page_title: Chief Bender
section_title: Later career
hierarchical_section_title: Chief Bender / Baseball career / Later career
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the stars of the Thanhouser Company film The Baseball Bug (1911)Left to right: Big Chief Bender, Henry Richard Morgan, Jack Coombs and Robert E. Oldring More information Identifier: movingpicturenew04unse (find matches) Title: Moving Picture News (1911) Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Subjects: motion pictures Publisher: Cinematograph Publishing Company Contributing Library: Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section Digitizing Sponsor: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: le Film Exchange,paid a visit to the city this week. Mr. Jack Read, Jr., will leave very shortly on a trip toJapan for the purpose of exhibiting to the Japanese publicthe excellent moving pictures which he secured of the Amer-ican sojourn of their beloved Admiral Togo. Mr. Isidor Bernstein has been engaged as assistant man-ager of the Republic Film Company. Bernie assures usthat great things are in store for the exhibitor who will useRepublic films. All who know Bernie are aware of thatenergy and enthusiasm with which he is constantly bubblingover, and we therefore feel assured that the Republic withMr. Herbert Miles and Mr. Isidor Bernstein at the head ofaffairs cannot fail to push forward to a great success. Mr. Marvin, of the Biograph Company, has given movingpicture circles something interesting to talk about, by hav-ing filmed the rehearsal of the wedding ceremony of hisdaughter. This is a novelty and will doubtless serve as aprecedent for many others. THE AlOVING PICTURE NEWS 35 Text Appearing After Image: BENDER MORGAN COOMBS OLDRING INDEPENDENTS CAPTURE CHAMPION BALLPLAYERS—BENDER, COOMBS, MORGAN ANDOLDRING APPEAR IN THANHOUSER FILM Stars of the Athletics Are Seen as Actors in The BaseballBug Comedy Reel BENDER, Coombs! Morgan! Oldring!Theyre picture plajers!Now let the hearts of all fans rejoice, for the fourstars of the star Philadelphia Athletics will be with them oncemore, though the season is over. And it will be a diversionto see them as actors—to see if they face the camera as con-fidently as they did Mathewson. In advance, let it be said that they did. They enacted their roles at the Thanhouser studio with theprecision of veteran photoplayers, and they even played astage game of ball with all the enthusiasm they manifesteain their battles on the genuine diamond. With characteristic film-makers enterprise, the Than-houser people set to capturing the Athletic cracks as soonas it became evident that the Athletics would win the WorldsChampionship. As soon as the ball players w Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Charles Albert "Chief" Bender was a pitcher in Major League Baseball during the 1900s and 1910s. In 1911, Bender tied a record by pitching three complete games in a single World Series. He finished his career with a 212–127 win-loss record for a .625 winning percentage and a career 2.46 earned run average.
  After his major league playing career, Bender filled multiple baseball roles, including service as a major league coach, minor league manager and player-manager, college manager and professional scout. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953 and he died not long before his induction ceremony the following year.
context_section_description: In 1911, he led the AL in winning percentage again (.773), going 17–5 with a 2.16 ERA as the A's won their second consecutive AL pennant, going 101–50 and finishing 13½ games ahead of the Detroit Tigers. In a rematch of the 1905 World Series, the Athletics got their revenge, defeating the New York Giants and becoming the first American League team to win back-to-back World Series (the Chicago Cubs from the NL had won back-to-back titles in 1907 and 1908). After losing the opener 2–1 to Christy Mathewson, though pitching a complete game, giving up just 5 hits and 2 runs (1 earned run) and striking out 11, he returned in Game 4, beating the Giants 4–2 on a complete game 7-hitter, and closed out the Series in game 6 with a 13–2 A's victory. Bender again went the distance (his 3rd complete game of the series), a 4-hit performance which he gave up no earned runs (the two Giants runs were unearned). He went 2–1, with 1.04 ERA and 3 complete games in the series.
  In 1912 Bender was 13–8 with a 2.74 ERA. He did not start for nearly 40 games late in the year and was suspended by the A's in September for alcohol abuse. His next contract had a clause saying he had to abstain from drinking to earn his full salary. In 1913, he went 21–10 with a 2.21 ERA, helping the A's win their third AL pennant in four years. They would also make it three World Series titles in four years by defeating the Giants in five games. Bender went 2–0 in the series with complete-game victories in Games 1 and 4.
  He led the AL in winning percentage (.850) for the third time in 1914, going 17–3 with a 2.26 ERA, and the A's would win their fourth AL pennant in five years. But the Philadelphia Athletics would be swept by the underdog Boston Braves, with Bender losing Game 1 7–1 and giving up 6 earned runs in 5⅓ innings. It was the only World Series game he failed to finish, after completing his previous nine starts in the Fall Classic.
  When the Baltimore Terrapins of the upstart Federal League offered Bender a significant increase in salary, Athletics manager Connie Mack knew he could not hope to match it and released him. Bender went 4–16 for the Terrapins and later regretted leaving Philadelphia. After two years with the Phillies, he left baseball in 1918 to work in the shipyards during World War I.
  Over his career, his win-loss record was 212–127, for a .625 winning percentage (a category in which he led the American League in three seasons), and a career 2.46 ERA. His talent was even more noticeable in the high-pressure environment of the World Series; in five trips to the championship series, he managed six wins and a 2.44 ERA, completing 9 of the 10 games he started, putting him 2nd in World Series history behind Christy Mathewson. In the 1911 Series, he pitched three complete games to tie Christy Mathewson's record of three complete games in a World Series. He also threw a no-hitter on May 12, 1910, beating the Cleveland Indians 4–0.
  Bender was a very adept hitting pitcher in his major league career, posting a .212 batting average (243-for-1,147) with 102 runs, 6 home runs and 116 RBI. He had 10 or more RBI in a season four times, with a career high 16 in 1910.
caption: The four stars of the world champion Philadelphia Athletics — Bender, Cy Morgan, Jack Coombs and Rube Oldring — were featured in the Thanhouser Company film, The Baseball Bug (1911)[3]
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