New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1918, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1918, DEFEAT FOR CUBS IN SlXTH CLASSIC CONTEST AND THROWS WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIP TO BOSTON — ALTHOUGH 'TIS REAT PLEASURE AT THES TIME TO DECLARE TO THE WHOL}; WORLD “WE TOLD YOU SO” AND TOLD YOU EARLY B Brl s‘ y gg | TOLD YOU SOt | “WE TOLD YOU SO!" You'veE BEEN “'Af‘«r’v\ADTD Z\:’ «‘W\EJ);A'\:\:—Z You AND OUT (N COLORADO s PO Iy e el e e M B L f COMPLETE FIELDING AND BATTING (LAmMPS For LIGHT) frer- (o sam = | AVERAGES IN WORLD’S SERIES GAMES bat fleld Wb, . bh. ave. po. a. e wve. 2b. 3b. hr 1 1 1.000 0 000 00 i 50 one 444 3 5 000 0 0 Piclk, e 389 12 000 0 0 Flack, rf ..... 6 A .316 15 2 944 0 0 Merkle, 1b .... 6 5 42 000 0 0 MclInnis, 1b ... 6 20 2 75 250 61 ° 000 0 0 Mann, If .. 6 5 11 000 0 0 Shean, 2b .... 5 .000 0 0 Mays, p ...... 2 200 .000 (U Ruthifp it | 000 10 Tyler, p 5 3 5 2 q 917 0 0 Hooper, rf . > 2 000 0 Paskert, cf 3 187 17 000 Deal, 3b 6 000 Struak, of g : 000 Hollecher, ss ... 6 .148 12 17 .960 Whiteman, If . 2 3. 9 2 .000 Thomas, 3b ... 6 16 SR 6 0 000 Killifer, ¢ . > .118 .000 / BUF when You GET HOME! Heoth lasl ot .09 § 000 3 e - TR = S wdi Douglas, p 1000 ASKA You wave AND On THE TRAINM You On-H-t+ HOT WATER Doughs Dl i joa A piTcHER OF MANRGE TOo GET ALONG ELECTRIC LIGHTS Wortman ... . 0 000 6 HOT WATER WITH A L'TTE BASIN ~QH-H- LADY LADY! Bush imi Lt . 3 000 OF TEPID wWAT AIN'T 1T A GR-R-RAND 3arber, 2 - . .600 | AND GLocz R-Rious e : : oy 5 3 .000 AEDEW, C .1 .. .000 Neughn p .:. 08 . 6 000 Jones, p .. ¥ z 3 000 Dubue ... . o [ .000 TEAM AVERAGEF Boston . e 01789 3 .184 169 88 .996 2 3 0 8 Chicago . .. 817610 3 210 166 85 980 [ 0 0 8 6 Games won, Ruth 2, Mays 2, Tyler, Vaughn. Games lost, Bush, Vaughn 2, Tyler, Jones, Douglas. Hits, off Ruth 14 in 16 innings, off Ma: 10 in 18 innings, off Bush 7 in 9 innings, off Vaughn 17 in 19 in- nings, off Tyler 14 in 23 Innings, o ff Douglas 0 in 1 inning, off Jones 7 in 9 innings, off Hendrix 0 in 1 inning. Struck out, by Ruth 4, by . by M by Vaughn 17, by Tyler 6, by Jones 5. Base on s Ruth 7, by Bush by Ma ys 3, by Vaughn 6, by Tyler 7, by Passed balls, Sc ng, Killifer 2. ‘Wild pitch, Ruth First base on errors, Boston 4, Chicago. Left on bases, Boston 33, Chicago 31. Double plays, Chicago 7, Bost on 4. lever lory, fheir crown un- peace comes to o 3 2 : ) ’ jen “born again and 4 B p ‘ b $lg'as of old: “Play R — ) Mags and Whiteman Sts y . . o i ¥ " g o 4‘?]’! WveCavl with'the fair | 1 €o) y('nsllt, 1918, by The Tribune Association (New York Trihunaa Recelpts in Series Short of $180,000; hair a rted delivery fell the | e L L et V] LS — . 1\::\'(-1-”‘\” -‘yxli\v\-‘lmw 'hn“l::‘l Sml into | g Attendance Fails to Reach 130,000 the baseball wgdom of the world sl D, ST SN L e RN S e l § ] But it was George Whiteman, whose i Boston, Sept. 12.—The strike of the world’s serfes players evi- cious ¢ e sC two runs in the “WE TOLD YOU SO!” FELT SURE OF WIN | [] | “WE TOLD YOU SO!” deatly did not make much of a hit with the Boston populace, as the Ry & e ; attendance vesterday was nearly 10,000 below Tuesday's turnout. ird, br e Dilexts and SAYS SOX MANAGER e phenom living cate S = : A - —— Cold weathe so had its effect on the crowd. The attendance nth blighte budding rally - = o slumped to 15,238, the smallest world's series attendance since 1808; . a zroun of despair o : when the sixth game of the Detroit-Pittsburgh series, played in when the one card which he has pald By Manager) Barron.) | Detroit, drew only 10,585 persons. The recelpts today also drapped Max Flack—poor unfor- ' § to draw lies face downward on - I was confident of victory | to the low figure of $19,795. is heaped the .blame | top of the. other four. A e s L y g sfltr;\)\fidz:nve and receipts for the six -game series wero 128 Tl e e The Catch of the Seri P all club, and reit that our il (] ) p Sh Tt i ey aln e 3 and $179,6189. In 1916 the five-game Red Sox-Dodger serles dre j ‘ ‘\qu‘\\ to ‘("‘m \ful:m \A’('lmu drive | Barber swung with all his strength pitching staft and defensive play 1 0pe eE[ m ]ese \'\”'fl,(' ';"i ”;,.“", vd,‘.. rr“m’ 16 9 persons, and $385,690.50 was taken in at the gate. Last fall of \Whiteman's. The ball struck his | at the third ball pitched. It flew a would offset Boston's offensive G l C ” d h T “"l::M“‘.: \:":njn-‘“x_r" , the game White Sox-Glant serles was played to 186,663 persans, hands fairly, hut it bounded out and | great streak on a line for right field. weakness. ; olumns Galled the Turn e while the gross receipts were $425,878. wav. However. if Mann, in the | Whiteman dashed forward. Fe W I congratulate the Cubs on N L1, Lo I The attendance and receipts for vesterday's game, for the entire ourth inning, had not relapsed into | tempting fate. If he failed the ball the stand they made and hope | ZAGO 1 bt 1918 series and for the 1917 series follow: emi-consciousne and been caught ' surely would go by him and Barber whenever a Boston team plays i e 1 l.~ Sixth Game, e uick throw, he | would never stop until he wason third in a world’s series they will play | lack ; o 5 5 ,uld have moved to sccond when | or better still, until he hud crossed as gallant a team as the Cubs RIS T WA Hollocher, ... 4 0 walked, and two runs instead ' the plate proved to be Vs st oo Marn, 12 2 would . have resulted from And then, while Knabe waved fran- | | HE BIG SERIE! it e tically for Barber to keep on going, o = i\"mlkl“»‘ 1b, .. ick, 2b. 0 Deal, 3b 5 Zeider, Sb.. Gillifer, c¢ humiliation of having th mer's | gers clutched the ball—and held it T A e the following forecust, and we | | ‘,I{\_'h"““ll'- C tamily sit on her nock while the hired | although he plunged on to the sod | i e et el Tilen, man yanked the barbs out of the | and turned a complete forward som- | o is finished we'll pat ourselves on *Barber toof of her mouth with elaw ham- | ersault. ‘While the crowd cheered he D | ST i S e *Barber ... mer aseball is baschall! massaged his nock and then resumed The Red Sox made the most st e cilode Gl cae 1S S has awarded $23, to the winning Red Sox and $15,485.15 to The day destined to witness the § pla vtor AnchiEl e s s runs in four of the games and lke this—(Get it!) T .27 3 3 the losing Cubs. As 21 Red Sox players are eligible they each will re- therefore arc entitled to their | EHE DS SONAWIET SWIN BOSTON AMERICANS cefve $1,102.51, while the 23 Cubs must be satisfied with individual victory. Luck went against the THI LS I VLIECEY ST ab. r. h. a. e. checks for $671.09 as their portion. Cubs, and in s a close, hard- NOT GO OVER SIX GAME | Hooper. rf. .. .. 0 0 The Giants and Cleveland Indians, second in their respactive fought series luck is invariably Shieantiab s eSSl a M 2 0 lengues, wil split up $15,469.91, more’ than the losing Cubs receive. the deciding factor, = - Strunk, cf..... 0 0 The third-place Washingtons and Cincinnati Reds divide $9,281.95, ke However, 1 heartily congrat- | o Ve 3 Whiteman, 1f 0 o|! while tha fourth- place Yankees :;\f\d ;’{1:(&:« divide $6,187.97. These ulate the Red Sox for having 8 L et WG, (G e SRR i o 0 0 clubs divide their shares on a fifty-fifty basis. L o . played clean, hard baseball X S0W 0 B CReel), 3o ot Gl o | Gt ol 0 3 0 sver the snowy hills of New Hamp- box and announced that for first time an extra big shot with his pet needle | | N s ‘ o M shire. Gov. McCall stuck to the royal | in history of the world carrier pig- h and predicted the result of the world’ :I“):(vy\;-\.w s 55D = box until the last and by so doing | eons w going to convey the score = e S e Sl helior e e e 2 ¢ || become a concrote bridge, or some- | the senior circutt, and seem to be bet- qualified to accompany Ronald Am- | by innings to Camp Deven Ina i On the day the above box appeared, . 2 b S ter "money players.” undsen on his next annual escursion | much as it was the first time in the 'stone, for he mercly smiled sweetly | the author of it was greeted by the || ~ o™ B e e e aribrass | Wi willibalAateaNtnat Boston imakd hunt for the south pole history that a messenger had been and removed the dent from his soft | gang in the back room, as well as hy o - 5 ol ’l“‘_i'"“‘e\;r“‘_‘1’MW it et not | gin vesterday again was only one run. rt of Camouflage, used for such a purpose the undertak- hag N S e A s N el A 000 10 Dl et s DR R R e e rix and ler warmed up for | ing was watched with considerable in- | Pick is Picked O, who knew even less about baseball ox tories over the Cubs by that one run. bs, the exercise on Hendrix's | terest { In Boston’s half of the first Shean | than he did, with a choice collection margin. That one run seems to be just being a sort of strategical Cubs Score in Fourth. called for the ball, examined it and | of ripe juicy rawzzberries. He was as sacred as the cad in the Hub, for in mouflage which Mitchell has indulged The pigeon with the 0-0 despatch spat upon it for luck. Tyler rubbed | told that as a haseball dope artist he 16 world's serles successes by Bostony hroughout the series. Just before | {jed to its leg was liberated. It rose Shean's saliva off and substituted t make a fairly useful oilean, and clubs 13 have been recorded by one- Tyler began to pitch in Boston’s half ihout seventy-five feet hut instead of some of his own. Shean fanned, which | that he knew just about as much run margins. In 19156 the Red Sax won af the first Deal walked over to him | winging its way divect to the New :makes it seem a pity that Mitchell | about the national game as Willlam all their four games from the Phillies and carefully, selected two blades of | nzland cantonment insisted on flying | didn’t suck a lemon during the re- | Jennings Bryan who knows about the by one run and dropped only one gamae grass, which hie deposited in his hib | qhout in alcoholic circles like { mainder of the game current price of Haig & Haig. The to the Moran forces. The series this pocket, thus removing from the im- | gt r who has mixed his dvinks | In the second Pick singled past | wise ones also intimated that when year was the fourth in the fifteen mediate vicinity all evil s |ty to find the North Station. | Thomas and was feeling very jubilant | the series was over and the bottom Ehe com el o3 i 5 “WE TOLD YOU SO! playedisincell 908 chat Went Slxigsies which might have n disturbing ef- | When last seen the bird was mount- when he reached firsl. So much so | knocked out of his prediction, that | o ;- 950° 9% 4% 00 SCh B0 ) The other three were the 1906 series, feot on George. If Deal preserved the | i eadily upward and by this time | that he Kept dancing away from the | the hoss would he advised by a wel- s 1 e — in which the Chicago Americans won crop he probably will add it to that | gught to be approaching the suburbs ) bag daringly and urging Mays to | fare committee to secure a new sport- R R Db ey s from the Cubs, the 1911 affair, in doleful collection which includes the | op paradise throw it. Mays, being a gentleman | ing editor. But these and other ver- Glavay: : 2 R“ which the Giants ran second to tha glove that Snodgrass wore in 2 The Cubs garnered their solitary | under all circumstances finally obliged | bal bouquets as to our mental defi- I ot Ganty 5 Athletics, and the 1917 competition and the shoes .in which Zimmerman | .un in the fourth, which came peril- | and Pick. unable to tind any approach | ciency and lack of inner vision didn’t 1 i S won by the White Sox over the Giants. to the hag that was not guarded by [ bother us. We only became more de- Six series have been decided in five: : . g 3 Losing pitcher. Ter. | e ce s tagged srmined to carry our bluff throug 5 ames. \m‘.m‘ feet, was ta 1 out e termine d t” ul\' our bluff through. Umpires—Messrs. Hildebrand, . SIS n Boston's half of the same inning | So after calling the turn correctly on || i’ Klem at first; Ow at Thomas, holding three balls and two | the first two games, when Boston scond, and O'Day, at third. Red Sox, With Only One Error, Set lips op Official paid attendance Total receipts .. Each club’s share e 5 National Commission’s share . ... .... ingle And if the cow had ever seen a cac- | and just as the ball was about to | e If any veaders of the. Herald piant before she would have been = strikc the ground, Whiteman dived — = - '] <port page figure on placing a i to keep on chewing her old | forward in a last despairing effort little bet on the outcome of the ud and would have been spared the | with his hands outstretched. His fin- LUCK AGAINST CUBS, series, we call their attention to 1918 Series (Six Games). 1917 Serles (Six Games). Total paid attendance . . 186,668 Total paid attendance Total receipts ........$179,619.00 Total receipts Players’ share ........ 68,627.70 Players’ share B ch club’s share 37,156.96 Each club’s share .. National Commission’ National Commission’s share 17,961.00 share o mHN oo A Out of the play: share of $69,527.70 the national commission vl oocomooocococoocococon? valedictory of the 1 old dame | rell's hopes had flown skyward White- lawned fair bhut col he Septem- | man yielded his position to Babe sun seenied to have no more pow- | ituth. The fans stood and roared ht and appreciation as ber r to warm {he air than the reflec- | their delig ion of a musty cheese on the hall Whiteman walked to the bench, ach- i mirror. The 15,000 fans present were | ing but happy yundled up like a crowd of countr) At th conclusion of the firs folk bound for a moonlight pung ride | ning a gentleman stood in the pre; open to the inference that we think tted for Tyler in the eighth || we know anything about the game, | inning but we affirm, nevertheless, that as a Chicago... 00010000 0—1 || }hjacksmith we turned out to be a Loston 00200000 ~x—2]|pretty fair lil' ol’ predicter on the out- en base ek come of the series. Sacrifice hits—Hooper, Thomas, So once more, just for the sake of on hases—Chicago, 2; Bos- || hearing the gang groan again, we re- peat the chorus of that sweet little st base on errors—Boston, 2. || song entitled: ) pursued Col in 1917 ously n being another fatal fourth. Mays opened that t 1 inning for | Flack singled through the box to be- Boston and walked on four straight in with Hollocher went out on a balls. Hooper t out, Tyler to Mer- | groun to M Mann, eager sle, leaving Mays perched on second. | to hit, allowed his left leg to re- Bhean walked. Whiteman came up in one place too long and one of strikes, drew another ball. Tle reach- | won, we rubbed it in by pointing out Time of game-—1 hour and 45 e s e ed second on Schang's grounder, bhut | that the Cubs would cop the third, IEs | Series Record. . minutes. . . . was touched out by the energetic Mr. | and the Red Sox the fourth, and that H Pl d F W In past vears the world's series usu- Pick when he overslid the bag and | Chicago would come back and grab Oflper flye on r1ve ll]IllIlg ally developed mediocre baseball, but swinging a bat that look y's fast, low yots struck it last three yards of the fla A m went to the ground writhing this season it brought out some of the In Boston’s half of the*ourth D still in the fight. This last forecast, | always was one of our faults, but we | T M kl F L finest mechanical and mental perform- made an artistic stop of Scott's irreg- | made on the morning of the fth | just can’t help telling the world that efi[flS GI‘ e 0“ lVfl OSEI‘S ances vet seen on any diamond in any yr‘ historic swat which ¥lack alm zol. « v hospital, yelled: “Cut i MeInnis was safe when I throw arrived too late. Merkle s The s Hmped down to first. and | ular hit, became absorbed in the for- | gnme, when Boston had (he series 3 [ We are some lilI' dope artist. | sort of campetition. The Red Sox mation of some specimen of plant | to 1, sounded so rash to the boss of | course, Muggsy McGraw and Barrow | = =l played five games without an error, life, and neglected to throw the ball. | the composing room that he laid us | and Mitchell know a little bit about Boston's record in world's series still | and their lone misplay was a mis- [n.,m s sacrificed. Schang walked | o little wager that the Sox would fin- | the game, and we even concede that | ;. jiinculate. The successs of the |judged fly by Whiteman. That 5 nd s beat out u bunt to Deal, | 1sh the title mateh that day. Noth- | Conny Mack is not entirely ignorant | pog sox vesterday was the clinching |a flelding record which series to come Diect. 16t ALt e e e S e inEglos i TWay out on a limh | of its fine points, but we trust that our | gy yent In the Hub's sixth triumph [ hardly will excel. The Cubs, too, wits il B LS Al LR X an ho tugge runner Mann was the lasi man ¢ and covercd his iron man, and there | readers will purdon the pride which | i %0 huseball classic. Of these vie- |only five errars, played above world's Whiteman's marvellous catch it e | m solox v was | the plate in the tast ning of what | is no need of vecording here our joy | swells our hewd,- -no,—our breast, | 15,4es five have been accounted for by | series form. The pitching was splen- it Mitchell, seci ‘ »st unfortunat ) t batte may be the last world's scries game - at pocketing the siune, nor is it nec when we lo back complucently and | 4j0 ped Sox and one by the Braves. |did and for the first time in our re- slipping from his grasp, called for skert ke rkle singled | which the sun shall look upon. In | essary to relate how we spent it. And | realize how perfectly we sized up the | gguin the American league has dem- | membrance the series failed to develop wew deck. Barber was the tirst man | f or | Mitchell's hrow the darkness of de- | finally, when vesterday arrived, snd | situation. lPurthermore, we can’t re- | gistrated its superfority in the serles | even one home run, and after all the ap. Somehow every one scemed to ) ! L the 1 feat had fallen, Mann tried hwrd 0 | we hegan o 1hrow out our chest | frain rrom chuckling as we stalk de- | oVey the National league and the series | talk of what Ruth was golng to da to feel that the critical moment of the ing f t Flack fou coep the spark of hope still burning | proud in the knowledge that we knew | fiantly into the back room and note | seore ngw stands ten to five, with the|the fences! At that, Ruth brought out game had come. Knabe, cc ball Lowhich it of the ' but he hit to Shean, who tossed the | whereof we spoke. the crowd in the | the presence of old Dr. Gloom perched | game tally 36 to 38. Of the last nian | a three-gaser which won the fourth| Arst, marked cncouragement e grand stand and hou ek upon | ball playtully 1o Melnnis for the kst | old shop liked it JUSt about s much f on the shoulders and noble counten- | serics eight have gone to the voung-|game for the Red Sox. The catching satter, but Mitchell watche S| the head of Sitting field | while the fans roarcd trium 1« a bavefoot boy likes to dance in a | ance of the gang there, who, one and | op organization, which sends into the [was of a very high caliber, with tha ence and on his face was ; x who must cither b “t shantly and the Sox leaped for | hriar bush on s Bl e O bl e e high we were qualified to | {o think and act quicker thaa th (Continued on Ninth P e ball over to Deal " : 15 that o sore leg means noth i, who was making « crous it hang when < 1 world’ ult on third, was welcomed b titl stailce: wa ngerly ) on his breastbon ! way g when 1 | | { | 1 | Pittsburgh City hall, and hit v i somie fun, who probably :n slected to take it with him the fifth just to show that they were | — fion such as the poker play [ Scientist o € « i Well, we hate o € and modesty | onr neck upward “WE TOLD YOU SO! SWE TOLD YOU SO | SWE TOLn you sott “wE TOLD YOU som SWE TOTD YOU SO CWE TOUD YOU SO | “WE TOLD YOU sot