Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-10


boys gaining setas beyond the out
field. while fully twice that number
were turned away once the stand was
completely occupied The reserved
sections were not thickly populated
until much later. At 100 there were
still many vacant seats, but as the
hour Of the game approached. the late
arrivals fiocked in rapidly and hur-
ried to their seats to the strains of the
band and cheers of those watching the
players in preliminary practice.
Royal Rioters Arrive
The finishing touches were added to
the picture when the Royal Rioters,
| Boston's organized roofing corps,
marched into the park headed by their
own band and waving red and blue
penants with the word Braves and
an Indian head boldly outlined on the
same. They even carried the idea fur
Their, for several of the leaders wore
full Indian regalia including feather
/
battle song "Tessie" was sung repeat
eddy and the 800 members of the corps
cheered each telling Boston hit or
play, and encouraged the team in the
crucial points during the second and
seventh innings when Rudolph walv-
cred for moment under the strain.
When the game ended the Royal
| Rooters paraded around the field
singing and snake dancing. They fl
nally wound up in front of the Bos-
ton bench. cheering the team and
players in real college football man
ner.
They had every reason to be elated,
for analysed from the angle of cold
figures the opening victory of the
worlds series of 1914 shows conclu-
sively that the National League rep
resentatives were superior, both col
lectively and individually, in every de-
partment of the game except fielding,
where two errors were charged against
the Braves while not a single mis-
play marred the work of the Athlet-
| les. The victors scored seven runs,
! II hits and two errors to the losers
lone run, five hits and no errors.
Pitchers Work
Rudolph famed eight Athletics and
walked three. Bender struck out
| three and gave two bases on balls,
while Wyckoff who relieved him, fdG-
nned two and walked one Brave in
three and two-thirds innings. Heavy
hitting honors also went to the Bos-
| ton batters, who totalled 16 bases with
IL hits to the Athletics seven on five
hits.
Far more valuable than the capture
of the first game is the confidence
that came to the youthful aggrega-
ton of players, gathered under the
Boston banner, when they saw the
Athletics totter and then collapse I'M
der the vicious bombardment from the
i Braves bats. Tonight the National
League combination actually feels the
certainty of ultimate victory which
the players so valiantly proclaimed be-
fore the series opened. Untried in a
worlds series, they have won deci-
sively in their initial conflict and in
winning established new record.
for with their bats they drove Chief
Bender, the Athletics surest money
pitcher to the bench, feat no other
club ever achieved against one of Con-
ME Mack's twirlers in a worlds Sc
ries.
Athletics Confident
Fully $4,000 spectators saw the
downfall of the Athletics and while
the defeat shortened the odds in the
betting, it has not shaken the faith
of the average local fan in the ability
of the Mackmen to come from behind
and conquer their younger and pre-
sumptuous rivals. The official at
tendance figures give the paid admis-
sions as 20,562 while close to 5000 adj
ditional spectators must have witness
ed the play from points of vantage
surrounding Shibe Park. The gate re-
ceipts amounted to s49.639, of which
the National Commission took
s496390; the players $26,S05 and the
clubs s17.s70.1O.
In the distribution of individual hon
ors the lien's share went TO Pitcher Ru-
dolph. for it was due in great part to his
mastery manipulation of the ball that
the Boston club emerged victorious in the
first game of the series. With the excep-
ton of two short periods during the con-
test he had absolute control of his deliv-
cry and hypnotizing effect on the Ath-
letic bat swingers He mixed speed.
curve and slow balls in a bewildering
fashion cutting the corners of the plate
and feeding his opponents his f1oater
when danger threatened. 1t was this
slow, deceptive delivery that proved the
Mackmens undoing, for they are noto-
riously weak on this service and Rudolph
was at his best in this respect today.
Bender Weak
Bender, who opened for the home club,
appeared unusually weak against the
Braves and once they had seen his offer
ings they took liberties with the Indian s
delivery that astonished the thousands
OF Athletic supporters who thronged the
stands. Sizzling singles. doubles and
triples rang off their bats. flashing over
or through the infield until at last Con-
ME Mack signalled the chief to give way
to Wyckoff, and thus broke the record
of never having removed pitcher from a
worlds series Coombs' withdrawal from
the box in the 1911 series against the
Giants was due to an injury and not to
any faltering in his pitching game After