The Washington times., 1912-10-15
By WALTER JOHNSON.

BOSTON, Dot. 15.--Before the start
Of this series, It was thought by
many that II possible Manager Nc
Graw would not use Marquard. It
was the opinion Of the wise" ones
that Marquard had blown" But the
record-holding southpaw, from a
New York viewpoint. has been the
star of the contests.
Over In Boston last Thursday he
climbed to the mound and defeated
the Red Sox . to !, in a fast, but
light-hittins game. It must be ad-
mitted that Rube wabbled . trihe
in the final inning Of the first New
York victory. 49,, .."r. p r'. '
Broke Perfect Yesterday.
Everything broke perfect for Mar
GUARD yesterday at the Polo grounds,
and he ambled, ihome-A 5-to-2 winner.
Although two, OF the Red sox reached
iirst In the obenins inning. neither was
able to set BY the initial sack. But
the thing that gave the Rube the most
confidence, wss %hat the rGiants landed
on O'Brisn for six hits and. Ave runs In
their half Of the first round
, Marquard was hit hard throughout
the game, but the grand fielding of his
team pulled him out OF many bad
holes. or the twenty-seven putouts, the
New York outfleld made fifteen, and 1t
xh.A. A., Al. - ~
grand ground covering Of Jack Murray
and snodarass that Marquard remained
IN the game for more than few In
snings.
,, Murray raced all over the right field
Garden And And pulled down no less than
have spelled disaster for the Giants and
club house for Marquard had they
evAdsd Reds grasp.
3 Snodsrass Braced Up.
:. Snodsrass. who has been censured
very severely for his poor work In the
first Ave games Of the series, party
made up for his ''bushy" work by cap
turing six hard canches In center field.
frhe greatest catch of the game was
made BY Snodsrass In the fourth in
Ming. when he chased back almost to
the fence and picked of Heinis Wagner
terrific drive with one hand. This hit
would have gone for a home run had
Jake stahl was On first At ths time time n !,
10 just possible that II might hav,
broken UP the game.
- Ihe Red Sox were unable TO connec,
M,th WI. ,,s ,MarGaards ,r., curve ban. but the,
that Marauard kept his speed ball higf
caused tho Red Sox to hit into the ar
and the majority Of the drives wer,
grabbed nSSs oT by the Giants outfielders.
break In the one inning he worked, fol
ne mad two men out, and Doyle. wht
had beaten out an infield hit. on secont
ana then after Murray had oversprintet
which moved Doyle over to third. Ruci
pulled something that had never beei
seen in a worlds series contest, a baIk
Here's How He Did It.
Buck started TO throw to stahl to re
Murray on the bag. but he simply mad
a motion to the base. Umpire Klen
motioned Murray to take second, an,
Doyle walked across the rubber with tn
e nrst run OF the game. The baik tool
all the hight out OF Buck, and Merkl
and Herxog lined out two base hits. an
then Meyers and Fletcher beat out In
field taps, and when the sox walked /
tne ane,s eenSn, sa,, a large nye appeared on tn
. Ray Collins twirled one of the tiEhtes
games Of his career. Collins held IN
Giants TO five hits In seven innings
one OF which was a scratch. Although
Collins only struck out one man he All
not pass a single man and the Giants
with exception Of the time that Meyer
was on third, as result Of a fine tfipl
to center neld. with only one out, wa
never In danger OF being scored upor
But all Of Collins fine work went 70
naught as the damage had been don
. and the Red Sox were unable to driv
the ball safe. of Marquard.
\ The talk about this town today
. that Matty will be sent back toda
here. McGraw believes that Matty wi
prove an obstacle to the Sox, and this
by this evening the series will be q Il,