The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-06
RED SOX TAKE
FIRST GAME, 10
Cubs Surprised by Being Con-
fronted With Ruth, Who
Pitches Well.
VAUGHN CLOSE SECOND
Nearly 10000 Fans See Left
Handlers Engage in Keen
Duel in Chicago.
Spectai DeApafcA 10 TIE SuN.

dence here to-day In the first game o.
the championship baseball series a
Comiskey Park. The Boston Red Sox
champions OF the American League, de
feated the Chicago Cubs, Nationa
League pennant winners by q score o.
! to o.
The game developed into a lef
handed pitching duel In which Bah,
Ruth. BoseUds all around ace, defeated
big Jim Vaughn. the king OF the Cubs
stan. The game proved a light hitting
affair, in which Boston made only five
hits and Chicago six. However, the
Sox clustered two hits with a base or
balls in the fourth inning. when Stuffy
Mclnnis. the crack FIRST baseman of the
sox. sent home the veteran Davey Shear
with the only run Of the game.
I'D Barrow sprung a surprise by
pitching George Ruth. and the Cubl
had to readjust their bearings. as they
expected to hit against q right handler
Ruth was In his best .sorm and had nc
dihiculty In Dressing through the Cub
lineup. He had his tremendous speed
and few of the Cubs c,uld get . good
crack at the ball.
Cubs Threaten Thrice.
Thrice during the same the Cub.
threatened, but each time he was equal
TO the occasion and throttied the Chi
cago attack. In the FIRST inning Mann
and Paskert gave the stands q thrill
by singing with two out. An inten-
tional pass to Merkle filed the bases
but after getting two strikes on Pick,
Ruth induced him to line to whiteman
In the third Flack opened with q
sinele and got around to third on a sac
rihce and an out, but Ruth sent Paskert
back on an easy dribbler to Scott. In
the sixth Chicago had another big open
Ing. as Paskert and Merkle singled with
one out and advanced on Picks out,
but Whiteman saved Babe with a nice
catch on Deal. the best play OF the game.
vaughn's pitching was little inferior
to that OF Ruth. He also had his great
speed and his grand assortment of
curves. but the Sox pressed their ad-
vantage in the one inning that they had
their big opportunity. while Ruth held
in the pinches. Vaughn famed six Of
the Sox. twice getting Ruth, the Bos-
tonian tanning with some of his wicked
lunSes. much to the delight of the
crowd. Not an extra base hit was re-
corded against either pitcher.
Next TO Ruth the leading Sox star
was the thirty-seven-year-old George
Whiteman. He made two Of the 1--WE
Boston hits one OF which aided in the
we'll in the fielding, accepting i've
chances, several OF them difficuit He
had to do some lively sprinting to haul
In Deals fly in the sixth. and ma de
other neat catches.
McInnis. besides getting in the only
run of the game, inspired sufficient re-
kpect in Vaughn to take no further
chances with him. With Shean again
on second in the ninth Vaughn handed
Mclnnis a pass and then tossed out
scott for the third out. Scott fielded
with his usual ability, q bare handed
stop on Vaughn in the seventh being his
most spectacular play.
Draws Good Crowd.
The contest showed only patches of
the worlds series color that has been
seen at these games In former years.
The crowd was barely over $4,000,
which was almost $4,000 below the num-
Der OF people that attended the first
game between the White Sox and Giants
IN the same park year ago
However. the fact that the game at
tracted 10000 shows that baseball still
is pretty lively fellow for a corpse.
Ihe crowd was loyal one and whooped
IL up Tor the Cubs whenever the local
players gave them chance. The
wei hl!ed. but there were many cams
In the reserved grand stand. especially
In the SO box area
Weather conditions again had a Iot IN
DO with the condensed crowd While thu
sun shone brightly while the game was
being played II was bleak and threat
ening all morning, and when II began
to rain shortly after noon another nost-
ponement seemed imminent However
Old Sol came out in all his glory ahont
nait an hour before the game started
ana was cheered warmly by the
bleacher boys. The day was as raw
the average worlds series dav In ,,Ia
October, and few OF the 10 600 cayns
without their overcoats
Spectators Are stung.
The crowd that was out was n-.o-
tically home gathering. az the serIes
has attracted only a handful OF out Of
town visitors. The biggest Joke that
chicago has enjoyed in quite a stretch
was at the expense OF the ticket scaln
ers. who were caught before the series
with thousands OF paste boards that thav
were trying to unload at a SO per cent.
loss instead OF holding up out OF town
ers for 100 or zoo per cent. gain
band did its best to whoop things
Up io' ooNeiai HouFs Defore the start OF
the game, and entertained such dyed in
the wool enthusiasts who came out as
early as IL O'Clock to avoid the rush"
But even these musicians had been re-
duced TO war basis OF one dozen.
While the players and managers were
concerning before the game large
horseshoe of roses was brought IN TO
the home plate and presented to Mitchell,
As helding feature the game COM
pared fayorably with some of the best in
worlds series play. While few difficult
chances were offered both teams felded
like so many machines, as not an error
was made on either side. II is very sell
dom to find two teams going through
the FIRST game OF a series without an
error being recorded. as the PLAYERS
usually are keyed up to a high tension
and are more likely to err then than
under normal conditions.
Chances to score were rare, but Bos-
ton profited by its one big opportunity
Vaughn opened the fourth inning BY
walking Shean with his first of three
bases on balls Shean, who was reported
to be out with a bad finger. showed no
trace OF II. Strunk then attempted 20
sacrifice. but hit an easy pop to Vaughn
George whiteman, the veteran. who Is
well over IS years and played grand
bali to-day. bounded a single over Hol-
Iocber's head for his second straight hit
That sent Shean to second. but Paskert
almost caught him over running the bag
1fcInnis. a poor hitter In former series
then drove sharp single down the left
Aeld foul line, scoring Shean. Mann
played the ball fast and shot II home
but not in time to beat the runner.