Show WE om MiT GAMED EM SAYS CHIEf By JOHN CHIEF mYERS MEYERS PHILADELPHIA Oct 9 We Wo out- out gamed omed tho the Athletics That's what won the second game gamo of ot the worlds world's series for us I use the tho we editorially for tor I had bad no r put part rt in the glorious victory You Youma ma may imagine my ray emotion as I sat nursIng nursIng nursing nurs nurs- ing my sm smashed shed thumb I 1 never ne full rull fully realized before the tho strain and tension of oC inactivity It was WM a 0 struggle 3 to repress re repress re- re press the tears I felt that I would give gUo a abig abig big share of ot m my series Benes mon mou y for tor Just one crack at Eddie Pank Plank on one of those times when a hit would have bavo broken up the tho game gamo In ot r favor You know that southpaw tossing is vie plo for tor mo me 0 But the boys came through all nil rI right ht without t me Larry McLean caught as grand a a. game ganie as aa I havo have ever done in all my life lICe He smothered or turned back at nt the plate twice in th the ninth inning therun therun the tho thorun run that would have havo meant good-by good to all our lofty ambitions ambition For had bad wo we lost that game samo amo In Philadelphia it would ha e ben been all oil off oft with our crippled club Every Ev 1 Hv- Hv ery man on ou the tho team realized as much That's win why there lucre W was iS such sueh dish dash and fire an and l fight t in our attack and defense from frum ruin the time that wonderful southpaw of or the made mad the first pass pas at Herzog Herzog Her Her- zog until wo we had driven en the tho Gettysburg marvel to defeat lefeat with three thre runs in the time tenth Inning McGraw worked as hard hardas fl as an any man mami on the field and Ills hits courage I can carried led the tho bo boys s s 's through several 50 trying situations I never hope to ii sec ace C a better pitched I panic Jame than that of of Mathewson yesterday hell hueR all is 15 said he is the grand old mast master r of or them nil Plank was simply wonderful for eight Innings Then ho lie weakened But Bul Matty grew stronger the I further he went He lie was under wraps at atthe atthe atthe the clo close e of ot that tight battle battlo in which ho rarely extended himself to the till full limit Three men In my e estimation share I equally tho the honors of ot Matti Matt and Herzog Mathewson's pitchIng pitching pitch pitch- ing lag was a a. poem of skill And this despite th the fact that ho he was surrounded b by a n makeshift lineup Never Nevor did a pitcher carry more mon responsibility into a box than ho he Wiltse a veteran pitcher without warning was called to the el very Important position of or first base He lie fielded faultlessly fault fault- lessly and at psychological moments pull off ort two real reAt Hal Ch e pla plays that cut off oCt winning runs at the plate ate H her her- r- r zog's mg's defense was wan perfect But it was wa his spirit that proved pro of oC most assistance to our club dub I |