Evening star., 1916-10-10
FANS, |N0vERCOATS,.
PACK EBbETSF|E[D
FOR THIRD CONTEST
Shivering Thousands at Brook
Iyn See Dodgers Play Red
Sox in "CruciaF' Game.
MAY VIRTUALLY DECIDE
SERIES FOR THE TITLE
Another Victory Today Practically
Would Assure Boston of Base.
Ball Championship.


Ball Championship.
EBBETS FIELD, Brooklyn. October
10.-With the battle for the premier
base ball honors of the year trans
ferred from Boston to Brooklyn today,
the base ball enthusiasts of Greater
New York focked by the thousand to
Ebbets Field to view the world series
from a new angle. Brooklyn has sent
many a strong delegation to the Polo
Grounds in Harlem, home of the Giants,
to witness post-season struggles in for
mer years, but today saw a reversal of
the process with the tide of travel
turned toward Flatbush. where sits the
stadium occupied by the present Ma
tional League champions.
In contrast with the warm haziness
of the past few days, remarkable for
its suitability to the great national
pastfme, the morning broke cool ana
breezy with the promise of a day more
suited to work on the gridiron than on
the diamond. A brisk northwest breeze
sent many spectators to the park wear
ing overcoatS and gloves.
STANDS Oayly OecoIdIeu.
The ticket holders for the games to be
played on the Fiatbush diamond-there
were more than 10000 of them before the
rush to the grounds started - were not
over impatient TO get to the playing field.
and the Brooklyn traction lines were
easily able to take care of their forenoon
patrons. The thousands who had not
been forehanded, however. together with
other thousands who counted on winning
out in the struggle for places in the un-
reserved section. provided STEADY now
of traffic groundwards, augmented later
by the throngs of possesSsors OF the
elaborately Autographed cardboards en-
titling them to specified seats withln the
playing arena. And long before the game
time there was every indication that the
stadium at the call of play, would be
filed to the limit OF its 26.000 capacity
E! The playing field itself mad been
smoothed down for the occasion. Gayly
| decorated with the abundance of bunt-
| ing that the Brooklyn management hsd
supplied. it was fianked on three SIDES .!
the accommodations for the spectators.
additional seats to the number OF 2oco
having been provided IN STANDS stretch-
ling along the left field fence.
The struggle of the day. coming after
the two desperate encounters in Bos-
ton, which left the Brooklyns without
a victory and gave the Red SoN com =
promised to be perhaps the crucial
game of the series.
Dodgers Not Downcast.
On familiar ground. after the loss of
two heart breaking struggles on alien
soil. the Dodgeds figured in the calcula-
tions of ardent Brooklynites as likely
to gather sufficient inspiration from
congenial surroundings to give them
the edge they lacked irS the Braves
Field encounters. y pair Of reverses
by single-run margins, IN one of which
five extra innings We're required to
subdue them, was not looked upon as
an indication that the National Leag-
uers were outclasSed and doomed to
certain defeat Nevertheless, il was
realized that today's battle might viz
tually decide the series. as another set
back would force the Robins to the
wall, where a single thrust would mean
their downfall.
1t was likely to be either the turning
point of the series or a continuation of
the Red Sox march to victory, and with
no decided superiority in making
power demonstrated by the American
Leaguers the supporters of the Tener
circuit champions Were not inclined to
concede anything unless or until they
were forced to do so. On the other
hand. the liel SoX rooters came primed
for the continuance of their favorites
triumphal progress. confident in the
superiority of the Boston machine. SUI
premely reliant that class would tell
and cause the closing chapters of the
story to be written in the records of
the games to be played on Ebbets
Field today and tomorrow.
Concede One Game, at Most.
One game at mos. for the Robins
was all that the great majority of them
would concede. And with their start
er likely to be Leonard. another left
handler, who when in shape is one of
the hardest twirlers in the profession
to hit. few of them could see much
chance of anything but a third victory
with another follow with Shore or
Mays on the morrow.
Manager Wilbert Robinson of the
Brooklyns. as usual gave no hint of his
pitching selection, but Iron Man Jack
Coombs was looked upon his prob
able choice, with MarQuard in a come
back effort as possibility.
The assembling fans were early on
the lookout for the particular heroes OF
the preceding battles to give them a
pei Gainor, of pinch hitting fame
were in the hero class for the Red Sox,
and Babe Ruth was singled out for
credit for the notable game he twirled
Yesterday. OI the popular
appreciation was Forthcoming for "Hy''
Myers. whose homer in the first inning
of the second game at Boston kept the
Robins in the running until after tho
break of the fourteenth, and for Mar
guard and Sherrod Smith, whose twirl-
ing performances, even though barren of
victory, had endeared them to the
Brooklyn rooters. The members of the
Brooklyn team, who spent the night.
after their evening trip from Boston, at
their homes near the Flatbush arena.
were at the grounds early to listen to
a few words of counsel from Manager
Robinson. The Bostons. who came over
at the same hour as their rivals, passed
the night at a hotel in Manhattan, but
within easy drive of the stadium by
automobile.
The first excitement of the day came
when the Boston Royal Rooters, about
500 strong, paraded around the field led
by a red-coated band playing the bat
tie song of the fans, "Tessie." The Bos-
ton rooterS occupied a reserved section
back of the visitors playing bench off
third base.
1t was announced that O'Day would
umpire behind the plate, while Umpire
Connolly would make the base decisions:
with Umpire Dineen in right and UNI
pire Quigley in left field.
There was a long conference of um-
las