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Show I BEDIENT'S WORK BEST OF 1 WORLD SERIES THUS FAR tRenmrkable Performance Proves Joe Wood Has Reliable Re-liable Partner; piants Make Mistake in , . J. . ' . Underestimating Youngster .' ,1 I .By R. W. LABDNER. JR . By International News Service. IBm OTON, Oct. 12. A dark horse in the, race for the world's championship champion-ship won his heat today and practically prac-tically put McGraw's entries out of the' running. Said dark horse was voting Hug" Bedient, yearling pitcher pitch-er oh StahJ's staff and fourth choice, after Wood, Collins aud O'Brien. In the Boston betting'. Minus world's series experience and experience In crucial con-, fllcls of any kind, he beat the wonderful aiathewBbn 2 to I and gave the Red Sox thelr third victory of the set. Even Mc-Graw Mc-Graw will not claim that his team now has better than a slim lighting chance for the winners' end. In their newspaper stories this morning morn-ing several of the Giants remarked that Joo Wood was Boston's only pitcher: that New York had hit 'all the others tried out and that Joe never could 'cop baseball's highest honors alone. ' Did Not Expect Bedient. They will realize now that Joe wasn't expected to. Bedient had pitched the eleventh Inning of the tie game on Wednesday. Wed-nesday. He had pitched the ninth of the one lost to Marquard day before yesterday. He had pot been scored on in either round, but he had appeared wild and the Giants were not figuring that Stan) would start him. This was 6hown by the fact that in New York's batting, practice "Hooks" WHtse did the hurling, to the Gotham sluggers. -They wore look-ins; look-ins; for a left-hander, Ray Collins. t "robahlv no one W3S more surprised McGraw when the announcer gave out the names of Bedient and Cady. It was too late 'then to rehearse batting against a right-handed man, and the Giants gritted their .teeth and swore tliey would ret revenge on Jake for crossing ToM to Wait. Their orders were to wait out everything every-thing on Bedient, to make him pitch the full string And in the first few Innlnge it jooked as If this were the "way to beat him. for he wail shy of control. But, they hadn't seen Hugh working durjng the regular season or they would have been wise to the fact that It's comparatively compara-tively easy to reach first base with Bedient working and nearly Impossible to get the rest of the way, when the youth is right. Thus, Devore and Murray refused to, strike at anything In the first two rounds and they were rewarded with passes. But only one of them attempted second base. Devore walked again In the third, but Thigh only tightened up and began placing the pill where the Giants had to swing at it. Loses Wildness; Giants Helpless. After that Bedient lost his wildness and the Giants were practically helpless,, except in, the Inning In which they secured se-cured their only run., That was the seventh, and If Larry Gardner had experienced ex-perienced a little luck in his fielding of McCorralck's drive, New York would have been shut out cleanly. In other words, Bedicnt's gamo was the. best pitched of the series to date. Four hits were made off him and two came In the seventh. In the other .sessions .ses-sions he' was a. bear. To be sure, lie I had the best kind of backing from hjs palfbut he didn't stand In any real need Alerkle's long wallop in the ninth might have started something with some one else than Speaker playing center-field-for Boston, but you know Speaker belongs here and New York must figure on h,ls ability to cover the ground behind him. IE Not Yet Wood's Equal. Bedient fell short of Joe Wood's ftrlke-oul record. No one is claiming 1 that he is yet Joe's equal as a pitcher, but everybody wlll have to slip it to him I for his performance today. In the first W place, there- w.ere fewer hits off him than wA off any hurler in the set. In. the second 3 place, he was in less trouble than, anv 78 f his predecessors, either on the New V 1 York or Boston side. j Boslden" the actual effect of his trj- H umph in the matter of games won and loet. there is the moral, effect of it to a pander over. It showB that Woody ban at least one able assistant and that ! means a lot when It is up to the Sox td lake only one gatno xmt of three. It is pafe to say that Garland Stahl slept peacefully tonight. If Hugh had 1 lost, there might have been nightmares t to disturb them. As it is, there is a S possibility that Wood' won't have ito per- 1 form again in the series. Collins or I O Brien may start Monday. A win for the one who does work settles the arcu- f men.t then and there. Bedient Wonderfully Cool. I -,!5rP8 tlab. moBt notable thing about ffl 3ediens performance was his coolness. m He Is a youngster hardly out of his m teens and. a year ago, he probably' never gt dreamed of being asked to pitch in a m worjd'is ohampionBhlp game. But hla H greenness didn't feaze him. Wagner. 1 Gardner, Yerkes, Stohl and Cady talked l to him all afternoon and he would have m wpn Just tho fame without their ewiour- g agement, for he was in there to bring home tho bacon arid he didn't waver even when he thought about the sizo of the t Job that he had intrusted to him. I It is not often that a flret-year bat- 1 I tery .is' used simultaneously in an event of this sort, but the truth remains that Cady was worked as Bedient's catcher fid that h6 performed his task splendld-W. splendld-W. Cady Is a freshman. Juat as Bedient h, But Cady has been called on oftenor . than, the veteran Carrlgn.it In this series and he has caught bftrr than either Onv-rlKan Onv-rlKan or Sleycrs. Before discuaslng tho subject-of the I nerve of these jLwo youngstcrn, let us f point out that they weren't excited for h h moment by the' fact that lathewson and j - Meyers, the heroes of inany a crucial struggle, were opposing them. They pltchod and received Just as if they were stacked up against the second string battery of the Peeksklll Military academy. acad-emy. r Moreover, It was the biggest crowd ever played to by this- same Bedient and the biggest that over saw a' game in Boston, in splto of the fact that the weather was the worst of the series. Just fifty-nine more persons paid to get In than on Thureday, which brought out the previous record for this cultured burg. McGraw's Pitchers Wrong. McGraw was decidedly up against it for pitchers. Ho didn't dare work Leon Ames, for Leon has control once a month and his manager didn't know whether or not he was due. Tereau had pitched on the previous day and besides he was complaining com-plaining of a split linger. Marquard turned up with a sore arm and that put him among the Inellgtbles. Otis Crandall is a finisher rather than a starter, so there was ho "chance for him 'and there would have been danger of killing seven or eight Inficlders If he had named George WHtse. Matty was the only gent available avail-able and Matty went to his death like a brave soldier. He was hit terribly In spots and yet the score will show that ho allowed only five safe ones and none at ali after the third Inning. Fielders Save Mathewson. , Matty's principal jrtb was to thank different dif-ferent members of his Infield for spearing spear-ing linn drives. The Sox wore surolv In their hitting stride, but they weren't "hitting "hit-ting safe after the third. The gamp was settled when Hooper and Yerkes bunched triples in the third, and Captain Doyle, the unlucky dog of this series, was found guilty of one of the costliest little errors ever perpetrated. It will be noted that the manufacturer of one of these triples was Steve Yerkes. famous weak spot. The Giants didn't look anything like an offensive power until their third. With one out Matty singled and Devore walked, but Speaker and Cady killed Doyle and Snodgrasf. Bedient was all to the good from that round to the seventh. Merkle'a double was hit from a pitch over his head. Herrog popped out and Meyers' fly was so lopg that Merkle attained third. The national commission's scorers scor-ers said Gardner made an error on Mc-Cormick's Mc-Cormick's drive and the baseball writers' scorers called it a hit. Scorers Disagree. If it 'wasn't, a hit we'd like to see how the commission's scorers would go about the job of playing third base. Anyway. Merkjo scored on it, and that finished the New Yorkers, so far as tallying was concerned. con-cerned. The Sox hau a couple of hard blows In their, first Inning, but couldn't' tally. The big dolhgs occurred in the third, when Hooper opened with a trip and tallied on a slinllar drive by Yerkes, The latter lat-ter came over with the winning count on Doyle's boot of Speaker's grounder. From then until tho end, about half of Continued on Page Twenty, Second News Section. Can This Leader Rally His Shattered Forces? I! BEDIENT'S WORK BEST OF 1 WORLD SERIES THUS FAR ffl Continued From Pago Two, Sporting Section, I Benton's batsmen went out becausp tboy couldn't solve Matty. Tho other half died an awful death. Pirst Iunlng. New York Dcvore walked to lirel baso on four balls. Doyle Med out to Lewis. Dovoro was forced at second whon Wag-ncr Wag-ncr took Snodgrass' grounder and tossed to Ycrkes. who completed a double play hv throwing Snodgrass out at first. No rfms, no hits, no errors, Boston Hooper singled to center on the first ball pitched. Ycrkes filed to Fletcher. Speaker was given a great hand as ho came to tho plate. Speaker singled to left. Hooper bolng held on aoe-oncf. aoe-oncf. Hooper wan forced at third when Hcrsog took Lewis' grounder and touched third lxise. Gardner struck out, No runs, two hits, no errors. Second Inning. New York Murray walked, baso on balls. Merltle was thrown out at first, Gardner to Stall!, Murray taking Eecond. Hensog sent up a high fly to Yerlces. Mnwrs tiled to Hooner. No runs, no luta, IK no errors. . . M Boston Stahl was out, Fletcher to M Morkle. "Warmer singled to right. Cady m wan out, Mathowson to Mcrkle. Wagner W taking second. Doyle throw out Bedlent, IS making a clevor atop and throw to first, E No runs, ono hit, no errors. raj Third Inning. m Now Voile Fletcher filed to HoopeT. W Ifathewson got. a great ovation a3 ho B cam to tho plate Mathowson singled K to ccnicr. Dcvoro walked. Tt was Borti- if cnt'a third base on balls. Doylo filed to M Speaker. Snodgrasa .sent up a high foul If! to Cady. No runs, one hit. no errora. If Boston Hooper drove the ball to left W for three bases. 'Hooper scored nn a SC threo-baso lilt by Yerkcs.1 The crowd was J& Jn a tourmoll of excitement, whon Spoaker R carao to hw bat. Yericcs scored wlion m Dovlo muffed Speaker's grounder. Spealc- B or 'tried to go to second on the error, m but was tlirown out, Murray to Flotchor. Lowin was out. MathowEon to Merklo. Gardner went out to Mcrkle unassisted. K Two runfs two hits, one error. H Fourth Inning. I Now York Tho Boston rann were alm- ply delirious with Joy and they cheered I Hooper to tho man as ho wont to his po- I sltion at right field. Murray out on n fly I to Yorker. Mcrkle atruck out. Bedlont burnod the ball over the plate with bewildering be-wildering speed and ho has hla drop curve working- nlcoly. Horzog sent up a high ono to Stahl. No runs, no hits, no oi--rora. Boston Stahl out, Herzog to Morklo. Wagner struck out. Cady filed to Snod-grass. Snod-grass. No runB, no hits, no errors. rif tit Inning. Now York Meyers singled to left. Fletcher filed to Hooper. Mathcwnon struck out. Dovore filed to Hooper. No runs, ono hit, no errors. Boston Bedlent line filed to Merlcle. Hoopor out. Doylo to Morklc. Fletcher threw out Yerkos at first: It was a brilliant bril-liant stop and throw of a hard groundor. No runs, no hltSi no crroi-a. Sixth Inning. Now York Doylo out, Yerkcs to Stahl. Tills was anothnr clover play, Yerkos talcing tho groundor on the grass toward first base. SnodgraJJs filed to Gardnor. Murray fouled out lo Gardner. No runs, no hltii. no errors. Boston Spoaker out, Doylo to Merklo. Lewis out, Herzog to Mcrkle. Gardner out on a grounder to Merklo unassisted. No runs, no hltn. no errors. Seventh Inning-. Now York Merldo got a. two-bnso hit Into tho left Held. Herzog nicd to Wagner. Wag-ner. Myers filed to Speaker. MerJUe went to third nftcr the catch. MeCor-mlck MeCor-mlck went Into bat for Fletcher. Merklo scored on McCormlck's slnglo to Gardner. Gard-ner. Sliafor ran for MoCormluk. Gard-nor Gard-nor threw out Mathowson at first. One run. ono hit, one error. Boston Shafor wenL to short In placo of Fletcher. Stahl was out, MathcWKOii to Morklo. Shal'er Ihnsw out Wagner at first. Hcrzoe: throw out CJady at first. Mathowson was pitching In full form, having turned tho Boston battens back In one. two, three order In the last four Inn-lngo. Inn-lngo. No runs, no hits, no errors. Eighth Inning. Now Torlc Devoro struck out. Doyle was out n.t first on a groundor to Stahl unassisted. Snodgrasn struck out. No runs, no hits, no errors. Boston Bedlent Hied to Snodgrass. Hooper filed to Shafcr. Ycrkes lined to Ilorzos. No runs, no hits, no errors. Ninth Inning. New York Murray -out on a fly to Gardnor. Merklo filed to Speaker. t was a long drive, but Speaker Judged It perfectly. JTcrzop out, Yerkcs to Stahl. No runs, no hits, no errors. |