New-York tribune., 1911-10-26
Baker Not in Evidence.

! Franklin Baker who almost single
handed won three games for the Athletics
with his mighty bat and Eddie Collins.
| vbo has so ably aided and abetted aim
with timely hits. were almost forgotten
YESTERDAY. Neither could find the ball
! Baker also was q bit unsteady in the field,
! as Harry Davis saved him TWO errors on
/ bad throws by sensational pick-ups Col
/ lins did not have much TO do in the field.
and. Furthermore. was credited with an
/ error in the seventh inning which In a
measure was responsible for New York 5
first run.
Only three errors were made. one by
| Doyle, one by Fletcher and one by Collins,
but there was certain amount OF loose
playing mixed up with the many dashing
stops. and throws. The umpires on the
whole did their work well, although the
fans" in the stand did not always agree
with Dineen. who was on the bases. His
| close decisions. however. were about equal
~ distributed in favor of the two teams.
The air was snappy without being cold.
and while the field was bit soft, the con-
/ ditions were as favorable on the whole as
for game in midsummer The huge
stadium was not jammed to its full ca
pacity, but the crowd was wonderful in its
quiet AS well as in its riotous moments
I striking in its dsintegraton as it was
when banked In a complete circle around
the diamond.
! The bleachers were fun except for a few
| seats back OF the fagpOle I'm centre field
| The lower tier Of the grandstand. too, was
packed 20 its capacity, but in the upper
| tier where the seats were 50 each. there
were patches that spelled disaster for some
| ticket speculator The official paid attend
! ance. as previously referred 10. was SO, ,29s
which was some 500 short OF the crowd
| for the opening game. II brought the gross
| figures for the five games up 10 l59, So
which smashes all records Of the past
| even for the seyen-ganIe series In 1903.
Mayor Gsynor Sees Game.
Mayor Gaynor was an interested on
locker. and mis- face showed i.eeE salts
| faction over the well deserved and hardly
earned victory. He sat In the box in the
| lower tier OF the grandstand with Johr
| WhaIen. secretary of the New York club
and so far as could be judged his interest
| did not flag for a moment
John T. Brush did not see his team fight
| its way TO the front. lie was on his way
| 10 Chicago TO consult physician, and his
| automobile was missed in it's usual berth
| just outside the right field foul line. In
! the niche, however, was the Catholic Pro-
| tectory Band, which did its part before the
game 10 entertain the gathering fans"
The crowd began 20 arrive at the grounds
| shortly after ~ o'clock, but the men drifted
| In by tens and twenties, so that Inspecto,
| Sweeny, who was on hand with two hun
| dred uniformed policemen, had absolutely
| no trouble in maintaining order. At l2:3t
| O'Clock the surface cars were stopped al
| 155th street and Eighth avenue 10 unload
| their passengers. and half an hour later
the rush by cars, carriages, automobiles
and elevated trains was at its height. Be
tween 1:30 and o'clock automobiles came
snorting up to the entrance at the rate OF
forty and fifty a minute. The cars werI
parked in vacant lots and on both sides
Of Eighth avenue as far south as 18th
street, making a show in themselves.
The Athletics did not lack for followers.
who made their presence felt, that Is up
20 the ninth inning. II Was noticed, more
over, that the Baker Snodgrass splking IN
cident had been diagnosed carefully by the