Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-10

Philadelphia, Oct e.-Playing with the same sensational speed that mark
 ed their rush from last place to the
 position of pennant winners in the
 National league, the Boston Braves
 crushed the Philadelphia Americans
 series by a score of seven runs to one. Although the newly constructed base
 ball machine of Miracle Man. Stall
 lings wabbled once or twice, 1t never
 left the track and under the guiding
 hand of Pitcher Rudolph clashed
 through Connie Mack's champion Ath-
 letics. scattering dismay and disap-
 pointment in it's trail
 The victory over the two to one
 American league favorites was well
 won, no lucky breaks or baseball
 1ukes figuring in the defeat of the
 heavy and timely hitting the Braves
 piled up an offensive lead which cou-
 pied with Rudolph's sterling box work and the general defense of his team
 mates, left no opening through which
 the Philadelphia clubs attack could
 Braves Scored First.
 The Braves were first to score, put ting two runs across in the second inning. Whitted walked and scored
 on Gowdy's double who, in turn, came home on Maranville's drive to left cen- ter. The Athletics came back with a
 run in their half of the same inning,
 when McInnis was passed and scored on Strunk's single which Moran let
 slip through his fingers for three bases.
 In the fifth Gowdy tripled to center and came home on Maranville's short hit over McInnis' head. Boston clinch- ed the game in the next inning SCOT ing three runs on Evers' single. Con- nolly's pass Whitted's triple to right and Schmidt's single, which was too hot for Barry to hold. Just to show that they could hit other pitchers be- sides Bender, the Braves added an- other off Wyckoff in the eighth when Schmidt singled, went to third on Gowdy's one base slash and stole home l as Maranville famed.
 Every Seat Taken.
 Weather conditions were ideal for 1 the play, the diamond and outfield be- | ing dry and fast, while a warm sun shone from a f1eecy sky and made wraps unnecessary. Every seat in l Shibe park was filled and several thousand spectators witnessed the contest from stands erected on house. tops which overlooked the park. The l bleacher stands filled almost immedi- ately after the opening of the gates | shortly. before II o'clock. about 4,00O
 men and boys gaining seats beyond the outfield, while fully twice that num- Der were turned away once the stand was completely occupied. The reserved sections were not thickly populated | until much later. At 1.30 there were still many vacant seats, but as the hour of the game approached, the late arrivals focked in rapidly and hurried to their seats to the strains of the band and cheers of those watching the players in preliminary practice.
 Boston Rooters Do the Snake Dance. The finishing touches were added to the picture when the Royal Hooters Boston's organized roofing corps,
 marched into the park headed by their own band and waving red and blue an Indian head boldly outlined on the same. They even carried the idea. fur | ther for several of the leaders wore i full Indian regalia, including feathered head dress and tomahawks. The bat 1 tie song "Tessie" was sung repeatedly and the three hundred members oi l the corps cheered each telling Boston l hit or play, and encouraged the team in the crucial periods during the sec ond and seventh innings when Ru- dolph wavered for a moment under | the strain. When the game ended the
 Royal Rooters paraded around the field l singing and snake dancing. They fin ally wound up in front of the Boston bench. cheering the team and players 1 in real college football manner.
 They had every reason to be elated
 for, analysed from the angle of cold | figures, the opening victory of the
 worlds series of 1914 shows conclu- sively that the National league rep | resentatives were superior both col l lectively and individually, in every de- partment of the game except fielding where two errors were charged against the Braves while not a single misplay marred the work of the Athletics. The vtctors scored seven runs, eleven hits and two errors, to the losers one run | five hits and no errors. Rudolph fan ned eight Athletics and walked three Bender struck out three and gave tive bases on balls, while Wyckoff, who releived him, famed two and walked | one Brave in three and two-thirds innings. Heavy hitting honors also went to the Boston batters, who to- 1 tailed sixteen bases with eleven hits | to the Athletics seven on five hits.
 Bender Driven Off the Mound.
 l Far more valuable than the capture of the first game is the confidence tha1 | came to the youthful aggregation o, l players, gathered under the Bostor banner, when they saw the Athletics totter and then collapse under the vicious bombardment from the Braves bats Tonight the National league combination actually feels the cer players so valiantly proclaimed befor, 1 the series opened. Untried in a world. series, they have won decisively il their initial conflict and in winning established a new record for witl their bats they drove Chief Bender, tn
 Athletics surest money pitcher. to tn