Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-10-20
ATHLETICS WON
OPENING GAME
Tho indian Pitcher Bender the
Zero.
KEPT CHICAGO MEN GUESSING
The Score Was 4 to 1--Game Was
Played Before Greatest Crowd
Ever Saw Game In PhiIa-
delphia.


won the opening game of the worlds
series from the Chicago Cubs by Q
score of four to one.
A real Indian put real Indian sign
on the Cubs He was Big Chief Bender
of the Chippewas.
What are you going to do with .
pitcher who puts three and two on the
batter and then slips up a curve ball
four feet wide for the deciding strike?
That was what Bender was doing. He
was as clipper as an English sparrow
and as calm and collected as the house
man in a poker game.
His fast ball was breaking fine like
q fash, he had a curve which slipped
over either corner of the plate and
control that was simply uncanny.
Following is the score Of the game
by innings:
1234567S Or. H. e.
Philadelphia 20 00001 -
Chicago. 80 0 5000 IL
In the first inning Schultz singled
and then for seven successive innings
not Cub could hit the ball safely. In
the ninth, Tinker and King singled iD
succession, which, with an error BY
Strunk, who fumbled Tinker's drive
allowed the latter to score the only
run for the visitors.
Big JEFF Overall started in pitching
for the Cubs, but proved easy meat
from the first. After getting away
with the first inning he was hit hard.
A double by Lord in the third, and
Bakers single brought in run. This
marked the retirement Of the huge
California. Mcintyre succeeded him,
at the beginning of the last half OF the
fourth. Had Mcintyre gone in at the
outset a different story might have
been told, for he allowed but one hit
and that in the eighth inning. He
gave fatal base on balls In this In
ming, however, to Collins, which, with
a wild throw to first to catch Collins
mapping, and double by Baker,
brought in the Athletics fourth run.
The game was played before an en-
thusiastlc crowd of 29,S91 bugs which
packed Shibe park.
Shibe park opened early In me day.
As nearly all the reserved seats have
found their way into the hands Of the
SPECTATORS there was but one hope
for the regular customers and that
was to get into line early and take a
chance ON a bleacher seat. The ticket
window was mobbed, when the shutter
went up. Men fought each other for q
chance to get to 1t. Hats we're smash
ed, women were hustled about in spite
OF all the police could do ard there
were several hundred of them on the
ground. All this time the ticket
spectators hung on the flank of the
crowd They had fist fulls of tickets
and all they wanted was $40 to $25 a
brace, according to the location. Those
not handy with the rough and tumble
fighting gave up in disgust, and pat.
ronized the petty sharks.
The bleachers were packed with
people before the first grandstanders
arrived and those who were SO I'M
fortunate as to lose their places in the
line bought standing room in the out
field.
BY noon there was not seat to be
had In either the right or left field
bleachers and the ropes in the out
field were lined with hundreds Of first
corners.
Eight hundred policemen handled
the crowd, a solid wall Of the blue
coats lined up in front Of the bleach
ers and along the ropes.
Attendance 26,S91. Receipts, s37.-
4245O. National commissions share,
SS,74245. Players share. S20,2O9.2S.
Each clubs share, $6.7s6.41.