Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-10-18


quiesced. but Manager Chance OBJ
jected to the machines being placed
behind the plate. Then followed
more minutes of waiting and the
crowd becoming impatient was yell
ing play ball.
1t was finally agreed to permit the
photographers to place their cameras
against the grandstand behind first
and third base. One of the picture
men refused to go and "a policeman
was finally called and the game was
on.
When Bender slowly walked to the
pitchers box he was given d splendid
ovation His great record for the sea-
son was remembered by the crowd and
the Philadelphia rooters settled back
confidently believing that the CHIEF
would continue to show his great form
Sheckard, the first man up. fouled off
the first ball pitched and the crowd
cheered. The next was strike and
with two more heaves of the Indians
mighty arm the batter went out on
strikes. Schultz, the next man up,
sent d chill through the crowd by
shooting a clean single to left. Then,
on the first ball pitched, Schultz start
ed for second and was headed off by
Thomas beautiful throw. Hoffman
was an easy out. In the Athletics
half, Strunk and Lord We're easy outs,
but Collins got in a hit to left. Col
Inns, like Schultz, also went down on
the first ball pitched and Kings dead
ly arm had the ball to second ahead of
him by a good margin.
Chicago was easily disposed of in
the second inning, Chance and Stein
feldt going out on grounders and Zim-
norman on a foul fly. Baker. the first
ma up for Philadelphia brought the
hit into the left field crowd and was.
sent to third on Davis pretty sacrifice
Hitter out Murphy" cried the crowd
Us the hard hitting right fielder step
'ed to the plate, and Murphy respond
I'd with single down the left field,
ringing home Baker with the first
'un. The crowd cheered wildly as
}aker crossed the home base and d
erritic din set in as ShortStoD Barry
anne to the bat Overall appeared un-
teady and on d high pitch that King
,uSt managed to reach, Murphy stole
second. He advanced to third on Bar
rvs out Thomas drew four balls and
"Chlet Bender came up. The Indian.
who is a good hitting pitcher sent a
'lngle to center and Murphy scored
the second run. Strunk flied to Sheck-
ard.
The Cubs went out in /, ., 3 order il
heir half of the third, but the Ath-
ietics added another run to their total
IN their turn at bat. Lord opened with
a tWo-base hit to center, went to third
on Collins sacrifice and came home on
Bakers second hit, single to left.
Davis struck out,
In the next inning Schultz walked
and was out stealing second to tho
great delight of the crowd The other
two batters were easy outs
When the Philadelphians came TO
pat they found a new pitcher in the
box. Overall, in his three innings, had
been touched up for six hits for a total
81 eight bases. Mcintyre, the new
conner. showed excellent form. Muir
phy, the first man to face him, went
out on grounder to Tinker. Barry
also was an easy victim and Thomas
struck out. 1t was the first inniny
that the local men did not get d hit.
The fifth, sixth and seventh in
nings passed without anything SEN
sational occurring. Both Bender and
mcintyre We're working in great form
and not a man on either team saw
second base. But in the eighth the
Americans added another run to their
score. Strunk and Lord. the first two
men up, failed to reach first, but Col
Inns was walked. Collins, who is the
champion base steaer Of the Ameri-
can League seemed to worry Nc
1ntyre las he took a long lead off
first base. Twice the Chicago pitch
er shot the ball to Capt. Chance to
catch the fleet footed Collins and on
the second throw almost bad him
Then Mcintyre tried again and this
time he threw wild and the ball rolled
to the bIeachers. Collins was off in
an instant and did not stop until he
reached third. He scored moment
later on Bakers hard drive to the right
field wall for two bases. Davis hit to
Mcintyre and was thrown out at first
The ninth inning was the most ex-
citing of the entire game. AS Bend
er walked onto the field the crowd.
which had started to leave. called on
him to shut out the Nationals, but it
was doomed to disappointment. Tink-
er, the first man up hit to center field
for single and took second when
Strunk fumbled the ball. Killing
singled and Tinker scored. With one
run in and one man on base and no
one out, the crowd became anxious,
but the Indian did not waver. Beau
mont went in to bat for Mcintyre
and sent a weak grounder to Collins.
who tossed him out. Sheckard struck
out amid tremendous cheering.
Schultz drew his second base on balls
and then up came Holman, always
a dangerous man at bat. With two
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