New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-09
Red Sox Beat Giants 4 to 3
in First Game for Worlds Title

were Governor tOSS, MAJOR rltLeei aiu
and Admiral Hugo Osterhaus. commander
of the feet in the Hudson. General Barry,
Rhinelander Waldo, Police Commissioner.
r. A c. Smith Of the reception commit
tee, which Is in charge of entertaining
the officers and men of the feet, and
Lieutenant William Kennel, of the
Mayors bodyguard
The Mayor wears a long brown surtout,
one Of the kind that IL lighted would
burn for two or three days They walk
across the field and pause before bat
terry of cameras. Somebody is tactless
enough to blow a shriIl blast on police
whistle. Have they no consideration for
the feelings OF our Mayor these parious
times. Must ne exercise his customary
forbearance. even at ball game?
Lieutenant Kennel leads the way to
box directly back Of the New York bench,
and the company is seated. Now it Is
| Honey Boy" Fits turn. AS the royal
rooters catch sight of him.. the hand lets
loose with the dulcet strains OF SWEEP
Adeline." II Is too much for the Boston
Mayor. He leaves h!s box and runs
across the field to get royal welcome
from the royal rooters. They promptly
go INTO Mysteries as the Mayor OF Bos-
ton picks up a megaphone and. accom-
panied by the band, sings the song that
has made him famous. Fortunately or
unfortunately, as the case may De, tne
sounding brass browns his voice. so that
! fans" are spared or disappointed, once
more, as the case may be.
Tesrsau Started or Weli.
As II 10 show OF how little value are
statistics and past performances, 1t was
the weakest hitters on the team who won
the game. There were two out, with
Wagner and Cady on the bags, where
they had arrived by two clean hits. when
Hooper came TO bat in the seventh. The
latter promptly laced a double through
Merkle, which scored Wagner, while
Yerkes scored two with a timely single
to left. with the Boston second baseman
on second Tesreau managed TO strike out
Speaker, the best hitter on the team. II
he had done this to Yerkes he would have
saved two runs and won the game. Such
Is baseball, however. Speaker. Lewis.
Gardner and stshl, the heavy artillery
among the Red Sox. contributed one hit
among them. That was Speakers lucky
triple to left field. which Josh Devore
| would have caught had Snodgrass In his
overanxiety not run In front OF the left
fielder as he was about 10 grab the ball.
The Red Sox got a man TO third In the
first inning on a pass and two outs. but
he languished there when Lewis lifted TO
Snodgrass. F1etcher's error opened tho
way to Gardner in the second but he was
forced by Stahi, who died stealing This
was the only stolen base attempted In the
game. Although Wagner walked. Cady
| rNf TxEn no
fourth netted the Red Sox nothing. and
in the next two frames Il was one, two,
three. In the fifth and sixth Tesreau SUI
fered 20 the extent Of Ave hits. Crandall.
who replaced him. was invincible, al
though Wagner opened the ninth with a
double, only TO see Cady. Wood and Hoop
! er go out in order.
| Snodgrass and Merlle got on with two
out in the first, but Merkle failed to adj
vance the cause. In the third a pass 10
| Devore, Doyle's double, which Lewis lost
| In the sun, and Murray's single netted
two runs. From then on Wood pitched
alright bail until the ninth. and STAYED
| off defeat In that round.
There was little sensational fielding In
the game. Wagner and Fletcher. who
|
some fine plays Doyle was tower OF
strength for the Giants, handling nine
chances without a misplay The Boston
outfeld did not have a chance TO get
into action, only three put-outs being
made by the great trio. although Speaker
contributed An assist.
! The Giants got one or two tough breaks
during the game. Snodgrass was safe on
| Wagners error in leading of In the
sixth. Murray attempted TO bunt. but the
ball popped into Jake stahrs nit. and
snodgrass was doubled at 'rst. Larry
| Doyle stumbled when he felded WOOD
grounder In the seventh. but recovered
the ball In time to force Cady. The mo-
ment lost. however, was sufficient 10 pre-
clude the possibility OF making a double
play on the slow-running Wood at first.
a double killing would have ended the
inning and saved three runs. On the
other hand, Lewis lost Doyle's double
\ in the sun in the third inning and put
the Giants In a position to score two runs.
! So the breaks Of the game were about
evenly balanced.
| Although the Giants were beaten, Wood
was compelled TO pitch his prettiest 10
turn the trick. and II Is doubtful II he
has another such exhibition In his arm.
He thoroughly deserved TO win. and the
victory was clean cut Whether he can
come back and pitch two more games
like II remains to be seen.
The police arrangements for the game
were admirable. The great throng was
handled without the slightest confusion
before and after the game, more than
hundred patrolmen, under the dlrec-
ton of Inspector Sweeney. taking care TO
zee that everything went right.