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Show GREAT TEAMS EVENLYMATCHED Thursday's Game. Now York 2 Boston 1 Friday's Gr.me Now York 1 Boston 3 BoBton, Oct. 10. The biggest crowd that over saw n ball gamo In Boston, numbering 34,024, got tho surprise of Its life today, when Rubo Marquard was returned a winner ovor Buck O'Drlen In th third battle of tho (Continued on Page Eight) GREAT TEAMS EVENLY MATCHED Continued from rago 1. world's series, 2 to 1. All the dopstors figured that Ilubo would make a hlg oxploslon if Mc-Graw Mc-Graw started him. Out up to tho ninth inning ho exhibited io signs of cracking. crack-ing. Tho luck and bad baso running or bnd coaching saved him from eleventh elev-enth hour defeat and left the Giants on oven terms with tho Ited Sox in tho Btrugglo for tho championship; of tho unt verso. Ono of tho prottloBt catches over committed by littlo Josh Povoro wound up the gamo, robbed Cady of undying fame and was Itubo's salvation. salva-tion. Everybody in tho ball park including in-cluding Marquard himself thought Cady had won the combat. His clout was headed for tho fence In right center cen-ter on a line, Henriksen was on third base nnd Wagner on second, with two out and ono run needed to tie. The pair flashed homeward wth tho sound of the collision between ball nnd bat. Devoro started In nn apparently hopeless hope-less chaso toward tho thousands of howling bugs In tho dlstnnt bleachers. Tho thougt of the big end of that purse must havo added wings to Joshua's feet. Anyhow ho caught up with the flying thing, grabbed It and held on whllo the frantic encoring gave way to n groan of lost hope. Tho result of yesterday's gamo 3 to 1 In fnvor of tho Red Sox camo ns a great surprise to tho major ma-jor portion of tho sporting world. Tho return of Wood to tho pitchers box wns not heralded ns a movo toward to-ward victory for Boston, tho famous pitcher, howevor, wns at his best and. repeated tho doso ministered to tho Giants nt his hands on Tuesday. |