Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-08
NATHEWSON'
WORK ABOVE
ALL RAISE
Baseball Fans of All the World
Must Name Him Hero of
Second Game.
By O. B. Keller.
ET's see-who had the ball?
nh yeS

I TT'S see-Who had the ball?
Oh, yes.
- For the first game of the
Worlds Series Mr. ]. Franklin Baker
|vss elected rather unanimously as
hero. As sub heroes, we had Eddie
E,ollins and Chief Bender.
The Giants didn't win a single pre-
rnct in the election. Mr.. Richard
e Marquis, in particular, ran a very
|roor race. Even his home ward went
against him
But now we come to the Second
Game
! 7 isn't for this modest little column
to elect any hero for that second
game
1t isn't for the big writer's up East,
'either.
1t isn't for any one town or any
kne State, or any one section.
It's for all the true fans in America
LLfor the baseball followers of the
'Big World-tO name the Hero, and
~ uncover their heads as they name
him.
Mathewson.
No title. No big type. No ex-
kamation point.
Just Mathewson.
h OR years everybody has known
that Christy Mathewson was
kreat ritchF For years a great
many people have believed Mathew
kor was the greatest pitcher.
\ Put until the afternoon of October
4 19rS not one of all the host who
+ 7nad their faith to the heart and
4 nm Of Mathewson really knew how
kra2t he was.
We had a vote in the nomination
Of Sub Hero No. in the game
orday. we would nominate Eddie
Plank. It was the Grand pitching
4 The wonderful cid southpaw that
#'r1cE the sparks from Mathewson's
toa Of stecl-that framed the grim
K Background aga INST which Mathew
*ors supreme act was staged.
Hats off to Eddie Plank, too.
THE supreme Act.
Twenty thousand who saw it
a il. never forget it.
We who were not so fortunate must
tn9gine It as best we may.
The ninth inning. The score o to 0
q Athletics at bat. The fleet footed
Il 11nk on third. Barry on second
r. enc out. one run needed TO win
T. game - PROBABLY decide the
&'r"lds Series Of 1913.
n Natnewson pitching.
M ATHEWSON pitching.
That was the final answer
= Nathewson pitching.
He roar of hostile thousands in
the stands was nothing in the
"A rs of Old Master as ne faced his
4 u7endouS task. No one must hit
2 ball beyond that closely drawn
IA Fed, crouching, waiting, trusting
BatheWson.
The game rode on every pitch.
And every pitch rang true
lapp's bunt rolled straight al
81 latneWson-Strunk slid to certain
'feath at the plate.
PIankS swing turned only a soft
FOUNDERS into Wiltse's handS-Barry
ierzOg.
The infeld settled back in a vast
n Palm
sun was pllCIiiIS.
Edule Murphy his Irish blood on
~ crowded in and dashed at the
Iade- away-Mathewson took the
feoie tap and tossed to Wiltse.
side out. No runs.
MatheWson pitching
Nd the rest of it?
What wonder that grand old
uale Plank yielded at last-what
under that Mathewson himself
GHung his splendid rival, should
W., W., nome the winning run?
what wonder that Collins broke
nuer the strain, and the cIinching
ores came over?
nat wonder that the most feared
~ IN DasebalPs batting array-Old-
s ana Collins and Baker-went
Th IN order before the heart and
an ana arm of Mathewson, in the
. stand of the White Elephants?
a NIOBER 8, 1918, in the second
game of the Worlds Series,
ayea in Shibe Park, Philadelphia,
t.Sl} Mathewson. touched the
Il 1y water mark in baseball pitching.
Ia S name may stand without a
", above comment; above praise