Arizona republican., 1912-10-07
New York Nationals and Boston Americans Have Cleaned Their States and Will Take Rest for Two Days
PITCHERS BATTLES
 TO MARK SERIES
All Eyes Turned Upon Joseph Wood, Twenty Three Year Old Wonder, and Tesreau, Sidetracker of Veterans
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPArCH1

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.-The official conclusion of the major league schedule today clears the decks for the worlds championship combat The pennant winning clubs. the New York Nationals and the Boston Americans cleaned their slate yester- day and have today and tomorrow to rest up for the first of the big games in New York on Tuesday
 The prediction made before every world series that the crucial games will be pitchers battles usually proves correct. It was so last year with the exception of one game and promises to be so this year
 A championship struggle was ne- Yer approached with keener interest in the reliance placed upon the pitchers th-n is the case this year In Boston yesterday they celebrated the twenty-third anniversary of Joseph Wood. a date which has gen orally passed unnoticed in previous years but on this occasion it marks the official conclusion of a league championship race which for great part is due to young Woods phe- nomenal pitching speed A fortnight ago he completed a run of sixteen straight victories for the Boston club, thereby equaling the Americar league record set this season by Walter Johnson of Washington.
 The binding speed with which Wood winds up was one day de- scribed as smokey" by a Boston en- thusiast and it seemed so apt that the word became his nickname AL though one of the younger members of the team he has been with Bos- ton since 1908. He came from Hutchinson, Kan, in 1907 which was his first year in professional base ball He had had a record of mo- hit game there and soon after going to Boston his success as a big league pitcher was assured, although Ray Collins was the Boston star at that time It was really not until this year that Wood came into his own as the idol of the Boston fan.
 Notwithstanding that in Rube Mar uuard New York boasts of a pitcher who euualIed the worlds record by pitching nineteen consecutive victor ies in the early half of the past sea son. the local followers appear to have side tracked both him and Mathewson, while acclaiming young Jeff Tesreau as the hero of the hour Matched against the Boston star, is Tesreau of the same age, but his successful career as a big league pitcher has virtually been confined to the latter half of the past season
 Tesreau is the only man in the Giants lineup who was not with the club in the world series struggle last year. McAleer, now president of the Boston Americans, when manager ot the St. Louis Browns several years ago. was the first to give young Tesreau his first big league trial when one of his scouts discovered him in the Trolley league in Missouri. The now president of the Boston club could see no hope in the lads work and turned him back. In 1908 he was tried out by the Detroit Americans, but failed.
 He shifted around among five diff ferant Texas clubs until McGraW dis covered him in Shreveport a year aeo last spring and added him to his string of recruits Instead or making use of him, however, Mc- Graw farmed him out to toronto. It was there that Tesreau showed ms first promise and by the end Of the soason he was haled as one of the hest nitchers in the Eastern league, having mastered the art of the spit hall" McGraw recalled him, only lo he disappointed in his wildness the first of the season, but by midsum- r,,or he regained confidence ln the ,oune pitcher and has since been re- ,,,ordad with the sensational capture of many crucial games. With seven teen games won to five lost' as tiI0 saasop closes. Tesreau stands at all average higher than any of his col Ioaoues on the Giants pitching staff ,fccraw considers him the peer ol "a Walsh. the famous "spitoall -,i+cbar of the Chicago Americans If he keeps his control he will uh- doubtedlv be given the greater part of the box work for New York III the world series .,a
 The acclaim of Tesreau and Woou' .o.,ayar has not altogether over shadowed the older favorite either bara ar in Boston. The veteran l-ootvH as hadSrKafr tua tnau tnaii NTo+hewson is still steady and efIect- i,,a with a fadeaway ball as his spe- oio,t1,. and on the whole is still the raoiretav in the Giants box. Ruoe NEorouard experienced a losing streak ofter his sensational run up to JulS Atb and came in for harsh crlt'cl9ll
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