The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-09

baseball. led the New York Giants TO
victory at Shibe park yesterday when
he shut out the Philadelphia Athletics
to 0 i'll a t%en-inning battle. the Sec
ond game Of the worlds series.
Hero Of a decade of league end
nous veteran rose to the highest pin
nacle of his diamond career by an
exhibition of 'all-round play that
wrung volleys of applause from the
$4,000 Athletic supporters h were
massed in the stands II bleachers
expecting to witness a second triumph
for h standard bearers of the Amer
lean league. Box score experts will
point to their figures to prove that
eleven other Giants were instrumental
in winning the second contest of the
series. but the Philadelphia fans who
filed sadly out of the Athletic park
spoke only of Mathewson.
He Himself Drives in Victory.
For a trile w two hours and
twenty minutes the man. whose
requiem was sung by thousands of
fans after the final game against the
Boston Red Sox in the worlds series
Of 1912. turned back the hard hi.
ting Athletics without a semblance "t
a break. Then when he saw that
his team mates could not wrest vic
tory from Plank. he took his hat and
drove in the run that won the game.
Spurred on by his example the other
Giants added " more to cllnch the
| contest, but they were not needed.
Mathewson was the master to the end.
able to drive the ball outside the dia-
mond in the tenth and final inning,
although 10000 adherents pleaded
for a hit that might start a innin
rally.
In Same Position.
AS a result of Mathewson's proWess
:he Giants ven back to New YORK
=. last night on even terms with the
Athletics and the struggle will be re.
newed at the Polo grounds today II
the weather man SO wills with the
two teams in comparatively the same
position they were before they cross
ed bats for the 1913 tile:
Was Class Baseball.
Regardless of the disappointment
over the outcome Of the game as
viewed from a Philadelphia stand
point, not one of the thousands VINO
witnessed the play regretted the
hours spent in stands or
AS ar: exhibition of class basepai n
sensational play, the game was all
hat an ideal worlds championship
contest should be in fiction or reality.
For nine innings. thu rival CLUBS
battled without advantage, brliliant
fielding and thrilling coupes shutting
out runs that appeared assured: In
she tenth with the shades OF dark
ness settling over the park, the hero
of the game terminated the contest
Just as the dramatist would have
staged the final scene The Athletics
had a chance to win the ninth n
many thought door generalship on
the bench and coaching lines threw
away the n Sppor a tgo, ,na aav ."e
Plank Falters Under Strain,
Both Mathewson and Plank had
twirled a game that was little short
Of wonderful up to this point n
Plank was beginning to falter under
the strain. Their team mates. too
were a-tremble with the responsible
,;e. that each inning was heaping on
their shoulders.
with the Athletics at bat in the last
half Of the ninth and but a solitary
run needed to close the contest.
lStrunk opened with a single past the
second base. Barry bunted toward
the ball up. whirled and threw wild
past Wiltse at first In an attempt TO
catch the Athletics shortstop. The
bali sailed clear to the right field
grand stand, while Strunk and Barry
rushed around the bases. Strunk
was held at third when t ne mao Tome ione
chance for Wiltse and Mathewson
cut down three Athletics in a row
Immediately after by a brilliant ex-
hbiition of Unfolding and then came
the Giants rush to victory. Larry
Mclean, who substituted for Meyers
when the Indian split his finger In
practice. singled to right field in the
tenth inning. Grant ran Tor MIN n
reached second on Wiltse's sacrifice.
Tie Athletics Crash.
Mathewson then clinched the game
with his lean smash TO center on
which Grant scored. Right here the
| Athletics cracked. .Herzog MT ="
Coilins who threw to Barry to catch
Nathewson at second. ApparehtlS
Barry was unable to see the Dalt en-
cent to dodge 1t as 1t fashed Dy oi,
he way to left field. Matnewson anu
Uerzog gained an additional base on
the misplay. Plank hit Doyle, nliA'
the bases. Fletcher followed win a
bounder over Bakers head. scoring
Mathewson and Herzog and the Giants
had two more runs thai were neeoed'
as it ultimately proved, to win the
Teams Evenly Matched. 3,
Aside from the bri]liancy of
Mathewson, the teams were evenly
matched. Plank was not quite as
steady as his rival in the box. giving
two bases on balls and hitting one
batter to Mathewson's solitary pass.
The Giants got seven hits off Plank
ut the Athletics eight from Mathew
sr,u who struck out five batters to
%~iarI,.s SIX. New York had eight lief;
' on bases TO Philadelphia's ten.