The Washington herald., 1912-10-16
Giants Tie Up Series
And Upset the Dope
Red SOx Fail to Play Real Baseball
Boston Is Outplayed
- WILLIAM FEET.

~ WILLIAM FEET.
Boston. Mass. Oct l6-weu here It II
boys-the grand old dope smashed e
smithereens. Before the Giants and Red
sox hooked up. the writer voiced - hia
opinion that the outcome OF the worlds
series this season would be q toss up
with luck playing q prominent part
opening conflict one week ago to-day II
looked like four In . row for the Bean
Brigade. StahIs boys resemble . mil
lion dollars In real money, while Nc
Graw's Giants looked like q dock OF
NUTS.
Tonight the shoe is on the other foot
There was about as much life and pep
in the work Of the fiery hosed gang this
afternoon as you could discover with q
microscope in a can Of dead herrings. :
The Giants not only won to-day's game
fairly but outplayed the Stahl bunch 10
every department. The anihilation Of
Joe Wood In one inning was but minor
detail. McGraw's athletes uncorked
some real baseball, the brand displayed
by the Nationals during their whirl-wind
trip through the West last June. The
toward the Gotham bunch. but breaks
or no breaks, the Giants played the best
ball and deserved to win.
Nobody accused the Red Sox Of quit
ting, but to q man up a tree 1t looked
as IL the entire Boston club simply laid
down their arms and surrendered after
the Giants lad collected six runs In the
first inning.
Unless the Red sox bake sudden and
determined brace tomorrow, the world
championship of 1912 will tumble into the
hap of Muggsy McGraw, and the Ameri-
can League will be forced to take back
seat. Yesterday in the Boston camp It
was a case Of why should we worry"
tonight it is a case Of I'VE should
worry" with the accent on the last
word.
closely. as has the writer, such sud-
den reversal of form by Boston adds
only another chapter to the inexplainable
mystery book of baseball. 1t is barely
Apssible that the Red Sox have at last
ruin into the long expected slump.
There's something wrong somewhere-a
dark gentleman in a woodpile.
Big JEFF Tesreau got sweet Devenge for
the two beatings the Red sox handed
him in New York. The Ozark noun
taineer was there with the goods every
minute. Sea Lion" Charley Hall. who
relieved Joe Wood. was hit harder in
eight innings than was Tesreau in nine.
McGraw's superior generalship, so
styled by the Gotham experts, was need
ed to-day Any team that hits the old
ball as did the Giants and ran the bases
like McGraw's gang in this afternoons
combat will win any kind Of ball
game There was no need for Muggsy
to pull his inside stun.
Jake Stahi acted the part of wise man
when he yanked Joe Wood after the first
inning Wood appeared to have lot
of stuff, and despite the high wind. good
control. His control was SO good that
every one he served over the plate was
hammered to unguarded spots in the out
field. Instead of trying to wait out
Wood. the Giants lunged savagely at the
first ball pitched. and strange to relate.
the side batted entirely around, ana
everybody connected with the ball.
There was a brilliant display Of bone
headed base running by the Bean Bri-
yade. At least four runs were tossed
away by poor work on the sacks. Some
body ought to take Charley Hall out in
the woods and shoot him at sunrise. The
Red Sox pitcher was about the only MEM
ber of the team able to hit Tesreau con-
sistently, but his wretched work on the
runs Wagner also was guilty Of sew
eral bits of slow thinking.
A number Of perfectly good alibis could
be produced to show that Joe Wood was
the victim of a lot Of tough luck during
the short time he>was on the rubber-but
why 60 into the narrowing details, the
Giants got six runs. and that's all to be
said.
From start to finish Boston put up
just the kind of . game they should not
have played, In other words instead of
taking all sorts Of chances they were
conservative just as II all that was
needed was one run instead Of half q
dozen.
Then again fhe Red Sox builded their
hopes on Joe Wood. and when he went
to pieces the entire outfit cracked. Wood
will probably be given a chance to re-
deem himself tomorrow and then q DIFF
ferent story may be told
1t is a 80 to 1 shot that AfcGraw will
pitch Christy Mathewson In the decid-
ing game of the series here tomorrow.
Matty has a tie and a defeat registered
against him, but on both occasions has
twirled great ball.
It really looks now II the Giants had
the call for q victory tomorrow. but
the writer refuses to believe that Nc
Graw has the better ball cdlb.
Many a baseball expert are Of the opin-
ion that Jake Stahl made a mistake int
not lifting Joe Wood sooner. It is ar
gued that Stahl should have seen by the
straws which way the wind was blowing
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