Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-08
j. FRANKLIN BAKER
UP TO OLD TRICKS
Helps Athletics Win First Game of
Worlds Series.
POUNDS OUT A HOMER.
Maryland BOY is Nemesis Of the New
York Giants Final Score 6 to 4
In Philadelphia Today.


The Capital will receive the final
score of the Worlds Series baseball
games day by day. The score will
be posted on the bulletin board in
front OF The Capital Building, and
inquiries by telephone will be an
swered promptly.
The third worlds series clinch
between the all but perpetual cham
pions of their respective leagues, the
Giants and Athletics, began yester-
day, and under a sky as dull and
diugy as the uniforms they wore, the
Athletics won the first game-6 to 4.
II was a battle of bats. Elementary
pow er with the maulstick told the
tale was the dominant factor.
The Athletics hit the harder and
won-they clustered their hits better,
they drove out more l)ng hits. What
OF the subtler element of finesse, of
shrewd mansuvering there was in the
game was associated more with the
fielding. The simpler tactics of
clean and timely hitting, the effective
ness of which was increased by speed
on the bases in making the most of
hits, mustered the runs.
Two of McGraw's pitchers, Mar
guard and Crandall, were stopped by
the Athletics and driven from the
box. The trust reposed in Marquard
carrying on the pitching in the first
game to a successful issue was not
fulfilled by the left-hander, and he
fell by the wayside under the heavy
and concentrated pelting of the pun
ishlng Mackmen. Crandall, too, ran
into a drubbing and gave way to Tes-
reau. The later came in with the
toughest of situations confronting
him, solved it with the aid of smart
ly planned and executed trap set by
Meyers and Doyle-the best fielding
play of the game and pitched the
best of any of the New York occu-
pants of the pedestal
Meanwhile Chief Bender, the
most outstanding pitching figure in
worlds serit $ history, was feeling
the weight of the New York bats.
The Giants did big share of bat
ting themselves, not quite as lengthy
or as punched as the Athletics did,
but enough to make them dangerou
and TO let Bender know that he was
in for a busy day The Indian had to
90 his best from start to finish to
win and was in danger more than
once. He was hit hardest when the
game-for him-lcoked safest and
then, by putting on all he had and
unable tc afford the risk of easing up
a particle, he went along in good
style to the end. He wasn't as effec-
tive as usual against the Giants and
was careworn looking Indian. His
smiling demeanor was missing, but
he was steady and calculating all the
time and made str ing finish of one
of the hardest games he ever had to
finish. But he maintained good con-
trol.
Two well known figures in the
Athletic band did more to play havoc
with New York chances than all the
others. They were Baker and Col
Inns. They fieljed well, but they
batted ferociously. They were the
backbone of the Philadelphia struc-
ture. Collins reached first base four
times, scored thiee runs and made
three hits, ranging from a three
bagger to bunt. Baker made two
sin yles and home run and batted in
three runs. McInnis, Barry and
Schang also made hits which counted.
All was going we'll for New York
the fifth until Collins came up.
Murphy had hunted to Marquard and
0ldring had been thrown out by the
same player. MaIquard found the
plate with only one ball in five for
Collins. Collins stole second, but
might as well have saved himself that
exertior, for Baker, on ball above
the waist and on the outside, got in
his deadly speciality. There was an
explosion, then tearing sound and
fast as the morning light races in
from the sun the ball sped over the
wall and mingled with the spectators
in the distant wing. The Athletics
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