The evening world. Newspaper, October 17, 1911, Page 1

Probably Wednesday. FIN EDITION. ATHLETICS BEAT GIANTS, SCORE 3 TO 2. _IN ELEVEN INNING FIGHT WITH MATTY | Che PRICE ONE CENT. (The Ne 1011, by ‘ Press Publishing World). BiG CHIEFS SCL STIRS DULL CROWD QUT OF DRAB SPIRIT —— Big Throng Gathered in Sombre Force and Handful of Quakertown Rooters Easily Outdid Superior Numbers in Fine Cheering. VACANCY IN STANDS SING WOE OF THE SPECULATORS Bare Spots Indicate That Men Who Tried to Gouge the Public Met With Sad Fate. | BY IRVIN S. COBB. Written Specialy for The Evening World. POLO GROUNDS, NEW YORK, Oct, 17.—A dun and drab day, his, to match the dull gray feelings of those of New York who yester- mom journeyed to Philadelphia full of bright red hopes and returned on yester-night loaded un with mauve regrets, Nevertheless, there came betimes to this inclosure up in Farther Harlem, uncounted thousands of loyal fans, It takes a hero to be a fan or a fan to be a hero, whichever you prefer. ‘Gazing on a morning sky that lowers like a scolding woman's frown and reading in one column of the paper the ‘fateful score of yesterday—Athletics 3, Giants 1, and in the next column the weather report for the succeeding twenty-four hours—showers and threatening—he notwithstanding calls up his reserve force of courage, puts on raincoat, takes the family umbrella out of the safe deposit vault and straightaway starts for the Polo Groun Or at t was what he did to- thelr hippod: romie marches across the day. stay field iT hustasm that late, But he was 4 #0. accom every spirited or decisive Ricne’ Wi r his he play 4 only human nature Bilpped in a found a place quietly, | breaking ds and not s an ex. took {t quit and settled himself val ay you would na- quietly to await whatever might Mo turally expect from such a mass of upon the knees of th gods, Maybe baseball loving men and women, wus the reflection of veste E NO LAC’. OF GOOD CHEER maybe i¢ was the effect of clouds, sagging snd soggy that collet sullenly just above the tips- AMONG SPECULATORS. with rain! But if the masses of the populace lacked Ward evidences of hilarity or 50 it Beemed--of the flagstaffs on the here this afternoon, on the third day's Brush Stadium. Maybe {t was a combl-| fightin the third day was de- nation result of thiuking tor tor hours over the consp most of the tickets fo. cisive, you'll remember, at Gettysburg and other battlos—there was no lack of the New York | good cheer among the speculators, who end of the world’s serles into the hands | outside the fence were tered ay of speculators and few or none in | thick as flios at the mouth of a jam- hands of the public that has roy pot, Sundry exulbited satisfac- supported the Giants all through the! tion with season only to find itsetf hamstrung and| World at large. misled at the fintsa, CAN'T UNDER3S!14ND WHY FANS and with the re was Harry Ste- vens, now, for example—Harry-Stevens, the only living creature except a kan- Zaroo that was born with a pocket, The HERE ARE 80 COLD. fi moat Stevens wore a smile that Those amateur pysohoxolists of the all the wa und his face an press stand who ke a specialty ittoned erat the back Ike a studying baseball crowds have been ergyny r. Holding in one &@ 1098 to translate into words and the first oxidized nickel he ev singular apathy or aloofness and in the other hand a ham sand- ess op silent hostility om wh wich that Was originally offered for » you want 1! it, that has so beset | to a member of tho f Buack Crook’ ‘both theso > crowds, the onv | company, Hu Stevens contemplated of Saturday and, in an even move balance tof hls sandwich and marked manner, the one of to-day ot dog studio up in the Inner recesses Is lt becauye this xrand stand ts so] big grand stand and openty ad vast and cavernous that a mere pul 1 that all was well man, realising his tnsigniteance, ENTER THE RIVAL TEAMS stands abasied, end would as soon al- most cheer in a cathedral as amids CLOSE uP, these lofty roofs and these dim arcues? | And while we're oa the subject, 1: Is it because the man who has paid ht also be stated that the Phila- $2 or $8 or $4 for what has heretofore | delphia team seemed reasonably happy cost! him 59 cents Is wondering where | when they marcied In hard on th he is going to get his money's worth] heels of the tribe of McGraw, The hack? In it because of the horrid fear | wor a ®, embroidered with that what sta out to be a merry-| white elephants mampant, and they making may resolve ituclf Into a fu-| Were led by that loa old Jesutt of base- neral, that so many sit mute as mum- | Pall, Comellus Metiliteuddy, 1sq mles and dumb as dummies? Enough 1 phia rooters had als Or in the last analysis is It because SMe cia aS baseball between champtonsulp tes (Pentinued9 ond Page), has been reduced to an exuct and me- —_ chanical science that the sight of a bai} HE REDUCED 57 POUNDS. snapped, flelded xo accur- | New Method of omen: i being pitched, batted, and thrown so automatically, duction Proves! ly Saecesat ately and go faultlessly has robbed the | iy abe eds ah sport of veat and zeal and capacity | of claim) made by Hon. for enthusiasm it had in the days when | Stetler, of Johustown, Pas that re every game Was a fonst of swat and a| f) redibly short tine nas bech ty sil | flow of runs? | entabliniied Be the answer what tt may tho in- |, Uhe facts are, aw pr ‘oven by a canetul duitable facts stands out that 24 amail | MYeRUeAt On, s toys watching a match between the| from Prof, 1, 3 Dirty Dozen and the Pike Street on @ vacant jot alongeide a br | nan make more nofse and will make nore noise than all these pllod up mult!- | tud have made yet. must exclude from this diagnosis the iy LL thane ai outbursta of applause that rip the sktey | nk 1 th At when the teams Ore, epdew and make | been extended ‘tore tieAdre that > « ® wimple, jn- lese than one nee, Which, 8 us an infallit n reducer, di Mieting, mediety sults With Steth Of course one ax with wonen Ww er te mond ¢ “lyears old, of No. 438 Elghty-thiid He was hurried to 1 YOUTH IDENTIFIED st ATTY CLARKE | “BY AGNES WAUGH SUDDENLY DOWN HELD FOR ATTACK: WITH ee Brach Refuses in Court to An- Conference of Docte swer Charge Dramatically | O'Clock To-Night Will De- ngseh a bie deat noniGa| in the Ninth and Team Mates Made by Victim. cide Whether to Operate, Devore. if....... 0 0 0 0 OlLord.if.........0 0 5 0 0} Cinch Game With Batting | ey add hae aa 00 : 5 $| Stacies. 6 vr OO : . Rally in Eleventh _ , . wy ; cf... 0 O 3 0 O|Collns, 2b, a | i CRIES “HE'S THE MAN!” WANTS IT DE FERRED, (Murray. rls... 0 0 2 1 OlBaker 3... 221 0) —- {Merkle 2b...... 0 O11 2 ©) Murphy. rf... 1,2 0 0 » . Bail for Lik ny : + eh hee Lave |Herzog. 3b...... 1 1 3 3 2 Dave 1b 210 0 6 M’GRAWITES PLAY GAMELY Prisoner Is on Bail for Like At- Js in Hot Fight to Win His Re-| Pletcher. ss. 0 v3 4 2\Barrss lO 2 1 4 6 AND LOSE BY SINGLE RUN tack, Considered by the election to His Present | Meyers. ¢...... 1 1 & 3 O}Lapp, « 01850 . Grand Jury To-Day. Rice | Mathewson. p. v Lo 1 3 0) Coombs, p 00010 ji Citta jeneewet cer nevi 0 1080 1008 _.__._|Game a Pitchers’ Battle Between v0, 7 | vii RL inne, oe LOMB. chose 2 333.2) 4|Totais...... 31033 15 1 ; : re Ae, toaar | ities anerree gi chee i ity i ene rene Matty and Coombs, With Giants held without bail for examination On ty, hardest fight of his career for re- Thursday upon the charge of attack- | election, was suddenty stricken with ap- ing Miss Agnes Waugh, nineteen pendicitis this afternoon In tis office home at No, 140 street, Willlamsburg, and three is were summoned for a con- street, Bay Ridge, last Wednesday | Ross night. When the gigantic youth of | phy: nineteen years came sullenly balore | Ei. Accilba that Ciatkatay alte Magistrate Hylan in the Fifth AVE | syent, is acute appndicitis. Owing to nue Court he had not uttered one! the fact that the campaign requires Mr. word with respect to his where-! Clark's personal attention h begged abouts on the evening of the attack, | that an operation b dfrrd if such @ He stood defiantly before the Mag- |°ou's 1s possible, The consulting phy- siclans decided to call in a specialist infrate, staring directly ahead during | gnq ran a final determination as to the the fight made by his attorney, Mar-| chance of avolding an operation at 8 tin Lynch to get for him an imme-| o'clock to-night. «| Thin retstere Je @ recurrence of an old diate bearing. His blue serge cloth- | iis ck or appendicitis from which Mr. ing was dirty and tily kept His! Carke recovered several years t69 slouch hat was held awkwardly in| without an operation, Me has been one of the great, rough hands that working very hard with the Union helped Miss Waugh to make her Bank Investigation and his labors were |muitipiied by his renomfnation for the strikingly positive tdentifitation of | omoe of pintrict-Attorney without op: Brach as the man who choked hef,! pgsition by the Democracy of Kings struck her and beat her into help-)County. iess unconsciousness before he left The Republicans nominated former her in a grassy plot within a short | Police Commissioner James 8. Cropsey, stone’s throw of the home where her who has been serving as special counsel mother waited and watched for her, |!” the Unton Bank Investigation, and the Detectives Geisler and Henne brought | dependence League indorsed this nom. the man to court. it was due to the |ination, This put Mr. Clarke up emalnet suggestion of Geisler and the untiring | the BUpeat Grahhised: PEpOR ON NE mA work of Henne that the prisoner was |@Vtr Deen called upon to face captured and identiiled INNOCENT, SAYS LAWYER, WHO DEMANDS INSTANT HEARING. | ‘The detectives asked that thelr pris- oner be held without ball, Attorney Lynch demanded an instant hearing. He protested that his client was Inno- cent and could show that he was not at the scene of the crime, or near It The lawyer denounced the arrest heat- edly. “We must hi ht or ten days in order that the girl may be come to court,” said the detectty “E can hold this man for fort hours without ball, sald the magi- strate. “Come here at the expiration UNION BANK FAILURE MADE AN ISSUE IN CAMPAIGN. on was further complicated y, who, in his speech ac- cepting the ppublican nomination a} few nights ago, dragged the Union Bank faihwe {nto the campaign as the chief issue. Mr. Cropsey charged that Mr, Clarke, as District-Attorney of Kings County, failed tn hiy duty when, in 14s he failed to bring criminal proceedings against the oflciala of the bankrupt stitution. Mr. Cropsey's attack put Mr, Clarke on the defensive for the time being. He pointed to his activity of late in) the Union Bank affair and to the fn of that time with an affidavit from the|Mictment of David A, Sullivan, former attending physician that she is not able, President of the Mechanics and to attend court and I'll hold him forty-|Traders’ Bank, and of Edward M tof the Union Bank, as his devotion to duty. elght hours more and keep the process |Grout, Presi going until the hearing.” jexamples of Breach was led to a The situation confronting Mr. Clarke While Brach was being arraigned in| called for his best efforts as @ cam police court the Kings County Grand|paigner, as there were sone 2,00 Jury was preparing to take up another assault case against him and was! mittee purporting to represent the waiting for Alma Soprano, twenty-two, | Ipositors has declared tn favor of Cro the clilet wit-| sey's candidac almost identi-| Mr. Clarke worke positors in the Union Bank and a com e two cases. al 1 until very late last matance, save that Miss | night, making #everal speeches and con S assailant Wo alone and Miss) ferring with hi campaign managers acked by three me: He reached his offi: t 10 o'clock this putifiowion was made last ‘morning and started to work on an @ in the room where Miss Waugh has! cumulation of correspondence. Ato 1 been hovering between life and death! otock he complained of excruciating Brach’s ar- a with Livingstone, ugh phy eiclan, and asked if Miss Waugh was! strong enough to identify the man be- | | pains in his abdomen. Avsiatant District Attorney! Ross tele- | phoned to Mr. Ch 4 brother, who hurried to the ed house, ‘The Dis: trict Attorney what waa the Hevag to have paral’ Dr. Live) rouble, He advised caliing doctors an Riiaoners - leeyll Wb iepey abs unable to walk and Was olf round detectives, was led as ‘lrected, | trial hes) ie the his a cliniiens la ne a in bandase. host from Head 0. foot, JILTS HIS FAIR WCOER | GIRL IDENTIFIES PRISONER As Ri ED WIFE, TOO., TIBI AA AND DIVORC ; Rrach and the detectives stood at the! gamner iselly, forty years oll, 4 foot of bed while M Waugh une process ser in the law office p 1 bandages at covered qyypert Stewart, No. a7 Fulton street alos eh's eye Urach Waa une Brooklyn, {# Claimed by two women, moved and looked cov from the Bit! yiey Ametia Kelly | ed wi er $ anim silently walte 1) pai ag ata gee % ne! Jiughter sald eh hs mR ' t \ denuty vey K ae ant As ie Sandages were ratsed Mra. to int Vaugn stepped to th side and Cola i her she can only se Me ragga ixband blinking in (the ’ med ‘ the Gates - Avenue Court, said, inasmuch as Kelly haan uLGt ane Podeth Paes was divorced, he could marry whom he _— : and ckete Vaiko remarked that nen fi z over him Kelly oy Mrs. Gelta, either Mrs 4 orld. f “ Circulation Books Open to All." 17, 1911. 20 Faces E EDITION. nn PRICE ONE CENT. — i BAKER'S: HOME RUN DRIVE AGAIN CAUSE OF DEFEAT THE GAME IN DETAIL. o¢o— Athletics’ Heavy Hitter Ties Score UMPIRES—Klem aad Brennan for the National League; Dineen for the American League. Connolly and Ahead for t Eight Innings. Summary—Base Hits--Off Mathew. Home Runs -Baker, “ son, 10; off Combs, 3. First Base on and Heraag BY BOZEMAN BULGER. Halls—Off Mathew . Collins aad . ~ 3 ria ea Sa Hit ey Rovio meal 3 ; (Written espectally for The Evening World.) 0; Philadelpht. Left on Bases Barry and Mu POLO GROUNDS, Ocet. 17.—Another home-run drive by Harry New York, 1, ladelphia, Meesrs. Brennan and Cor : OutmBy stathewlons $ by. and. Dineen. Baker brought about the. defeat of the Giants in the third game of series this afternoon by a score of 3 to 2, and for the first time in the his: tory of baseball the Athlesics had beaten Mathewson, The peerless Pitcher of the Giants had the game in the pit of his hand until the ninth inning, when with one out Baker caught a curve ball on the nose and smashed it into the righi-field bleachers for a home run. This tied th escore, and the Glant machine cracked in the eleventh inning. After one was out in this round’ Collins singled and went to third when Merkle dropped a thrown ball from Herzog. Merkle had a chance to get his man after he made the fumble, but in his excitement he dropped it again, and that paved the way to defeat. Fletcher fumbled an easy grounder from Murphy's bat, which allowed Collins to score, and Davis then settled it with a Safe smash to right for a single that sent Baker across the plate. The Giants made a desperate rally in their half and scored one run, but it was not enough for a tie. Coomba pitched superb ball through- SCORE BY INNINGS. ATHLETICS 00000000102—3 GIANTS 00100000001— 2 FEATURES OF THE GAME AT A GLANCE Matty pitched Only seven balls in the fret inzing and every one of them was a strike, Devore, evidently after a strike-out record, fanned first time up, making hie fifth strike-out in succession. otgrase with three that he missed. hit for Marry in the firet half of the Coombs also fooled Mersog’s marvellous cateh out of second. @warm of Wasps on Saturday, had only out the game and allowed but three! one opportunity to display their team . dts, He # perfect contro! and) work When Uiey swooped down on @ Coombs's fast jump haa the Gants guessing hard in the Inst half of the allowed but tx on“balls in the| quartet of three-card-monte men on second. Mersog was his third strike-out + vietim. leleven innings the viaduct and lugged them off Barry made the first hit of the rome in the third, a single to left. Mathewson also gave @ great exhiht-| the calaboose, Becker and three tion of pitching, but was touched for) his men first took a flyer on the game one of which was the fatal! to gather evidence ‘The Athletics’ shortstop then made @ clean steal of second. e run of Hak tn the ninth, There was one feature of to-a “ " nm Lapp's waf4 Doyle and Pletcher “pulled” the first Gouble play of the series on Lapp 1 atte r the gam throng that attracted the attention of hot Mner to Doyle, poms ‘ The total recelpts were the observing the number of clergymen, Ghani third, ana Matty then con-|!"Itvers’ share $40,520.22, Each club's! priests of all denominations, a few biee Moyers got thy first hit for the ‘te in the ry y © 913,008.74, ‘The National Commis. tributed another, = clean single to right, putting Meyers on third. an ,d ston's share was $7, Devore redeemed himself by scortng Meyers by « hot shot to Barry, which, The Giants are still sore over the loss however, forced Matty at seco! of yesterday's Kame, and it developed hops, and a small regiment of divinity students from Yale and Princeton, “The cloth’ was certainly heavily represented, ‘The sale of admission tickets did not this afternoon that dt is the present !begin until 9.80 o'clock, when, by actu Lapp, the Athietice’s catcher, nailed the speedy Devore on a hair line) pojjcy of McGraw not to pitch Mar-|oount, there we : 89 Ferns soit ecision When Joel tried to steal seco: quard again during the sertes. Hin In aingle file from down One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street way to the theket windows, They were swifty furnished with $1 pasteboards and trickled Insld PLAYERS INSPECT “TY” COBB'S judgment was 9 bad that he crossed 4 on the signals on three distinct It was the crossing of the . 1t develops, and not a wild t eave the Athletics thelr fret Collins made a clean steal of second on Meyers in the fourth after getting sues to first on am infleld tap. ‘ Up to the fourth inning the Athletics had stolen two bases and the Giants one. ‘ am run ai) players forget t NEW AUTOMOBILE. Mersog was given an error for booting ‘Murphy's grounder in the fifth. things over nieht, but in this affair ‘The Athletics were full of pepper. and emo t ese mistakes cl c . iv ‘Things looked bed in the Afth with Athletics on second and third and but | UOmITy oF (eee mistakes cling to them | igng yer, one out, Murphy was run down between third and home, however, 09 Lapp's| yes sm tye myanney in whlon the pitchere|*!e tap to the infleld, In the Giants’ half of the fifth Lord spotled a real hit by getting Morkt drive out by the fence. Matty then made Coombs pop up a » of tie repartee blic prints, bug handled the at Mat wo pit rly praction tt] son Was to ) the Giants to Bersog worked Coombe for the first “free pans” in the firth. me on the fi | x around to. lngpent bu utonies Hertog overslia ond after stealing and was touched out by Collins, ene ‘alae: * Cobb for having been the leading Matty's fret strikeout victim was Oldring in the sixth. who had ly filled that player Aadebleantieg in aU is now city, Ahead of on hin ‘Matty was going well against the heavy stickers in the sixth, makiny n tterary. fe Baker pop up and Davis retire on strikes. val! play tie honor, Coombs easily fooled Snodgrass on three balls in the seventh. Up to the seventh Coombe’ Coombs had 11 strike-outs numbered four and tatty two. |‘ ‘Matty none. | J ed two passes - ling looks fi the Coogan bluff gang, |" of a nektive In his new machine, © Murray wee the second Giant to work Coombs for » p “Mea” algo was) iy declare the happy look is nut on nned his h the press box. the first Giant to steal second on Lapp. This was in the seventh inning. evel ha Sehulte, who won t ver car, = hile Gotham fandom turned out tis| Pecelved Sis in Chicago yesterday In the eighth Barry and Lapp were nalled at the plate, attempting to score.| iyi fang Seed om aT Am Aepn am the Giscie tron e hadnt Barry, the first man up, had doubled. Three rune had been out off at home| \!) |) Satin ane Lis mond for flelding practice Chief Bender donb the via thing ike and Jack went out to warm up Baker tied the score in the ninth with @ Lomer, jis hush for Wa Athetice, Aisle i Ste ee In the last half of the ninth Coombe etrack ont both Matty and Doyle. |. ial “Bai against the Glants, His throws were Baker wae sviked by Snodgrass in attempting to steal third in the tenth.|'' ae aad mole he nat 1 t i . » secu 1 places on the pine/ ad f e e a ain of vealers and caught both Snodgrass); jj. 04 asters gloomy | #aturda s > o rand, and Morkle pilfering in the A nowere held tne | Appeared \ vad the Glante =e 1 t oment and| figured in t to b ‘The Giants made ® protest over the Connolly decision on Mertio’s uu moment and | Hue) ha was tebe attempted steal, but it did them no good. 0 . 4 purchases te At inuy for thea ae ae ~ ~ | weats in rand F the series 48 thou were Ket dadee way, fearing | Of P! cA dark and SLAIN BABY IN WALDORF. | PASSENGERS KILLED F nti ow that a dawn. {rears da ' mised Stranwled New Horn Boy Voand tn IN WRECK OF TRAIN. foo ccnt of tne guine Hoter ary. POLICE HANDLED BIG CROWD IN fan: boy wan founa| Number Said to Have Met Death PERFECT ORDER, H th to-day in the jaundr } on Run Through Mississippi, The police ements were agatn sAstorla, An autopsy we perfect t to bane any Phystclan Schultze showed | Twenty-nine Injured | a ro tovony that might lay the babe had breathed only a few] avopinn, Ata, Oct 12-4 number of | IER oe Hrosh Stadium, ‘They on & MOMAAER minutes bs e was idiled ad Mtthe to do but Dlish lines, notice, Coroner 1 believed un) passengers are aid to have been | ae vane H eee , iments for the day employ t and twent Injured in aw { Proper aven ies saeeen . rn tiche New Hasivoad, cea: Beaumont, d Orleans, Movil acd hh the foul lines. yb Wey active as ai bes er ovation was given Mattheweom towe egves: e5, today, arm force, Which