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Show J. Franklin Baker, Who Repeated His 1911 Performance by Hitting Homer j lATHLETICS WIN I j FIRST OF BIG I title I Hit Giants' Pitchers for Long H Drives, Making Total of H Twenty Bases, Nine Be- KH ing Extra Stations. HI FRANK BAKER SMASHES H BALL INTO STANDS Repeats Celebrated Feat of 1 1911; Collins Has Per- 11 feet Day at Bat; Shafer Misjudged Liner. (1 Athletics 6 , Giants .1 ,1 By DAMON RUN YON. II NEW YORK, Oct. 7. October 16, 111 301 J, home run, Baker; October 37, IjV 3011, home run, Baker; October 7, 3033, 1 home run, Baker. Ijtfj So runs the epitaph of New York's liw hopes to date. IB The smack of a bat meeting a base- IB ball in the fifth inning of thc first II game of the world s scries today, fol- H lowed instantly by the dull boom of 1 1 40,000 voices, was the sound of history 9; raucously repeating itself. H It was the voice of John Franklin ft Baker, the lank-limbed, lantern-jawed H third baseman of the Philadelphia Atli- lctics, and Nemesis of tho New York B Giants, landing a home-run blow in IH thc right field stand at thc Polo I grounds, bard by tho hpot where lm Hi placed a similar smash ono October K day two years ago. ft History Repeats. ft And just as his wallop then crum- ft pled Christy -Mathcwson, so his mighty K smauh todny crushed Rube .Manii:ml m! almost as completely as tho Baker belt ji over the fence in Philadelphia crushed M tho wry-necked side-winder of the Gi- GiMI ants in 1911. f Homo run, Bukcr; nnd thc score was m 6 to 4 in favor of thc Athletics today. ( Connie Mack got home tho opening H punch in the fight for the world's b.w M ball championship. It Not aa spectacular as were his wal S lops of other years, perhaps, because W it was finally buried under a mass of ft other ovonts, it was, nevertheless., thc $B crashing blow of the Maryland farmer 11 boy that carried tho Athletics through. Ifil But for Baker's drive it is conceivable Hfijl thnt thc game would eventually have Wu boon called on account of darkness with ft tho score a tie. jjwj Blow is Needed. II j A slashing attack by the Glnnts on Albert Bender, tho lean-flankod. atur- mm I nine Chippewa Indian veteran of scores 11 i or diamond wars carrlfJ tho big lown filfl boys close to their rlvalx. even after tho MV "il Mnckmen had gained a four-run lead. Ml but Bakorn clout wan the advantagn that Rl 1 held to the end. Eddl Colllnn. the Co- jlS I lumbla collegian, was On second bus smm when tho slugging third baseman tore off inl his homer, and while th Athletics did ull 9 not need both the runs produced by jj m Raker'n blow, as matters turned out the ill I margin wns not to be despised. 51 K It was not tho Bender of two rear? jfi ago who faced thc Giants today. Under ; a glowering sky that nhould have suited 3ft a thc groat Indian, he hnd little of the a- SS M; founding speed that blinded tho big town ili m batsmen In. 1911, Unfortunatly for them. K they had no Bakers hitting tho baJI Into If 9 the right Acid stands, however. They ftl C made as many hits as the Athcltlcs. but If ml they did not make them In tho vam ffi ff manner. Dj Rube Loses Cunning. m As for Itube Marquard, bis famous jl w Jl 1.000 arm tcemd to posses little of W ff tho cunning that has cauned him to be ill K ranked a one of tho greatest left-hand- JJa C era In tho game. Ho seemed unable to If 9 keen tho ball out of tho groove, as ba- J K ball people say, and the record of 1mh. fj B hits during the time he was In tho box ffl ff proves that he was comparatively easy 2)1 Bj for tho Athletics. 3? K Fortuno was Impartial in Jor dlstri- M K butlon of favors. Onco thn Giants had a 6 ft notable opportunity to tin the garnc. only 9? u to se their chance suddenly cut off bv JJ ! a fast double play. I First Blood for Giants. jf jl Thoy drow first blood In the third In- lift H nlng when Fred Mcrklo opened with n J J :3t vnapplng roller to Jack nam, which 1 fi 1 Itnrry Jusgled long enouch for Mcrkln to .Mm reach lafriv at first. That went down If M In thc official records ns a bit. but manv i H spectators thought Barry should linve fx If been given nn error, as ho would havn Me m had his man hut for his brief bobble. i Jl Marriuurd laid down a pacrlflcw bunt, and Ire il aftr Arthur Shafer'a out on a fly to nt jf Stnink, 'Ijiunhlng Larry" Doyle hit the If? il flrt ball pitched to him for a Mngle to lit i? right and Morklo thundered home with Sff i the first run of tho game. 20 Tho break against tho Giants cam In Si I tho fourth, when Dashing Eddia Colllnn 5 J hit thc first bnll pitched to him for a Iff J triple to right center. Baker thc name il J runs through thc entire story, an evt HE l M omen for the Giants pushed an Infield us II ' (Coutlnuod ou Page Eight.) IjVi I BflKER-GOLLINS I COMBINE WINS I ; FOR ATHLETICS j Third Baseman and Second Baseman Are Heroes of the First Game; Bender Has Perfect Control. fCiutiuued from Pago One.) i oiler nt Doyle and the bull cook a sud- den and unexpected hound on "Laughing I.arrv." Ho had to liandlu it at a hard ancle, and Collins scored while Baker landed sarely on first. Little "Slurry" Mclnnes, the midget first basemen or H the Mackmcn. sacrificed, bin on tbc next plav Anios Strunk rolled to Marquard and H ihe lean pitcher tossed the ball to Hcr- H zok for aai easy out on Baker as the slug- per tried' to take third. Shafer Misjudges Fly. "Black ."Jack" Barry lilt the third ball pitched to him across third bu.se for a double and Stnink raced to third. Then H it was that Arthur Shafer's Inexperience in playing the outfield caused the Giants H trouble. Fred Snodgrass, who is the vlc- lltrr of a bad "oharlcy horBe" or injury to las leg muscles, was unable to start. the sories in his regular position today and hlsi closest friend and fellow Call- fornlan, Arthur Shafer, was playing cen- H terflcld. Chafer's regular position is third base, but .he has occasionally subbed in the outfield. Wallie SdhaJig, the wonderful young H catcher of the Athletics, whoso work to- day stamps him a star, cracked a line drive at Shafer that Snodgrass would have "eaten up." but "Tilly." so nick- named the day he struck the Giants' 1 training camp at Martin by old "Cy" H Sevmour on account of hia mild manners, H misjudged the ball and It went past him for a triple. H Makes Hard Try. v- H Shafer was not to blame. He made a mighty leap at Che hall and got one hand on it, even arter misjudging it. but the damage was done. Tlio. two runners scored. There was one ball on Schang H when the youncr catrihcr made his hit. Bender followed his battery mate with a smash that hit Manjuajd in the middle and doubled him ov-.r, but Rube got the H ball and tossed, tho Indian otjt at first. Then came the disastrous firt'h. Ed- H'p Murphy, the Baltimore boy, was play-- ing his first world's serins, and Rube DIdring. the onlv native .Now Yorker In H either lineup, were easy outs. Marquard passed Collins, giving the first base on H balls or the irame. Collins stole second and it was the first stolen base, Chief HJ Mevers's thiow being wide. HJ Into the Stand. Baker took one strike, then he swung ai the nn.vt ball offered him with that slashing stroke that seems to carry from H his very loos. The haz" was so heavy over the field thai many spectators could bardlv follow the course of the ball, but when It was seen shooting for the right field stands, a tremendous demonstration H occurred. The ball fell In the lower tier, H not fur from the bleacher in right con- M ter. and it was a remarkably long drive. s Baker slowlv trotted around the dla-nmiiil. dla-nmiiil. the Philadelphia players became al-H al-H most as demonstrative as the spectators, throwing their hais high In the air and elUng wildly, j Mclnnes followed Baker with a weak fly o P'lerlhcr, ending the inning. Marquard Leaves Game. Ma'vrar.l rnssed from the game In the A ntp" end" of the . fifth, after Fred Mr;lf had M;i i' led off with a single to rriite;, hitting the flirt ball pitched to 1 im by Binder. Harry McCormlck, re-ijo-.nied pinch hittrr of the Giants, was announced as batting for Rube and he also lilt the first ball pitched Tor a single I-.' niter. Sluifci- rolled to Collins and war an easy out at first, but both nin-ners nin-ners atlvanced. Doyle rolled to Barry and .la' k mado a throw which pulled Mc-I'liif- off th" bag at first and gave Doyle -ii vhP'1 Merklc Hcurcd and McCormick t tlilrd. l ictciU'i' bounded a sliol off Bender's s li. Ihe ball rolling away from .Eddie Collins and out into right field,' McCor-iMi.-k scoring and Doyle taking third. Bums rolled sharply to Baker, who threw to siHOtnl for a force play on Fletcher, but Ho.vlo liillied. Herog popped the first ball pitched to 'ilm to Collins. H Crandali Starts Well. It was growing very dark when Otis Crandali took Marquard's place in the I'ox. Me retired the side in that inning. IIIh dclivory seemed to pur.le the Atli-lctics Atli-lctics for a short lime, but only for a 1 short time. In the Giants' end or the tlxlh a jilay came up that, aroused much curiosity among the. spectators, who did j not seem to understand it. With Iwo out. Merkle got his fourtli ball. Schang dropped the pitch, recovered the ball and touched Merkle, thinking the ball had been a strike. He rolled the ball past the pitcher?' box, where Collins re-' re-' covered It and threw to Mclnnes when IMerkle had started tor second, after see-ing see-ing the ball wandering about without a guardian. Mclnnes touched Merkle out, ending the inning. Closes in Rain. A light rain was falling as the game closed and the bleacherllcs were impro-vising impro-vising shelters or newspapers, and long before Arthur Shafer had fanned In the ninth inning the people were streaming out of the exits. .lake Daubert paraded the Held In the automobile awarded him as being the mosi valuable player to his team In the National league, and JCdward C. McCall, candidate ror mayor, presented McGraw with a silver basket of flowers on behalf 1 or Frank Chance, and the Yankees. Just I before- the gam0 began the band played the "Star Spangled Banner" and the entire en-tire crowd arose and stood with bared heads. McGraw had both Mathcwson and Marquard Mar-quard warming up in rront of tho stands while Mack presented Bender and Plank, but the condition or the weather mado it practically certain that Bendor and Mar-miard Mar-miard would be started on account or their speed. Bender seemed rather unsteady un-steady for him and had to pitch an unusually un-usually large number of balls to each batter, but he pitched with deep wisdom and craft even though batted hard. |