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Show Hi JOE WOOD AND RUBE MAKQUAMD, GREAT PITCHING MIVALS Joe wood, at the left, and Rube m M Mwquard at the right. At the top lo Mt U Marquard'a pitching hand and below, Wood'a. Both hold the ball about II ajike, but Wood's especially is speed H (I ball8. .while Marquard'a is his curve. A Joe "Wood, star boxman or the Bos- J -ton Red Sox, the leading ream of the I ! American league, has passed the rcc- I ird made by Rube .Marq.uard, of the New York Giants, of games won and lost, and today Btands unchallenged at the head of American league pitchers. pitch-ers. Marqunrd Is no longer expected by New York fans to hang up the 1912 season's best pitching record. The Rube having become decidedly Htalo as a result of the strain which he sufferod in rolling up his record-breaking record-breaking string of victories at the beginning of the season, it la not thought likely that he will be able to overtako "Smoky Joe's" commanding load. "Smoky Joe" is tho name given to the Boston marvel by Marouard be-causo be-causo of his spoed. "If we should again win the National Na-tional lcaguo pennant and moet tho Red Sox," Marquard oald the other day, "I may have the pleasure of hooking up with an old friend of my minor league days "Smoky Jo" Wood, the Boston star right-hander. "When I was with Indianapolis, in the American association, Joo was with the Kansas Blues in the same league, and many a time we had a ba'tlo. Joo always h3d a wonderful lot of speed, and I had a bit of the same thiug then. We'd JuBt cut loose with pluln smoko and would wtad up every game wo fought with ton or twelve strlke-mits apiece. I don't believe Joe ever beat me.M |