The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-08
PHILADELPHIA SURE
TEAM WILL REPEAT
Merkle's Injury to Ankle
Casts Gloom Over the
Giant Players.
D Ell END ON u OK
Schang's Triple Yesterday
Considered Slightly on
the Fluke Order.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. SIN this
town today the fans feel sure that the
home team will win the baseball cham
pionship. Most of them think the Sc
ries will go six games, others I'VE,
while the most enthusiastic are pre-
dieting four straight.
The 6-to-4 victory Of the Athletics
yesterday, aided and abetted by the
clouting of Home Run" Baker, who
included little four-base swat in his
batting skit, was the factor that made
the Athletics supporters so certain OF
ultimate victory in the series.
Giants in Gloom.
The gloom in the Giants camp was
deepened by the condition Of Mer-
kle's ankle. which was sprained in the
sixth inning of yesterdays game The
pucky FIRST baseman insisted that he
would be able to get back into the
game this afternoon with his ankle in
a brace, but the teams doctor declar'
ed that the warrior would be taking
long chance.
The injury to Merkle is an especial
ly hard blow, because Snodgrass, the
only other man on the team capable
of holding down first base during such
a crisis, is laid up with a charley
horse"
Merkle begged McGraw to allow
him to go into the game on his nerve,
but McGraw had seen many such exhl-
billions of nerve in the past and he
1knew that more harm than good prob
ably would result
Issue Undecided.
Looking back over the fray yester-
day the non-partisan fan is not quite
able to figure out why the Athletics
supporters are so extremely confident,
or the two thousand Giant fans who
followed the team here, SO pessimls-
tic. True, the Athletics won, and it
is also true that the Quaker City ath-
letes chased two giant twirlers from
the mound. But the Athletics did not
outplay the Giants by any wide mar
gin in any department of the game.
The much talked of breaks" were
annexed solely by the Athletics The
law of average must figure in worlds
series combat as well as anything else
and the Giants are due for their share
Of breaks"
Schang's triple yesterday was slight
1y on the fluke order, and for time
the scorers were noplussed as to how
to record the play. The drive was a
terrific one. Shafer, the Giants cen
terfielder, ran back for it, paused just
a second too soon, saw the liner was
going past him, and jumped into the
air The ball pumped against his
gloved hand and then skidded away.
Had Shafer been one incn farther out
he would have speared the drive that
resulted in two Athletic runs.
Home Run Feature.
Bakers home run was one of the
deciding factors of the game. But,
mighty slugger that he is. Baker can't
hammer out circuit wallops every
day.
The unkind way in which the Ath-
letics treated Marquard, the Giants
star southpaw, dishearlened the Gil
ants as well as their supporters But
the Rube stacks up as one Of the
greatest pitchers in the game. All of
the have their off days, and it looked
as If yesterday was Rube's.
Tesreau's fine work in the two in
nings that he worked as a relief pitch
er, has given the "Ltold-you-so" faction
a fine chance to clutter up the atmos-
phere with their expressions. One and
all they'll tell you today that If Nc
Graw had sent Tesreau against the
Athletics yesterday, the New Workers
would have won.