The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-10-09

and Lapp struck at three in success
sion.
snodgrass had to retire In the third
inning. With Mclean on he pounded
a single ovs- third base witch ordi-
narily woa,d hive yielded two bases.
but "Snod" WAS so lame that he bare
iy reached afst. Up cam Aatty and
with the count two and two he
smashed blazing base hit To left
center 1t was long drive, on which
Snodgrass might have scored, but IN
his crippled condition he was just
able to hobhIe to third, Natty took
second on the throw to catch Snod-
grass at third. and az the latter was
completely fOns for tttrtiraw rsstrr
time and substituted Wiltse TO run for
the crippled Giant and also to play
first base thereafter.
Plank then turned on extra speed
puzzllng Herzog go that he tapped the
ball to the pitcher, who hurled Il 10
Lamp Wiltse was on tn. way home
when Lapp caught the ball and the
latter To make sure Of a put out chased
Hooks almost 10 the third corner be
fore he touched him in the beck,
Matty Of course. had reachd third
and Herzog had skipped around tn
second on this put ont 80 that when
Doyle came up the New Workers were
shouting Now. Larry, pickle it and
send the runners home"
Plank did some superb pitching
here He had three balls called with
no strikes on DOYLE. Then he pnt
two over the plate and next served
UP slow one which Doyle drove Into
the waiting paws OF Eddie Murphy.
Great cheering.
Matty Uses Five Balls,
Matty pitched only five balls TO set
tie the Athletics in their half Of tho
third.
Plank pitched ten balls in the fourth
inning. Burns striking out for the
second time on three successive speedy
shoots Shafer. who got life ON
Bakers slow throw. died To Iapps
throwing with the result that he was
pegged out At this period Doyle pos
sbly saved a run, when with two on
bases and two out he nailed sharp
drive fr I'm Barry's bat just behind
second ba-e and touehel The bag In
time To free Strs'nii,
The excitement was al fever heat
when the Giants went to the bar for
the ninth time. Strunk retired DOYLE
on fierce liner. for which he did not
have TO movs a step. Fletcher, the
next man up with two strikes and
ball, hit the next one rafting single
to center. Plank passed Burns. next
man up Plank wriggled out of his
predicarent when the next two men
went out on two fly balls.
Then came the Athletics ninth. and
II was a wonder AS Strunk opened
IL with fast single 10 center. which
was the seventh hit OFF Matty. the cry
WAS again heard:
'Matty's gone: it's all over: he can't
stand the strain
Was Matty Gomez
Mack had ordered his men to hit
the first good bali that came over the
plate Barry was told 70 hunt His
Arst attempt on the first ball was
little foul fly that Mclean could not
reach The second ball he hunted past
Matty. and would have been safe any
way, but LARRY DOYLE, taking des-
perate chance. threw the pill past
wiltse TO the iron fence in front of
the right field pavilion. Strunk scoot-
ed around 20 third and Barry 10 second
on this error Strunk might have
scored by close margin if Harry na-
Wis. who was coaching. had sent him
In, but Davis, playing 1t safe, grab
bed strunk and sent him back to the
bag.
Men on second and third and no.
body out. 1t loked as ii the game
was over Hundreds of spectators got
up and started from their seats. The
rest OF the crowd, cheering. ringing
bells blowing horns and swinging rat
ties. in premature celebration OF
what looked like certain ytetiry. Lapn
good hitter, came up To settle the
controversy Matty eyed him coldiy,
He took plenty OF time, The frsr
ball was outside of the plate and lap
let ii go. The second ball was d curve
with medium speed. and Lapp, possibly
over anxious, twisted II towards Wilfse.
1t was just an easy grounder. and in
rushed Strunk. who had started tefe:-a
the ball was hit. Perhaps the {Atalct-
les thought Wiltse was joke Is
nrst hasenan. but Hooks" was there
with a neat stop and a splendid fhfos
10 Mclean. which retired Strunk amid
the widest excitement. That made
only one out. with Barry on third and
Lapp on first.
Plank followed Barry with another
Krounder to Wntse, on the second hall
pitched. which Hooks hurled to Nc