The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-24
COFFIN LID NAILED
DOWN BY ]. COOMBS
Patient Threatens to Kick Him
Over Cemetery, but
Fails.
WAKE IN PHILADELPHIA
Chicago Struggles Hard, but
Now Is Dead as Ram,
Old Boy"
ny G. e. 4 LOAN.


BY G.. II. VAN LOAN.
Especial L, The Times-Dispatch.l
Chicago, October 23.--The King is
dead. Long live the Jack.
At exactly seven minutes after
o'clock this afternoon, a young man
named Barry reached. down. nipped a
ball Off the ground. galloped over to
second base, touched 1t with his spikes
and by that token there passed into
history the worlds championship Sc
ries for this year OF grace. 1910, Won
by the Philadelphia Athletics by the
score of four games to one.
a great baseball, team, gentlemen'
All credit and bonor to them. for they
won fairly IN their merits, wtacking
their way to fame with many q long
hit. philadelphia MAJ we'll be proud
OF them. We do not deny that for
seven innings we believed our Illus
trtous patient to be doing we'll. You
will recall that on Saturday Charles
Albert Bender stepped out to nall tho
lid upon ,.,e coffin. but the ceremonies
were indefinitely postponed. The pa
tient objected to being buried alive.
Cooinbs Gets Hammer and mills.
Cornelius McGin.cuddy. the under
taiter of our hopes. then handle tho
hammer and nails to one j.. Coombs.
who had already driven two nails into
Chicago's sarcophagus. Mr. Coomihs
may now be mentioned reverently In
the same breath with Christy Mathew
son and Dab" Adams, two pitchers
who scored three victories in worlds
series. Coombs beat the Cubs three
times inside of six days, jnstifying the
confidence OF his now famous chief, the
aforementioned McGillicuddy. The pa
tient was not entombed without a
struggle. There were several times
when he seemed about to break out
and kick AIR. Coonbs all OYER the ceme-
terry. and he was still struggling va
linntly as late as $3.50 in the after
noon
The score. remember. was 2 and l..
with the underwriters leading by an
ace. DIR Mordecai Brown. who assist
ed In revfving the patient on Saturday;
was sent out TO administer oxygen
and digitalts. and for seven innings
he seemed TO be fairly abreast Of his
duty.
Then came me fatal eighth, when
the patient plinked. rolled his eyes a
few times and settled back as dead as
Rameses ].
Ray. old boy. may have been dead q
lot longer, but you can take Y WORD
for &!.@tnat k he stays dead for the
neat million years he will never be any
desder than the Cubs were after that
eighth inning.
The snti,e batting order of the Ath-
tetics marched against Mordecai In the
eighth inning. n with three doubles.
a single, two bases on balls ar ono
large, juicy error, the patient was
neatly handstftched into his shroud and
the lid 8clamped down for keeps. Five
runs went up on the sc~oreboards after
that inning. and nothing but respect
for the dear departed kept the mourn
ers from leaving In a body.
And nothing was added to the pleas
ure of the occasion by the singing
of the Doxology, a bit OF sratuitous
impertinence contributed bytthe Phil
adelphia rooters In the grandstand.
Wake in Quaker City.
The wake. as we understand It. is
TO he held in Philadelphia, an excel
lent location for the service.
NowSwe getsdown to business
The banner crowd, from the Chicagof
viewpoint, turned out to-day. The
game battle put up Saturday insured
standing room only. II nothing else,
and long before the teams took the
field for practice the park was packed
TO oyerflowing. It was rumored that
some o fSthe Philadelphia pitchers weraj
insopen rebellion against Connie Mack
for his Intention to start Jack
&Coombs for the third time inside the
week. and there#was a suspicion that
the lob might be turned over to Plank,
but It was Coombs8who took~his placed
IN the line-ups atsbatting practice, and
1t was CooNbs who %lazily uncoiled
himself In fronto OF the philadelphia !,
bench Just before the game started.
This big, rawboned fellow from Mainesl
thriYes on hard work and does has
hest upon that diet. There was neYerSI
any doubt as to the pitcher Chance
would select. n when thu game
opened the aged Mr.. $Mordecai Brown.
accompanied by his long farmer striuea
and his chewing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS inS
the box, 8SwithssAr working behind
the bat.
Topsy Hartsel was the first Philadels9
aphian& al bat.SMack having made "a
-switchsinSthe fouttield, benching strunk,
!, putting Hartsels In left and Lord inE
Topsy whackedsthe fourth ball
through short for q single, n Mr..
Brown, Tightening up his belt made
Lord miss two hunts, andAthen whipped
insthe third strike Lord swinging over
At ,bysinches. OnBthesthird strike Hart
sci stole secondhand Archer. drawing
back fors8the throw. discovered that
neither zim nor Tinker wa covering
the bag. This crossing of the signals
sledSto the first run. for Collins-and5
wish we had some ball players like
this ameaCollins-snoked a. liner into
entres for a single,a n q Hartsels scored.
NlOrdecaiy Not Pleased.
Mordecat vas not particularlys|
pleased at this stage, but he showed
sWhatsswas in him when he forcedsBaker
stosfoul the third strike to Archer and
struck ont olda3Harry Davis with four
pitched balls FOLLOWING the usual GUS
5tom4sof the sporting coroner wesrise
to- remarkssthat but forSATink andSZtm8
there WQuldahave been notrun nathat
Inning. All right boys, no hard feel
singss Ii
the Cubsssin their first session Nor
Observation-Disclosures besides the trade
mark on theNs hall@in the second, and
he pitnhed@sSbut three tin ess To get
Murphy and Barry.abpt Misunderstanding \.
5limitsto get Lapp,,sth eSchanEesScatcher..s