The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-09

l Tesreau, one of the biggest men on the | ball field today, looked every inch a giant as he hurled the first ball to the plate and Klem called 1t ball. Hooper,
 the first Red sox up, waited .and was rewarded with base on balls. He took
 second and third on Yerxes' and Speak l CTS outs, both of which were fast
 grounders and was left on the paths when Lewis sent high fly to Snod- l grass.
 | Wood got his ''smobe' balls right al 1 the jump when Devore. the first New Yorker. stepped to the plate, and struck l him out. Doyle shot a grounder right
 into the waiting hands of Wagner. who
 threw the New York captain out at 1 first.
 l Snodgrass brought the stands to their l feet by driving a single over the second, the first hit and the crowd cheered
 again when Wood passed Murray. but 1 the enthusiasm was short lived for MerlSle popped out to Wagner.
 | In the second inning. Boston again l got it's first batter on first. through Fletcher fumbling Gardner's grounder Stahl hit to Tesreau. who threw Gard ner out at second. Stahl reaching first l base. In trying to steal second, Stahl was thrown out Wagner was given his base on balls and Cady followed by send ing high fly to Murray.
 There was very little action in New York's second inning. Herzog sent mp pop fly that Stahl caught and Meyers and Fletcher struck out.
 Wood was given a fine reception by the crowd, as he slowly walked to the plate in the third inning. He waited patiently and received a base on balls and Hooper sent him down to second on a neat sacrifice, Tesreau to Merkle. Yerkes again went out, Doyle to Merkle Ward taking third where he remained as .Ixa.a had been purposely passed, with high fly that Fletcher had to run backward to get
 New York's biggest inning of the game did not open auspiciously. Tesreau, the first up in the third, struck out Devore walked and minute later pulled up at third base when Doyle hit for two bases Wood appeared to be weakening, but he fooled Snodgrass into striking out. The excitement among the fans at this time was intense. Devore felnted to go home, hut Wood paid no attention to him. Mur- ray singled to center bringing both Devore and Doyle home with the first runs of the game Speaker threw home to head off Doyle at the palte, but he was too late and Murray in trying 10 take second on the throw-in, was thrown out by cady. ending the inning.
 Murray was wildly cheered by the crowd as he walked out to right field.
 It was one, two, three for the Bos- tons in their fourth inning. Tesreau was now pitching in fine for Mud Gard ner to Herzog, Stahl struck out and Wagner sent up a foul to Merkle,
 For New York, Merlle opened the inning by flaming. Herzog lifted q single to centerfield and went to second on Meyers weak grounder that Wood got and shot over to stahl ahead of the Indian. Fletcher struck out for the second time.
 The fifth inning also was barren of results, the pitching of the two slab men being of the highest quality Cady was an easy out, Doyle to Mer- kie Wood rolled an easy grounder to Merkle that the latter scooped up and touched the bag, and Hooper fell a victim to strikes.
 Tesreau the first man up for New York, was compelled to take off his cap to acknowledge cheers of the crowd as he came to bat in the fifth He struck out Devore sent high one to Lewis and Larry" Doyle again brought the stands to their feet by shooting a single over third which Gardner knocked down but could not handle. Doyle rounded first as Gardner got the ball and was thrown out at second try ing to stretch the hit, Wagner making the out.
 Sox First Run
 Yerkes flied out to Snodgrass in the sixth Speaker waited until he got a good ball and then drove it to deep left center Snodgrass sprinted after the ball and Deyore, seeing the center fielder apparently had the ball sighted stopped Snodgrass ran with the ball and was onlya able 10 get his finger tips ion 1t and the sphere rolled toward the centerfeId wall. When the ball was returned to the inf1eld speaker was on third. The Boston outfelder then came home on Lewis easy out Doyle to Merkle Gardner struck out New York's sixth inning was quickly over. Wagner fumbled Snodgrass'