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-- Total 39 8 12 17 0 0 3 27 11 1 NEW YORK AB R H TB BB SH SB PO A E Herzog, 3b. 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Doyle, 2b. 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 1 0 Fletcher, s.s. 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 2 1 Burns, l.f. 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 Shafer, c.f. 3 1 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 Murray, r.f. 3 1 1 1 1 0 1 4 0 0 McLean, c. 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 Wilson, c. 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 Merkle, 1b. 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 Wiltse, 1b. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 Tesreau, p. 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Crandall, p. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 [A]Cooper 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 ----------------------------- Total 29 2 5 6 4 0 3 27 6 1 [A] Ran for McLean in fifth. Philadelphia 3 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0--8 New York 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0--2 Two-base hit--Shafer. Three-base hit--Collins. Home run--Schang. Struck out--by Tesreau, 3; by Crandall, 1; by Bush, 3. Double plays--Collins-Barry; Bush-Barry-McInnis; Doyle (unassisted); Schang-Collins. Time--2:11. Umpires--Rigler at plate, Connolly on bases, Klem and Egan in field. X. Exercises 1. In this report we have a good example of baseball reporting as a literary art. The writer, Mr. E. A. Batchelor, of the _Detroit Free Press_, uses metaphor and antithesis with effect. The framework, as is usual in good comic writing, is excellent. Observe it: 1. Four W's--Par. 1. 2. Business Meeting--Par. 2. 3. Refreshments--Pars. 3-12, inclusive. What New York suffered--Par. 3. What Philadelphia did--Par. 4. The Score--Par. 5. The Pitchers--Pars. 6-10. Their Choice--Par. 6. What New York's didn't do--Pars. 7-8. Joe Bush--Pars. 9-12. 2. _Use of Metaphor._ (a) Analyze the metaphor in "Murder Association." (b) Point out the words in the first three paragraphs that serve to sustain and amplify the comparison. (c) Explain the metaphors that lurk in "rush of hits to the outfield," "bakered," "unbelt," "in a hole," "straggled through." 3. _Antithesis._ In Par. 3 the firs
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