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XE2 OHASLOdNilBi^... OCTOttEH 16. Indian Catcher Tells How The Gtanu Turned The Trick *Eow We Beat *Em and TMby the Cunnmg Red SkmotNew York learn— Several Reasons. tt Matty's** Pitchmg, Netvom- ness of Athletics, Batting Ability of Giants, Etc,— Contributed to Victory m First oj World Series. (By JOHN (“CHIEF”) MEYERS.) The cunning Indian catcher of the Olants, whose two-base hits in the seventh innixig made it possible for the National League representatives to win the first game of the world’s series. Meyers wrote the following article, exclusively for the I. N. S. In the club house immediately after the game today: New York. Oct. 14.—Well, we beat "Em. What’s more, having trimmed to day the best team the American League could turn out, with their best pitcher in the box, I am willing to predict confidently that by this time next week 've will be the base ball champions of the world. I suppose you will all want to know what won for us. Well, here It is: The great pitching, in the tight places, by Christy Mathewson. Our ability to hit when a hit meant something. I will add another—though less Important—reason for th» satisfaction of those who rooted for the Ath letics. It is this: We were helped considerably by the nervousness of th« Philadelphia player'*, which. I suppose, was caus ed by the strange grounds and that wonderful crowd of 50,000. There were several lays missed by their Ptnrs, which would have been easy for our little mascot, Dick Henessy. One of these gave lis out first run. But I will put aside this reason ard credit our victory to Matty and the good old wallop. And I am proud to sa> that I had a share in both ends of the vic- lon-. It was one of my life when 1 brd. ri rn an outcurwe of my Indian ;r.Fr.d, Mbert Bender, in the lucky foment'' end got to second on it. A ’rcment cquall>' happy and when llt- Jo«h Devore stung another of the Chiricwa’s f^isters and drove me home with what proved to be the winnlat run. Everybody knows that I’m not a Rash of lightning on the oases. I’m more like a safe mounted on wneels. Bat its my private opinion that 1 broke all world’s records between second and home on Devore’s hit. believe me, I put enough effort into that run to do it, anyhow, because I felt, when I put my head down and got to going, that if I crossed the plate with that second tally the game was ours. M.itty told me when I got back to the bench that I was going like a reg ular Ty Cobb—but I guess he must have been kidding a little bit. How ever, I never saw a more welcome fight than that whitewashed home plate as I stepped across. “I’m a ball player, not a writer, so I won’t attempt to describe the sen sation we exerienced when we came onto the field this afternoon. We hasd heard a roar a few minutes before Sb the fans welcomed the Athletics, and I must admit that I, for one, felt a bit nervous. McGraw must hare noticed that the others were the lame way, so he said: Now boys, when you go out take It on the run like a football team loes. Everybody grin and look con fident. That will begin to get their goats right away.” Several of us are old college men and football players, and this stnick 08 as a mighty good idea. So we trotted out with smiles on our faces —into the greatest yell that I ever heard, in college or out. It wa# not the rah-rah—but certainly a tremen dous circle of uoise. When, a little while later, Matty began to warm up to me I knew that he wms the "Old Master.” Only once in a while he would chuck his famous fadeaway. Most of the time be was throwing straight ones, Just to loosen up his good old right But when he did bend one over it went Hint as he wanted. And his drop, itnce I have been cat ling him 1 lerer saw It work better. Matty said to me, when w« got through: "John, old boy, we’ll trim them, and I answered: "You bet we will, Christy.” When the game befan, and Lord came up for the Athletics, I sifiuilled Matty to give him a high one, to drop Just before it reached the pUtte. I felt sure he would let»the first go by, anyhow. The ball started at the height of Lord’s neck. Within tliree feet of the plate it dropped to hit waist. He was completely fooled, and it was a strike. He did not aim at it. Matty made him look foolish. The next one was just like it. He swung and missed by a foot. Then he fouled off a few, and nearly broke his back swinging at a simple out- shoot for the last strike. Rube Oldring was still easier than was Lord. An incurve fooled him for the first, then two fa«t ones high and inside made him fan. I began to feel pretty confident then, and when Eddie Collins could do no better th%n slam to Josh Devore, I felt that we had them. Matty gave a hit in the third and passed a man too. But there were two out by this time and w^hen the* t:ritical situation came—where even a little Texas Leaguer might have meant our de feat—Christy was there with an m* curve, an outcurve and one of those drops that falls from neck to waiter, and struck out the last man. 1 be gan to feel then that he had chem where he wanted them and that he could win any game he pitched against them. I will say right here that Knle Marquard will win at least one same, too, so I can’t see how we can lose We all began to feel very happy in our end of the fourth, when, \vith Snodgrass ou second, and iwo out, Charlie Herzog lammed a grounder at Eddie Collins that nearly tore the Philadelphian’s fingers off. Kidre fumbled around with it, while *'Suod was speeding between third ami home—having got a good start— then made a bad throw to Ir.a Thomas. Ira made a play for Snoi by trying to touch him backward. He missed and the score was tied. McGraw said to us then: “Boys, just wait for the ‘break,’ now, ana we’ll get them. Christy will keep ’em from scoring, and all we’ve got to do is to get one more.” The ‘break’—as we call it—came in the lucky seventh. Fletcher went out at first and I came up for toe third time to face my redskin friend, Albert. He gave me the laugh, for twice before I had gone out, although 1 will say, without any boasting, that I laid my bat on the ball good txfti herd each time. Chief Bender said from th« box: “Goodnight for you, Chief.” The third or fourth ball he pitched was a fast one, with a little bit of a break inward. I caugM it on the end of the bat and sent it to tho fence. When I pulled up at second —all in—I had to laugh at Bender. He shook his fist at me. Then came good little Josh Devore with a ter rific slam down the left field line— and my awful run from second. In my opinion, the most cn’ical point of the game, from the !«tand point of the New York battery, when the Athletics began tUelr eighth with the head of their Us: up, all good, hard hitters. But Matty again showed himself to be the iJ'J horsepower Big Six, and fanned Lord, and the next two were easy. This time we both were sure of victory as we left our places. I will say for the Athletics that they are a grand baseball team. With a break of luck they may beat us once or twice. Albert ^nd«r if a wonderful pitcher, and had some of our boys standing on their heads. 1 am glad to belong to the tame race as that big fellow. But we beat theln, surely, and while—as I said before, Rnbe Marquard will win at least one game, in the end the thing that will win for us will be—Matty and the Wallop. Glands. AB K H PO A U Dewre, If 3 0 I 3 0 0 Doyle, 2b 3 0 110 0 Snodgrass, cf .. .. 2 1 0 2 0 0 Murray, rf .. .. 3 0 0 1 0 U Merkle, lb 4 0 1 11 1 0 Herzog, Sb 3 0 0 0 3 0 Fletcher, ss .. .. 4 0 0 S 3 0 Meyers, c 811710 Mathewson, p .... 3 0 1 0 4 0 Totals 28 2 6 27 11 0 ' rimm. ~ * NEW YORK NATIONALS ^ ^ . Naw York, Aug. 14.—The New York National League Baaebail Clv>b, the winners of the National League, pennant for 1911. Reading from left to right (top row) Marquard, Doyle, Devore. Fletcher, Burns. Henneaay maacot) Wilson Ames, Devlin, Mathewson^ Wlltse and Hartley. Bottom row (left to right) Meyers, Snodgrass, Murray, Latham, decker, McGraw (Manager) Herzog, Merkle, Maxwell, Crandall, Paulette and Faust. I IIS. BEIIDtll MS (By JOHN MONTGOMERY WARD.) New York, Oct. 14.—The best pitch er in the American League met tlie best pitcher in the world, is the stoiy in a nutshell. There may be ;-;oine to dispute Bender’s claim to the titto, but there is none to (Uspute Mathew- son’s. ' When the megaphone announced that Matty would pitch a great cheer went up from the Giant rooters i>c- cause they knew that v.hatever the result of the game, they would v. it- ness the very best eif«.rt that an ex- periei ced, cool. Intelligent and hijn class Mhlete could give them. Bender pitched a t^eat game, u .vonderfui game, considered alone, whioh Mil} suffers a ve*'-’ ittle when compared with them »»sterfui wjvk oi Mat'.r v^cn. Bender had lightring speed, a fair rurve, i nd occasioual’y essuyo 1 a s'ow, straight ball. But Ma-h'J’vson had everything. He ^ad spe^d, a great I’op curve aiJ his ia’'?o'is “fadeaway” workiji; to perfection. .And he had more th^n that. Ho ha: a briiln that was woikmg in poricrt unrison with his arm, and he had .that sides the most perfect i*o;i- i. cK His only base on balls w-s a.' l ini^ntional gift to that very dangor- |oiis hitter, Eddie Collins, at a c^trioa! ' situation in the game in the third I inning * hen a hit a-cjnt a mu. He cei>ends larg«>'y on spe-ad, nnd jltis fast ball was a shade fp.Fter i Mathev.’ior’s. Moreo'^ar. Bender iTail a “jump” on his ball, which c’.’ric-l it always) Just abo o the bats^van s bat. The New York pmyers al ways i ii'ing under it/and th*i 3trlK‘^- c■'ts v.ere many. Bender, too, is an experienced pitcher, and seemed to be' as cool as possible. Ner'/ertheless, in the seventh inning, when Meyers’ two-bagger was followed by Devore’s double and a base cn balls to Doyle, Manag'ii* Mack started to waim up another litchei, showing that he at leaj" CO 111 cm plated that a c.^ai^se might come necessary. Athletiet: Lord, If .. Oldring cf Collins, 2b Baker, 3b . AB R H PO A K .4 0 0 2 0 0 .401100 ,8 0 0 9 51 . 4 1 a 0 4 Murphy, rf 3 0 O i 1 0 Davis, lb 4 0 1 S 0 0 Barry, ss 3 0 0 0 1 U Thomas, c 3 0 0 12 1 0 Bender, p 3 0 1 l 1 u Totals .. 31 6 1 26 10 1 R H K Athletics .. .. 101 000 000—1 6 1 Giants .. .. .. 000 100 lOx—2 5 0 Batteries: Bender and Thomas; Mathewson and Meyers. Umpires, Klem and Brennan; Dineen and Connolly. Summary: Two-base hits, Oldring (2), Meyers, Devore. Sacvifice hlis, Murphy, Murray. Stolen baa^s, Doyle, Snodgrass. Let: on bases, Athlftlcs 6, Glantu 7. Base on balls, on Mathewson 1, off Bender 3. Struck out, by Mathewson 5, by Bender 11. Hit by pitched bs^ls, Snodgrass Time of game, 2:10. Umpiree. KJem and Brennan, National League; Con- riclly and Dineer, American Le.igiie- The game was played in the clean est ram most sportsmanlike spirit- The work of the umpires, especially the difficult work of Judging balls and strikes by Klem, was excep tionally good; and the crowd, con sidering the issue at stake, and the high feeling which prevails, was the best behaved I ever saw. In the second inning Matty gave Baker a fast straight ball, waist high, which the batter hit into right field. A sacrifice put him on s^ond, and a short passed ball let him reftch third. Then a clean, hard hit to left by that Old warhorse, Harry Davis, scored the first run. Mclnnes could have done no better. On Barry’s liner, which followed Mathewson almost made a remark able doul'le play.' He stopped the ball with his gloved hand, but just fail* ed to reach, it as it came down. He did, however, get thfe batter at first base. There was a good two-base hit by Oldring in the third and another by the same player in the fifth, but no runs resulted. After Oldring’s two bagger in the fifth, Merkle made a fine play in getting the speedy Collins unassisted for the third out, at first base. There was no lime lost on the ball, Mathew'son covering first. Besides the danger of a collision with the runner and a cons64uent muff, made Mer- kle’s play exactly the proper one. New York tiAd the score in the fourth Inning when Snodgrass scored on a fumble by Collins. While Snod grass was Ofn second he had several splendid chances to steal third, as Bender paid no attention to him whatever. But/he waited for the hit. It turned out all right but might have been costly, for the play on Snod* grass at the home plate was close. Of course It would ordinarily be poor judgment to chance a steal of third with two mea out. »i>ut where the opposing side hands it to you I think it is a mistake not to take it- The winning run Was earned on a. two bagger by Mayers and Devore’s well hitg rounder over Jthird, which netted hini two bases. Outside of the pitching there was no special feature to the play. By winning the first game. New York has a strong “edge” on the series. CP JM- Jovian statesmen! Louis L. Ledwellj and W, P. Bear announce that the de-J tails of th6 proposed charter meeting / of the Rejuvenated Sons of Jove for j the States of North and South Caroli-1 na have assumed very definite form. I The organization is of a fraternal and' social character and numbers among its membership over 5000 of the best electrical professional men throughout the United States, such as presidents, masagers, superintendents, central sta tion men, constructing and consulting engineers, supply men, contractors and others in allied callings. There are about 270 eligible men in the Carolinas who are being solicited and from the present number of signed applications in the hands of the mem bership committee indications are that much more than a hundred men will be in Charlotte on Saturday, October 28th, to attend the first Rejuvenation. The ranks of the order are being re cruited from the several power comr- panles in the state, such as the Caro lina Power & Light Co., at Raleigh, and subsidiari^, the Southern Power Co., at Charlotte, and subsidiary com panies, the-^ Carolina Light & Power Co., at Aiken, the Carolina Power Co., and the Mt. Weaver Power Company at Asheville, Tidewater Power Co., at Wilmington, the Consolidated Rail* way and Lisht Company at Charlotte, and other central sttion and isolated plant operators at Columbia, Ander son, Sumter, Spartanburg, Btatesvllle, Winstoo-Salem, Durham, Greensboro, etc., are to be represented. The trav eling electric salesmen and some of the contractors are also coming." Several outside men of high rang in the order from St. Louis, Philadel phia, Richmond, Atlanta and Birming ham are to be on hand to assist in the Ritualistic work. A big banquet and lots of “Electric toasts” will be serv ed to the newly rejuvenated satellites and ■ visitors. The Jovian ord^r bears the same relation to the electrical men as the Concentrated Order of Hoc Hoos does to the lumber men. (That’s all.) yESTEBDiy’S BASEgllLLIN OTHEII CITIES AT CLEVELAND. First game:— R. H. B. Cincinnati . 000 010 00« 02— 7 13 0 Cleveland .. 000 002 210 0— 5 9 2 Batteries: Gaspar, Fromme, Mc Lean and Clark; Krapp, Baskett^e and Easterly. Umpires, Rigler and Evans. AT ST. LOUIS. R H £! St. Louis Nat. 100 OlO 000— 2 T 1 St. Louis, Ams. 101 211 31x—10 14 2 Batteries: Golden, Watkins and Bliss; George and KricheU. Utnpires, Perrine and Johnstone. AT CHIC.aGO. RUB Chicago Am.’s'. 032 012 020— 8 15 0 Chicago Nat’s. 105 001 000— 7 14 2 Batteries: Scott, White, Walsh and Sullivan; Hichaie, Reulbach and Arch er. Umpires, 0*Day and O’Loughlln. AT CLEVELAND—(Second Game.) Called account darkness at end of sixth" inning. Cincinnati .. 000 001— 1 6 1 Cleveland Oil 03x— 5 9 0 Batteries: Humphrey and Clark; James and Easterly. Umpires, Rigler and Evans. Bulgnr a Asks In- ietvention oJ Powers Paris, Oct. 14.—Bulgaria has ap-. pealed to the' powers to interv^e | to prevent the mobilisation of Turk ish troos on the Bulgarian frontier; otherwise she will take such meas ures as may be neeessitated by the Turkish preparationih. Rodgersi Making Good Progress Vinita, Okla., Oct. 14 Cal P. Rjod- gers, the* «>ast to coast fiyer, alighted here just at dusk this evening after flying from Kansas City, 189 miles. Mlseateufatlen. **How stupid theM inen are! tf my master would have waited s month or two, h6 -would tore a roast fowl incitead of a poiK:hed egg-*' —Pele M6le. A Doctof for Men and a Doctor for Women D^R, WM. H. MOSS, Specialist. Rooms 3 and 4, Davidson Bidg., Charlotte, N. C. All men and women suffering from any disease who need skillful treat ment can come with full confidence, knowing thkt they will receive hon est, conscientious and successftil treat ment. The largest and most elaborate ly equipped medical office for the proper and successful application of the various forms of medical electric ity for the Cure of all kinds of dis eases. Nothing like it anywhere else in North Carolina. ALL DISEASES TREATED. I am especially prepared to treat all chronic diseases and particularly those affecting the mucous mem branes, muscular system and impor tant organs of the body—nervous sys tem and diseases of the blood, the skin, the kidneys, special diseases, weaknesses, etc. No matter what your ailment is, come and be examined FREE OF CHARGE. Learn just; what your trouble is, how to get rid of it, and then under the direction of a skillful speciaHst TREATMENT and see how quickly you will get re lief. You cannot well jnore this op portunity to share, with the hundreds of others, the great advantages, and superior skill of this doctor. If you cannot come, write for system-blank. Hours daily 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. Sun days 9 to 1. miM) COCMM i His DurabiHty Fooling Bm into Believing lhat heBo^ Chance to Regain Champion, ship—Is Stiil a Marvel oj Endurance, The Dane Eas Never Beei Knocked Out oj Conscious' ness in the Ring—His £n- durance is as Marvelous a> Ever, By W. W. NAUGHTON, • San Francisco, Oct. 14.—For all thaf he is loaded down to the guards witr hope that springs eternal in the humar breast, Battling Nelson must gesin tc realize he will never come back. If however, that affair with Young Sayloi did not convince the Norseman thai fighters, like other beings, have theii limitations, the only conclusion is that Nelson is a monomaniac on the sub ject of remaining young. What is helping to fool Nelson ii regard to his chances of regaining iht championship is that his chiefest as set, to wit, his durability, is the Iasi of all his fighting fortifications thai is going to show signs of wear and tear. So far the Dane is as much of s marvel of endurance as he was when scoring his biggest ring victories. Foi that matter if he were to quit right now he would be remembered as s champion who had never been knocked out, as the term is generally under stood. “Knocked out of time” he cer tainly was by Owen Moran, but there was never a fraction of an instant when the time keepers were calling their loudest—that his brain was noi telegraphing his legs to do their dutj —to place themselves firmly beneatt his body and enable him to stand erect What I mean is that Nelson did noi lose consciousness entirely, even ir the Moran “knockout” and I guess tha- was the nearest he ever came to be ing rendered completely hors-du-com bat. When the buffeting he has taker and the knockdowns he has suSerec are considered, it is really wonderful to think that he has never been seni to the land of dreams. As I have said, his ability to assimi late punishment remains intact oi practically so, but endurance alon^ never made a man champion of the world and that Nelson had to back up his durability has deserted him. While never a marvel at timing,counting or judging distance. Nelson alw^ays strove to give blow for blow. Even ii while thus engaged he took five punch es for every one he returned he did well, for his assimilative powers en abled him to shake off the effect ol the punches which came his way. To put it another way, if Nelson counter ed successful once e«t ofpossible five times, he was no worse punished than his advetsary. Possibly that was one of the angles the Battler figured from. There were times when this desire to punch simultaneously with his op- early in the ?fwa-gehowsrveETAOINO ponent brought satisfactory results early in the fight. In the open air con test with Jimmy Britt at Colma, the Battler had the tit-for-tat idea in his when the boys went to ^e center for the opening round. Britt, who was both shifty and speedy, let go his left hook. It landed, but as it did the Battler’s left shot in with a bent arm movement and the glove tore a small strip of skin fro the bri^e of Britt’s nose. A neat and more time ly counter was never seen. Of course. Nelson did not have sim ilar luck every time he was struck by Britt, and for that matter there was very few of the early rounds in which he timed his returns so well. But m the long run it was by awaiting Britt s lead and countering that he would down the native son. Nelson showed the same aptitude for giving blow for blow in this fight ing with Martin Canole and Young Corbett, boys who as a rule were much faster hitters than he. Even when he missed, his fist went dangerously dost to the other man s head or body and when it came to indiscriminate slugging at close quar ters, Nelson was an excellent range finder. , If ;i may judge of what I saw oi him in a contest with Antone LaGrave in San Francisco, Battling Nelson has lost his ideas of countering and ms sense of distance has become a joKe. He rooted away in his old style, but m the majority of instances his apponent was fatr out of range. At times Bat s swings shivered the air a full fwt short of LaGrave's head. The i€slre to mix it was a& strong as fever, but his motives of what constituted strik ing distance were lamentably deficient It is to be hoped Nelson’s durabil ity will not remain with him long enough to convert him into a punching block tor every third rater that happen ed' along. Unfortunately for him, tne desire to rehabilitate himself as a world has wraped his judgment ahd he seems unable to discern that his bat tling average has fallen off to an alarm ing extent. It is a pitable thing whet a mah^9 vanity dulls his intelligence tc such an extent that he doesn’t recog idae When it is time to quqit. The ^se of Battling Nelson is an interesting one. There never was a cleaner living ringman than the Dans, probably, and when speculating on the cau8« thst brought him to the end oi Ms t^her as a pugilist, he must be innocsnt ot indulging in the pace that kills. His comparatively sudden slow- USg up ^ves strength to the old con- teflon that In the matter of athletic vigor and excell^ce no man, no matter how carefully he conserves his nerve and. hif'WergieS, can hope to remain at his b«it for longer than eight or ten years. —The R. Q. Auten Electric Co. hittip opened th^r new display roti’^^ «& Bast Trade street and tiioir dt.^lectneal fij^ures and dcc^ration^ icre tfmoajf the most compi3\^ artistic even seen in the city. Mt*. ti. Grobme. of the Gidse Mfg. Co. beca her^ for the last few •Istitlg Jinn In decoratin-j th# tiele place ot business. Statesvill nesday^eve filled the -i school depi lee Nichole Hughey- - the decora scene "was The entire covered wi palms, fei5 whUe ivy and on n beautiful Immedia a receptioi W. T. Nicl j^ont and number oi Entci Followit 'i iiursday our entert street in The deco ■white and and cake, A9ths gu* was cake tials of V
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