The Detroit times., 1912-10-14
When Both Clubs Settled Up to
Form, Boston Showed
Superiority
GIANTS FAILED TO GET
-. THE JUMP FROM SOX
With Boston Nervous at First,
They Might Have Started
Their Route


Iuttering duck-flts at the start-ab-
normal breaks by both teams--a gen.
@faI helter-skelter with both clubs in
me nir--and then, with both, settled
NJ normal. every day speed. Boston
mad the class as the early dope show
ID and Jumped to the front.
Which Ia exactly the answer, genial
reader. to the highly delicate situa-
tion In which the Giants now find
Themselves after a weeks play for
the championship OF the world.
They had their chance In the first
three games, with the Red Sox reel
iDg. to jump far and away beyond all
danger. But -Mhile- the. Red Sox were
tottering sand playing lop-sided ball
IN certain, spots, the Giants cracked
even with q louder crash, befuddled
and muddled their opponents and to-
day are upon the thin rim OF another
world series defeat For unless Rube
MardiiArd Can stop Joe Wood this aft
trnoof. Good - Night--iikewise bum
voyage and au reservoir.
BY the time Manhattan's entry had
settled back OF frst-class pitching,
Boston's entry had settled likewise
and Poston's entry carried enough
class TO scramble to within easy pick
& ing diHtanca. OF the plum. Where the
break Is even the class will tell, and
Boston in the tight spots has cut In
with the class Hence the present
standing Of the clubs,
What may take place or later on
rests entirely with the boxed details.
6ubiCct- q later edition.
WU~c1n roniy toy-with what has
happened and build upon this any
prophecies for the future which Is
now likely to be brief--a short future
but merry one, as You might say.
Before the first battle last Tues
day. the early dope showed Boston
lea'Iing on form. We rather expected
Boston To WIN, despite the uncertain
" Of my short SERIES and 20 per
cent Uf those trailing the game
,hoyRhf likewise. -5'--,
4hcntcame the shift where we fg-
tired. u 1yew- Work with "a luscious
chance 10 upset the dope. The Red
SD4. saxe.4in defensive play, were
clearly. below expected form. Neither
Wood nor Collins, her two mainstays
through the year, looked to be as i'm
prossive as they were tipped to be.
The deadly sureness OF the Red Sox
team In almost every department
which featured their play through the
American league fight was evidently
clt OF gear.
And. as McGraw, had !. three fine
pitchers lin tip-top- -shape.- the Polo
outlook assumed q highly vermillion
hue. fringed with untings OF gold.
hut of such is the well known dope
composed With the Red Sox nerv-
ous and below par, In many ways, the
experience which the Giants had
trawK BY lighting through a world
series faiied TO show any results.
In place of starting steady and at
normal speed. the New York club /
played far below last 0ctober's form
and either dropped; kicked or tumble
every chance away and fell behind
WhEre they should have rushed into
xhe lead and forced Boston to a last, |
desperate stand.
Neither infleld nor outfeld, beyond
Herzog, Murray and Devore, played
standard form and the good pitching
which Tesreau and Mathewson fur
tnisi1ed went to seed.
A. break OF this sort Is no alibi In
,'nny form. There's no bad luck in
..bad. ball playing. II isn't tough TO
lose when the other team plays bet
/. ter ball, as the Red sox have done
beypnd the. pitching which the Giant
.|friO. have at the worst held their own.
a Boston's infield as a quartette has
nlayed wonderful ban at every stage
better Dali than the Mackian quar-
<fette of-fsff-antf -better bail than the
<Ciant infield has shown through any
>.ttretch this y ears---- - -, s,----.--
q ..
Beyond Hsrzog, Who has played
like q master OF the game, the Giant
.inneld play has. been streaky. bril-
(. liant and wretched by turns, where
+. bad breaks have let in at least seven
runs and lost at least two easy
chances to win. .. -.
Z Take. Tor one Inustrious example
z the case of Mathewson. In his first
tow. games against the Athletics last
'fFalr ne permitted one earned run and
drew an- even break with q victory,
'tmatehed against defeat.
n The Big Gun has blazed through
tfwo. encounters this last seriaes and
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