Held. Byracuse tov nat all last week 0, Yale be Brown tied (hem Capt. Mayhew. of jitee thie veel t i ad bee @ tot of work out out News and Gossip Gleaned trom (330s 0,555-98 om 0 hat as It well may, elther of them ve afforded to have done ea in both the backfield REDS’ CONTRACT AWAITS and Both Lose on Forward Pass. Co ng the Br erate for is | GRIFFITH’S SIGNATURE. ,o" eae a tak fairly, good ar isnot Migs enough opt tn m to ap- | pied. Herr. F im for s¢ arty Balncainn Was CMe Dartmouth F y point er gene Din nis 4 Reay Marts od the Aree a a real ends t n araund ; i tor Pr eam aa AS, ¢ Mohaw is Trim Knlckermockers ao aan ware duslag tHe Asst Aye fa AL 5 , ¢ Mohawk A Harvard looks | € one best bet. Coe a . and they downs against , ae Bar : ing ne were LYNCH WINS INVITATION GARDNER AWARDED | AT MOTT HAVEN A, Cc, DECISION OVER CLABBY, ‘ nd | Se aein EW OF § ne if sixemile cross-country runs n , > —— the Bronx course. In the club ¥ Northwestern Wins Relay Race, | j/andicap run menor sai ual t the Heal han , \ ws on run twelve end of fiftee : The the. wit ured hi é Dodbherty ) 4 handicap in three’ seconds ahead through ong % sev dngs. Harris, Who ren unattached. Billy Papke Favorite Over Stanley Ketchel Farland has been guaranteed Dadly and were then neatly the priv ting thirty for his com- Murphy, 1 exe of a winner Barry at the same O'Brien will don, the round bout “jot think that in biting Cole feather: ity great ‘Quak Peter, the retired Will hold its regular s club-house at Grand eets to-night, In the and Sammy twelgnts, will clas “fought a ‘good Club a short, time put Up another tnter- time. 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EDI ROBERT EDGREN TED BY | | ‘Harvard Looks Like a Cinch | tor Gridiron Championship j Will be made a favorite in the satel er Ynle F it were possible to judge footba! | Since rey Inauguration of the new psa rules which call for more open play teams on past performances the) avery ron has brought ue tic, ane Members of the “Big Five" would| the end of the Big Pive a a gridi lrank about as follows: ror. Beet no Harvard, Pennsylvania, Yale, Prince-| (iniinal asset ton, Cornell The fallacy of calculations based on records, hovwvever, 1s shown by the oheck- ered career of the Carlisle Indians They tied Pennsylvania, dea’ Villanova can the former that the Big Fi Until they met F ooked lke the sensation because of their excellence e he hands that they nm. Harvard. At the same time Ha‘ could do no better than tle the Navy .| fered this season, ‘DONOVAN NOT TO MANAGE THE: BROOKLYN TEAM President Ebbets, Dissatisfied With Showing of Team, Looks for New Leader. Patsy Donovan will probably not be engaged as manager of the Brooklyn National League team next season. It 1s learned from a reliable source that the officials of the club are not satt fled with the way tn which Donov: handled the team during the la: S, and on that account the: {cally made up thetr_minds to lea tsy out and secure another man for e Jov, Who the new manager will be ts not known at Th have been umars to ct that Bill Dahlen n, but It seems tm- Ebbets will 1 get the posit probable that President select him. It 1s there wil be a e-up in the team next season, four or five players will be re= a. MOTOR BOAT CLUB OF AMERICA TO MEET. The Motor Boat Club of America will hold {ts annual meeting at the Wal- dorf-Astoria on Nov. 18, at which time be elected for the en- e following have been odore, Joseph He mm. re, Wilson P. ; Rear-Commod . Henry R. Sut 1 Treasurer, Ci "rancis; Seo- Wal i following are ni ed for mem- rors: John Louis Craig P. {the Board ‘ower. i team that fell before the same tea sa beat them dy a score of 6 | ed be it | am of the lot, failed to i i were outplayed at! u | the game. | ee eee Princeton Is Weak. Princeton has won no game of con-| George T. Stallings will take actual They failed to score ag harge of the Highlan norning and West Point an n ont that he these teams were beaten b res will give the best results small scores dest game ¥ t season. There are now fifty-or a) had unt! i en on the Highlander list, and o ve will be sold, amber at leas hich they aged or tra 2 chet ‘he the exception of Pilly Kleinon goal and thew « . 1 . Charlie ae pphill it can vecernel has strong that nut Aumemaper of the Hil | showed nothing that would indicate any 2 of his berth next sea- at strength. t from, a EMO jome tall we Med at and in kick a solidarity that looks like a 1 Paty trained bootball machine. 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