The Washington herald., 1912-10-13
Red Soxs Young Hurler Pitches
Great Ball, Defeating Giants
by Q to Score.
LARRY DoYLE's ERROR
GIVES BOSTON CANE
Speaker Hits to HcGraw's Captain,
Who Allows Ball to Go BY,
Yerkes Scoring.
By WILLIAM PEEr.

Boston, Oct. 12.-Beaten by a
mere stripping, by lad barely out
of his teens; beaten by an error. it
is true, but beaten just the same.
That is how Christy Mathewson,
idol of the Gotham fans and crown
ed by many as the greatest pitcher
in baseball, feels tonight, for Hugh
Bedient, Jake Stahl's young mound
artist, came out with flying colors
this afternoon at Fenway Park in
the fifth battle of the worlds series.
The score was 2 to l.
Twice Matty has started in the
big games. He fought tie game
with. Collins, Hall, and Bedient,
and to-day was whipped by Be-
dent. He allowed FIVE hits to-day,
while Belient was touched for a
quartet of safeties. Matty pitched
great ball, and but for an error by
Larry Doyle, the most dependable
fielder on the team, would have
earned another tie game.
Not . Free Pass.
One feature OF Matty's work stands out
above all others Not q base on balls
has he issued in the twenty innings he
has hurled the horsehide. Two games,
one of nine and another Of eleven, Matty
was on the rubber. and not a Redleg
worked him for free transportation.
In the newspaper stories this morning
several of the Giants remarked that Joe
Wood was Boston's only pitcher; that
the New Yorlkers had hit all the others
tried out. and that Joe never could cop
baseball's highest honors alone. They
will realize now Joe wasn't expected to.
Bedient had pitched the eleventh inning
of the tie game on Wednesday. He had
pitched the ninth of the one lost to Mar
guard day before yesterday. He had not
been scored on in either round. but he
had appeared wild. and the Giants were
not figuring that Stahl would start him.
This was Indicated by the fact that in
New York's batting practice Hooks
wiltse did the hurting to the Gotham
sluggers. They were looking for left
handler, Ray Collins.
Probably no one was more surprised
than McGraw when the announcer gave
the names of Bedient and Cady. 1t was
a right-handed man. and the Giants grit
ted their teeth and swore they would get
revenge on Jake for crossing them. Their
orders were to wait out everything on
Bedient; to make him pitch the full
string. And IN the first few innings 1t
looked as II this was the way to beat
him. for he was shy Of control But theye
regular season
Two Gent. Walk.
II they had enjoyed the knowledge Of
the White Sox they would have been wise
to the fact that it's Comparatively easy
to reach first base with Bedient work.
ing. and nearly impossible to get the rest
Of the way when the youth is right.
Thus Devore and Murray refused to
strike at anything in the first two
rounds and they were rewarded with
passes. But only one Of them attained
second base. Devore walked again in the
third. but Hugh only frightened up and
commenced placing the pill where the
Giants had to swing at II. After that,
Bedient lost his wiidness And the Giants
were practically helpless except in the
inning In which they secured their only
run. That was the seventh. and II LArry
Gardner had had a little luck in his field
ing Of McCormick's drive. New York
would have been shut out cleanly. In
other words, Bedients game was tho best
pitched Of the series to date. Four hits
were made on him. and two came in the
seventh. In the other sessions he was a
bear. To be sure, he had the best kind
of backing from his pals but he didn't
stand In any real need of It.
Another great sthrong witnessed the |
game, q crowd which overfiowed into |
center field. Mounted police were called !
to keep the crowd from closing in on the |
fielder1. |
In all but one inning Matty was the |
master Of tho Red Sox. In the third |
frame. Harry Hooper crashed to left fieldt
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