Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-09
Close Game Ends Three To
Two In Favor Of BOstsn
Americans.
TYLER REPLACED
In NINTH INNING
Joe Bush Finishes For Boston
When Ruth Weakens In
Ninth
By H. @. Hamilton

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Fcnway Park, Boston, Mass, Sept. ,,
One more baseball game for Boston
and the Red Sox will have won anoth-
er world championship. Their to 3
victory over the Cubs here this after
noon put them within one game of the
last worlds champion ship until the
war has been won.
Tcday's game, while not up to the
playing standard set in the contests at
Chicago, was filled with tense moments
and rapid fire action,
The Red Sox accumulated their first
two runs on a mighty clout by their
pitching star, Babe Ruth, and the run
that clinchcd the game was the result
of hit and error.
On the Cubs side Of the ledger there
was action from start to finish but they
were able to score in but one in1,ng,
the eighth.
Ed Barrow, the Red Sox manager,
held an informal reception in his dug
out imme diately after the game. He
shook hands with o crowd of Boston
fans and gave away all the baseballs
in his grip.
Today crowd was more than $4,000,
well above the two first games in Chi
cago, but still short of Saturday at
tendance figures.
The field was slow and made the
| - a. 81,
Babe Ruth became unsteady in the
closing inning and Joe Bush finished
for the Red Sox. For all that the huge
left handler did his day S work in admir-
able style. He pitched well enough to
win the average game and it was his
long hit to the right field fence that
pushed the first two runs across.
In the fourth inning, with White
man and McInnis on the runways, Ruth
tore off his first safety of the series
and drove them both across.
i, In the eighth, with Douglass, a right
handler pitching for the Cubs, Barrows
sent Sehang up to hit for Agnew. Ho
responded with a clean single. Hooper
attempted to sacrifice. Douglass pick
, ed up the ball and heaved it to the
stand. Schang crossing the plate with
the winning run. Killifer drew a base
on balls for the Cubs in the same inning
and Hendrix was sent up to hit tol
Tyler. The big pitcher also responded
with a sharp single and both runners
advanced when Ruth uncorked a wild
pitch. Two men were nailed by the SOS
before Mann delivered single thai
p,nt Killifer and McCabe, who ran fol-
Hendrix across. This tied the score and
: the Cubs made a great attempt to VIII
, after the Sox had gone to the front
, again in the eighth.
, Merkle opened the ninth with sin
gle and Leider, who had replaced Dea
at third, drew his second base on balls
Workman tried to sacrifice but MorklC
was nailed at third by a flashy bit Of
fielding by McInnis. Barber batted fol
Killifer and ended the game in dramatic
fashion when he hit into a double play
The lineup today:
Cricago- Flack, rf; Hollocher, IS
Mann, If; Paskert eff; Merkle lb; Pick
2b; Deal 3b; Killifer, c; Tyler, p.
Boston-Hooper rf Shean Oh; Strunl
i cf; Whiteman If; McInnis 1b; Agnew
, e; Scott IS; Thomas 3b; Ruth p.
5 Umpires--Klem and O'Day for th'
) National league; Hildebrand ant
r Owens for the American league.
atteries-Boston: Ruth and Agnew
) Chicago Tyler and Killifer.