The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-10-07
GIANTS AND ATHLETICS HOLD FINAL
PRACTICE BEFORE GREAT BASEBALL D
SERIES FOR WORLDS PENNANT BEGINS
New York Plays Game With
Phillies in Record Time
Snodgrass Out of the Game
For Series

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.---Less than
an hours work. and that time inciud-
cd an exhibition game with the Phil
lies of nine innings, and played in
the hitherto unheard-of time OF 80
minutes, was put in by the Giants to-
day in their final preparation for the
first worlds series game tomorrow.
The Giants rested all morning. nobody
putting IN uniform, and in the at
ternoon went through sharp, brisk
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The last tuning up was taken in
the exhibition game. and the hitting
practice. and the side issues in the
program of field day contests inciden-
tai to the game. The men went about
the brief hour of work prescribed for
them by McGraw with snap and zest.
In all the warm-up stunts they skip
ped and dashed about as II in the best
Of condition. With the exception OF
Snodgrass and possibly Doyle, team
never entered worlds series in bet
ter condition. Doyle played second
today, his batting eve was good and
his arm seemed to he freer than at
any time since he hurt 1t In the auto
mobile accident week before last.
Out for Entire Series.
Snodgrass, however. probably is out
Of the entire series. He wrenched
the charley horse in his leg again to-
day. Before the practice he was con-
fident he would play, but in putting
his leg 10 the speed test he increased
his pace slowly, and was moving all
right until the trouble reasserted IT.
self
In the absence Of Snodgrass. Shafer
will be shifted to center. and Herzog
will take care of third. This is fully
as strong A combination as any Nc
Graw could make.
Asked whether Shafer would be
lead off man today In place of Snod-
grass, McGraw said he had not de-
cided that point. Either Shafer or
Herzog proba bly, will lead off the one
who does not batting fifth. Just be-
low Burns, and McGraw's batting or
der. as was followed out In batting
practice today will be: Shafer or Her
cog. Doyle. Fletcher. Burns. Herzog or
Shafer Murray, Myers. Merkle and
the pitcher.
.Matty or Marquard.
Hearne and Demaree pitched for the
batting practice today. giving their
hatters right and left handed service
To sharpen up upon. McGraw is still
keeping his own counsel as TO what
siahbist he will elect tomorrow, but
the ma ority opinion is that 1t will
be Matty or Marquard. Neither Of
these two or Tesreau did any pitching
-r+.tttt- he first fF3aa-on
the field today, and long before any
body else put in an appearance he had
willing boys pitching TO him.
Ty Cobb was among those who took
IN today's festivities at the Polo
grounds. and he saw Honus Lobert
beat Jim Thorpe in a hundred-yard
dash. The time was announced as
10 2-5 seconds. l4obert won by about
a yard
Honors fell to Thorpe in the fungo
hitting contest. The other swatters
were Marquard, Tesreau. Mayer. Lu
derus and Paskert. Each had three
hiffs. Thorpe got in one tremendous
blow which dropped the ball pro1ec-
tile to the ground 404 feet away. That
was the winning drive.
Base Cirriing Contest
Lohert, Goulait. Stock and Cooper
had a base circlins contest Lobert
running last and fastest. His time
was Is seconds Cooper came next
with Is 2-5 seconds.
Hold the watch on us for this
game" requested Matty, we're going
to try to play It In less than an hour,
ard without trying 10 get put out.
either ] saw q game once played In
less than an hour in which 10 runs
were made
The game consumed Just SO min
utes the Giants winning. to /. No
body was put out on purpose, but
nobody wasted much time at bat.
Everybody hit at anything within
reach and the action was so fast that
the scorers hardly had time to look
up. Il knew man once" said Bill
Klein. who declared he was the fast
est umpire in the world. I guess
that title belongs to Byron and me
now"
The oniookers entered into the
spirit OF the thing and continually
urged the players with wells OF hurry
up"