The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-10-09

| Oldring, Philadelphia :. O. 22j
McInnis, Philadelphia :. 1 1l3
Strunk, Philadelphia -. l 14e
| Burns, New York $3.50. s o 125
f. Murphy, Philadelphia s .l25
| Shafer, New York 10 100
! Bender, Philadelphia -. o o 900
Marquard, New York. o. goo
| wilson, New York 100. O. O $50
Wiltse, New York -. o 200
| Crandall, New York 80. l 0 0 900
Meyers, New York -. 0 900
| Tesreau. New York o 0 900
roof scuttles to the tiers of pine benches,
paying the thrifty householders so cents
| to 81 for the privilege.
In other respects the scenes attendant
| on the gathering of the fans were much
| the same at the opening game in New
York, except upon a smaller scale. Bodies
of men and boys stood all night in the
! drizzle awaiting the opening of the gates
to the bleachers, and long before noon
this section of the stands was crowded to
its utmost capacity. The grandstand seats
| all being reserved, the holders of these
coupons gathered slowly, and it was not
until the second inning that the vacancies
were filled.
| Outside the park thousands stood
| throughout the game, echoing the cheers
| the streets for several squares about the
baseball arena. The spectators were no.
ticeably fair in their treatment of the
players of the two clubs, appla &
| every good play regardless of whether
made by Athletic or Giant Naturally
they rooted hardest for an Athletic VIC
tory, but when h was seen that Mathew
son was invulnerable, the thousands rose
up and cheered the old master in way
that could not have been surpassed even
at the Polo grounds.
Herzog First Batter
After the conferences between umpires
and Manager McGraw and Captain Dan
Murphy were over the Athletics took the
| field and Herzog led off for New York.
After having two balls and strike, Her
zog sent a high fly to Collins and was out
amid the cheers of the crowd. Captain
Doyle drove a fly to Strunk in center
field and Fletcher ended the inning by
| falling a victim to strikes.
The home rooters cheered Eddie Muir
ply as he faced the old. reliable Mathew
son. His first pitch, unusual for him in
| a worlds series game, was a ball. but
| the second was a strike, and then Muir
ply sent a slow grounder to Doyle. The
New York captain, in his anxiety to make
q quick throw to head off the fleet rum
ner let the ball go between his legs and
1
ed for what he wanted and slashed a sin
gle to left field, sending Murphy down to
second base Then Collins did what every
body expected him to do-sacrificed. Snod-
grass to Doyle, advancing both team
! mates. Hit 'er out Baker," shouted the
Athletic rooters as the home run hero
stepped to the plate, picked up some dirt
and rubbed 1t on his hands. Mathewson,
unperturbed, pitched wide out shoot for
Baker to bat at, but the slugger let it go
| by for a ball. The crow shouted, but the
"old master quickly had two strikes on
| him by Baker fouling the ball. On the
next pitch the hard hitting third base
man was out on strikes. You didn't do it
that time" shouted someone from the
stand behind the Giants bench. McIn-
mis- flied to Burns, leaving Murphy and
| Oldring stranded on the bases.
Giants Easy in Second
| Burns was the first man up for New
York in the' second inning, struck out on
| Plank's cross fire balls Shafer hit up a
long fly that fell into Murphy's hands.
and Murray was quickly disposed of by
| Plank, who struck him out. Plank was
| going good, and 1t looked as If the game
would settle down to pitchers battle.
The Athletics did not trouble Mathew
son in the second inning as much as they
did in the first. Strunk shot a grounder
time and tossed the fast center fielder out
nv inches Burns took care of Barry s
high fly and Lapp went out by the strike
out route.
The best that Larry Mclean could do
when he came to bat in the third inning
for New York was to pop up a ny to
| Barry. Snodgrass shot single into left
field and the crowd got its first good idea
of the New Workers. charley horse for
he hobbled slowly to first. With Mathew
son at bat, Plank had little fear of Snod-
era IS trying to steal, even though he took
| a long lead off the base
The Philadelphia battery noticed this
and Plank sent up a very wide outshoot
which Lapp shot to McInnis, but Snod-
grass was easily under the throw. ana
| safe at the bag. Mathewson drove a
| long single to center field and Snodgrass
| ran as fast as he could and just beat the
| throw-in in to third, the Giants pitcher
| going to second on the throw. Wiltse here
replaced the crippled .Snodgrass. Herzog
bounded a grounder to Plank, who caught
Wiltse between third and home and he
| was run down by Lapp who raced almost
| to third to get him. MatheWson moved
up to third on the play and Herzog took
second The Athletics infield played in
| to get the nearest runner, but they did
not have to do this for Doyle flied out to
| Oldring after having three balls and two
/ strikes.
Athletics Quickly Disposed OF
| The American league champions were
quickly disposed of in their half Of the
| third Plank was thrown out, Doyle to
Wiltse. who replaced Snodgrass at first
base. Eddie Murphy changing his style
| of play, stried to get away with a safe
| bunt. but Mathewson fielded the ball in
| fine style and got the runner at first
| Oldring shot fast grounded to Herzog