New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-10
Exciting EIeven-Inning Battts
in Boston Ends with Honors !.
Even, Each Team Scor- =,
ing Six Runs.
MATTY HERO OF CONTEST
Murray and Herzog Hammer
Out Three Hits Each and
Neutralize the Effect ..
Of Five Glaring and
Costly Errors. -. Z
GAME TEENS WITH THRILLS
One Tense Situation Follows Another
Until Nerves Of Players and
Pans Are Torn to Shreds -.
Darkness Finally Ends =
the Struggle.
GAME TEENS WITH THRILLS
tBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

tBy Telegraph to The Tribune.I a..
Boston, Oct. 9.-An eleven inning tie
game which wrecked the hearts ef
thirty-fve thousand fans" and tore
the nerves of the players to shreds was
all that was accomplished by the
Giants and Red Sox at Fenway Park
to-day. When the peerless Matty. with
nothing but his glove and prayer, the
heart of a lion tanner and nerve SUCH
as even Joe" Wood could not equal,
retired the side In order In the last
inning the National Commission rose
collectively In its seats and announced
that the whole affair would have to be
gone over again tomorrow. In the
gathering darkness the great .hrong
OF spectators. who had see-sawed back
and forth from the depths Of despair 10
the heights OF Joy, recovered its equi.
librium and filed out Of the park. The,
score was D to o. sssss-
Never In any worlds series has 50
much action been crammed into
short three hours. Making a tremen
dous uphill fight, the Giants won the
game twice, only to have the stubborn
Red Sox come back and make the issue
doubtful. There was new hero born
every minute but among them all none
loomed bigger than Mathewson. who
stood firmly amid the wreck Of his COLI
lspsing support and twice witnessed, n
hard earned lead dribble away to moth:
ing. Three errors, two by Fletcher
and one by Wilson. were directly or
indirectly responsible for five Of the
Red Sox runs. Jake" Stahr used three
OF his star twirlers, Collins. Hall and
Bedient, in vain effort TO beat the
master. That they didn't DO 1t was due
to little Arthur Shafer, who played the
short field in the last half OF the
eleventh inning, and robbed Wagner
and Carrigan Of hits by miraculous
fielding.
A crowd of 80, 14S fans" found places
in the stands. which were not quite
filled. This was slightly above the
number out for the first game in Phila-
delphia last year. The total receipts
amounted to S5S,369, of which thu
players receive $3l.5l0 "a, the club
owners $21,612 81 and the National
Commission Sc, S36 90. There were sc-
commodations for several THOUSAND
more fans" than appeared, vacant
spots being visible in the temporary
bleachers which had been erected.
Part Of the crowd was let into the field
Just before the game started, making
ground rules necessary. These spec
tators could easily have been accom-
modated in the bleachers. Many "a
long drive found its way into the midst
of the fans"
Toward the end of the sensational
contest the nerves of the players were
wrought UP to the breaking point AS
the Red Sox were taking the field for
the eleventh inning Speaker and Wag-
ner nearly came to blows with Charlie
Herzog. The trouble started in the
seventh frame, when the New York
third baseman stole second and was sat
upon rather abruptly by Wagner. whose
clothes had been torn to shreds IN
daringly blocking off New York base
runners. Charlie justly complained of
these vigorous methods. When Speaker
made his triple in the eleventh and WINS
rounding third to score OH Wilson's
error Herzog forced the centre fielder
to run around the bag. This so nettlsd
him that he lost his temper. The
trouble makers were all pacifed by
Larry Doyle, however, and no damage
was done. X
Both Teams FisIdsd Loosely. .s.S
Sharp fielding would have won the
game for the Giants, but there was
many heartbreaking misplay that
stood in the way OF victory for the Red
Sox. Heroes sprang up like mush-
rooms overnight to cover up the multi
tude Of sins committed by their mates.
It was Duffy Lewis's CHASTITY muf Of
snodgrass's fly In the eighth that led
to the demise Of Ray Collins and the
forging ahead Of the Giants. SucceS
sive hits, single by Doyle and ~
double by Murray, put run across and
two on the bags. Merkle died easily
on a foul for the second out. leaving
everything up to Charlie Herzog. 49,
With the count three and two Her.
zog lifted high foul near the stands.
which Carrigan got under in remarks
able fashion. The ball dropped In hts
upturned glove as he stretched bacS.
but in recovering his balarce the :
sphere fell to the ground. With ths
new lease OF life Herzog slammed ths
ball into the temporary stands In lest
field for two-base hit, scoring two
Continued ON tenth page, nes< column.