The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-15


No baseball team that has been mus.
tered in the American League to represent
New York ever made as dashing a start
as did the team Of Frank Chance at the
Polo Grounds yesterday. The American
League pennant season here began with q
fine victory for the New Works. The home
players, from top to bottom of the batting
order, waded into the puissant Athletics
from the drop Of the hat and scourged
those cocks Of the baseball walk by the
decisive score Of S to 2.
The gathering Of fans on hand to view
the grapple between the champion Ath-
letics and the array OF diamond talent
with which Chance hopes to do better
things than last year--and from the way
he started he will--was around the 10000
mark, not the biggest OF opening throngs
by any means, but still a big crowd and
one which in the days of less immense
stands would have been huge.
II did not take this crowd long to warm
up TO the New Yorks. The fans gathered
in roofing mood. and the game hadn't
been under way more than a few minutes
when the emphatic. aggressive. we're just
AZ good as they are spirit and acts Of the
New Yorks, with substantial results, had
the patrons joyfully enthusiastic. In one
inning the hard hitting New Works had
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the measure Of Bullet Joe Bush. conQueror
OF the Giants. That young star on the
baseball horizon between his wldness and
the vfgor with which he was birched.
lasted two innings. and then came a re-
cruit, Boardman, who too was wild ar
was pummelled heavily
The only things of ceremony attending
the opening were the music of the band
and the throwing out of the new hall nv
Lieut.. Gov Wagner That suited every
body Fri'ls at baseball openings are
passe. TIL. contest itself liz sufficient.
with merely enough preiirnina ries IN dis
tinguish the day of the arrival OF the
season from other DAYS Winter hadn't
ceased lingering and the weather could
have been more suitable There wa, a
min in the air and n haze over the sun
a day for woollens and oyercoats but a
pretty good day considering the yagaries
of spring.
Far better hitting by the New Yorks
and in that connection far better pitching.
was primarily the reason OF the unex-
pected ease with which the New Yorks
won their first game so handsomely and
were NO much superior TO the famous foe.
The Athletics didn't play much like the
along in mid season by the full tide of
the 100000 infeld, Benderized and other
power. Not BY good deal. There was
hitch in their gait, they faltered and
played shakily.
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much the reason Tor the heiplessness and
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