The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-09
Bv GrantIand Rice)

By GraEJlan0 H1ce-)
 Boston, Oct 9-It's up to the main hinge of the old master after all For the first time in Afanhattans post season history, Mathewson adorned the Giant bench instead of the Giant firing line For the first time in Man hattan's post-season history the Giants lost the ''jurnp-ga1ne-' Four times before the big gun had blazed the way for them.
 The grand old dope slipped through by an eyelash at the start. Joe Wood pitched and Boston won. But Smo- key Joe through a game exhibition, was doomed until his pals rushed sud denly to his aid and yanked him to Safetv out of trouble His next start must call for increased steadiness or almost sure trouble if the Giant pitch ing stan sticks to form
 There's a queer kink in the dope, today-and here it is. In that hectic opening both clubs fought to an eye lash finish neck and neck, beak and beak until Woods last shot hurtled in a gray-white streak by CTandaPs bat and thudded into Cady's mitt.
 Yet both teams have lost any great fear of the other and both are more confident than they were at the start; Boston has carried this confidence all the time and sees no reason to change her mood And New York sees in the Red hosed legion a team below the slashing power and general re
 
 the-B -Benders the Bakers and the other hoTne-run makers of a year ago.
 Yet the edge is with Boston to this extent: that first game counts and while Tesreau is almost sure to pitch better ball, 50 is Joe Wood Neither was at top form, although the Giant mEstadon cut a brilliant streak across the first five rounds
 HOW THE FEELING STANDS.
 Boston's confidence has bounded for ward because her clan has upset and beaten Tesreau. the terrible, the mann moth, feared above all other Giants This and the fact that New York showed again aE attack that always fell short-a vital weakness in her batting machine which broke up each impending rally
 And the Giants feel more confident in defeat than they felt last year. be- cause they not only see in Boston less powerful club than the Mackian machine. but they have found also that they can hit the natehless lacks the cool calculating boise of Bender. Plank and Coombs. This trio was inhuman but Wood has shown that while game and hashy, his sys- teTa is composed Of a network of nerves likely to become tangled at any stage. His daring speciality consist ed. yesterday, in leaping blithely from hole to hole and from grotto to grot- to- Smokey Joe had the nerve-but the ,,4 nerTes tv as na we t M SgFek TlIn from onl his pitching-and three runs in worlds series fray is generally enough.
 THE OLD HICK
 Boston won the opener because her clan had the puncI-tf1e punch in the pinch, the punch at bat and at the box. When the showdown arrived sAmassed in either restless hoof It was either Wood or Speaker, Hooper or Yerhes-but always the right man the right spot with the right goods
  ffashes-but in pitching and batting. in neither could the Giants run out from their opponents. Tesreau had but one more man to handle in the fatal seventh with two out-but he couldn't handle him. New York need ed one more hit in the rallyfng ninth but the hit never came
 Boston had an opening and that was enough New York had three and gentle reader. you are. Boston had danced to the old time melody. q Want What Want When I Want It What is even more to the point she got it
 TESREAU AND DONOVAN MT Tesreau, MT. Donovan, shake for thereby strings yarn Back in 1901. Donovan pitching for the Tigers, 1 held the Cubs hitIess for five rounds. | But Wild Bill couldn't go the distance. 1 The Cubs broke the spell in the sixth 1 Yesterday Tesreau stood the rush l ing Sox toes up through the first five stanzas- They couldn't hit him with | a Gatling gun. But in the first five rounds he pitched his marrow out. Be tween his first and second wind they | broke beneath his guard He had waiting for the flame to burn again 1 The alert, keen-eyed Speaker saw the | Autter first and it was Speakers triple | that started the f1are-up- In the next round they got to him with his guard | down, and, whirling high their bud | ge9ns. drove him from the field This | -rrr. r.-tra a mt in that one, mad, headlong charge, they | swept the game beyond Giant reach. l The punch was there at the psycho- logical nOTnent-and the knockout was | back of the punch
 TWO VITAL INSTANCES.
 Outside of Woods game, brilliant in the throbbing pincheS and <hs Red soT sily rally that inc;, won there there featured above all others in the days The first fell against Boston-and cost her two runs. The last two fell against the Giants
 In the third. with one gone. Wood passed Devore- Doyle followed with should have eaten it alive. Gardner might have gotten it. Lewis, facing the sun, had no chance, and yet he was left alone to drag it down. This sip cost two runs and paved the way for Red Jack Murray's reincarnation. Jack responded with his first world series hit and put his pals to the good. The second break happened in the sixth With one g. ne and Tesreau travelling the ''hitless trail," Speaker steamed a long drive near Snodgrass snod started for it. But the drive breaking away in a sharp slice" from SnOdgrass. swerved towards Devore- catch. when Snodgrass, not knowing Shis dashed forward knocked down tae ball. but failed to hold it. out field team play here would have saved a rzrr-and possibly averted Tesrear,s