The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-12

Tesreau. Jeff was excellent once ne
warmed up. He was a t-ifie unce"-
tain in the control at the start That
is why the Sox got their damaging
hits,
why, Il We had half the chances
Boston did in the first four innings.
those Sox would never have gotten
within hailing distance of us In each
OF the frat four Innings. tnpy nad at
least one man. on with none out. Two
were walks, and two Mere hits. One
Of each was converted into . ran. II
took trxle and wild pitch 10 get
their FIRST, rtkts. assr.. for .th#fs.s j will
admit we had bit If luck when
Fletcher started wonderful double
play on Yerkes. but that was not a
circumstance with the horseshoes OF
Boston. .~IMl!
Daurels Not for Wood.
The credit of Bostons victory
doesn't belong to Wood. IL belongs
10 Wagner and Yerkes, There never
was any prettIer playing about the
keystone saek> had to admire while
inwardiy cursing It, Wagner made
three of the most sensational. rob
berries ever perpetrated on a batsman.
For one he came away in behind the
of Merkle without strengthening up
for a throw. That killed a sure infield
hit Herzog followed with clean
safety. We should have had two on
and none out. Twice Wagner went
away back behind the bag for what
looked impossible chances and despite
his awkward position nailed his man
both times
Yerkes pulled the headiest play of
the day. however. and one that hurt
the worst of ali. 1t cut down Fletcher
at the plate with what we al be-
lieved the tteIng run. That was in the
seventh when Mccormick came over
with a pinch poKe, The ball shot
through the box and dead over sec
ond. How Yerkes ever got back
where he did ! can't imagine But
he did. and cuffed down the ball to
boot. He know he didn't have a
chance for the batter so he stalled a
bit in retrieving the bali which had
rolled away from him, Fletcher had
started with the rap. He had round
ed third when Yerkes recovered and
looked certain of scoring. Yerkes.
however. threw perfectly and nailed
his man.
Now on a fast field Yerkes would
never have gotten anywhere close to
that ball Wagner could nor have
intercepted the three joits he did, We
would have had at least three more
runs and victory The heavy going
favored Boston, which depends more
on cut and dried baseball than on
speed Our fast base runners were
severely handicapped.
Fletcher is Recovered.
was very glad TO see Fletcher
crack out that double. driving in our
run He mayed beautifully, and
should be himself for the rest OF the
series He has all his old confidence
restored The Red Sex Will grappie
with real infield the rest Of the way,
Jack Murray made beautiful one
handed catch off Hooper in the fifth
inning that saved a double at leas-.
X would have heea an easy chance
If Jack hadn't lost the vicious liner
at first because of the dark back
ground OF people in the upper tier.
/ had a lot of tough luck. First of
all a foul tip broke the nail loose
from the big finger OF my throwing
hand. Strange to say the same thing
happened to Tesreau" on a pitchback.
l do not know whether this affected
his .pitchtng at first, i know my finger
was numb for several innings And a
couple OF tiIlleS WHeH L nAu 10 THROW
to second / had the bad luck to get
hold Of the wet sides OF one OF JEFF 9
spitters. That time pegged for
Hooper Tesreau got in line and ] had
to throw high
There was one good chance for me
to get my name in big type. Ii came
in the NTH. when Istr uck GU. with
Herzuw on first.
There might have been an alto
gether different story had connected
with the old white rock" I thought
one strike called on me was q bit
wide, but / didn't say anything to
Rigler. It's bad to talk to umpires
OF worlds series. kicked O'Loughltn
at Boston. IT like you, Chief" he
came back. but another murmur will
cost you a cold hundred
See. I'm smiling all over" Gays
I. that hundred will buy whole lot
of ham and eggs this winter"
OF course any team that has :, two
to one advantage in short series Is
worth regarding somewhat seriously.
but firmly think Boston's main hopo
Hes in rain tomorrow. A couple Of
days lay of will give the Red Sox's
only pitcher. Joe Wood. chance to
rest up until Tuesday. for then Stahl
would have hts ace and gamble on
Mondays game. II we play te.mor-
row Wood will surely have to so
on Monday. He should be a t:pcn
and then n, he did between Tuesday
\ and today. n
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