Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-17
BY J. ED GRILLO.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK. October 11.-Thc outcome
of this series seems to depend entirely on
Christy Mathewson. If ic can win tive
more games from the Athletics, there is
a good chance for the Giants TO win: if
he fails in either effort there can he but
one outcome. and that will be victory
for the Athletics.
In every important series that the New
York team has ever been in in recent
years it has been up to Mathewson Ito
bring home the bacon and that condi-
ton exists in the present struggle for the
highest base ball honors. Not that Nc
Graw has not other pitchers who need be
considered, but none of them appears to
be as reliable as Mathewson.
No doubt the star of the National
League will make his appearance against
the Athletics for a second time in the
series today. 1t is argued that he will
be even more effective on this occasion
than he was Saturday, because he will
be better acquainted with the weak and
strong points Of the batters. He may
win, i'll fact. for 1t is not likely that he
will be up against such good pitching as
Bender and Plank have shown in their
two games. But Mathewson's work will
not end there. He will be forced to re-
peat perhaps Thursday, and it is natur-
ally doubtful if any pitcher can stand the
strain of three games in six days.
Without Mathewson there would hardly
be a chance for the Giants. He seems to
be their only hope That the Athletics
are the most dangerous hitting team has
already been proven. Mack's lineup pre-
sents seven or eight mighty dangerous
batters Any one of them is apt to break
up ball game.
McGraw has no such lineup. There
fore it would seem that of all of Nc
Craw's pitchers, Mathewson is the one
who stands the best chance to escape
such an end because he works every
batter TO the limit.
There was no complaint to make of
Marquard's pitching Yesterday lie
pitched Il game which would nave been
winner nine times out of ten, but he
made one mistake and that was enough
to beat him. OF course, II Is absurd to
argue that he pitched Baker the wrong
kind OF ball or that he should have
walked him. But, suffice it to say that
whatever he did, it was wrong. for the
game was lost when Baker made that
home-run drive.
1t is no difficult matter to see that it
Baker and taken a chance on Murphy,
but any one at all familiar with Muir
phys ability knows that when II comes
to being dangerous he must not be over
looked. especially against a left-handed
pitcher.
Mathewson because of his wonderful
knowledge of the art and about as fine
an assortment of deceptive deliveries "a
any pitcher can boast Of, stands the bet
ter chance to win, and rest assured that
he will be worked to the limit in this
series to bring about the downfall of
the Athletics II remains only to be
seen if after eleven years of campaign
ing Mathewson Will have stamina enough
TO stand the strain of winning worlds
series single-handed and alone.
When Baker faced Marquard in the
sixth Chief Meyers walked out to- the
pitchers slab and conferred with his
teammate. No one will perhaps ever
know just what was said, but the i'm
preston was created that Meyers dis
cussed the advisability of walking Baker.
This, however, could not have been de-
cided, for Marquard began to work upon
the Athletics great slugger lie had "A
ball and strike him when he sent
over a fast hall on the inside. If there
is anything that Baker can hit. that was
the ball; but, strangely enough, he had
struck him out in the first inning on
just such ball. But whether he anticl-
pated what Marquard was attempting to
do. or whether it just happened that he
caught hold of this ball. is neither here
nor there but the fact remains that the
game was won and lost on that one
pitched ball.
Doc Crandall pitched but one inning in
the game Yesterday. but he struck out
two batters and did not allow a man to
|reach first base. He seemed TO be most