The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-10-26
IOlD DOCTOR" CRAADAlL
SHOOtD AWAY GIANTS
APPROACHING FUNERAL
Nothing But Crandall Stood Be-
tween McGraw's Men and
Defeat Wednesday.
CRANDALL TO-DAY MAYBE.
Oldring Breaks Into the Hero
Class, Almost, With His
Homer in the Third.
Rx aRANILANp RICE.

NEW YORK, Oct 26.-You won't
find his name in any physicians d.
rectory The great American medical
association knows him not He hash
even an NJ DIS diploma nor license
10 practice. and there is no craven
sign above his door But when death
stalks in, grim and cold. where weep
ing friends stand around your couch.
don't give up hope. Take one more
chance and send for Old Doc. Gran
tiall for as this noted specialist comes
In al the door, Death and the under
! taker dive out through the window
At 3:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon
they were taking the Giants measure
for their shrouds. Silent friends
stood by awaiting for the last faint
gurgle And then-somebody thought
about Il in time and in rushed Old
Doe and his pills. That was only a
short time ago, and yet Thursday the
Giants fought again for the champion
ship OF the world. They absorbed just
one OF Docs pills. Wednesday, gulped
Il down, threw on their winding
sheets and FIVE minutes later were
chasing Coombs and Plank up the
bleak and barren kopje of defeat.
In the ninth round Crandall stood
alone between the Giants and defeat
between Mackmen and world
championship. with 10000 extra pieces
of kale on the side. But Crandall was
enough. aided and abetted by Josh
Devore and j. Lawrence Doyle.
All of which goes TO show that you
never can tell until the box score ar
riyes with the complete details.
details. Through eight rounds in this
fifth game the Giants we're whipped
Oldring had stopped them with a
four-base wallop Mathewson and
Marquard had faded. But with Ames
pitching brilliantly. McGraws men
had nufsed the ashes or championship
hope back to a glow, and this hope
crimsoned TO flame when Fletcher,
CrandalI and Devore whafed in the
Two runs needed to tie, and Doyle's
double led to victory in the tenth.
II MoGraw plays bunch. or trails
with the dope, he will call upon
Ames. Crandail or Wiltse today. His
stars have drawn their chance and
however well they worked, have fall
ed. Crandall and Ames loomed stout
Ii yesterday, and Hooks Wiltse is In
shape. Ames worked four rounds and
Crandall three, so neither is out OF
gear. The job of making his final
pick from this trio is a rough one and
he will probably warm up all three
before announcing his choice, OF
the lot. Red Ames looks to have more
than any other, as his sweeping curve
had Collins and Baker warping their
spines in vain swings. with the rest
OF the Mackian maulers stampeded
and stopped
There were four impressive features
of this battle which must stand apart
In balloons history. One was Old
rings home run. which scored three
men In the third; another was Gran
dalrs long two-base hit In the ninth.
which sent Fletcher home and paved
the way for Devores timely drive, |
tying II up.
But the two greatest were the great
nerve and gameness shown by-Larry
Doyle after hts costly misplay and the
final awakening OF Giant rooters, who,
through soreness at the ticket spec
ulation and ticket handling. had re-
fused to stand back OF their club. But
yesterday, In the seventh round, they
broke loose and from that period on
Jack Coombs began to fade and falter
anu lOSe ul6 5llluc. lhcSC ChcClo
came as one final call for help-one
last stand against defeat and they
worked with wonderful effect They
continued even through the eighth
and into the ninth, when the Mack
men were leading, 3 TO /, with Fetch
er on second two out and Crandell
up. Coombs was ever nearer TO vic
tory than Mathewson was when Baker /
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lead and but one man TO retire. while
In that other game, Matty had but
one run lead with two men 10 set
down But when old Doc whaled
that smashing drive far beyond Old
ring and Murphy, 1t was Good Night
for Johnny Coombs and his Colby
cultured curves.
This loue drive turned a quick fin.
ish into another hard championsLIo
fight. while netting $4,000 more -
least for the two clubs owners Forty
thousand dollars hit-no wonder
they are scarce just now.
II one man was to picked from the
\ Giant array as the leading light. the
Allotment would fall TO Larry Doyle.
He had made one misplay In "a
chances, but that one misplay had cost
three runs and apparently the final
4. game.
Yet against this, II was Doyle who
rallied and led his team both ways
4 out the rest of the trail-fielding
sfeafiiy End hitting safely all four
times at bat after the m.scue. In
place OF treaking, as the average ath-
sfute would have done Doyle fought
an the harder and planted the final
IT. - - H.. he n
into the winning run when Snodgrass
hunted him 70 third and Merkle flied
far TO Murphy in right field
This nth battle marked the first
Giant strength AT bat and IT was not