Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-08

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With the game all over and plenty
of time given for thought and study
it is safe to venture the opinion that
the Athletics stuck out" as we say,
as the better team. Not that their
work in the first clash was so far and
above the efforts of the Giants, for 1t
wasn't, but here and there, at the bat
and In the field, where comparisons
came up, where the manner of play
and the method of play was in bold
evidence, you couldn't help but see
that to the Mackmen belonged all the
honors, all the bouquets, that are
given on such occasions. At the bat
they hit the ball harder and In the
field there was more life, more snap,
more artistic efforts to their move
ments The Giants did everything
that was asked of them, it is true but
there are several ways of doing
things, and as between the Athletics
way and the Giants way there is
only one choice to make. The Mack
men are smooth individuals and won
derful ball players. Every move Is a
picture, as the Thespian would as
sert. Their work Is nigh perfect
1T Is well done. The class is there
and the execution is there. 1t was
there yesterday-at the bat and in
the field. That's why the boys from
Philly won and not because they so
greatly outplayed the boys from New
York. It is the little touches that
count, and whenever occasion pre-
scented the Athletics were on the job
with the touches. To be funny, for
instance, we can say that Baker
the ball and he in turn him
self touched every base which HAD
been touched and just
ahead of him by his old side pal, one
e. Collins. Then the Philadelphia
players. almost one and all, touched
Baker on the hand or on the back
touched him somewhere-and even the
stern old Connie Mack reached out his
hand as J. Franklin came into the
bench and shook the hand of the boy
told its own story. There were other
touches, of course, when the other
runs came in and when some brill
liant play was completed, but say
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there is not much to choose between
the teams.
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As the game was played, all pre-
vious calculations were more or less
upset. For one thing, the Giants hit
the ball safe oftener than expected.
To hit Chief Bender, the Indian, for
twelve bingles was not expected at
all, for the Giants are noted for their
weakness with the stick, especially
against high-class pitching. Several
Of the hits, of course, were rather
punky and scratchy, but they were
hits as hits go, and years from now
no one will take the time and the
trouble to find out If they were good,
bad or Indifferent. The bad ones
count just as much as the good ones
on the score card and some of them
count even more so on the field of
battle. In all, the McGrawites cor
rallied eleven hits, just the same
number as secured by the Mackmen.
This was entirely out of order, ac-
sording to previous calculations, for
the Giants were looked upon as
pigmies with the bat as compared
TO the mighty men of swat on the
other side of the fence. AS far as
hitting went, the Athletics made
good but they We're expected to make
good: but the Giants, at the bat,
against Bender, did a hang
sight more than we, at least, thought
hey would. They were more danger
ous yesterday than they have been
all season and you could see by the
way they went up to the plate that
all the fear had been drilled out of
them by the great General McGraw,
and confidence had eked in In its
place. Bender, wonderful twirler that
he is, was no more to the gamey
Giants than was the veriest tyro.
He was the eventual winner, but he
was not the master by any means
not the so-muoh-t to- be- feared master
we felt he would be beforehand.
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AS everybody knows. hitting is
going to win the worlds series, and
If the Giants hit as well--and against
weaker pitchers they should even hit
better-as they did against Bender,
their prospects for eventual victory
are not so dim at all. Surely Bender
didn't show the McGraw men any
thing so particularly tantalizing, and
If that is to be taken as a fair, hon.
est sample of their attack in the fu-