The San Francisco call., 1913-10-08
PAWN Sill YER
Of FAM|LY
To WAGER
Oh, Yes, These Athletic Fans
Are Excited and Are Will
ing to Risk Coin
By ]. w. MccONAUGHEY

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PHILADELPHIA. Oct. s. With
laughs and jest and snatch of song
or words to that effect-the entire
animated section of the population
of this place headed for a location
known as Shibe park at an uncom-
Portable hour today to see the sec
. end game of the great worlds base
ball championship series between the
Athletics and our well known Giants.
Again were the skies dark after last
nights rain and again was everybody
hoping that the rain would hold OFF
cooler.
The cause of the laughter and the
rejoicing of the populace is not far
to seek. The news of the victory of
the Athletics over the Giants by a
score Of to in yesterdays game
penetrated even to this spot over
night and these people are so
strangely constituted that they think
as much of the Athletics as we do
of the Giants.
Consequently it was figured that a
large number of the citizens Of this
city would attend the obsequies this
afternoon.
Mathewson and Plank were slated
to pitch.
OH, YES: THEY'LL BET
For one thing. practically every
man. woman and child in the city had
the price. Numbers of the best peo-
pie hereabouts got out the silver ware
that came over with William Penn
and the furniture snitched from Lord
Howe's officers, hypothecated ii to the
Plimsoll line and bet the proceeds
on the entire or any part of the said
series
These maddened sports had reached
the stage today where they were will
ing to bet and to l that the Ath-
letics would win the series, and there
were even a few bets at even money
that the Giants would not win an
other game. That's the way they
take their baseball down here.
number of those who remembered
tsat the spirit of rs was distilled
hereabouts took the warpath on a
ticket scandal that promises to stack
up fairly well against our own grow
ing little scandal back home.
GRAND JURY PROBES
Those fans who objected to being
rifed by the ticket spectators were
greatly cheered over the news that
!, Secretary John Foster of the Giants
had ben subpenaed by the New York
county grand jury in criminal in
vestigation. There is now some talk
of similar proceedings here. If any
thing. the work of playing to the
ticket spectators seems to have been
q little more crude than at home.
great little device to pass the
buck to a department store by getting &
the management to announce that all
tickets would be on sale there. and
their passing the said department
store about two dozen. failed to quail
ify as an alibi. due largely to the
fact that the mana cement of the de-
partment store took occasion to ad-
vertise earnestly that they had no
tickets to speak of and could not get
any.
AS IT is. today about three -fourths
of the population is running around
looking for chance to bet on the
Philadelphia team and the other
quarter is equally active for a chance
TO belt the mana cement.
Some of the more reckless boosters
of their native wilds predicted that
the attendance of yesterday at the
Polo grounds would be put in the
shade. This was 36,2s1 paid admis-
sions, which is quite some for one
ball game.
GIANTS CALMLY SERENE
The Giants were on hand early in
the morning and looked very little
damaged. There was an air of calm
serenity about them, in spite of the
Iacing of yesterday. 1t was probably
due to the fact that they had noted
that the players end of the opening
game receipts was $40.637. the total
receipts being s75.753. Like other
litterateurs these days, ball players
are in it mostly for the gate receipts.
Having disposed of this important
item, 1t might be worth while to look
at the artistic side OF yesterdays riot.
Maybe il would be better to look for
the artistic side of IL. As a work of
art, IT left much to be desired-three
runs among other things.
Figuring the future from the past.
one cynic asks to know IL 1t takes
three pitchers to lose a game for the
A;iants, how many will It take to win?
But this is hardly just. 1t isn't as
bad as that.
planations of the Giants defeat as
there are men who have access to the
columns OF the public prints. Shafer' S
miserable work in center field, Home
Run Bakers usual home run in the
pinch, great double play of the $780,
600 infieId that broke up our last
rally, McGraw.s error OF judgment in
not pitching Tesreau instead OF Gran
dali as a relief man in the half dark
ness of the closing innings-these and
plenty more alibis will each commend
itself to the particular mental
twist of each critic. -.
HERES FATAL BLUNDER
our own dope looks to us the best.
We have figured it out to a hair. The
game was lost through an early blum
der In strategy on the part of Nc
Graw. If he had had a few ground
keepers stationed above the little door
in right field, and these men had ac-
curateIy dropped beer keg full of
nails on Mr.. Baker when he emerged
there would have been a different
story.
Leaving this first mistake to one
side there were numbers Of what the
Taw sharps used to call "contributory
eausesv until the higher courts made
them cut it out. The pitching was
responsible for the general character
of the contest. 1t was very much TO
the cotton states league, as the hits
III for each side-bear plentiful
witness. Chief Bender went through
the motions for the whole nine In
,inra and Marquard, CrandaH and
rrasrea11 divided the gloom for our
side. No one of the four pitched any1
thing like worlds championship ball.
with the exception of the big bear
snatcher.