The Detroit times., 1912-10-16

many poisoned arrows into Joe Wood
by the end of the first round that he
resembled a porcupins with all quills
flying to the wind.
Boston had built her team around
Wood to large extent, psychological
~ IL not physically. Wood couldn l
be beaten when the show down came
and he was forced TO the test. And
50 when the Giant assault rumpled
Joe into CORY mass, earning six
runs through seven massed base
hits. the Red Sox machine crumpled
with their star.
Ieff Tesreau was badly of in the
driving gale. wild and ineffective
with notified support. II here the
Red Sox had rushed their attack
with as much heart as they showed
before, they might not have won the
game against such a lead, but they
could have driven the Ozark man.
moth from the field and forced Nc
Graw 10 shoot in Mathewson and
thereby wreck his best bet for today
But in place OF fighting back and
fiehting with their old time power
when pressed, Stahl's people played
as q there hearts had been wrenched
cut. Bewildered, dazed. broken and
in rout. they failed by dead, dumb
work on the bases TO carry out any
:ally started and looked even worse
than the Giants looked in the final
affair last fall against the Athletics.
The driving hurricane which swept
tho field had both clubs guessing, but
New York could AFFORD to miss most
OF her guesses with a seven-run lead
compiled before Larry Gardner
tilamped a four-bagger TO right IL
was not up to New York then-but
Boston--to grow desperate In her re-
maining chances, but the trance
which came when ole Wood fell was
too heavy and deep 10 be broken.
Wood, like O'Brien, started his
downfall with a balk as Devore and
Doyle jumped headlong I'D a double
steal, but the balk was not call as
bCth runners cleared the distance
ithout trouble. And from that
point on, Wood like O'Brien, was no
longer a winning pitcher. but beat
en- man. reeling and waiting for
Knockout kick which caught him
sqiIarely on the crest OF the jaw and
sent him trooping into dreamland.
Two great catches by Devore, one OF
the stars OF the series, saved Tesreau
later en-. but with all his wildness Big
JEFF was never on the rim of trouble
against Bostons slovenly. sluggish at
tack.
In her two attempts before New
York has won four worlds series
games and four OF these have been
by Mathewson. In the pres
ent series New York has gathered
three victories with the old master
absent from the winning column.
through no fault Of his own. Mar
guard and Tesreau have put across
their conquests and II now remains
for the Big Gun TO blaze his way
home in the decisive contest IL Man
haitian Isle is TO flow another cham
,,ionship banner.
And as Wood is likely to come back
land to come back with his greatest
effort, this next clash shoald be
classic in the way OF desperate.
smashing. headlong lighting. New
ork fights under the handicap OF
playing another game on foreign soil
with the veteran Mathewson forced
to pitch on raw cold day, where his
arm works best under a warming sun.
Boston fights under the handicap
Of having been broken and cracked
on her last standard with several
hundred of her loyal rooters bitterly
offended by an over sight when the
1. sual reservations were forgotten or
overlooked in the scramble.
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