The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-23

casion with a clean double to right and
the crowd felt something in its throat.
Home Rum Murphy was up, but his pest
was sharp grounder which Tinker 1um-
bled for one breathless moment and then
threw Davis out at third. Barry ended
the rally by striking out.
sheckard Delivers Hit
There were two men out when the win
ming run came in. Tinker popped Out,
but Archer interpolated double, which
was followed by Browns out at hrst.
Every local hope hung on Sheckard, put
fortunately for those with weak hearts
it did not have to hang for long. The
Chicago left fielder lit into the first ball
pitched for a single over second. Archer
trotted across the plate and the agony
was over.
At precisely this moment the heralded
beps.lderment and obfuscation of. Connie
Mack f his men did not capture the game
occurred. Mr.. Mack was plainly surprised,
but he soon recovered and smiled with
the thought of the margin of two VIC
| tories remaining to his team.
Tomorrow he observed, will be an
other. day.
| There was none to gainsay and re-
| mark, but who will do the pitching was
the subject of conversation among the
home-going crowds
Coombs, who considers one day for re-
cuperaton an extravaganza of time,
wants to do the twirling, and may be al
lowed to do so. Dygert and Plank also
are possibilities. Captain-Manager Chance
WILL it is practically certain, put in
Brown, who pitched only the last two in
nings today.
Prior to the game Captain Chance did
everything he could think of to chase
the hoodoo." His first official act was
In the matter of hosiery. Previous to the
first game at Philadelphia the captain
manager had ordered new adornment for
the fleet lower limbs of his athletes-gray
for wear in the east and white for the
home grounds.
But the stockings did not bring VIC
tory at Philadelphia and 50 in the first
game here he suggested that the white
hosiery might change the luck. 1t did
not, however, and today the team came
on the field with the new white outfit,
with new caps to match.
Calls for Cole
Then he answered the call of the West
Side constituency by sending king"
Cole, late a tonsorial artist, or bar
Der, of Bay City, Mich, and still later
hailed by many as the pitching find of
the season, into the pitching box. Cheers.
Then came a real surprise when Archer
behind the. home base. More cheers but
not so vociferous. Later this vocal error
was remedied when the new catcher per-
sonally conducted the winning run across
the plate. King was displaced because
his batting average of .0S7 for the series,
it was thought, could not be lowered by
Archer or anybody else. Aroher's double
was nothing if not timely, for previously
he had accomplished nothing with the
cti oh nj, bn
left out of the game entirely. With the
score 3 TO against him. Chance in the
eighth removed Cole. despite the fine
pitching of the Michigander for the sole
purpose of allowing King to bat for him.
Killing sent an easy grounder to Baker,
but the latters poor throw allowed the
runner to reach second. Then he van
ished again.. for Kane was sent in to
run for him.
Cubs Score Early
T. Chicago scored In the first when Sheck-
ard walked. stole the only base of the day
and scored on Hoffman's single In the
fourth Schultz singled and made third
when Hoffman hit too hot for Datis,
scoring on a single by Chance. Further
scoring was checked by a double play.
| The Phladelphias had 10 men left on
bases, as compared with four by the
Cubs The former tied the score in the
home on Strunk's triple to deep center. In
the fourth it looked as IL the Phila-
delphias were going to repeat former
..batfests'' Doubles by Baker and MUIR
ply and a single by Collins netted two
runs. Cole. however, steadied, and is
credited with three strikeouts in the in
ming.
Bakers Second "Nenr Rum
In the fifth the visitors had two men on
bases. but Lord and Collins each sent
high ones to Sheckard and the oppor-
tunity vanished.
In the sixth they were threatening.
Baker walked and was sacrificed to Sec
ond. Murphys single was altogether
too tropical for Etenfeldt and Baker
| perched on third. Barry hit sharply to
Steinfeldt. who threw to Archer and
| Baker was out by close margin at the
| plate
| In the eighth Baker again was. caught
at the plate-a force out. Baker beat out
a grounder and Davis walked. Murphy
advanced the runners with a sacrifice
and Barry filled the bases when he was
hit by pitched ball. There was one
out when Thomas hit to Cole, who