The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-10-11


PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10.-To-
night it looks as if this series of
stories on the worlds series was
nearing its end to everybody ex-
cept the gentlemen of the New
York team. We still believe we
have chance and / have no in
tention of putting ito be con-
cluded" at the end Of this story.
1t has never been my habit to
whine and complain about the
breaks" in baseball, but I want
to say that we lost our opportuni-
ties in that battle today Bad
judgment on the part of New
York players and had breaks" in
the luck beat us and put US SO far
down on the series that nothing
but a determined uphill fight can
get us into the going again. Re-
member, that the Boston Red Sox
had us three to one on the series
last year and we crawled up on
them until it was three and three.
Also bear in mind that the Giants
made an uphill fight today after
they. were six runs behind, and
only missed tying the score by
an eyelash.
Chief" Bender was pressed to
the limit in these last two innings
and in the ninth he was spinning
!, ~
it that he had. He had used bad
judgment In pitching to some of
our batterS in the eighth, so the
Athletics maintained. and his care
lessness had nearly resulted in a
tied score. In my opinion he did
not use bad Judgment, but was
just dangling on the ragged edge
ready to slip over and let go.
The wonderful Indian went
through the last two innings on
his nerve alone. applying every
bit of his craft to win.
HOW INDIAN WAS SAVED
From the New York bench 1
could see him sitting between
Connie" Mack and Harry Davis
while Danny" Murphy and Ed
die" Collins swarmed around him,
warning him against the grooves
of our men who were to bat in
the ninth inning.
DOC" Payne, the Athletes
trainer, was tanning him with
towel throughout the recess and
hopping him with sponge.
The Indian went back and won
on his gameness, but one little
slip on his part or that Of any
of his hackers in the last inning
would have resulted in his fading
and tying the score. He could
not have gone another inning.
1t seemed to me as though two
games of ball were played here
today In one the Giants were
weak. helpless and outclassed, and
in the second we were fighting,
hitting, clawing and had the Ath-
letics worried and warming up
pitchers, so different were the
two parts of the contest. If /
wanted to go back over the battle
/ could pick out any number of
places where the breaks cost
that one run we needed to tie.
To my mind. the big, bad break
we got occurred in the eighth
inning. when we made our final
rally, with the score six to three
against us. Herzog began the
eighth with his first hit of the
series, line drive to left field.
He was forced at second base a
minute later. when Doyle hit
terrific grounder at Collins. who
partly fell in fielding the ball. but
who recovered in time to throw
Herzog out at second base. Three
or four feet either way, and that
ball would have been through for
a clean hi-. 1t was smashed
square on the nose.
ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY LOST
But our big opportunity came
when Burns hit to left and Sha-
fer put a long triple to right.
This left the tying run on third
base. with two out, and SO upset
the Athletics that they gathered
around the Indian In the box,
while Captain Danny Murphy
walked out from the bench and
Joined the council of war; This
gave two or three emergency