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unnecessary run score while he held
the ball after recovering the hit that
ought TO have won the game
Esers BIunders, Then Hits. 70
But Evers made up for that lapse
Of mind by ringing vicious base hit
in the home tenth. which put the
tying tally where a long fly scored 1t
Manager StaiIings picked Tyler tc
face the Athletics in this crucial bat
tie Tyler wss hit harder than either
Rudolph or James had been The
Athletics touched Tyler's southpaw
stuff for eight safeties, including -four
doubles. and made them count.
Joe Bush, who delivered a great
game against the Giants last year
was Connie Mack's choice for the
fierce test today. He pitched q
splendid game, and would probably
have been returned winner II he had
given Gowdy four bases on balls In
stead of one, but he didn't. Bush. was
nervous and unsteady In the early
rounds. For four innings he was in
the hole to the b7tsman much Of the
time, and looked as If he was going
TO crack almost any time.
Joe Bush overconfident.
BY the fifth inning he gained conf,
dence and went like a whirlwind until
the Athletics won the game for him.
then Bush apparently was oyerc0nfi.
dent, for he lost both effectiveness
and control and proved incapable OF
stopping Boston's vicious rally In the
last half Bush himself made the first
Athletic error and let in the winning
tally with q wild throw.
e No more bitter pill ever was fed a
dying patient than the crumbling
worlds champions were forced to
swallow. in that finish today.
4 After twice failing to hold an ad.
vantage Of one run, they went into
the tenth with frantic determination
and convinced every one they were
going to claim at least enc game ont
Of this series.
Looked All Over in Tenth.
Schang, rambling under the supe-
.riority of Gowdy in every department
.of the game during this series. led
that tenth round with slashing sin
gle to left Bush struck ont, trying
to advance his backstop to within
scoring distance; but Tyler nearly de.
ifeated himself by headless play on
,Murphy's grounder. Although it came
to Tyler on a quick hop, the pitcher
failed to see that it was a. hit-and-run
play, and elected to try to force Schang
at second, but the runner beat that
play by couple Of steps. Maranville
tried to remedy the blHnder by relay
ing the pill to first, but Mprphy's speed
enabled him to beat it.
s Oldring, who has been the goat OF
the series, then smashed redhct one
back at the pitcher. but Tyler checked
its speed Just enough to enabie Evers
to make swell play and cut off the
hit. retiring RUDE at first. while the
other runners advanced.
Bases FuIi-Ral<er Up.
! Collins refused to be. worked by
bad balls, so Tyler passed him, filling
the circuit and bringing up Baker. No
more dramatic scene can be imagined
than this which Tyler faced. With
the score knotted, the bases full, two
men, out and the famous homeTun
Singer at bat. Twice ID the earlier
rounds Tyler had set Baker down on
strikes. making him look, badly, but
In the ninth the slugger had come
through with a vicious double The
southpaw made his adversary hit and
4 nasty hot bounder resulted. Il went
to Evers' feet on the fly, then took
q crooked jump and caromed safely
off Johns shins. letting Schang race.
home with the run that broke the long
tie.
Disconnected and shaken By the
force of the hit, Evers lost his head
for an instant, and, while he conyersed
with Collins, held the ball, letting Muir
ply sneak home, too. McTnnis fol-
lowed with a line ny to Whitfield for
the third out, and large sections of the
crowd started for the exits under the
impression the game was over.
Crowd Leaving, Gowdy Hits.
They reckoned without King G0wdy,
who squared away, shut his teeth and
inauled the first bail pitched 3 couple
bf miles over Walsh's head. The pill
lii within asfew feet Of the far center
field bleachers and hoped on the first
bound over the low barrier that sepa-
rated the bugs from the turf. That
entitled the slugger to home rum.
Josh Deyore went to bat for Tyler and
struck out.
Then Bush lost control and passed
Moran. 1t brought up j. Evers, who
shut his eyes in rsge and struck
blindly at two bad balls. fouling off
one of them Then the Brave cap
tain paused and let q bad one alone,
but soaked the next one on the nose
for sizzling one, driving Moran
around to third.
Connolly drove long fly into CEN
ter, on which Moran romped home
without any effort being made to stop
him Whitfield popped an easy fly to
Baker for the third out.
= big Bill James took Tyler,s job
in the eleventh, and, with his. whirls
wind speed and the near twilight,
gave the Athletics no chance to score
q run. They were disposed of easily
in the eleventh in spite of one base.
on balls.
The Rravee ware nran softer fnT.