The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-11
CREDITS GAME TO
LITTLE. GOD LUCK
LARDNER SAYS RUBE VANGUARD
WAS SAVED BY MEREsT
CHANCE IN NINTH.
DENORE WOUND 1T UP
BIG EXPLOSION LOOKED FOR IN
NEW YORk-PITCHER FAILED
To MATERIALIzE IN THE
GAME.
DEVORE WOUND 1T Up
By r. w. IARDNER-

BOSTON. Oct. 10.---The biggest
crowd that ever saw a ball game In
Boston. numbering s4.sss, got the sur
prise Of It's life today. when RUDE
MarQuard was returned winner
over Buck O'Brien. in the third battle
Of the worlds series. 2 TO /.
XII the dopesters figured that Rube
would make big explosion II Mo
graw started him. But up to the
ninth inning he exhibited NO signs of
cracking. Then luck and bad base
running. or bad coaching, saved him
from eleventh hour defeat, and left
the Giants on even terms with the
HE'D Sox In the struggle for the cham
pionship of the universe.
One Of the prettiest catches ever
committed by little Josh Devore
wound up the game. robbed Forrest
Cady of undying fame, and was Rube's
salvation. Everybody in the bail park.
including Marouard. himself, thought
Cady had won the combat His cloat
was headed for the fence In right
center on a line. Henricksen was on
third base. and Wagner on second.
with two out and one run needed TO
tie. The pair flashed homeward with
the sound of the collision between ball
and bat. Devore started In an sppar-
emily hopeless chase towards the
thousands of bowling bugs in the dis
tant- bleachers The thought of the
big end Of that purse must have added
wings to Joshua's feet. Anyhow, he
caught up with the flying thing.
grabbed 1t. and held on, while the
frantic cheering gave way To a .grnaa
OF lost hope.
Rnbe In Fine Shape.
Marquard never looked better than
during the first eight rounds. Every
one was expecting one Of his famous
kffgx. aasss. and the FIG 5sFf Mr.
tontshed as he went through round
after round without giving the sox
good opening. His control was a.
good as we have ever seen ii. Not
until two were out in the eighth did
he give base on balls. His speed
was terrific. and he used IL for all IL
was worth. Curve balls were few and
far between. He used a few on Hooper,
Speaker and Gardner. the three left
handed batsrnen in Stahl's club, but
the righthanded batsers saw little but
the fast one, and did not see that
very clearly.
Buck O'Brlen was unfortunate. His
pitching would have easily won either
OF the two preceding games. but he
could not cop without runs, and runs
Were terribly scarce
Runs Were Earned.
His spit ball did not break ysr~
welt In the early innings, and Nevg
fork's two tallies we're earned Also,
Buck OBrien WAS in couple Of tighf
places before he struck his stride, He
pulled out of very deep hole in the
NTH. The Giants scored once in tat
inning. and Buck perhaps was iuS1y
TO get on that easily. Therefore ~
improved steadily. and the visitors
were having lots OF trouble with him
IN the sixth, seventh and eighth.
. Brfen was taken out in the eighth
10 allow Neal Ball hit for him. Hugh
Bedient was again the boy picked to
finish, and he refused to allow the
Giants to Increase their advantage
The folks present who all summer
had been accustomed To seeing Scr
rallies Did not stir when the ninth
opened with Boston two runs short.
Nor was there a movement for tina
exits when iris Speaker frsr man nm.
died on . pop fly TO Fletcher. The
chance to cheer came when Lewis
beat out his hit to Merkle. The crowd
went wild. Gardner cut loose a dou-
Die down the right foul line. The
orlYe sent Lewis ard ought TO
have planted Larry at third haae.
speaker. who was coaching at third.
na9ged him or because he tagged hia.-
self, he stopped at second base before
the ball was close to the iufleld on
'1Jevore's throw. He could have mada
another base without even sliding
StahFs bounder was grabbed bv Mar
guard and the Rube's peg to third
nailed Larry. Everything might hay.
been different IL Gardner had stretch
ed his hit as he should have. Well,
the situation looked less tense with
two down, man on first ana one
Stahl Pulls Out.
Stahl pulled himself out of tn
game in favor Of feet Henricksen.
The game appeared to be over when
Wagner grounded to Fletcher. But
Merkie made clean mum of Arthur's
throw. Henricksen made a Cobb-like
dash to third. and was called safs
there on = close decision On the art
pitch 70 Cady Wagner stoI4 sscoad. O
The call on the big catcher was two
balls and nothing when he conuected.
What happened to his drive has bean
related above. II II hadn't happened
the series would have been practically
over. for little fight would have been
left in the people from New York.