Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-11
The Giants Rally.

luS TIE Was SuNtos
The Giants Rally.
The desperate, but as il proved, flu
tile rally of the Giants came like a
bolt from a clear sky. .'Chief" Bend
er. the Chippewa Indian master of
mysterious curve and break, had held
the Giants runless for six innings
while his team mates by pile driving
hits had scored as many runs at the
expense of Demaree and Marquard.
Already the fans that filed every seat
in the stands and bleachers were
exulting in the downfall of the New
York Club Bender, confident in the
big lead was pitching consistent ball
and there was not single danger sig
nal in sight Suddenly the Giants
became transformed from hitless
weaklings to real giants, who ham
mered the speed and slants of the In
dian twirler to all parts of the park.
1t was in the Lucky seventh" that
the storm of hits burst upon the
astonished Athletics and before the
aborigine and his fellow players couid
recover three Giants had crossed the
plate and the fusillade continued IN
the next session, when two scored ana
the team, which was but a Few mo-
ments before apparently outclassed.
was battering down the last defenees
of the Mackmen.
Fred Merkle, whose injured ankle
still caused him to limp perceptibly,
was the player who was Directly re-
sponsihle for the breaking through Of
the ceat of whitewash that Bender
was applying so artistically.
with Burns and Murray on second
and third as the result of two singles
and a double steal and two out. Mefkle
caurht one of Bender's low balls on
The outside corner of the plate and
lifted il far out into left center, Whefe
neither Oldring nor Strunk could quite
reach it. The sphere hit the green turf
of Shibe park and with a mighty
hound hoped the fence into the
bleacners and Merkle trotted nome
after his two teammates with the thito
home run of the series, thus joining
Baker and Schang in the roll III base
ball immortals.
In the Eighth, Too.
Spurred on by Merkle's example,
Hefzog. who had not made hit in the
series, today, opened the eighth with
single. only to be forced by Doyle.
who was eliminated by Fletcher. Burns
came through with a double down the
third base line. scoring Fletcher and
shafc~ shot a triple past McInnis'
post. tallying Burns Murray smashed
. scorching drive at Collins. but the
Columbia alumnus managed TO hold
he cfa himself
and throw the runner out at first for
the third out. Although McGraw sent
two pinch hitters to bat in the ninth,
the Giants could not get over the run
that would have tied the score. for
Bender was now fully aware OF the
danger that beset him and his team
mates, ard pitched ball that fairly
whistled as it flashed and broke across
the plate.
1t was the narrowest kind of an es-
cape ana put for the equally heaVy MT
ting of the Athletics in the forepart Oh
the game and some brilliant displays
of defensive plays, the Giants would
now be on even terms with the Phiia-
dolphia standard bearers instead oil
trailing two games in the rear OF the
American Leaguers. The rally was ef-
fective, however in that 1t encour-
aqed the men of McGraw to believe
that they might yet overtake the flying
Athletics The probabilities are mucn
against such a feat, but the Giants
are preparing for a last stand at the
Polo grounds. tomorrow, and clam
that 4 they can once get gong thes
will yet win the series
4
All the circumstances pointing the
opposite direction, for the Mackmeh
with q record of three victories out OF
four games are now well verSed In the
ability and resources of the Giants.
When they drove Demaree from the
box at the end of the fourth inning,
after four runs had been scored from
his delivery, il marked the passing OF
every New York pitcher except the
veteran Christie Mathewson. In Tour
games, MarGuard, Crandall, Tesreau
and Demaree have all fallen before
the terrific hitting of the heavy-batting
Athletics Only Mathewson, in his
wonderful exhibition of Wednesday,
when he shut them out, has been able
to hold the American League pennant
Nlfntt III tiicSh.
AS If 10 show the versatility OF the
team, it was a new quartet of batters
who bombarded Demaree from the
mound, this afternoon, and also gave
Marquard, In his comeback role, taste
of their ability. Whereas in the first
three games Murphy, Odrng, Collins
and Baker did the brunt of the stick
work, il was the lower half of the bat
ting order that sprang into the breach
when the leaders fatered in their stick
work. Seven OF the nine hits recorded
off the Giant twirlers We're made by Nc
Jnnis, Strunk, Barry and Schane. This
quartet also scored all six runs that
were credited TO the Maekmen. OF the
upper half only Oldring was able TO bet
his bat on the bail safely
Barry made three hits in four times at
bat, two of them being doubles. Schang
did even better execution, getting two
hits and two bases on balls In four times
up. His two hits scored four outs and
ne crossed the plate himself with an
other. Oldring, who has made as afe hit
the first time up in every game of the
series, earned the honor of the longest