Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-09
MATHEWSON PITCHED
GIANTS TO VICTORY
Veteran Twirler Was in Superb
Form Yesterday.
TANNED THE MIGHTY BAKER.
Athletics Had Flen on in Second, But
Maryland Boy Could Not Hit
Score Was 3 To 0.

The New York Giants and Philadel-
phia Athletics. in the second game of
the worlds series yesterday after
noon, stood up toe to toe through
nine scoreless innings. innings full of
splendid work by the evergreen vet
Grams, Chrlsty Msthewson and Ed
ward Plank and of support in keep
ing with their own sterling work.
Then came the tenth and with il
the break, three runs for the Giants
and an epic victory for that team,
with the FINAL score to 0 in their
favor. The third game of the series
is being played today in New York.
A feature laden game was that of
Yesterday, in which the Giants even
ed up the reckoning of games won
with the puissant Mscks. Before
the National Leaguers were returned
the winners, defeat was perilOusly
near to them more than once, sld in
avoiding that fate there was one
participant whose work, whose part
in the battle, overtopped all the rest.
That man was Matthewson. His was
in a measure q personal triumph.
No greater ever has been achieved
by a single player in game.
In shutting out the hardhitting
Athletics on their own field, he pitch
ed them into helplessness with the
same superb skill with which he beat
| far less formidable team of Ath-
letics eight years ago. The victory
will always be regarded as one of
| the most memorable of accomplish
ments for the old fellow, who not
| before this year has shown more com
handing skill than he did yesterday
and who supported that skill with a
| nerve that knew no fiinching.
Twice in the game Matty as in dire
straits. Had he wavered in the least
on those occasions the game would
have gone against him. In the first
inning the Athletics had two on
bases with none out and yet they
could not scorek in the ninth inning
the most dramatic period of a dra-
| matte game fhey had men on second
| and third ard none out and yet
/ couldn't score,
The niLth inni0g situation was of
| course the more critical OF the two.
lt was do or die with the Giants
then. Any shrinking, any yielding,
the least outcropping of weakne IS
and the game was gone. Indeed, il
was close to being gone anyway, for
no matter how firmly the Giants stood
their ground, any sort OF hit by
the Athletics. who are too potent with
| the ash to be repealed often unJe I
similar circumstances, and the Amer
lean leaguers would have had two VIC
tories on their side of the ledger.
But Matthewson, with craft on his
| part and on the part of his fielders
and with cool steadiness on the part
of both, again sent the Athletic bril-
gade to the field empty handed,
whe reas in the New York half of the
tenth, Plank, who up TO that time
also had pitched one OF the best
| games of his career, succumbed a bit
to til stress of conflict. One of his
\ feeders Collins made a bad wabble
and caravan of three Giants circled
TO the plate.
A m )st note rwthy feature of Mat
thewson's pitching was the fact that
| he famed Baker, the mighty man
| with the stick in the second inning
when, with two men on bases, the
scoring of pair of runs for the Ath-
letics seemed almost inevitable,