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Show i MERKLE THE REAL : GOAT OF SERIES i "Snodgrass' muff did not make the 1 ' Red Sox a present of the big series." I I quoths Magnate R. B. McRoy of Bos- 1,1 ton. "It came off Englo, first up In 1 j the tenth Clyde would have died on I second, the way the rest of the round I i t was played, if Merklo haa cnased and 4 : ' caught Speaker's foul fly. One out. ' i Yeri;es walked. Speakers pop foul i should have been the second out. But j Trls, on his life, singled, and Englo i i scored, while Yerkes took third Gard I ner flied to Devoro and Yerkes scor- j ,! ed the winning run. Gardner's fly would have been the third out and En- i gle would never have got past second i i if Mcrkle had gone after Speaker's ) ' foul and made the easy catch that y awaited him. So Merkle, not Snod- a grass, was the real goat of the series. ' |