The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-12

Chicago, October Sine Cnicaeo
team of the American league won
from the National league pennant win
ners today by a score Of 2 to L in the
first game Of the worlds champion
ship series. The game furnished a
fine sample of modern baseball, where
in the fine points Of the game are more
in evidence than the smuggling OF other
days, but there was an error OF puerile
character, which gave the American
team its winning margin. And that
error also is the eason that tonight
supporters If the winning team, erst-
while demanding odds in the betting
| are willing to take even none on the
series.
At $50 O'Clock this morning, the
vanguard of enthusiasts who had not
| secured reserved seats lined up in
front of the box Office Of the National
league park. By moor when the gates
were opened, several thousand men
were waiting, and within an hour and
a half most of the persons who ex-
pected to see the exhibition were in
their seats. Ticket spectators, warn
, ed by the early arrest Of eight of their
number, soon disappeared. The streets
were lined with hawkers selling flags,
horns, megaphones, photographs Of
the players and souvenirs without end.
Snow fell several times during the
of%o-~@~ o~1 yr0a rpa1yfno q oO06
showing when at 2:30 play was b. gun.
The regular grand stand, the boxes
in front of it and old so cent bleachers,
and the circus seats surrounding the
outfield were filled with a warmly
bundled crowd whose nerves were SO
much ON edge that they were a. tn
point where cheering acts as a. safety
valve. The crowd made a circle clear
around the field, save IN the far ends
of each of the old stands the price OF
which was raised at the beginning OF
the season from Is cents to so cents
AS these seats now sell for SLIGO, there
were few who cared to occupy them
One hundred policemen We're on hand
to preserve order and for the first time
in years they succeeded, aided partly
by the wire cables strung around tn
field, and partly by the fact that Onl.
u, 693 persons were present. 1t hat
been expected that over 10000 enthu
siasts would be there to cheer thei
favorites, but the GOODNESS Of tn
-, weather, the possibility Of rain AM
fear that seats could not be obtained
kept thousands away.
1t was the lot of Right Field2r Hahl
= Of the American league team to wal
: before 12, 900 pairs of eyes as the frs
= man at bat. He ingloriOusly misse'
2 three good ones, thus becoming tn
l first of the seven men who were t
1 performed likewise before Pitche
: : Brown. For four innings in machin
= made baseball of a perfect type, on1
one man-Schulte, of the Nationals
/ reached first base, Schultz stol
4 second and Capt. Chance, with grir
= determination written in the lines c
his jaw, changed bats and faced Pitch
err Altrock. Chance swung viciousl,
but his hot grounder was nipped b
Altrock with n hand and that chanc
Y to score was gone.
In the first half of the fifth, how
Il ever, Robe electrified the crowd b
sending a singing hit Town the thir
s base line and under the Temporal
benches in Sheckard's territory, reach
ing third base on the hit. DonOhU
e struck out attempting to bunt, bl
II Dougherty was more fortunate. Il
:, laid down an easy one half way b.
h tween pitcher and catcher. Brow
Is scooped UP the ball in beautiful fasl