The Daily Missoulian., 1913-10-08

Inc llIHel1SHl turned from woodrow
ana the tariffs in the shade; every
body's watching where
BUT ONE the baseball games are
TOPIC played, they talk no
more of Underwood
and his famous tariff law; but every
body's chatting of Connie Mack and
John McGraw; there's nothing doing
anywhere, in banking house or store;
the crowd surrounds the bulletins to
get the latest score; no thought is
there of business from IL to 2 each
day; the country watches baseball.
when the champs are at their play;
nobody cares for banking laws or
thinks of legal-tender: but ears are
turned to catch the news of Mar
guard and of Bender; the worries of
the congressman concern us not at
all; We're watching for the box score
of the champs who're playing ball.
AS early as the office opened yester-
day morning, telephone inquiries be-
gan to come in about
GREAT the rld-series game
CROWD how much earlier
the telephone bell had
been ringing, nobody knows. At first
the queries dealt with weather con-
ditions in New York; then came
the questioning as to the batteries.
From 9 o'clock until midnight, the
inquirers asked about the score.
About 10 o'clock personal calls came
along with the telephone interroga-
tions. What time would the bulletins
be posted; where would be the best
place to stand to hear and see; what
was the belief of the office as to
the result of the first game-there
was no end to the questions. 1t was
an earnest lot of fans. The sky was
watched in Missoula no less anx-
iously than it was scanned in New
York. BY noon, a good crowd had
braved the drizzle and stood waiting
for the preliminary announcements
When it was megaphoned that the
teams were in the field and were
warming up, there was a cheer The
crowd wanted to see Matthewson and
Bender matched and when the early
announcement came to that effect,
there was some more applause. Like
wise there was disappointment ex-
pressed when Marquard was substi-
tuted for Christy. But it didn't last
long. Pretty soon the report of the
play and all else was forgotten. The
crowd increased steadily in numbers.
There were a good many local fans
who either got no lunch at all or
else got it very late.
New York scored the first run. When
the announcement came there was a
little applause, but it
FoOTERS didn't make much
FOR MACK noise. The adherents
of Connie Mack were
vastly in the preponderance in the
crowd at The Missoulian building.
And when the Athletics came back
with three runs on top of the Giants
single tally, there was cheer that
drove the clouds away for an hour
Bakers homerun added fresh enthusi-
asm, which was not seriously damp
ened, even when New York added
three to her total. When this inning
was at its worst, there We're cries OF
Put in Bush,' but either Mack
didn't hear the call Or he was saw
ing Bush for real crisis. Anyway,
Bender pitched on. The Missoula
fans forgot their uneasiness as the
Indian steadied and their confidence
grew stronger as three successive
Giant hurlers fell victims to the war
clubs of the Quaker aggregation. And
when the final flash came, announc-
ing the victory of the Mack crowd,
there was satisfaction unquestioned.
The local crowd was happy and went
back to work or to eat, planning to
be on hand for the news of the sec
ond game.