Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-10-12
RED SOX WINS lST
GAME OF SERIES
Brooklyn after Spectacular RAJ.
ly in 9th Is Beaten. Six
to Five.

Boston, Mass, oct S.-The withercd
stalk of the baseball season burst with a
crash into radiant bloom at Braves Field
Saturday with the opening OF the worlds
series. The Superbas, pride of Brook! n
and of the National League, and the car.
mine-h osed Boston warriors scrambled for
the petals OF the first blossom. and tho
entrants from New York started their
scrambling Il bit late. They emerged from
the struggle on the short end of a 70
score.
The workaday laws of mathematics
would make & to . pretty close. whetuec
the enumerated objects were peanuts SUBJ
way tickets. or runs. AS a matter of cold
fact, however. the initial contest OF the
chompion teams of The major leagues for
worlds honors and worldly wealth wits
one-sded almost from the outset, not ~,
much in the matter of accumula ted tallies
as in the essence of workmanlike base
ball Steadily, surely, the whte-unifornt-
| ed American Leaguers forced the nine
| backs of the Robins to the wall and frr
eight innings outplayed them in every de
partment.
| EXCITING; LAST INNING.
| Then something went wrong with the
grand machine which boasts the world
title. Entering the final inning the score
|
hospitabe hosts. and the game appeared
! to be won. in the choice Bostonese which
one picks up even in brief stay in tn,
! Hub, reposing safely On the chill surfr.e
of natures refrigerating substance.
| Daubert was first to face the mighty
Shore in this inning. Ho walked on fou =
consecutive balls. Stengel. with two balls
and two strikes called, singled to right
| field. Wheat hit sharply to third aod
J -
! Daubert out at that station.
| Shore was now giving evidence Of an
| intention to rise from the mother air into
the distant clouds. He smote Cutshaw
athwart the floating ribs with an inshoot
and that worthy, resenting the injury net
! at all ambled to first base. Each corner
of the diamond was now fully occupied
and when Janvrin fumbled Mowrey' g
grounder Stengel and Wheat da shod
| frantically for the pan and both arrived
there in safety. Olson obliged with a
speedy rap to short which went for sin-
gle, as Gardner. although he got his
gloved hand on the ball and held it, had
not time to make the throw. Again w,r.
the bases as congested as the law DO
mits.
MERl[LE AS A PINCH HITTER
Meyers, the redskin catcher who dweiS
/ in McGraw's wigwam in times past, touk
two strikes and then fouled out to Fl 1'I-
litzel Two We're gone, and the Superbvs
were still far from home, in the iungles of
an alien land. And who should stride now
forward, swaying his war club in menace.
but a stalwart figure which long adorned
| first base at the Polo Grounds. Ladies
and gentlemen. renew your acquaintance
with Frederick Merkle
The Giants aumnus batting for Pfef-
fer didn't make a hit. although he threa.-
ened two-bagger with lusty slash down
| the third-base line which went foul, nut
he wheedled base on balls out of Shcrc.
which as 1t forced in another run and
left the bases still full. had nearly tho
merits of an ordinary single.
, The score was now to T. Are you gasA-
/ ing now? Well. many thousands al
Braves Field were gasping at this iunc-
ture, although the proprcty of gasp!ng
in public is debated question in Boscor
At this point Shore retired from his
post in the box. and friends and foes
alike felt pans Of regret for he had
pitched eight innings of mastery ball.
Mays took his place Cady. too. with
drew and Thomas went behind the bat
Myers who headed the Brooklyn bat
ting order, was the first man to face
Mays. Mis- sharp rap to second went for
a single, and Mowrey registered In n
sitting posture under the nose of Mr..
Thomas. Score. 6 to j.
DACBERT'S EFFORT FAILS
Jake Daubert walked from the dug
out into an atmosphere of extreme
Itenseness It was great chance for
tho potent slugger of the National League
to establish himself as worlds series
hero He did his best and his best wasn't
quite good enough. 1t was grounder
which scott smothered, and the tale was
told.
| The score:
BOSTON.
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Jahvrin. 2b. .,,........,.,.....t & !
] Malker. g. Z .................t . 0 0 {