Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-16
WORLDS TITLE LIKELY TO
BE DECIDED THIS AFTERNOON
If There Is No Hitch Winner Will Be
Determined in Today's Game
York Seems to Be Favored.

that there was a good chance for the
nome team to forge to the front, so
noisy was the cheering. But though the
crowd pulled and rooted, it was the in
evltabie for the Giants to win.
just as soon as McGraw was satisfied
that the game was safe he took Chief
Meyers out and allowed Wilson to finish
the game. Meyers is a most valuable
man for his team IN more ways than one
and McGraw did not intend to take any
chances to have him injured
IN many respects this has been the most
remarkable worlds series in the history
OF base ball. In the first place. the re-
be more money taken out Of the games
than ever before, the total amount being
not far from half million dollars. The
CLUBS c.,ad are sure to have a total of about
the players will fare better than ever
before While no series has ever fur
hlshed more interesting games from a
spectators standpoint, it is doubtful if
any previous series of games has ever
furnished so much poor base ball. Had
mere peen anything like perfect play
there would be a different story to tell
ana yet it was the presence of SO many
ihispiays which helped to make the games
interesting. o eA'e'
SO far as inside and brainy base hall 10
concerned. 1t has been decidedly conspic,I-
pus ny us absence. Only straightawav
.n; nali mas been played. and even in
. LIS 'nere nave been innumerable instances
Nnele STUPIDITY has cropped up If the
players We're not aware thai tbev shornd
III the proilts of these games they would
probably play a better game of bali b,,.
II is the fact that there is something
nv, 49, d. STAKE than glory that appears to
put them all in the air
Charley Hall, who during the ree,,.r
SEASON was one OF the Sox mainstays on
the sap. mas made dismal failure of his
Two starts in the series He has haan 81
lowed to finish two games and has hoar
MI hard and been ineffective in both
though he had been rested for LONG
Whlie pe1ore the season closed for the
spsoInc purpose OF using him to finish
get into trouble ''o"iu
when the series is over and all is said
ana done the chances are that a laree
, Va, or the critics as Well as those
WHO Witnessed the games will vote Her,
1os, the Giants third baseman the honor
y! having been the hero of the series
wore clever playing than Herzog has
u u, against Boston has never been seen
IN a worlds series. Not ONLY bas ha
ilelded perfectly and batted Ike Co.,
put ne mas taken charge Of the infieII
ana kept 1t on edge. while he has never
overlooked an opportunity to encoura eo
'nS patchers at times when they needed #
Vay
VINO nave not Leen given much or a rsn,,7
.a.iol, out lie Is wonderful ball plaver
LOT oil that, as he proved when he rose
10 the occasion and played his best han IN
the most important games. -
The most delighted man over Tho s,,o
cess OF the Giants is Walter johnson he
cduse ne picked them to win when tho
sc Seiies opened, and has been ridiculed nv
i.s trends when he made the SELECTION
I Ill me oox We're drubbing the Giants,
Johnson now thinks that il is a cinch e..
New YORK to win the series and he f, III
ther predicts that Wood will NOT he ahio
to come back " NC ""'e
Ihough there have been many extra
,,ns;, mus IN these games, it was not
untll yesterday that the home RIM
column was broken into. and then II w a..
uohe twice Gardeners drive was TIC
longest OF the series. being a line hit he
tween Snodgrass and Devore. which
pounded INTO the stands, on the first
oucn' il D 10y duplicated this perform
ahce. In the SIXTH with Devore on as the
result or a pass. He smashed the bali
along the right field foul line and ~
founded among the spectators. DOYLE.
VINO mas started to hit, and Movers. an
other slusser VINO has just got to going.
divided SIX OF the Giants hits equally be.
tive en- them.
McGraw never plays for one run. and
that was why he lost several of the
games to the Sox. because at that time
his team was not hitting But now that
Doyle and Meyers have come around
there is still chance of the sacrifice game
being played and it was because Of the
system employed in the first inning yes
terday that the Sox were showed under.
Merkle was retired in the fifth inning