The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-10-25

clubs share was S,372 20. while the Ma
tional Commissions rakeof was A.Oa5.'0
The players pool resulting from the four
games amounts to $i27.9i0.6l. The win
ming team will divide 90 per cent. Of this
sum, while the losers take the balance.
MATTi IN 4 BATTING JAM.
Athletics Fight Their way Into Lead and
Win Game.
PHrLAnrLrBIA. Oct. 24.-Christy Math-
ewson was caught in batting Jam this
afternoon in the fourth game Of the
worlds series. and before the Athletics
were through Furnishing his pitching
they had fought their way from behind
60 the front and intrenched themselves
with lead which they never relinauished
All the hnndicraft and generaship which
AIathewson the nonpareil Of the National
League pitchers. could muster could
not hold or stop the heavy batting ord
nance of the worlds champions once
they wheeled it into position. Base hits
short and long bounced of their bats
with ring and a crash.
Mathewson was not batted out OF the
box, for after being hit for safety or
more in every inning Of the first six he
weathered the seventh without being hit
eafely. He was taken out to allow Becker
to bat for him. but had he been effective
the situation which made it advisable
TO put in substitute batter would not
have been created. Mack's savage slug
gers simply solved Mathewson He was
their master at the start and made
an impressive beginning by striking
out three men in the first inning. but
solid hits began TO scour the field in the
second inning and in the fourth the sharp
but hitherto unsuccessful ambasting
which the Athletics were doing eliminated
in a fusilade of two baggers and three
runs for the besieging party.
Chief Bender outpitched the redoubt-
able paleface The Indian allowed fewer
hits and kept them more widely scattered.
The Giants did part in making this
the heaviest batting game OF the four
% far played. getting seven hits. but
compared to the incisive and timely bat
ting of the victors theirs was the minor
part. The Athletics not only played the
better game at the bat and in the field
but won by playing an uphill game. The
Giants opened in manner most encourag
ing. wading into Bender for couple OF
businesslke smashes in the first inning,
but their scoring and effective hitting
ceased. Bender rallied his tagging facul
ties in quick time. and the Giants no longer
able TO shake him wandered through eight
innings Of famine after a start which
pointed to a victory for th0n.
Good Fielding by Athiet ics.
Better fielding was done by the Ameri-
al tn
/ for nothing in the run making There
was snappy work on the left side of the
New York infield and by the whole Ath
letics infield The only Athletics error was
a wide throw by Baker which cost nothing
and the only s!ipups by the Giants OF a sort
70 60 on the records we're tumble and
missed throw by Fletcher and a bad throw
by Mathewson Those who benefited
by the misplays never saw the plate and
it was the cleaner and more frequent
. hitting of the Athletics which decided the
game.
The infield was in pretty good condi-
ton for playing after the weeks interim
. of rain. but the outfeld was ,-oft and out
| there there We're mlSplays that weren 7
errors bu, which would not have oc-
Cured on dry posture. The outiied"r~
; were slow and uncertain in getting after
and under drives The Athletics banged
a quota of simon pure two bsggers to
the suburban precincts but also slapped
, out several that became two baggers
because of the awkwardness of III. New
} York oufelderS in sizing them up and
picking them on, The Philadelphia
outfielders had their troubles on the
slippery turf but We're surer of foot and
lvelier than the New York trio.
Devore and Fletcher each cleaned two
of New York's seven hits. the latter doing
stickwork of which he is capable for the
first time in the series, There was no
, other hitting whom he was wnacking
out his singles. and his clouring was of
no assistance to his team. II was the
slapsticks of Devore. Doyl" and Snod-
grass that provided the Giants with runs
and gave the game a rosy New ork hue
in the first inning. From that on dis
) appointment for the New Workers present
\ and the gradual fading OF the rosy outlook
u a dull drab
j. Franklin Baker helped himself 10 no
more home runs, but he again vas a
behemoth of the locust and his mighty
Uniting had a vital bearing on New York :
tdefeat NIathewson fooled him once. but
never again. There was a pretty due
of wits in the first inning. with Baker up
land Collins on first. and Mathewson won
Sit. He wouldn't give good ones to Baker
Isheared that Samson of his locks by strik
sing him out. but Samson came back
with new capillary supply, both feet and
his Ggnum vita bat. A two bagger by
nhim started the Philadelphia run getting
Il,