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Show " Happy Felsch's Homer Gives White Sox Opener BAT OF WISCONSIN BOY GETS NEEDED - RUN FOR CICOTTE Great Pitching Battle Goes Against Slim Sallee When Chicago Outfielder Knocks Ball Into Bleachers in Fourth; Fred McMulSin Drives in First Tally in Third; Joe Jackson Prevents Score With Great Shoe-.1 Shoe-.1 string Catch; Lew McCarthy V1 Giants' Heavy Hitter. T Chicago . .' 2 New York . : 1 Probable pitching selections for today: v For New York Fred Schupp. For Chicago Urban Fairer. By DAMON RUN YON. By International News Service. CHICAGO, Oct. 6. T-lHppy Felsch Happy by nickname and just as happy by nature is hero No. 1 of the world's series of 1917. He is stocky-built, made-in-Mil-waukee centerfielder of the Chicago "White Sox, born in Milwaukee, reared in Mil- waukee and developed In Milwaukee. His home run in the fourth Inn Ins of the opening game of baseball's annual championship struggle this afternoon beat the New York Giants, The final score was 2 to 1. The leathery left arm of old Harry Sallee. the tall skin-thin veteran of the Giants' crew, lashed just two bails in Felsch's direction. Happy hit the second i,. into the crowd into the left field bleach-v bleach-v cm. A wide grin covered the face of the Mil waukee boy as he trotter! around the bases. He was happy inside and outside, out-side, was Happy Felsch, but no happier than the 32,000 people packed into the ball park of the Chicago White Sox, champions of the American league. The Sox a 1 read y had one run w hen v Felsch hit his homer, but after that the ' National leaguers scored one, so it was Happy's terrific smash that decided one of the closest and most bitterly fought games that a world's series has ever 1 known. ) Cicotte in Form. iVorking on the margin's home run, . FTTdie Cicotte, the chunky right hsnder, ' who has seen some dozen baseball seasons come and go since he first entered the f league,., pitched superbly against the J sluggers from Manhattan island. For years Cicotte's only claim to fame was the fact that he came to the big league from the same club and at the same time as Tyrus Raymond Cobb. He t was the castoff of two other American t i league clubs. 1 Te had a delivery they ' " called the knuckle ball. It was not re- gaided as anything remarkable in base ball. Then, suddenly, Cicotte began showing show-ing exceptional pitching ability until finally he became known as one of the best in the game. lie has a trick of rubbing the ball on his shirt front before delivering, first, ' t however, applying it to a spot on his TL nee. Fh!1 players have claimed that ihis rubbing produces a small shiny spot on the ball, and m. s it take odd quirks and turns. They cull it the shluo balf. Eddie in the Clear. Many cn American league player and manager protested Cicotte's practice. . They said it was illegitimate. Time and again games have been delayed in that league while the players and umpires examined ex-amined the t all held by Cicotte, but ft v.hs never established that Cicotle was using any foreign subsance to aid his delivery. He rubbed the ball a. great deal today, To him, by this Aladdhi-and-his-lamp method came success, k lie rubbed the ball a great deal dtoya, - but ihe New York Giants paid little attention at-tention to his rubbing. Before the game thev reached I he conclusion, which Is probably true, that the shine ball is large-lc large-lc a matter of imaginaion, and that Ci-cotto's Ci-cotto's real secret was his control and fast ball. Alternating at first and third base. John J. McGraw of the Giants, and his r ' veteran aides, George Gibson, the old U Pittsburg catcher, and Hans Ixmert, the third baseman, watched Cicotte with .5 '-eat care, but they never bothered htm with, basebn'ds. On the ot Ivr side, Clarence Rowland, the once derided "busher" manager of 'Vhe While Sox, and his chief lieutenant, I ho old. soa my -faced "Kid" Gleason. - were just ks attentive to the delivery of the amazingly long and amazingly thin ft. Sal Ice onlv some Co years old, as years W . hiit sun-biiked to a century in the !Miiers of St. Louis. Veterans of Slab. Both Sallee and Cicotte are veterans of their respective clubs. They both "get by " as baseball puts It, partly on what thev have In the way of physical abil-n abil-n Itv in the knack of putting the "stuff" H lf,7 or quirks on t he baseball as It leaves Tf 1 ,i their hands, and partly on what they know; partly on their baseball wisdom, j They are among the giants of the I pitching mound, and they proved U to-1 to-1 day One blow settled Salleo's fate. An-I An-I other blow might have turned it the oilier U bit of over-eagerness on the part of Jfc nrnuv Kan if. the hustling, bustling Utile 4T renter tickler of the Giants, was dlsaa- irons to the big-town club. - KruifT tried to catch a fly tnat rouKln t i' v.tv well be caught. Had he caught, it. ' he too would have filtered the hero rla's lie failed. Failure and success r March arm in arm donn through baseball base-ball history. McMullin. the ' rockery third baseman of the Sox: Shano Collins and Shoeless nR lacHsoii were among the stars of the occasion but It is the fellow who clouts ouo wlTMi the clout is important who r.l-whvs r.l-whvs get" ihe most of the limelight, and that" is whv Happy Felsch is tonicht holding the glare of publicity and discission. dis-cission. McGraw Springs Surprise. . w McGriw sprang a surprise when he ..f.'irrod with Sallee. It was generally be-1 be-1 f i I evert that SchuPP. the younger left-1 left-1 I lender, would start the series for the Gi-1 Gi-1 auto " but Salleo's pitching proved that l I McGraw knew what he was doing when he mit in the veteran. ' f i'i The Giants could not get any runs for I- -il tmd a pitcher cannot wm without f no matter how well ho pitches. VfKch and Cicotte tell the story of the ' Ml night long lines of men and boys How the Runs Were Scored. THIRD DTNING. Chicago Schalk grounded to Zimmerman. Zim-merman. Cicotte singled over second, sec-ond, but was out going to third when J. Collins singled to right. Coilius took second on the throw to third. MjMullin doubled, scoring Collins. K. Collins fouled out to Fletcher. One run, three hits. FOURTH INNING-. Chicago Jackson flied to Burns. Felsch knocked the ball into the loft field bleachers for a home run. Gan-dil Gan-dil grounded to Sallee. Weaver flied to Bums. One run, one hit. FIFTH INNING. New York McCarty tripled to the center field fence and scored when Sallee singled to right. Burns hit into a double play, Weaver to E. Collins to Gandil. Herzog struck out. One run, two hits. have waited patiently in the lee of the walls which surround Charles Comiskey's baseball plant. Pelted by an early evening eve-ning rain and sleet storm, and nipped by the brisk gale, the crowds maintained a vigil until 10 o'clock, when the doois were thrown open. One by one they shuffled through ttie entrances and found seats in the bleachers, bleach-ers, most of them curling up right away J to sleep. Presently a gracious sun broke ; through the haze which had veiled the j sky and warmed them up. Thereafter the sun shone brightly. Only i a little breeze came in to stir the many flags laced together along the edge of the roof of the double-decked stand and the rampart of the upper tier. There was a warm breeze during the early part of the afternoon and heavy coats, which everybody wore, were almost uncomfortable. uncom-fortable. Money for Soldiers. There was a band in front of the left field bleachers, A crew of "pluggers" yelled unintelligently through megaphones at the crowd. Here and there at frequent fre-quent intervals through the stands were splotches of the olive drab of the army. In the right field pavilion there was one solid souare of soldiers. Clark Griffith, the "old silver fox" of Washington, stood at the press gate as the people were coming in. superintending the distribution of envelopes for contributions to his ball and bat fund for the fighting forces of the land. Before the game many prominent ball players, including Johnny Evers and Walter Wal-ter Johnson, passed through the stand taking up collections for Griffith's fund. The "White Sox were the first to appear ap-pear on the field. They came out through a lit tie runway adjoining their clubhouse. club-house. They came leisurely, and just i as leisurely began to sling the ball around. A scattered volley of cheers and hand-clappiug hand-clappiug greeted them. Soon afterward all the oLher players appeared, moving as leisurely as those who had preceded them. No Haste, No Excitement. Somehow there seemed to be none of the dash and spirit to the preliminaries which usually characterizes a world's series. The Giants came moping out one by one through the same entry in their worn Qt'ny violet -trimmed traveling uniforms uni-forms which they used all (season. A battation of photographers was on the ground photographing the different players, the managers and everybody and everything in sight. The Giants had as hat hoys a hunchback and a youngster from Cleveland, , While theGiants were batting the White Sox lounged in front of their bench watching their opponents. Clarence Rowland Row-land and his lieutenant, Gleason, stood together talking. Germany Schae.fer. who is unattached these (iays, but. who has been doing a bit of catching for McGraw, was in uniform and hit to the infield in practice. Ban Johnson. president of the American league; John K. Tener, president of the National league, and Garry Herrmannl of Cincinnati, chairman of the national commission, com-mission, came in and were heavily photographed pho-tographed as they moved ponderously to their hox. These roptesent the government govern-ment of baseball. Oddlv enough, Harry Hempstead, president of the New York j Giants, did not come to Chicago for this game, being occupied by the distribution of tickets in New York. Fans "Ride" Fletcher. When the Giant regulars took their posts in the infield Fletcher booted a roller, and the crowd jeered. They ap- 1 plauded a fast play a moment later, how- ; ever. The motion-ptctnre men invited the hlenrherites in the left field to a demon-! demon-! stration for lilm purposes, A tiny fellow j in a bright red cap and white trousers drew a round of applav.se when be stepped out in front of the baud and led the musicians like a baby Sousa. Shortly before 2 o'clock a column of candidates innn the officers' training camp at Fort Sheridan marched in single . file through the left Held pavilion and j then the. White Sox took the field again ; for their final practice. This time " the ; crowd set up a real yell. Buck Weaver ! was at short and both t Jebold and Shano : Collins nracticed in right eld Old Slim Sallee and Yonns? Ferdie i Schupp heean warming up in front of the - Giants' bench, poll Perrltt also worked out in his brown sweater beside Schupp i I,ew McCarty was catching Sallee, and ' Karlden and Jack Onslow, the Interna-' Interna-' tior.al leaguer, worked the others I Tip O'Neill, former president of the Western league, appeared arrayed like a j statesman, seized a megaphone and began I a short series of announcements that no- bolv could hear. The baJI players of both clubs grouped around him, with the photographers in close reserve, and Tip ; held aloft a series of flas of different J nations, one after the other, i KiuaUy Tip displayed, printed on a large banner, a pledge of allegiance to the nation na-tion and the flag, but the whole ceremony was more or less enigmatical. Ready to Begin. It delayed the game a few minutes, and It was after 2 o'clock when McGraw, Rowland and the four umpires, Charley Rigler. Silk O'Loughlin. Hill Klem and Billy Evans marched to the plate for a conference, followed by the photographers. photogra-phers. Silk had on a chest protector, which is the badse of office of the umpire um-pire behind the plate, and, with the crowd which followed him, resembled . a mob I seen. McGraw and Rowland were photo- i graphed in the good old pose of shaking hands, after which they held an argument about ground rules. Rowland ran down the left field foul line with Billy Evans, and the Sox manager made an indentation indenta-tion in the ground with his heel to indicate indi-cate the limit of fair territory. At 2:10 the White Sox rushed to the field. Klem was back of first base. Rigler at second and Evans at third. It was a distinct departure from old baseball methods. George. Burns, the first of the Giants to step to the bat and the most brilliant outfielder on his club, got a lot of applause ap-plause when he faced Cicotte. The chunky Sox veteran mouthed the ball a moment and then pitched one over the heart of the plate. Burns did not move and O'Loughlin called it a strike. The Giant outfielder let the socond one cro by and "Silk" again .shrilled "strike." The next was called a bail, so was the next and the next three in a row. Then Burns singled across second. Charley Herzog hit at the first ball pitched to him and lifted a fly to Jackson. Jack-son. So did Kauff. "Shoeless Joe" had to come from away back in left and the Sox rooters gasped when he staggered as he reached the' ball and almost let it slip from his fingers. Benny Kauff swung viciously at the first ball and missed it. He hit the next and went out. A chorus of derisive yelLs arose when Heinle Zimmerman stepped up, swinging his long bat loosely in his fingers. In the days when Heinie played in the Chicago city series a. a member of the Cubs the White Sox rooters used to always "get his goat" so early in the meeting that he would be almost helpless thereafter. Now he seemed to pay little or no attention atten-tion to the crowd, lie stood pawing the ground with his feet. like a rooster scratching gravel, and let a high, fast ball, his old weakness, pass unnoticed. Burns, w h o ha d be ti i j oc k e y i n g for a s t art o f f first suddenly broke away in full flight as Cicotte pitched his second ball to Zimmerman. Zimmerman swung and missed, and Schalk's throw to second was true and fast, but Burns whipped in behind Collins and Rigler called him safe. The steal went for nothing, however, as Zimmerman raised a fly to Felsch. Sallee Is Cautious. Old Slim Sallee pitched cautiously to : John Collins as the Sox lead-off man waited at the plate. Collins fouled off the first bull, the second was a called strike, the third another foul, and then Collins singled to right. McMullin, thv recruit third baseman, bumped the first rail pitched at him by Sallee very gently with his bat and pushed it back into tiie pitcher's hands. Sallee could have thrown out Collins at second, as he had plenty of t ime, but "instead he turned and tossed the. ball to lloike, getting McMullin. Herzog, Fletcher and Holke rushed up io Sallee and shouted at him. Some thought tliey were chiding him for bis play. As a matter of fact, they were encouraging en-couraging him. Kddie Collins hit a roller to Fletcher, who threw the former Athletic Ath-letic star out at first, Collins going to third. Jackson raised a tricky fly back of second sec-ond and it looked ns if it would surely drop safe, but Herzog backstepped rapidly rapid-ly and made a great catch for the final out of the inning. Hawk Holke Takes Nap. In the O-innts' end of the second, after Fletcher and Davy Robertson had gone out. Holke beat out a bunt , onlv to be caught flatfooted napping off first base by Cicotte. Jn the Sox's end of the same inning Chick Gandil slashed a terrific grounder at Zimmerman and Heinle Just rnanacred to break down the drive and get his man at first. It was as hard as any baseball was ever hit and Zimmerman Zimmer-man made a grand play in stopping it. George Burns drew the first base on balls of the series in the third Inning after two were out. and Hprzo" followed with a single to right, right in front of John Collins. This brought Kauff. the Ty Cobb of .the FerH, up. Kauff let the first bull go by. He stepped away from the second and it was n bail. He swung desperately ot the third and fouled it backward with great force. The next Pitch he fouled high into the air and Gandil -ot it. After Zimmerman had made n startling one-hand'.'d stop and throw on Schalk In th-e third, Cicotte surprised the crowd with a sharp singic to center. John Collins Col-lins smashed the- first ball plticd to right for a Mngie and Cicotte tried to m aJie third. Me slow ed up j u St a trifle after he rounded pe-.-ond to look ba:k; the left arm of Robertson shot the ball to Zimmerman on the bound and Heinle. (Continued on Following Page.) WISCONSIN BOY HOMES TO WIN FOR WHITE SOX (Continued from Preceding Page.) got it and jabbed it into Cicotte's stomach stom-ach for an easy out. Meantime, Collins .had gone to second, and McMullin, the recruit, also swung at the first ball, driving it to center. It was a short fly and Kauff came plunging in from deep center, trying to make a catch instead of playing it safe, and letting it drop for a single. The ball hit the ground before Benny got up and then skittered through his legs and far away. It was a?t down as a two -base hit. and John Coliins, of course, scored easily. Eddie Collins fouled out to Fletcher. Heinie Zimmerman was again booed as he came to ha.t and fouled out to Schalk on the first ball pitched. McMullin made a good srop and throw to Gandil and Robertson Rob-ertson doubled to right, Felsch crossing the field wit h remarkable speed and making a great stop and throw to second. sec-ond. McMullin, who was as busy as a recruiting officer, threw out Holke on a hopping drive. Felsch's play cut off what seemed almost a triple and no other outfielder out-fielder in the league could have made It, with the possible exception of Tris Speaker. Happy Knocks a Homer. Right on the heels of that, Felsch stepped up to the plate and hit the ball into the left field bleachers for a home run. He hit the second ball pitched to him. Jackson had been retired ahead of him on a fly to Burns. After him, Gandil and Weaver were easy outs. Happy's blow wins him a 50 Liberty bond from Al Jolson, the actor, who has promised to pay one of these bonds for eveiy homer in the series. Lew MoCarty. the crippled catcher of the Giants, first man up in the fourth, smashed a long drive to center, hitting the third ball. It would have been a home run for any other man in the field, but McCarty still limps a trifle from the broken leg and he could only reach third. Sallee, not a good batter, even for a pitcher, hut by no means a "sucker" at bat, as the ball players say, brought his battery mate home with a single to right. Burns, however, hit into a double play, which pa-ssed from Weaver to Eddie Co'.lnis to Gandil. Herzog struck out on three pitched balls. McCarty drove a liner to left and Shoeless Joe Jackson came up fast on it, caught the ball at his ankles, then fell and rolled over and over, si ill clutching the ball. Saline raised a fly to Felsch. One was out in the Sox's side of the seventh when Gandil crashed a hit through Zimmerman. Weaver struck out as Gandil started for second. MeCa.rty'B throw was over Herzoq's head and Gandil Gan-dil went to third, but-Fletcher threw out Schalk. With two out in the eighth, Kauff hit a grounder to Weaver in deep short, and Weaver's wide throw pulled Gandil so far off first th;t Benney was eafe. Ctcotte purposely pitched two wide balls, expe-ct-ink Kauff io steal, but Benny stood still. Cicotie slipped over a strike on Zimmerman Zimmer-man and then turned suddenly and tnrew to first, catching Benny oing the other way. The Giant outfielder was an easy out at second. IShano Hits Again. John Collins tore off a ripping two-bagger down the left field line in the ?ox I side of the inning. It was his third hit. ' Burns made a remarkably fat recovery I of the ball and threw to Fletcher at 'second, the Giant short fielder making a dive for Collins as John went sliding into the bag. When ItUler called the runner safe. Fletcher at id Her.og protested pro-tested vigorously, the la nor finally pushing push-ing his teammate away to end the argument. argu-ment. The Giants went out quick! v and in order in their last turn and the White Sox chalked up the first victory of the scries. People have been flokin into Chicago Chi-cago from all over the middle west the 'past few days. This moi-nin the lobbies ! of the various hotels were a-whirl with i folks, most of them looking for tickets. I Thf pruv of tickets had leaped to s;.i for a slii'-le set of a l:c:.-:;o;i 10 three I games, the form in w hich they are soid. This made it 5120 a pair, or $20 a scat each game. As high n.s 5? 0 was being asked for single sets of box seats, which have a face value of $15 a set, or $5 a scat. There seemed to be plenty of these box seat 3 floating around in the lobbies, but none of the cheaper scats was to be had. Speculators had 'em, 'bell hops had 'em, uarkeeps had 'em everybody had 'em but the folks who wanted 'em. "Along toward game time prices bega 11 to sag. People; had beoine reconciled to tho idea of not seeing the grime. There were no empty seats, however. Somebody bought 'em. |
