The Gathering of the Clans The peculiar conditions of the major league races of the 1912 season, the great rivalry between the two leagues, the many unknown quantities entering into this conflict between two teams, one of which has had, and the other lacks, experience in World's Series contests, all have combined to make the 1912 World Championship Series the subject of an amount of comment, speculation, analysis and gossip equaled only by the Athletic-Giants series of last year, to the delectation, and perhaps also confusion and disgust, of the reading public. Of partisan claims, predictions and gush there has been a perfect flood; of sane conservative and non-partisan analyses, only a rivulet.—A. H. C. Mitchell, Sporting Life THE LETTERS ADDRESSED to Wood, all bearing New York postmarks, started to arrive at Fenway Park in late September, as the Sox played the Yankees after they returned from their road trip. Two were full of misspellings, as if the author—or authors—was trying to disguise his upbringing and background, and the signatures were either missing or illegible.
