Arizona republican., 1910-10-21
MACK'S MEN
THIRD TIME
Wipe Up The Field With
Chicago Cubs
BASEBALL SLAUGHTER
The Manager of the Athlet-
les Believes That Today,
Weather Permitting, Will
Witness the End of the
Championship Series.

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out here today and rubbed it in. The
Athletics scored the third successive
victory in the worlds championship
series with the Chicago Nationals. IL
to ., and if the big pennant is not
nailed to the Quaker City mast tomor-
row Connie Mack will be the most
surprised, bewildered and astounded
gentleman on the baseball map.
Captain Chance was ordered from
the field in the third inning for dis
putting a decision.
In the three games played so far
the fasteners have pounded every
assortment of curves which the entire
galaxy of Chicago pitchers could offer.
Only King" Cole, the so-called pitch
ing find of the year. remains to be
seriously called by Chance, and he
has been held back because of his in
experience in crucial games and the
belief, also, that his assortment of
shoots is just what the Mack men
like
Mack, in all probability, will furnish
the local enthusiasts with a view of
Bender tomorrow The Big Chief
has a CORY collection of Cub scaIps
taken in that three-hit game in Phila-
delphia, but his knife is newly sharp
ened for more. Who will go against
him is the problem. 1t may be
'Three-Fingered" Brown, may be Cole.
And then, there is Foxen, an untried
man, and Pfeiffer, who has been Of
little use this year.
/ 1t is a matter of Indifference to
Mack. He and his players regard the
game tomorrow as a mere formality-
a bit of red tape with incidental
profit, of cOurse-necessary to guaran-
tee the title to the bunting.
The combat today was a slaughter
Reulbach lasted just two innings, dur
ing which he allowed one single and
two doubles. passed two batsmen and
saw three runs across the home plate
Mcintyre was the next twirler led up
for slaughter. He pitched Just the
third inning. but that was long enough
for the visitors to hammer out two
singles. a home run and send Davis
to first rubbing his back where one
Of McIntyre's inshoots had hit him.
With the assistance of an error by
Schultz, four runs were scored under
his beneficent reign
The bright particular stars were
Coombs. Barry and Murphy. Coombs
allowed only six hits. passed four men
and contributed a wo-bagger and a
single, which added three runs to the
Philadelphia collection. Barry hit as
if there was another automobile in
sight He also figured in double
plays. He made three hits, each one
a 6nIh1n Hroxra in, fvt-r nd III
self reached the counting station
three times.
1t remained for Murphy, however,
to electrify the crowd His first note
worthy exploit was a ball over the
heads of the right field crowd into the
regular bleachers for four sacks, driv-
ing in two runners ahead of him. At
the time he did not know how far the
ball had Travelled and ne stopped after
covering the two bases allowed, under
ground rules for hits into the out
field
The hit was more than a run count
er for it figured largely in the ex-
pulsiOn of Chance from the grounds.
Chance, Joined by most of his men.
surrounded O'Day in an endeavor to
persuade him that the rules made all
hits into the crowd at any point or
distance doubles. The umpire couldn't
see it, and when the Cub leader sought
to prOlOng the argument he ordered
him from the field. Archer, ordinarily
catcher, replaced him at first.
Murphy's next sensational exhibition
earned him an ovation. He ran back
after what Zimmerman had marked
for double, jumped the barrier in
the right field, grasped the bail by
his fingernails. fell over backward into
the crowd and presently emerged with
the trophy still safe Meanwhile
Sheckard, thinking that two were out
or that Murphy could not possibly
have captured the ball. sped around
the bases. He awoke at third to find
that he had been doubled at first.
Sheckard faced Coombs four times
and all but once was allowed to walk.
He brought two runs across the plate
and fielded his position without
flaw
An tra-territorial incident of the
game figured in Judge Scanlon's court.
The Judge. having ascertained that
the members of his jury We're more
interested in the game than in the
case at bar, sought to right matters by
having the score by innings read to
them by the bailiff. This worked