The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-10-12
SUBSTITUTE ROBE
THE HERO AGAIN
Hits 70 Left Field Benches
When Bases Are Full.
American League Takes Third OF
series for the Worlds Cham
pionship.
PITCHERS BATTLE YESTERDAY.

Chicago. III. Oct. l2.-The thirC
game between the Chicago teams o.
the National and American league
was a battle royal between pitchers
and the Americans won by the score
of to 0.
Twenty-one batsmen struck out
for twelve of these credit goes e
Walsh. In addition he gave only on,
pass and allowed but two hits in IN,
first inning. Thereafter the Nation
ais, until the ninth inning, never hat
any sort of chance to score.
According to the official count o.
the mathematical gate keepers IS.
$50 enthuslastasts encouraged b,
slightly warmer weather We're pres
ent when the s,na began. Pfeistei
a left handed p'icner. went into the
box for the Nationals. His control
at first was good. but BY no means
perfect. He quickly stVadied. how
ever. and pitched. superbiy until the
sixth inning. IL was here he went
to pieces. With laundering for the
cerulean he ascehded until he was
mere speck in the sky among the
kites and banners of some fifty-seven
varieties cl political candidates for
Office.
This faux pas imitation of Santo-
Dumont lost the game for c. Webb
Muphy's spuds.
rannehiA reputed TO be weak
batter. singled down the third base
line. Somewhat disconnected. Pfeis-
ter allowed Walsh to walk and mo-
ment later hit Hahn on the nose.
breakig II. A doctor was called and
O'Neill went to first for Hahn and
finished the game for him. The
bases were now full and nobody out.
A pandemonium of frozen cheers
from the American league sympathiz-
ers broke loose, crashing against tho
Imports of the grand stand and fall
ing In splinters on the crowd in the
boxes. Pfeister pulled himself to-
gether, and there was a sigh Of re-
lief from. the National supporters
when Captain Jones fouled out to
King. Tsbe.l. one of the teams bats
men ordinarily, struck out for the
third time during the game. Then
came Robe substitute to bat. 1t was
this light-haired young man whose
occidental presence by. reason of
Davis illness in Tuesdays game. that
brought victory to the Americans.
Again the fate of the game depended
on him and again he did not fail. He
waited patiently for a ball that suited
him and he laid against it with all his
strength. The ball bounded like
jack-rabbit down the third base line
and under the benches in left fec
Walsh and O'Nell crossed
the plate amid wild cheers and the
noise. of many megapho.es, while the
author of the scores stood on third
base receiving tic congratulations Of
bis team mates. Donohue sent a weak
fly to Eyers and the agony was over.
On their part the Nationals started
Dut like winners. In the first Hoff-
man sent a clean single to center
Held. Scheckard struck out and then
Hoffman killed all chances of scoring
by trying to steal second. where he,
was thrown out The next moment
Schultz doubled to left but It did no
good. for Chance went ont, Isbell to
Donohue. Thereafter till the ninth,
the Nationals never gave a hint of
designs on the home plate. Walsh
held them completely at his mercy,
apparently growing stronger ana
steadier every inning.
When the game began the Nation
as swung viciously at his offerings.
but before the contest was half over,
they were fishing for the ball SEEM
ingly trying merely to touch it. Any
kind of a hit would have looked good,
but mostly when they did not strike
out, they rolled easy grounders to
second or short and we're out easily
In the ninth. Gessler went to bat for
Pfeister and reached, first because Is
bell fooled his grounder for a mo-
ment. Hoffman went out via Isbell.
Gessler reaching second. Scheckard
for the second time. missed three
good ones. Gessler beat Sullivan's
throw TO third. because the catcher
juggled the ball for a moment. A
hit meant a run, sbut Schultz became
a victim of Walsh's icy benders and
the third game Of the worlds cham
pionship series was over.
1t took a large force OF policemen
to protect Walsh and Robe from their
frenzied admirers who thronged onto
the field, but they finally reached
their carriages without being hoisted