Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-09
NATHEWSON'S
| WORK ABOVE
ALL PRAISE
Baseball Fans of All the World
Must Name Him Hero Of
Second Game.
By O. B. Keller.
FITS see-who had the ball?

FITS see-who had the ball?
Oh, yes.
- For the first game Of the
worlds Series Mr.. ]. Franklin Baker
as elected rather unanimously as
Hero. As sub-heroes, we had Eddie
Erollins and Chief Bender.
The Giants didn't win single pre-
Alnct in the election. Mr.. Richard
4 = MARQUIS, in particular, ran a very
<1oor race. Even his home ward went
Rgainst him.
But now we come to the Second
Game.
T isn't for this modest little column
to elect any hero for that second
kame.
/ /; isn't for the big writer's up East,
Either
II isn't for any one town or any
bne State, or any one section.
It's for all the true fans in America
Tor the baseball followers of the
biz World-to name the Hero. and
ID uncover their heads as they name
him.
No title No big type. No ex-
samation point.
Just Mathewson.
h OR years everybody has known
4 that Christy Mathewson was a
Ereat pitcher. For years a great
nany people have believed Mathew
bon was the greatest pitcher.
But until the afternoon OF october
d 1918, not one of all the host who
hinned their faith to the heart and
brm Of Mathewson really knew how
great he was.
4 F we had a vote in the nomination
of a Sub Hero No. / in the game
yesterday, we would nominate Eddie
Plank It was the grand pitching
hi the wonderful old southpaw that
ktruck the sparks from Mathewson's
|koul Of steel-that framed the grim
background against which Mathew
k0N's supreme act was staged.
Hats off to Eddie Plank. too.
THE supreme Act.
Twenty thousand who saw it
swl never forget II.
We who we1s .sSt so fortunate must
II
The ninth inning. The score to 0
lThe Athletics at bat. The fleet footed
EtrInk on third Barry on second.
No one out. One run needed to win
fae game probably decide the
Worlds Series of 1918.
Mathewson pitching.
M ATHBWSON pitching.
That was the final answer
Mathewson pitching.
.#-s
n HE roar of hostile thousands in
the stands was nothing in the
|fars Of Old Master as he faced his
ktupendous task. No one must hit
E1e ball beyond that closely drawn
nfeld crouching, waiting, trusting
|Mathewson
The game rode on every pitch.
And every pitch rang true.
Lapp's hit rolled straight at Wiltse
-Strunk slid to certain death at the
plate.
Plank's swing turned only a soft
Founders into Wiltse's hands-Barry
was nipped between Mclean and
|Herzog.
The infield settled back in a vast
balm.
Mathewson was pitching.
Eddie Murphy. his Irish blood on
Ere crowded in and dashed at the
Pa tade-away-Mathewson took the
Feeole tap and tossed to Wiltse.
side out. No runs.
Mathewson pitching.
AND the rest of it?
What wonder that grand old
Ehudle Plank yielded at last-what
ohder that Mathewson himself
ILontlng his splendid rival, should
urIye home the winning run?
what wonder that Collins broke
Llnuef the strain, and the clinching
+ ores came over?
what wonder that the most feared
no IN oasebal's batting array-Old-
Jug and Collins and Baker-wenr
EoWn in order before the heart and
.Iain and arm of Mathewson, in the
TdSI stand of the White Elephants?
| CTOBER s, 1913, in the second
game of the Worlds Series,
EPsayed in Shibe Park, Philadelphia,
,.Listy Mathewson, touched the
's 81. water mark in baseball pitching.
MS name may stand without a
W ABOVE comment; above praise