Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-10-26

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center and SO nigh over Rube Old
rings head that before he stopped ne
was on second and Fletcher was home,
while the crowd roared and raved,
went mad with excitement and for
five minutes set the place in uproar
and shock. But still it looked soft.
Devore, in this series, has hit about
the size of his hat and looked feeble,
but it is insignificant parties who rise
to the occasion and he did with a
screaching slam to left and sent home
the tying run. Then Mack did what
he should have done, according to the
custOdians of the second muse, long
before. He sent for Eddie Plank and
after the Athletics had worried
through a resultless round Plank
went in to save it.
And then came Doyle, the hitting
hero Of the day. The goddess of luck
was simply making a bum out of the
Athletics. She had LANDED them along
all the afternoon and what does she
do but decree that Doyle, after taking
two helpless swings at Planks Offer
ings, should reach outside the plate
and drop fly On left field foul line,
where no one in the world could get
near it, And he took two bases. Snod-
grass hunted down and Plank shot
the ball to third, losing both runners.
Whereupcn the estimates of official
scorers record it as a base hit. That
stirred up some more sound waves
and turned every hammer in New
York into a harp. 1t set Broadway
ablaze and banished the glooms to
New Jersey. But the Athletics still
refused to be beaten. Murray flied to
Murphy so close in that Dannie held
the runners to their bases.
Now listen clearly fer here comes
the oldest part of the strangest of
this queer afternoon of sport Dannie
Murphy, veteran and old enough to
know whole lot better, pulled a
bone which meant an unbright play
Merkle, who was a victim of that 9TH
er great national calamity that made
the Cubs a pennant, hit fly down
the right field foul line. 1t would
have been foul had Murphy let it 60
but with the single idea of catching
that ball and heaving home in time tc
head off the run that would give New
York the victory, he caught it on fail
ground and heaved desperately to the
plate. You understand what thai
means. If he had let the ball fall foul
it would have been two strikes on
Merkle and perhaps-but there are
too many perhapses in this anyhow
he caught the ball and Doyle, seeing
victory, went racing for the plate with
the surf beat of wild acclaim pound
ing down around his form every seat
in the great stadium.
Doyle never reached the plate or
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the game was over He slid, although
there was not any need of sliding,
and he slid so far behind that ultimate
/ bit of rubber that he missed it two
feet and rose and tore for the arms of
his jealous comrade, Lapp. And 1t
seemed no other member of the Ath-
letics team saw him miss the plate.
They did not make claim and the
game was over. Umpire KLEIN saw it
and stood waiting, but after the great
crowd had swirled like Niagara of
! humanity on the field and formed a
whirlpool rapids Of noise around the
players, the umpire walked YEARLY
away, perhaps wondering that play
ers have the nerve to criticise the
eyesight Of umpires.