The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-09
Crowd of 22,oOo Packs shibe Park When Game
 Starts ROLLINS GIVEN HIS | PRIZE AUTOMOBILE Work of Substitute Third Stacker Deal Looks
 Good

eh4be Park Phil. Oct. 9.@Before a crowd of .22o00 enthusiastic fans the A4hIe4fos and Braves met today in the first of the seven game series to de- cide the worlds championship. The park was filled to overfowing and hundreds were turned away. Because of the ll-feeling between the teams and the bitterness added by the dis rl1zte between Managers NGack and 6tal1fngs, the teams were anxious to get at each other.
 The Bostons prepared to send their { slow-ball box man, Dick Rudolph, to the pitching emplacement to shell the Athletics out df their home defenses- The American leaguers groomed the Indian; Bender. to pick off the Bos- ton invaders with his fast ball.
 lsS1oyv ball pitching is not relished by the Mack artillery of batters and suess it will be Rudolph for the fray day remarked Manager George Stal- lfngs. .Still, may switch to James or Tyler They are all good, you know.''
 The outfeld stand. seating 4,O00 per- { sons, was. thrown open at 10:5o o'clock It was filled within a short time and i the rates were closed. The first in line for seats in this unreserved section had waited over 40 hours for the gates to open. Several women stood in line ~4,,oe daybreak Hundreds viewed the contest from temporary stands erected on the roofs Of houses that overlook the bachae1d walls The day was warm and humid and one suited for fast baseball
 Betting favored the Athletics at ? to i 1 and to when the two teams came upon the field for batting and fielding practice. Preliminary field play was snappy and scintil1ating. The work of the Boston player Deal, who was sub- @tituGed at th iHd aaase for s1lait h. who broke his leg this week, was ksenly watched He displayed no fielding faults In warming up.
 s1Etuffyss 0dcInnis, who had been nursing a. bruised hand for more than ! q. week, was out with his team-1nAtes and handled both the bat and ball as though he had never been injured
 There was no lack of confidence on 1 ekfker side as to the ultimate result of [ 4Ee series
 --v7sa will win sure,'' declared Man i aeer StaHngs tsNGy feam Is good i nG Hhe Athletics any way you look at 1t and we're going to hand a lot of peo- ple . big saErprtse." i uNranaeer Mack was as retdcent aa rass,a1. All he would say was, Wen
 ha i'm there to win and hope we will | have good weather for the series" An automobi1e was presented tc i BHd4e Coalfns before the game in rec 1 cnEu1flcn Of his being the most valua- ] baa man to his cIub. John Coombs and Ira Thomas took the pitching stand and served the Athletic batters i 6mamg batting practice. The Attn i Iet4cs gave particular attention to l 9.uuf1na s.Home Run'' Baker tried | cu4 che rang of the right field war ! one of his blows clearing the enclos- SHe
 The Boston batters hit wickedly fn i pHacGace. Tom Hughes served up the balls and the fsRoya1 Rooters" 200 l strong from Boston sent up a loud 1 shout when Catcher Hank Gowdy | drove the ball into the left field
 gtand- The Boston Braves were the
 first out on the diamond for field l pxactice the1r work was sharp and ! clean cut Maranv1I1e was all oveI
 th6 nnfdfdeld section. scooping ground CTS to his r3EhI and left and making
 throws from every position The crowd app1a11ded him frequently The
 Athletics went out for field practice 1 at 1:46.
 The unnpfres came upon the field al .i1:65 They were promptly photo 1 graphed. Unpires Dineen and Hide brand conferred with the captains
 Bender and Schang were announced as the batteries for the Ath@etics-
 Rudolph and Gowdy. battery for 5os- ton.
 I It was announced that Gowdy would bat sixth in place of Deal who would bat eighth in place of Gowdy.