New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Chicago B11uches Hits on Bush
And Ties Up the World Series
Double by Killifer and Single
by Tyler Account for
Winning Runs
By w. J. Macbeth


plished mans sized afternoons work.
First of all, they squared accounts
with the Red Sox. Of Boston, for that
opening repulse Of yesterday, a game
decided by wink of luck. They proved
themselves as serious factor in this
particular classic as the most pre-
tentious Hub fan may claim for the
American Leagues Eastern entry, that
has never yet failed to maintain the
prestige Of the junior major organiza-
ton.
Mitchell's Cubs reestablshed inter-
est in the official obseques that Law
the corpse of the national game away
until after the war, and assured
against tomorrow's half holiday a
crowd IN keeping with the bold pres
tlge and fair renown of the titanic
struggles of the past.
Soul Inspiring Effort
To-day's was bali game worthy the
name-an exhibition marked from the
opening pitch to the final fly with soul
inspiring effort and gameness. The
Cubs won, TO l, but the dimensions
OF the score do not begin to picture the
spirit Of the action. 1t was case
Nioch HntcIiiiS Hreck, ana the
beaten team went down with flying
colors, fighting to the last ditcn and
to the last man.
NO world series game of history, per-
haps, was more replete with action of
a spectacular nature. None was more
bitterly contested from start to finish.
and none abounded more with those
ldfosyncracies of chance which make
our national sport the charming enter
talnment that it is.
Yesterdays opening battle, which the
Red SoX managed to win by the mini
mum score of l to 0, was a pitching
duel between Babe Ruth and jim
Vaughn 1t was a game of mechanical
precision and perfection, one so very
well pitched that there was no oppor-
tunlty to bring into play the finer side
line elements of the sport.
To-day high class pitching once more
predominated. Lefty Tyler, of the
CUBS, and Bullet Joe Bush, Of the Red
SoN, were both in exceptionally grand
form, even for world series effort. But
there vas much freer hitting to-day,
and If it doesn't show in the box score
a rebuttal may be found in the assists
column. Sterling defensive work mini
mlzed offensive damage.
Bullet Joe was hit more freely than
was Tyler in the early innings, but in
the general scheme he pitched quite as
heartily. Each pitcher allowed but a
half dozen safe blows, and against both
these were punched in spots. Bush was
unfortunate enough to be the victim of
bad bobble by Thomas, following q
pass to Merkle that opened the second
inning.
KiIlifer and Tyler, never regarded
as dangerous hitters, came through
with pinch pokes that netted three
runs and sewed up the game for the
Cubs. On four other occasions Bush
pulled himself out of quite as serious
looking prediBaments in the first,
when Flack opened with single; in
the fourth, when Whiteman made a
two-base muff on Merkle, the first bat
ter; in the sixth, when Hollocher
opened with triple to deep right, and
IN the seventh, when Joe sandwiched
Deals sacrifice, which was the first
out
Tendency to Wildness
Barring a tendency to wildness, evil
IDENTIFY a result of his trying to put too
much on every pitch, Joe Bush grew
stronger the further he went, and
weaker. The SoX gathered four of
their half dozen hits in the last two
innings, triples by Strunk and White
man with none out in the ninth giving
the visitors their only run and entail
ing the swift dispatch of Shutting Phil
Douglas to the Chicago bull pen. In
those last two rounds Boston had an
excellent chance to tie, at least, If not
indeed to win
This particular drama of action, un-
folded before a frenzied crowd which
.tat -
over the opening day and seemed to
catch at first glance the keen spirit of
rivalry that ran through the entire
nine reels, would require volumes to
portray in detail. Suffice to say that
half the chances accepted were eX-
tremely difficult and that, as usual,
the bobbles came on the easier variety.
Belligerency was on the breath Of
every participant Repartee and vitu-
peration flew thick and fast among the
forces of the rival camps, to be caught
up from the respective benches in a
way to remind of the red -blooded davs
Of baseball yore.
War on the benches, war on the field
and war in the air. No wonder at the
beginning Of the third inning, while
dozen battle planes in the offing por-
trayed the vicissitudes Of the sterncr
game. that near battle royal broke out
between the two camps.
Heinie Wagner, the veteran coach OF
the Red Sox, and Otto Knabe, who
serves the same office for the Cubs
attempted to come to blows in the
Chicago dugout. They got into an ar
gument as a result of decision that
made Flack safe in the second inning
Compliments were exchanged, anC
Knabe invited Wagner down under the
stand to settle it. Heinie, though he
! has broken hand, accepted The chal-
i lenge. He charged down after Knabe
He was tripped up and rolled IN The
mud.
Agnew Leads Charge
Several of the Red Sox players
rushed to Wagner's assistance, Agnew
J incased in his panoply of war leading
the charge, fanked by Mays and Ruth
Before any personal damage could b.
accomplished by either side the cooler
heads split up the belligerents.
The State of Illinois does not
countenance decisions in boxing bouts
and the eyrie press box did not afford
such closeup as to justify a news
paper decision. The incident is cited
only to show that this closing world
series of 1918 has turned back sports
pages to the dark days when every
game was a fight in the real sense OF
the word, and the umpire was mete
prey for brickbats and stones. Looks
as if the old game is going to go out
with real whoop and a bang after all
Now pettirU ~