Evening journal., 1912-10-11
MARQUARD'S REBUTTAL.
BY Grantland Rice.

$50 / was naught but bally joke
I'D lost the break to my curve and
smoke
I'd nothing left but a glove and
prayer
With heart bowed down by load of
care:
Tesreau lost and amid the din;
Matty pitched and he couldn't win,
only the Rube left
Pipe the shame
But who was there when the show
down come?
They'd cracked my nerve in the re-
cord pace.
They'd smashed my heart in the
driving race;
Rube, the bum, was bush league
Joke
For his stuff was gone and his nerve
was broke:
Tesreau fell in the path of Wood
Matty worked-but it did no good
Only the Rube now to be stopped
But who was there with the stuff that
copped?
NEW YORK, Oct 11-You can
seize It from us, gentle or rough read
er that the wild scramble which ever
mixed up a worlds series program is
now in full blast. When the present
worlds series concludes some tim,
next week therell be two ball clubs
fit for the booby hatch and 100000
half-shaved, raving New York ant
Boston rooters running about in short
"a ..
keepers fresh from the Bughouse AS
the result of the last three battles
both supporting camps have kicked
all dope to the four or five-winds an,
now are poised and set for a mad
house jubilee unequalley in the his
tory of the game.
Out of three battles fought to dat,
the two teams have not only broker
even and scored each eleven runs, bu
each hectic, nerve-shattering battl,
has gone to the final pitch of the fina
inning and the final out where the
fine, frail margin of hair might hav,
won or lost all three conflicts. Boil
have shown a keen and yearning de
sire to crack and split wide open al
every close stage of the scrap anC
when they start breaking the noise
resembles a serried line of war ships
saluting the grand old flag in a har
Dor noted for its sharp acoustics.
there is any edge now it belongs tC
the Giants. where despite their wilC
and woody fielding-their cave-ins a
every chance, have shown by far thu
best pitching and the best batting t
date Not only that, McGraw now hal
Tesreau, Mathewson and Marquar,
left in turn, while the Red Sox hav'
only Wood, as Collins, Hall ant
O'Brien have failed to show what il
technically known as the game-proo
goods. So even if Wood beats Tes
reau today, Mathewson holds the edg
to over every slabman Stahl may pusl
in the pit
On the other wing of it, if Tesreal
beats Wood, the Red Sox are in 70
what the cultists would call a larg
pear-shaped time of it with only Col
Inns or Bedient left to grapple witt
the redoubtable Mathewson-a veter
an-but still there in the vital depart
ments of his well-known profession.
And yet with it all the Red Sox still
carry these two features to fall bacl
on. The Giants, despite their goo
pitching and batting have shown tn
eager wish expressed above to cracl
at every close call And with this tn
Red Sox have shown a dauntless spir
it in attack at the finish-a resolut
courage in battling till the last ma
has died at the finish. This angle wa
flashed in the third battle where onl
a miracle saved Marquard after h
had worked one of the grandes
games of his career. For eight round
the Giants southpaw had stood tn
slugging Soxmen on their onions
slang and beans.
Using his left arm almost exclu
sively for this purpose, he had beate
the Boston attack to whisper. The
couldn't reach him with a telegrar
or long distance phone call II
had everything, plus five-with tn
greatest amount of stuff he has show
all year. In the meanwhile wit
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