Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-09

tAAC NIAciAIIS went DdCk to New OIh LO-
 night on even terms with the Athletics,
 and the struggle will be renewed at
 the Polo Grounds tomorrow if the 1 weather man so wills, with the two
 teams in comparatively the same posi-
 ton they were before they crossed bats
 for the 1913 title.
 Regardless of the disappointment
 over the outcome of the game, as view
 ed from Philadelphia standpoint, not
 a single one of the thousands of spec 1 tatorS who witnessed the play regretted the hours spent in stands or bleachers. AS an exhibition of high class base 1 ball and sensational play the game | was all that an ideal worlds cham pionship contest should be in fiction or 1 reality
 For nine innings the rival clubs bat l tied without advantage, brilliant field ing and thrilling coups shutting out runs that appeared assured. In the tenth, with the shades of darkness set 1 ting over the park, the hero of the
 game terminated the contest just as l the dramatiSt would have staged the 1 final scene. The Athletics had a chance l to win in the ninth, and many thought poor generalship on the bench and coaching lines threw away the on op- 1 portunity that the fOrtures of baseball l cast their way.
 Plank Began to Faiter.
 1 Both Mathewson and Plank had l tWirled a game that was little short of 1 wonderful up to this point and Plank was beginning to falter under the | strain. Their teammates, too, were a. 1 tremble with the responsibilities that 1 each inning were heaping on their ] shoulders. With the Athletics at bat 1 in the last half of the ninth and but l solitary run needed to close the con-
 test Strunk opened with a single past 1 second. Barry bunted toward Larry 1 Doyle, who ran in and scooped the ball 1 Up, whirled and threw wildly past Wiltse at first in an attempt to catch l the Athletics shortstop. The ball sail
 ed clear to the right field grandstand, while Strunk and Barry rushed around the bases. Strunk was held at third
 when he had ample time to score. It was the Athletics lone chance for Wiltse and Mathewson cut down three Athletics in a row immediately after 1 by a brilliant exhibition of inffelding, and then came the Giants rush to victory.
 Larry Mclean who substituted for Meyers when the Indian split his finger in practice, singled to right 1 field in the tenth inning. Grant ran for him and reached second on Wiltse's sacrifice. MatheWsOn then Clinched the game with his clean smash to center, ! on which Grant scored. Right here the Athletics cracked. HerzOg hit to Col lins. who threw to Barry to catch Mat1lewson at second. Apparently Bar ry was unable to see the ball. except to dodge it as it flashed by on the way te left field Mathewson and Herzeg ] gained an additional base on the mis- play. Plank hit Doyle filling the bases. ] Fletcher followed with a bounder over Bakers head scoring Mathewson and Herzog and the Giants had two more runs than were needed, as it ultimate ly proved, to win the game.
 Teams Well Matched.
 Aside from the brilliancy of Mathew son the two teams were evenly match ed. Plank was not quite so steady az his rival in the box, giving two bases l on balls and hitting one batter to MatheWson's solitary pass. The Giants secured seven hits off Plank to the Athletics eight off Matty, who struck out five batters to Planks six. New York had eight men left on bases to PhiladeIphias s ten. Fletcher, Mclean ] and Mathewson secured two hits each ! a total of six out of the seven record ] ed by the Giants. Baker. was the only l , Athletic player to get MatheWson for more than one hit, the home run bats | man being credited with two.
 WiTtse Plays Star Game.
 Had it not been for Mathewson's re- markable exhibition in the box and at bat, George Wiltse would have been 1 hailed as the star of the game. As is 1 was, his play was such that it brought | llIII1 COLS u OIl DOLIl ptclS Cl . l and fans Substituted for Snodgrass ! first as runner and then at first base in l the third inning, he played a game that equalled anything that MerBle, the l Giants reuglar, has shown this season l AS if to test his courage and stamina 1 ball after ball was flashed his way dur l ing the next seven innings. Not ami error or a flaw marred his work, and l the climax came in the ninth, when he 1 cut two Athletics down at the plate and ! took Mathewsons throw at first for the i third out.
 Crowd Numbers 2o,563
 According to the figures of the na- tionai commission 20,563 persons paid 1 admission to witness the game. The | receipts amounted to $49,640. Com pared with the records of the first i game here in 1911. the attendance was l approximately 5000 less, but the re- ceipts 36,000 greater, due to the in | crease in the prices for seats this sea son. Probably four thousand more saw i the game from points of vantage out | side the park. The two rows of brick | houses that overlook Shibe park on 1 spectators. On roofs and porChes tenn porary stands had been erected and ! these were black with men and boys | who climbed through windows and roof ! scuttles to the tiers of pine benches, i paying the thrifty househoders fifty cents to a dollar for the privilege.
 Waited All Night in Rain.
 Tn other respects the scenes attend l ant on the gathering of the fans were much the same as at the opening game in New York, except upon a smaller | scale. Lines of men and boys stood all l night in the drizzle awaiting the open ing of the gates to the bleacheTs and 1 long before noon this section of the stands was crowded to it's utmost ca pacity. The grandstand seats being all reserved, the holders of these Cou- pons gathered slowly and it was not l until the second inning that the va l cancies were filled.
 Outside the park thousands stood 1 throughout the game, echoing the | cheers of those within, while automo- 1 piles lined the streets for several l squares around the baseball arena. The | spectators were noticeably fair in their | treatment of the players of the two clubs, applauding every good play re- gardIess of whether made by Athletic or Giant. Naturally they rooted hard est for an Athletic victory, but when l 1t was seen that Mathewson was in vulnerable, the thousands rose up and l cheered the old master in way that i could not have been surpassed even i at the Polo grounds.
 The score:
 New Yerk. Philadelphia.
 Herzog.3b 0 E NGdrpLyrf o ) Doyle. 2b ? OIdnneR l Bleteher,ss 2 3 0 Couns2b Burns.H 0 6IEaker.3b