The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-11
All Dope is Upset In Worlds Champ
ionshlp Contests Between Dos
ton Red sox and New
York Giants.
NEW YORK HAS EDGE
Tesreau, Mathewson and Marsuard
Are Fit to go the Distance While
Boston Has Only "smokey
ice" Wood.

Marquard's Rebuttal.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
by Grantland Rice
So was naught, but bally joke
I'd lost the break to my curve and
1 smoke
I'd nothing left, but glove and prayer.
With heart bowed down by a load
| of care;
Tesreau lost, and amid the din;
Matty pitched and he couldn't win
Only the RUDE left
Pipe the shame
But who was there when the shown
down came?
They'd cracked my nerve in the record
They'd smashed my heart in the
driving race;
Rube, the bum, was a bush league
joke.
For his stuff was gone and his nerve
was broke;
Iesreau fell In the path of Wood
| Matty worked, but 1t did no good;
Only the Rube now to be stopped
But who was there with the stuff
that copped?
| NEW YORK, Oct. 11.-You can
seize it from us, gentle or rough
reader, that the widest scramble
which ever mixed up worlds series
program is now in full blast.
Before this pop-eyed series con-
cludes some time next week, there'll
be two clubs fit for the BOBBY hatch
and 100000 half shaved, raving New
York and Boston rooters running
about in short dizzy circles, pursued
Ny an army of keepers fresh from the
bughouse. As the result of the last
three battles both supporting camps
have kicked all dope to the four or
five winds and now are poised and set
1 for madhouse jubilee unequalled in
the history of the game.
Out of three battles fought to date
the two teams have not only broke
even, and scored each eleven runs
but each hectic. nerve-shattering bat
tie has gone to the final pitch of the
final inning, and the final out where
the fine, frail margin Of a hair might
have won, or lost all three conflicts
Both have. showed a keen and yearn
ling desire to crack and split wide
open at every close stage of the scrap
and when they start breaking the
noise resembles line of warships
saluting the grand old flag in harbol
noted for its sharp acoustics.
i If there is any edge now it belongs
to the Giants, who despite their wild
and woody nelding-their terrific
cave-ins at every chance, have showr
by far the best pitching and the bes
batting to date. Not only that Nc
Graw now has Tesreau, MathewsoI
!, and Marquard left in turn while the
Red Sox have only Joe Wood, as Col
, Inns, Hall and O'Brien have failed tt
show what is technically known az
. |
Wood beats Tesreau today, Mathew
7 son holds the edge tomorrow over AM
slabman Stahl may push into the pit.
{ On the other wing of it, If Tesrea,
beats Wood, the Red Sox are in 70,
what horticulturists would call ;
large pear shaped time of it with onl,
, Collins, or Bedient left to grappl,
with the redoubtable Mathewson-;
: veteran-but still there in the vita
departments of his well known pro
(, fession.
And yet with 1t all the Red Sox still
, carry these two features to fall bacl
on. The Giants, despite their goot
pitching and batting, have shown tn,
eager wish expressed above to cracl
lat every close call And with thi
? the Red Sox have shown a dauntles
spirit in attack at the fnish--a resc
lutte courage in batting TIL the las
8 man has died at the finish. Thi
Iangle was flashed in the third battl
where only miracle saved Marquar
after he had worked one of the grans
] est games of his career. For eigh
/ rounds the Giants southpaw had stoo
y the slugging Sox men on their onion
t slang for beans,
r Using his left arm almost exclu
lively for this purpose he had beate
n the Boston attack to a whisper. The
t couldn't reach him with Telegram
S or a long distance phone call. H
h had everything, plus fve-.with th
e greatest amount of stuff he has show
z all year. In the meanwhile wit
x Herzog and Murray again leading tn
g Giant assault, New York had combe
g Buck o'Brien, the eminent spite
d for two runs. They had turned tn.
g trick by reaching Saliva Buck
e what are known far and wide a
q pinches. Two runs looked to be
II million with Marquard in such RAJ
t. form, backed up at last by stead
a confident support. When Speakt
g popped out in the ninth, the gam
Jooked over Then came tha tilrn-