The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-15
Matheuson Pitched
These Two Words Tell Why New York Won
the Opening Game of the Worlds Series
Written by erantIand the United
[Gate City Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Oct. 14.-Mathewson

[Gate City Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-Mathewson
pitched:
If there is any Philadelphia who
wants to know who won the first
of the worlds series played here to-
day answer him with this Mathew
son pitched" This is the beginning
and the end of the story.
For the fourth straight time the
magic of Manhattan's marvel triumph
ed over the House of Mack. Picking
up where in 1905 he laid down his
work, the great Giant right handler
today hurdled six seasons of rugged
campaigning and stood up before an
other and greater Mack's machine
with all the wonder of his old time
skill. Indian Bender pitched superb
ly, craftily and with fine speed. But
when the gray dusk dropped athwart
hydrophiabic horde of 100000 fren-
zied fans, the paleface had beaten
the redman by the count Of 2 to l,
and had earned the right to stand
forth still as the greatest slabman
balloon has yet produced
In one round only, the second, did
Mathewson falter. For one brief
moment he careened, then hits by
Baker and Davis, linked with a passed
ball by Myers, let in the opening run.
But from that point on Mathewson
stood the hard slashing Mack ma
chine upon its head, SCATTERING Mack's
attack at every turn with his famed
collection of "fadeaways," shoots and
perfect control. From the third round
on he held the mighty hitting Ath-
letics to three paltry pokes, and swept
through the four concluding stanzas
by retiring the last twelve men in
order
Is Matty as good as he was in 1905?
Has he gone back? Is he fading? Ask
Connie Mack or Harry Davis or Brls-
co Lord who saw him work six years
ago and stood before him once more
today.
Won the Jump Game.
The Giants won the jump game
clean cut and decisively. They won
as touted to win-through the great
defensive strength of Mattie's pitch
ing and through their wonderful speed
upon the paths. In only one respect
did the advance dope fail. When the
first crack came it was Mack's ex-
perienced worlds champions who
split apart, while back of Matty the
younger Giants stood firm and stall
wart, backing up their star with an
impenetrable wall of defense.
The summed up story is simply this:
Giant defense, embracing Mathewson'
pitching and his rockribbed support,
was too well set for Philadelphia's at
tack, while the Giants fast rushing at
tack was too resistless for Philadel-
phia's defense.
History, given a page in 1905, re-
peated itself today. In 1905 the Phila-
delphia lineup entered the field slug
gishly and at even pace. The Giants
raced on with a rush, eager for battle,
upon their toes and spelling for a
fight They won. In 1911, the Ath-
letics' entrance had showed no
change. Slowly and leisurely the
Mackmen came across the field. Four
minutes later the black uniformed
Giants whirled through, swept across
the field and were awaiting and up
at work before Mack's assemblage had
shed its outer coats or sweaters 1t
was the rival schools of McGraw and
school of calm and repose
against the school of dash and display
and for the fourth time the McGraw
school triumphed
1t was an ordinary occasion for the
Mackmen apparently, drilled as they
were into Mackian stolidness. 1t was
the supreme moment for the Giants,
keyed up by McGraw's magnetic lead
ership and sent forth to fight or fall,
but not come back beaten.
The War Spirit.
All the PHYSIOLOGY of the epoch
making occasion was with the Giants.
The war spirit in their breasts as
they charged and raced around the
field while the Mackmen worked
steadily and surely in practice but
with no unusual vim. And for three
rounds this steadiness held the whip
hand. When Frank Baker slashed a
single in the second inning, took sec.
ond on Murphy's sacrifice, and bare
ly reached third on Myers passed
ball, shot by Davis sending in the
run, sounded like the sombre crack
OF doom to countless Giant rooters
in the stands. But in the fourth the
Giant speed wrote the first chapter