The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-10
SWEPT
OFF THEIR FEET BY
BOSTON BRAVES
Seem Dazed by Whirlwind
Attack and Wonder
full Defense.
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the Trojan tackled tt--and foosled.
The Official scorers denied Baker a
hit, and gave Evers an error.
Moran's error In the second inning
cheated Rudolph out Of shut-out
victory. McInnis was on first, through
the medium of n base on balls, when
Strunk drove single to right. Moran
came in on the drive. hoping to pick
It up in time to make a play for Me-
Innis at second: but. In his haste, he
let the ball slip through his legs. and
McInnis went all the way homo for
the Athletics sole tally. while Strunk
raced on to third
The game abounded in double plays.
the Braves executing one, the Athletics
all was that In which Schmidt and Deal
figured. 1t happened In the first inning.
Murphy singled, Oldring sacrificed him
to second and Collins walked. With
Baker up. It looked bad for the Braves.
Rudolph threw a floater to the smuggling
Athletic. and lie sent up a foul toward
the grand stand. Schmidt raced over
for distance of sixty feet caughtthe
ball while leaning far over, and then
whirled and threw to Deal as Murphy
made dash for third on the catch.
The BAH came low, but Deal made a
great stop, and tagged Murphy just
ms he hurled himself toward the bag.
Whitfield and Gowdy were the bat
tinS demons OF the game anu Whittcu,
by driving two runs across the plate
with his terrific three-base hit In the
sixth. lived up to the predictions Of
Manager Stallings. who said that his
centrefielder would be the batting star
of the series right frorp the outset.
Gowdy, the lanky catcher, smashed out
q double, a triple and a single. driv-
Ing home one run and scoring two
himself.
Barry, the Athletic shortstop. made
one of the greatest catches ever seen
on a battle field. Moran lifted n foul
over the third base foul line, into short
left field. Barry, running at top speed.
got under the ball just as it was about
TO fall TO the ground. II was n hair
raising catch.
SPECTACULAR FIELDING
by OTHER PLAYERS
= Deal and Meanwhile shared honors
with Barry in the spectacular fielding
line. Deal made n ne-handed grab Of
McInnis's bounder in the ninth. and,
while still i'll the air. threw to Schmidt,
beating McInnts to the bag.
Maranville ran out In left field In the
nth and took Barry's fly over his
shoulder--a great piece of work.
Immediately after the game. the Bos-
ton rooters paradcd around the field
with Fitzgerald and John X. Tener.
president of the National League. at
their head, dancing like schoolboys.
and yelling themselves into hoarseness.
The band of. the Boston Royal Root
ere" which had pounded out harmony
throughout the game, fractured the
twilight shadows during the parade
with strains of "Tessic" and Sweet
Adeline." t-
The official paid attendance was 90
$50, but II is safe to say that more
than $4,000 fans saw the game. The
other 14,43S were congregatcd on the
roof tops OF the houses surrounding the
ball park Enterprls.nS residents built
grand stands on top OF their homes. and
charged from 30 cents up to 81 for the
privilege of witnessing the game from
n distance OF about 1000 feet from
the home plate.
The day wac ideal for, baseball
Early in the morning II looked as II
rain surely would fall. Heavy clouds
hung overhead. The sun came out only
OF long Intervals. But at noon IA
change came In the weather. The
to stay, and the temperature rose to
around as. high temperature for this
time OF the year
Plank will pitch for the Athletics to-
morrow. but staiiings tonight was up
decided as TO his pitching selection.
II IL is dark day, he probably will
use James. the speed king. .-Oenerwise
Tyler, the southpaw. will work, making
Il duel between left handlers.
AF'rER-BATsFLE STATEMENTS
ny STALLINGS AND MACK
BY George Stallings, manager Of the
Braves: Il knew my boys would come
through. What they did to-day 1usti-
fies my confidence IN them. And what
they did to-day. they'll do again. Wen
win the series sure. And the series
won't go the limit either, Well finish
them before It's necessary to play
seven games. I've always thought l
had one of the best young teams ever
put together. What they did to-day
seems to bear me out"
BY Connie Mack. manager Of the
Athletics: We'll. this was, Boston's day
To- morrow's another day; and there
are few more games after that. OF
course, I'm not predicting that we're
going to win out ultimately. Predict
confidence in tho world in my boys.
You can't always win. you know And
this was the time for us TO lose. But
losing hasn't disheartened or dis
couraEed us. Watch us Tomorrow"
PLAYERS ON FIELD
BEFORE ONE O'CLOCK
All OF the players OF both teams were
on the field before o'clock. with xthe
exception of Chief Bender. who did hot
appear until fifteen minutes before the
game started. After the usual pro-
lonGed conference of the umpires and
Captains Evers and Thomas, play was
called at 2:o5 p. NJ.
Moran, OF Boston, the first man UP,
let Renders opening pitch go by for a
strike. The second pitch was a foul
strike, the third a ball, the fourth a
foul, and then lie sent up a high foul
hy to McInnis. and the Athletic rooters
cheered. The crowd tcheered Captain
Evers as he stepped to the plate and hit
a high fly to Collins. Connolly. the
heavy hitting outfi elder. was next UP.
he took strike. and after fouling OF
another. missed Benders offering and
The side was out.
Eddie Murphy. for the Athletics, hit
the second ball pitched by Rudolph, to
centreheid. Oldring laid down q sacri-
fee In front Of the plate, aid Gowdy
made high throw to first which
schmidt got after an effort. Murphy
taking second. Eddie Collins waited
and got base on balls. Then UP
came Home Run" Baker. The crowd
cheered the slugger and then groaned
when he sent a. high foul TO Schmidt.
Murphy on the out tried for third, but