Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-10-23
BOSTON RED SOX WIN
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Requires Eight Hot Games to
Settle the Matter
Was a Very Profitable Series for the
Contesting Teams and Players
Made Good Stake

Sox, pennant winners Of the Ameri-
can a league are the worlds champions
Of 1912, defeating the New York
Nationals Wednesday by a score OF 3
to 2 in ten innings. After a bitterly
fought struggle they captured their
fourth victory of the worlds series
and carried off the premier honors in
base ball.
The Giants won three games Of the
series that was played before more
than a quarter of a million people
and one contest was a tie. The total
receipts for the eight games were
$3.50, 1913 and each Red Sox player re-
ceived 81, O24. while the Giant play
ers received So, 500.
EXCITING GAME.
Wednesday 8 was a game of excite.
ment and gauging emotions for the
seventeen thousand spectators who
went out to see the teams which had
struggled v~aIiantly for seven games
with honors even. Never was a ball
game more tightly waged, for it was
thought until twilight had fallen
upon the tenth inning that the Red
Stockings were doomed to be the losers,
Ed Yerkes flashed over the plate with
the winning run.
Nine innings of a pitchers duel
between ChrIsty Mathewson and the
STRIPPING Bedient and Joe Wood, for
the Red Sox, found the two contenders
for championship honors with a tally
each.
Into the tenth inning the contest
went, and the giants killed the hope
of the Boston crowd by scoring a run
on a double into the bleachers by
Murray and a hit by Merkle TO center
which Speaker juggled. Hundreds
Of fans tors up their score cards.
jammed their hats down over their
heads and d-isconsolately left the
ground.
For Matthewson was, pitching a
game which was battling the bats
men of the Bostons. Engle led off
f or the Red Sox in the last half Of
the tenth. He had gone to bat for
Joe Wood and there was a groan when
the Red Sox pinch hitter sent up a
towering fly to center. Snodgrass
moved over towards the bleacher seats
and waited for the ball to drop. He
mufed it, and before the bail was
recovered Eugle was on second base.
None was out and the crowd was in
a frenzy Of joy.
SNODGRASS ERRORS
Hooper tried to sacrifice but
Mathewson folled him and the best he
could do was a fly to Snudgrass. The
Giant pitcher tried to work the corn
ers of the plate for Yerkes but Yerkes
waited aud walked on four balls
With Engle on second and Yerkes on
first Speaker came up. The crowd to
a man was now yelling.
Speaker swung his big bat back and
forth watching Matty like a hawk.
The first ball was a curve and inside
and Speaker popped up a high foul.
Myers, Merkle and Matty went after
it but the ball fell safe among them.
New York s last chance to stop the
Bostons passed with the failure to
get that foul ball. Matty started a
high fast one and Speaker met 1t
fairly. On a line over Doyle's head
the ball was driven and Engle rushed
over the plate with the tying run.
On the throw in Yerkes went to third
and Speaker dashed on to second.
The New York infield drew in and
Lewis was purposely passed SO that
a runner could be forced at the
plate on an infeld rounder. Then
came the finish. Gardner with three
balls and one strike on him smashed
a long fly to Devore. Yerkes set him
self at third and dashed for home
when the ball dropped in Devore's
hands. The Indian, Myers, crouched
at the plate to take the throw he ex-
pected from Devore. Instantly he
had caught it Devore whipped the
ball ~homeward. On came Yerkes, on
came the ball. Matty who saw that
the throw of the little left fielder
would be wide, threw up his hands
and Myers turned away without try
ing for the ball. Yerkes did not
know the throw was wide, however,
aud he plunged head foremost and
slid Owe the plate in a cloud of dust
that won the worlds championship
for the Red Sox.
CROWD CHEERS
The crowd fairly screamed in a
delirium of joy. Men threw their
hats in the air and cheered until they
could cheer no more. Hundreds
rushed upon the field and gathering
about the Red Sox bench applauded