Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-10-16

AblAh btNNNth lht 1 Illlhttlpllld ANI-
cites and the worlds championship in
baseball tonight, for the Mack men de-
fcated the New York Giants at Shibe
Park this afternoon, 6 to 5, in the fourth
game of the titular series. Before the
contest was clinched, however, 2O,OO)
quaker City fans suffered a period Of
anxious suspense that will keep the
Giants 18th hour batting rally green in
their memory for some seasons to come.
The courageous effort of the National
League players to overtake their rivals
In the closing innings changed the entire
complexion of the battle, lifting what
appeared to be "A onc-sided match Into
a contest that hung in the balance until
the last put-out.
Demaree received a warm welcome at
the start, but it was not until the second
Inning that the first Athletic crossed the
plate. McInnis opened with a Texas
Lacquer that Snodgrass could not quite
reach. Strunk sacrificed and Barry's
double scored Mclnnis.
The big blow came in the fourth. With
one out Strunk knocked Herzog over
with a smashing single and Barry put
,he runner on third with another, taking
second on Skaters throw to third.
Hchang followed with a vicious liner
past Doyle. scoring Strunk and Barry.
He went to second on the throw to the
plate and to third a moment later on
McLean's passed ball. Schang scored
when Merkle fumbled Bender's ground
er. When the Athletics next came to
bat they faced Marquard and after two
outs had been recorded Strunk walked
on four successive wide ones. Barry's
second double to left put Strunk on third
and Schang promptly singled to center,
scoring both Strunk and Barry. Bender
went out, Marquard to Merkle. and the
Athletics run gathering for the day was
ended.
The desperate, but, as it proved, futile
rally came like a bolt from a clear
sky. Chief Bender. the Chippewa In
dian, master of mysterious curve and
break. had held the Giants unless for
six innings while his team mates by
pile driving hits had scored as many
runs at the expense of Demaree and
Marquard. Already the partisan fans
were e~xulting in the downfall of the NV
York club.
Bender. confident in the big lead Of
his team, was pitching consistent ball
and there was not a danger signal in
sight. suddenly the Giants became
transformed from hitless weaklings to
real giants, who hammered the speed
and slants of the Indian twirler to all
parts of the park. 1t was in the lucky
seventh that the storm burst upon the
astonished Athletics, and before the
aborigine and his fellow players could
recover three Giants had crossed the
plate. The fusillade continued in the next
session when two more scored, and the
team which was but a few moments be-
fore apparently outclassed was batter
ing at the last defenses of the Mack
men. Fred Merkle, whose injured ankle
still caused him to limp perceptibly, was
directly responsible for foiling~the coat
of white wash that Bender was applying
so artistiCally.
With Burns and Murray on second and
third as the result of two singles and a
double steal and two out, Merkle caught
oYe of Bender's low balls on the out
sid corner of the plate and lifted it far
out into left center whore neither Old
ring nor Strunk could quite reach it.
The sphere hit the green turf of Shibe
Park and with a mighty bound hoped
over the fence into the bleachers and
Merkle trotted home after his two team
mates with the third home run of the
series, thus joining Baker and Schang
in the roll of baseball immortals.
Spurred on by Merkle's example Her.
zog, who had not made a hit In the series
to date, opened the eighth with a single,
only to be forced by Doyle who was SINH
larly eliminated by Fletcher. Burns came
through with a double down the third
base line, scoring Fletcher, and Shafer
shot a triple past McInnis's post, tallying
Burns, Murray smashed a screening
drive at Collins, but the Columbia alum
nus managed to hold the ball and throw
the runner out at first.
Although McGraw sent two pinch hit
tiers to bat in the ninth the Giants could
not score, for Bender was now alive to
the danger that heset him and pitched a
ball that fairly whisJled as it broke
across the plate.
It was the narrowest kind Of an oscar pc
and but for the early heavy hitting of
the Athletics and their brilliant defense,
the Giants would now be on even terms
with them, instead of trailing two games
In the rear, The rally has encouraged the
men OF McGraw to believe that they
might vet overtake the flying Athletics,
and they are preparing for a last stand
at the Polo Grounds tomorrow.
However, the Mack men. with three
victories out of four games, are now we'll
vorsed in the ability of the Giants. When
they drove Demarce from the box at the
end of the fourth inning to-day after four
runs were in, 1t marked the passing In
four games OF Marquard, Crandall, Tes-
rcau and Denlar q. Only the veteran
Nathewson, in his wonderful exhibition
of Wednesday when he shut them out,
has been able to hold the American
League pennant winners in check.
1t was n new quartette of hatters who
hombarded Demaree this afternoon and
also gave Marquard in his come back role
n taste of their ability. Whereas in the
first three games, Murphy, Oldrlng, Col
Inns and Baker did the brunt of the stick
work, seven OF the nine hits recorded off
the Giant tWirlcrs to-day were made by
Mclnnis, SL INK, Bar and Schang. This
latter quartette also scored all six runs
credited to the Mack men, OF the other
sluggers. only Oldring was able to hit
safely.
Barry made three in four times at bat.
two of them being doubles. Schang did
even greater execution, getting two hits
and two bases on balls in four times up.
His two hits scored four runs and he
crossed the plate himself with another.
Oldring, who has made a safe hit the first
time up in every game of the series,
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