The Detroit times., 1912-10-17
|MATTY THE MARVELLOUS is
STRUGGLES REAL HERO

reselt of the battle. When team
cane protect q margin OF IA earned
runs in. eight. games. sufficiently tO
win at least four. OF the games, there
is no opening left TO charge the nnal
Tesult 10 luck. despite the great part
luck played all through this frenzied
drama.
Peam for team the Giants batted
| .275 against .223; scored 81 runs
/ against % made 75 hits for 101
bases against 81 hits for So bases:
stole Is bases TO Boston's and earn
ed-Z6 runs 10 -Bustou's12. But against
this McGrawas team had Is errors 90
Bostons 10 and OF the IS, Ia came at
tight spots OF the battle and brought
I'm runs. Through this wretched de-
Tense the Giants hrst kicked them
selves into the hole and were trail
ing TO |. They then steadied, fought
their way back savagely TO even
terms, and with the championship
won. turned again In the last round
OF the as innings played and proceed
ed to kick IL away beyond recall.
And with all their rank fielding
through the series-lghtened as IL
was, because any number OF brilliant
plays-they reserved the last OF 75
rounds TO offer their greatest fiare-up
and their most miserable work.
Summed up in closer detail Meyers
outbatted and outcaught Cady
Mathewson. Marquard and Tesreau
combined, outpitched Wood. O'Brien,
Collins and Bedient. Stahl outplayed
Merkle by yards and Yerkes outplay-
cd Doyle as an asset TO his club. AZ
short Wagner was steadier than
Fletcher and did the better work, due
% Fletcher's ghastly start But
neither could hit over at third the
margin was the widest, as Herzog,
outplaying Gardner by forty lengths.
also outplayed the rest OF the field.
Bey ond all doubt he was the star or
the series in every way from the
view point Of batting, timely hitting. !
rHRgetting, fielding. steadiness and
Drilliancy.
Murray, playing left field In five OF
the eight games, was Herzogs closes. !
rival from the field. He outclassed
Lewis at every turn and stands as
one of the big stars OF any worlds
series play. But for the breaks OF
fortune against him, he would have
won the first and last games alone,
driving in or scoring four OF the fve
runs complied by the Giants in these
two contests.
In center Speaker loomed so far
Eeyond Snodgrass, the comparison is
Ittiful. Speaker was the only Red
Sox. to bat 800. and his fielding was
brilliant. Snodgrass, batting poorly,
helped kick away two games In the
field. and was the main cause of the
last disaster. Over In right, Devore
and Hooper had q game. brilliant
fight. where both were effective at bat
-and both saved the situation time and
agafn by remarkable catches.
When Hooper raced TO the right
rield wall, launched himself into mid
air yesterday and hauled down Larry
Doyle's almost sure home run. he not
only made the greatest individual
play of the series. but saved the game
beyond all doubt.
OF the nine jobs, each team excell-
ed IN four with one tie.
Team for. team the Giants excelled
in three OF the four vital depart
ments=-batting, pitching, fielding and
ia nase.running-bu were too far shy
In their one weak department to Gov
er their margin won In other ways
II seems the irony OF fate to have
this last desperate charge marred and
blurred by plays which you or l.
weary reader, who haven't possibly
handled ball in years, could make
with one hand while lighting q pipe
with the other.
The star OF the series was Herzog
who outplayed both teams at every
angle. who out-batted and out-scored
all others and who fought his way
through eight nerve-smashing games
without an error. Next to Herzog
ranks Jack Murray.
For Boston the stars were Yerkes,
Stahl and Hooper.
Among the big disappointments was
Larry Doyle. who. despite several
brilliant plays was far below the
class he. showed last year
Summed up, 1t was a series includ.
ing the widest mixture OF brilliant
and wretched playing=-impossib
catches and easy chances marred
wonderful and bush league pitching,
desperate chances and dumb, bush
league work-a veritable swirl OF all
that goes TO make up baseball from
every angle OF the game.
Brsinsss-iRe Print:as. No fuss ana