Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-10
BASE BALL, RACING
AND OTHER SPORTS

to Murphy, but Bresnahan atoned for his
failure to do better by stealing second.
This was not the first exhibition by the
New Yorks Of their skill in annexinE cush-
ions, Devlin and Gilbert having made a
double steal In the second inning. Bresna-
han was safe at the midstation on Schreck's
low throw. and he cfrcled third under full
sail when Donlin stung a line- between the
two Crosses. Hartsel did not make very
good throw to the plate of Donlins hit, the
ball going wide and Bresnahan reaching the
home base in safety. To Bresnahan, there
fore. fell the distinction Of making the first
run of the worlds series. Nor were the
New Yorks done scoring. McGann walked
and Mertes hit into the crowd In center
field. Lord made a valiant try for the ball.
He leaped in the air. caught the. ball. but
struck against some spectators and the
globule fell out Of his hands. Doniin scored
on the play.
Seybold smashed a grounder straight at
Mathewson In the fifth and Mathewson was
hurt, though he threw Seybold out. Then
he made a quick dash for the bench and
patched himself up McGinnity warming up
in case Mathewson was disabled to the ex-
tent of retiring. Christy's seconds put him
In good shape to continue the bout and he
retired the next two batters in a hurry.
Schreck Died at Plate.
With one out in the sixth. Gilbert singled
but was caught stealing. The Philadelphias
made brave stand in their half, but the
New Yorks were there with the equipment
. of muscle and skill and brain to repulse 1t.
Schreck led off with spanking two-bagger
to left field. On Plank's third strike he
went to third. The third strike was drop
which hit in front of the plate, Bresnahan
doing lively work in throwing the batter
out at first. He had to jump out into the
diamond to get ho,d of the ball. Hartsel
hunted and Schreck tried to score, but
MatheWson was on the ball quicker than
a fash and with an accurat tie toss to Bres-
nahan, put Schreck out of harms way. 1t
was striking instance of New York's vigil
lance spryness and being on the spot in
an emergency.
Donlin hunted safely in the seventh and
stole second, but there were two out. and
Mike dwindled away at the second knoll.
The Philadelphas were snuffed out in order
in this inning. Davis being the first he 60
ing after curve a foot outside of the
plate. The New Yorks were retired in or
der in the eighth. Devlin. the last batter
biting at a bad third strike, as Davis had
done. There were dongs in Philadelphia's
part of the eighth inning. Murphy. first
up, got slice of the bail. the same being
a two-bagger over Brownies pate into the
human fringe beyond A low swift
straight fling was Monte Cross undoing on
strikes. Schreck flied to Browne and
Plank's tanning feat bottled up Murphy s
hopes of scoring.
Gilbert inaugurated the ninth inning with
single to left center. Mathewson put him
on second with a sacrifice The neatness
of it was in contrast to Philadelphia's sac
rifcing, which missed fire whenever tried
Bresnahan sent long single to center ana
Gilbert scampered home 1t was poor judg-
ment on Lcrd's part to return the ball to
the center Of the diamond as there was
not chance TO head off GILBERT Bresna-
han should have been held at first but as
II was, he took second the throw in
However, he was left. as Browne grounded
to Davis and Donlin to Murphy
Dahlen threw HartSel out in the ninth
Lord was called cut on strikes, and the
hopes of the home thrCng that their heavy
hitters would yet save the day vanished
into thin air There was still a slim chance
of eluding the whitewash and Davis clout-
ed mighty clCut to center for two bases
The accompanying cheers were a swan
song. Devlin took a hop. skip and a lump
Tor Lave Cross caroming swat, clutched
the ball On the bound and sent it winging
to McGann.
The score: