Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-09
NATHEWSON'
WORK ABOVE
ALL PRAISE
baseball Fans Of All the World
Must Name Him Hero of
Second Game.
By O. B. Keller.
FITS see-who had the ball?

ETs see-who had the ball?
Oh. yes.
~ For the first game Of the
worlds Series Mr.. ]. Franklin Baker
HAS elected rather unanimously as
hero. As sub-heroes, we had Eddie
Irolips and Chief Bender.
/ The Giants didn't win a single pre-
rnct in the election. Mr.. Richard
FL MARQUIS, in particular, ran very
.roor race. Even his home ward went
Egainst MIN.
But now we come to the Second
Game.
In isn't for this modest little column
to elect any hero for that second
game
Ii isn't for the big writer's up East,
either.
n isn't for any one town or any
one State or any one section.
It's for all the true fans in America
.-tor the baseball followers of the
BE Word-to name the Hero, and
'to uncover their he~ds as they name
bin
Mathewson.
No title, No big type. No ex-
|camation point.
Just Mathewson.
e OR years everybody has known
u that Christy Msthewson was
great pitcher. For wars great
|many people have ? JHeved Mathew
bon was the greatest pitcher.
But until the afternoon of Octobe
b 1913. not one of all the host who
pinned their faith to the heart and
arm Of Mathewson really knew how
great he was.
NJ We had vote in the nomination
\ OF a Sub-Hero No. 1 in the game
yesterday, we would nominate Eddie
Plank II was the grand pitching
n the wonderful old southpaw that
struck the sparks from MathewsOn's
|sOul of steel-that framed the grim
background against which Mathew
sons supreme act was staged.
Hats off to Eddie Plank, too.
THE supreme Act.
Twenty thousand who saw 1t
Igill never forgot It.
We who vera mo- so fortunate must
Imagine II as best we may.
The ninth inning. The score 0 to 0.
|T5e Athletics at bat. The eet-footed
Frrunk on third. Barry on second.
|No one out. One run needed to win
|tae game probably decide the
Worlds Series Of 1918.
Mathewson pitching.
IA 4 ATIIu~VUSNN zt4aht-
VI That was the final answer
Nathewson pitching.
He roar of hostile thousands in
the stands was nothing in the
ears Of Old Master as he faced his
Fiupendous task. No one must hit
he ball beyond that closely drawn
nheld, crouching, waiting, trusting
|dathewson.
The game rode on every pitch.
And every pitch rang true
Lapp's hit rolled straight at Wiltse
-Srrnk slid to certain death at the
Pank's swing turned only a soft
oolndeT's into Wiltse's hands-Barry
was nipped between Mclean and
calm
Mathewson was pitching.
Eddie Murphy, his Irish blood on
lfe' crowded in and dashed at the
Su iade-away-Mathewson took the
es 90 tap and tossed to Wiltse.
Side out. No runs.
Aathewson pitching.
ND the rest of It?
r., What wonder that grand old
Luule Plank yielded at last-what
sonoer that Mathewson himself
IIGnting his splendid rival, should
'' I'VE nome the winning rum
what wonder that Collins broke
.nuer the strain, and the ciinching
Sores came over?
what wonder that the most feared
10 IN oasebal's batting array-Old- |
is og ana Collins and Baker-went
S IN order before the heart and
ia IAN and arm of Mathewson, in the |
S'aho Of the White Elephants2
u CIOBER s. 1918, in the second
,,o game Of the Worlds Series, |
SStayed IN Shibe Park, PHILADELPHIA,
S,iL XIII Mathewson. touched the
'Iun,-"ater mark in baseball pitching. /
ia lls name may stand without a
"ur, above comment. ah0ya praisa