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<®OMAN OWI® y DMSTO
E/DITLD VP. S FARNSWORTH
MEYERS SEES NO
REASON TO BE
DEJECTED
Ry John “Chief*' Meyers.
(Famous Catcher of the Giants.)
Boston, mass,, <><t. t». isatd
this morning that we hadn't
lost the championship yet,
and I say it louder now I believe
it truly,
•lake Stahl used his trump card
at Polo Grounds yesterday. It is
quite true that he landed a victory
by doing It hut still a victory that
is likely to tell against him in the
long run Fat from disheartening
the 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 ft
Thinks Giants Are Best.
1 do not wish to insinuate any
thing against the skill either of Joe
Wood or the Red Sox w hen I say
that in my estimation the Giants
so m a better combination.
Stahl fired his big gun in tne first
skirmish
Wood yoste day proved liimrelf
a very masterful pitcher. He had
a lot of stuff
I wasn't particularly impressed
in fact, I didn't pay much attention
so what Wood did have till he
winged me in that seventh Inning.
Boys, 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 I
to come back with a day's rest like
our Tesreau can. He depends too |
much on speed. That is bound to
sap his reserve energy and his re
cuperative 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 J 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
z time of it in the ninth inning
Boston will be without the services
of their greatest twirler for the
next few days No other man on
that club is likely to show us so
much in nine Innings
Rut we Giants should have as good
pitching every day. Jeff Tesreau
will get revenge, 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 himself 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
ER* NEY. AUSTRALIA, Oct. 9. —Jack
Leater lasi night defeated Jack Howard,
a middleweight boxer of New South Wales,
in thirteen rounds The police had to
stop the right to save the Australian from
serous Injury
Ge<»’ge Stovall s wife hasn't missed a
ball game in seven vears She advises all
ball players tn marry which nic*t of
them do
"RED SOX ~ HAD ~LUCK?
IS MARQUARD'S ALIBI
By Rube Marquard.
(One of Giant Pitching Star*.)
Boston, mass oct 9. The
Giant- are fighting mad now
and nothing in the world can
stop us
Testeau's experience yesterday
has taught him a fine lesson and
al) the boys are banking on him to
cop the next out He had every
thing in the wot for six innings
yesterday and made the Boston
lacs stand on their ea'-i Hut he
outpitched himself. He didn’t
guage hi- st 1 ngt a
1 was the same way last year
But 1 have learn 1 my lesson and
you van bet that Jeff has now The
next lime he starts he will tin se
himself along, and 1 honestly be
lieve that he will pitch a shut-out
game.
Wood hurled a -well game, but
relied almost entirely on his fast
nab 11. was busting 'em ov< • in
the groove all tin time, but the
lock broke with him for our bat
ters weii unfot tunat' in summing
th* pill right into somebody's
hands
Yes. then i- no denying that
yertertbv. Ho Boston team had
“• the link tn thi world wit ■>
tb< tn If at find sei ut e<l tin breaa
|Q HERE ARE THE PITCHERS ON WHOM McGRAW depends to hold red sox in check
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Copyright, 1912, by International News Service
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-x EXM AY 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 rooters, but there
nan only a sprinkling of spectators
in the reserved grandstand seats.
An attendance of 31.00(1 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 frenzied plaudits of
the crowd, it loked as if rain might
fall before the second game was
completed. The weather predic
tions was rain tonight.
/he victory of the Red Sox yes
terday made them big betting fa
vorites. and the early’ odds of 10
to 6 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
Red Sox defeat
After watching the Boston team
closely. I believe thnt Wagner Is
the man we will have to look out
for more than any other one He
Is a great ball player He w.itches
every move of the op]H»sition and
he is a bear for bunking up well
mapped out plays
1 have heard remarks that Snod
grass should have eaught Speaker's
line drive to left center in tile sixth
inning It was a clean three-bag
ger Snodgras- ran with the speed
of a deer and managed to get the
sing. rs of his right band on the
ball Hut no man in the world
could have speared that clout
lioyle played a corking game He
puli' d off a stunt in that pesky s v
etith spasm that set the crowd
■ i.’.’- With Wagner on second
and * ady on first, with one down.
""•■I laced a fast b. ' on the nose
It was headed about five feet to
111' tight of s»'i o|id and burning the
' I'"’ l.arry managed tn knock
i ’ how n. but n i oing it h r t urn.cl
1 compete mmrsault Hut he
" eil ov t r and wm< fast an bl-
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AXD NEWS. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1912.
•slight applause. The hig crowd of
Gathamites 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. x
The rain proved to be only a light
shower and stopped three minutes
after it began.
The Red Sox victory of yester
daj 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 tempera
ry bleachers in left field, and 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 (heir drives In the
direction of the Lawson sign.
At 1 45 o’clock a chilly wind
swept across the field, bringing
oven-oats 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. \t 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 Empire < ('Loughlin of
ficiated behind the bat. Empires
Klein and Evans, on the four lines,
and Empire Rlgler, on the bases.
The Giants and the Red Sox
players < ante Into town on a spe
cial t ain last night, bearing type
writers and toting huge teams of
copy paper Out of Bill Carri
gan's pocket could be seen the edge
of a dictionary and Chief Meyers
carried a rapid calculator for fig
uring the parabola. XI! of them
were accompanied by stenogra
phers, and when any one made a
pointed rental k they order him to
put that dow n "
Boston Very Confident.
The w nnnig of tin first game
mad. ’ll' Ito-lon hellos so Cl
wine:ng (he s> l< s i hat
' . i>f»< d .-dil* o' 2 to l tn-
'mt < g io r... i t.derwiainiing
that Mathewson was to pitch this
afternoon, the betting on today's
game was at even mon -y.
Snodgrass' Mistakes Costly.
Among ball players and other
followers of tile 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 hat. only to miss it. This
gave the Red Sox a run. Devore
was set and waiting to catch the
ball when Snodgrass went on his
wild stampede and crossed him.
Snodgrass' defense is that he did
not know that Devore was waiting
for the ball and that, as he heard
no warning, he kept going.
Devore sfoutly 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, hut 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 thi seventh inning
and was prevented from making a
double play which would have re
tired Boston without a run, Larry
got the ball cleanly and had a.
double plaj right in his grasp, but
when he started for second base
he Dipped and lost the great
chance. That was 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 Chief Meyers.
There were two strikes on Hoop
er when he lifted a foul fiy that
almost touched the screen. Mey
ers ran back against the stand and
scraped the skin from his hand in
reaching for the ball, but missed it.
if he had caught that foul fiy. 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
ami imide them count.
McGraw Overlooks a Bet.
Many of the fans in Boston are
inclined to believe that 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 runnels on sec
ond and third and only one out,
the chance foi victory was tn the
palm of the battel s hands. It
oke ! as if a left-hander Would
have a better chanct than a right
lander against Wood, and when
I•' '-k< I w i.- called from the- m-nch
• Velw op. thought men Becker
him . f, 1 it hi was going in <«■ a
pitlill lilttii. -instead Met.,raw
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 inste .d of
running."
Based on the shovving 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 ome did they de
viate. Once a runner got on first
they advanced him with a sacri
fice or attempted to. To show tlie
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 himself
and Snodgrass.
The Giants had a chance to
show their first flash of speed in
the third yesterday and fleftness
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 was 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 fight,
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.
'CAMIGANTHINKS
SOX WILL WIN 4
SEME
By Bill Carrigan.
(Star Catcher of the Red Sox.)
Boston, oct. 9. —After sizing
up the Red Sox and the
Giants. I believe we win win
the series with ease.
We won the first clash, as we
won many a game in the Ameri
can league season—we came from
behind, overhauled a two-run lead
in the seventh, stood the strain of
a heartbreaking last half of 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 g a n e
ne caught.
Wood Showed Courage.
Joe simply pitched the very way
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 nerve,
tightened tip and struck out the
last tp’o batters, one of them
(Crandall) among the best stickers
in the National game, "v
It was a beautiful finish for
Wood. He showed nerve, confi
dence, stamina.
Taken altogether, it was a most
wonderful performance, especi? v
when one remembers that tiers
were 40.00(1 partisans yelling like
maniacs in an effort to get «
nerve. Joe came through with fly
ing colors. He did just what we
all expected he would do.
Sox Had Game Doped Out.
We had the game all figured out
at the start and things happened
just about as we figured It.
Take the case of Tesreau, for ex
ample. 5' 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 expected to
be tired from his efforts and from
natural nervousness, to go after
him. This 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, we
’ got to him and knocked him out
, of the box with four solid hits, in
cluding a fine two-bagger in the
seventh inning.
The Giants played a high class
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 In 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 hl."
measure. If he pitches against us
again, we may not use the same
attack, but I believe we will get
him just the same.
UHLAN BREAKS RECORD:
TROTS ONE MILE IN 1:58
LEXINGTON, KY„ Oct. 9.—Thre*
world's records wore broken at the
opening day of the Kentucky Ho ’’
Breeders association meeting here to
day. Uhlan, racing against time, low
ered the trotting record, held by Ly
Dillon for seven years, to 1:58 flat ■ •’*
former record of 1:59 1-2 was made at
Memphis. The sixth heat of the Ken
tucky futurity was won by Manrtco n
2:07 1-4, a world's record for a stxtn
heat.
The aggregate time for the six heat
in this race also made a new worlcn
record.
Manrico won the Kentucky trotting
classic after six heats. The Tennessee,
for 2:05 pacers, was only a walkove
for Braden Direct. Pickles proved some
what of a disappointment and the nest
she could do was to land third mone ■