The Washington times., 1905-10-13
MURPHY'S ERRORS
PROVE COSTLY
Christy Mathewson Pitches.
Another Great Game.
QUAKERS DOPY IN THE FIELD
Devlin, Former Georgetown Boy, Car
ries OF Honors for the
Giants.

PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 13-Decisively
defeated
This was the verdict OF more than
lo.ovo spectators, who shivered and shook
In the teeth of approaching winters first
cold blast at Columbia Park. while the
champion Athletics were being beaten
by the champion New Yorks by the
score of to o.
All Mr.. Murphy.
AS 1t was all Bender who contributed
to the Athletics victory in New York
on Tuesday. SO 1t was an Murphy who
contributed to the Athletics' defeat yes
terday. Murphy fumbled and fumbled.
and then fumbled again. He fumbIed
away the game. The usually reliable Sec
ond baseman committed his first offense
In the opening inning. when he failed TO
handle Mertes' roller. Perfectly felded.
double play. retiring the side. would
nave resulted. In the third he appeared
IN stupor Twice he was offered com
mon. ordinary chances to retire bats
men, put In each instance made afro
cious oiunoers. To his execrable work
.New hork owes Its five runs in the fifth
inning.
Coakley opposed the ipvincible Matb.
ewson. The former Holy Cross CoI-
lege player pitched an excellent ~ame
his efforts being equal to victory with
proper support and average hitting
Coakley never fiinched in the face of the
miserable fielding of his team, but con-
tinued TO pitch his best until the last
Giant had been retired. He was hit
the hardest in the opening and closing
innings. two hits in the first and ninth
being credited to New York.
Mathewson Invincible.
Mafhe>wson again demonstrated his
wonderful skill as a pitcher. On Mon
DAY, when the Athletics faced him for
nine innings. he shut them out with but
four hits, ami had nothing more than
wild pitch TO mar his great record.
The big twirler duplicated this achieve
ment in yesterdays contest. In fact
his performance yesterday, carefully
analyzed, shows that his pitching was
even more effective tnan in the opening
game of the series for the worlds cham
pionship- HartseL reaching first on an
error by Devlin in the first inning. stole
second on the next pitch. The feet
little outfielder was the only American
champion to proceed farther than the
initial bag during the contest. Seven
men were vouchsafed the privilege of
resting temporarily at first base, but
sharp fielding or mastery pitching p.r-
vented further progress after the first
inning.
The Athletics did not make their first
the fifth inning, when Monte Cross
cracked out clean single to right field
In the seventh Davis and Sey bold hit
safely to left. while L. Cross made a
sa1e drive IN the same direction in tine
final inning. These four singles. all
clean, copstituted the Athletics batting
ability. In the second inning Mathew
son slipped a cog in the control of his
almost perfect pitching machinery and
sent Seybnld to first on balls. In the
eighth inning with two strikes on Coax
ley. he again misjudged the width of an
outcurve. hitting the Philadelphia pitch
er on the arm. These instances tell
the story OF how ana when the Ath-
letics reached first base.
Devlin Fielding Star
There We're several pretty fielding
plays. although nothirg reached the
height of sensational Devlin's play at
third base constituted the fielding fea-
ture. After slipping up on Hartsei.s
difficult Offering in the first inning, he
gave an object lesson In the handling
of hard ground raps and quick, accurate
throwing to first base. His stops of
grOunder5 from the bats of Lord, Muir
ply and DaYis We're very clever exhi-
Billions, and well merited applause they
received
1t was about as hard to keep blood
moving as it was for the White Eie-
plants to connect with Mathewbon but
the fans would have gene on North
Pole expedition rather than have misse.l
being in at the running
Camphor IL the Air.
From sTandstand and bleacher. there
arose an odor that even a thousand .rI
more uncorked quart bottles could not
down 1t was tossed about by the wiri
and II enveloped the whole battle-ground
aike a circus tent 1t was camphor.
The warriors on the diamond had cam
phor 70 the left of them, camphor TO |
the right OF them. camphor in front OF !
them. and tfey would doubtless have
had camphOr behind them IL there had |