Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-07
STAGE READY FOR
WORLDS SERIES

New York. Oct. Sunrise found
at the Polo grounds where around bon
fires they waited all night for the first
chance at 1000 grand stand seats for
the worlds championship baseball
series placed on sale this morning.
Each person was allowed to buy two
seats. Tomorrow only one ticket is to
be sold to a person This is designed
70 defeat spectators. Hundreds of
men notable in the baseball world
gathered in hotel Hobbies. Among them
we're August Hermann and Presidents
Lynch and johnson. Hermann said:
PLAYERS Of both clubs enter the ser
les physically fit. l will not be sur
D, ised to see 1t go seven games before
decision is reached" All are con-
fdent the coming games will eclipse
past contests
New York, Oct. THE Official con-
clusion of the major league schedule
Yesterday clears the decks for the
worlds championship combat. The
pennant winning clubs, the New York
Nationals and the Boston Americans,
cleaned their slate and have today to
rest up for the first Of the big games
in New York tomorrow.
The prediction made before every
world series that the crucial games will
be pitchers battles usually proves. cor
rect. 1t was so last year with the ex-
ception of one game and promises to
/ be so this year.
A championship struggle was never
approached with keener interest in the
reliance placed upon the pitchers than
| is the case this year. In Boston yes
terday they celebrated the 23rd ami
versary of the birth of Joseph Wood, a
date which has generally passed I'M
noticed in previous years, but on this
occasion it marks the official conclu-
sion Of a league championship race
which for a great part is due to Young
Woods phenomenal pitching speed A
/ fortnight ago he completed run of 16
straight victories for the Boston club,
thereby equaling the American league
record set this season by Walter John
son of Washington.
The binding speed with which Wood
winds up was one day described as
smokey by a Boston enthusiast and
it seemed so apt that the word became
his nickname Although one of the
younger members of the team he has
been with Boston since 1908. He came
from Hutchinson, Kan, in 1907. which
fc fire in eli hac
ball. He had had a record of nO-hit
game there and soon after going to
Boston his success as a big league
pitcher was assured although Ray Col
Inns was the Boston star at that time
1t was really not until this year that
Wood came into his own as the IDOL
of the Boston fan
Notwithstanding that in Rube Mar
guard New York boasts a pitcher who
equalled the worlds record by pitching
10 consecutive victories in the early
half of the past season, the local fol
lowers appear to have side tracked
both him and Mathewson, while &C
claiming young JEFF Tesreau as the
hero of the hour. Matched against the
bOSIOu star Is 1GSfSau or the same
age, but his successful career as a bis
league pitcher has virtually been con
fined to the latter half of the past sea
son.
Tesreau is the only man in the
Giants nneup who was not with The
J club in the world series struggle las
5 year McAleer, now president of tbs
Boston Americans, when manager o
| the St. Louis Browns several years
! ago, was the first to give young Tes
reau his first big league trial whel
) one of his scouts discovered him il
: the Trolley league in Missouri. Tht
: now president of the Boston club coulC
see no hope in the lads work and turn
, ed him back. In 1908 he was triet
out by the Detroit Americans. bu
failed
He shifted around among five differ
ent Texas clubs until McGraw discoy
cred him in Shreveport a year ago las