Evening journal., 1914-10-28
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Sport Editor, EVENING JOURNAL:
Let me know the exact scores by
innings for the four straight games
Boston Nationals defeated the Phila-
delphia Americans l..
Rack numbers Of THE EVENING
JOURNAL, containing all scores, are
ON sale at this Office.
Sport Editor, EVENING JOURNAL:
DO the other seven clubs in both
leagues share in the Worlds Series
receipts? A.
Yes.
Sport Editor, EVENING JOURNAL:
Please let me know how many
games were played between the
Giants and Braves in the last series
in New York. {.
Six.
Sport Editor, EVENING JOURNAL:
In a pool on the Worlds Series
where positions only were played,
Mann. running for Gowdy In the
twelfth inning of the third game,
brought in run. To what position
should this run be credited? G.
To Mann. the man who made IL or
to no one.
Sport Editor, EVENING JOURNAL;
Would you kindly give the score
o. the protested game between the
Giants and Cubs in 1908 when the
Giants went TO the bat in the ninth
inning? The game in question was
the one Merkle did not touch second.
L.
Chicago. 1; New York, 1.
Snort Editor, EVENING JOURNAL:
Kindly state in your valued column
who in your opinion is the more ef-
fective pitcher between Rudolph
James. Bush and Shawkey. t2)
What, in your opinion, did most TO
win for Boston the pennant, the eff
fective pitching OF that trio or the
heavy stick work of the rest Of the
teamg J. S.
N About as you write them. CD
Combination of Boston pitching and
hitting.
Sport Editor, EVENING JOURNAL;
Did Schmidt, the Braves first base
man. ever play with the New YORK
Yankees? A. NJ. S.
Ies. Schmidt went TO Yanks as
Ieft-hand pitcher when Stallings him
self managed the team. Staliings let
him go hack 20 minors, where he be-
/ came first baseman. Stalllngs
bought him for Boston from Balti'
more.
Sport Editor, EVENING JOURNAL:
II two men are out and the base
are full. the batter hits ball; tn
runner, running from first 10 seconS
gets hit by batted ball. Is the bate
credited with a hit? q.
Yes. Rule Asa fair hit Is a L
gally batted ball that settles on "a
, ground" etc, cor that, while on {
over fair ground, touches the persO
Of the umpire or a player
Sport Editor, EVENING JOURNAL:
Please give the seating capacity {
both Shibe Park and Fenway Park.
NJ. MULCAHY.
Shibe Park seats about 2O,5Ol
Fcnway Park about $4,000.
Sport Editor. EVENING JOURNAL:
In first inning batter drove bal
down third base line and made tw
, bases on hit Umpire called hit fot
and during argument umpire admit
ted he was not sure where foul lin
Il was, but team in field insisted this
, he was not permitted to change HI
decision. and his ruling that hit wa
! foul was made to stand. Later
= the game, team whose player ha
, hit ball declared foul In first innln
, was in the field and a play was mad
. on runner going from third to hon
r on an infleld hit Catcher receive
/ ball in time to tag runner and un
pire declared runner out as he wt
y sliding into plate. In sliding, how
: ever, catcher dropped the bal
. whereupon umpire reversed his d.
. cision and declared runner safe. A
I gument followed in which it wa
= claimed by team in field that umpii
? was not permitted to change his d
I cision, basing claim on occurrence
first inning. However. team at b
- claimed cases were entirely differer
[ Who was right and why? w.
e The umpire was right I'm refusiI
; 10 reverse himself on first decisiO
y as that was matter Of pure ludgmeT
= Under the rules, his decision in sue
n cases cannot he questioned. In q
second instance. he was right In r
n Versing himself because he had mat
/ the decision before the play was cor
n plcted.
o Sport Editor EVENING JOURNALS:
2 1. What was the fastest mile ev
; trotted on the Wawaset track.
If 2. What was the fastest mile ev
paced on the Wawaset track and VIII
Is year?
J. I. DIR. Chase, 2.12.
= 2. Ethan Roberts, 200 81, In 19l
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