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Show ! BOSTON DESERVES WORLD PENNANT Hi By MONTY j New York. Oct 19 He who opines l that the victory of the Rod Sox over H; tho Giants In the greatest of all H! world's series, ju6t ended, was not H clean cut, earned and deserved, hard- H ly can call himself a true student of H baseball, of the underlying principles H of the game, of the foundation upon H which it is built. Baseball is born H not only of great feats and grasped H opportunities, but also of the obverse H thing the refraining from mistakes H and talent to prevent the throwing H away of opportunities. Because of H superior capacity to rise to the oc- H caslon when crucial situations presont- H ed themselves times when the game H hinged upon tho perfect, or imperfect, 1 consummation of each play the Red H Sox triumphed, are the world's cham- j pious today and have proved them- H selves worthy of the title 1 Mistakes Played Lead. H The mistakes made played a much , more Important part in the final re- j suit than did -the great deeds. The 1 latter of course figured prominently H as they do in every kind of a con- H test, but in the enses where some H single event determined the victor in j M a game, that event almost every time M was a mlstako by somebody. One H giaring exception to this general rulejf H was seen In tho third game of thelj H series, the playcff of the second day's M tie, in Boston. It was one of the M most remarkable catches of all time H by Josh Devoro that not only rescued H Rr.be Marquard and the Giants from H defeat but turned the Impending dis- 1 aster right-about-face into the one Hl most glorious triumph of the series. M JBut, take tho other games in order H " and see where the reverse sort of H events turned the tide in the Red H Sox direction. Tho Giants would not Hl have lost the getaway game had it H not been for two misplays of theirs, HJ neither of which, however, is scored Hl in t,ho error column. One of these H notted the first Hub run. In the H sixth inning, Speaker was on third H after having tripled It v.-as a hit H only because Snodgrass encroached Hl upon Devoreln the field. Lewis sent Hj a grounder to Doyle at second In H stead of making a play for the plate, H where the odds arc two to one that he M could have caught Speaker, Doyle M threw Lewis out at first. It was a H tactical error. With Speaker killed H at homo and Gardner fanning, the side H would have been retired runlcse. H Then in the seventh, after two were M out, Meyers could have caught H Hooper's foul, had lie tried a trifle H harder, and the three runs that came M afterward never would nave materl&l- H Slugging Match. H The second game, the tied slugging H match in Boston In which Mathowson H opposed Collins, Hall and Bedient, Hl "would have been a Giant victory, had Hl the New York veteran's support made H Juet one le83 error. Five runs were H let in by Fletcher's juggling and one 1 by "Wilson's muff at the plate all Hl Giant errois. H In the fourth game at New York, j which was lost by a 3 to 1 score, a H wild pitch by Tesreau was the first H important miscue. It -was in the sec- H ond inning, with Gardner on third, and H he scored. In the fourth inning, ulth H Gardner on third, and he scored In H the fourth round Meyers' poor throw j to second allowed Stahl to steal. He 1 got to third on Wagner's out and M scored, on Cady's infield hit If .Meyers' Uirow to socond had been g.rue, there would have been no run inero. Was Tough One. 9 Battlo number five was a tough one (for Mathowson to loso. Captain I Doyle's bobble In the third sen I HGiant hopes to never-never land BHcoper had tripled and then Yerkes Iditto for the first run Steve was on Sthird when Speaker pushed a tamo JgraBser at Doyle. The latter allowed it to go right under him and Yerkes registered, Xo need to go further. Already enough is said about the dark side of the series, enough to show its significance sig-nificance in tho whole There also Swore the Boston errors, both of hand and heart and mind, some of them calamitous, some of them not. The 1 thing that stands out foremost, tho first thing any spectator of the wholo iserics thinks of, is tho excellent quality of fight shown by all hands and It was nothing hut bitter over-anxiety over-anxiety to do the super-thrilling that engendered most of the mistakes that wore made. There wore heroes In this seiies, real heroes, Stands out pre-eml-ncntlj among them Howard Emerson Wood, loved and honored by Boston fans and the baseball world generally as "Smokey Joe" His wondorful Ichilled steel coorage in hours of trial and his grand pitching at all moments I put him on a plane where he will not be forgotten until the game of baseball base-ball departs from memory, probably some millions of centuries In the future. fu-ture. Wagner Made Good. Then there is Charles Helnie Wagner, Wag-ner, that insuperablo shortstop, whose work in the series places him equally as hi?h on the baseball ladder lad-der as his illustrious namesake of Pittsburg Tho youngeEt player in tho series. Hugh Bedient, occunation pitcher, birthplace Upstate New York haij clutched firae with en unbreakable unbreak-able grip. Harry Hooper, Tris Speaker, Speak-er, I airy Gardner, Steve Yerkes. Forrest Cady, Buck O'Brien. Duffy Lewis and, lust but far from least, Manager Jake Stahl all these are and will be idols for years to come. 'The Giants do not go heroless either, een though they lost their second world's series in as many years. Herzog, Murray, Marqaurd, McCormlck, Devorc, Mcrkle, Snodgrass, Snod-grass, Mathowson. Tesreau and Meyers Mey-ers ull toiled valiantly and are not without lienor in defeat. Nor Is Ar-I thur Fletcher, who fell from grace at the start when his errors figured in tho tossing away of bright Giant opportunities. op-portunities. He redeemed himself Cully and then some with the hit that won the Giant victory in Boston, which later was served by Dovore's catch a week ago Thursday It will Dc a long, long time before' the evenlH and actors of the world's series of 1912 cense to be talked about whereer baseball is discussed I |