The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-11

Philadelphia, October 10.-But one
victory stands between the PhiIndeI-
phia Athletics and the worlds cham
pionship In baseball tonight, for the
Mackmen defeated the New York
Giants at Shibe park this afternoon by
the titulnr series. Before the contest
was clinched, however, 10000 Quaker
City fans suffered period of anxious
. suspense that will keep the Giants
eleventh hour batting rally green In
their memories for some seasons to
come. The gnme effort OF the National
in the closing innings of the game
changed the entire complexion of the
battle, lifting what appeared to be
one-sided match into n contest that
hung in the balance until the last put
out.
Demaree received a warm welcome at
the start but it was not until the second
inning that the first Athletic crossed
the plate. McInnis opened with
a Texas Lacquer that Snodgrass could not
quite reach Strunk sacrificed and
Barry's double scored McInnis. The big
blow came in the fourth. With one out,
Strunk knocked Herzog over with
smashing single and Barry put him on
third with another, taking second on
Shafer's throw to third Schang followed
with a vicious liner past Doyle, scoring
Strunk and Barry. He went on to Sec
ond on the throw to the plate and to third
moment later on McLean's passed ball
schang scored when Merkle fumbled Ben
der's grounder.
When the Athletics next came to bat
they faced Marquard and after two outs
had been recorded Strunk walked on four
successive wide ones. Barry's second
double to left put Strunk on third and
Schang promptly singled to center, scor-
ing both Strunk and Barry. Bender went
out. Marquard to Merkle. and the Ath-
letics run gathering for the day was
ended.
Rally Unexpected
The desperate, but as it proved, futile
rally came like bolt from a clear sky
Chief Bender, the Chippewa Indian,
master of mysterious curve and break.
had held the Giants runless for six In
nngs. while his team mates by pile driv-
ing hits had scored as many runs at the
expense of Demaree and Marquard. AL
ready the fans that filled every seat in the
stands and bleachers were exulting in the
downfall of the New York club. There
was not a single danger signal in sight
Suddenly the Giants became transformed
from hitless wealings to real giants who
hammered the speed and slants of the In
dian twirler to all parts of the park.
- It..was in the lucky seventh" that the
storm of hits burst upon the astonshed
Athletics and before the aborigine and his
fellow players could recover three Giants
had cross the plate and the fusllade con-
tinued into the next session, when two
more scored and the team which was a
few moments before apparently out
classed was battering down the last de-
fenses of the Mackmen. Fred Merkle,
whose injured ankle still caused him to
limp perceptibly, was the player who was
directly. responsible for the breaking
through the coat of whitewash that Ben
der was applying.
Giants Make Three Runs
With Burns and Murray on second and
third as the result of two singles and
double steal and two out. MerSle caught
one of Benders low balls on the outside
corner of the plate and lifted it far out
into left center, where neither Oldring nor
Strunlx could quite reach it. The sphere
hit the green turf of Shibe park and with
mighty bound hoped the fence into the
beachers and MerlSle trotted home after
his two team mates with the third home
run of the series, thus joining Baker and
Schang in the realm of baseball immor-
tails.
spurred on by Merkles example.