Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-26
BY J. ED GRILLo,
Special Dispatch to The Star.

1 Special Dispatch to The Star.
! NEW YORK. October 26.-Had Ira
/ Thomas been catching yesterdays game
| the chances are that it would not have
ended when il did. Larry Doyle. who Is
| credited with scoring the winning run
/ in the tenth inning. really never scored at
! all. because he did not touch home plate.
fact which Lapp overlooked Umpire
\ KLEIN stood behind the plate fully two
| minutes after the game was apparently
over, waiting for some one OF the Ath-
| letic players to make an appeal, nut
Lapp thinking the game had been lost.
/ picked up his mask and started for the
| players bench and the other members
of the team followed him. Then only
did KLEIN consider the game ended.
Doyle realized that he had not touched
! the plate and started back to do so, but,
realizing that Lapp was not aware OF
the fact. stood few feet off and watched
! the proceedings. for fear that he would
tip off his hand. He has not touched IT
yet. Umpire KLEIN admitted after the
game that he saw Doyle fail to toucn
the plate. but as the rules provide that
the players must appeal in such case ne
stood still after the game was apparently
over and waited for the Athletics to take
some action, which they failed to do
1t Is perhaps the IlTst Title III tiic mo
tory of the game that a contest or Sucn
Importance has been lost under such CIR
cumstances. Doyle slid home after MUIR
ply caught Merkle's fly. but he fairly
bounded over the plate, realized That ne
had not scored the run and started TO
come back to do so. but when he saw
that Lapp was not aware OF the error ne
very wisely did not make any furtner
attempt. President Lynch of the Ma
tional League, to whom Umpire Klein re-
u he
noticed the fact that Doyle did not touch
the plate.
Lapp. who is none too well experienced.
overlooked play which might have won
the game for his team. and 1t Is a safe
guess that Ira Thomas would not nave
made the same mistake.
The other members of the Athletic team
We're not In a position to see Wnether
Doyle touched the plate or not, but II
any one of them had stopped to think
that Umpire KLEIN would not have stood
behind the plate when the game was ap-
parently over without having reason
for so doing they might have caileo
Lapp's attention to the fact. and mad MN
touch Doyle. which would have been the
second out in the inning, and the chances
for scoring would have been decidedly
slim. -
1t may seem bit far-fetched to criti-
else man universally recognized as one
of the greatest managers base bal mas
ever produced, and yet there is no ooupt
that Connie Mack was guilty or a grave
error in yesterdays game. or the chances
are that the game would nave endeo
at the end of the ninth with the score OF
3 to . in favor of the Athletics.
When, with two out, run over the
plate and Crandall at second. he allowed
Coombs to finish the inning. he did not
give the situation thought, or he would
have sent Plank in to finish the game.
To begin with. he had Plank warmed up
and ready to go in the following inning
if anything happened to tie the score
That being the case, the logical thing to
do was to let Plank pitch to Devore. be-
cause Plank had famed him four times
in the game at Philadelphia Monday
week ago. The chance of Devore max ng
a base hit off Plank, and 1t took a base
hit to tie the score. was decidedly less
than 1t was with Combs, right-hander.
pitching Mack's failure to take advan-
tage of the situation cost him the game
One of the rules of the worlds series
provides that whenever it is necessary
to play the sixth game the man.
ayers of the two contending teams toss
a coin to decide where the deciding game
shall be played. Just before yesterdays
game Chairman Hermann OF the ma
tional commission took Manager Mack
and Manager McGraw to the New York
clubhouse to decide the question. Herr
man tossed the CON and McGraw called
heads and when the quarter was ex-
amined it was found to be as the Giants
manager had called il, which means that
If there is a seventh game to be played
IL will be contested in New York tomor-
row.
McGraw said this morning that he
would pitch Marquard today. Mack is
not apt to work Morgan. so will pitch
Plank.
All calculations and predictions have
once more been upset and the uncertainty
of this game of base ball more firmly
established by the victory of the Giants
yesterday.
When the ninth inning rolled around
this found the Athletics two runs in the
lead. and the end of the series seemed so
close at hand that those who had wagered
with their friends were digging into their
pockets to square accounts. 1t did not
seem possible that anything would hap
victory of the American Leaguers, and
yet before the round was over the score
had been tied and in the next the men Of
McGraw forged to the front and secured
their second victory.
Had ii not been that Connie Mack con-
sidered the feelings of his star pitcher
more than the winning of the game there
would have been no splitting of the beans.
Under the ordinary circumstances Coombs
would have been taken out of the game
in the eighth inning when he sprained
his groin. but as he was willing and
anxious to continue and Mack did not
want to have his record marred by having
been forced to take him out of the game
he was allowed TO remain, and that tells
the story of the Athletics undo!ng.
There was gloom in the Polo Grounds