The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-11

was that kind of stuff in him and
Herzog that kept us in it,
What McGraw Said to Fletcher
| Many fans who saw the battle and
| those who read running story OF
! ii doubtless wonder what McGraw
had to say to Fletcher when he came
to the bench after making the er-
rors which practically cost us the
game ] know that Mac" has rep
utation for bawling out players. |
will not be making any breach of eti-
quette If ! tell YOU what he said.
ii was this; "All right Fletcher, get
in there. we all have our bad days.
McGraw seldom blames a man for
error sof commission
Fletcher is a nervous ball player
he said to some of us later He Will
have his bad days in this series. and
his good ones. This was one of his
bad ones. Tomorrow he may be the
star of the game
Nobody felt worse about ii all than
Fletcher did. He is broken-hearted
tonight.
Anaiyzing The Game
Analyzing that bail game is hard
job There is so much that is pleas.
ant TO talk abodt. I'd so much man
would like to skip over.
Only a veteran like Mathewson
could pitch the kind of ball that he
did in the face Of the support he re-
ceived
Take the first inning, which real
ly proved to be the break in tic
game. The Red Sox made three runs,
and they should not have had any
Hooper started with clean hit and
stole second base. Yerkes against
whom no particular storm warnings
had bcea rosted before the series
by our friends with a knowledge Of
American league batters, lined 4 hard
drive to Fletcher Tue ball landed
right in his hands, and L looked Ike
a sure double ldav, & WAS on a hit
arr lun play AMI Hooper was half
way 10 tni5d b+se, when the ball
struck Tl,..f2r5 gao, Q 70 had
week more or less in which to dou-
bic Hooper up at second, That would
Eave meant two outs with nobody Oh
the bases. When he dropped the ball
II lcf. men on Ilrst and third with
rOno out
Speaker Comes I o Bat
Speaker can" up to the bat with
two n.cn on, anu everybody expecting
him [" hit He crossed the infied
by laying down bunt, and Matty
and Herzog got tangled up on the
play, both missing the ball. This
filled the bases. oddly enough, Nc
Graw raised more of fuss over this
one than over all of Fletcher's errors
put together. He pointed out to Her
zog in strong terms that he should
have had the ball 1t is the way
with Mac"
Then Lewis hit to Herzog who
threw Hooper out at the piate For
a minute there was relief on that
strained bench. II looked as II the
team might get out of the hole Gard
ner bounced one off Mattys glove
which Doyle picked up In time toI
throw him out at first base, but not
before Yerkes had scored and Speak.
er and Lewis had reached second and
third Stahl drove out the most dam
aging hit OF the game then. lie
singled and scored the two runs for
his team.
Giants Show Gameness
That three run lead looked very
powerful but the Giants showed they
had plenty of fight left by keeping
right after the Boston club. until we
had the lead It took eight innings
to accomplish this, and Collins had
10 he driven ont OF the box in the
process. but it was an encouraging |
sign That gameness means that the |
Giants arc not going 10 be beaten
until the last man is put out in the
asst inning of the final game.
We had not made much progress