The Washington times., 1912-10-09

world. II is only fair TO say that at the
close OF the big contest yesterday there
was ball game In which some Of our
most prominent players from New York
and Boston took part 1t was a fine
game, and after nine terrific innings.
during which the audience arose on It's
hind legs and addressed the solar sys-
tenn large number of times, the pa
tlent, earnest Boston men pried the vic
tory out OF the thorax- OF duivering
Gotham and sent It home to copiey
In order TO do this the, Boston mana
ger. Mr.. Stahi. who belonged to the
Sigma CHS at the University Of Illinois
and has always been esteemed a perfect
gentleman. rcsorted to what the ath-
ltically feeble but invincible ,Britons
would call an act Of typical American
sportsmanshop. Mr.. Stahl deliberately
took advantage of his opponents by
from the battle ship New Jersey. lying
In the Hudson river and sending Il
Wood ~ ".i
II was a nasty thing to do, and. the
advocates Of International disarmament
are furious. Mr.. Wood, after his sights
had been adjusted and the range had
been calculated. was narrowing In the
extreme. He uses a conical ball with
a nat trajectory and cross-compound
uouDit TeNeTut WHICH Cduttb tne
protectile to change its mind about its
destination about every four feet
Moreover. he has a water-cooled dispo-
sition which enables him to load and
fire five shots minute without heating
up.
Opposed by Tesreau. e"
The result was as might be expected.
Opposed to the long g-calibered. wire
wound Mr.. Wood was "Jefr' Tesreau.
who is good In his way. but has never
pricked out designs in arrnor plate or
demolished coming towers. Tesreau
hung his best but all In vain. The
tie charges, moved down the Giants in
heaps. Nine of them struck out: some
of them were still striking al the last
ball when the next one came over: sew
eral bats were blown away. ,"ChIef''
Meyers received a ball squarely between
the shoulders. and will wear II to his
grave unless the surgeons succeed in
finding II. The Giants battled with vim
and slammed out hit after hit. But
whenever they had decorated the bases
with a large number of anxious run
ners hanging around like overripe
peaches waiting to be picked, Mr.. Wood
would give his famous imitation OF the
horseshoe curve at Altoona Pass, and
beginning to sit up around the field and
make copious remarks. would curl up
and die. -.
That's the KIND of superdread-
naught Wood H. Tesreau. a modest
youth no bigger thana fighting mast.
did wonders and held the Boston men
to one hit IN six innings,| while Murray
| and! Larry Doyle banged Woods dunn
dunn 'bans into two -runss But !Jeff ran
out OF powder at last. and In the fatal
seventh Tour horrible c6flseeutive deton-
ations like the blowing UP of a chain of
| powder mines gave Boston three runs
and the game.
"' Stahi Is Game.
| Even at that those Giants who die
harder than a. battIeship with a dam
aged backbone. fought on and on and
| in the ninth they got three hits and n
run. Meyers and Herzog palpitated on
second and third respectively and seven
| acres Of temporarily unbalanced citi-
! gems gave a close imitation OF a thous-
and steam sirens In gale OF wind.
| 1t was trying moment sfor Captain
Stahl but he was game Addressing Il
sumed his place on first and the smok-
| ing Mr.. Wood fred six more ball =
| across the plate. The last two Giants
were still striking at them as the crowd
departed. '.r, =.
Among those present yesterday were
| a loyal little band of Bostonese' who
filled small section of the grandstand
and made feeble sounds like red ant
insuring against the universe all after
| noon. Last evening two Of these same
fans blockaded Broadway by trying "a
| pass each other. Broadway is too mar
row for a metropolitan street, anyway
| downright, 1912, by the Adams News
! paper Service.)