Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-13
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to prove that baseball is strictly on
the level than anything that has ever
happened in the great national game
Despite the eroakings of the evil
minded, the Giants were beaten on
Saturday and the big series brought
to a close. Although the Athletics
every turn, with their ball team all
well and at its best, and their oppo-
nents suffering from injuries and
thoroughly out of form, the gang of
sure thing players" made haste to
bet on the Giants. They talked so
much and they bet so much that they
attracted much attention, and If the
game had gone their way it would
have been a terrific black eye for
baseball. But it didn't go their way.
The Athletics won, as they should
| have won, and not even the great
Mathewson could stop them. We
picked the Mackmen to win. but we
We're not any more anxious to see
them win than we were to see the
| Giants win. More than anything, we
| would liked to have seen Matty win
on Saturday, but .unalloyed consola-
ton is felt in the fact that in
| Mathewson's defeat the enemies Of
baseball suffered most Yes, we were
pulling for Matty, as were thousands
of the thousands who were at the
game. No other player in the world
is held In such high regard as is
Matty, and the fans, no matter who
their favorite club is, all have ten
der spot and a kind word for the
marvellous pitcher. In victory he is
defeat he is no less the man. To
Mathewson the game of baseball owes
much, but Matty, of course, owes his
all to the game.
AS between the American Leaguers
and the National Leaguers, the Giants
didn't compare with the Athletics. AS
a team the Mackmen outplayed the
McGrawites at every turn. and in no
one position did the Giants have it on
the Athletics. In the pitching depart
ment, where McGraw was supposed
to hold the top hand. Mack came
along with his band of twirlers and
carried off the honors. Even the work
of Mathewson was overshadowed by
the performances of Bender and the
performances of Plank. AS regards
Marquard and Tesreau and Demaree
and Crandall, not a single one of them
was able to do a thing against the
walloping men from Philadelphia.
Mack used only three twirlers in the
series, Bender and Plank, old-timers
and Bush, kid. OF the five games
which these men pitched only one was
lost and that by Plank in an extra
inning battle. The others did every
thing that was asked of them, Bender
winning two, Bush winning one and
final game and outpitching Mathew
son, which gives him added honors.
Any way you might look at the series
or might figure it out to even your
own liking, would not give the Giants
chance. They were beaten four out
of five and 1t was only by the rarest
luck that they were able to win that
one game.
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Connie Mack went into the world s
9erias with a uopdarf,,I tao,, n1l H.
went through the games without
making a single change in his bat
ting order. He played his men
throughout as he started, and he
didn't even use a pinch hitter when
he might have used a pinch hitter
and when everybody said he should
have used a pinch hitter. But no,
Connie wouldn't do it. He allowed
Plank to go to bat in that famous
game in Philadelphia when all the
angles of baseball would have him
take the pitcher out and substitute
one of at least three heavy hitters
he had on the bench. He didn't do
1t, and he eventually lost the game.
Mack doesn't talk much baseball,
either before or after games. He did
say that he felt as IL Plank would be
as likely to make good as anybody
and that he didn't have another
pitcher sufficiently warmed up to take
Plank's place If he was taken out.
Some of the pests" who are always
keen to give any game knock, said
Mack didn't want to win that game.
In the second game in Philadelphia,
which Bender pitched. there was
more talk of Mack wanting to lose
when he allowed the Indian to con-
tinue in the contest after being hit
for five runs in two innings. The
Athletics, however, won that game.
But the game on Saturday was the
last straw. The wiseaores were down
strong on the Giants. They were bet
ting 100 to 80 so often that it made
you dizzy to watch them. And right
over here In Newark, they tell me,
the bankers are ally brokers" to-
day, because they "knew" that the
Giants would win, because the Ath-
letics were going to lose"
C.
The Athletics, on form and what
| they showed they could do, should
have beaten the Giants ten runs to
nothing, more or less, every time the
| teams played. But you can't do that
in baseball, because baseball isn't
| that kind of a game. The better team
| wins the oftener, but the occasions
are numerous when the poorer team
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