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Show HE CHARGES iCIEi 11 STUPI0PU1IG Declares Strunk Misjudged Deal's Hit in Ninth, Which Went for Two Bases SCHANG AND BARRY ALSO PUT ON GRILL Critic Says Catcher Should Have Held Ball and Barry Should Have Thrown It HOW RUN WAS SCOEED Strunk misjudged Deal s long drive and it went for a double Deal made a delayed steal of third, drawing a throw from Schang Mann singled just out of Collins s reach and Deal scored By FEANK G MENKE PHILADELPHIA Oct 10 Once aga n the Braves have demonstrated the r all around superior tv o e the Atblet cs but before they achieved their 1 to 0 v etorv n Sh be park th s afternoon they were forced to play the greatest gan e of baseball that ever has character zed a world er es battle Out of the smoke of battle emerge B James Deal and Maranv lie to wear F the laurel wreaths of fandom And ia out of t too come Barrv Schang Eh and Strunk for a bit of panning by Br the athletic supporters for their Kj bone work which permitted the Be. Braves to score the only run of the Br atne in the ninth ffiff lie game abounded in amaz ng Kr plajs almost from the f rst nnm unt 1 Ef the final double play was made And Plt the mak ng of that double play bv Ei Maranville an 1 Schmidt will go down HSftjgifl, hi tory as probablv the fasten p ece gaKKiof work ver seen on a ball f eld E5 i But before we touch on the final M$jpTay of the game let us pause and con VSfsider the work of James the husky MfeWBostonr pitcher who establ shed a world BjBBieeries recorl by allowing only twenty BsrJSejfiht men to face h ni n n n nnings Bw X)sjr two h ts were made off his oe BjRjjj Sfrery and one was quest enable Tames BjBf-wa never n better form n his ea BK ,recr And he may never p tch a bet BSfT-Jer game His fast ball was so fast Br 5hat the Athletics sw ng at t t me sn4 again and missel t completely B; Hi8 turves b oke sharnly and the Quaker sluggers missed them by a foot Bjj or two r James Unafraid James showed no fe r o' the Athletics lie grooved the ball for them time and aga n He dared hem to hit what he offered and they could not make good. Not until after one man was out in the sixth did an Athletic batter get a safe dn e And then it was Schan who turned the trjek with a two badger The h t skimmed along the th rd bae foul line just inei le yet too far away for Deal to grab The other h t was made by Collins It came n the seventh The major ty of the fans who saw the play are of the opinion that Collins nstead of being credited w th a h t on that play should have been oi t Collins lrove a bounder to Evers Trojan Johnny came in on t fast atfd whipped t to Sebmidt Umpire Byron called Collins afe although from the stands it looked as if the throw bat the Athletics second sacker a fraction of a second And now for that wonderful ninth inning one that will live alwavs in the memory of those who saw todav s game The Wonderful Ninth With the score 0 to 0 and with one oat charged against his side Charlie Deal the Braves th rd baseman re garded as the weakest hitter on the team walked to the plate picked out one of Plank s fast ones ana sent it to center field Strunk misjudged the ball He started to eome n on t and then realizing that the drive was a lone one he started backward at top speed Whether the sun confused Strunk or whether the play on his part was of the bone nature is a subject that fan dom is discussing tonight Strunk s backward sprint started too late The ball went over his head just out of his reach and Deal anchored at second With James at bat Deal took to darting back and forth between second and short apparently hopngHo draw a long throw from Schang And that s exactly what he accoinpl shed When Schang threw to second, w th Deal twenty feet off the bag Deal started for third It was a poor p ece of work on Schang s part, and the crowd gasped when they saw him shoot the ball to second with Deal so far along toward the next stat on Had Schang run nto the d amond to ward second and bluffed a throw 1 e might ba e been able to run Deal down Or f he had thrown to third he at least would have headed off Deal But he didn t and damage was done Barry Holds Ball Barry took Schang s throw and when he got it there still seemed time for him to throw to third and catch Deal who at that second was about fifteen feet from the bag but Barry in a seem ing lare, held the ball an J Deal slid nto the bag in safety And then came Mann who del vered the dr ve tbat won the ea ne It was a Texas leaguer n r got field ( oil ns made a grand try for the ball lea; ng high into the a r but the hall st louche 1 his glove an J glan ed off an I Oral scampered h e w th the winn nj, run The rnwd k el f to he h ghest tens on r ght from the moment the bell sent the pla ers nto act on thought tha t e scor ng of Deal was to be for them the final thr 11 of the game But t v-asn t The greatest play was yet to come Koi what a wonderful one it was Jam' steady as a clock dur ng the first e ght nn ngs wobbled n the n nth He wa ked Barry Af te g v ng Schang three balls ue tr ck h a o t fore ng h m to foul off two Walsh batted for Plank and Tarn s aga n failed to locate the plate Walsh walked Pwo on bases on one out one run needed to t e and two to w n and the hea en 1 of he talet cs batt ng or de was up dramat c s tuat on Is Great Play Murphv let on go b missed the next and connected w th the th rd Like a nfle ballet t bounded over the d a mond and looked to be a sure h t It was haded almost over second base and Barry was round ng third when like a bolt from the saj a tiny form catapulated through the a r grabbed the ball and reco enng h s balance dashed toward se ond The t ny lorm was that of Maranville Lvers was there wait ng for the throw n the hope of fort ng out Walsh But Maranv lie then ten feet from the bag d in t th ow He waved Lv ers out of the wa beat Walsh to the bag by half a stei and then w th two feet n the a r hurled the ball true as an arrow s f I ght to Schm dt It seemed that the ball and Murphy arr ved dt the t st sack at the same moment but By on wavel b s arm for an out And the greatest and most tl r 1 ng game f basebal that has been played for many jears was over Athletics Have Pep The Athlet cs today looked like a d f ferent ball team than on yesterday They pla ed with greater lash and w th more spir t bat thev were playing against a team that was putt ng up the greatest all around baseba I exhibit on that has been ever witnessed Helpless before the grand pitching of James the Athlet s ma c amends by some startling f el 1 ng stunts T me and aga n they cut off runs by some great work The story of the won derful defense put up by the Athletics is told best by the fact that the Braves bad eleven men left on bases In eight of the nine innings the Braves had men on bases but only once n those e ght nn ngs were they able to push across a r Plank p t he I a g od Lame but ho was unstes 1 at t ncs In j inches he was at h d bes A 1 n n hes h s support H of the best oil ns and Birv espee a v Ba were h n a ports n b a 1 a tie an I tin m nt f gro nl thev ovp el was I m el s After what ha pens 1 to lav an I wha appened yesterday only the bravest Philadelphia fans can be lured into plac ng new bets that their pets will win the series The Braves have beat en Connie "Mack s two best p tchers and forced him to place his next hope in a voungster And in contrast the Braves st 11 nave the th rd member of their great trio Tyler to hurl at the Ath letics The tbletics are n the hole and t sn t 1 kelv tbat thev w 11 crawl out If e ther of Boston s ctor es was of a fluky order there m gl t be reason for a strong hope But both v ctories were clean cut In both games the Bra 3 have demonstrated that in the r p es ent form tbey are the peers of the one time peerless Athlet cs The Braves have outh t the Athlet s almost three to one Thev have stolen f ve bases and the Athlet es ha e stolen one Their two p t hers ha e demonstrated the r super onty over the two best that Conn e has and their pitchers have humbled the heaviest h t t ng club n e ther league In face of th s is there anv wonder tbat gloom is thick in Philadelphia to n ght? |
