September 19, 1914 Age 23
BY MELVILLE E. WEB JR. The Boston Globe
James, Doak. 12 innings and one run apart was the combination at Fenway Park yesterday. A combination that hundreds of fans watched with intense interest and then left the park convinced that, for once, the records that place these two flingers at the top of the National League pile this season really mean something after all.
For weeks James and Doak have been running neck and neck, the St Louis man keeping always in the front, but James being everlastingly at his heels. Which ever won the game yesterday would be in the lead – Doak continuing by a larger margin than before, but being passed in event of his failure to stop the Boston pitcher from beating him.
Three hits were allowed by Doak against seven for James, so that, even with the tie game, the Bostonian can find no fault with still having to keep in second place. Two fine plays to the plate also prevented the Braves from losing in the eighth inning, the one in which their opponents wiped out the Braves’ one-run lead of three innings before.
As the records of the two pitchers now stand, Doak, participating in 33 games this year, has won 18 and has lost only five. This gives him a mark of .783 while James with 24 wins and only seven defeats in his 42 games this season, has figures of .774. Nine points, less than one percent, is all that separate the the men even now. Had James won yesterday, his points would have been .781 while Doak would have dropped down to .750.