New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-20
Nemesis Pursued the Giants
Through Long Line of
FumbIed Chances.
M'GRAW POINTS TO RECORD
No Individual Play or Player
Settled Worlds Series, bit
Tight Defence Against
Unsteadiness.

the way We have been playing all through
! the SERIES" he said. ''Snodgrasss error
| will be remembered because II was the last
and most spectacular one. But there were
others that had just as direct bearing
on the result, only they have been for
gotten in the heat Of the battle" a
| glance backward over the records bears
out McGraw's contention. II ever the
breaks of the game decided the issue the
worlds series just closed was so settled.
| The Giants, with an offence nearly twice
! as strong az the Red Sox, were humbled
because they lacked steadiness in the
pinches. For once tight defence proved
its worth.
| Victory was almost in the grasp Of tho
| Giants In the first game when Joe Wood
put on the brakes and struck out Fletcher
and CrandalI with two men on the bags
In .-e ninth inning, when base HE
would have scored two runs and won tho
| game. Twice was the second encounter
| put in the won column for New York,
only TO have II filter away through weak
| fielding. With the Giants one run In the
lead and two out IN the eighth inning
Lewis doubled TO left field and scored the
run which tied up the game when
| Fletcher fumbled Gardner5 grounder. n
Larry had been retired the game would
| have ended in regulation time, with New
| York the victor Again, in the tenth, the
! Giants forged ahead. Merkle scoring on n
| triple and an out, but the Red Sox tied
It UP on an error, Speaker rappins one out
| for three bases and scoring when Wilson
|
| this point the breaks favored the Giants,
| for Lewis followed with double, only to
to have Larry Doyle rob Gardner OF a
hit by a wonderful one-hand stop. II the
| ball had got away Lewis would hayo
scored with the winning run.
! The third game ended with a victory
| for the Giants, due entirely TO n remark
able catch by Josh Devore. who pulled
down Cady's long fly with two men on the
bases and two out in the ninth inning. A
| hit would have meant two runs and the
game The fourth contest was chalked
up as a victory for Boston through the
brilliant fielding Of Heinie Wagner. who
stood behind Joe Wood and took fiendish
delight IN robbing the Giants Of hits.
Twice in the fifth inning he made almost
| impossible stops, tossing out Merkle be-
| fore HerZog singled and then killing Off
Fletcher after Meyers had famed. In
the seventh, when the Giants scored one
run, McGraw sent Fletcher home TO al
most certain death after Yerkes had re-
covered McCormick's hit. The Little Ma
poIeon" took long chance in the hope
OF catching the Red Sox unawares, but
their steadiness was never more apparent
when they failed 10 ascend. In the eighth
another great stop by Wagner executed
| Deyore before Snodgrass and Murray both
| got on the bases. II Josh had not been
! killed of there would have been run
across. ...
The fifth gamo saw Larry Doyle make
his first error of the series, wien he let
Yerkes cross the plate with what proved
| to be the winning run in the third inning.
! II was IN this game that Hooper tripled
| into a corner formed by tho temporary
! bleachers. At McGraw's instigation a
| ground rule was subsequently, made to tho
| effect that ball hit into this spot should
| count for only two bases. In the last
game Herzog hit 10 tho same place and
| got only two bags Meyers following with
a sacrifice and the next two men proving
easy outs II Charlie had got 20 third IL
was almost a certainty that the chief
would drive out long fly and bring him
home. This would have meant another
run and the championship for the Giants.
McGraw little thought when he asked the
umpires to make this rule that it was
going TO rob him Of the title.
The turning point in the sixth game
came in the fourth inning, when the Red
sox were on the point OF getting 10 Mar
guard, but a remarkable catch by Snod-
grass saved the day. Encouraged by this
bit OF LUCK, the Rube settled down, and
only one OF his opponents reached first
for the rest OF the game. 6tahl opened
the inning with a scratch hit through
Herzog Then came Snodgrass's catch,
which robbed Wagner OF three-base
hit Cady singled to right and made a
mistake which cost q run by lingering at
first, instead OF going TO second when
Murray threw to the plate TO keep Stahl
from scoring. Collins came along and
hit into a double play. II Cady had been
at second there would have been no
chance for such play and Stahl would
have scored easily, as Collins's grounder
could not have been felded by Doyle in
time 10 get runner at the plate.
It was a double steal by Devore and
Doyle which upset Wood in the seventh
game and led to his downfall. Snodgrass
sent a fly to right field which Hooper
tried 70 catch at his shoetops. but missed
by a hair. The ball rolled away for
double, scoring two runs. and Wood
dar,Isa uas forthcoming almost immedi-
ateIy. This game was besprinkled with
misplays, Doyle making one III the eighth
which let In a run, while another In the
ninth led up TO count. But the Giants
had such a big lead that their weak de-
fence did not hurt them.
On almost every play In the eighth
game the championship hung. The most
remarkable catch and the one that saved
the day for Boston was Hooper's brilliant
performance In robbing Larry Doyle OF
a home run In the nth. McGraw stated
after the game that It was the most won
derfIl catch he had ever seen in his long
experience on the diamond. II was
critical period for Bedient, and after he
had pulled through safely he was next
TO invincible. Devore led OF with hit,
but died stealing. Then came Doyle's
long smash, which was turned into the
second out, and Snodgrasss single which
followed, was wasted as Murray fouled
out. After Murray's single, Merkle's
double and Speakers error had scored a
run and put Merkle on second In tho
tenth, Chief Meyers sent a terrific smash
to Wood, whose hand was nearly taken
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