The Washington herald., 1911-10-26


Merkle was hit by a pitched ball. With
Herzog up, the crowd yelled desperately
for a home run to tie the score, but
feeble foul fiy made the third out, and
the Athletic rOoters breathed easier.
Red Ames used a curve ball entirely.
and for two innings had the Athletics at
his mercy.
Jack Coombs famed eight of the Giants
during the first five innings.
big brass band on the field added to
interest. and while there were many
vacant seats. the crowd was enthusiastic,
noisy, and full OF pep"
Rube Oldring was born in Harlem, two
blocks from where the ball was hit that
broke up the game.
Jack Barry made the second clean hit
of Ames. a single to right field in the
seventh, and followed this up with a
beautiful steal of second. but Jack never
reached third. as Lapp famed and
Coombs popped weakly to Fletcher.
The New York crowd let out an awful
roar when the so-called lucky seventh
opened with Merkle drawing base on
balls. Pandemonium reigned when Her
zog hit sharp grounder to Barry and
Merkle was safe at second: but the
racket soon died out, despite the fact
that the Giants scored a run.
Crandall was in the box when the
Athletics eighth opened. and although
Lord flied out to SnOdgrass, Oldring
singled through Fletcher. and a passed
ball sent Rube to second, but Baker
could not score him.
Harry Davis made the prize play Of
the game when he reached over and
scooped up Bakers bad throw OF Mer-
kle's grOunder in the eighth
Barry tried to steal on Meyers in the
Athletics ninth. and although Crandall
served the Indian a low one Jack was
caught by an eyelash.
Strunk was sent in to run for Coombs
in the tenth. and Lord made the crowd
sit up and look pop-eyed by driving one
of CrandaIrs shoots into the left field
stands; the ball was foul by less than
three feet.
Umpire Bill Dineen gave two awfully
close decisions at first and second, but
neither figured in the scoring.
The scene at the Polo grounds when
Doyle scampered home with the winning
run will live for years IN the memory
Of those who were at the game.
II would not be a bad idea for Manager
McGraw to repeat to-day with red
haired boy named Leon II he Ames to
win the series.
II Capt. Larry Doyle lost any
friends when he allowed himself to be
dubbed up in Tuesdays game, he can
again count them among his earnest sup
pOrters. for the way he did wallOp that
old SpaldinE Yesterday was enough to
cause all past shortcomings to fade
completely away. The baseball fan is
tickle, you know.
It's a funny old game after all
Christy Mathewson, the pride of all
New Workers., may yet be the real hero
of the present worlds series. In his
last two starts he had been hit at fire.
quent intervals, and hit hard, too, by the
ITlDe OF Mack, ana many are OIL lne
opinion that he is through for the pres
ent season. But listen, you fans II by
any chance McGraw should present a
twirler who would pitch an air-tight
game to-day and win. II would be a
problem for sober thought as TO who
would be intrusted with pitching the all
important decisive contest on Friday;
and does any one believe that it would
be other than Christy. who is eager and
willing, to disprove the seeming fact
that the Athletic batters are his masters.
II the Giants are successful to-day you
can look for Matty in the center of the
stage when the ump calls play for the
seventh game, and those who are fortu-
nate enough to be present will witness
the performance of one OF the greatest
expOnents of the pitching art endeavOr
ing to uphold a reputation which, to say
the least. has suffered to a marked de-
gree since the conclusion of his second
start in the present series.