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Show Meyers Blames Boston Luck; Declares Bedient Had Little Big Chief Still Convinced Best Team Will Win, Which, H of Course, Is New York. By JOHN "CHIEF" MEYERS. By International News Service. BOSTON, Oct. 12. Christy Math-ewson Math-ewson pitched one of the best gamc of hiH life today. But ho lost. Boston has us now, threo anies to one, in tho contest for tlio world b baseball championship. Why wo didn't beat Hugh Bedient, J cannot understand. We couldn't hit jhim. to begin with. That's a pretty .good excuse, yot no excuse at all. He had less than either Hall or Collins, less even than ie showed ns for the brief spell he worked against Matty last Wednesday. The only way to explain it is on of those unaccountable circumstanoes where a pitcherjrets by simply because he looks esay. I have no doubt that it we hadn't been behind, we would have cleaned up on him in Tight proper fashion. fash-ion. If that third inning had been eliminated wo probably would have had half a dozeu instead of one puny run. Says Horseshoes Are Bent. Talk of horscshoesl Fate simply slammed tho gate right in our faces.-Hooper, faces.-Hooper, already in the hole, went after af-ter one of Matty 's teasers on the outside out-side and shot the ball down the left foul line. Bovoro was playing away over toward center-because Hooper ib a Tight field hitter. Herzog made a brilliant try for the ball, but at got j through. Iiis dive made Josh hesitate momentarily and then he had no chance to come in diagonally for it. The little lit-tle fellow would surely have held the clout to a double at best. But the ball rolled in between the temporary leu field circus seats and tho left field bleachers. He couldn't got to it ana Hooper raced all tho way to third. This drew in our infield and made Matty Mat-ty pitch altogether differently to what ho should, had tho inner dofenso boon playing deep. How Snodgrass Was Fooled. Yerkes, however, whom Matty; seemed to have sized up pretty well, throw consternation into us by slamming slam-ming a curve ball to the contor field paling. Snodgrass was fooled by , the hcaw going. He came in' fast, think' ing tho ball would slow up after it hit the soft ground and that ha could hold it to a single. But the bull curved .in. Us flight. Too late, he cut hack to intercept in-tercept it and it got through. The re- Total forjhe Five Games: Total paid attendance. iTl.fiST. Total receipts. 336,4S3. National comralsslon'n share, $33,-648.30. $33,-648.30. New York club's share, $77,651.21. Boston club's share. $77,631.21, Players' share, 5147.572.2S. ' Lact year the total attendance, including in-cluding non-paid admissions, for the first nve games was 1B&.966. and tho total 'receipts wore $305,255. that might bo. doing the new man an injustice. Many world-fnmous pugilists have in thoir callow days acted as though possessed with a spirit of unoasinpss fust prior to tho bogtnumg of a battle bat-tle McCarty at First Nervous. Jim Jeffries was ono of theBe, and. it will bo no trick for any member of tho old guurd of ring followers to recall how white faced audMinsattlcd Jeffries 6cemed when waiting for tho starting belUn. his earlier bat ties. Some sailed it tho "yellow stroah ; others aaid it was meroly eagerness to get into action. Whatever it. was in Jeffries '" case, it wore away m time. No one noticed any nervousness nbout him the night ho faced Fitzsimmons for tho championshln at Coney Islana. tcCarty haB the Jeffries trait. When he stood up to bo -photographed he looked decidedly uncomfortable. Kauff man, on tho other hand, had tho steady light in his, eyes which is al-1 W3vs regarded ns tho badge ot game- j ness". But. onco McCarty -fl face flushed with the excitement of the fighting, tho stalwart Nobraskan looked and, acted naturally that is, if a man trying to heat another's head off can look not-1 ural. . suit was a triple that scored tho first run of the game. Our infield was drawn in for Speaker. Ho swung hard, hit abovo the ball and dribbled a puny, slow roller toward Doyle, who figured that Yerkes woNJd surely dash for the plate and played the bull accordingly. But out of the corner of his eyo ho saw the runner hug the ,1 bag instead of sprinting home. He had taken a position for a peg to the plate when he realized that he must play- for the batter. Ho tried to switch his po-sition po-sition at tho last instant while tearing in fa6t. Somehow tho ball eluded htm. rolled through him and on out to Jack Murray. The latter poggod out Tria when he tried for nn extra base on tho error, hut alreadj" the damage had been done. ' Mathewson Tightens Up. Speaker was the last who reached first base. The last seventeen men who faced "Bi Six" were retired in order IH without the first semblance of a-hit. It . is true that a few of them, gave our fielders warm chances, but nothing out of the ordinary of any common game. Mathewson -pitched the greatest gamo he ever showed in any world's , jH .scries. And yro had to go and lose it , on him. We couldn't get him the runs v after Boston's luck kicked our &hirh?LX -tho third. The old master wa dead certain of victory when he went into the box. Bub ho did not properly hit his stride until the third inning. He displayed bis wonderful nervo and sameness to the j satisfaction of ail of us by the whole- ' hearted manner in which ho finished. 1 Any other pitcher would have been wor-ricd wor-ricd to death with two triples in a row, none ont, in ono inning. But tho big fellow only smiled ami worked all the harder. It was not his. fault that the ) victory wont the wrong way. ; Says Matty Good -as Ever. Matty is as good as he ever was. He wall help ns pull through yet. I have not given up hope. Indeed, though the count is so discouraging in, the mere j matter of figures, I am convinced that ll tho bettor club will eventually triumph. . We have the better club. Wo have not ' been beaten; simply outlncked. Class will tell in the end. i Marquard and Tesreau should, either one, boat Joe Wood in his next start. They will go better, while he is bound; to be worse. He has been overworked alroady. Our team will never quit. If grit and pluck count anything, wo will he right there at tho finish. But there is one thing that no club can boat. That is the Boston luck that has predomi-nated predomi-nated so far. It's just about time that: things took a turn. We will he out there Monday, trimming them. |