Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-08
Ninth-Inning Rally by Brooklyn
National Leaguers Falls
Short by One Run.
ATTENDANCE AND RECEIPTS
BELOW LAST YEARS MARK
3e,117 Fans Pay $7e,AS9.50 to Enter
Field, OF Which Sum Players
Get SAL, ,304.30.

wellnieh perfect base ball ma
chine of the Boston American
League Club triumphed over the
BROOKLYN Nationals here this aft
ernoon, 6 to 5, in the first game OF
the world series, but marred its
victory by skidding badly in the
final inning. For a full eight in
nings the thirty-odd thousand
loyal Supporters of the Red Sox sat
back with complacent air OF
satisfaction upon their features
while the junior league cham
pions roamed through their Ma
tional League rivals to lead of q
to |.
With the game apparently pack
ed away in their bat bag, the Car
rigan clan began to wabble, led
| by Pitcher Ernie Shore, and be-
fore the last Brooklyn batter had
been retired the Superbas had
amassed four tallies and appeared
upon the verge of wrestling the
initial game away from the
American Leaguers.
Break Is Feature of Game.
| This surprising break. of which the
invading team from Greater New York
was quick to take advantage. was the
feature of an otherwise rather ordinary
base ball game. Before the threatening
rush of the Superbas developed in their
final turn at bat, the contest appeared
to indicate that the Boston players
would swing through to easy conquest,
and the startling break in the steady
work of the local club furnished the
thrill needed to fix the memory of the
struggle in the minds of the fans with
out leaving sting, since the Red Sox
were able to check the rush of their
| rivals just when victory appeared to be
| turning into defeat.
! When Daubert. the first Brooklyn
| batsman, stepped to the plate in the
! opening half of the ninth inning the
| Braves Field. But they halted in their
| tracks as Shore passed the Superba cap
| tain and Casey Stengel sent him to sec
ond with a clean single. a lone Brook
| lyn rooter began to beat upon tin pan
! and here and there were cries of en-
! coura cement for the National League
I champions. but the cheers died away as
Wheat forced Daubert at third.
Shore Loses Control.
! Shore however, could not control the
ball as he had earlier in the game and
hit Cutshaw. Mowrey arose to the oc-
casion with a bounder which Janvrin
could not handle, and Stengel and
Wheat crossed the plate, while the Bos-
ton fans began to move uneasily in
their seats Their fears grew when Oh
son beat out an infield hit, and they
We're scarcely relieved when Chief Mey.
ers fouled out. Merkle, batting fol
Pfeffer. outwaited shore and walked
forcing in Cutshaw with the third rur
of the inning.
There was not a sound from tbs
thousands when Manager Carrigan or
dered Shore from the box and substi.
tuted Mays. Myers. Brooklyns lead
off batter, scratched an infleld hit. scor
ing Mowrey, and the Nationals were
within a run Of tying the score with tn.
bases still loaded Daubert came to the
plate for the second time in the inning
and every one OF the thousands of spec.
tators held his breath as the Brooklyn
captain hit an ugly bounder to Scott.
I The shoFtstop Speared the bail ii
leapcd from the turf and without pauS-
ing even to sight, whipped it to Hob
litZell. Daubert, sliding into the bag
| head first, appeared TO arrive with the
| hashlng ball, but there was u great
cheer when Umpire O'Day. who fairly
Eoycrhung the base. signaied the third
out and the ending of the game.
Showed Boston's Resources.
Il was Il climax that showed the re.
| sources and strength of the Red Sox
under pressure. But ii was not the
only exhibition of similar nature
Right Fielder Harry Hooper uncovered
, the star individual play of the day il
! the fourth session when he made .
great running catch of Cutshaw':
+ tt~t~ting fly and nipped Wheat trying
10 HSorc from third. The ball left Cut
: Hhaw's bat as if undecided where il
! pAa going and Hooper had to sprin
; ge!l over toward the foul line just bach
~ first base before he could get hi:
hands on It. The effort caused him ts
Zip TO the turf In sitting position
but he was up like fash and while
attn rising hurled the ball straight a!
a bullet to cady. The latter slammed
; IL on Wheats ankle he reached fol
: the plate with his foot at the end of :
perfect hook slide.
This thrilling catch and throw ant
! the ninth-inning rally Of the van
: auighed Brooklyn team were the out
. standing features of the first game o
.he series, which attracted a gather
ing of base bail followers that mum
, bered 3G.l11 and paid into the coffer
l. OF the world series fund $76,4s9. SO
| Neither the attendance nor the receipts
eaualed the record day of year ag'
when 300 spectators witnessed ,vir
u tually the same team defeat the Phila
4 delpiiias 20 l in the third game o
. that series. But tonight the player
, are richer by $1I.3o4.33, while the club
each have $13.7G8.71 and the nationa
commission S7s648.95 to add to thei
= several bank accounts.
0 There was little evidence of this tall
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