The Washington herald., 1911-10-18
By WILLIAMsPEET.


New York, Oct I7-To-day's game
settles the worlds baseball champion
ship for 1911. Christy Mathewson, the
great twiTler, got his bumps good and
proper. There was nothing to it but
the Athletics The writer ventured to
remark last Saturday that Matty would
be lucky to get of again as easily as he
did on the opening Gay. and the result
Of the third game proves this assertion
beyond The shadow of doubt.
Just glance at the hit column, you
Washington baseball fans. If the Of
fetal scorer was on his job he could
not possibly have given the Giants more
than three safe wallops, while the Ath-
letics pulled down more than twice that
number. McGraw's gang knocked only
TWO balls beyond the inheld. One Of
these. Mathewson's rap in the third,
scored a tally.
PLAYS TRUMP CARD IN VAIN.
McGraw played his trump card this aft
eInoon and lost. Mathewson could not
stop Connie Mack's White Elephants. and
1t q cinch that no other twirler on his
staff has a look-In, so the series will
probably end here Thursday in favor of
the Quaker City tribe. The writer stated
ihis morning that Connie Mack would
u ork Jack Coombs against Matty and
save Chief Bender for the third game, at
Philadelphia tomorrow afternoon. Connie
Mack was also quoted at the time as say
Ing that CoOmbs could beat the Giants
aiiy time he started. Looks like pretty
good dope. en-. fans?
AS for the Indian tomorrow on his own
hall yard, we'll just wait for the re-
turns He will have the Giants standing
,n their heads. McGraw may send Rube
&arqUard back, but this is not at all
probable. It will be Crandsn or Ames.
and the Athletics will pound either one of
these gentlemen to a pulp.
When 1t comes right down to handing
cut the laurel wrcaths, YOU have simply
got 10 slip one over to Frank Baker. 1t
was Bakers home run smash into the
right field pavilion that sewed up the
game TO-DAY, and the funny part Of it
Gas that instead of a high fast ball in
SIDE, the kind Narqua-d served over in
the Quaker City yesterday, Baker picked
i low curve ball on the outside corner
Of the plate, much to the confusion of
the Giants in general and Christy
Mathewson in particular. Just before
Baker slammed that ball the writer was
Ton Red Sox. Iris said:
This fellow Baker is a dangerous Gus
toner, and Matty had better look out"
Can Hit Anything,
The writer ventured the remark that
Baker could not hit anything but a high
one in close.
He can't" chirped Speaker That
stuff is bad dope. Baker can hit any
thing that is over the plate" Just then
It happened. Baker took a mighty
swing; the bat hit the ball squarely on
the point OF the jaw, and away she
sailed What did ! tell you?'' shouted
Speaker. And the writer had to admit
that Iris was right.
John Henry, the Nationals catcher,
who never bet before in his life, planked
down $lOO to $40 this morning that the
Athletics would win the series. Incl
dentally, Henry thinks the Washington
club will show something next season
if the right man gets hold of the team
He says that he has had one year of
mighty valuable experience. and that
next season he will show the fans
something.
all previous occasions in the matter of
gate receipts. This afternoon there was
easily as big a crowd as on Saturday, |
despite the act that the weather was
threatening. In Philadelphia tomorrow
The stands are sure to be packed TO |
'verdowing. and, according to reports, |
everything here is sold for the fifth
Iame on Thursday.
Germany a Real Actor.
Two Singles and a Double" is the
narae of the sketch Germany Schaefer |
is billed to play during the theatrical |
season this winter. The Teuton told the |
writer that he was going to be a regular |
actor and had been assured a booking of |
ten solid weeks by Morris Bentham Ger
many will play with Grace Belmont, and |
the sketch is said to be a scream from |
start to finish. Allan K Foster is the au-
thor. Schaefer expects to show at Chase's
IN Washington before the winter season |
closes
Just before the game Ty Cobb, of the |
Detroit team in the American League,
was called to the plate Here he met |
Ren Aulford, jr., chairman of the ChaI-
mers trophy commission, and Hugh |
Chalmers. donor of the trophy. The au-
tomobile was presented to Cobb by Mr.. !
Mulford. In turning the car over TO
Cobb, Mr.. Mulford said:
1T gives me great pleasure to present |
10 you this car as the 1911 winner of the
Chalmers trophy in the American League.
This trophy, the greatest possible indi-
vidual honor that can be paid any ball |
player, comes to you by the unanimous
vote of 8 commission or representative
newspaper men. They paid you the un-
preeedented tribute OF giving you every
one Of the possible sixty-four points"
Frank Schultz, winner of the Chalmers
trophy in the National League, received /
his car yesterday in Chicago at the game |
between the Cubs and White sox.