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Show "GEniMUDII," DECLARES MARQUAMO Says Giants Will Yet Pull the World's Title Out of the. Fire, BY RUBE MARQUARD. By International News Service. BOSTON", Oct. 12. Poor Matty! He lost, a gnme today that was one of the best lie ever pitched. And. it should not havo been a Red S'ox victory, either. eith-er. I don't, like to criticiso a teammate, team-mate, but in this coso I must say that it was Snodgrass who cost us this game. One of those two mna was earned, deserved, but the other was presented to them. Here is the way t figure out that second inning that should have given giv-en the home team but one lone tally. Hooper, tho first man up for the Rod Sox. opened with a triple to center. Ho 'caught one of Matty's fadeaways on tho noso before it broke. It went for a triple. Yerkes, next up, banged a fast ball to center for whnt proved to be a threo-bagger, but should havo never been but a single. Snodgrass ran in on the ball why I don't luiow. unless ho was excited, when ho should have played it for a, base hit. he ball got away from him and the batter got .all the way around to third. To be sure, Dolye booted Speaker's roller, but oven that error would have never let Yerkes get beyond second had Snodgrass hold Yerkes 'e swat to a single. sin-gle. Lewis , and Gardner wore the easiest eas-iest kind of infield outs and no ad-vanco ad-vanco conld have been mado by the runner. I hnve seen Matty pitch n good many games, but ho was never better than today. Luck was against him and I I feel more for tho big pitcher than I ,do for tho Giants as 'a team. I would have willingly given all my share of the world's Benes money Tather than to seo (big six" go down to such an unjust defeat-Five defeat-Five lone hits and not a base on balls, Yet ho lost his game. But don 't think, that Matty or any other of tho Giants have quit. Wo arc gotting mad now and wo will never givo up tho Bhip. Boston wont to Pittsburg in 1903 and pulled a title, out of tho f iro when they were in as bad a fix as we are today and we will do to Boston exactly ex-actly what they did to tbo Pirates that fall. We will had them the Eame prescription pre-scription that they doled out ,to Fred Clarke's great ball team. ' I will bo on the job Monday in New York and believe I will win my game. T dou-'t like to boast, but I know I will win my second game. The old loft salary sal-ary earner is in grand shapo. When T cot to. Now York tonight I will sleep, for nine or ten hours and in the morn-' ing will snoak out to the Polo grounds and get in n good wanning np. Hero is .iust liow I figure tho pitchers will pull the Giants through tho title, despite tho awful handicap that we will be working under. Yours truly will cop 'em Monday, Tesreau will he dead sure winner Tuesday, This will bring us up on even terms with the Boston team and then Matty, greatest still of all pitchers, will shut out the Boston team. . Now this may sound as though T was shooting at the moon, but paste the prediction in your hat. |