The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-17
John Franklin Baker Poles Home Run Which Wins
 the Game VANGUARD NEARLY
 HAS A BLOW-UP Total Attendance 26,2S6, Paid Ad- mittance $42,962.50, National Commission Gets $4,296.25,
 Each Club S15, ,466.33

phuadelnhia. october 16.-When Joh Franklin Baker, third baseman, pole . home run over the right field wa at Shibe park, scoring Eddie Colhn ahead of him today. he put the Phil adelphia Athletics on an even footin with the New York Giants and tn two teams will now getto New Tor for the third game tomorrow in In series for the worlds baseball cham pionship. Score:
 Philadelphia, 3.
 New York, 1.
 The paid attendance was 26,2S6
 The big hit came in the sixth in ming with two out and when the heht ing Athletics had touched up Pltche Narouard of the National league cham nions for only three hits Baker smash was the last in the game To- the American leaguers, but 1t wal enough.
 Inst as important as Baker was oI the offensive was Eddie Plank, the stal left handed pitcher of the House ol Mack on the defensive. The veteran southpaw never pitched a better game in his long career. Only one or the Giants reached second base and thai was Herzog, who made that bag on long hit to center field, which Oldrins either misiudged or lost in the sun.
 Plank Never in Trouble
 Plank was never in trouble and il the last six innings New York wen' out in order,
 Narouard, on whom Manager Mc- Graw had pinned his faith to make II two straight victories for New York pitched a game that was almost the eoual of that of Plank. He allowed the heavy hitting Philadelphia team but four hits, two in the first inning in which the Quakers got their nrs' run with the help of wild pitch ano two in the sixth, on Collins double and Bakers hit out of the grounds.
 In the eigth inning McGraw changed pitchers, sending in Crardall, righ' handler. The New York left handler only once during the game showed any unsteadiness and that was in the frs inning. He appeared to be nervous an' for a time had trouble reading Meyer signals It looked as though he woul' "blow up" and Manager McGraw nc doubt thought so, too, for he lmmeol' ately sent Crandall down the side line to warm up. Marquard, however, un- der the steady coaching of his Indian catcher, soon settled down and he had no more trouble until Baker broke up the game in the sixth inning.
 Marquard was hit harder than the score indicates. Five of the outs were long flies to Devore and one long fly went to Snodgrass.
 New York sent only three flies to the outfield, two of which were captured by Lord and one by Oldring. Plank had eight strikeouts, Devore falling a victim to the cross fire delivery of the Phila- delphian four times while Marquard struck out twice and Snodgrass and Mur- ray each once. +t
 Six of the Athletics went out by the strikeout route. They were Lord twice, Baker, Murphy and Plank twice.
 Maruuard got four of these and Gran call two, Lord and Plank in the closing inring.
 Both Steady
 Neither Plank nor Marquard gave a tase on balls. The only misplay charged against them was Marquards wild heavt in the first inning and a man hit by g pitched ball by Plank. The Athletic: went out in order in five innings.
 New York's only run was put across the plate by the last half of the batting order It came in the second inning Herzog drove a fly to center which Old ring failed to get and the New Yorker pulled up at second. He went to thirC on Fletcher's infied out, and raced ovel the plate when Meyers hit a single tt left.
 Philadelphia's first run came in tn, opening inning. Lord. first man up singled to right and reached second oI Murray's tumble. He was sacrificed t' third by Oldring and came home on Mar quard's wild pitch.
 Fielding honors were the reverse o these of Saturday. The particular fea ture was Lords quick fielding of Snod grass long hit, and his rifle shot throy 10 second which caught the fleet foote centerfielder by couple of yards tryin to stretch the long single into double
 Collins Redeems Himself
 In the ninth inning Collins made pretty play in accepting a nasty bounde from the side and tossing out Murray ending the game.
 Philadelphia went through the gam without a miscue while the Giants ha three errors charged against them. Thes were made by Devore who muffed Bal rvs long fly, Murray's tumble of Lord smash and muffed foul fly sent up b Lord. Of these only Murray's figured the runs. Collins, whose error on Satul day proved so costly to Philadelphi; played a steady game today, acceptin his six chances with apparent ease. H had two of the four hits off Marquar
 The great pitching of both Marquar and Plank gave the fielders few chance for sensational work.
 Neither team was given much oppo tunity to show their speed on the base No one stole base. Merkle who was first in the seventh inning made a fal attempt to go down and took too much lead off the bag. Plank turned il stantly and by lightning throw to Day