Evening journal., 1913-10-09

Msthswson is now pitching a world
series game with the New York
Giants and Plank Is with the Phila-
delphia Athletics. Mathewson faces
Plank for the second time, and for the
second time Mathewson wins Again
the score Is to 0.
Eight years pass as the third and
final scene Is staged. The Giants OF
1905 are scattered The Mackian ma b
chine of that year has vanished, too
over a forgotten trail. But still
answering at roll-call, Msthewson
faces Plank again. and as the battle
ends those same figures tell the story
without a change through the mazes
Of fourteen seasons. The score Is 3
to 0. It could be nothing else when
the stars of Buckneil and Gettysburg
meet for Fate and had long ago fore
ordained that those figures should be
as immutable as the Code of the
Medes and the Scroll Of the Persians.
Some Pitchingi Quite So.
We have no intention here. beloved
reader, Of turning on the sob stuff for
Mathewson, the veteran. For six or
eight or ten years from now. we cx-
pect to be writing again about what
we are writing today, viz: That Math
ewson looked better than eyer before.
For he is six years younger than
Plank, and n Plank has gone back.
then Col J. ID. Rockefeller hasn't
enough kale left to purchase short
beer. Plank was far better yesterday
than he was In 1905. and Of all the
games we have ever seen Mathewson
pitch this undoubtedly was the
greatest. The day before he had seen
this oloutine Athletic clan tear the
CORY hide off Marquard and Crandall.
And he went to battle in a game
that he had to win to hold his people
in the fight. His main backstop was on
the bench with a split paw; a pitcher
was playing first base and an infield-
er was camped in centerfield. Grant
ed these men all did their part. yet
the effort of working such a game
lineup would have cracked the con-
fidence of almost any other man. But
not Mathewson. For him Il merely
meant more TO do-a tougher fight
meant little harder work-a trifle
more TO do-a tougher fight to face
That Ninth Round.
And no one who saw that ninth
round will ever forget It, After eight
innings in which both pitchers had
destroyed all semblance OF an at
tack. Il looked as II the Mackian ar
tillery had cracked the Giant ram
part Of defense at last. Strunk had
singled, Barry hunted and when
Doyle pegged high and wide. there
were runners on second and third
with none out and but one run need
cd 10 close the gray days work.
II was here that Mathewson rose
above the occasion and It was here
that Professor Mack, in our humble
opinion, blundered Through fine
work by Wiltse al first. Strunk and
Barry we're nailed az the plate as
Lapp and Plank pumpeF short drives
towards first And then Murphy
closed the rally with an easy poke
TO the box.
Second Sight.
Second sight in any affair is OF con
siderably more use than the frst
guess. II Plank had pumped a fly to-
the outfeld. nothing would have
been said But after Lapp had failed
with a runner on thi j and hut one
out. the logic of the situation was
that Mack in such case. should
rally his strongest attack and rush
il TO the front He then had Murphy
and Schans. under cover and both
can hit the ball. Here was the place
for one last desperate charge with
the heaviest guns left in camp But
Connie elected to play things safe
lot Plank 20 TO bat and what might