The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-10-13
ERROR STARTS It
IN LAST CONTEST
Burns Throw Over Nc.
Leans Head Lets in the
First Mackman.
(By Herbert Corey

~ no,.Vn' yet nothing
Tia, ;s5 IN me tenth inning.
nor the fifth and final games in the
Moiio $ series between the Giants and
me athieilcs. of course. n. oni,
what 1T ought to show, instead of :
I" Tor the Athletics.
M~aIne"son and Plank both pitched
Die ball. but Plank wa.
rions. while Mathewson'. bscsin
Was as loose as a par Of milk.
n philadelphians tailed once on
q WIG throw and twice on a bone.
Ne" ! ork got one measly little mart
on the board because plank
n Baker let an infield Az drop ssfe
between them. 'aie
One Pathetic Incident.
nag no a o Of people of
- s.'""v present saw dramatic
session. '"e .hird
pnlladelphia had scored once in
hrst inning, the manner Of which
VIII be told later, and was again a,
bat. ""s aeai" a'
Eddie Murphy led of with hi. sec.
ond single Of the day. oldrinE rapped
10 noyle. who juggled it While our
n,s nnnion on the sphere of luck. Old.
ring got to first. Collins sacrificed,
sending the pair along.
baker-terrible Baker. tho home
I run 1king-began hammerinE with the
ASH on the rubber. And then horrors
began to dance and gibber through
the infield.
Merkle'. Strange Act.
Baker tapped a little. thistle.
doWny. dreamy bounder along the
first base line. Merkle ran up from
frst to take it. Murphy, on third.
began to travel home, ,whereupon
Merkle pranced around in front oi
Baker. stsbbing at him with the bali,
n men waving it f1irtatiously at the
speedy Murphy.
flnaiiy-oh quite finally-he de.
termincd to chance a heave toward
Mr. Mclean. who was passing from
despair to agony behind the plate. II
got to him just too late to head of
Murphy and the untouched Mr.. Baker
rambled down to the first corner and
sat down to tie his shoe. and it was
then that the dramatic interlude no.
ferred to took place.
Matty In Despair.
Christopher Mathewson. the man
whose brain and nerve and muscle
carried A second division team into
i1rst place andh kept 1t from being
hopeless,y skunked in a contest With
team of great players. stood with
hands high over his head in a gesture
OF raging despair. Nothing like that
ever happened on a bail field before.
Whatever might come to him. Ma.
thewsonr has taken it with his teeth
cilnched and "a grin on his lips.
Too Much for Alatty.
But that p1aS-no, that fhortifyins
gedian could have thrown. more O,
helpless anger into his posture thar
did n greatest pitcher in the world
as he watched his game being thrown
away. !.
Oldring scored on Mc1nnis' long ny
ihen Mathe"'son went to pitching
ball.
Then Does II All.
1t looked az though he refused te
trust ANYTHING further to his mates
In the six innings that followed bu,
twenty men faced him, and but on.
hit was made. Eight men went dowy
on even thrown balls. When one o
siders the quality of the respective
teams. his performance forces that O
Plank-eXcellent as that was-almos
into insignifcance.
For the Athletics have been hittint
with deadly certainty throughout TIL
series and fielding like sparrow.
hawks The Giants have been all
solutely helpless before the opposin,
pitchers and have been time-Iockes
in the field. Saturday they made blu
two hits. and one Of those was mad,
by Mathewson, the other by Catche
Mclean, and Mclean is hardly a reg
ular Giant. He liz very rarely givel
q chance to work in a game. In thi
series he batted $50.
The n tally the Giants accumu
lated came in the fifth inning. Will
Burns down, Shafer was walked. H,
was the fourteenth batsman to fac,