Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-09
RED SOx TAKE FIRST
 GAME OF SERIES.
Brooklyn Made a Desperate Rally in
 Ninth but FaiIed-Score to 3.

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 Boston. October 1.-The Boston Red Sox beat the Brooklyn Superbas to- day in the first game of the World S Series of 1916 by a score of to g. which about represents the difference between the two teams.
 Up to the ninth inning, when the Superbas made a gallant rally and put over four runs the score was 6 to in favor of Boston, which was too much. The to 5 approximately represented the relative prowess of the Red SoX and the Superbas in to- days conflict, although if the score had shown one more run for Bos- ton it would nearly have reflected tn true situation.
 Boston won because it had more effort and more timely hitting than Brooklyn, combined with greater en- durance in pitching, and marked su- periority in fielding. In defense there was TO comparison. The Red Sox played World Series baseball without a let up and st times flashed exceD- ttonal stunts that were luscious mor- sels for the close to 40,000 fans to chew over in the stove league season. The official count o4 the attendance was 36,117.
 Four errors for Brooklyn made one side of the picture, and it was the tossing side. as three of the four er- TOTS were vital factors in Boston runs
  which cut off sure run, was the other side. It would be sheer nom sense to say that the Red Sox did not outplay the Superbas at almost every angle, collectively and to a large eX- tent individually. Boston won strictly on it's merits, and unless the superbas 1 experience one of the f1ip-fopS for which they have been famous in the past and put up a better argument in the future they will lose three 
 0 close at Ebbets Field next Wednes day when the fourth game is played i Superbas Became Steadier as They Went Along.
 Turning from the gloom of defeat and the undeniable fact that the Red i SoX played rings around the Superbas
 in this first meeting, it may be said that the prospects of the Superbas | are not as bad as they have been | painted in many quarters and might apear at first sight. They were play | ing bad ball all through the nine tn- | ings, but they were showing symp- l toms of becoming steadier as they | went along, and there is a reasonable chance that they will have found
 themselves by Monday. It must be | remembered that the Red Sox have | behind them the advantage of having | been through the grind and strain of l a Worlds Series in 1915, and it is a | surety that the strain of the sun to- | day affected the Brooklynites more | than their rivals.
 Three runs were made by Brooklyn
 off Ernie Shore when that right 1 handler blew in the ninth inning and l had to be relieved with the bases | full, by Carl Mays, the underhanded
 right-hander. Hi Myers scratched a | hit off Mays that brought in fourth 1 and last run, which was charged to 1 Shore, who put the scorer on first | base.
 Poorly Supported.
 | The result of the game makes Rube 1 Marquard look like a failure today
 and, truth to tell, Rube was not a i bowling success. He had the mack of
 getting into a hole when there was no | occasion for letting the batter have
 the edge and that cost him runs. He | was poorly supported, and all three of | Boston's runs in the seventh inning 1 were utterly unearned If Marquard | had been supported in the style to | which Shore was accustomed the Red ] SoX would have made only two runs | off Rube.
 It is only fair to Shore to say that | the four runs made by Brooklyn in 1 the ninth were unearned, and if the l game had been properly played on l both sides, Shore would still have been
 a winner by to 1. We have analyz- | ed the game from every angle, but no l | ton won honestly.
 Winning Run Made Off Pfeffer's Pitching.
 i The winning run was made off Pfeffer's pitching, irrespective of | StengePS throwing. Not much nour-
 ishme,t was to be derived from Pfeff- | CTS performance in the one inning to- l day, and unless something develops | over Sunday, the outlook is for Jack Coombs to pitch on Monday. 1 This story is somewhat disconnect- | ed, but the game was disconnected, and it was enough to knock a Brook | tyn fan off his base. So many wrong 1 things happened, and so many cruel surprises were sprung, that it is diff
 f1cult to place the blame or to assign l causes. We should say that even anX-
 iety caused the Superbas to crack
 under the stress of being in a Worlds | Series for the first time. That is the
 most charitable explanation of George | CutshaW's egregious tumble of Hob | l1tzelPs grounder in the seventh. Then 1 George usually a most reliable party | could not make a reasonable short | throw from second to the plate to l catch Walker in the same inning. It I would have been very sweet play if | George had cut down Walker at the | plate off Gardner's grounder, but it
 would not have been remarkable by
 any means. George grieyed the Brooklyn fans sorely when he missed 1 those two chances while the Red Sox
 were pulling on sizzling stunts one | after another.
 Wheat's Failure to Score When Hoop- CT Fell Flat.
 Another play bitterly criticised was l Wheats failure to score in the fourth 1 inning. when Harry Hooper boosted himself into the hall of fame by mak-
 ing most phenomenal recovery and throw to the plate, after falling fat | on his back.
 1 Stengel had singled in the fourth,
 and Wheat had trip1ed to right, driv- 1 ing in Stenge1 with Brooklyn's first
 run, which temporarily tied the score. l Cutshaw sent a long liner to Hooper
 in right. Hooper reached the liner by
 a record breaking sprint but as he plucked it off his sroestrings his feet l slipped from under him and down he went on his back
 Wheat was on third and saw that
 ball start for Hooper. He knew Hoop
 CT would make a catch or would not
 if Hooper did it. he was going to be l S1a arryI1r