New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-19
CHICAGO IN DEEP WATER
Athletics Pound Out Second VIC
tory in Fast Game.
BROWN DRIVEN FROM BOX
Big Crowd Goes Wild When Six
Runs Are Piled Up in the
Seventh Inning.

PhiIadelnbia oct. SIN game iuH OF
tb,.;11s f,o,,, Start TO finish. the Philadelphia
Athletics champions OF the American
Ieapue administered crushing deteat TO
the Chicago Cubs. champions OF the Nd
tional League before more than twenty
four thousand persons, in the second strug-
gle for the worlds championship. Inc
score was Q to 3 and the Cubs. with two
defeats. now face an uphill fight.
II was one of the most exciting games
ever plaved on the American League
grounds in this city. 1t aboundeu III
sational fielding and terrific oaiihs' "ii'
the big crowd frequently was prousu' -
its feet with villa enthusiasm dS pay
after player made some brliiiah' e'oP
throw or lined out smashing MT ili'o VI
crowd. The spectators. 'roollhS %
uere for the home team. worried a blt
when Coombs showed signs OF unsteaui-
ness. but this was quickly forgotten "heh
the fpbting Athletics forged 10 the front,
In t1. seventh inning. when captain
Chances splendid machine was crushed
under a cannonadng Of hits, the en-
thusiasm of the fans knew no bounds.
Almost everything that goes into oase-
hall game and makes it one OF the most
exciting Of outdoor sports was IN eVldehce.
There were errors on both sides. eener-
ous contribution of bases on balls that IRE
! uuently had pitchers in trouble long mus
! fast base running and lightning douole
! plays.
| The hero of the afternoon, who shone d.
| brilliantly in his department of the game
as did Bender in yesterdays contest was
| Eddie Collins, the star second oasenldh VI
! the home team. The former captain oil tue
! Columbia University nine electrined 'he
| crowd several times by his sen6auohdi
work. -.
Tho score showed that IN bis five visits
! to the bat he reached first base every Ii'he
on three hits two of them doubles: pase
n, halls and a felder's choice. He scored
, two runs drove in two more aCCep'eu '0,'
| ohances in the field without an error, took
! mart in two sensational plays that checkeo
| Chicago. and last but not least, stole two
/ bases on the king OF Natlohal League OhOA
/ stops, John Killing.
| His work on the paths greatly delighted
the crowd. Mordecai Brown kept him as
close as ne could to first base, hut in the
sixth inning Collins outguessed the chicago
/ battery three times, Brown pitching three
wide balls for King to line the ball to sec
! ond. but each time Collins appeared to
/ divine the play and waited. Then he mace
/ his dash and went into the bag feet hrst
as a perfect throw reached Tinker just an
/ instant 100 late.
/ Coombs pitched erratic game, giving
nine bases on balls. He dug a hole for
! himself in the first inning by giving two
/ of the first three men up free passes, but
! crawled out with only one run against his
/ team. At several other stages of the con-
/ test he was in trouble, but the brilliant
| work Of his teammates pulled him out of
/ difficulties. He seemed to show better
form when the bases were occupied than
when the bags were clear. This is shown
/ by the fact that the Cubs had fourteen men
| left on the bases.
Chicago's inside play did not seem to be
! in working order. for, with men on bases
and Coonbs unsteady. some sharp pieces