The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-07
|STALLLNGS' THIRD BASEMAN
BREAKS LEG SLIDING TO BASE
Boston Braves Chances Of Winning Worlds Championship
Dealt Severe Blow When Red Smith Sustains Injury
That Will Prevent Him From Participating In Came
With Philadelphia.

New York, Oct 6-J. Carlisle fHeGA
Smith, star third baseman OF the cham1
pion Boston Nationals. Is In st. MAY
hospital Brooklyn, suffering from
badly fractured and dislocated rfgnY
leg. He sustained his injury in the
ninth inning of the first game OF to%
days dou header at Ebss field Att
tending physicians are hopeful tbs
Smiths career has not been ruined
But they are stin doubtful, The faca
that he was rushed speedily by aut0
to the hospital before swelling sertouS1l
Nv handicapped the lapors of the sur
geons is in his favor.
DR. Herbert w. Casey has Smith
case. He reported an interior dislocA4
ton OF the ankle joint of the rtEhN
leg. and a fracture of the fibula three4
inches above the Joint There is aisn4
fracture of the tibia near the ex4
, ternal malicious, and rupture of tn
external and internal lateral ligament1
of the ankle joint. DIR. Casey declared
that Smith will indeed be fortunateI
IL he RECEIVERS fun use of the badnN
damaged ankle.
George stallings Johnny Evers and
the Braves IN general, were Ereatf59
depressed tonight when the National
league champions left for philadelphia
to prepare for Fridays meeting with
! the Athletics. IL WAS plainly evidenN
that the accident to Smith had unA
nerved the team.
About town the news of Smiths eiinnA
j ination spread like wiidfre. and thefG
was a rush to cover by those who hady
waged on the chances of the worldBi
! title ehallengers. There was no IKEA,
I price ohtainable tonight. as none coutda
! be found willing to support the Brays0'
under existing circumstances. Boston
! sympathizers asked two to one Tor
! their money, a price that even the most
/ enthusiastic Athletic admirers refuse4
! to give.
/ Upon the eve of departure for Phik,
adelphia, Stallings announced that ho
would hold practice tomorrow and
Thursday at the Philadelphia National
| league park Within that time he Will
choose between Deal and Whitfield for
| third base.
Stallings had intended to employ the
| double biIf TO tune up his machine for
J Fridays great clash with the Athletics.
From the start his plans went awry.
( Captain Johnny Evers, the main pivot
/ of the National league champs. did
not linger long enough to put the
/ scheme TO trial Johnny had q run In
with Herr Rigler in the second inning.
! and was requested to take the rest OF
/ the day off That broke up the comhi-
nation instanter. Later. when Smith
met with his calamity, Stallings de-
cided he had tempted fate quite far
! enough. He sent a team of substi-
flutes against the Dodgers in the clos
Ing engagement.
Score by Innings: RH.E.
Boston .......... 100 col 600 3
tBrookiyn .....-.. 1o1 o10 00s--3
| Batteries: Davis, Cocreham and +.
Tyler, Eowdy Pfeiffer and mccarthy.
Second game:
Score by innings: r. a. e.
Boston ....,..-.... 5o1 GOO OF 8 Q
Brooklyn .......... DOL 600 2--3 o
Batteries: Strand and F. Tyler;
Rueker. Enzman and Miller. Umpires--
Hart and Rigier.
Many New Faces.
! New York Oct. 6-The closing games
of the National league season at the
! Polo grounds this afternoon presented
many new faces to the few thousand
/ fans on hand In place OF John Me-
I Graw, Mike Donlin was the manager
/ for the day. and practically every
4 youngster recently acquired by the
club was in the field The fedgling
( won the first game by score Of s
/ to l. and lost the second by to O.
Score by innings; RH,E.
| Philadelphia -. 600 col 0e0-1 5 &
New York ... 600 on4 10ts-5 8 d
/ Batteries: Mayer and Doom. Burns:
/ OToole. Ritter and Smith.
| Second game:
Score by innings: RHE.
I Philadelphia ....... 00i 421 0-S q III
! New York .......,. 900 900 Go 8 s.
| Batteries: Baumgardner and Kills
fer; Erickson. Huenke and JohnsouS
/ umpires-OConner and KLEIN.
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