Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-11
FIRST INNING.


With Rlgler on balls and strikes,
O Loughlin on bases, KLEIN IN right
and Evans in left, they get away in
fine style Ozark Jeff Tesreau gives
Hooper three balls and finally grooves
one, that Hooper poles to center for a
single Yerkes makes fine bunt in
front of the platter and Meyers. in his
eagerness to stop Hooper at second.
throws there. 1t is a wretched heave
and goes over Doyle's head Hooper Is
held on second and Yerkes is safe at
first Speaker hits Into a, nasty dou-
BILE The ball goes 70 Fletcher. who
touches out Yerkes and then retires
Speaker to Merkle Lewis also grounds
to Fletcher and is out al first No
runs, one hit, one error.
Wood victimizes Devore. who fans.
Doyle develops a single to left center
that sets the stands to bowling. Snod-
grass grounds to Gardner and DOYLE is
forced at second Then Snodgrass
seems smitten with an idea that he can
steal and takes a tremendous lead to-
ward second 1t is fatal think. With
fiashy turn and snap Wood catches
Snodgrass iat-fo0ted off the bag and
he retires, amidst groans from the
bleachers. No runs, one hit, no errors.
SECOND INNING.
Larry Gardner opens up for the Red
Sox, and he opens strong The first
ball Tesreau pitches him is shoulder
high and a bit on the outside. Larry
hurs himself into it with terrible
swipe and the ball scars to right field
for clean triple. 1t is a tough blow
for Tesreau and he is worse than wor-
ried. He winds up tensely, let's fly at
the plate and the ball scars over Mey-
ers' head-a wild pitch-and Gardner
scores. Stahl flies out to Doyle Wag-
ner lifts one to Snodgrass. Cady strikes
out on four pitched balls One run, one
hit, no errors.
Murray is up. one strike, two strikes.
three strikes. and he's down again, a
victim Of Woods smoke. With two
straight strikes on Merkle. Wood pulls
bone and tries to slip one straight
over 1t does not get there. Instead
Merkle leans into it for a single. On
the first ball pitched he is down for a
steal, and makes it, with sweeping
fadeaway. Herzog grounds to Yerkes
and Merkle dashes for third There is
no chance to head him, so Yerkes
makes the safe play and throws Her
zog out to Stahl. Meyers makes a
corking effort to produce and laces out
a tremendous fly Lewis. with a game
run. gets under it--and the side is out.
No runs, one hit, no errors.
THIRD INNING.
Tesreau makes another bad start-it
seems to be getting chronic with him
when he slips the second ball across
for Wood and the Boston pitcher ham
mers il out FOR a single This sets
ozark Jeffs nerves on edge again and
he walks Hooper slipping in only ona
strike among the four balls. Yerkes
grounds to Tesreau, who forces Wood
at third to Herzog. Speaker advances
both runners with a grounder to Doyle
but retires at first. Lewis has a swell
chance for fame, but can only ground
to Fletcher. who handles the ball neat
ly and throws him out to Merlkle. This
is fine work for the Giants in pulling
out Of a deep Chasm.
No runs, ono hit, no errors.
With one strike on Fletcher, hS
grounds a sloppy one to Wood and Ii
out at first. Tesreau stands up and
chops at three pitched balls, with M
material effect. Devore lands on the
second BAN pitched him and sends q
grass-cutter to Gardner. who throws
him out at first Only seven balls are
pitched by Wood in this inning Smoky
Joe seems to have a lot more than h,
did Tuesday, and II he keeps this cliI
there is nothing to it, for Tesreau il
wild No runs, no hits, no errors.
FOURTH INNING.
Tesreau's old wildness crops rieh
ouy al The first ~ this inning and h,
pitches four balls 10 Gardner, none o