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REASON TO BE
DEJECTED
By John “Chief" Meyers.
(Famous Catcher of the Giants.)
Boston, mass., oct.«. i said
this morning that we hadn’t
lost the championship yet,
and I say It louder now 1 believe
it truly.
Jake Stalil used his trump card
at Polo Grounds yesterday. It is
quits true that he landed a victory
by doing it, but still a victory that
is likely to tell against him in the
long run. Far from disheartening
rhe Giants the reverse is true, it
has put new determination in them.
If we approached the series with
any trepidation our first game with
the Hub team certainly dispelled It.
Thinks Giants Are Best.
I do not wish to Insinuate any
thing against the skill either of Joe
Wood or the Red Sox when I say
that in my estimation the Giants
form a better combination.
Stahl fired his big gun in the first
skirmish.
Wood yesterday proved himself
a very masterful pitcher He had
a lot of stuff
I wasn't particularly impressed
in fact. 1 didn't pay much attention
to what Wood did have till he
winged me In that seventh inning.
Beys, he had smoke.
Wood Is Good, But Can’t Last.
Yet, after all. Wood did not Im-,
press me as a fellow who is likely
to come back with a day's rest like
our' Teereau can. He depends too
much on speed That is bound to
sap his reserve energy and Ills re
cuperattve powers
Wood showed us nothing like the
speed Bender displayed against
Mathewson the opening game a
year ago. He is not so hard a pitch
er to beat. Bender mixed up
terrific speed with a beautiful curve
that he was never afraid to use.
He kept a batter guessing every
minute. Wood sticks to his speed
and when a club has a chance to
guage it properly I do not think
his pitching will be found as effec
tive as that of Connie Mack's great
Indian.
Wood on Run in Ninth.
We did not do much with Wood
at first, but no one can deny that
we gave him a very uncomfortable
time of It In the ninth inning
Boston will be without the services
of their greatest t wirier for the
next few days No other man on
that club is likely to show us so
much in nine Innings
But n e Giants shonld have as good
pitching every day. Jeff Tesreau
will get renenge. mark my words.
He pitched wonderful ball yester
day —certainly as fine as anything
ever handled
Here was a green young pitcher
In his first world's series opposed
to the classiest pitcher of the Amer
ican league. He bore hlmrsolf nobly.
He was not out-pitched. He was
out-lucked He will come back, and
come back strong I look for him
to pitch the next game at the Polo
Grounds and then he will show
even more stuff than he displayed
yesterday.
LESTER POUNDS HOWARD
UNTIL COPS INTERFERE
SIDNEY. AUSTRALIA Oct 9 Jack
I .set er last night defeated Jack Howard,
a middleweight boxer of New South Wales,
In thirteen rounds The police had to
stop the fight to sate the Australian from
serious Injury.
George Stovall's wtfe hasn't missed a
ball game In seven years She advises all
boil players to marry which mosh of
them do
"RED SOX HAD LUCK."
IS MARQUARD'S ALIBI
By Rube Marquard.
< One of Giant Pitching Star*,)
Boston. mass. Oct s. -The
Giants are fighting mud now
and nothing in the world can
stop us
Tesreau's experience yesterday
has taught him a fine lesson and
all the box a are banking on hint to
cop the next out He had every
thing In the world for six innings
yesterday and made the Boston
laos stand on their ears But he
outpltched himself He didn't
guage his str< ngth
I was the same way last year
Bui 1 have learn, d my lesson and
you ian bet that Jeff has now The
n»xt time he st i ts he will nurse
himself along, and I honestly be
lle's that he will pitch a shut-out
ga me.
Wood hut'ed a swell game, but
relied almost entirelj on his fast
bull H> was busting 'em over in
thi groove a 1 ! th. time, but the
luck brpkt w'tli him, sot our bat
tels were unfort inate in slumming
the pill right into Homebody's
hands
Yrs, then* is no denying that
yeateeday the Boston tram hml
all the luck In the world with
It II ii w V had m nvd the I rak
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Marquard. Tesreau. Mathewson. Ames. Wiltse. Crandall.
Rain Threatens to Spoil Second Game, But Shower Lasts Only Short Time---Doesn’t Interfere
SOX BACKERS BET 2 TO 1 THEY WOULD WIN TODAY
By Billy Smith.
(Manager of the Atlanta Ball Club.)
F FENWAY PARK, BOSTON,
Oct. 9.—An hour before "play
ball” called the Red Sox and
Giants together In the second bat
tle for the world's championship,
the bleacher seats were nearly filled
with fanatical looters, but there
wss only a sprinkling of spectators
in the reserved grandstand seats.
An attendance of 31.000 was as
sured by the ticket sale, however.
The sun dropped behind the
clouds about noon, and at 12:40,
when the Boston team took the
field, amid the frenaied plaudits of
the crowd. it loked as If rain might
fall before the second game was
completed. The weather predic
tions was rain tonight.
victory of the Red Sox yes
terday made them big betting fa
vorites. and the early odds of 10
to S shifted this afternoon to 10
to 5 on oßston for the series. In
one case a bet of S2OO to SIOO was
made that the Red Sox would win
today despite the fact that the vet
eran Mathewson would be pitted
against youthful Collins
The Giants came on the field at
12:50. but their advent only brought
any one of a dozen times that we
were in a position to cop it. It would
have been a Giant victory and a
Bed Sox defeat.
After watching the Boston team
closely. I believe that Wagner is
the man we will have to look out
for more than any other one He
is a great ball player. He watches
every move of the opposition and
he is a bear for breaking up well
mapped out plays
1 have heard remarks that Snod
gtass should have caught Sneaker's
line drive to left center in the sixth
inning It was a clean three-bag
ger Snodgrass ran with the speed
of a deer and managed to get the
fingers of his right hand on the
ball. But no man In the world
could have speared that clout
Doyle played a corking game He
pulled off a stunt in that pesky -•••v
--enth spasm that set the crowd
- a<y With w..g: e on m< on i
and Cady on first, with one down.
Wood faced a fast bal on the«nose
It wa- headed about the feet Io
tin light of second and burning the
sod too Hairy man'g d to knock
it down, but in doing >i hi tinned
a complete Mitnersault But he
rolled ovv* and while fast on his
stomach toss ( .| the bal! to b"iet< bet
in time to fur. ,• out t’a.iy
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THE ATLANTA GEORGTAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9, 191-2.
slight applause. The big crowd of
Gath;tmites who came to cheer their
favorites did not take their seats
until after 1 o’clock
Light Rain Falls.
At 1:15 o’clock a little rain be
gan. The darkening skies gave
promise of considerable bad weath
er before the completion of the
game.
The rain proved to be only a light
shower and stopped three minutes
after it began.
The Red Sox victory of yester
day had the effect of adding to
their confidence, and they disported
on the field in preliminary prac
tice with a dash and vim that was
pleasing to their supporters.
the Giants, on the other hand,
moved around with a "do or die”
spirit. McGraw had a heart-to
heart talk with his men today and
pointed out some of the opportu
nities that were lost in the open
ing game, and told his men in un
varnished terms that they must
take the game today.
Lawson Offers Fat Prizes.
Thomas W. Lawson, the Boston
financier, offered $250 to any bats
man who could hit a big sign bear
ing his name back of the tempora
ry bleachers in left field, find SI,OOO
to any one whose batted ball broke
the six-foot "System Slate" right
alongside his name on the sign.
Players on both sides during
practice aimed their drives tn the
direction of the Lawson sign.
At 1:45 o'clock a chilly wind
swept across the field, bringing
overcoats and furs into evidence.
The Boston band, wearing red suits
with white trimmings and white
belts, arrived at 1:48 o’clock and
played some lively tunes. At the
same time the overflow in the reg
ular bleachers was allowed in the
field and it camped behind a big
railing. Mayor Fitzgerald made a
speech, presenting Jake Stahl with
an automobile and Shortstop Wag
ner with a silver bat. while the
crowd cheered and a delegation of
rooters, headed by a band, paraded
the field. Umpire O’Loughlin o"-
fieiated behind the bat. Umpires
Klem and Evans, on the four lines,
and Umpire Rigler, on the bases.
The Giants and the Red Sox
players came into town on a spe
cial train la»t night, beating type
writers and toting huge reams of
copy paper out of Bill '’arrl
g.tn's pocket could be seen the edge
of a dietionaiy and t’hlef Meyers
carried a rapid calculator tor fig
uring the parabi fie All of them
we'e accompanied by stenogra
phers, and when any one made a
pointed remark they order him to
"put that down."
Boston Very Confident.
The yyinning of the first game
| made the Boston bettors so cock
sure of winning the si les that
| . .;t 1 to
day On the generui understanding
that Mathewson was to pitch this
afternoon, the betting on today's
game was at even money.
Snodgrass' Mistakes Costly.
Among ball players and other
followers of the game, it is the
opinion that the turning point in
the first game was Snodgrass’ bad
play in the sixth, in running in
front of Devore to get a drive from
Speaker’s bat, only to miss It. This
gave the Red Sox a run. Devore
was set and waiting to catch the
ball when Snodgrass w ent on his
w ild stampede and crossed him.
Snodgrass' defense is that he did
not know that Devore was waiting y
for the ball and that, as he heard
no warning, he kept going.
Devore stoutly maintained that
he called for Snodgrass to get out
of the way, but his voice was prob
ably drowned in the noise of the
crowd.
This play was not only unfortu
nate for Snodgrass, but it appar
ently unnerved Tesreau and he
weakened in the following inning.
Doyle Had Hard Luck.
Another play in which the Giants
got the worst of it was when Doyle
stumbled in the seventh inning
and was prevented from making a
double play which yvould have re
tired Boston without a run. Larry
got the bail cleanly and had a
double play right in his grasp, but
when he started for second base
lie tripped and lost the great
chance. That yvas one of the sad
dest blows of the game to the
Giants.
There was still another chance in
that inning to cut off the Boston
runs, but this time the bad break
fell to the lot of Ghief Meyers.
There were two strikes on Hoop
er when he lifted a foul fly that
almost touched the screen. -Mey
ers ran hack against the stand and
scraped the skin from his hand in
reaching for the ball, but missed it.
If he had caught that foul fly. New
York would have won the game.
The heavy hitting of the Sox
proved to be a very much over
estimated institution. They were
- really weak with the stick as com
pared with the Giants, but they
managed to get theirs in a lump
and made them count.
McGraw Overlooks a Bet.
Many of the fans in Boston are
inclined to believe tha; McGraw
made a bull yesterday in the
last half of the ninth by not send
ing Becker to bat in place of
Fletcher, who had already struck
out twice. With runnets on sec
ond and third and only one out.
the chance fol victors was in tile
palm of the hatter’s hands. It
looked is if i left-hander would
have a better chance than a right
hander against Wood, and when
Bet ker was called from the bench
every one thought, even Becker
himself, that he w is going in as a
pinch hitter. Instead McGraw
sent him to second to run for
Meyers.
Last night Becker rather naively
remarked: "I’d a darned sight rath
er been in there hitting instead of
running."
Based on the showing of the Sox
in the first game, they do not com
pare with the Athletics as a ball
club. Their attack is wabbly and
uncertain, and their defense is
nothing extraordinary. The throw
ers had little chance to show what
they could do.
Sox Play Old-Fashioned Game.
In attack the Red Sox played
only the "old army game" yester
day. and not once did they de
viate. Once a runner got on first
they advanced him with a sacri
fice or attempted to. To show the
futility of that style of baseball,
the Sox made a bloomer of it two
times out of three. As a surprise,
Murray also tried the sacrifice play
and as a result doubled up himsc'f
and Snodgrass.
The Giants had a chance to
show their first flash of speed in
the third yesterday and fleetness
alone gave them two runs. With
Devore on first, Doyle dumped a
looping hit into left field and with-
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out even hesitating Devore shot
into third like a streak.
Stealing Isn’t Popular,
A feature of the first game
was that only one man attempted
to steal a base and he was thrown
out by ten feet. Stahl tried it in
the second inning, but Meyers’
aim was so unerring that not an
other man started.
The work of both Catchers Cady
and Meyers t%as absolutely flaw
less. They handled their pitchers
perfectly and watched first base so
closely that no one had a chance to
get a lead.
Managers McGraw and Stahl this
morning expressed satisfaction
with the work of their teams.
Stahl says he realizes that
his club Is in for a tough tight,
notwithstanding the opening victo
ry, and McGraw agrees with him.
A Buffalo paper announces that the fol
lowing galaxy of glittering talent is
covering the world's series for them:
Sister Pankhurst,
Doc Cook,
Lieut. Becker (inside stuff),
Bill Riggs.
Conan Doyle,
Barney Oldfield,
Rose Pitnoff,
Prof. Erlich,
Joe Walcott.
CIRRIGJN ERB!
SDX WILL WIN E
STRAIGHT
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By Bill Carrigan.
(Star Catcher of the Red Sox)
Boston, oct. 9,-After si .,i n .
up the Red Sox and th.
Giants. 1 believe we wi;> m n
the series with ease.
We won the first clash, as w ,
won many a game In the \. lle . ;
can league season-we came’fmm
behind, overhauled a two-run lead
in the seventh, stood the strain of
a heartbreaking last half O s the
ninth and won out. 4 to 3
I want to give Joe Wood credit
for the great game he pitched and
Forrest Cady for the great game
he caught. 1
Wood Showed Courage.
Joe simply pitched the v Prv
he has pitched all season to me
He showed at his best when things
were breaking bad'for him in the
last inning, when he kept his nene
tightened up and struck out the
last two batters, one of them
(Crandall) among the best stiekeri
In the National game.
It was a beautiful finish for
Wood. He showed nerve, .mnfj
dence, stamina.
Taken altogether, it was ;l rno! t
wonderful performance. i a . y,
when one remembers that there
were 40,000 partisans yelling like
maniacs in an effort in get his
nerve. Joe came through with fly.
Ing colors. He did Just «h,u «■»
all expected he would do.
Sox Had Game Doped Out.
We had the game al! figured out
at the start and things happ-ned
just about as we figured It.
Take th_ case of Tesreau, for ex.<
ample. V.'e decided to play a wait
ing game at the start; then to
ward the close, if things went right
and when he might be expect-d to
be tired from his efforts and front
natural nervousness, to go after
him. Thia is exactly what we did.
In the first three innings Tes
reau issued three passes, and
while we were not able to turn
them into a count, he was pitching
hard all the time. Eventually, wo
got to him and knocked him nut
of the box with four solid hits, in
cluding a fine two-bagg- r in th#
seventh inning.
The Giants played a high elaM
of ball, but it seems to me as
though they were a different team
at various stages of the game
When they secured that two-run
lead and held it for three innings
they were full of "pep." but when
we got that one run lr> the sixth
we could see a difference in them,
and when we scored three more in
the seventh they looked dead.
I don’t blieve Tesreau will both
er us any more. We have i
measure. If he pitches against ua
again, we mav not use the same
attack, but I believe we wilt get
hint just the same.
UHLAN BREAKS RECORD:
TROTS ONE MILE IN 1:5
LEXINGTON. KY . Oct. 9.-Thf
world's records were broken at t
opening day of the Kentucky HO-
Breeders association meeting here -
day. Uhlan, racing against time, .o
ered the trotting record, held by u
Dillon for sever, years, to 1:58 fiat 1
former record of 1:69 1-2
Memphis. The sixth heat of the ke
tucky futurity was won by Man teo
2:07 1-4, a world's record for a six
heat. ■ . ,
The aggregate time for the six n
In this race also made a new
Manrico won the Kentucky trotti
classic after six heats. The 1 ‘‘ nß '‘\ 1
for 2:05 pacers, was only a
for Braden Direct. Pickles proved som
what of a disappointment and tn»
she could do was to land third mo
