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CITY STOPS WORK TO HEAR THE NEWS Interest in World's Series Is Widespread Here Thousands in Theaters. T. B. BULLETINS BEAT ALL Interest locally in the opening game of the world's series yesterday, easily exceeded the interest shown In any similar event in Scranton's history, not excepting the days when Hughie Jennings' Tigers were contenders for the honor. The town simply shut up shop to wait and watch for tidings from the Polo Grounds.

It was a holiday from noon on, so far as It concerned activities in offices, stores, public buildings and the ordinary routine. Wherever there was to be a word received from the scene of battle, there the crowds massed. In Washington avenue, from Linden street, well to city hall, 2.500 persons blocked traffic while they receivtd The Trlbune KepuDllcan Truth's bulletin and megaphone service giving the game play uy play, by special wire from the press box in the Brush stadium. In Town Hall, where Monte Cross, former Scranton team manager, explained the workings of the Faragon player board, 1,600 people watched the game. Another large crowd sat in the Xw Academy, where T.

H. Packson's champion board, gave the game, Play by play, mechanical men duplicating the movements of the Giants and Stahl's men. The Columbia theater was crowded to the doors with men who had come to see the workings of the Wenzel electric board, Tom Phil bin, Allentown's catcher, explaining the plays and doing the announcing. Bulletins Everywhere. Close to 10,000 men and women hadj the scores direct from The Tribune IRepublicanTruth bulletins and the three theaters.

Thousands of others in every part of the city depended oii telephone relays to keep them informed of the game as it went along. At every! bulletin board, men in the employ of cigar stores and hotels, had telephones tied up for the afternoon, sending bulletin after bulletin to all parts of the city. Other stores had special arrangements with the telegraph companies for bulletin service, and kept pretty close to the press wires with their news. One of these was the Harry W. Reinhart store at 107 North Washington avenue, hundreds of men and women blocking the street as the bulletins were posted.

All in all 20,000 is only a fair estimate of the crowds that got the bulletined news of the game in this city, and as many more kept in touch with the game by telephone) and by asking the question of the afternoon "How is the game going?" Everybody Interested. Neither age nor sex made any difference in the enthusiasm and the curiosity of the town. "How is the game going?" was on the tip of the tongue of every salesgirl in every store all afternoon, and was fired at every customer that came in. No public official was too dignified to ask every person who dropped into his office for news of the game. In the throngs in front of the bulletin boards there were men as old as eighty, women as old as fifty and boys and girls as young as seven, all hangiu breathlessly on the words of the asnouncer and all joining in the cheering as the team they favored forged ahead.

Carriages, automobiles and dished wheeled wagons parked just outside the crowd, and here and there were to be seen wheel chairs with convalescents who couldn't Uay at home when the score was coming in. In both telephone ex changes the operators were kept on the jump all afternoon but they had the advantage of getfing the score first hand as it passed from bulletin board or telegraph office through the exchange. From the enthusiasm of the crowd for the game itself and from the almost equally divided rooting for the Red Sox and the Giants when either team made a showing, it would be hard to select which of the world championship contenders that is the favorite here. Rooting for Both Teams. The 2,500 men and women who jammed the street in front of The Tribune Republican building and the hundreds of others that watched the bulletins and listened to the megaphone from the windows of the Board of.

Trade and other buildings were an evenly divided bunch in their rooting. There were hundreds who cheered when Boston made a play that locked like a run and there were as many hundreds who rooted hard when the Giants came to the fore. There was also a big element of the crowd that came to hear the news for the love of the game, wishing luck to both sides and hoping that the best team would win. The tensest time of the afternoon was the few minutes before the wind up of the game. With the score four to two Boston seemed to have things I Derbies and THE TRIBUNE REPUBLICAN.

WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9. 1912 14 "Smoky Joe" Balks Giants in Ninth NlcGmv, Undiscouraged, Banks on Mattkewson Today RED SOX TAKE FIRST, THANKS TO JOE WOOD CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. inning whin, afu Tesrer.u had fanned, Devore worked the Red Sox box msn for a. base on balls.

Doyle put up a high fly to left which fell too far b3ck for either Gardner or Wag i tr to reach. Doyle reached second on the hit but Pevore was held at third. Then Murray proved the Giants hero of the day. This player, who went hitless through last year's world's series caught one of Wood's inshoots and sent the ball skimming over second for a single and brought Devor and Doyle over the plat. Tesreau was mighty until the sixth inning.

Twenty Red Sox players had faced his quick breaking moist ball HOOPER Right Fielder Who Drove in Boston's Tying Run. before the first hit That was a long drive for three bases by Speaker, who came home for the first run for the American Leaguers on an infield out by Duffy Lewis. The seventh inning saw the end of Tesreau. Three singles and a double sent three red legged Boston players home and Manager McGraw was quiCK to see that the Boston's had at last solved Tesreau's delivery. Wagner started the trouble for Tesreau in the seventh, after Stahl had been retired, by sending a line drive to center.

Cady followed with another liner to center and the Boston delegations in the stand turned loose a lusty cheer. Wood forced Cady at second but Hooper shot a double past BUerkle putting Wagner across the plate and sending Wood to third. Boston's First Run. Yerkes responded with a sharp drive over setsand and before the ball could be returned to the infield Hooper and Wood had scampered over the rubber. With a lead of two runs the Giants had to take the offensive and nobly they responded with their ninth inning rally, which failed by a run of tying the score.

"We won, as I thought we would, but the Giants gavt us a great fight," remarked Manager Jake Stahl, as he led his players aboard an early evening train for Boston. 'Joe' Wood carried us to victory with fine pitching, and our players were ready with their bats when nils meant runs." "The series is just beginning," sail Manager McGraw, "and while we would have liked to have won we ar by no means disheartened by today's defeat. The Athletics were defeated the first game of the world's series last year but they captured the title cf champions." Business came to a standstill in the financial district when the game was in progress. Croyds on the Stock Exchange and in brokerage houses for sook the stock quotation tickers and TESREAU Toung Spitbailer Vanquished day by Sox. Tester hung around the news tape whict carried the record of the game.

The crowds at the Polo Grounds were handled without confusion anc there virtually was room for all whe came. Speculators obtained high prices f.ir scats in the upper stand, but many lost money when would be. purchasers failed to meet exorbitan' demands. Crowd Helow I.ast The attendance figure fell short of the first game between the Athletics and Giants last year. The paid admissions at today's outest totalled 35, 730, just 2,551 less than last year.

Total receipts for game were $73, 127, of which the players receive $40 567 and each club $13,523. The National commission's share was $7,513 Kor New York. "Larry" Doyle shone with his usual brilliance. He had two CONTINl'KD ON PAGE FIFTEEN. TTT TTT TTTTTT There i I Are Just how much value you get out of your next one, will depend entirely upon how much value has been put into it.

Ours are crowded with that sort of thing. The Stag Is $2.00 The Rovere $3.00 The Stetson $3.50 Usual Prices, But Not Usual Hats FIRST PLAY OF THE FIRST GAME (Photographed in New York Yesterday for the T. fir Jl CI MMKM It! Hooper running to Steinke Sees Game sewed up, but nobody was willing to believe it until they had seen What the Giants were going to do in the final half of the ninth. Murray's fly to Hooper looked bad for a beginning but ten seconds later the Giants' fans took heart when Merkle singled past second. Then came the flash that Herzog had connected, sending Merkle to second and anchorin on Stahl's cushion.

The announcement that the Indian Meyers was brought a roar from the New York rooters and hundreds in the crowd coaxed him to make a hit, the same as if they were in the park with him. Hails to the Chief. "Good boy, big chief," answered the bulletin that Meyers had singled to right, sending Merkle across the plate with a tally and pushing Herzog to third. The Giant fans took heart and gloom came to the rooters for the Red Sox. With Meyers on secorfd and Herzog on third, Fletcher walked back to the bench, a strike out against him, and it was up to the next batter.

There was a delay in the bulletins. Kor more than a minute nothing came, Derbies A A AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA WaaAAAAA.AAA A A A AAA fa I I nrst aiter iesreau waiKcu mm Via Monte Cross and from the Polo Grounds other than that Crandall, who had supplanted Tesreau, was up. Then came the first news from Crandall. Twp strikes and three balls was the On the heels of that was the message, "Crandall strikes out," and the game was over. But while the last inning lasted, the crowd heldv its breath, for there was the possibility that McGraw's men were going to break it up in the end, and hundreds hoped that they would.

The Tribune Republican Truth bulletin service, by megaphone and poster, will be continued today and every other day that the games are played. YOUNG IS DRAFTED BY HIGHLANDERS Former Miner Shortstop, Who Played This Season with Harrisburg, Goes Up. "Pep" Toung, who played shortstop for the Scranton team in 1910 and p.irt of 1911. and who played a sensational game this season for the Har risburg team of the Tri State league, has been drafted by the New York Highlanders. His name appeared in the list of belated drafts made public yesterday by Secretary John H.

Far rail, of the National commission. Young played a great game in 1910 for the Miners, out in he fell down with the stick. He was sent to Harrisburg, where he changed his style of batting, shifting his position from the right side of the plate to the left. The change proved' good and he batted over .300 this year. The other drafts were: By Akron Fox from Kewanee, disallowed; Robertson from Kewanee.

By Dayton Martin from Spartans Leber from Duluth, Varren from Oshkosh. By Memphis Waymaek from Ashe vllle. By Chattanooga McDowell from Portland, disallowed; Powell from Spokane. By Portland Mayes from Boise, Dell from Butte, disallowed; Fortlcr Jroni Salt Lake City, Ellis from Wich Ita, subject to investigation by National board. By Baltinvy er Glelchman from Anderson, S.

C. Toneka LeDe from Kalamazoo, (cancelled. Jf. By New York American league Young from Harrisburg. By Cleveland Leibold from Mll waukee, Lejeune from Grand Rapids, I cancelled.

I Rnleaierl hv Diirchase Bv Toledo. in Jack Frost from New Orleans. By Sioux City George Andrcus to Des JJojnes. By glnclBnatl Jeimond to Mon the hrst inning. Paragon at Town Hall turns treal and W.

I Doak to Akron. By Des Moines Dan Claire to Sioux City. By Greenwood W. D. Perrill to St.

Louis, N. L. By Boston, L. Edward McDonald to Sacramento. By New York, X.

L. Emmet Mun sell to By St. Louis, A. Wallace Smith to Atlanta. By Chicago, A.

L. Mclntyre to San Francisco. Released Bbbenfield by Montgom ery, Joseph J. McGinnity by Newark, N. Robert Ewing by Buffalo, John Levan by Muskegan, E.

J. Smith by Columbus, Neb. Suspended McDonald by Sacramento, George Graham by Des Moines. Reinstated Atchison by Des Moines. ATHLETICS EVEN UP IN INTER CITY SERIES PHILADELPHIA, Oct.

8. The Philadelphia American league team evened up the inter league series of this city today by defeating the Philadelphia National leaguers it to 1. Plank, backed up by fast fiflding, held the Phillies safe throunout fame. The National leaguers appeared anugerous in only one lulling, the seventh, when they had thr.ie men on bases and none out. Seaton, who pitched for the Phillies, wes hit hard, and Brennan.

who relieved him in the ninth, had two scored on his delivery. Score by hif nings: Americans 08202 000 26 i 00006010 01 6 Batteries: Plank and Lapp: Seaton, Brennan and Killifer. UmpiresJohnston and Hart. A HE STILL At the end of the forty eighth week in the International Egg Laying competition but one pen had crossed the 1,000 line, the single comb white leghorns of F. G.

Yost, of Sayre, having laid 1,026 eggs or an average of 205 per hen. Their nearest competitor was the Buelaer farm pen of white Wyan dottes, which had total of 991 eggs to its credit. The competition has four weeks yet to run. WORLD'S SERIES KVKHV AFTERNOON TOWN HALL PARAGON BOARD BIGGER HI THAN EVER Cr8S PestriUes Plays Reserve seats early at box office or phune 62 Old; 2802 New. "HEC" FINDS THAT WOOD LOOKS LIKE OUR CATHERS BY "HEC" (Special to The Trlbune Republl OHn from Staff Correspondent.) l'UU) GROUNDS.

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J. lit UV llli: llll Ifc the form they displayed it is an Standing out like a gold tooth in a friendly smile in the win of the Sox is the wonderful genius of oe Wood, the star pitcher uf the American league. The game itself was a heartbrcaker. one of the most thrilling in fact, that has ever been played in any world's scries, on this or any other planet. The ninth inning of today's struggle was one that required the stoutest kind of a heart, not onlv on the part of the players but also among the multitude of fans'.

Standing out from all the chaos incidental to this trying situation, was the magnifice; nerve. of Wood. With two itching Giants starving on second and third and only one out, the crowd making a noise that must have sounded over in Europe, Wood struck out Fletcher and Crandall with six strikes that never touched the "groove." So remarkable was the control of the Boston star and so confident was he of his own ability that he put everything he ever possessed on these balls and it is a fact that the last ball thrown to Crandall, one which the Giant pitcher wanted, was so speedy that not even Crandall was able to see it. A peculiar fact struck the fancy of the horde of Scranton fans that saw the game and that was the remarkable likeness of Wood to our own Ted Gathers. Not only do the two me semble ladi other greatly features, but also Wood has those peculiar mannerisms of Gathers, such as the double twisting at the lei bl fore throwing the ball and the gentlenu lt fhT rl ff ceiving'the ball from another nLJ bb 3t the caP after Although the game was very closely contested and ther aa not appear to be a great deal of difference in Zl of the teams from the viewpoints of thesco vet tn series will have but one certain ending ff" thef the Sox, and it would not greatly surpris Tme if i 1U nph of up in four straight.

rpnse me if Stahl men cleaned BOSTON OVERJOYEDl AT WOOD'S VICTORY "Good Old Joe" Slogan of Fans Around the Beantown Bulletin Boards. BOOST IN TICKET PRICES BOSTON, Oct. 8. Bulletin board crowds of a size rarely equalled in this city exulted today over the Red Sox's stirring victory in New York. "Good Old Joe Wood'" was the slogan of thousands of "fans" after the opening game of the world's series had been decided in Boston's favor.

When Wood struck out Pitcher Crandall, of New York, for the third out in the ninth innning with men on second and third bases, a sigh of relief went up from the multitudes and all were shouting and cheering in the next breath. Men and" women of all degrees in the social and business life of the cityi gathered by thousands to hear the returns. The crowd on Boston common near Boylston and Tremont streets flocked through the common areas, across Tremont street, impeding traffic and finally invading and filling temporary stands erected for a parade next Saturday. Their enthusiasm rocked tha uncertain Umbers, but no mishap resulted. On Newspaper (Row, all traffic was tied up, and Washington Btreet was given over to the crowds.

With the last announcement, "Boston wins, 4 to 3," ringing in their ears, the crowd surged down the thoroughfare and ran intoJ the side streets of the business district, back to the work which had been abandoned temporarily in favor of the sport of the day. While most Bostonians were Interested in reports from the game in New York to the exclusion of all else, many gave more than a passing thought toi the problem of how to see the game ln; this city tomorrow. Bostons victory today had its effect on both the betting and speculation in tickets. The betting, fhich has been 10 to 8 on the Ked Sox, changed to 10 to 6. Tickets for the three games, which originally cost J9, were held at $25 apiece, and a few sales were made.

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A large plate glass window, six feet by four feet. In G. V. Millar's china store, 213 North Washington avenue, was broken at 5:80 o'clock yesterday afternoon when a plank form a scaffold fell, crashing into the class. Carpenters are at work making improvements to the building, and a plank lying loose on the scaffold in some manner detached Itself.

A Correction. The Olyphant Crescents wish to correct the statement to the effect that the Spalding A. C. defeated them last Sunday. The Crescents played the West Scranton Outlaws and defeated the latter by the score of 24 to 6.

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