The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17
MATTY IS BROKEN
Tears Streamed Down His
Cheeks as He Lost.
SnOdgraSs' Error Break That
Gave Boston Game.
By r. w. I4ardner.

By r. w. Lardner.
Boston, Oct. 17.-Just after Steve
Yerkes had crossed the plate with the
run that gave Boston's Red Sox the
worlds championship in the tenth in
ming of the deciding game of the
4 greatest series ever played for the big
i title, while the thousands, made tenn
! porarily crazy by triumph entirely
unexpected, yelled. screamed, stamped
! their feet smashed hats and Rugged
| one another, there was seen one of the
! saddest Spectacles in the history of 4
| sport that is a strange and wonderful
| mixture of joy and gloom. 1t was the
| spectacle of an old man, as baseball
| players are reckoned, walking from
| the middle Of the field to the New
York players bench, with bowed head
and dropping shoulders. with the tears
! streaming from his eyes, a man on
whom his teams fortune had been
staked and lost and man who would
3 have proven his clear title to the trust
repoSed in him if his mates had stood
j by him in the supreme test. The man
was Christy Mathewson.
Beaten to 2 by a club he would
| have conquered if he had been given
| the support deserved by his wonderful
pitching, Matty is greater in the eyes
of New Yo-k's public than ever be-
fore. Even the joy mad population
of Boston confesses that his should
have been the victory and his the
praise. The game was over, the title that
! probably will be the last one fought
for by this king of pitchers was lost
and MatheWson. cool and usually I'M
affected by adverse fortune of war,
was a broken man. The majority of
the thousands present were too busy
with their wild celebration to notice
him, but there were a few VINO
watched his slow and sad progress to
the bench and later to the club house
He Shakes OFF His Friends.
Charley Herzog, who certainly can
not be blamed for New York's failure
to win, rushed up to Matty as he stag
gered off the field, threw his arms
around the big pitchers neck and
poured forth words of comfort and
sympathy Mathewson did not seem
to hear them. He shook Herzy off
and had no answer to the condolences
offered by Doyle and McGraw, who
were eager to impress on him that he
was in no way to blame for the de-
feat Matty picked up his sweater
and moved on in silence. Soon he had
disappeared under the stand to JOIN
the other Giants in their dressing
room. TO hear their bitter arraignment
of each other and to be told, time and
again. that he deserved better, a
truth that none knew more positively
than himself.
would be hurt in the rioting of the
crowd if they loitered on the field, had
fastened to their own club house ana
the scene thert was vastly dlneren1
Boston had come from behind
twice. had tied New York's early lead
IN a brilliant seventh inning rally, bad
almost despaired when the Giants
scored again in the tenth and then, to
cap it ALL had not only caught up
once more but had counted a third
rum just enough to settle the question
of supremacy beyond all doubt. what
difference did it make to the Red Six
shat they had been BANKED in their
pant of the tenth and that the WORLDS
title would have belonged in New ork
if Matty's backing hadn't crumbled to
piecesc
When Snodgrass Dropped $500.
The PLAN was theirs and they re-
membered nothing else. They had
been accused of quitting and they had
seen some of their opponents give up
mere bare facedly than they had ever
done. The score was down in black
and white, to 2, in favor of Boston (
and that that was enough to drive
sympathy for Mathewson from their
thoughts. If one hadn't been anxious
TO lake the first train for Chicago, one
might have had very interesting trip
tonight, a journey with the Giants
on their way back to New York. But
on outsider on this trip would have
been risking his life, for McGraw's
men were Just in the mod for man
slar ghter, brutal assault and lots of
other crimes. Fred Snodgrass had no
choice but to accompany his recent
pals. 1t is doubtful whether they are Il
pals now. SnOOSFaSS LlaOe an dWLu1
muff. He dropped a baseball and
about $500 at one and the same
time The rest of the Giants didn't
care about his loss of the difference
between winners and losers share, but
the muff meant just as much to them
as to rim. If he wasn't called some
things it was because his companions
were too mad to talk In the years to
come Fred will be Just famous as
was Mr.. Merlxle in the year 1908.
The fact that he. like Matty, feels
blue over his history making error, is
not going to help him much if he en-
-e1e a popularity contest in Americas
largest city. There is hardly a par
.icie of doubt that Snodgrass' mistake
was directly responsible for the loss of
he game And still, it would not have
oean SO terribly costly if Merkle had
performed his duty in regard to a foul
rom Speakers bat a few moments