The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-06
BOSTON VICTOR
IN FIRST GAME
OF SERIES, | TO 0
Larger Crowd Than Was
Expected Sees Cubs
Beaten a Home.
RUTH DOES WELL
Pitches Remarkably Fine
Game and Finds Him
self Popular With
Fans.
RUTH DOES WELL

Chicago. Sept. S-I'htCaEo. some
thing date or Boston won.
Such was the MESA ge. of Avery
Holdclose, the ace" Of the lads OF
the dollhouse compilations He car
ried this wireless across the street.
where the Chicago skyline glimmers
like a vision of horrid house tops from
the perspective that is circum Jacent
10 Mr.. Comiskey's yard OF popular
pastime.
II 10 rumored that the score was
something 70 something, II is heing
hruited about that President Wilson
really didn't ask what the actual count
was contiden'ially. and. not for com
mon gossip, the red hosed filters an
nexed the fray by 1he- sc0rn Of 10 O
4 larger crowd than was antictpat
ed easad in the gates. This carries
out an ahage that one should not look
Efft horse in the mouth. In other
wnrds. 10 make II plain for New York
slickers, "A person should not glimpse
n mustang in the hay tunnel when
the sfeed is OF the free variety
With tho Red Sox victory tire ofd
fepesters. including Sam Squat. Noble
Dean, and Hughie Bulletin. that i'm
portant scribe of the Battery Echo,
are a-sca. In fact. the wave OF GRIM
sen hosed triumph puts a curl in their
hair. 4-rssssTs ss~ 'stszs' -'
II was predicted by Ring 0ftener
that the Cubs would cop the opening
fray Consequently, every one OF
moneyed intelligence, bet on the Sox-
judgment is thing of philosophy,
What amt. amt, and what IL ism Z
u grammatical at least
Professors Puzzled.
The flock Of Cubs struck on the
DOME OF supposed Thought in xo'ae In
ming or another. The fact that the
hall did not depart from it's spherical
shape after this contact was source
OF wonder among the scientists of
Chicago university. II merely goes
to show that no matter how hard .tfe
is heads are harder. Everyone. in
Guiding the umpires, fellows who are
not picked out by the populace as
objects OF thought and thought.
insisted on examining such remark
able ball Ivory returns TO ivory, de-
spite what the Willie Hoppe followers
think. In fact. they all come back,
When 1t was learned that FIack was
mt killed hy- the hump. tia Rruns-
wick Balk. people got an option on
his dome It is threatened that the
shortage In ivory will make Africa and
Camiskey park popular habitat
While there's iife, there's soap.
But there is series. Really. one
should not get gny with such serious
series For it means the chapionship
~ the world wherever that iO, and
the Bostonese have taken the jun y,
In fact, they have grabbed the initial
fray And Columbus. who was "a DIS
covcrer before Edison even thought
that New York would he wonderful
port Who Will say nay
Washington Irving. the greatest
,,ress agent the Hudson river ever had
including Damon Runyon, averred
that still water runs deep Especially
the stfr water AT the stills. tkentucky
papers, please copy Don't write Mr.
Watter~on.)
Strikes Unpopular.
Tho first man at the hearth was
Hooper. Mr.. Vaughn. known in the
circles OF the elite as James served
lar in Chicago. nj least since the recent
W. W hearings. Hooper hit tards
earth. bail toward first base. Vaughn
covered. II was the first play OF the
series Actually, II is not predicted
that this play win have a run of sew
c4Al months on the Rialto. of the Uni
verse. Broadway.
PLAY followed play, even as the plays
If Gene Walter follow other, efforts
or. is 1t an effort after all? Some say
,.ot. For efforts are deliberate.
rrhe winning run arrived in the
fourth inning. 1t came like mes
sage from the homeburg. Vaughn
nitched himself into n shell crater
h. walked Shean. After that Strunk
manned TO the hurIer, intending &c
martvr himself to advance the lad or
the omen stone Whiteman, devortins
n the field 10 the tefr, tried 70 place a
swat In the solar garden. He manaG'
ed to pole single over Holloeher's
sky line Shean advanced to the key
stone hassock on this trial
Stuffy Mcinnis evidently ashed
hit-and- "office" and pounced the open
ing ball served TO his groove TO the
sinister garden for one hole. Nc
Jnnis scored Shean, the only and WIN
ming marker of the conflict.
Only In the opening session, wher
the Cubs had trio of ambitious
Young chaps on the mattresses. were
the crimson leggings In the nine
hole. Mann. Paskert, Mcrkle were tht
gentlemen on the places where
nitcherH eyes CLINT.
There is a goodly amount OF graci
ous hope In the Red Sox hangout TO
right. The manager Of the boys wht
eased through with the opening game
4 l. al optimistic az an oaken present a
I wooden wedding.
But the Cubs. headed by that wund
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