The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-10-11
THE SAN FRANoIsco GALL. SATURDAY.. OCTOBER Ill 1918
Cripples Beat Us, Says Matty
Breaks in Luck Against Giants

opyrighted, 1913, by the Wheeler Syndicdte.l
pitchers an opportunity to rush
out to left field and begin to
warm up. Bender was fighting
for air Murphy batted the bah
hard at Collins, and the man who
never boots threw out the last
batter of our side. Bender had
been saved.
They won't break for u.s.
said McGraw in the privacy Of
our bench as the let down came
after the inning. "One more blow
and the Indian would have been
gone
Wen get him yet, in the next
inning" said some one.
We didn't. Bender had received
Mack's hypodermic in the mean
time.
l was surprised to see the In
dian start the game. for fully
expected that Mack would again
pin his faith to youngster, hold
ing the edge of one game on the
series, saving Bender for tomor-
row. But he fell gack on his
standby, with only two days rest,
and we thought we could get him
sure, because the club had hit him
so hard at his first start at the
Polo grounds. He looked good
when he started, with lots of
stuff We were playing him to
weaken as he did, but our pitch
ers had not been able to hold the
Athletics so that we could keep
within decent range of them. It
was a lucky thing for the Indian
that he had six runs under him
when he began to go, for he
needed all OF them.
WEAK PITCHING THE CAUSE
The weakness of our pitching
was responsible for the third de-
feat. The Giants pitching staff
has not looked anything like the
performers who worked all
through the season. They have
all been nervous and unsteady
and the team has not played It's
regular game behind them.
On the other hand, the Athletics
are the greatest team l have ever
seen. American leaguers have
told me since the series got un-
der way that they have looked
better against US than they did
& all season in their own league.
They can all go when the stakes
are run high, as has been evil
denced by the fact that a new
hero is developed each day. To-
days heroes were Barry and the
brilliant young catcher, Schang,
who made a great name Tor him-
self in this series.
Barry, who has been hitting
weakly throughout the series up
to today, got three out OF four
and drove in three runs besides
scoring two. Schang got two
other hits In the pinches ana
walked the other two times he
was at bat. Therefore, 1t Is evil
dent that a laurel wreath OF a
different size has to be gotten out
every day to At one OF the Atm
letics. They are money players.
For the first time during the
series our regular lineup, ex-
cepting Meyers. began the game,
with Snodgrass in center Hello.
Merkle on first base and Sha1er
covering third. Both Merkle and
Snodgrass were lame and these
limps cost two runs. AS things
turned out, those two runs were
what we needed more than any
thing else at the end, just to keep
us in the game. On three appar-
ent occasions we missed oppor-
tunities to get these runs. There
were five possible ones. For in
stance. in the fifth inning we had
Murray. who walked, on third,
and Cooper, who was running for
Mclean, on first. Mclean had
singled. Nobody was out, but
Merkle famed. Mccormick went
to bat for Demaree and used bad
Judgment in going after a wide
ball, as he had three balls and
two strikes on him. He lined one
out over Shortstops Barry that
looked safe, as 1t was hit very
hard, but Oldring came In fast
and picked the ball off his shoe
tops. 1t was a magnificent catch.
If that ball had got away it
would have gone for two bases