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smashing out a hot drive. Murphy
took second. Collins pushed a perfect
hunt at Merkle and was tagged out
on the baseline as the other two run
ners advanced.
Baker hit an easy bounder to Merkle
midway between first and the box,
and, as the first baseman got the ball,
he apparently thought he saw a chance
for double play as Baker was near
him running to first and Murphy on
his way home from third was quite a
distance from the plate. 1t would
have been perfectly easy for Merkle
to have played it safe by tossing the
ball TO Mclean as he would have hao
Murphy by 20 feet. but the luckless
'doorkeepeF'' of the Giants made
stab at Baker and missed him.
Costly Error.
Then he tried to make a play on
Mclean, but he was too late. Eddie
scored easily under the throw and no
body was put out. Oldring raced
around to third and scored after Burns
had Caught McInnis's line drive Burns
didnOt throw to the plate. merely toss
ing the ball to second to Doyle. He
was taken too far back when he made
the catch to throw in to Mclean In
time to stop Oldring- Doyle tossed out
Strunk and ended the inning.
First Giant to Reach First Base.
Tillie Shafer, the fourteenth man to
face Plank, was the first Giant TO
reach first base. This came to pass
after Geo. Burns had been fetired In
the fifth inning and with it came
piece of luck for the Giants. Shafer
drew walk. Murray lifted an easy
little fly over the box that Plank
could have caught with one hand.
Shafer had run clear down to second
and would have probably been doubled
up before he could have returned to
first, but Baker ran over to the box
and collided with Plank.
The ball fell safe and Shafer, who
was already on his way back to first,
regained second while Murray was
safe at first.
Bush Warns Up in Fifth
Big Larry. Mclean slammed single
to left center. scoring Shafer, while
was great activity on the Athletic
warmup station in right field, as Bush
got ready to relieve Plank, but Merkle
hit into fast double play that passed
from Collins to Barry to McInnis.
Fred Merkle saved Matty a lot of
trouble in the sixth by a wonderful
fielding play. Baker hit the first ball
pitched for a single to right and Nc
INNS sacrificed. Doyle tossed out
Strunk, Baker moving to third Then
Fletcher got Barry's bounder and made
a low throw to first that looked very
dangerous but Merkle pulled off a re-
markable scOoping catch.
In the Giants end of that same sixth
Matty opened with a single to right,
but Herzog hit into double play.
The Last Inning.
As soon as MatheWson famed
Schang, the last man up in the Ath-
letics' end of the ninth inning. he
turned and trOtted from the box toward
the Giant clubhouse, knowing that
McGraw would muster the reserves for
the final stand He was given an
ovation as he left the field
Otis Crandan the famous relief
pitcher and riDcb hitter Of ba
Graw forces. came up. batting for
Big Six" but was an easy out. Collins
TO MeInnis. Barry made a nice catch
Of Herzog's pop fly in short left, and,
as the crowd was showing for the
exits and the bleacherites hung sus-
pended over the wall ready for the
leap in the field, Doyle raised a fly
to Murphy. Murphy eluded all of his
comrades, who wanted the last ball and
hung OF to it for a souvenir. The