The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-15
Balk by OBnen Leads to Victory of New York Giants
O'Brien Loses His
Head and With II
A Baseball Gam
BY r. w. LARDNER.


start Buck O'Brien against the GtnQ
III the game that was crucial 20 e.
( the least. Buck lasted only one n
ning. but he was punished so sev0x@
/ " IN that one that II was inpoxxtt
{ Tor the Red Sox to catch up and cltu6
the Worlds championship title. m
/ Giants won. to 2. That made
/ least one more battle necessary.
/ The national commission decided r.
noon that II had made mistake
its Interpretation of the rules ID H1
gard To the playing off of the 49vX
enth game Yesterday 1t was hn39
aided abroad that d cola would nav
/ to be hipped TO settle the questt0&
of where the seventh game should III
played. Today that bit Of informattd1
/ was branded as unreal and untruo.
! The honorable body made up le1
/ HONORABLE mind that IL Boston lost e3%
I days game, tomorrow's should n
played in Boston. anyhow. wen
] Boston lost today's game. making tl1
/ count three games to two in fay1&2
! of the American league champions.
soon the ninth inning was oyo42
the commission members got togeth&
with Manager Stahl and McGraw, II
the middle Of the diamond at the Fol-
! Grounds, and tossed a coin to 901
/ where the Wednesday battle sh0u& y
/ come off, provided the Giants Wo1
again tomorrow. The coin was toaGel
Mr.. Stahl guessed right, which ai9nl4
ies that We will all spend the ro
Of the series in Boston, regardless
t Tomorrows game viii be p1AyN
there on the merits OF the case, aM
If tomorrow's doesn't decide the Gx5
gument there will be another at F415
| way Park Oh Wednesday. The H0&
Grounds are through for the sea40M
In other words.
Well. the guess of stahl on the cot
was all right, but the guess e.
% Brien was not, az limited above.
Ray Collins had started today.
would almost certainly have lic1fM
Rube Marquard. and the folks beh10
him Ray didn't start. He be01
pitching after OBrien had b.
knocked out. and after he had -
gun. the New Workers were helpl0m
The Giants have won two g1me3s
i"evefy body knows But a Few may
remember that Marquard has be0
the victorious pitcher on each occm
sion. Therefore, Rube may hAN
anything he wants tonight. anythfM
New York. can give htna. IL you ~
ns. we will admit that Marquard ~
better than when he licked the Sox c.
IN Boston. But who wouldn't be nNHa.
ter? who couldn't pitch a good -
game when the people back OF MN
scored five runs in the first innin(
MarQuard probably won't work AGAN
in this Worlds series. But his na1M
will go down to posterity and ofn4
unfortunates as the man who won IT,
of New York's victories. or mayh1M9
the man who won all the games No.
York captured Great Is the HuA
and highly to be praised. Cheer hi1
ROW, for there's no telling whe
there'h be another chance.
Mr. O'Brien pitched his firEf innlMT
today just as we have seen so1
high school boys pitch. He got C.
the point where he had two men 0MS
a man on second and no runs In. III
he blew up Never In history al
anybody blow harder, and it is a W0l1
der the New Workers didn't scoro
million before Buck was renoy4
He was so badly licked when Mn&I
rays infield grounder had been tn1&
ed into a single that hu commiee1
a baik which no umpire could Oy~(1
look The balk was the fintsh1M
touch After 1t Buck worked 014l
In a trance. A ten-year-old 11
WITH raj III ner hands coufd ~
gone up to the plate and mAd4
base hit off him. when finally thu
, ming was over, through bit Of H.
fortune. the Giants were leading
score If TO 0. and the Sox ~
, nothing TO do but make six runs m
keep the Giants from scoring axM
Ray Collins was the boy picke6k
hold the score where il was. He &
I ceeded admirably. There was only e.
) chance for a New York man to hM
| during Rays regime. and that
CURED when Meyers tripied with e.
out in the fourth. The chief DID
, score Nor did anybody else
fharA IN
> there that It was a pity from an 49,
$ lean league standpoint that he co~
: not have started in o'Br1en'a d.
: He didn't outshine Marquard to A
noticeable extent. but he was at L.
Rube's equal from the second funz
on.
As has been their habit all thr0Q1
, the series. the Sox we're in bad 1u1
: They grasped two runs off the Ruh6
r the second. and then stopped taily19
But If Wagner's long blow in
fourth had ever gone safe, bell@
US Marquard would have had
I, I hands full. Stahl was on first bAoM
the time. Heine cracked one an h1
as he knew how, and it was caughe
Snodgrass. a really brilliant grab
~ four years or watching the GiantM
have never seen Fred pull a catch
i, il. Which all goes 10 show thAt
, Giants are doing their blamedeek&
a make things interesting.
= Devore made the best catch Of
!. career in Boston the other day,
| robbed the Sox of the game. D.
. is Marquard's roommate, but Dm~
4 grass ts~rot. So Fred catch; aftte
= not as brilliant. was the more raH
| able.
This time the Giants outheldAd
American league champions. In
:, New York was not charged wtk@
a single error, while the Sex were 9~
| OF two, one of which gave New
o | a run.
The first and the second wera
only scoring innings. The rAat T.
. very tame when contracted Will
!, other games of the series.
Marouard and Collins were % oe
outside of q couple Of bad spells
= the pastirne was more Of IN
a than contest.
4 The loyal Boston rooters weHM
hand with their brass band. An6
familiar airs OF 'ATessie" and
Adeline'' constantly came to
ears But something besides swse
sic Is often necessary az an -
to victory.
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