Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-09
Sta|Iings Threatened Connie Mack
Championship Series Between Athletics and Braves Com mence Today-Manager Stallnss Has Accused Connie Mack of Unsporsmanshi and Threatened to Punch His Nose-Rudolph and Bender Will Probably Oppose Each Other.

Philadelphia. Oct. s-Uniess all signs Tail, the worlds series of 1914 will be modelled along the lines of the great European war. The spirit of broth erly love, for which the Quaker Is noted, appears to have been crowded into the background. The struggle for the premier baseball honors of the universe opened with a campaign of threats that read like bulletins from the foreign war zone.
 Manager George Stallinss, of the Boston Nationals, threatened to punch Connie Mack, of the worlds champion Athletics. on the nose; Director Porter: threatens to investigate ticket graft scandal; the national commission re- ported an alleged shortage of paste, boards and, to cap the climax, the weather man threatens rain for to- morrow, the day upon which the American and National League pen- nant winners are scheduled to open the series at Shibe Park in this city.
 Marked Interest in Series.
 Close followers of professional base ball are astounded by the keen inter- est and enthusiasm which has develop ed over the games between the Braves and Athletics. Local attendance as Shtbe Park during the American Lea, que season was not up to the usual standard this season but the rush to secure seats for the closing contests surpasses all previous records. Local fandom has been augmented by special delegations from Boston. New York, Baltimore and Washington and both hotel proprietors and baseball mag mates are at their wits ends trying to accommodate the gathering clans. To- night baseball magnates, players, writers. ticket speculators and fans are surging and seething about the city -r-s fr@ uninitiated stranger to believe it was the hour before the enemy opened bOmbardrnent.
 staIIinss Threatened Mack. F Manager Stallings of the Boston Ma tionals has accused Connie Mack or the Philadelphia Americans of un- sportsmanlike conduct and curing telephone conversation this afternoon threatened to punch the worlds cham . pions' leader on the nose at the first opportunity. The trouble arose over Stallings' request for the use of Shibe Park for practice. He made the request to Mack in person and the Athietics manager assured him he was welcome to use the park at any hour except be- tween and 8. o'clock this afternoon. when the local club was scheduled to practice According to Connie Mack, the Boston manager was safisfed put when Mack asked Stailings today 1T he had accused the Philadelphia club of refusing to permit the National Lea gue champions to use the park the arr Rument soon became both bites and personal and the hard feTing spread rapidly among the players. nagnates and partisans of the two leagues. In discussinR the affair, Mack said:
 T cannot understand how the trou- ble arose. Stalhngs asked me for the use of the park today during conversation on Wednesday. I told him Boston could have 1t at any hour event hetween 3 and 8 o'clock when I had ordered the Athletics to report | for a final workout
 "de made no protest and early this