Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-10-26
Series NOW Stand 3 TO z
YESTERDAYS PLAY PRODUCED
MORE MYSTERIES THAN ANY
YET PLAYED.
Giants TOOK TO BATTING
Force Game Into Extra Inning by
Ticing the Score In Ninth-Pitch-
crs Are Trounced In General

NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-The Giants
found their bats today, and with but
one game between themselves and
defeat for the worlds championship
won by the score of 4 to 3, in tho
tenth inning of sensational uphill
struggle against the Philadelphia
Athletics, and put themselves again
In the running. Tonight the worlds
series stands:
Philadelphia Americans won 3, lost 1.
New York Nationals won 2, lost 3.
Mack Oyerl0Oks u Bet.
While the Giants won largely by
hard and clean hitting, 1t was declared
tonight by Umpire Klein, the Nation
al league official who worked behind
the plate, that had timely point
been taken by the Athletics on the
last play OF the game, when with two
out. Larry Doyle slid home with tho
final tally, the runner would have
been declared out and the inning
ended with the score still tie, to 3.
Doyle according to Klein, did not
~
needed only protest by the visitors
to nullify the run he was supposed to
have scored. The technical claim
was not made, however. and the
game stands as Giant victory.
Crowd Was Delirious.
Nobody In the stands knew any
thing of this and the edge Of the
crowds enthusiasm was not dulled by
the injection of any technicalities.
Seldom indeed, If even has there
been such a scene of excitement wit
messed on the historical Polo grounds
as during the sensational and winning
rally OF the Giants In the presence of
a crowd of nearly $4,000 persons.
Discouraged by the loss Of three
straight games, with their premier
twirler. Mathewson, twice beaten.
their famous left-hander. Marquard.
for the second time taken out of the
box after home run rap from a Phil
adelphian's bat, and the score 3 to
against them, the New Workers. swung
their bats against "Iron-man" Jack
Coombs curves in the ninth inning to
such effect that two tallies came over,
tieing the score.
Fell on Plank, Too.
Then in their next time up they
started In on Eddie Plank. who had
the Kennebunk star and
scored another run. for well-earned
victory.
New York's hopes had been at
low ebb when the game started with
Marquard and Coombs as the oppos-
ing twirlers, and sank still further, as
with the two men on bases. Rube
Oldring drove the ball into the left
fleld bleachcrs fcr "A home run In the
bird for threc Philadelphia tallies.
c. ombs was his old effective self
the Giants having scored
but solitary run in the lucky" sew
enth up to their final rally. Ames had
relieved Marquard in the fourth and
was pitching scoreless ball, when In
the seventh Crandall was sent in to
bat for him.
The Critical Time Arrives.
The turning point of the struggle
may be reckoned from Crandall's in.
lection into the game. The husky
twirler. after being passed to first
on the seventh inning but without
effect on the score, pitched the Ath-
letics into Mysteries in the eighth,
ninth and tenth, and came to time
with a cracking double with two men
Dut in New York's ninth. His hit
scored Fletcher, who had doubled,
and Devore, another of the days
many heroes lined a safe drive to left
Tor single that brought Crandall
come and tied the score.
The Winning Run u Scored.
The scene of enthusiasm that ac-
this feat of the Giants was
The shouting and
,heerng from the stands merged into
me continuous deafening roar. And
few moments later the final yell of
riumph on the part OF the happy
iome fans, who had seen defeat turn
q victory as Larry Doyle slammed
'orking double to left. advanced to
bird when Plank's efforts TO catch
ID sacrifice. and came home when
derkle doomed fly high to Murphy
or an effective sacrifice.
The life of the game centered In
he third, ninth and tenth innings.
md the pitchers were not so much
he focus of interest as in the pre-
eding contests. After Oldrlng's home
un In the third had showed Manager
.lcGraw that his left-hander was be-
ng gauged effectively by the Ath-
etics. he was obliged to fall back
Ipon his second strong men. Both of
hcse-Ames and Crandall-mors
han came up to expectations. For