Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-10-17
ATHLETICS WIN woRID'S
BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
lBy Hal sheridan.l

Eddie Plank won the worlds base
ball championship for Connie Mao> ;
Athletics here today when, in the
nth game OF the series. the Athletics
annexed their fourth victory by a
score OF TO /.
Two lone singles was the gross
hitting effect Of the Giants. Plank
duplicated Mathewson's effort OF the
second game when. like his veteran
contemporary, he weathered every
storm and by q superb illustration
OF all those things which make for
pitching excellence he stood the
Giants on their beam ends.
Plank's southpaw was there forty
ways today and TO the very last he
had the stun to make puny the efforts
OF the Giants batters. No kid pitch
er could have displayed greater stun
in a fresh young arm than was un-
rolled by the Gettysburg battler.
At the conclusion OF the game his
team mates displayed their senti-
ments in the matter by bearing the
veteran twirler from the field on their
shoulders as the other Athletics
worked a revolving wedge through
the throng Of admiration-wrapped
rooters.
Just as certainly as Plank was
there, just as certainly were the
Giant batters not there, and while
the veteran Mathewson pitched the
full nine innings without an earned
run being registered of his delivery,
two fatal errors behind him were
sufficient with the scarce hits he
yielded to give the Athletics the run
needed to cinch the game and the
championship.
In a like manner the lone run re-
gis,ered by the Giants was only made
possible by an addition to the error
column, but in this case the error
was charged to Plank himself. Fol-
lowing their usual ,e,ucs, the Mack
men made a vicious assault In the
early innings and stacked up a lead
against a brilliant finish by Mathew
son. Murphy, the first man up, laced
a single and was forced by Oldring.
Collins singled to left. putting Old
ring to third. Baker flied to Burns
and Oldring scored when Burns
threw high to Mclean. The throw
was In plenty Of time to have nailed
the runner aud only Burns bad peg
made the tally possible.
In the third inning, Doyle's tumble
and Merkle's delay in running down
Murphy, caught off third on Bakers
easy grounder, cost two more runs.
From this point on Matty took the
game away from his support, and
gave his flelders no hard chances TO
handle He worked faultless game
in the six closing rounds, but his bat
ting support was too pitifully weak
against Plank to even up the score,
Plank said this may be the last ball
game he will ever pitch, as he is 40
years old II II is, he can always re-
member II as his greatest game
At the finish the crowd was all
there with the ovation for Plank.
For inning after inning It was OBJ
vious that the veteran had his oppon-
ents curbed and withered The only
question in any mind was whether
his wonderful work could be stretch
ed across the full nine frames
When Doyle's final sticker drop
ped safe in Murphy's mitt. $4,000
pairs Of eyes we're focused upon the
veteran hero OF the day and most
of the $4,000 tried to get into the
swirling mob which swarmed onto the
field to cheer him on his exit.
Today's victory gives Connie Mack
three worlds series in four years
and adds considerably to the dImen-
sions Of his present niche in the
baseball hall of fame.
For the series the Athletics hit
safely forty-six times for 20 runs
The Giants connected with 3S hits
for Is runs.
The official attendance at today's
game was S6,6S2 The receipts we're
s75,676.50.