The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-06
FIRST WORLDS SERIES
 GAME WON BY BOSTON
Red Sox Take First Contest in Chicago by Score of 10
 in Fast Game.

Chicago, Sept. 6-The proverbial Boston worlds series luck was in evil dence here yesterday in the first game of the championship baseball series at Comiskey park. The Boston Red SoX, champions of the American League, defeated the Chicago Cubs, National League pennant winners, by a score of 1 to 0.
 The game developed into a left handed pitching duel in which Babe Ruth, Boston's all around ace, defeat ed big Jim Vaughn, the king of the Cubs staff. The game proved light hitting affair, in which Boston made only five hits and Chicago six. How ever, the Sox clustered two hits with a base on balls in the fourth inning, when Stuffy McInnis, the crack first baseman of the SoX, went home the veteran Davey Shean with the only run of the game.
 Ed Barrow sprung a surprise by pitching George Ruth, and the Cubs 1 had to readjust their bearings. as they expected to hit against right hand- CT. Ruth was in his best form, and had no difficulty in breezing through 1 the Cub lineup. He had his tremen- dous speed and few of the Cubs could get a good crack at the ball.
 Thrice during the game the Cubs | threatened, but each time he was equal to the occasion and throttled | the Chicago attack. In the first inn | ing Mann and Paskert gave the stands a thrill by singling with two out. An intentional pass to Merkle filled the | on Pick, Ruth induced him to line to Whiteman.
 In the third Flack opened with a single and got around to third on a sacrafice and an out, but Ruth sent l Paskert back on an easy dribbler to Scott. In the sixth Chicago had an other big opening, as Paskert and Merkle singled with one out and ad- vanced on Picks out, but Whiteman saved Babe with a nice catch on Deal the best play of the game.
 Vaughn's pitching was little infer for to that of Ruth. He also had his great speed and his grand assort- ment of curves, and the Sox pressed their advantage in the one inning that they had their big oportunity while Ruth held in the pinches Vaughn famed six of the Sox, twice getting Ruth, the Bostonion flaming with some of his wicked lunges. mucr to the delight of the crowd. Not al extra base hit was recorded agains
 either pitcher.
 Next to Ruth the leading Sox sta,
 was the thirty-seven year old Georgt
 Whiteman. He made two of the fivt Boston hits, one of which aided il the scoring of the lone run, and als,
 played well in the fielding, acceptin: five chances, several of them diff
 cult. He had to do some lively sprint , ing to haul in Deals fly in the sixth
 and made other neat catches. | McInnis, besides getting in the onl. run of the game, inspired sufficien
 respect in Vaughn to take no furthe
 chances with him. With Shean agail
 on second in the ninth Vaughn hand
 ed McInnis a pass and then tossed ou | Scott for the third out Scott fielde , with his usual ability, a bare hande , stop on Vaughn in the seventh bein
 his most spectacular play.
 The contest showed only patches 0
 the worlds series color that has beer
 seen at these games in former years
 The crowd was barely over 19,0OC
 which was almost 5000 below tn
 number of people that attended tn
 first game between the White Sox ant
 Giants in the same park a year ago. q However, the fact that the game at . tracted 10000 shows that baseball stil
 is a pretty lively fellow for corpse , The crowd was a loyal one and whoop
 ed it up for the Cubs whenever tn
 local players gave them a chance. Tn = bleachers and pavilion seats wer ,t pretty well filled, but there wer
 many gaps in the reserved gran 5 stand, especially in the S3 box aree
 On the upper tier there were few be
 sides the baseball writers
 ,4 Chances to score were rare, bu .t Boston profted by it's one big oppo1 {. tunity. Vaughn opened the fourth ir - ming by walking Shean with his frs Q of three bases on balls. Shean, wh was reported to be out with ba
 finger, showed no trace of it. strun
 then attempted to sacrifice, but h le an easy pop to Vaughn.
 George Whiteman, the veteran. wh
 is we'll over 35 years and playe - grand ball yesterday, bounded a sir | gle over Hollocher's head for his seC Ut ond straight hit. That sent Shean 7e second, but Paskert almost caugl him over running the bag. McInnis, 10 poor hitter in former series, the '' drove sharp single down thel e It field foul line, scoring Shean. Man T. played the ball fast and put it hom le but not in time to beat the runne B. The score: