Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-09
$4,000 CROWD INTO
SH|BE PARK To VIEW
OPENING GAME FOR
1874 CHAMPIONSHIP
Hundreds of Persons Were Turned
Away, Unable to Gain Admis-
sion to Crowded Stands
FENDER AND RUDOLPH
ARE SLATED FOR BOX
Grounds Are in Good Shape and
Weather Conditions Are Excel
lent For Snappy Game
By Associated Press

Shibe Park, Philadelphia. Oct g.
The Boston Braves, pennant winners
of the National League and the Phil
adelphia Athletics, champions of the
American League, clashed to-day in
the first battle for the worlds base
ball championship of 1914. Some 22,-
600 persons saw the opening engage
ment of the seven-game series. Hun
dreds were turned away at the gates
unable to obtain admission to the
crowded stands
The Bostons prepared to send their
slow ball boxman, Dick Rudolph, to
the pitching emplacement to shell the
Athletics out of their home defenses.
The American Leaguers groomed the
Indian Bender to pitch off the Boston
invaders with his fast ball.
Slow ball pitching is not relished
by the Mack artillery of batters and
! guess il will be Rudolph for the
fray to-day" remarked Manager
George Stallings. Still l may switch
to James or Tyler. They are all good
you know"
The vast reaches of Shibe Park
were choked to capacity long before
regular seat prices were offered for
tickets and the demand at these fig
ures exceeded the supply
Stand Soon Crowded
The outfield stand, seating 1000 per-
sons, was thrown open at 1850
o'clock. II was filled within a short
time and the gates were closed. The
first in lines for seats in this unre-
served section had waited over forty
hours for the gates to open. Several
women stood in line since daybreak.
SThe crowd holding reserved tickets in
khc covered and double -decked stand
came to the park later. Hundreds
~
stands erected on the roofs of houses
that overlook the back field walls.
The day was warm and humid and
one suited for fast baseball. An in
sistent sun burned through the men
acins clouds and there was only a
southwest The infield and outer gar
dens were bone dry and hard
Betting favored the Athletics at .
to l and Q to when the two teams
came upon the field for batting and
field practice. Preliminary field play
was snappy and scintillating. The
work of the Boston player Deal. who
substituted at third base for Smith.
who broke his leg this week. was
keenly watched. He displayed no
fielding faults in warming up.
The umpires came upon the field at
1.55 and they were promptly photo
graphed tmpires Dineen and Hide
brand conferred with Cantain Thomas.
of the Athletics. and Captain Evers.
of Boston, regarding ground rules.
The batteries announced for the
game were: Bender and Schang for
the Athletics, Rudolph and Gowdy for
Boston.
II was announced that Gowdy would
bat sixth in place of Deal. who would
bat eighth in place of Gowdy
The batting order as sent earlier
in the day is correct. with the eXcep-
tion Of the changes Just sent. Umpire
Dineen gave decisions behind the plate
and Umpire KLEIN on the bases; I'm
pire Byron on left field and Hide
brand in right field.
First Inning
First Half-Bender's first over was
an out curve for a strike. Moran went
out on high foul to McInnis. Evers
sent up a high fly to Collins and
walked back to the bench. Connolly
took strike and then fouled of. Con-
nelly famed, missing a slow one
around the next. No runs. no hits. no
errors.
Second Half-Rudolph put over a
strike on Murphy. Murphy sent a
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