The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-10
AMERICANS WIN
OPENING GAME
Series for Baseball Worlds
Championship Begin in
Chicago.
BIG CROWD WITNESSES
THE GREAT CONTEST
National Leaguers Put Up Good
Stiff Fight, but to No
Avail.

thlCaOO, OCts S--lne SnlcdS'
team of the American League wor
from the National League pennant win
ners today by a score of 2 to l IL
the first game of tho world s champion
ship series. The game furnished &
sample of modern baseball, wherein
the fine points of the game are more
in evidence than the smuggling of 9th
er days, but it was an error of puerile
character which gave the American
League team it's winning margin. And
that error also is the reason that to-
nights supporters in the winning
team, erstwhile demanding odds in bet
ting, are willing to take even money
on the series.
AT 3 clock this morning the van
guard Of enthusiasts who had not sc"
cured reserved seats lined up in front
of the box Office of the National
League park. BY noon, when the
gates were opened, several thousand
men were waiting, and within an hour
and half most of the persons who
expected to see the exhibition were in
their seats. Ticket speculators, warned
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. Snow fell sew"
eral times during the afternoon and
was making good showing when at
2:30 o'clock play was begun.
Smaller Crowd Than Expected.
The regular grandstand, the boxes
in front of it and other fifty-cent
bleachers and the circus seats sur
q warmly bundled up crowd whose
nerves were so much on edge that they
were at the point where cheering acts
as q safety valve. The crowd made a
circle clear around the field. One
hundred policemen were on hand to
preserve order, and for the first time
in years they succeeded, aided partly
by wire cables strung around the field
and partly by the fact that only 1858
persons were present. 1t had been
expected that over 10000 enthusiasts
would be there to cheer their favor
ties, but the coldness of the weather,
the possibility Of rain and fear that
seats could not be obtained kept thous-
ands away.
It was the lot of Right fielder Hahn
Of the American league team to walk
before 1900 pairs Of eyes as the first
man at bat. He ingloriousy missed
three good ones, thus becoming the
first of the seven men who were TO per,
form likewise before Pitcher Brown
For four innings it was machine made
baseball of a perfect type, only one
man-Schulte of the National-reacb-
ing first base. Schultz stole second,
and Captain Chance, with grim deter
mlnation written i'll the lines of his
face, changed bats and faced Pitcher
Altrock. Chance swung vlciously, but
his hot grounder was nipped by Al
trock with one hand and that chance
to score was gone.
Rohe Makes Good Drive
In the first half of the fifth. however.
Robe electrified the crowd by sending
a stinging hit down the third base
line, and under the temporary benches
in Sheckard g territory, reaching
third base on the hit .Donahue struck
out attempting to bunt. Dougherty
an easy one half way between pitcher
and catcher. Brown scooped up the
ball in beautiful fashion and tossed
1T to King. Robe was tearing wildly
for the plate, and lie got there, for
Kings frost bitten fingers refused to
close around the ball.
In their half, the Nationals went
out one, two, three. The next inning,
the Americans scored again. Altrock
TO center, but Hoffman IS perfect throw
caught Altroek at the plate by yards,
Jones reaching second on the play He
reached third when King fumbled the
ball for moment, and crossed the
plate with the second run of the game
when Isbell singled to left
The, Nationals also scored in this in
ming. King was given q pass and went
to second on Brown s single over third
base. Both advanced on Hoffman s
sacrifice and Killing scored a moment
later on a wild pitch. Sbeckard, how
ever, was out on fly ball, and Schultz
perished, Robe to Donahue, the latter
falling fat on his back but holding
the throw in his gloved hand as he
fell.
Carried About by Crowd.
Thereafter, neither pitcher was in a
critical position, and after one hour
and forty-fve minutes play, Jones
caught -Steinfeldt's final ball and the
crowd flowed into the field The pent-
up enthusiasm of the American league
adherents broke out in wild cheering
and footing of horns, while the sup
porters of the defeated team for the
most part. filed solemnly out of the
grounds. One crowd captured Robe
and carried him out on their shoulders,
while another contingent paid like
homage TO Altrock.
Elevated and surface ears were
crowded with vociferating thousands
who yelled themselves hoarse and over
flowed into the downtown cafes and
hotels and continued the celebration.
The hotels report large number Of
out-of-town delegations here for the
game, They came from every section
of the country, and even foreigners
passing through, catching the infection