The evening world. Newspaper, October 11, 1912, Page 2

i lI } i. H } ; | ——ae RT ie == siow grounder that Yerkes tossed Stanly Merkle going to third on this play; But it did him no good, as M ers’ long drive to left landed in Lewis’ hands after he had made a high jump for the ball. The Chief was again tue viet’ of hard lucty, ONE HIT. NO RUNS THIRD INNING. With two strikes on Wood, Tesreau tried a, curve, but the Boston pitcher drove it into right for a single. ‘Tesreau missed the plate three times in @ row and then managed to get a strike over, but the next was the fourth ball and Hooper walked. Yerkes attempted to bunt the first bail, but missed It. He Again tried to bunt, but fouled. Yerkes then sent a @low bounder to Tesreau, who threw to Herzog at third and forced Wood. Speaker went after the third ball pitched and was out on an easy grounder, Doyle to Merkle, Both runners advanced on this play and ‘Lewis had a great chance to clean up. ‘There was nothing doing, however, as he topped & spit bail for a slow grounder to Fletcher and was out at first. HIT. NO RUNS. er was given & great ovation whén he came to bat. But Wt hit . pen ball to Wood and w: ‘Wood to Stahl. Tesi a darvex uf) on three pitched ballx, taking hefty swing each time, Devare drove « hot founder to Gardner and was out at first. NO HIT#&. NO RUNS, FOURTH INNING =. ‘Tésteau was very unsfeddy tt the fourth and gave Gardner four straight dalle for a pass. . Stahl allempu sacrifice, Wut Tesredu got the ball ‘and | by a quick throw to Fletcher forced Gardrior at second. Stahl got a good start and stole second, Meyers's throw pels high and wide, W. on gf easy grounder to Me ‘Stah) advancing to play. foriad: third on Fletcher made a great attempt the hot over second, but fumbled king the ball downt but it went for = single and Stahl scored. Wood lifted ‘a high fly to Murray and retired the side. ONE RUN, ONE HIT, NO ERRORS. Doyle went after the second ball pitched and was nailed at first by a halr-line on a slow pounder to Yerker ‘After making Snodgrass strike at a fast one, Wood completely fooled him with’ a curve that split the plate. He then switched back to his fast one and Knodgrass struck out, without swinging. Murray also struck out on two fast ones and @ curve ball, The New York crowd showed ita appreciation of Wood's ‘artistic work by cheering him to the echo, NO'RUNS, FIFTH INNING: Murray turned back’ { the right fleld wall and madew marvellous bane-hand- ed catch pf a'drive from Hoeper's bat that look of for a triple, This was by far hb most wonderful play of the game. ‘After taking two strikes, Yerkes caugh§ @ tast\one én the nose and shot it Into left for. @stagie. The Sox were ate? Tea hard, dnd his unstead- neab wap “thea, -Hersog got Spedker’a! t and anepped the hall to Doyle in tiine to, force Yerken at second, Speaker attempted to pteal sec- ond, but Meyera mate @ perfect, throw to Doyle and matteg him by three feet, HIT.. NO RUNS, ‘made a wonderful pick-up of ki slash through the box and got him at firet by @ nose. rzog took two strikes then drove # einkle past Stahl. Meyers struck out on three pitched balls, the last one being @ curve feet completely fooled him. Wagner ran back of end je @ marvellous atop oa Fletcher's drive and threw him out by an eyelash, ‘This was the second marvellous play made by Warner in one ianing. NOJRUNS, ONE HIT, SIXTH INNING. Lewis fanned weakly on low apittere. Geraner swung at @ fast one and hit an easy foul to Hersog; After giving Stahl three balls, Tesreau.settied down and struck ‘him out. NO RUNS. NO HITS. Z Tesreau, singled to left and started a rally for ¢he Gtants, On the firat Pitched Mall Devore smashed « terrific rive against Wood's shin and the ball bounced past first base for a single. Tesreau going to second, Doyle swun, at the first ball and lifted ‘a high fly to Yerkes. In disgust Larry threw his bat against the players’ bench. Giants hed stopped their waiting Ve sat are NOW swinging at the first ball, Snodgrass smashed a hot one to Yerkes, Who throw, to Gardner and forced out Devore. Murray then forced out Snod- grass On exactly the same play. Giants hed fallen “down on a chance. TWO HITS. NO RUNS, SEVENTH INNING. ‘Wagner was an easy victim on strikes and Cady followed suit by fanning on three pitched balls. Wood drove « long fly to Murray ani retired. ‘Tesreau was kolng great now, but it seemed that his start was too late, NO RUNS NO The great ITS. With the count standing two and two rkie was fooled on curve and struck t. This was Wood's seventh viet Heraog smashed a drive throug Wagner for his se Myers got into the lifted a high fly to Sp cought .q curve squarely and rammed it against the wall for two. bases, hpme. MeCo Tesreau and drove a single that Yerkes troke down, Fleteher tried to sco he play, Yerkes recovered the ball Aade WM perfect throw to the. p) Aletcher waw blocked off the home plate and was am easy out, ONE RUN VHREE HITS. hot the nose right feta sending Herzog 2 on and mick Was sent into bat for! Secretary Refused to After Weary National day the announcement was made o'clock. The decision to go ahead men and women crazy to pay out sacritices of time and comfort to see Just how far that decision was af- | fected by the how! lke the lynehing- | hungry scream of an infuriated popu- | taco whieh roared through the windows | of the offices of the New York Baseball Clad, at Eighth avenue and One Hun- dred and Fifty-seventh street, it would be hard to say, But after every poss! ble excuse had been considered and tel- phoned down to the headquarters of the National Commission at the Waldorf and back, and Umpires O'Loughitn, Kiem and Evans had looked aver the ground and had gone to police-guarded, soundless telephone booths to report as to whether they should or should not give @ verdict that the grounds were too wet for a real game, there came a mill, wild scream of rage and mur- derous willingness from the waiting thousands outside. By this time they wretched from One THundred and Fifty- seventh atreet to One Hundred and Fiftysfitth. street across to Bradhurst ‘avenue and south again to One Hundred Called Out of Bed to Give Consent. (By Direct Wire to The Evening World.) POLO GROUNDS, NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Exactly at noon to- settie the baseball championship of the world would be started at 2 riot and a rush through the ticket gates—the rush of ten thousand eager| Let Them Enter Until) Commission Had Been that the fourth of the contests to with the game was tie signal for a their own money under any and all | a truly distinguished baseball game. of the line, who had been yelling “Want, to buy a p sir? Take this place | for five dollars were now cooing much more gently and were speaking of dol- lara and half dollars and were finding few customers, Secretary O'Br! whose chin whiskers were getting so stiff with excitement that they) were making sounds like the bristles of a music box when his fingers twiddiea them, walked out over the fleld. He returned to the elu house and allowed as how he couldn't tek a thing about the prospects, Then came an eavesdropped conversa- tion between Mr. O'Brien and a person named John, presumably Mr. John Heydler, Secretary to the Nation League, Buch parts of it were un- avoldably overheard confirmed the impression that the persons in charge of the Polo Grounds were embarrassed, It ran something like this; “John, how about it?" “Well, you know what I told you. and Fortieth street, which must have been heard through the wires to the Waldorf. The sleepy magnates of the National Commission st up and took notice, They declared the game oa. After a night of light and heavy rain from midnight until daylight this morn- ing, the Polo Grounds were a mysty mystery. The great galleres of the front of the stadium stood out of the fog dimly gray and yellow brown. The grounds were wet, but not sossy. Had it been the day of the routine game in the National League season nobody could have doubted that there was to de a game. But because it was @ ‘s series mand did doubt. And when the street lamps went out there were but @ scant five hundred men ané perhaps half ® hundred women stand> tng, firet on one leg and then on the other, along the huge board fence of Eighth avenue, all of them facing weur- ily towards the admission yates near One Hundred and Fifty-seventh street. Aa to what happened after that the National Commission ought to answer, ‘but probably will not, ‘The|degree to which the great American public, and especially the New York pub- Mc, which is supposed ¢o be the wisest and the moet cynical of thei all, will @tand for being used as martyrs had ever @ better example than under the soft shadows of Coogan’s Bluffs in the early hours, Murphy, the groundkveper, who loves hie green lawns of the In- field and outfield as @ mother loves her first born, went across the flald followed by an Evening World reporter at 8 o'clock. Every Mttle while he tried the turg gently, lovingly, with the toe of hdw generous boot. It was soft but firm. “They can play on it, all right," he said, “but I hate to think what ft will be take to set it right again, sure, they ! can play, but oh, me poor gra: BOYS HOLDING PLACES IN LINE READY TO SELL CHEAP, At o'clock the people out on the sidewalk of Eighth avenue reached nearly to One Hundred and Fifty-fitth street, The men and boys at the head like to-morrow and the work it will!’ What do they want to do?” “There's about two thousand put here now. “Yes, the line ts growing all the time. “I know, but there ty a man here who saya it is likely to rain to-morrow too, If it rains to-day he THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, 'D, FRIDAY, 0 OTOBER 11, 19 PESSELPASSSSAOS OS SOAASSOESESESSESS to rain to-morrow. Thi gone.” “But we have got two thousand people out here now, most three thousand, and more coming all the time. We can't hold them here all da: The Police and the Fire Department and the press, all of them, want to know what they are going to do, Is Mr. Herrmann up yet?” HURRIED TO PHONE HERRMANN TO GET THE “DOPE.” The two leagues assign four umpires to settle a mooted baseball questions through this champlonship series. They are under orders to be present on the wrounds at 11 o'clock each day, There is no self-evident reagon why one or more of them should not be here af least as carly as the newspaper report: re for the convenience of the public, At @ few minutes after 11 o'clock two umpires, Mr. O'Loughlin and Mr, Kiem appeared. They walked to second base and then to third base and ¢hen hurried to telephone in apparent haste to learn whether the omnipo- tent Mr. Herrmann or somebody else had waked from his weariness of last night's tnter-reuben excitement between town and Boston sufficiently to toll them what they ought to think about the ratlo between to-day's wetness of grounds and to-morrow’s possible profits, Mr, Evans dashet up to the gates in a taxicad. Thousands of fans recognized him anit Qssuming a hearty friendliness wh'ch no fan ever felt toward an umpire howled How about it, Ev, Old Boy, oes she go?" Sternly, mysteriously, brows, Mr. Evans hurrle surface of Mr. Murphy's beloved em- erald diamond. “How about it?” asked Inspector Sweeney of the Police and several messengers of the Fire Dpart- as he hurried toward the enfer- room, where the other umpires with Deetling to the fair patiently and got four straight balls. Ames now in trouble. Cady hit to Fletcher and forced Wagner at second Wood drove a long single to right, ao ing Gardner end sending Cady to third, Hooper lifted an easy fly to Snodgrass. ONE RUN, TWO HITS, Herzog drove a long fly to S| Meyers fouled out to Cady. te NO HITS, 4 out to Stahl. RACE—Thr welling; atx 12 (Loftus), won; -yearsolds, and furlongs, —Du- Rose of Jed- EIGHTH INNING: Ames now pitching for the Giants Hooper missed two kes and then | popped an easy fly to Fletcher at short Fletcher made wonderful stop of Yerkes’s grounder and with a perfect on an tonsed to tins Vagnor made another wonderful stop nd throw on Devore’s grounder man. Doyle smashed straight into Hooper's hands a plain boot 1 ‘onder and Was Koo a smashed a clean sing! thbed his mit Murray through ehort, advancing Snodgrass to second, Jt wis now up to kik After fouling. off three cal ONE HIT out on striker, NINTH INNING, ‘@ariner poled u ‘long single om the second ball nMched, iificed, Ames to M le, Ga Venclug to Feoond, Wagner \dah, 10 (Henry), second; Cash on De- livery, 1 (Buxton), third, ‘Time, 118, Island Queen, Tolson d'Or Commoners Touch, Fairch ynpton, Helen Bur net, Tiles’ Nightmare and Lassie also ran. Two Mutuela ¥ | straight, ©, $8. 8 of Jeddah, p Cash on Delivery BECKER WITNE. TO GET $500 AND $10, 000 INSURANC n the DistrloteAt day that owed 8) for sured by ‘LEACH CROSS, 01 ,YOI! HE'S IN AGAIN, AND HE WILL BOXFIGHT TO-NIGHT. Leach Cross, the boxing dentist, was before t Athletic Commission to- day, booked for a spanking because he had presumed to book himaelf for a bout with Jack Britton at the St, Nich- olas Athletic Club to-night before re- celving oMclal notice that his sentence of sixty days’ suspension had been com- muted. Instead of the spanking, how- ever, he Was oMcially reinstated, with the result that he will allowed to go on with the bout to-night with the clever Chicago lad, Leach was “set down" State for sixty days Sept. 10 for using the “kidney blow" in a bout with Duffy, the young Buffalo boxer. He presented to the Commission petitions containing 6,000 names asking that the punishinent be lighte Was told the matter would be junder consideration, and apparently Hing this a in Kood @ notice that he was agali grace went ahead and A himself with Britton, The s vertised, and when Commis rned of this he demanded an om, Delleving he had been silg!t- much as he had never given his n of the figlt- ly today's spe- match a commutats Accord! alled. Crowd Lined Up at Polo Grounds Gate Waiting for Umpires to Order a Game SPOOR DEREbEOOEER enegnneonoononeE ceoeneooosennarer ceneoeresecoesooesooeseees POSISOSIIFSSSSIOS GOOTIIDOS OOOOSIOROFSSESED, SISTSIIIESISSI9IT D were already talking to the sow thor oughly aroused Garry Herrmann. “They could play rig! "said Evans, who had not been supplied with what baseball patrns vulgarly know as! A moment later a pale-' the inside dope. faced youth shot into the group of wait- ing reporters below. Everybody had been shut out of the upper office by this time because of ribald comment on the earlier telephone deliberations. A moment later came that blood-curd- ling shriek of 10,000 fans stretched from | One Hundred and Fitty-seventh street thousands and thousands of them. They did not say it in so many words, but with @ bright though clouded sky over head and dry slewalks all over town that yell meant just one thing, trans- lated into words: ‘This is @ baseball day, Give us a game or tell us why. Give us baspball or give us Garry Herr- mann and Ban Johnson and all the re ANSWER TO CROWD CAME BACK OVER PHONE. Whether the savagery of that cry was heard shrough ‘the telephone in the Wal- | dort or whatever other soft pli of repose In which the magnates might have been resting at the moment, the consequence could not have been quicker had {t been an answer, A hundred free coated 6 nut and ran thundering over the passageways HH | their siations. The drumming of the stampeding herds on the plains in the resonant Sep: tember night has been told of old, One may have seen & Mexican tmultitude bullfight-mad rage Into the old Plaza In the De Toros and may have heard them hiss bitter Spanish oaths as they fought their way politely to the Lazom- bra and El Sol, che shady and the sunny sides of the arena between files of sol- bristling rs alert with loaded rifles, with fixed bayonets, He marched gelf-conscously along aisles of the amphitheatre of a modern intercollegiate football game with @ girl conspicuously wearing Yale blue or larvard crimson or Princeton orange and black. Tut until this day of gi snd tumultous confusion and joy, no man of this generation ever saw such racing and pounding and yelling of dis- traugit men a8 pounded along the slop- ing aproaches of the Polo Grounds and slamming down seats with a at one minute past twelve o'clock to-day, Who shall tell of the thousand and one things between that sudden, fever- for places at noon and the ec- ining of the game two hours ed that there had been | frict between Com er Dixon Jand his colleague, Fran O'Neil, over the matter, but this was denied by oth, ‘They sald thelr prinelpal reason for Cross'# suspension vas wsing the fighters and moters concerned the of mi nye [oeiat must bewa suine man who has three patrs nds und Who can pase copy to telegraph operators wih bis toes may tell of it By way of low comedy an actor whose name Was suid to be Mann strayed with as litle self-consclousness as pos- . bowing to all persons who were to recognize him aft = n® had |mowed first, and sa’ on the end of the ants’ bench, or rather cave, at the left of the cenue of the grand stend to One Hundred and Fortleth street, | ENRAGED FANS CLAMORED AT AT THE GATES FOR CROWD OF 10,000 RAGED AT POLO GROUND’ GATES WAITING FOR THE UMPIRES hccachtaccthathchcchchthcaathcacctpcaccitacacacatactacacatacatactactaccicacaccctactacatitictacatitictacactactat icteric |>FRRRERRRRREREEERR HONOR THE FLEET CITIZENS OF NEW YORK: it Lang Out Your Flags of the Discovery of America. IDoDE Celebrate the occasion and the Presence of UNCLE SAM'S GREAT FLEET in the North River by Display: ing the STARS and STRIPES. | horseshoe, Swat Milligan, who has no 'tact when the Giants are coneldered, or if It was not Swat {t was a person uni verwally recognized about the grounds }@s the hero of the Poison Owks, went over and whispered to him, ACTOR FORCED TO MOVE FROM THE GIANTS’ BENCH. “AN right, all right, sald the actor apologeticaily, “but would you mind If |1 went over and Jinxed the Red Sox?" owner of the New York club, New York pia: was under the ¢ with an especial! instrument re of a trains bulletin as they were received, play, to say whether or not the bling fingers of the s Go to It,” was the answer, and the octal Jinx went to Boston headquar-| NQ CUB-WHITE SOX GAME. ters, while the news of his evic ton | spread front section of section and from tier to ter and was greeted with] CHICAGO, Oct, 1L—A_ rain-soaked field and a prediction of showers for ever growing cheers. On the other side of the screen was a wave of sympathy which moved the day indicated sinall the Cubs and White Sox get across the stands when it was votived, gether in the city champlonship game that the automobile of John Brush,| to-day. $ : eneesesesorcconssoosess L. M. BLUMSTEIN, 8d and Melrose Avenues, at 150th Street, Announce that cut flowers will be given away to custemers all dey to-morrow, Saturday, as a token of Spareceation ef their Ahr us make our Formal Opening Monday Evening, Sept 30th, an overwhelming succe 5th AB) and as a compensa- tion to those whe, owing to ¢ emendous crowd, could not get into the store that evening. Special Sales arranged through- out the store for to-morrow and the week following worthy of your participation. OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS PITTI TT ITISITISITIT TT To-Morrow, Oct. 12, Is the Anniversary iB RRRRRRRRERRRRRER wheeled Into {ts usual position at the hour when it always does appear. knew that Mr, Brusn ty Installed telexrapn a an ante-room and a phy- alctan in attendance to look over each be censored before golng to the trem- k owner, Mkelihood eeeecseees Cut Flowers Given Away Saturday ' had not The ed nurse Play by y should 1% to: | of [ERLANGER MINS SUIT; OPPOSING LAWYERS FINED (Continued from First Page.) between the lawyer and the Justice's bench, “This is a most outrageous chal There !# no word of truth in It. }1 am iInexpressibly shocked at Mr. Bouvier’s question. I ask what Mr. Bouvier says be disregarded and that & juror be withdrawn,” ‘Motion granted garding statements of counsel, the Court. ‘Motion to withdraw a juror denied at this time I forbid you to further go into this matter!” Mr. Bouvier evidently did not realize the serious way in which the Court turned his decision, for he returned to hie papers and then asked deliverately: “Did you not in June, 1911, swear thet Leonard was the husband of the woman you called your wife?” Mr. Jerome leaped from his rushed to the jury railing. tain, Your Honor, the Court been wilfully disobeyed and I to jury disre- | move""— “Motion to withdraw a juror grant- Jed!” interrupted the Court, smashing |bis gavel on his bench. ‘Now, Mr. | Bouvier, I shall hear you as to why you should not be punished for con- tempt.” COURT ORDERS A MISTRIAL AND FINES COUNSEL. Bouvier glanced about in a dazed way. ‘The ashen face of Max D. Steuer, who eat quietly during the exciting court scene, assumed a whiter pallor. Jerome was grinning triumphantly. “I deem this case a mistrial and I fine you, Mr. Bouvier, $60 for con- tempt of court," said he arose to leave the court room. Mr. Bouvier pleaded that fine be withdrawn because of the stigma it would attach to his reputation. He of practice had there been the slight+ est reflection cast on his reputation. The Court declined to quest. Will the Court grant me an excep- tion?" he pleaded as the Justice lett his seat. “Yes, you may have an exception to my ruling on the withdrawal of @ Juror, but no exception as to the fine I im- posed for contempt of court. Bemem- ber, too, you will stand committed if you fail to pay this fine.” Misa . Clair was seeking to recover $2,500, first instalment of a $25,000 coné tract for her histrionic services made with her by Mr. Erlanger. This je the second day of the hearing of the case. Mr. Erlanger was on the stand this afternoon and he proved to be an interesting witness. Led by his lawyer, William Travers Jerome, Erlanger told of Lawyer Max D. Steuer’s visit to his office on Aug. 7, 1900, when the contract was signed. Mr. Erlanger repeated his story of what which Mi working unde lationship between the producer and and also about the re- Mise St. Clair. As @ result of what Steuer sald, Erlanger testified: “I knew that Mr. Steuer had me and I gave up.” The witnens told of “Little Tim” Sull!- van visking him en Aug. 6 and telling him that @ friend, Mr. Steuer, wished to see him the next day “on the St. Clase matter.” teuer and “Litule Tim" went to Erlanger's office, Aug. 7, the politician leaving before Erlanger and Steuer had their conversation, After Mr. Erlanger had stated that “only fear of his home being ruined” tne duced him to sign the contract, he ad- Special for er, Oct. 11th. 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You feared the wrong woul! reach the public?” “Thal the idea,” Asked if he feared might be bew with Miss St. lic, Erlanger answered too modest to answer thi “Well, drop your modes: and answer!” demanded; “For a reputation for it and I did not want to lo: “Did you delleve on A had done Miss St. Clair “Yes: think a man ought to be Mtv, ¥ our reputation the corner Sixth Ave., Corns in clothes simply beca: the accommodation of c clothes for men, wom dren, and expect you NO $, MONEY DOWN you'd pay e! here, Credit Term Lenox Bet. 1434 & 124th CARPET, CLEANING J & Columbus, oVreD. BURNS.-On Oct, 10, 191 Brooklyn, wife of Edwar: sat St, and Sterling on Saturday, Oct, 12 Interment Specie! for Saturda: CHCCOLATE COvEi pid SPECIAL KOR FRIDAY A YD SAiURKDAY Hatch wild ASSURTED NUT Rox ~Am original combi with which are chopped ® most tempting confect OFFE®INGS FOR & RIDAY A\\D SAVLUKDAY MILK CHOCOLATE COVERED|SUiER BONBONS AND CHOCO. 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