Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-11
GIANTS DEFEAT BOSTON RED SOx
Marouard Twrls Great Ball. Holding Home Team Scoreless to Ninth Sensational Catch by Devore in Last Session Saves New York From Defeat-Al Attendance Records Broken in First Three Games

Boston, Oct. 1O.-The New Y ork Ma tionals overcame the Boston Ameri- cans today by a score of to 1 in the third game of the worlds champion ship series. Each club has now won victory, the second game having ended in tie Nearly 35,000 people wit messed the pitchers battle in which the Giants left lander Rube Mar quard, opposed the Red Sox moist bali moHndsman Buck O'Brien. and Mar quard carried off the honors.
 / Little Josh Devore was the hero of the day. The midget outfielder made catch that snatched seeming victory from the Bostons and sent them down to defeat. The Red Sox made des- perate rally in the ninth, and there were men on second and third and two out when Cady came to bat. The Bos- ton catcher sent a terrific drive be- tween right and center, and Devore was off with the crack of the bat. The crowd cheered. for with two Red Sox men on the way home victory seemed won when Deyore, speeding after the ball, speared it with his gloved hand on the dead run. ending the game.
 Marquard was a puzzle to the Red BOX. HIS ldSt Dcll SpcQ OfSA thC PldNO with the swish. of a rawhide lash and his curves were under good control. He ave only one base on balls. In only one inning did the Red Sox have Marquard in trouble, and that was i'll the thrilling ninth. when Boston made its last stand and sent one run over the plate. The Giants boxman did not allow the Red Sox batters to garner more than one hit in any inning un- til the final rally. Buck OBrien held New York to six hits, but three of these were made when they counted for runs. O'Brien found himself in difficulty in the second when Murray led off With a double which resulted in a run on sacrifice hit and sac riflce fly, and again in the fifth when Herzog rapped out another two bagger and came home after Meyers advanced him to third on Fletcher's single. Boston made it's stand in the ninth when two runs were needed to tie. The crowd groaned when Speaker popped l to Fletcher, and hundreds Started for 1 the exits. Lewis scratched an infield hit and Herzog rushed in to steady Marquard. Gardner drove a wicked | bounder past Merkle along the right field line and Lewis was rounding third when Speaker checked him | toward home heard a warning cry and turned back. Once more he ran tow ards home and scored. That momen- l tary return of Lewis to third base was | costly. Gardner on his drive, whicf Devore played with difficulty off th6 fence, had dashed over second ant would have made third. but Lewis, re-
 turning to that base, forced Gardner
 to hustle back to second. Wher
 Lewis finally ran home it was too lat for Gardner to advance. With Gard
 ner on third he could easily have tiet the score on Merkle's huff of F1etch
 er's throw on Wagner's grounder whici followed.
 The largest crowd that ever saw ; ball game in Boston was present. Tn, national commissions figures showed , paid attendance of 34,624. Hundred
 stood behind temporary fences In th' backfield All worlds series record for attendance and receipts are practi
 caliy certain to be broken in the pres
 ent series of games. The total receipts
 for the first three games of the serie Ifs a record for corresponding games fbeing $1s6,63 as compared with sl95, 914 last year. The total attendanc
 for the first three games, however
 falls short of the record for the game
 by about 1900.
 The fourth game of the series. to b
 played in New York tomorrow, is tn
 last in which the players are entitle
 to share in the receipts. Officials con J nected with the business end of tn
 contending clubs say that the mem
 bers of the whining club will hay
 about $4.000 each. Last year the Phil
 adelphia Athletics received s3,654.5
 each.
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