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Show FIGHTING SPIRIT MM GAME Chief Meyers Tells How the Giants Outgamed the Athletics Ath-letics at Shibc Park. By John ("Chief Meyers Philadelphia. Oct. S. We outgam ed the Athletics That's what won the second game of the world's series for ub. I use the "wo" editorially, for I had no part In the gloriou3 victory, You may imagine my emotion emo-tion as I gat nursing my smasned tl.umb I never fully realized bclore the strain and tension of inactivity. It was a struggle to repress the tears I felt that I would give a big share of my scries money for just one crack at Eddie Plank on one of those times when a hit would have broken "l the game in our favor. You know that southpaw tossing id pio for me. But the boys came through all light without me Larry McLean caught as grand a game as I have evei done in all my lire. He smothered smoth-ered or turned back at the plate tv :ce in the ninth Inning the run that would have meant good-by to all our lofty ambitions. For, had we lost that game in Philadelphia, It would hae been all off with our crippled dub Every man on the Kem realized as much That's why there was such daeh and fire and fight in our attack and defense from the time that wonderful southpaw of the Mackmen made the nrst pass at Hcrzog until we had driven the Gettysburg Get-tysburg marvel to defeat with three runs In the tenth Inning. McGraw worked as hard as any man on the field, and bis courage carried the boys through several trying situations. situa-tions. Matty Gets Credit I never hope to see. a better pitched ! Cime than that of Mathewson todav Nhun all Is said he is the -grand old master" of them all. Plank was s.ruply wonderful for eight Innings, rhen he weakened, But Mattv grew stronger the further he went He was under wraps at the close of that tight battle in which he rureiy extended himself to the full limit. Three men. in my estimation, share equally the honors of victory Matty Wiltae and Herzog. MathewBon's I (flung was a poem of skill And this despite the fact that he was s'.rrounded b-v " makeshift lineup .Never dirt o r,,i..u ,.7 f-uti wily more re- sponslbllity Into a box than he Will e a veteran pitcher, without warnlnj. whs called to the very' important position po-sition of first base. He folded raultlesslj and at psychological mo-inents mo-inents pulled off two real "Hal I Hae plays that CU 0fl winning runs at the plat... Herzog defense WS perfect. But Ii was his spirit tnst proved of moot a islstance to oui ciub. Herzog Shows Nerve. i never saw a greater displav of nerve and confidence than Herzog wowed m the trying moments or thai ninth inning. 1 tell you candidly can-didly my heart was trying to jump cut of my throat. , intense wa- im emotion when Slrunk reached third and Barry second. wllh none out LMdg would have won for them then, and thai is where .Mattv Wiltse and Herzog, like the Roman three, held the bridge 11 a Safj fhr,(,A by Doyle that had complicated mat-'"' mat-'"' s Is usual In such cases, angry an-gry paSBfbnfl began to mount The Mfielders flocked around Larrv lucre was the posslbllltv of bad blood. Herzog raced over and patted pat-ted Doyle on the back, pushed the other. Kcntli away and called upon h lellows to -t.,nd firm. Like mag-!' mag-!' this Bplril cleared the atmosphere I r t.lants never could have wratli r'fl1 'hat situation If the Icasl aiieer bad divided them. Now. 1 think the balance Is tipped In our favor. Without doubt the most seriously crippled team that ever went into such an important scries we have one distinct advantage p,cn. dor and Plank, the sole reliance of Connie ( Mack, have been carried through the most grueling tussles l ender pii, hed an ordlnarv cam.' In the opener Plank Is not strong physically. He cannot come back In ethe. form he showed without a rest of four or fie days. Bender will need plenty of time, too We slugged Bender and we beat Plank. That has given us confidence I expect Tcsreau to start tomorrow against one of Philadelphia's young pitchers. From the form he showed LuvDuoy, our nig spltball tos-ser ' should come pretty close to shutting j out any team. I am sure we will pet a few runs off any of the Ath-b Ath-b tic colts. Turning Point Today. In a great measure, tomorrow's name Is likely to prove the turning point in the fight. A victory for Tesreau would put us on easy street. McGraw then could come back with Murquard or take a chance on AI Demaree, confident that Mathewson would again be read for the big Saturday Sat-urday crowd at the Polo grounds While it was a duel throughout. Mathewson was so steady and used his head to such advantage that he was not forced to overtax his arm. 1 figure that, despite the hard-luck hard-luck injuries, we have better than an oven chance. Rain is now the co-best co-best friend of Connie Mack If the contests are spread out In such a fashion as to allov Bender and Plank plenty of rest bctwen games, our difficulties will be multiplied tenfold. |