Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-10
IATHEWSON' s
WORK ABOVE
ALL PRAISE
asa5aII Fans of All the World
Must Name Him Hero Of
Second Game.
By 0. B. Keller.
FITS see-who had the ball?

FITS see-who had the ball?
Oh, yes.
For the first game of the
E0rld's Series Mr.. ]. Franklin Baker
as elected rather unanimously as
- AS sub-heroes, we had Eddie
fouins and Chief Bender.
The Giants didn't win single pre-
.rct IN the election. Mr. Richard
Ia MARQUIS, in particular, ran very
Dor ~ace. Even his home war6 went
gainst him.
But now we come to the Second
fame.
n isn't FOR this modest little column
4 10 elect any hero for that second
Ssme
II isn't for the big writer's up East,
kther
I, isn't for any one town or any
3 ne State, or any one section.
It's for all the true fans In America
for the baseball followers of the
kig World-to name the Hero. and
uncover their heads as they name
Bin.
Mathewevn.
No title, No big type. No ex-
samation point.
Just Mathewson.
b OR years everybody has known
that Christy Mathewson was a
sreat pitcher. For years great
hany people have believed Mathew
IN was the greatest pitcher.
But until the afternoon of Octc
j 1913, not one of all the host ~
tnned their faith to the heart and
! I'M Of Mathewson really knew how
Ireat he was.
F we had a vote In the nomination
Of a Sub Hero No. l in the game
yesterday, we would nominate Eddie
Plank It was the grand pitching
II the wonderful old southpaw that
|truck the sparks from Mathewson's
|oIl Of steel-that framed the grim
Background against which Mathew
son's supreme act was staged.
Hats off to Eddie Plank, too.
supreme Act.
Twenty thousand who saw 1t
4 III never forget II.
|m7gine il as best we may.
The ninth inning. The score to o.
r. Athletics at bat. The fleet footed
trunk on third Barry on second.
+ one out. one run needed to win
game probably decide the
Worlds Series Of 1918.
Mathewson pitching.
4 a rrrTr7-yrve-n%T
That was the final answer
Nathewson pitching.
n HE roar Of hostile thousands in
I The stands was nothing in the
hrs Of old Master as he faced his
iNpeudous task. No one must hit
f. ball beyond that closely drawn
.Neld, crouching, waiting, trusting
Na'heVson.
The game rode on every pitch.
and every pitch rang true.
Lapp's hit rolled straight at Wiltse
-Strrnk slid to certain death at the
Plate
Planks swing turned only a soft
Bo1nder's into Wiltse's hands-Burry
vas nipped between Mclean and
Herzog.
,alm.
Nathewson was pitching
Eddie Murphy, his Irish blood on
lFe crowded in and dashed at the
pa tade-away-Mathewson took the
ee1!e tap and tossed to Wiltse.
Side out. No runs.
Aathewson pitching.
a ND the rest of It?
What wonder that grand old
-aale Plank yielded at last-what
yonder that Mathewson himself
iLontins his splendid rival, should
i've nome the winning run?
what wonder that Collins broke
lhaer the strain, and the clinching
cores came over2
w nat wonder that the most feared
no IN basebalPs batting array-OId-
ing and Collins and Baker-went
own in order before the heart and
ram and arm of Methewson, in the
sNI stand of the White Elephants?
J 1IOBER 8, 1918, in the second
y. game Of the Worlds Series,
,,sayed in Shibe Park, Philadelphia,
IN, Mathewson, touched the
* n water mark in baseball pitching
MS name may stand without
y, ABOVE comment; above praise