The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-16
.HEARTBREAK
DUEL WILL END.
Giants and Red sox WIN Have De
cided Their Battle Before Dusk
This Evening Unless
Tie is Played.
SMOKEY q: JOE AGAIN
Beantown is Again Banking on Stout
Heart and Terrific Speed Of
Wood to Stop Giants
Plunge.
SMOKEY JOE AGAI
limited Press Leased Wire Service.
by Grantland Rice.l

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lBy Grantland Rice.1
BOSTON, Mass, Oct. 16.-Providec
the agile and alert keepers of leading
bug emporiums. BOBBY matches and
nut hostelries don't cut in and cart
away both athletes and non-combat-
ants, the most decisive single battle
ever staged in the run of great ma
ttion's greatest sport will tell the
story of championship fight, which
may stand unequalled for another
century.
! But once before, under the modern
system, have two ball clubs ever gone
ito seven games to end series. To-
/ day two teams have not only whit
| led, slashed, reeled and fought their
way to seven games, but having tied
record in this respect. are no near
ier solution than they were at the
start-no nearer with the exception
| that one or the other must lose a
/ Misunderstanding fight by dusk, where
nothing short of another tie can stave
off the situation further.
1t doesn't require one on the inside
/ to grip an affair like this. The aver
age bug is now keyed as faulty as the
| ball player in the fight where there
| is no dope left upon which to bank
Both teams may battle grimly and
staunchly to the finish, or there is an
equal chance that one may break as
the Red Sox broke yesterday and turn
the deciding jamboree into farce.
| In the face of Mondays startling
turn, the Giants are Juggling at the
leash to start another storming rush
eager, confident and cock-sure OF
another triumphant assault, while it
! remains to be seen whether Wood
and his legion can rally quickly
enough to slip back to normal form.
Wood needs more heart and courage
today for this next start than he
needs stuff, for while he has always
shown the proper inside lining in the
1 past, he is UP against deal before
4 which even a stouter heart might fail.
Boston stood back of Wood yester-
day confidently, jubilantly. joyously-
foreseeing but one result, and that
result the downfall Of the foemen.
Boston was standing back of him to-
day grimly, staunchly and Loyalty,
but in the main with her collar cut
low, as If prepared for the worst Az
tier that first round yesterday when
Manhattan's machine bumped Smoky
Joe into the gravel ditch, Boston was
| Is
happen. But having seen Wood wea-
Their many driving gale before with
the soul of stalwart might quail
Boston was willing to concede moth
ing until the final returns are in.
Starting the final battle, both clubs
can look back on ten thousand turns
that might have turned the series up
side down and won the title for either
club. Two miraculous catches saved
the Giants two games. series oil
bad Giant misplays on each chances
put Boston in the fight.
Il If Larry Doyle hadn't raced into
right field Wednesday, a week ago
for one of the most remarkable stops
and plays of the year, the Red Soz
would have closed out the show Sat
urday night. 1t was play Doyle, Oh
no other second baseman, miSslt make
again in twenty chances. If any one
of seven Giant errors on easy plays
! plays a school boy might make with
his eyes shut. hadn't developed, yes
4 terday's contest would have giver
4 New York her second championship
] of christendom.
And it is this multitude of alibi.
and ifs, compiled by partisans of boil
clubs, which will carry the series
! further into the gossip of future thar
H any ever played. Ten dozen addin,
II machines manipulated by experts
1 couldn't tabulate the possibilities o
Il these last seven games by workin.
Il overtime through decade.
Il This late Giant rally in the face o
i almost sure disfavor has been the hi,
/ feature of the jubilee. 1t was thei
/ ability to rally time and again in tn,
/ National League fight, which put Nc
/ Graw's club beyond all danger at tn,
i end.
/ Monday, trailing three games t,
] one, their first rush carried then
over the straight form of Buck o.
H Brien who was carted In scattere,
II sfgments from the field. Yesterda,
n they fired SO many poisoned arrow
II into Joe Wood by the end of the frs
II round that he resembled porcupin
II with all quilts flying to the wind
II Boston had built her team aroun
II Wood to large extent, psychologist
II ally il not physically. Wood coul
II not be beaten when the show-dow,
II came, and he was forced to the test
II And so when the Giant assault run
II pied Joe into a CORY mass, earnin