Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-15
SOX AND GIANTS
IN CRUCIAL TEST
AT FENWAY PARK
Clash in Seventh
Battle for Worlds
Title Today.

oyercoats were popular pieces of
wearing apparel, especially when a
moderate breeze swept in from Mas
sachusetts Bay.
Boston Fans See Victory.
enthusiasts predict that
wood on his wv grounds will cut
loose today and do his best to excel
Hedient's brilliant record of Satur-
day. which will go down as the best
niece OF twirling If the series, unless
Wood can accomplish the sherculean
task of outpitching his -teammate.
Wood is not at all jealous of the
Giant.
He speaks of him in the highest
terms. and IL he does succeed in bet
tering Bedient's almost perfect pitch
ing 1t will be the result of rivalry of
n friendly nature, and not the green
eyed goblin variety of envy.
The fans. who were early on the
scene today, anticipating another
thrilling encounter between the two
levithians of the big leagues, con-
jectured as to which it would be on
the mound for New York, Matty or
resreau. The two spitball pitchers,
sTessie." for New York, n OBrien.
for Boston. have been the features
Of the series il both games they
started. Those who know McGraw
felt certain hat he would call on
Matty.
Report Devore Injured.
There was q report here today that
Josh Devore had smashed his thumb
In n Pullman car door en- route to the
Hub city last night and that he
might be unable to play. handicap
ping the Giants. Manager .McGraw
ssid ne would not be able ito tell
whether or not Josh could play until
vane time. In Ease of a shift Snod-
grass will play left field and Becker
will go to centre field for New York.
New York's fate hangs quivering in
the balance. The Giant fans hold
their breaths. It's make or break
today. The Giants deserve reams of
oopv paper and columns Of newspaper
praise for their game uphill plug
cling in the race of h most discour-
aging rebuttals and rebuffs from both
fate and the Red Sox superb ma
chine. IL they can beat Boston with
Wood in the coming tower today
othin will seem impossible to
Giant rooters. Hugh Bedient. how
yer has his good right arm Stabbed
ana oiled up ready to hur1 them over
the xutta percha platter tomorrow Il
there should be a slip by the Ameri-
can League champions.
Cold Causes Suffering.
There was some suffering from the
cold among the bleacherates who
waited outside the gates during the
night for an opportunity to take their
choice OF the 81 and 50-cent eat
when they were placed on sale this
morning. A line that numbered q
dozen at IL o'clock last night grew 10
200 at dawn, and from that hour
multiplied rapidly.
Grand stand patrons, too. were
forced to stand out in the cold Wall
ing for tickets today. The n
were kept open until late last night
and opened again early this morning
To give holders of stubs for grand
stand seats an opportunity TO renew
them for today's game.
Betting on today's game favored
BOSTON at odds Of 10 to .. Wasers
were few.
Because OF the beautiful day n
the snap In the air the scene TO-DAY
far surpassed any n during the
earlier games. -Four long lines ex-
tending along Jersey street, on which
the grand stand entrance is located
attended, four blocks away to Massa-
chusetts avenue, composed OF men
and boys of every age from the mer-
est schoolboy just out of the primary
grades. to the aged enthusiast whose
whitening locks told of his rapid APP
proach into the winter of life.
The one element which did not mt
p~erfectly into the scene was old
Aurora Borealis, who turned loose a
rather stiff breeze that swept diagon-
ally across the field from left Held
toward right.
This fact was taken into consider
alton by the rival managers, who told
their Iitc!iers to keep the ball on the
inside Of the plate to right-hand bat
tiers. as drives pulled to left Held
would lose their speed and hang in
the air until the outfielder arrived to
clutch them. 1t would take a mighty
crack to carry into the two-base hit
bleachers in left field with such a
wind blowing against the hitting.
It was necessary for the ground
keeper to wet down the inf1eld TO lay
the dust stirred up by the wind, winch