Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-10-18
BAKER Gets HIS HOME RUN
m CAME IN THE LAST HALF OF
NINTH AND SAVED THE DAY
FOR PHILLIES.
$4,000 watch Them Play
Receipts Almost Large as on First
DaN-Athlttics Now Have Out
OF Games Played.

NEW YORK, oct 17-By the score
of to in eleven innings Of base
bail as sensational as a worlds series
has ever furnished, the Philadelphia
Athletics defeated the New York
Giants here today, and jumped into
lead Of two games to one in the
series for the worlds championship.
The White Elephants" achieved
this feat on their rivals own grounds.
Coombs Wins New Laurcls.
Jack" Coombs, hero of last years
series, earned further laurels today by
letting down the Giants with only
three hits Two OF these came in the
third inning, resulting in a run, and
then Coombs was unsolvabe until the
eleventh, when Herzog sent n rafting
double to the left field fence.
In seven innings the home team
went out in order. Coombs struck
out seven men. Snodgrass, tanning
twice. Herzog Deyore, Doyle, My
crs and Mathewson once each.
The Philadelphia hurler passed four
men but none of these figured in the
scoring. He was strong throughout
and perfectly cool at critical stages.
"Chrlsty" Also Is Good.
Manager McGraw pinned his faith
today on Mathewson, and until the
fatal ninth, "Chrlsty" held the Ath-
letics runless, letting them down with
five hits. He was favored by the
breaks" of the game which enabled
him to pull out of holes in the third
and fifth innings. In the third inn
ing, with Barry on second, after a
single and a steal. Lapp shot liner
directly into Doyle's hands, and Barry
was snuffed out at second. In the
fifth, with Murphy on first, Davis sin
gled, the bail striking Umpire Con-
molly on the leg. Unchecked, the ball
would have gone to center field and
Murphy would have made third at
least.
Then "Christy" Faded.
Mathewson was broken reed when
Baker smashed his solid home run
drive in the ninth, tying the score.
He started in the tenth inning without
difficulty. but the Philadelphians un-
limbered their heavy artillery In the
eleventh and before the cannonading
was over two men had scored.
In six innings the New York pitch
er retired the Athletics in order.
Three Athletics struck out. Oldring
who hit Mathewson for two doubles
last Saturday, tanning twice and Da-
Wis once. Matty pitched a steady
game, giving no bases on balls.
Few Left on Bases.
Philadelphia had six men left on
bases and New York only one. Only
three Giants reached second base, and
two of these scored.
Jack Barry was the particularly
bright fielding star today His most
spectacular play came in the eighth
inning when Fletcher hammered a
hard twisting grounder through the
box, facing the great Mathewson, who
had puzzled them into the loss of
one worlds series and who had start
ed bravely in an attempt to make his
tory repeat itself.
Matty "Tbcre" Often.
Three times in 1905 and once this
wear, the Athletics had fallen victims
to Mathewson's wizardry Today they
finally broke his guard and fell upon
him so heavily in the latter part OF the
tense struggle, that the great boxman
and his mates were swept off their
feet.
They Pounded 10 Victory.
BY the splendid work of Jack
Coombs, the Kennebunk Qron man),
who pitched one of the greatest games
of his career and held New York
runless from the third inning almost
to the games very end. the American
lcaguers pounded their way to victory
They tied the score when Baker. their
brilliant third baseman, who won yes
I, rday's game with home run,
picked out one of Mathewson's WON
dcrs and drove II into the far reaches
of right field stands for home run
i'm the ninth. They won out In the
eleventh on three hits, helped out by
two Giants errors.
The Giants did not give UP without
n struggle and hard one. A double,
followed by an error, gave them a
rup In the last half OF the eleventh.
Rut there were two out when the run
came over and 1t was the Athletics
game when a moment later the only
occupant OF the bases was out In an
attempt to steal second.
Great Game for Excitement.
No game played here within mem
ory has provided so much excitement.
There we're again nearly 10000 rams
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