The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-12
Philadelphia Team Wins Base
Ball Championship Of World
by Taking Yesterdays
Game, 8 to 1.
PITCHERS INEFFECTIVE
Greatest Pitching Staff in the
World Goes Down to De
feat Before Connie
Mack 81 Athletics.
by Hal Sheridan, Sporting Editor Of
tho IInitad PrasS

by Hal Sheridan, Sporting Editor of
the United Pressl
POLO GROUNDS, NEW YORK
Oct. 11.-Eddie Plank won the worlds
baseball championship for Connie
Mack's Athletics here this afternoon
when in the fifth game of the series
the Athletics annexed their fourth
victory by score of to L.
Two singles was the gross hitting
effort OF the Giants. Plank duplicated
Mathewson's effort of the second game
when like his veteran contemporary
he weathered every storm and by a
superb demonstration of all those
things which make for pitching excel.
lence he stood the Giants on their
beams-end.
If anything the greater glory must
go to the Mackmen, for while Matty
won he was forced to make up with
brains what was lacking in his good
right arm. Plank's famous south paw
was there forty ways today and to
the very last sticker had the stuff
to make puny the efforts of Giant bat
tiers.
No kid pitcher could have displayed
greater stuff in fresh young arm
than was unrolled by the Gettysburg
battler. All through the game his
team mates displayed their sentiments
in the matter by bearing the veteran
twirler from the field on their should
err as the other Athletics worked re-
volving wedge through the throng of
admiration-wrappe rooters. Just so
certainly as Plank was there. just SO
certainly were the Giant batters not
there, and while the veteran Mathew
son pitched the full nine innings with.
out an earned run being registered off
his delivery, two fatal errors behind
him we're sufficient with the scarce
hits he yielded to give the Athletics
the run needed to cinch the game and
the championship. In like manner
the one lone run registered by the
Giants was only made possible by an
addition to the error column, but in
this case the error was charged to
Plank himself
Maekmen made vicious assault in
the early innings and stacked up a
lead against the brilliant finish by
Mathewson Murphy, the frat man UP
laced out single and was forced by
Oldring. Collins singled, putting Old
ring on third Baker flied to Burns
Oldring scoring when Burns threw
or In nj An ~,
plenty of time to have nailed the run.
ner and only Burns' bad peg made the
tally possible In the third inning
Doyle's tumble and Merkle's delay in
running down Murphy caught off
third on Bakers easy grounder cost
two more runs. From this point on.
Matty took the game away from his
support and gave his felders no hard
chances to handle He worked a fault
less game in the six closing rounds
but his batting support was too pitt
fully weak against Planks great pitch
ing, but twenty nine Giants facing him
Plank said this may be the last bal
game he will ever pitch, as he i.
forty years old, II it is, he can al
ways remember 1t as his creates
game.
At the finish, the crowd was al
there with the ovation for Plank Fo
inning after inning it was obviou
that the veteran had his opponent
curled up. And the only question |
any mind was whether his wonderft
work could be stretched across tn
full nine frames. When Doyle's Ant
flicker dropped safe In Murphy
mitt, $4,000 pair of eyes were focuse
on the veteran hero of the day, an
most of the $4,000 tried to get ini
the swirling mob which swarmed ont
the field to cheer him on his exit.
Today's victory gives Connie Mac
three worlds series in four years ar
adds considerably to the dimensio,
of his present niche In baseball fam
For the series the Athletics hit SAT
ly forty-six times for twenty-thr,
runs. The Giants connected WI
thirty-three hits for fifteen runs.
POLO GROUNDS, NEW YORK, o,
i1.-Connie Mack was fairly at Il
brink of winning his third basebs
championship of the world when d
Athletics took the field against Il