The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-10-10
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HAVE PENNANT
ALMOST C|NCHED
pAVE WON THREE GAMES OUT
OF FOUR; SCORE TODAY
8TO5
Game Was noe Sided Affair Until
Burns, Merkle and Murray Scored
in 9TH Inning for Giants

in 9TH Inning for Giants
Philadelphia, Oct. 10. The
struggle between the New York Ma.
t,onals and Philadelphia Americans
for the worlds baseball champion
ship shifted today back to Philadel-
phia The Athletics were anxious
TO improve the advantage gained by
yesterdays victory. While the
Giants prepared to battle to even up
their chances. The victory was won
today by the Athletics, the score be-
ing to 6, which means that Phila-
delpia needs only one more game to
win the series, and it also puts the
Nationals where it is almost impos-
hble to recover the lost ground.
A biz throng again spent the night
outside waiting for the grounds to
open for the play this afternoon, and
when the game opened 20,56S ex-
cited fans crowded the ball park
ja.c uN.
New York-Shafer, third; Doyle,
second; Fletcher, short; Burns, left;
Snod"rass, center; Murray, right;
Mclean, catcher; Merkle, first; De-
maree, pitcher.
Philadelphia - Murphy, right;
0ldring, left; Collins, second; Baker,
third, McInnis. first; Strunk, center;
Barry, short; Schang. catcher; Ben
der, pitcher.
Ratteries--New York, Demaree
and Mclean Philadelphia, Bender
and Schang.
FIRST INNING
New York-Snodgrass flied out
DOYLE likewise, Fletcher out, short
to first. No runs; no hits.
Philadelphia Murphy flied out
oldTins tripled. Collins hit Merkle
VINO threw Oldring out at the plate.
Collins stole second. Baker fouled
out No runs; one hit.
SECOND INNING
New Nork--Burns flied out Shat
ef famed. Bender hit Murray Nc
le'T SINGLED, u, Murray taking third.
Aerkle fouled out. No runs; one
hit
Philadelphia-McInnis singled.
SUclk sacrificed. Merkle dropped
bsrfys foul fly. Barry doubled,
scoring McInnis. Schank walked.
bender fled out. Murphy flied out.
one run; two hits; one error.
THIRD INNING
New York-Demaree flied out
onoosrass out, pitcher to first. Doyle
nied out, No runs; no hits.
Fnlladelphia-Herzog now play
ing third and Shafer center for New
iork 0ldring out. pitcher to first.
collins flied out. Baker out, second
nFst No runs; no hits.
FOURTH INNING
ne" York-Fletcher flied out,
Burns likewise, shafer famed No
runs; no hits.
rHli'Helphia-McInnis out. second |
=" Nrs' strunk singled. Barry sin
sVu' trunk taking third. Strunk
'ld Barry scored on schang's sin
sN Schang going to second on a
-'0"-'N Shang took third on
!, u all; Schang scored when
:. Tuffei Bender's grounder
~ur'ny fled out. Oldring sinqled. |
r.
1T catcher to first. Three |
'OHS' four hits, and one error.
FIFTH INNING
Ne" York-Murray walked. Me-
''n = singled, Murray taking third.
.'.p4F ran for McLea. Merkle fan
,ea' y Mccormick batter for Demaree.
4'0o'mick flied out, Oldring making
= sensational catch after a long run.
hit. '"'"e' No 'un'' '
,, .iIaoelphia = Marquard now
m,'cning ~ and Wilson catching for
-. YORK. Baker famed, McInnis
n pitcher to first. strunk walked.
D. doubled strunk. making third
-, and strunk scored on Schang's
re Bender out, pitcher to first
',o % runs and two hits.
.eW fork-Herzog out, short to
,'' =. Doyle famed. Pitcher flied
w.t. No runs and no hits.
SIXTH INNING
h sllladelphia-Murphy out, second |
,h,'' '' oldring famed, Wilson
,Sag him out at first. c ollins