Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-10-22
WORLDS BASEBALL
SERIES START TODAY
Opening Game Between the Athletics
and Chicago at Philadelphia
overall Versus Bender.

event of the American diamonds, Will
start here today when the champion
ship teams of the two major leagues
met in the opening game for the
worlds championship.
The contesting teams will be the
Philadelphia, of The American League,
commonly known as the Athletics, and
Chicago, of the National League, which
is usually referred TO as the Cubs.
They are not only the champions or
their respective organizations, but al
80 generally considered as the finest
developed teams that the National
League and the American League
have ever produced.
The Cubs will be made up OF prac-
ticaIiy the same men that won for
Chicago two worlds championships,
from Detroit in 1907 and 1908. while,
with the exception of five players,
Pitchers Bender and Plank, Fist Base
man Davis and Outfielders Murphy
and Hartzel, Philadelphia will be COM
posed of young men who have joined
the team since the locals lost in a
worlds series competition against the
New York Nationals in 1905.
Each team is managed by veter-
an campaigner, Chicago by Frank
Chance, who will play first base, and
Philadelphia by Connie Mack, who
Will direct his forces from the bench.
Injuries to players this month have
oF anrlyy fnpRpa : &
as to the series. Chicago lost Evers,
who had his leg broken in game
at Cincinnati on October l. Evers IS
generally regarded as one of the very
brainiest players on the diamond. His
place on second base will be filled
by Zimmerman, who is nearly as good
a fielder and a better batsman. Phi'a-
delphia suffered a greater loss last
week. when centerfelder Oldring. who
is rated as their second best all-round
player, injured his knee so badly that
he can not pay against Chicago.
Manager Mack has four players
from whom to select for two outfield-
ers, for Murphy is considered fixture
in right field. These men are Hartzel,
Lord and Strunk, who played in the
outfield during the championship
games, an McInnis, an infielder, who
is an excellent batssnan. None OF
these men, however. has the same All
round ability as Oldring.
The followers of baseball through
out the country look for the greatest
worlds series ever played.
The majority of the critics and the
public generally consider that he two
teams are so evenly matched that il
is almost impossible to pick he win
ner. AS to pitchers and catchers il
is conceded that Chicago has in Kins
ard Archer a pair of catchers superior
TO Philadelphia's backstops, and thai
the Athletics pitching staff is super
ior to that of the Cubs.
Tremendous interest has beer
shown in the series all over the coun
try Nearly one hundred of the larg
est newspapers in the country Will bt
represented by its baseball experts
SO great was the demand for seati
National Commissions representative
John A. Heydler, announced the plan o
d stribution practically every seat wa!
SO d. Philadelphians were given thu
preference and special trains schedul
ed. to run here from Chicago, Pitts
burg, Boston, Wilkesbarre and Yariou
points throughout his state had to b.
Cancelled because of he Inability t.
secure tickes.
The grand sand al Sh be park will
seat about 800 persons and he tick
cts to this struc ure were sold for s
and SO, netting about 500 600 for eacl
game. 1t is expected that more thai
10000 persons Will be able to see tht
games each Gay from the bleacher
ard from places back of the ropes Il
the outiield so that if the anticipate,
crowds turns cut each game is expect
ed to net ABOUT $4,000 The Nationa
Commission viii receive a ten pc
cent commi son from each game. Tn
players viii figure in the receipts 0
the first four games, all the money
less the National Commissions pei
centage will be div.aed among the tw
clubs. The players money will be d
yided as follows: Sixty per cent L
the winning team and forty pc, cen
to the losing team.
The National Commiss on has dc
clared twenty-three members Of eacl
team eligible to play in the series an
Umpires Sheridan and Connolly hav
been appointed to represent the Amer
lean League and Umpires Rigler an
O'Day the National League.
The Chicago team, accompanied b
a number of reporters and rooters al
rived here yesterday afternoon.
The program for today calls for
meeting of the National Commissio
In the morning, at which the final d.
tails for the series will be arranged
the opening of the gates at II a. m
and the starting of play at p m.
The schedule provides for the frs