The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-09
MATHEWSON WINS
GREATEST GAME
Of HISCAREER
Pitches Giants To Victory in 10
Inning Contest
HIS BATTING A FEATURE
Timely Hit in Extra Period Drove
in the Run That Won for New
York.
HIS 3 BATTING A FEATURE

Philadelphia, Oct. S.-Christy Ma
thewson, master manipulation OF the
baseball, led the New York Giants
to victory at Shibe park today when
he shut out the Philadelphia Athle-
ties in a l0-inning battle by to 0
score in the second game of the
worlds series.
Hero of a decade of league and
worlds championship play, the IA
nous veteran rose TO the highest.
pinnacle of his diamond career by an
exhibition of all round play that evok
ed volleys of applause from the 20,
600 Athletics supporters who were
massed in the stands and bleachers
expecting to witness a second tri-
umph for the standard bearers or
the American league.
Box score experts will point to
their figures to prove that IL other
Giants were instrumental in winning
the second contest of the series. but
the Philadelphia fans who filed sad
ly out of the Athletics ball park
spoke only of Mathewson.
For trifle over two hours and 20
minutes the man, whose requiem was
sung by thousands of fans after the
final game against the Boston Red
Sox in the worlds series of 1912,
turned back the hard hitting Athle-
tics without a semblance of break.
Then when he saw that his team
mates could not wrest victory from
Plank he took his bat and drove in
the run that won the game.
Spured on by his example, the 9th
er Giants added two more runs to
clinch the contest, but they were not
needed.
Mathewson was the master pitcher
to the end, Oldring, Collins and Bak-
Ell being unable to drive the ball out
side the diamond in the 10th and f.
nal inning, although 10000 adherents
pleaded for a hit that might start a
winning rally.
AS result of Mathewson's Prov
ess, the Giants went back to New
York tonight on even terms with the
Athletics and the struggle will be re-
newed at the Polo grounds tomorrow
if the weather man so wills, with the
two teamsein comparatively the same
position they were before they cross
ed bats for the 1913 title.
Regardless of the disappointment
over the outcome of the game, as
viewed from a Philadelphia stand
point, not single one of the thou
sands of spectators who witnessed
the play regretted the hours spent in
| stands o. bleachers. AS an exhibition
of high class baseball and sensation
al play the game was all that an ide-
al worlds championship contest
| should be, in fiction or reality.
For nine innings the rival clubs
\ battled without advantage, brilliant
fielding characterized the entire
game. In the 10th with the shades
of darkness settling over the park,
the hero of the game terminated the
contest just as the dramatist would
have staged the final scene.
The Athletics had a chance to win
in the ninth and many thought poor
generalship on the bench and coach.
ing lines threw away the one oppor.
tunity that the fortunes of baseball
cast their way.
Both Mathewson and Plank had
twirled game that was little short
! Of wonderful up to this point and
Plank was beginning to falter under
the strain. Their teammates. too
were atremble with the responsible
ties that each inning was heaping or
their shoulders.
With the Athletics at bat in the
last half OF the ninth and but a soil
tary run needed to close the contest
Strunk opened with a single past sec
ond. Barry hunted toward Larry boy
lie who ran in and scooped the bal
up. whirled and threw wildly pas
Wiltse at first in an attempt TO catcl
the Athletics shortstop. The bal
sailed clear TO the right field grand
stand, while Strunk and Barry rush
ed around the bases. Strunk wa
held at third when he had ample
time to score.
IL was the Athletics lone chance
for Wiltse and Mathewson cut dow
three Athletics in a row immediate
~ after by a brilliant exhibition o
Unfolding Then came the Giant
rush to victory.
Larry Mclean. who substituted 10
Meyers. when the Indian split hi
finger in practice. singled to righr
field in the 10Th inning. Grant IA
| / for him and reached second on VII
SEES sacrifice. Mathewson then cline
ed the game with his clean smash I
center on which Grant scored.
Right here the Athletics cracke,
! HerzOg hit to Collins who threw [
Barry to catch Maihewson az secon,
Apparently. Barry was unable TO Sc
the ball except 20 dodge il as % fiasl
cd by on the way TO left field. VI
thewsOn and Herzog gained an a
ditiOnal base on the play. Plank h
! Doyle, filling the bases. Fletcher e