The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-10
It'll Win My Game Sure"
Declares 'Rube" MarQuar(
Giants SouttpaD Says Red Sox Will Be Easy for Hin,
In TOdays Contest.

pennant. They are surrounded witn
9STssshoes sp,s and thoad that sure Is ,rys
Boston's next run, which came In the
Fletcher erred. Collins started OF by
caught him stealing five feet. but
Fletcher. who was unnorved by this time
because OF the breaks against him.
dropped the throw. This would have
left nj third when Speaker lined q
Fletcher. who tossed 10 Herzog. doubling
the Boston second baseman off third.
Fletcher reSained some lost prestige by
this catch, but. take IL from me. ] be-
lieVe that McGraw will have Shafer n
| there playing the short field the remaIn-
der Of the series. Fletcher has been
blown. and only a couple OF timely hit
on his part Will give him enough conf
dence TO be Of much use to us from nov
on, II J were manager, I sure would put
| Shafcr In.
The fifth run scored by the Bostons
| two down. Lewis lifted long. high IN
10 left It counted FOR two bases Murray
| backed up TO the low fence and had Tho
| tips OF his fingers on the ball when iio
took a back somersault over the railing
and fell into the stand. II would have
| been sure out on the Polo grounds OF
any other field In the National league.
Gardner pounded a vicious grounder
through Fletcher that scored Lewis.
Gardners sroundcr should have beer
called an error. but the. official scorers
werd kind TO poor Fletcher and chalked
Boston's sixth run. which cana In the
tenth inning. was we'll earned on Speak-
! er's triple and Lewis's double. But q
was the only run the red hosed athlete>
| should have cashcd,
| Matty pitched swell game. despite the
4, breaks that were against him. His fade
away, never broke better. and J neveI
bali. I heard some OF the Boston FAM
| remark In the lobby OF the hotel tonight
that Mattv is through for the sertcs:
that, he isn't strong, enough to pitcn
and offering them $1,000 Mt evens thai
Big Six will pitch on Saturday or course
rain may keep him from working on thai
day. What I mean is that he will wor|
reau and I pitch Why. that big fellow
is every bit as good now as he was sIS
years ago. He knows more baseball than
any man on the team, and the next time
he starts those Red soH will be lucky
To score ON him.
You see. Matty was not at his v2ry
best today, He laid off too long. 81
enjoyed a rest OF fourteen days, II ID
had laid off about half that timo M
would have been on edge today. He
didn't hit his stride until the sixth n-
ming. He seemed 10 be stiff and awk-
ward in his delivery and every Nsy
| gra ccfu pitcher in the world. When ID
Is tied up he Isn't the real Matty.
| I'm tlcRled TO death the way JacH
Murray is coming along In this series
He Is making up for his misfortune In thd
| worlds series last fall. Just before N
went TO bat the first time Tuesday, \
was sitting beside him on the bench.
"Rube." he said, 'T am going to shoy
all those guys who psnned me last fau
something In this series
Go to IT, Jack" | replied. 'You'rt
the best hitter on the team when you'r(
going right"
Herzog is sure playing srcat ball -
this series, and using the old stick al
the opportune time And are all The
others excepting Fletcher. Poor Arthur
feels badly over his slump and does tho
best he can but that isn't good enough
for us in this series.
| ] am roominG with Josh Devore over
here. and after tho game last night w
sat up IN our room and agreed that W
would never play baseball again II the
| Red Sox win the series. That ts hon
| confident we both are that the Oiant1
! viii he the next worlds champions.
| I'll cop tomorrow. Tcsreau Will repeaf
| Friday and on Saturday the Red So4
won't score a run off Matty. Monday \
will be back on the Job, and the serie1
will end right then and there.