Evening journal., 1913-10-09

Mathewson is now pitching a world
series game with the New York
Giants and Plank is with the Phila-
delphia Athletics. Mathewson faces
Plank for the second time. and for the
second time Mathewson wins. Again
the score is to 0.
Eight years pass as the third and
final scene is staged. The Giants OF
1905 are scattered. The Mackian ma
chine of that year has vanished too,
over a forgotten trail. But still
answering at roll-call, Mathewson
faces Plank again, and as the battle
ends those same figures tell the story
without a change through the mazes
of fourteen seasons. The score is 3
to 0. It could be nothing else when
the stars of Bucknell and Gettysburg
meet for Fate and had long ago fore
ordained that those figures should be
as immutable as the Code of the
Medes and the Scroll of the Persians.
Some Pitchingg Quite So.
We have no intention here, beloved
reader, of turning on the sob stuff for
Mathewson, the veteran. For six or
eight or ten years from now, we eX-
pect to be writing again about what
we are writing today, viz. That Math-
ewson locked better than ever before.
For he is six years younger than
Plank. and if Plank has gone back,
then Col. ]. D. Rockefeller hasn't
enough kale left to purchase a short
beer. Plank was far better yesterday
than he was in 1905, and of all the
games we have ever seen Mathewson
pitch this undoubtedly was the
greatest. The day before he had seen
this clouting Athletic clan tear the
CORY hide off Marquard and Crandall.
And he went to battle in a game
that he had to win to hold his people
in the fight His main backstop was on
the bench with a split paw a pitcher
was playing first base and an infield-
er was camped in centerfield.- Grant
ed these men all did their part, yet
the effort of working such a game
with so many rents in the original
lineup would have cracked the con.
fidence of almost any other man. But
not Mathewson. For him it, merely
meant more to do-a tougher fight
meant a little harder work-a trifl'
more to do-a tougher fight to face
That Ninth Round.
And no one who saw that ninth
round will ever forget it. After eight
innings in which both pitchers had
destroyed all semblance of an at
tack, it looked as il the. Mackian ar
tillery had cracked the Giant ram
part of defense al last. Strunk had
singled, Barry hunted and when
Doyle pegged high and wide. there
we're runners on second and third
with none out and but one run need
ed to close the gray days work.
IL was here that Mathewson rose
above the occas' on and it was here
that Professor Mack. in our humble
opinion, blundered Through fine
work by Wiltse at first, Strunk and
Barry we're nailed at the plate. as
Lapp and Plank pumpe| short drives
towards first. And then Murphy
closed the rally with an easy poke
to the box
Second Sight.
Second sight in any affair is Of cen.
siderably more use than the first
guess. If Plank had pumped a fly tc
the outheld, nothing would hav,
been said But after Lapp had failet
with a runner on thi j and but ons
out, the logic of the situation wal
that Mack, in such a case shoulC
rally his strongest attack and rush
it to the front. He then had Murphy
and Schang, under cover and botl
can hit the ball. Here was the plac,
for one last desperate charge witt
the heaviest guns left in camp. Blu
Connie elected to play things safe
let Plank so to bat and what Nigh