The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-26
SAVED SERIES TEMPORARILY
Everyone Had Given up
Hope-The Series Was
Athletics.
And Then Doc Crandall Brought the
Corpse Back TO Life-.Nmcs and
Crandall--Not Rubc or Matty-
stopped the Athletics Advance.
by Grantland Rice.

1 llnu nus nHlnt III any any DnNSlGlH0
directory. The great American Medi
| cal association knows him not. lie
hasn't even an M. DIS diploma nor
a license to practice, and ther Is
no craven sign above his door. But
when Death stalks in, grim and cold,
where weeping friends stand around
your couch, don't give up hope. Take
one more chance and send for old
Doc Crandall. for. as this noted spec
ialist comes I'm at the door. Death
and the undertaken dive out at the
| window. Only one of old Docs pills
is needed to send dying man ten
minutes later into tht ring against
Jack Johnson for an even money
fight.
| TT 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon
, they were taking the Giants measure
for their shrouds; silent friends stood
by. waiting for the last faint gurgle,
and then-somebody thought about II
in time and in in rushed old Doc and
his pills. That was only twenty
hours ago. and yet here are the same
| Giants today. out there fighting again
for the championship OF the world.
/, They absorbed just one of Docs pills.
gulped IT down. threw off their wind
ing sheets and five minutes Nta
We're chasing Coombs and Plank up
the bleak and barren kopie of de-
feat.
In the ninth round. Crandall stood
alone between the Giants and defeat
between Mack men and world
championship with 10000 extra
pieces of kale on he side. But Gran
dali was enough. aided and abetted
by Josh Devore and j. Lawrence
Doyle.
All OF which goes to show that you
can never tell until the box score ar
rives with the complete details
Through eight rounds I'm this fifth
game the Giants were whipped. old
ting had stopped them with another
four base wallop. Mathewson and
Marquard had faded But with Ames
pitching brilliantly McGraw's men
had nursed the ashes OF championship
hope back to II glow and this hope
crimsoned to a flame when Fletcher
Crandall and Devore whaled I'm the
two runs needed to tie, and Doyle's
double led to victory in the tenth.
II McGraw plays hunch, or trails
with the dope, he will call upon Ames
Crandall, or White today. His stars
have drawn their chance and however
well they worked. have failed. Vran-
dali and Ames loomed stoutly yester-
day and Hooks Whitse Is I'm shape
Ames worked four rounds and Gram
dall three, so neither is out of gear
The job OF making his final pick
from this trio Is a rough one and he
VIII probably warm up all three be-
fore announcing his choice.
OF the lot, Red Ames looks To have
more than any other as his sweeping
curve had Collins and Baker wrap
ing 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 balldoms history. one was Old
rings home run, which scored three
men i'm the third another was Gran
dall's long two-base hit in the ninth.
which sent Fletcher home and paved
the way for Devore's timely drive,
tying Ii up. But the two greatest
were the great nerve and gameness
shown by Larry Doyle after his costly
misplay and the final awakening of
| 1i"iAA i''ANiSf Wllbs liIouEH SpltntSS
at the ticket speculation and ticket
handling, had refused to stand back
of their club. But yesterday I'm the
seventh round they broke loose and
from that point on Jack Coombs be-
gan to fade and falter and lose his
stride.
These cheers came as one final call
for help-one last stand against de-
feat and they worked with wonderful
effect. They continued even through
the eighth and into the ninth when
the Mack men were leading three to
one with Fletcher on second, two out
and Crandall up. Coombs was ever
nearer the victory than aMthewsor
was when Baker stopped him, for he
had two-run lead and but one mar
to retire, while in that other game
Matty had but a one-run lead will
two men to set down. But when OLD
Doc whaled the smashing drive ia,
beyond Oldring and Murphy, II wa,
good night for Johnny Coombs ana
, his Colby cultured curves.
ii This long drive turned uuicl
, finish into another hard champion
ship fight while netting $4,000
: more at least for the two club own
ers. Forty thousand dollars a hit-n,
9 wonder they are scarce just now.
oil lf the one man was to be picked
from the Giant array as the leadin,
light the allotment would fall to Lar
ny Doyle. He had made one mispla,
In twenty-four chances. but that on,
misplay had cost three runs and an
parenty the final game. Yet agains
! this, II was Doyle who rallied an,
led his team both ways out of tn,
rest of the trail--fielding steadily an,
hitting safely all four times at ba
after the miscue, In place of break
ing, as the average athlete woul,
. have done. Doyle fought all the hard
4 er and planted the final double in Tn
a tenth which turned into the winnint
run when Snodgrass bunted TO thir,
and Merkle flied far TO Murphy Il
right.
3 nhis fifth battle marked the frs