The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-10-11
MATTY BLANKS ATHLETICS.
NEW YORK. GIANTS WIN SEC.
OND GAME OF WORLDS SE.
RIES IN PHILADEL.
PHIA.
Wiltse and MatthewsOn Stars of
Game--In Tenth Inning Rally
Giants Score Three Times-Wind.
Ing up Game 3 to O-Smaller Crowd
Than I'm New York.

Philadelphia, Oct. S.--Christy
Mathewson, master manipulation of
the baseball, today led the New York
Giants to victory at Shibe park when
ne shut out the Philadelphia Athletics
In 1O-inning battle by a to score
IN the second game of the world s
series. Hero of a decade of league and
WORLDS championship play, the IA
nous veteran rose to a higher pin
nacle by an exhibition of all-round
play that wrung volleys of applause
from the 10000 Athletic supporters
who were massed in the stands and
bieachers. Box score experts will
point to their figures to prove that II
other Giants were instrumental in
winning the second contest of the Sc
ries. but the Philadelphia fans who
hied sadly out of the Athletics ball
park spoke only of Mathewson.
For trifie over two hours and 20
minutes the man whose requium was
sung by thousands of fans after the
final game against the Boston Red
Sox in the worlds series Of 1912
turned back the hard hitting Athletics
without a semblance of break. Then,
when he saw that his team mates
could not wrest victory from Plank,
ne drove in the run that won the
game. Spr red by his example, the
other Giants added two more to clinch
the contest, but they were not needed
Mathewson was the master to the
end, Oldring, Collins and Baker being
unable to drive the ball outside the
diamond in the 10th and final inning
although 10000 adherents pleaded for
hit that might start a winning rally
AS a result of Mathewson's prowess
the Giants went back to New York to-
night on even terms with the Athletics
and the strugdgle will be reenwed at
the Polo grounds tomorrow. d.
Regardless of the disappointment
over the outcome of the game as
viewed from "a Philadelphia stAnd-
point, not q single one Of the thou
sands Of spectators who witnessed the
game regretted the hours spent in
stands or hleachers. AS an exhibi-
tion of high-class baseball and isensa-
tiopal play the game was all that an
idear worlds championship contest
should be in fiction or reality. For
nine innings the rival clubs battled
without advantage. brilliant felding
shutting out runs that appeared as
sured. In the 10th, with the shades
of darkness settling over the park,
the hero of the game terminated the
contest just as the dramatist would
have staged the final scene. The
Athletics had chance to win in the
ninth and many thought poor general
ship On the bench and coaching lines
threw away the one opportunity that
te fortunes of baseball cast their
way. s...
Aside from the brilliancy of Math-
ewson the two teams were evenly
matched. Plank was not quite as
steady as Ills rival in the box, Civ.
ing two bases on balls and hitting
one batter to Mathewson's solitary
pass. The Giants secured seven hits
off Plank to the Athletics eight from
Mathewson. who struck out five bat
men to Plank's six. New York had
eight left on bases to Philadelphia g
ten. Fletcher. Mclean and Mathew
son secured two hits each, a total of
six out Of the seven recorded by the
Giants. Baker was the only Athletic
player who got to Mathewson for
more than one hit, the third baseman