The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-14
(NatiOnal News Association)


NEW YORK, Oct. 14.-Promptly at
2 o'clock this afternoon the Philadel-
phia American league champions and
the New York National league cham
pions clashed on the Polo grounds,
this city, in the first game of the
worlds championship series. Ma
thewson OF New York. faced Chief
Bender of Philadelphia in the pitcher s
box and the duel of Drawn and wits
was on.
All records for attend" nee was shat
tered. The Polo grounds has a seat
ing capacity of $4,000. according to
Secretary Gray Of the New York club.
and the fans filled every inch of avail
able space.
Roasting high on Coogan's bluff, a
rocky promontory rising on the west
side Of the grounds were hundreds of
men and boys, their number growing
into thousands hours before noon.
Every telegraph pole, every tree top,
every house top held it's burden Of hui
manity.
The big stadium made brave show
today in it's special dress for the big
series. Decorators were busy for sew
eral days putting on final touches of
color to the friezes base reliefs and pa
triotic shields. Score by innings:
FIRST INNING.
Philadelphia-Lord struck out. Old
ring struck out Collins hit long fly
to left, which Devore caught. going
backwards. Three outs. No runs. No
hits. No errors.
New York-Devore hit an easy boun-
der to Bender and was out at first.
Doyle hit hard past second and Collins
blocked the ball, but could not recov-
er it in time to throw him out at
first. Snodgrass famed, swinging at
three fast balls. On pitch that hit
the ground Doyle stole second. Muir
ray was called out on strikes. No
runs. One hit. No errors.
SECOND INNING.
Philadelphia-Baker hit the first
ball pitched for a clean single to
right. Murphy sacrificed perfectly,
Mathewson to Merkle. On a passed
ball Baker reached third. sliding un-
der Herzog. Davis put hard single
to left. scoring Baker Barry was out
on high bounder to Mathewson. but
it advanced Davis to second. Thomas
rolled one to Herzog, who tossed him
out at first. One run. Two hits. No
errors.
New York-Collins tossed out Mer-
kle at first on an easy bounder. Bar
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threw him out. Fletcher was called
out on strikes. No runs. No hits No
errors.
THIRD INNING.
Philadelphia--Ben bunted to Ma
thewson and was out at first Murray
made a nice catch Of Lords fly near
the right field stand. Oldring doubled
over third. beating the ball to second
by a nice slide. Collins drew a pass.
It was half intentional. Baker struck
out. swinging at two fade-aways and a
fast one. No runs. One hit No er-
rors.
New York-Myers hit a high fly to
Oldring. Mathewson was out on strik-
es, Bender serving them fast. Devore
walked. Doyle hit tall fly to Lord
No runs. No hits. No errors.
FOURTH INNING.
Philadelphia-Murph hit a high
foul which Myers caught near the
stand. Davis rolled an easy one to
Fletcher and was tossed out. Fletch.
er caught Barry's high fly. No runs.
No hits. No errors.
New York-Snodgrass walked, the
fourth ball hit him on the arm. Muir
ray hit to Collins and was tossed out,
Snodgrass taking second. Merkle
struck out. Collins fumbled Herzog's s
bounder and recovered it 50 slowly
that SnodRrass came in from second.