Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-13
Marberry's "Stunt' in Game No. z.

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n 1NTIL late in the afternoon OF
October 5, 1924, it had been
~ pretty we'll accepted by close
observers of the art of playing base
ball that the strikeout pitcher was
a man of the past. The wizard who
walked across the greensward in the
deepening shadows of the tenth in
ming and whitfield" one, two or three
at the opposition and brought vic
tory for Mudville was generally re-
garded as having died out with the
departure of Christy Mathewson, Ed
Walsh, Addie Joss, Chief Bender and
Rube Waddell.
The unnamed immortal, the pitcher
who famed the equally immortal
Casey on three pitched balls, has a
successor-Fred Marberry of Wash
ington. This hero didn't have to
strike out a slugger of the renown
Of Casey, but he had to do what he
did under conditions which the man
who faced the Pride of Mudville
never dreamed Of.
Marberry went into the box In the
ninth inning of the second game of
d
strain than has any pitcher in the
history of the game. Matthewson,
pitching the fatal tenth in 1912, when
Fred Snodgrass dropped the $780, 600
fly" is the nearest that history brings
US to it.
How the Battle Ragged.
That was the game, you will re-
member. in which the Nationals even
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Tecumseh Zachary pitching against
Jack Bentley. With two out in the
second inning and Rice on second
base, Goose" Goslin made the first
Of his three great home runs Of the
series and the Nationals were off to
two-run advantage. In the fifth
inning Harris hit another home run
into the left-field stands
great opportunity was spoiled
for the Giants in the very first inning
when, after Lindstrom and F'r1sch
tempt to bunt. To his choice OF that
play, 1t may be said in passing, Nc
Graw ascrfbes more than anything
else his failure to win the series.
Kelly followed with a grounder to
Harris, on which the Washington
captain threw wildly to second and
the bases were filled; but Meusel hit
into g. double play.
The Nationals had q three-run lead
going into the seventh. Here came
another lapse in the Giant offensive.
Kelly walked and Meusel singled him
to third. Zachary had shown signs
or weakening, but McGraw ordered
Wilson to hit the first ball, and an
other double play was the result.
Kelly scored, but jackson closed the
inning with a long fly to left.
Then came the ninth. Frisch drew
pass but Young popped to Peck
inpaugh at short. Kelly hit cleanly
to center and Frisch scored all the
way from first. Meusel smashed to
Harris, who made a great one-hand
pickup and threw out the New
Yorker at first, but Kelly took Sec
ond. Wilson hit single to right
/ and Kelly tore In with the tying run.
Wnen the ball got away from Ruel
Tor second Wilson took second.
Zachary Goes Out.
Harris walked out into the diamond
and talked to Zachary. Then he told
the tired left-hander/ to take the
bench. and beckoned to q tall young
ster who had been warming up out
near the right field line.
What spot in which to test q Lad
In his first appearance in q world
season in the big circuit. but known
in that time as the best rescue
pitcher In the American League.
The hopes, the fears, the forebod-
ings Of $4,000 were on the shoulders
of this 2s-year-old youngster. Prob
ably he never .hada2 thAEAtzaf the