New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-09
Plank Fighse Bitter Duel for
Nine Innings, but WeakeIs
in Tenth, When Rivals
Make Three Hits and
Score Three Runs.
WILTsE A POWER AT FIRST
Veteran Twirler Saves Day with Two
Marvellous Stops and Throws
to Plate, Turning Back
Foe on Verge of
Victory.
(By Telegraph to The Tribune.

FNlIdueipHld, OCl. o'-NOuDeu VI AiS
catcher, a wrecked machine tottering ID
ruin at his back and the greatest slug
gers in baseball poised for the on {
slaught, old Chris Mathewson. master.
king, emperor and ruler of all baseball
pitchers at home and in the dominions
beyond the seas. annihilated the attack
of the Phila delphia Athletics by the
might Of his wizardry, and returned the
Giants victors in the second game OF
the worlds series, at Shibe Park this
afternoon.
With the New York team almost ir-
reparably crippled by the absence OF
three regulars Meyers. Merkle and
Snodgrass-the great twirler, practi-
cally single handed, fought the foe into
submission. For the first time in thir-
teen worlds series battles Connie
Mack's present machine was unable to
score. After ten innings OF bitter
nerve racking combat the visitors won
with the count 3 TO o.
Thousands upon thousands, friend
and enemy, paid their tribute to the
prowess Of the master as he toyed with
Baker in the pinches, coddled Collins
and sent the swift McInnis hitless
through the struggle.
Eddie Plank, hero Of hundred bat
ties. who matched Big Six point for
point throughout a magnificent duel OF
nine scoreless innings, only to have his
time -frayed arm fail him in the tenth,
vas cheered, and deseryedly so, but the
spontaneous outburst which greeted
Matty when he pulled out of the peril
Gus ninth after runners had reached
second and third with none out was
| too long and sustained TO be the prod
,uct of the limited New York contingent.
! And when II was all over Matty am
bled slowly across the diamond, the
last TO leave the infeld, as unconcern-
edly as if had spent an uneventful day
on the coaching lines.
Nearly thirty thousand spectators
saw the game. which will go down in
history as one Of the greatest ever
played. A large contingent Of these
were perched on the tops Of the houses
overlooking the field. The official paid
attendance was 20,563, some 10000 less
than attended the second game in Bos-
ton last year, and 5000 less than two
years ago. The receipts were Si9,640.
SO, 900 less than last year, but $1,000
more than for the second game Of the
series at Shibe Park two years ago.
Forlorn Hope for Giants.
Never did the Giants enter a game
looking more like a forlorn hope. Mer-
kle was in uniform. determined to play
~ nossible, but a few minutes practice
convinced McGraw that 10 permit 1t
would be folly. An ill-born toss by
Herzog opened an old wound on Chief
Meyers's hand toward the end Of the
fielding work and put him out
Snodgrass, lame enough to be in bed.
was picked to plug the gap at first but
II was a physical impossiblity for him
10 run. After he had singled in the
third and barely hoobled 10 third base
on Matty's drive to left McGraw took
him out, although Fred protested Wig
orously.
II was then that Hooks" Wiltse
donned his jaunty finger glove and went
TO first. But more Of him anon. Just
now. for a moment, imagine Eddie
plank robbed Of McInnis, his regular
first baseman. and Baker, his hardest
hitter.
Then the patched-up lineup began
TO do its worst for Matty. With here
and there a fash of power, they booted.
kicked and hurled the ball from pillar
to post. but the master never quavered.
They came up In a pinch with runs
a a-plenty quivering on the horizon and
fell ANONYMOUSLY.
Still Big Six" stuck to the guns. his
iron nerve unruffled and his matchless
courage unbroken, until finally the
time came for him to strike the blow
and bring the first run Of the game
over the pldte, Win Siediit seo"t-
hearted single to centre. Not only did
he have to hold the enemy at bay, but
he was also compelled to win his own
game.
Two stalwart figures loomed in the
breach by the side Of the New York
itcher-Larry Mclean. the catcher
imported from Cincinnati last summer
and George Wiltse. Matty's ''roomy''
of the road. 1t was this pair that
choked off two Philadelphia runs at
the plate when either would have won
the game had it been scored.
1t was not so very long ago that
Wiltse was a pitcher Of some parts
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