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

KEW YORK, Oct 11.-About $4,000
IN fans were headed for the Polo
= grounds early today to pull down
the walls for a chance to see what
may be the last battle of the great
series of the Giants and Athletics
for the baseball championship and
the winners end of the gate receipts.
It may be the last chance. for II
the Giants are defeated today this
cruel war is over. The to victory
of the enemy in Philadelphia yester-
day gave them to l count on the
four games of the series.
1t is the last stand of the Giants
and all of the advance information
is to the effect that that grand old
last stander, C. Mathewson, Will be
showed out on the battlefield as the
one hope of our gang. If Matty can
not stop them, they can't be stopped.
and there will be no stopping done
after this afternoon unless the old
warhorse can bring them to a full
halt in today's battle.
Nobody can say definitely who will
be offered up by Connie Mack-and
Mack won't McGraw has said moth
ing. either, but he doesn't have to-.
He is in a position where he has 70
pitch Matty. 1t is probable that with
this lead of two games and the con-
fideuce IL will inject into his bunch.
Mack will produce Shawkey or carroll
Brown.
Old man Plank, the dean of the
southpaws, announced last night that
he would pitch one more game II
Connie Mack called on him, and that
this game would be his last. He is
nearly 40 years of age and is through
with baseball after this series.
IT will probably be Mack's strategy
TO take a chance with young blood
and confidence today and save both
Plank and Bush for a sixth game, II
it should be necessary.
CAN MATTY DO TIT
There is another interesting angle
on it-both to the enemy and Mr..
Mathewson himself. In the last series
he could rot beat them two games
They say he can't do 1t In this one
We shall see today.
The real marvel of this campaign is
the comparatively few cases of heart
failure. There was a time in yester-
days conflict when It looked as II the
more valuable part of the population
of philadelphia was about to throw
a unanimous IT. And when the final
out was made and that one lone run
stood UP for them. they weakly
CROPPED their way out of the grounds
clinging to the ratings of the grand
stand.
The battle falls naturally into two
parts--their half and our half. with
our half taking the longer fall.
Mr.. Demaree, the celebrated artist,
went in to fling some baseballs for US,
as per schedule. You would not ex-
pect a retired piano mover to think
much of art or artists, and Mr.. Rube
Oldring went right up and hit Car
toonist Demaree wicked three base
blow. They did not score in this in
ming, in spite of this outrage, but
they engaged in that enterprise to a
small extent in the second.
This began with Mr.. Stuffy McInnes,
who, from his sobriquet. is also in the
piano mover circles of activity. He
pasted one to center for base. Strunk
sacrificed and this brought up Barry.
Mr.. Barry. it developed later, was
out yesterday to get all of the hits
that he had failed to collect in the
preceding battles. This amiable am
bition might have been foiled il Mr..
Merkle had refrained from dropping
his foul. AS 1t was, Barry damned
the ball against the left field fence,
and excellent running on the part of
Mr.. Burns confined the swipe to the
two base limit There was. however,