The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-13
BY r. w. LARDNER.


BY international News Service.
~ osToN, Oct. PA dark horse in
the, race for the worlds champi"a-
ship won his heat today and prac-
IL ,icaly put McGraw's entries out
OF the running Said dark horse
was young Hugh Bedient, yearline pitch
er on StahI's stan and fourth choice,
after Wood. Collins and o'Brien. in the
Boston betting. Minus worlds series
experience and experience in crucial con,
1icts OF any kind he beat the wendettul
Mathewson 10 and gave the Red SoN
their third victory, of the set Even Nc
Grsw will not claim that his team now
has better than "A slim lighting chance
for the winners end.
In their newspaper stories this morn
ing several OF the Giants remarked that
Joe Wood was Bostens only pitcher:
that New York had hit all the others
tried out and that Joe never could cop
basebalrs highest honors alone
Did Not Expect Bedient.
They viii realize now that Joe wasn't
expected to. Be5ient had pitched the
eleventh Inning OF the tie game on Wed
nesday He had pitched the ninth OF
Yesterday. yes s ''SF ae had not been Scored on
in either round. but he had appeared Wild
and the Giants were not figuring that
s'ahl would start him: This was shown
practice Hooks" wiltse did the hurllnG.
to the Gotham sIuggers. They were look
! ing for A left-handsr, Ray Collins. =
SaAA McGraw when the announcer gave
out the names OF Bedient and Cady. II
was too late then TO rehearse batting
against a right-handed man. and the
Giants gritted their teeth and swore they
would get revenge on Jake for crossing
them.
Told to Wait.
thing On Redient. to make him pitch the
full string. And in the first few innings
II looked as II this were the way TO beat
him. for he was shy OF control. But
the regular season or they would have
been wise to the fact that it's compare
lively easy TO reach first base with
Bedient working and nearly Impossible
10 get the rest OF the way, when the
Thus. Devore and Murray refused to.
strike at anything In the first two
rounds and they We're rewarded with
second base. Devore WALKED again In
the third, bur Hugh only frightened up
and began placing the pill where ths
Giants had to swing at it.
Loses Wildness; Giants Helpless.
ana as f. a G sssss prsstcsy est ss ySRsss ssss
except In the Inning In which they Sc
cured their only run That was the
seventh, and II Larry Gardner had cx-
MeSrek tas dys luck New n his So9s sdins ss Ss
have been shut out cieaniy
In other words, Bedients game was
the best pitched OF the series to date.
came In the seventh. In the other ses-
sions he was a. bear. To be sure, he
had the best kind OF backing from his
pals, but he didn't stand In any real need
Merisle's long wallop IN the ninth might
have started something with some one
else than Speaker playing center-field for
Boston, but you know Speaker belongs
ability 70 cover the ground behind him.
Not Yet Woods Equal.
ssdient fell shor. OF Joe Wood q
that he Is yet Joe's equal as a pitcher.
but everybody will have to slip 1t to him
for his Performance today In the hrst
place, there were fewer hits OF him than
OH any hurler in the set. In the second
place, ne was in less trouble than. any
OF his predecessors, either on the New
Besides the actual effect Of his trl-
urnph IN the matter Of games won and
lost there is the moral effect Of it to
at least one able assistant and that
means q. lot when IL is up to the Sox to
ta.e oniy one game out OF three.
1t is safe to say that Garland stabl
lost, there might have been Nightmares
10 disturb them. As II is. there is a
possibility that Wood won't have 10 per
p'BFien may start Monday. 4 win win for or
the one who does work settles the argu-
ment then and there.
Bedient Wonderfully Cool.
o. A.