This contest was remarkable more for the misplays of the New York players, which gave the Bostons a chance to save themselves from defeat, than for any undue familiarity with the pitching of Mathewson.

As it was, Yerkes scored on the misplay and that run lost the game for the Giants.

A year later and he had learned that a misplay, even though it lose the game for your side, may in time be lived down.

They had lost the gamethat was bad enough; but they knew that they deserved to lose it, that their own misplays had brought their own punishment.