The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-17
DEFEATED THE GIANTS IN FINAL
GAME OF SERIES BY SCORE OF 3 TO .
MATHEWsoN PITCHED A WON
DERFuL GAME UNTIL HE
WEAKENED IN THE FINAL IN
NINe-ERRoRs CAUSE OF LOSS
OF GAME, HOWEVER.

Boston. Oct 16-Boston, of the
American league, are champions to-
day. They won the worlds cham
pionship in baseball when they de-
feated the New York National league
pennant winners by the score Of 8
to 2 in a ten inning game before
twenty thousand people. Mathewson
pitched wonderful game for New
York until he weakened in the final
inning. Both Bedient and Wood
pitched well for Boston, Bedient be-
ing taken out as result of sending
Hendricksen in to bat for him in the
last half of the seventh.
The Red Sox were one run behind
when they came to bat in the last Of
the tenth. A muff by Snodgrass Of
Engle's long fly put the batter on
second. After Hooper had flied out
Speaker singled and Engle scored
with the tying run. Speaker went
20 second on the throw In. Yerkes go
ang to third. Lewis was purposely
passed in order to make it possible
for q double play at the plate Gard
ner caught an inshoot on the end of
che bat and sent 1t to Devore, whose
throw to the plate was too wide to
catch Yerkes, who scored the winning
run.
The crowd rushed on the field and
xathered around the Boston bench
cheering. Some spectator addressed
an alleged insulting remark to Man
hger McGraw, who was on his way
20 congratulate Manager StaAl, re-
sulting in an exchange of blows.
The crowd also pressed around
- To- fv,o i'm or
his clever pitching.
Mmthewson allowed eight hits, Be-
dient six in seven innings and Wood
three in three innings. New York
had two errors and Boston five.
New York scored one run in both
the third and tenth innings; Boston
scored one in the seventh and two in
the tenth.
+. Total Receipts $490,833.
It was the first worlds series that
has, gone eight games. One was a
tie game. The series was played
before more than quarter of a mil
Hon people. The total receipts for
the eight games were $4s0,S33. Each
Red Sox player received $4.024, while
the Giant players each received $2.566.
The choice of Hendricksen as
pinch hitter to bat for Bedient In
the seventh inning was the turning
point in Boston's fortunes. He
punched out a two base hit past Her
bog and Stahl came over the plate
with the tying run. Mathewson
pitched 1877 balls to batters in ten
innings. He threw only 81 balls the
first nine innings. This was the
smallest number of balls pitched in
nine innings by any twriler during the
Beries. Mathewson gave bases on
balls to five Boston men today, aft
pr having pitched twenty innings in
the series without pass. Bedient
threw 80 balls to New York batsmen
In seven innings pitched; Wood tossed
81 balls in three innings. Mathewson
gagged the position. style and char
acteristics of every batter that faced
him. For1,t those who stood close to
the rubber he just cut the outside
corners. During the early innings his
control was remarkable.
The total paid attendance at to-
days game was 1904. The total re-
ceipts were s30.500. Each club re-
eeived s13.725 for today's game and
the national commission $1,000.
TIE 6AmE Br iNNiN6S.
The batteries for today's game were
Bedient and Cady for Boston, and
Mathewson and Meyers for New York.
Umpire OLoughlin went behind the
plate, Umpire Rigler gave the base
decisions. Umpire KLEIN went to left
field and Umpire Evans to right
field.
First Inning.
New York-The first ball pitched
was a BALL Devore out, Wagner to
etahl. 1t was nice stop and throw.
Doyle out, Wagner to Stahl The