The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-26
BY "TY. COBB.
Copyright. 1911. The Press Publishing
ComDanyl

Copyright 1911. The Press Publishing
Company
New York, N. Y. October 25.-vie.
tory for the Athletics has been de.
ferred. The New York Giants by
to triumph over the Athletics here
this afternoon. after ten innings OF
spectacular baseball. delayed the al
most certain ca pture OF the worlds
championship of 1911 by the American
League team That wonderful really.
OF the Giants in the ninth inning,
when they turned apparent hopeless
defeat into n tie. and then. In tho
tenth. made triumph sure, when DOYLE
crossed the plate. will make baseball
history.
For five innings Jack Coombs pitch
ed wonderful ball for the Athletics,
ana held the Giants absolutely help
less. retiring eight men on strikes.
more than half the number who faced
him. In the sixth and seventh the Iron!
Man" seemed to wayer, apparently f>r-
got that he had a curve ball, and
every one he shot over was fast one.
In the eighth he was also weakening,
and in the ninth the New Workers
broke loose. smashing out hits which
tied the score and made possible the
victory in the tenth.
Determination Won.
The Giants showed. in this game, a
flash of determination, and that de-
termination won for them 1t showed
bulldog quality, and the ability to
night hard In the face of q heart-break-
ing handicap. Manager McGraw made
several changes of pitchers, and in
each case his selection was extremely
good. Ames was very brilliant. Gran
dali confident. and the long hit of the
latter twirler in the ninth started the
Giants on the road to success, and was
in way responsible for the defeat of
the Athletics.
/ have one critics., to make on the
Athletics play. They seemed to be
overconfdent; satisfied with their
score of three runs. They appeared
to take it for granted that coombs
would hold the Giants down. But
after New York had tied 1t up. and
was buoyed up by that determination
to win, 1t was ''all off, with the Mack
men. The American Leaguers had theiI
chance after scoring three runs in the
third. and they seemed not to care
abcaS adding any tallies to the total,
While don't wish to detract anything
from the glory which belongs to Ames,
who stepped into the breach after
"Rube" Marquard had been driven to
the bench and pitched good ball,
will say that the Athletics relied toe
much on CoonIhss effectiveness and
the three-run lead, and took 1t for
granted that the game was won The
American Leaguers should have gone
ahead and tried to pile up more runs.
so as to have cinched the game, which
would have made them worlds cham
pions for the second time in success
sion.
Victory Well Earned.
Now want to add word for the
Giants. They deserve all the credit
which can possibly be given them.
They had all the tough breaks" but
kept right on the job. hustliug every
minute and seemed to have more gin
ger and determination than has been
apparent in the last three games
The feature of this game was the
pitching of Ames and Crandall, the
wonderful batting of Doyle, who made
four hits for a total OF six bases, and
a H. ely home run by oldring. "Rube''
will he denied the glory which right
fully belongs to him, because the Ath-
letics loafed in trying to score runs
afterward. only one man worked the
pitchers in the way that he should fol-
the Athletics. That one was Harry
Davis. the veteran first sacker, and one
of the big heroes of this series. Davis's
fielding has been wonderful and aIbso-
lutely perfect. and his batting the one
connecting link in the Athletics chain
OF successes.
AS have raid before, the work OF
Jack Coombs was wonderful up until
the sixth. but all along after that you
could see the storm signals flying.
Every one who was roofing for the
Philadelphians was hoping that he
would be able to pull through
The work of the catchers to-day wsas
just opposite 10 what 1t ha. been In
the four games played previously. Both
backstops. Lapp and Meyers. seemed
unshie to peg true 10 the second bag
1T must he said however, that The
pitched balls were extremely hard te
shahdle on several occasions.
Athletics Get Breaks.
The Athletics runs were made after
the side should have been retired.
The majority OF the TALES credited