The Washington herald., 1912-10-10
Rube Says He'll Win;
Carrigdn Sees Victory
arquard Confident Of Beating American Leaguers in
Boston To-day-Speaker's Great Hitting Is
Sure to Bring Title to Hub City. -.
By BILL cARRIGAN,
OF the Red Sox.

Boston, Oct. S.-We showed our stam-
ina in the second game. think. and
although 1t ended in tie. we still have
the jump ON the Giants, and confidently
expect to keep II. Mathewson. who
pitched for New York. Is still q grand
pitcher, as his record for the afternoon
clearly shows.
We got q good start on him in the
| very first inning, but his skill and head
work stood by him. and We had CUR
| work cut out for US. Still. We Were
getting him. better toward the last. I
think. We hit him hard At times.
where the box score doesn't show.
Those two drives Of Speakers for ex-
ample. were tremendous clouts. but IN
one case Merkle was able to make q
great stop. and in the other the drive
went directly at Fletcher. and. as he
clung to the ball. he was able to whip
1t to Herzog for a double play.
Had that hit been q foot or two to the
side Of Fletcher or foot or two higher
1t would have broken up the game then
and there But We aren't dealing in
''ifs;' II is facts that count. Ray Collins
appeared to me to have all he ever had.
He had splendid control. There was a
good break to his curve ball. and he had
confidence. But the Giants seemed to hit
him at opportune moments. and StAhl
he did. It was one Of those cases where
a pitcher has everything. but the oppo-
nents seem able 10 connect at the right
time. Ray will fool the Giants yet.
Hall Gets had Start.
bad cold. but we. thought he would last
through the remaining innings. How
ever, his cold appeared to affect his con-
troll. and it was not rs good a. It usually
is. When he got the ball over. the Giants
found difficulty in hitting him.
We didn't lose our nerve at any time.
There was no stage fright The only
error charged up against US was Duffy
Lewis mum of Snodgrass's fly in the
eighth. This was disastrous, as 1t paved
the way for some New York runs. On
the other side there were several mis-
plays, but only one of them counted in
the scoring. and that was the one made
by Fletcher when Gardner's hit went
through him in the eighth. This allowed
US to tie the score.
There was some sensational fielding,
especially by Wagner Of our side andI
Captain Doyle Of the Giants. Wagnerl
pulled of some plays that show him toI
be about the best short stop in the coun-
try. His stop and throw Of F1etcher'sI
grounder in the ninth was easily the
swellest play of~the game. He took theI
ball close to second base on q dead runI
and whipped a perfect throw to stahI |
Doyle's best play Of several he made
was on Gardner in the tenth. II heI
hadn't stopped that ball We would havel
won then and there. As II was he took |
the grounder away to his left and fromi
= very awkward position tossed the bali
10 AaerkIe and nipped Larry by q mar
row margin.
AtteADts 10 Block s'sDeke.'
Her.og tried to pun on one Of those
,ld-time BLOCK or plays on Speaker
when he rounded third in the tenth. /
Spoke" would have been out at theI
plate II Wilson hadn't dropped the bail.
That hit enabled us to tie up the Giants
lgain. and It was the last scoring Of the
Iame.
Speaker hit Matty in the same vicious
manner he did In that series Of 1893.
His three-bagger on the opening day and
% convince the Nstional Leaguers that
he Texan b some .slu9Eer.
5Stah was. ~ steady - ~ rock ut firSt
,ase. His slashing HinSie In the nrst In
ling scored two runs and gave N . lead /
se never should have relinquished.
Il can't say much ABOUT myoelf. wssI
enough to nip some attempted
'ase stealers, but ono throw made WAS
90 low. hit, the ball every time up, i
mt didn't make the afsfies % that you
ould noeice them.
For the 0iAnts. Nurray.'s batting wast
leavy and very timely.
Herxog. TOO. saved the game for hie I
ide with the stick. Nerkie ca{5e |,
lnress 1t the right time. and Meyers
5ot IN timely clout. II
The gane shows that Mc01aw has II
lsed- two Of his three best pitchers ana
lAou't won . game yet. He may. teell,
but - said beeora ,ws
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