The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-05
HOME-RUN'

cess against such great pitcbin1 a. bo
oecn SHOWN BY Mathewson and Mar.
quard oo2lng on into boundless SPACE
eanle Inc potent factor that was 90
and turn what had seemed "a ba Ger.
tain defeat for his comrades into plor.
lous. victory. n victory all tbe more
glorious because IL had been yanked
from Inc very Jaw Of disasfer-one
John franklin Baker.
/, WIN TWO out in the sixth inning Of
TINS second game and a teammate roost.
inI on second base. The first Phila.
deipnlan who had reached that station
since the first inning, Baker started the
Work mat was TO cmblazon his name
throughout the Baseball world by club
ping one of Marquard g fast ones over
tne long right field wall for a home run
scoring his teammate ahead of him and
winning the first victory of the series
LOT MS team by the score of to l.
Put tne great Mathewson was to re
peat WITH full two days rest, and in
tne thlrd game at the Polo grounds in
New York he showed his ability to do
tbs effectively by holding the Phila-
delphldns scoreless for eight innings
and had has second victory of the series
WITHIN his grasp by q l to O score,
with one man down in the ninth, when
again came this New York Nemesis.
:Iohn Franklin Baker. into the fracas
Wlth one down in the ninth inning.
nobody on the bases. and but two more
men to be retired to bring victory 10
the .1ant standard, Baker mauled one
OF Mathewson IS mystifying curves on
a fearful drive into the midst of the
rlent neld stands for home run and
tied the score. in addition 10 which this
unexpected wallop so upset the great
Mathewson that Bakers teammates
caught him off his balance and battcd
out their second victory of the series in
the eleventh inning Not satisfied with
the havoc he had already created. it
was again Baker who contributed
torrld base hit to the accumulation OF
the runs necessary to win in the elcv-
enth, and 1t was the same Baker who
scored the winning run
Matty's Nemesis Again.
Following six days' rest. caused by
the rain that interrupted the series,
Mathewson again attempted 10 repeat in
The fourth game Of the championship
rumpus. and again started of so efrec-
tivelv against the Philadelphians that
he held them scoreless for three innings.
with his team holding a two-run lead
until Baker came to bat in the fourth
inning. Baker then opened an assault
on Mathewson with \ two-base hit that
resulted IN the ''poerless pitcher 81
downfall. and it was Baker who drove
in another run needed TO clincb the
third victory for the Pbiladelphians
with torrid two base drive in the
fifth inning. On Baker s third appear
ance at the bat in this game the great
Mathewson had TO acknowledge his in
ability TO solve this uncanny mauler and
wrecker OF his hopes by purposely Civ
ing him \ base on balls.
The heavy artillery work of this
=" MARYLAND Msuler' practically put
New York g ''two best bets Mathew
SON and Marqusrd, out Of business for
the series, and Grabbed the best acts of
tho McGraw troupe. With Baker CHM
mated from the series. the Giants
would have won three straight victories
for a getaway and probably grabbed
the supreme honors of the baseball