The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-08
Meyers Admits Start Is
Bad, but Faith Is
mistaken. 9
BENDER SAVED BY
HIS EXPERIENCE
Marquard's Performance Disap-
pointing, and His Reversal of
Form Cannot Be Accounted
For-Baker's Home Run Is
Blow Squarely Between
Eyes-Merkle Injured.
BY JOHN tCHEFD MEYERS.
star Catcher and Sluggcr of the Cham.

pion New York Giants
NV toTk' october I've are Off to
PAD start, but my faith Is unsbaLen
+ nave no excuses to offer for Giant
III. IhEselt was prime offender.
! uidnt get one safe blow. Bender
iooIed me, though he didn't seem to
nave haif the. stuff he showed in 1o11
'u'' pasihg my calculations on the
performance of this same Chippewa.
90 hot see where there is any reason
LOT real gloom in the camp OF the
Giants. We looked for n whole 10
more from Bender than ne showed nv.
~ was an ideal Bender dav--d,rl-
lowering and gloomy-when his sneed
snou!d nave shown to the very heat
Wt NahtaSe. He didn't have the speed
cohioed him hard and often enough
10 win handily had we PLAYED tha
game up to Giant standards.
Now Bender must have been Connia
ndch nest bet. or he would never
naVe started him gainst us on our own
Stounus II ne is. all will be well
us TO l. yet he couldn't boI,,
Ahu undoubtedly we should have won
o"e had we not faltered in defense
Mnrdunrd IL Disappointing.
Marquards performance was disan.
pointing to me as it was to bin,saif
lie was very much broken mn aT,ar
INC game know the "Rube" as veil
Us any man alive and [ cannot :,ccount
ror the reversal OF form after tho ara
OK .he third inning. When We grabbed
~, ~ nrst run in the third / thought
the pastime copper riveted. MarouorI
never was better than in the secnnd
ana third. He didn't lose any of his
SUIT after that But he lost contrni
lenders nerve experience and cool
nehueahess saved him. He had perfect
lacked for the first time in weeks
talked to him. Chief" said he. "vo,,
know do not heav4 them close to fhis
FELLOW Intentionally. The old bali sim.
ply VIII not answer me- But I'll Iraan
.hem out hereafter If I have to throw
inside offering into the bleacbers for
inc longest home run OF the worlds
series history 1t was no fault OF MAJ
quard Marquard simply suffered one
OF those annoying periods OF lack of
tun',ot when once in while affects
the best OF them
Sender, l said. had perfect control.
II saved the game, but 1 think n
ruined him for the series Confident fn
MS manipulations. he tried to work
us put we waited him out, and made
MN pitch the very best he knew. You
VIII recall that Bender was in the
hoie about couple of times each
inning. mat made him throw an un-
usual mum Der of balls. He looked like
a million dollars for four innings
Ihen he weakened. figure il the
strain on an overworl1ed veteran. Rem
oer mas pitched his best game of this
series. His only chance to como back
is tho possibility OF protracted rain
such as mat or two years ago. Other.
WISE Mack will be forced to pitch hin,
before he is really nit
Destined for Honor.
Bakers home run with q man an
MT us sQuarely between the eyes. But
then THIS Fellow Baker seems destined
ny the gods for worlds series honor.
me wallop wouldn't have spiked our
guns had ''Tillie" Shafer been acoua.
'oneo 10 that centre pasture. Sohang's
waiiop In the fourth was really the
straw that broke the cancels hacL
Shafer lost the ball in the BACKGROUND
OF the upper tier. He came in. then
went back uncertainty. and finally lost
the NY. 10 man working out there
every day il would have been an eaav
chance. 1t was simply a case OF lack
Of experience.
Now as 20 the inside stuff-the NAV.
that escaped the general public. There
were many of these One OF the most
peculiar of my recollection was thai
which ended our sixth time at bar
Ana IL may prove terribly costly for
u.s. Tor it is likely TO rob us Of the
services OF Fred Merkle Umpire
ZEN ta'ied to declare promptly a
pitch that would have been only a.
bird strike or the first ball Scbsns-
dropped the toss
The ball rolled to within foot or
wo OF another ball that had been re-
urned to the field. The Athletic catcher
'icked up the wrong ball and made
nay on Merkle McGraw, seeing tho
mistake, signaled Merkle to hold his
tation, for the Athletics had begun IN
walk off the diamond. Klein had de-
Jared Merkle out. Fred walked off the
'ase and Collins rushed over and
jagged him with the ball Thereupon s
9gan also called an our. which finally
vent after Klein consulted Egan as to
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