Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-14

The series stands Boston 4,
Giants 2, tied one Collins suc-
ceeded O'Brien after the disas-
trous first inning and pitched
alright ball. the Giants not get
ting another run.
RUDE Marquard pitched the entire
game for the Giants this making the
second victory for him in the present
series. In the second inning Boston
landed on him for three hits and
achieved two runs, but outside Of that
the Red sox were unable to score
Estimated attendance $4,000.
FIRST INNING.
II is.as calm as a sunny day on the
Sahara when Hooper takes his place al
bat. The Giant fans have made Bit
of noise through the prelininaries but
they are quiet now. Marquard takes
his place, as calmly confident as
though he were working a March game
against the San Antonio club. the
first ball he pitches is called strike
somewhat to the irritation of Harry
Hooper, who is at bat. The next two
are balls Then Hooper tears off sin
gle to right. This does not appear to
worry Marquard in the least. Far from
It. Instead of showing any furry. he
hurls the ball with a brisk snap to
Merkle and Hooper is caught off the
bag and retires crestfallen. Yerkes
lifts to Snodgrass. Speaker gets two
strikes on him, then a ball. then he
fouls one, then he gets another ball,
then he fouls another, then he gets a
third ball. fourth and walks 1t was
great work for Iris. He spoiled the
good ones and let the halls float by.
with Lewis up, Speaker goes right on
down to second Lewis overlooks his
bet by flying to Devore.
No runs, one hit, no errors
O'Brien opens up with a peck OF
speed, but his first huri is low. With
the count three and two. Devore
grounds to Gardner and is out to Stahl
Doyle taps gently to YerlSes and beats
the throw to first by dint of tremen-
dous running With Snodgrass up
Doyle starts to steal. changes his mind
and scratches back to first. Snodgrass
starts a spasm Of fouling and finally
Doyle manages to get in his steal.
Snodgrass then strikes out. With three
balls and two strikes on him, Murray
grounds to Wagner and beats the throw
to first while Doyle takes third. The
Giants are showing flash of their old
time speed now and have the Red Sox
infielders guessing. Then O'Brien I'M
corks palpable balk, the first of the
series. and Doyle scores and Murray
takes second. With two strikes on Mer-
kle, he smacks the ball the right field
for a double, and Murray scores On
the next ball Herzog meets it and il
skitters down the left field foul line
for two bases, scoring Merkle. When
Meyers comes up Cady and O'Brien
hold conference, and 1t is evident that
the SoX catcher is more than willing
that Buck retire. The stands are
cheering wildly now, and continue il
madly when O'Brien goes back to the
slab. Meyers singles and Herzog stops
at third On a double steal the ele-
phantine Meyers takes second and Her
zog scores. Ii doesn't go for steal
however for the scorers say Yerkes
handled the bali too slowly and they
give him an error instead. On Fetch
el's safe bunt Meyers scores. Fletcher
is then caught sleeping off first from
O'Brien to Stahl Five runs, six hits.
one error.
SECOND INNING.
odTuHsI BdiiOpS lignt OF with hit
on the first ball Marquard sails across
the plate. II is an infied tap but he
beats 1t. Stahl singles cleanly to center
and Gardner takes second. There APP
pears to have been a kink i'm the sig
nails, for Gardner should have made
third on such tremendous wallop
Wagner fans on four pitched balls
Marquard seems to be coming to life
here. His fast one is terrific and he is
mixing II up with curves In way that
ought to get any batsmen Cady hoists
a foul To Meyers. Engle is sent In to
bat for OBrlen and delivers magnih-
Gently with a double TO left that scoles
Gardner and Stahl. Hooper lifts a foui
to Meyers and IL out.
Two runs, three hits, one error.
Manager Stahl sends RAY Collins in
for his second attempt against TIM
Giants MarQuard encourages him with
a ily-out 10 stain. Devorc take three
straight strikes and rctitcs Mnen
Doyle comes M the Boston contingent
rises and lets oui "a big chcer foi col.