Boston, Mass.–For the duration of the war Boston’s Red Sox made themselves world’s champions today by defeating the Cubs 2 to 1 in the sixth game of a series which has been remarkable for its closeness.
George Tyler came back with only one day’s rest and pitched a game that ought to have been crowned with victory. He would have shut out the Hubites but for a muffed fly by Flack which gave them their two runs in the third inning. Tyler was hit harder than Mays, who held the Cubs to three hits, but two of those safe raps were bunched with a spell of wildness by Mays in the fourth inning and made the only run of the day that was earned.
Fifth World Flag for Boston
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This victory gives the Red Sox a world’s record in addition to their world’s pennant, because they have willed to Boston an unsullied escutcheon with five ultimate triumphs described thereon. They have been contenders in five world’s series and have won all five. The only other team in either major league that has a perfect record is the White Sox, who have been in two baseball derbies and won both.
The third inning instead of the fourth was fatal to the Cubs today. In that round, the Red Sox scored both their tallies without anything that even looked like a base hit. Tyler’s lack of control put two runners where they could score on a bad break and the break came.
Flack’s Fatal Muff
Mays, first up, was passed. Hooper sacrificed him to second. Shean also worked Tyler for a free ticket and they both moved up while Pick was throwing out Strunk on a grounder. Pick took a look at second to see if he could force Shean there, but it was hopeless, so he threw to first instead. Whiteman hit a liner straight into Flack’s hands and Max muffed it squarely, with only the fact he was on the run and the sun was in his eyes toe excuse him.
Boys Mays and Shean scored and that was the game. McInnis followed with a grounder to Hollocher and beat the boy’s throw to first, but Whiteman tried to go from first to third on the play and was nipped by Merkle’s relay to Deal.
Defense Saves Red Sox
Mays was given far better support or the Cubs would have trimmed him. They made only one hit in three innings and Pick got that after two were out in the third. He was picked off first by a quick throw from Mays, magnificently handled by McInnis, for it was a bad throw.
In the fourth, Flack tried hard to redeem himself by leading with a sinlge to center. Hollocher’s out put him on second. Mann was punctured on the leg by a wild pitch and while he was nursing the wound Schang shot a fast throw to McInnis which nipped Leslie off first base. Paskert walked and on the fourth ball Flack stole third, still furthur redeeming himself for his muff. Merkle shot a single into left, scoring Flack. Pick lined a drive to Hooper for the third out.
Deal Cuts Off More Runs
The Cubs made a sensational defense in the last half of the fourth and Charley Deal stopped at least two and perhaps more runs by a sterling play. Scott led with a single and was sacrificed ahead by Thomas. Schang drew a pass and Mays caught the Cubs all flatfooted with a bunt toward third which he beat out. That filled the bases with one down, and it was Boston’s lucky inning.
Tyler was not fussed a bit, but pitched coolly to Hooper. Harry could only rap an easy bounder to Merkle, who forced Scott at the plate. Shean was next and pulled a vicious bounder over third base. Deal barely reached it with one hand, but knocked the ball down a few feet behind the bag. Anchoring his spikes to third base, Deal threw himself flat on the ground and picked up the ball in time to force Mays for the third out. If Deal had to recover the ball and then touch third base Mays would have beaten it and Schang would have scored.
Cubs Make Plucky Fight
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The Cubs kept on fighting. Flack opened the sixth with a walk, but was forced out by Hollocher, who in turn was forced by Mann, and the walking delegate of the strikers was pinched stealing second. Thomas pulled a sensational play which stopped the Cubs in the seventh and Whiteman stopped them in the eighth with a circus catch which put him out of commission.
Mitchell trotted out his reserves in the eighth. Barber was the first of them, batting for Deal, and he tore off a line drive to left which looked good enough. Whiteman raced in, made a diving catch of the ball, landed on his head and shoulders and turned a complete somersault, but came up smiling with the pill firmly grasped in his hands. He wrenched his neck so badly that he had to retire in Ruth’s favor before that inning was over. Mitchell sent O’Farrell to bat for Killefer and Mccabe hit for Tyler, but neither could solve Mays’ eccentric delivery for anything.
Curtain for Professional Ball
That brought Hendrix into the fray for the home eighth, during which the Red Sox did nothing at all, but the Cubs were equally inoffensive in their ninth, and professional baseball made its curtain bow until the end of the war.