The Sentinel=record., 1911-10-18
ATHLETICS 3,
 NEW NEW YORK 2
cooMBS AND BAKER RESPONSE. BILE FOR WsToRY OVER GIANTS
 ON HOME GROUNDS.
Mighty Mathewson Weakened Under the Onslaught of Philadelphia Batsmen and Quaker Champ
 ionship Stock Goes Up.

New York. Oct. 17.-By the score of 3 10 In eleven innings or Dase- ball as sensational as a worlds ser ies has ever furnished, the Philadel- phia Athletics defeated the New York Giants here today and jumped into a lead of two games to one in the series for the worlds championship.
 The White Elephants achieved this feat on their rivals own grounds, facing the great Mathewson who had puzzled them into the loss of one game of the wotla's series, and who hac started brayely in an attempt to make history repeat itself.
 Three times in l9O5 and once Tn this year the Athletics had fallen vic- tims to Mathewson's wize wizardy, Today they finally broke through his guard and fell upon him so heavily iii the latter part of the tense strug- g'e that the great boxman and his rates were swep off their feet.
 Backed by the splendid work of Jack Coombs. the Kennebunk Iron Man." who pitched one of the great est games of his career and held New York runless from the third inning almost to the game's very end. the American Leaguers ponnd- ed their way to victory.
 They tied the score when Baker, their brilliant third baseman, who won yesterdays game with a home run, picked out one of Mathewson's blenders and drove it into the far bleaehers of the right field stand TOT a home run in the ninth They won out in the eleventh on three hits, helped out by two Giant errors.
 The Giants did not give up with oHt a struggle and a hard one. 4 double. followed by an error. gave them run in the last half of the eleventh. but there were two out when the run came over and 1t was the Athletics game when moment later the only occupant of the bases was out in an attempt to steal sec ond.
 No game played here within mem ory has provided so much excitement and there were again nearly 10000 fans on hand-the National Commis- sion gave out the official attendance figures as SI216- and inning after inning this great throng was brought to it's feet by sensational fielding pays. exciting batting rallies, or re- markable feats of the rival boxmen.
 Enthusiastic outbursts seemed al most evenly divided When New York forgei ahead in the third the echoes wese awakened by big uproard. But when Baker in the ninqh, prevented what. until then, had looked like sure defeat for his team, by lacing out his homer, the din was deafening. The uproar was renewed when the Phladelpians took their winning lead in the elev- enth.
 The New York fans stood Loyalty by their team up to the last, howev- CT ani never gave up hope until lapp's true throw to Collins for the last out
 Jack copmbs. hero of last years worlds series, earned further laur- els today by letting down the Giants with only three hits. Two of these came in the third inning, resulting Tn run, and then Coombs was un- solvable until the eleventh, when Herzog sent rattling double to the left field fence.
 In seven innings. the home team went out in order. Coombs struck out seven men, Snodgrass tanning twice, Herzog. Deore. Dole, Myers and Matthewson once each.
 The Philadelphia hurler passed four men, but none of these figured in the scoring. He was strong through out and perfectly cool at critical Stages.
 Manager McGraw pinned bis hope today on Matthewson, and ultil tho n fatal ninth Christy held the Aih!et- ics rnnless. letting them down with five hits He WAS favorel by te breaks of the uIe, witch enabled him 10 pull out oi ho es il tic tflTt. and fifth innings h the ialid in-