New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-08
Boston Wins First Game
in Ninth Inning Rally,
in Spite of Matty.
NEW YORK ROMPS
AWAY WITH SECOND
Crowd Showers SnodgraSs with
Pop Bottles and the Mayor
Invades the Diamond.
Bv HAYWOOD BROUN.

BoSton. Sept. THE most wonder
f,,l mobilization Of fans in the history
OF baseball occurred at Fenway fatA
TODAY. The total attendance OF INC
morning ard afternoon games on TINS
Labor Day between the Braves anu
the Giants was 10000, and no reIlSi
came to this multitude, hanging an
INT frantic upon the fortunes of the
Braves. for the National League pen
nant race is still tie.
Boston snatched the morning game
from Christy Mathewson IN the nih'h
inning and won by score OF 10 d
INT in the afternoon Tesreau was so
strong and Tyler so weak that New
York took the honors at 10 to l. me
teams will meet tomorrow IN a maj
battle for the lead.
Braves are the players OF boston
and brave are its fans. None but stout
souled folks would have sought en-
trance 20 the ground to-day, for sue.
cess came only after a long ordeal OF
showing and pushing, Of swirling ad-
vances and retreats in huge crowd so
compact that no ono man could press
forward q single step without sending
q ripple through the entire throng.
Near the ticket windows the strife
was fercest, for here eager fans
fought their way of the ground ana
stepped forward, using the heads and
shoulders of the less agile as turn
nike. A dozen women tainted in the
fhrong, but eleven took their places In
line again as soon as they had been
revived.
Fans Storm the Gates.
An hour and half before game timc
in the afternoon it was necessary to
lock the gates, and these would have
been beaten down if the police Rad not
fought off the fans who wished to see
the game.
Boston. a -bed-early town, re-
cards the morning without prejudice
and $4,000 persons saw the hrst en-
counter. The grounds could hold 70
more. In the afternoon 10000 persons
came, but possibly they were thinner
There was a difference, too, IN the
temper Of the early and the late
crowds. A fountain of flying straw
hats marked the end of the first game,
but in the second contest the fans
needed pop bottles 70 express their
emotions. Fred Snodgrass was the tac-
get. Fred is always making errors IN
Fenway Park. To-day's was one OF
Judgment and of manners.
IN the sixth inning, when he went 20
bat, he was poor enough sportsman 10
direct a clownish gesture OF derlslon
at George Tyler. The crowd resented
the act Of the outiielder and booed
him. Perhaps Tyler resented II or PEI
haps the high gods who govern the ht-
ness Of things took hand; but, at any
rate, the next ball pitched stopped in
the ribs of Snodgrass.
Pop Bottles for Snodgrass.
Running almost over the pitchers
box on his way TO first the outnelder
loudly tainted the twirlcr. This DID
not serve TO soothe the spectators, and
when Snodgrass went out to centre
field he was loudly Kissed by the over
flow crowd, which stood only a few
feet behind him. Losing his temper
and his judgment, the player made an
insulting gesture toward the crowd.
Then the pop bottles came. It is
doubly charitable to presume that the
fans did not intend to injure SnOd-
grass, for any other theory would i'm
pugn both their manners and their
craftsmanship. None of the bottles
hit Snodgrass. Doyle and Fletcher
went out to centre field to pacify the
crowd, but il is written THE way OF
the peacemaker is hard" and Fletcher
had to drag Doyle out of fight with
a man on the fringe OF the crowd.
But who is this who steps upon the
field? Emslie waved the intruder back
until he explained that he was James
M. Curley, the Mayor of Boston.
Mr.. Curley will not run for Mayor
again until three years hence, so there
is no explaining his invasion Of the
diamond, but when he left the field the
game went on and the pop bottle bonn
bardment ceased. Bill Klein, the best
umpire in the National League, was
much at fault in not putting Snodgrass
~ he al 81 xHau 1of ali a
do so, for the manager of the Giants
was deleted by Emslie early in the first
game and was not allowed to return
for the second.
Snodgrass kept his place until the
ninth inning in spite of boOing and
kissing, but Bescher was sent to centre
just before the game ended, so that
Snodgrass might get away before the
crowd came on the field.
No pop bottles were needed TO fur
nish the thrills Of the morning There
was soul stirring stuff in the game
itself when the Braves came up on
Matty from behind. Whenever Mathew
son pitches in a pinch period of a
league race all the New York news
papers make ready captions such as
'The old master" "Matty did it again
and "The greatest reservist of them
ALL" But yesterday he failed just
when the game seemed IN ms grasp.
How Braves Won the First.
Coming into the ninth inning, the
score stood to in favor Of New
York, and Gowdy, first man up, was
thrown out by Fletcher after fine
stop. At this point Josh Devore was
sent in to bat for Dick Rudolph Josh
is hitting just .213 with the Boston
club, but he is one Of those game or
lucky players who always do some.
thing or other in pinch. He raped
p hot bounder at Merkle, and the ball
ieaped over the shoulder Of the first
baseman, giving the batter single.
Moran, another weak hitter who
found Mathewson easy all through the
game, hammered drive into the right
field crowd. The ground rules held it
10 a double Johnny Evers, who has
made so much trouble for the Giants
in the past. lined short drive to left