Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-11

world never will forget what hap
pened
Exciting Game Expected.
SO / look for a very exciting game
to-day, and | believe it will depend
mainly on whether another kid pitcn-
er can deliver OF course. the haro
hitters of ;he Athletics may jump in
as they dIu against Tesreau and roll
up such :: lead that their young pitch
er. will nave no trouble holding it,
But ii must be remembered that Tes-
reau Is not pitching for the Giants
to-day.
There was rumor that Mack was
about 10 change his plan and use
Plank in the effort to settle the thing
for sure in this game, but | don't be-
lleve that. Mack knows he can at
FORD to take almost any kind of a
chance in this game, and that if he
loses it he will have Bender and
Plank well rested up and in great
shape for next week.-Mrs. two bow
ers' you might say, with Matty. the
Giants only real pitcher. so far as
TINS series is concerned, worn ont and
not in shape to work before Tuesday
SO | think the dope is Matty
against Shawkey, with Carroll Brown
as an outside chance.
There is lot OF criticism in Now
YORK as to the way McGraw has
handled this series. They are saying
that Muggsy has been a victim of
stage fright in every game, and that
MS Judgment has been rotten in av-
cry Instance where he was called on
10 make a quick decision. The
grandstand managers" say Tesreau
ought to have been started in the first
game, or that Marquard, having got
his nerve back after his beating in
that contest, should have been picked
to work in place of Demaree.
Criticized for Using Grant.
Also, they are criticizing McGraw
for sending up Eddie Grant to bat in
the pinch yesterday, with Marouard
going well and one of the best left
hand hitters in the business, in spite
of the fact that he is a pitcher.
But as a manager myself, 1 know
how easy it is to criticize a managers
| mistakes after it is all over ANYBODY
can tell to a dot what ought to have
| been done. In Philadelphia they are
/ roasting Connie Mack, even with the
games he has won, for not sending in
substitutes to bat for Lapp and Plank
when he appeared to have the second
game cinched in the ninth inning of
the game Mattye beat the Athletics,
There is no pleasing the grand
stand managers" so l reckon the
regular managers will just have to
plod along and use their own judg-
ment, since they can5t consult about
seven thousand wise guys on every
shift they have to make while the
game is on. 1t has always been a
funny thing to me that these guys
who know so much about running a
ball club don't follow that trade in
stead of keeping books or selling rib
bons over a counter
Now about that game yesterday.
For one thing. l believe it set at
| rest some fool talk about the Giants
not being game. Nobody who watched
them win two games against the Red
Sox last year. after the count was
three to one against them. could pos
sibly figure out that they were any
thing but game ball club And no.
body who saw them fly into Chief
Bender yesterday, with the to 0
| against them, and the Chief pitching
at the top of his form, could see any
yellow.
Calls Merke Unlucky.
want osay word about Mer-
kle. That fellow is fine ball player
He is game to the core. But he is
one Of the unluckiest chaps that ever
lived. So is Snodgrass Fred went
to McGraw with tears In his eyas
yesterday and pleaded to be allowed
to play. McGraw may have made a
mistake in letting him play, with mis-
injured leg. And certainly his lame
ness prevented him from getting
short high fly by McInnis that he
could have been sitting down under
had his legs been right. Merkle's in
jury, too, slowed him down to where
he failed to get an easy foul in the
same inning. But il was not lack Of
gameness-I, was simply the fact that
the men were hurt and unable to
show their usual speed.
And You have to hand ii to Merkle
for his come back in the seventh in
ming. That old boy limped up to the
bat with two on and two out and ne
walked into Chief Bender for as hard
wallop as l ever saw. The bali
went on a line out into left field and
was going so hard it bounded from
the ground into the bleachers
The Giants are game. all right. and
while l am sure the better club won
yesterday. l must admit that Bender
was mighty lucky For instance. in
the eighth inning, with Shafer on
third and two out and one run need
ed to tie the score, Red Murray drove
a terrific hit down to one side of
Collins. Eddie threw himself at it
and stopped it, but it nearly knocked
him off his legs. He got the runner
and it was a grand play by Eddie.
but il must be remembered that if
that drive had been six inches farth-
er over it would have been safe, and
the score would have been tied. and
! believe the Giants would have wor
tn game, for Marquard was going
good and Bender was about all in.