Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-15
Sox 0verwh elme ed
In Yesterdays Game;
Even StahI Lost Head
Boston Mogul Made Tremendous
Mistake in Putting Collins Into
Game That Was Lost.
BY John (Chief) Meyers.

( bCoIO4\ MASS, oct. l0.-Ine
Giants may hang a new decora-
ton on Bunker Hill monument
today. Ii so, my idea for the design is
White scat with red soX, rampant on
dark brown baCkground-thc brown
representing the taste of the Back Bay
inha bitants.
The New York club is waiting. pre-
pared for the battle of its life and
unless I'm a bad medicine man. the
Giants will not have to break their way
/ through the gloom tonight.
Never since the series opened have |
lost my faith in the Giants.
Now | am almost dead certain that
we Will flash such a finish as this same
club showed Pittsburg back in 1908.
The first of the necessary three vic
tories in row we grabbed at the Polo
grounds yesterday afternoon.
We turned the trick so easilv and
SO impressively that Boston's support
ers took on long faces for the first time.
Joe Wood is the only obstacle be-
tween us and the championship
All we have to DO lis to beat him to-
day
Joe has won against us in both his
starts and. according to all laws of
average is just about due for trim
ming.
Big Jeff Tesreau will fave. this speed
tosser, and in his two starts against the
Boston star the Ozark Giant has proved
himself a worthy competitor
Best Team Won Game.
Yesterdays was the first decisive
victory of the series. There was no
question about the best team of the
day winning
our win was so Clean-cut thta it as
tonis1ed many of our supporters. No
wonder, either, for it was the first time
! We played up to our real form. That
victory did worlds to establish conf
dence and fight in our ranks
To beat US today Boston win have to
show far better ball and far better
pitching than it has shown us so far.
Yesterdays victory proved a double
disaster to the Red Son
That first inning. when O'Brien went
all to pieces, the ntire team blew up
behind him. Every man on the club
/ lost his head. We had them all so far
up in the ali that we'd have beaten any
kind of pitching
| 1t was the first occasion of "rattles"
that the Hub outfit showed. Now we
know that We can upset them, and wen
do it again today, Wood or no Wood.
StahI pulls a Bone
| Jake Stahl did a foolish thing yes
terday when he sent Collins in to re-
lieve O'Brien.
l can not explain such move. un-
less Jake was as befuddled then as he
and his men We're in the previous in
nings
Here the game was hopelessIy lost
Boston had one chance in million for
victory-but still he wasted good
pitcher in the last eight innings
Collins showed by the manner in
which he finished that he would have
| been mighty valuable asset to have
in reserve in case Wood should have to
hang out the distress signal
| | never in all my life saw a team of
such reputed strength so thoroughly
disorganiZed as was Boston in the first
! inning of Yesterdays game
We did not realize that we had them
on the run tin O'Bricn pulled that
! balk.
! will say for him that it was the
| best baIl | ever saw. 1t took the back
bone not only out of the pitcher but
out Of every man supporting him
McGraw grasped the situation i'm
flash
He tipped us Immediately to use our
own judgment and to strike while the
! iron was hot.
The result was five runs IN no time.
After that the "Rube" could 90 along
as he pleased
Was Cnc7 For the Rube.
Vanguard had one of the easiest
games of the series knew he would
win just about as he pleased after that
first inning.
RUDE was as cool as an ice berg all
the way. Boston hit him trino harder
than ne is usually hit during the first
-four innings. But that simply mace it
baseball game after fashion instead
of d massacre. 1t gave our supporters
Glance to see that the Giants are
team Of class.
THAT catch of Snodgrass' in the fourth
inning was as pretty Bit of fielding
as any one can ever hope to see It
took a sure triple off Wagner and kept
the score from assuming an exciting
tone. Yet am glad that the play came
off As il did. 1t was the straw that