Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-25
ATHLETICS WIN
In 4TH CONTEST.
Mathewson is Tanned and
Retires From the Box.


Philadelphia, Oct 25-After a forcet
rest of a week the Philadelphia Ath
letics by superior batting knocked
Christy Matiewson from the box ant
won the fourth game of the 1911
world series. This is the third game
won by the American league cham
pions, and a victory at New York this
afternoon will give them the world
pennant.
After one week of idleness tn,
teams hooked up before another GROVE
that taxed the capacity of the park
to the extent of 24,355 paid admis
sions. A large majority of the spec
tators went wild over the victory OF
the Athletics, which was accomplished
by plucky uphill playing after the
New Workers had started off with a
lead of two runs. These runs were
scored In the first inning when Devore
singled, Doyle lined out a three bag
ger and Snodgrass doomed a sacri
fee fly, solving the Indian Bender
with unexpected success.
The Giants and their followers hop
ed for victory, inasmuch as the mighty
Mathewson announced before the
game that he was feeling in tiptoI
condition. He struck out three meI
in the first inning, and 1t looked as il
he vas In shape to now down Mack's
big hitters to inevitable defeat. Blu
soon the Athletics began to lace tht
ball with tremendous power, some OF
the hits falling In safe places and
others being gathered up in magnif
cent style by the inielders. But Ii
the fourth inning Mathewson met his
Waterloo, 1t mattered not whether hi
pitched In a straight fast ball, a curve
a drop or a fadeaway, the Athletics
hammered him with a viciousness that
easily showed their supremacy will
the bat.
Three men in a row-Frank Baker
Dan Murphy and Harry Davis-linet
out corking two baggers. These crash
ing drives, coupled with an out and
sacrifice fly, yielded three u m anG
proved an advantage that the Giants
never overcame Again In the fifth
inning the terrible Baker walloped an
other double and Collins, who had sin
gled a moment before, ran all the way
to the plate with the fourth run.
Mathews6n gamely stuck to his task
which was a hopeless one, until Man
ager McGraw sent Becker in to bat fol-
him in the eighth inning. Then New
York's famous pitcher drew on a heavy
sweater and took a seat upon the bencl
to ponder over his downfall. In thu
seven innings that he occupied the box
Matthewson was hit ten times, six OF
the drives being for two bases. Ben
der, on the other hand, was In superl
form after the first inning, and witt
mastery support to help him out Of
several tight places he held the New
Yorks in check to the end.
Wiltse pitched the eighth inning fol
the Giants and managed to wiggle ouI
of a tight fix after some bungling worl
infhe field
In the ninth inning Merkle opened
with q long hit into the crowd back OF
light nSius Whl(A J1SAAcd LWO DdSGS
and the Gotham rooters besought the
other Giants to get him home. But the
big fellow was left on third base, as
Bender turned on full steam ano
clinched the game. The result hinged
upon baseball class, and as the game
was played there was no doubt which
team excelled In this respect. The Ath-
letics were confident at all stages OF
the battle. Plank will pitch for them
today, and the Giants undoubtedly will
use Vanguard.
Yesterdays game was the last In
which the players received a share OF
the money. The gate receipts amount
ed to s40,95T; the players share was
s%22,11e78, each clubs share was
S7,3T2.28, while the national commits
sion's rakeoff was $4,095.7 10. The play.
ers' pool resulting from the four games
amounts to $127,91o.61; the winning
team will divide go per cent of this
sum, while the losers take ths halance
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