Show Um Sw s FLEET TO ENFORCE i 41 1 SEE i I i CARRIGANS CARRIGAN'S I I M MEN N l LAND AND I I IN TH Base on Balls Sacrifice and n Single Bring in inDecisive in i Decisive Run After Extra Innings Inning Bv By Associated Press I BRA BRAVES V S FIELD BOSTON Oct 9 The The Boston Americans defeated the Broc Brooklyn klyn Nationals by a score of two to one in a fourteen n battle today that w was s replete with thrills and spectacular spectacular spectacular spec spec- plays It was a battle o of southpaws Babe Ruth of Boston against Sherrod Smith of Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- BrookI I lyn and Thomas went in defeat defea I as a pinch hitter Gainer drove 11 over the winn winning ng run and van van- There was glory for both victor and vanquished The rowel crowd numbered officially persons Brooklyn's defense as aswell yell well as that of Boston sparkled with brilliant plays Myers was the boy boys for Brooklyn He scored the he vis v S' S only run with a ply four-ply clout to right center and then cutoff cut cutoff cutoff off a Boston run in the ninth by bya a nice catch and line throw to the plate doubling The official box BOSTON Oct 9 Again Again to today today today to- to day the Brooklyn Nationals and anc the Boston Americans met in the series to determine the world baseball champions of the ye year E. E The scenes were the same as tho those e of Saturday except that atmospheric conditions were slightly slightly- less lees attract Ive lye But the cloudy skies were hardly hardi threatening and the temperature had hadnot hadnot hadnot not fallen to an uncomfortable le t de gree The moderate wind was a alIght I factor In the plotting The players having rested over Sunday appeared in good shape I The teams were changed from thI the th I combinations that opposed each other I in the first game ganie batteries being beang drawn upon for fresh strength and the other shifts dictated by known wn weaknesses or probable Improvement among individuals With a game already to the credit of ot the Red Sox Manager hadan had hadan hadan an advantage Wilbert Robinson manager of the asked who his choice of ofa a pitcher was wa-s replied I r ha have ve to told d Coombs Cheney Chener feffer and Smith that I will ill have the man who shoWS the best form In practice pitch this game Miller however was conceded the he th catching catchin assignment well In advance Carrigan had the better material to pick from in the opinion of baseball followers generally Ruth Leonard and Mays were available available to to him but It was predicted Ruth would be be th-e th choice President J J. J J. J Lannin of ot the R Reid Red d Sox this morning said I lOr am as s ignorant of the playing end of my club and Its operation O or as liS wise as the man In the street who who follows the game I think it will win be beRuth beRuth Ruth In the box for us today and Re Relieve e eleve lieve leve nie Juc he Is some sweet How f he lie did clean them up on eA thelast the thelast last trip West when we won out our championship against the Tigers TIgers' and White Sox If It Ruth is selected Thomas his his- hi usual battery mate will probably b be with him Carrigan himself Insisted that he could not say who would pitch Red Sox players looked for tor Coombs Co m b to twirl in Jn opposition to them and Chick Shorten sharpened his hie batting eye In readiness to play lay Walkers Walker's efficiency ef against left left handed pitchers pitcher has its complement in Shortens Shorten's Shortens Shorten's s si sue i Continued on page 2 Z J r U. U S. S FLEET Continued from page 1 International law but they were fully tully alive to tho dangerous possibilities MAY OPEN BOAT U-BOAT T PROBLEM Destruction of ot an as American ship carrying contraband might easily easily cause cans e an another other Fr Frye y e c case a ae an and d an any y 1 loss of ot life lite at all In any case case might easily reopen the whole submarine question The threatened complication with the allies lies flea in n their contention that submarines because of ot their nature should be excluded from all neutral neutra ports Today's London dispatches quoting from the Manchester Guard Ian Inn to the effect that such a view has been set out in the recent dum dam sent flent by the allies to neutral gov gor gave the first intimation received here that anything in the na no ture lure of ot a formal representation had been Deen made The position of or the United States Staten so ao tar far as it has been announced has been to decide on its merits th the case of ot each submarine entering an as American Ameri Amerl can port Inasmuch as se the German submersible which entered Newport Saturday took no supplies asked tor for forno torno torno no privileges and departed almost immediately im mediately it t is not thought that she raised any issue seas BLOW IN GULF EXPECTED The general opinion prevailing today to today today to- to day was wan that with the gathering o of allied off olt the New England coast the submarines would desert that tha field and strike stoke M tl next blown blow further further fur for ther south Some officials ed to hear of ot In the gulf or of o le l Mexico where re a r story s waya a j S a aa a German bees base has fins been established and where the could strike at the fleets leets of ot tank ships carrying carrying carrying car car- fuel oil to the British navy from the Mexican fields upon which the British depend almost entirely The Stephana Stephano was still sUII afloat when the de destroyer destroyer destroyer de- de left but was reported later as sunk by a torpedo The Ericsson brought here twenty- twenty five women and ten children while the destroyer Balch brought sixty nine others from the Stephano Including passengers and members of ot the crew WOMEN ARE LANDED Eighteen of ot the women were landed landec at the rho government pier by permission of ot the health officers and were taken Into automobiles to the homes of ot Governor R R. Livingston Beeckman Mrs French and Arthur Curtis James i former commodore of the New York Yacht club Dr Andrews of ot the Grenfell mission was one of ot the four tour Stephano passengers passengers passengers pas pas- taken to the home of ot Mrs Cornelius Cornelius Cornelius Cor Cor- nelius Vanderbilt He declared that the Germans gave the boat proper warning and then stood by until all of ot the passengers passengers passengers pas pas- had been taken otto oft Officers of ot the Ericsson visited the Stephano he said to make sure that I all of ot the passengers and crew were safe sate Then members of ot the German crew boarded her and opened her water cocks He Ise said no torpedo was wall dis charged While the Germans Germane were ere disposing of the Stephano a Dutch vessel probably probably probably ably the was standing a short distance away like a steer waiting waitIng waitIng wait- wait Ing to be slaughtered In the words of ot Dr Andrews She had been warned to hold up EYEWITNESS' EYEWITNESS STORY STORY Mrs Henry B. B Wilson of ot Williamstown Williams Williams- town Mass said that the passengers w were er o g going g to dinner when someone e reported that destroyers destroyer surrounded the steamer and a submarine was nearby They thought all of ot these were American boats until the German flag flae w was s e seen on the the un undersea a Th sh ship Three shots were sired fired the bow of ot the Stephano Mrs Wilson said Bald The Thes steamer was stopped and all were or ordered ordered or- or dered to take to to the boats immediately Ian m The sea t was s calm and all ll I were transferred transferred trans trans- rr ee to the ih destroyer s tee o er Ericsson wits without without with with- bout b- b out difficulty Miss Mary Griffin ft of f Placentia Newfoundland New New- said The submarine ne tired fired the the red three shots sT fr from one of ot her de deck k She n c guns ah ap appeared ap- ap per pe ee not oars to b be tto trying to hit t the the h hd et St Stephano but butt t the he third shot wase was sp so so clo close we felt th the e l Jar as r. r There woes was aw a ae little contusion confusion n to anus as s the boats were lowered low low- were w- w ere ered but officers and crew quieted the excited ones and we all got Into the boa boats o. o k Theo There r a were five fives boatloads ss abo about thirty wt wt women oh oh en and children were abo aboard d the filet s ships she she We were In the stunts small boats scats a about fifteen teen minutes before betas being p picked up We d didn't hear or see a to the fire fired d But as we wed steamed aedo aedo mod away th the Stephano no seemed to bee be sink sink- Ing In W We did no not t see any other std submarine submarine sub sub- marine o or any anon or of the other ships which filch were aft attacked tt though hough we beaten heard dk fed that hat several h had End been sunk An English itch cruiser a appeared oft off shore shor while we were boa aboard the Ericsson She wady was to too far out to make out herout her name AMPLE WARNING GIVEN NA Capt Fred S. S Riley of ot the Moran Towing and Transportation company New Jew York who was on board the Stephano said Bald that the submarine moved about In no apparent haste within easy sight night of ot the destroyer Ericsson while the latter was picking up the Stephanos Stephano's passengers and crew who were adrift In four boats boat A. A Tough of Ontario another passenger said sald the said the submarine slipped in n between the Ericsson and the Stephano at onetime one onetime onetime time and was only twenty-five twenty or thirty yards from the destroyer It was 6 o'clock Sunday night when the submarine fired tired two Shots allots across our bows Captain Riley said One was ass a blank I believe bellee the other othera a a. shell Captain Smith of the Stephano ordered decks cleared and lifeboats lowered We were given ample warning for safety The passengers were unusually calm The men assisted the children and women down rope ladders to the boats and the transfer was made without accident We had drifted about tor for a awhile awhile awhile while when the Ericsson came up with the submarine In sight circling about I saw only one submarine BOSTON Oct 9 The The American steamer Kansan which was stopped by bya a German submarine of ort off the Nantucket lightship early Sunday and later towed to port arrived here today Copt Capt E. E L L. Smith and members of ot the crew said they were unable to determine determine determine deter deter- mine the Identity of ot the und undersea rea bone boat no name or 01 number being befog visible Son lon of ot the crew however when shown a photograph of ot the U 63 which put Into loco Newport on Sunday declared the submarine submarine submarine sub sub- marine which stopped the Kansan was another type having a different arrangement arrangement arrangement ar ar- ar- ar of ot masts meats LONDON Oct 9 The The Manchester ranchester Guardian In n an editorial article on the exploits of the 53 17 U 53 declares Its conviction conviction con con- of ot the desire of ot the United States tes to observe strict neutrality The Guardian says nay that If It the BritIsh British British Brit Brit- ish ambassador protested against the entry of f the submarine Into American waters and argued that any farther further submarine arriving there should be Interned for the rest of or the war he would be expressing the views set net out oat In the recent memorandum sent by bythe the allies to ne neutral governments The American government the paper continues apparently does not j i i share this view at any rate not fully tully I or It would not have escorted the submarine submarine sub sub- j marine Into port or allowed her to I leave eave I J I d |