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THE WEATHER Unsettled tonight and Saturday probably local showers. yOLUME XIX., No. 282. 22,000 ill FIRST GUSH WORLD SERIES; CAPACITY CROWD AT SRIBE PARK Outfield Stands Filled in Jiffy at 10:50 A. M.—Many Turned Away Before Gates Closed—Eight Hundred Police Take Care of Crowds—With Braves and Athletics Both Confi dent, Betting Favors Latter By Nearly 2 to 1— Weather Warm and Humid—Snappy Preliminary Practice THE BATTI NG ORDER. Athletics. Boston. Murphy, rfc Moran, rs. Oldrlng, If. Evers. 2b. Collins, 2b. Connolly, If. Baker, Bb. Whitted, cf. Mclnnes, lb. Schmidt, lb. Strunk, cf. Deal, 3b. Barry, ss. Maranvllle, ss. Schang, c. Gowdy. c. Bender, p. Rudolph, p. Umpires: Dineen, behind the bat; Byron on bases; Klem and Hilde brand on left and right field foul lines respectively. SHibe Park, Philadelphia.—The Bos ton Braves and the Philadelphia Ath letics clashed today in the first battle for the world’s baseball champion ship. Some 22,000 persons saw the opening engagement of the seven game series. Hundreds were turned away at the gates unable to obtain admission. The Boston's prepared to send their slow ball boxman, Dick Rudolph, to the pitching emplacement to shell the Athletics out of their home defenses. The American Leaguers groomed the Indian, Bender, to pick off the Boston Invaders with his fast ball. “They’re All Good." "Slow ball pitching is not relished by the Mack artillery of batters and I guess It will be Rudolph for the fray today,” remarked Manager Geo. Stallings. “Still I may switch to James or Tyler. They are all good, you know.” The vast reaches of Shlbe Park were choked to capacity long before 'game time. Three and four times the regular seating prices were offered for tickets and demand at these fig ures exceeded the supply. Gates Closed. The outfield stand, seating four thousand persons, was thrown open at 10:BO o’clock. It was filled within a short time and the gates were clos ed the first in line for seats in this unreserved section had waited more than forty hours for the gates to open. Several women stood in line since daybreak. The crowd holding re served tickets in the covered and double-decked stands came to the park later. Hundreds viewed the contest from temporary stands erect ed on the roofs of houses that over look the back field walls. Warm and Humid. The day was warm and humid and one suited for fast baseball. An Insistent sun burned through the menacing clouds and there was only a slight threat of showers from the southwest. The infield and outer gardens were bone dry and hard. Betting favored the Athletics at 2 to 1 and 9 to 5 when the two teams came upon the field. Preliminary field play was snappy and scintillat ing. The work of the Boston players, Deal who substituted at third base for Smith, wlF> broke his leg this week, was keenly watched. He dis played no fielding faults in warming up. Batting Practice. Shibe Park, Philadelphia.—John Coombs and Ira Thomas took the pitching stand and served the Ath letic batters during the batting prac tice. The Athletics gave particular attention to bunting. “Home Run" Baker tried out the range of the right field wall, one of his blows almost clearing the enclosure. The Boston batters hit wickedly in practice. Tom Hughes served up the hall and “Royal Rooters," 200 strong from Boston, sent up a loud shout when Catcher Hank Oowdy drove the hall into the left field stand. Braves First Out. The Boston Braves were the first out on the diamond for field practice. Their work was sharp, clear cut and brilliant. Maranville was all over the Infield section scooping grounders to his right and left making throws from every’ position. The crowd applauded him frequently. The Athletics went out for field practice at 1:45 and Connie Mack's SIOO,OOO Infield was soon in action. Batteries, Batting Order. Bender and Schang were announced as the batlery for the Athletics. Rudolph and Gowdy were announc ed as the battery for Boston. It was announced that Gowdy would bat sixth in place of Deal, who would hat eighth In place of Gowdy. Umpire Dlneen gave the decisions behind the plate and Umpire Klein ori the bases. Umpire Byron on left field, and Umpire Hildebrand right fierd. FIRST INNING First half—Bender’s first offering was an out curve, which cut th* piste for a strike Moran went out on a high foul to Mclnnls. Evers sent up a high fly fc> Collins and walked back to the bencfi. Connolly a strike and then fouled off the next one. Connolly fanned, missing a alow ons around ths netk. No runs, no hits, no errors. Second Half—Rudolph put over a strike on Murphy, Murphy sent a short single to center and the crowd started to cheer. It was the second Best Midway Ever at the Georgia-Carolina Fair THE AUGUSTA HERALD ball pitched. Oldring sacrificed, Gowdy to Schmidt. Gowdy nearly overthrew first base. Rudolph tried to cut the comers of the plate on Col lins and pitched three balls. His fourth pitch was a strike. Collins walked, and the crowd cried to Baker for a hit. Baker fouled out to Schmidt, and Murphy was out trying for third on the catch, Schmidt to Deal. It was a pretty double play. No runs, one hit, no errors. SECOND INNING First half—Bender pitched three balls and then put over two strikes on Whitted. Whltted walked. Schmidt filed out to Oldring. Whltted scored on Gowdy’s two-bagger to left field stand. The Boston rooters cheered to the echo. Gowdy scored on Maranville’s single over second. The Boston hits were sharp and clean. A double play followed. Barry took Deal’s grounder and tossed to Collins forcing Maranville. Collins then threw out Deal. Two runs, two hits, no errors. Second half—Rudolph had a biff wide curve which he worked on the edge of the plate. Mclnnls walked on four pitched balls. Mclnnls scored when Strunk's single went through Moran's legs to the fence. Strunk took third on the play. Barry fanned. Strunk was out at the 'plate when Evers took Schang’s grounder and threw to Gowdy. Maranville took Bender’s grounder and threw to Evers forcing Schang. One run, one hit, one error. THIRD INNING First half—Bender threw out Ru dolph at first. Moran could not see Bender's speed and struck out. Old ring took care of Evers' hoist. No | runs, no hits, no errors. 1 Second half—Murphy fanned, Ru dolph working him on two slow ones and then a fast one. Oldring was struck out. Rudolph worked care fully and deliberately, his slow ball bothering the Athletics not a little. Rudolph threw out Collins at first. No runs, no hits, no errors. FOURTH INNING First half—Connolly sent a liner over Collins’ head for a single, after having two strikes called on him. A double play followed, Bender took Whltted’s smash and threw to Barry, forcing Connolly. Barry then tossed out Whltted. Barry's throw to Mc lnnls was wide, but Mclnnls made v beautiful stop. Collins’ tossed out Schmidt at first. No runs, one hit, no errors. Second half —Baker fouled off the first two and Rudolph had him in a hole. Baker struck out, missing a wide one by a foot. Mclnnls also fanned. Strunk singled to left but was out at second trying to stretch his hit, Connolly to Maranville. It was pretty fielding by the Bostons. No runs, one hit, no errors. FIFTH INNING Gowdy drove the hall to the center field fence for a three base hit. It was the first pitched hall. The umpire cautioned the Boston bench for coach ing. Gowdy scored on Maranville's single over Mclinnlß' head. A double play followed. Bender took Deal’s hunted fly and then picked off Maran ville at first. Deal had attempted to sacrifice. Rudolph struck out. One run, 2 hits, no errors. Second Half. Maranville took Barry’s Texas T-eagtier away out In left field. It was a. sparkling cstoh and loudly applaud ed. Schang struck out. It was Ru dolph's sixth strike out. Bender filed out to Whltted. No runs, no hits, no errors. SIXTH INNING Moran sent up a foul back of third base which Barry took after a long run with his outstretched hand. The crowd shouted Its approval. Evers shot a single past Bender. Connolly walked when Bender became un steady. Evers and Connolly scored on Whltted's three bagger to right. Whlt ted scored on Schmidt's slashing sin gle through Barry. The Bostons' bat ting was terrific and Bender was re called from the box. and W.vckoff re placed him. It was the first time that an Athletic pitcher had ever been bat ted out of ths box In a world’s series. Coombs was taken out of the box three years ago In a gam# with ths Giants, but that was because of an Injury. Eight hits were mads off Ren- AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 9, 1914. Bailie Line In France As II Stands Alter Two Months’ Fighting MIGHTY OPPOSING FORCES IN DEADLOCK. Map showing the dead-locked battle-line in France and the positions of the opposing forces. The mighty struggle on the extreme left of the Wench forces continues. General Von Kluck is making a great effort to resist the allies' turning movement with his extreme right in the neighborhood of Arras. Fighting was report ed most recently at Donal, fifteen miles northeast of Arras. whlle he was in the box. Gowdy walk ed. W.vckoff took Maranville’s smash but threw to Baker too late to catch Schmidt. The bases were now filled with one out. A double play ended the inning. Baker took Deal’s ground er and touched third, forcing Gowdy, and then threw Deal out at first. Three runs, 3 hits, no errors. Second Half. Evers took care of Murphy's slow poller and threw out the runner. Deal tdssed out Oldring. Rudolph was pitch ing a perfect game his slow ball com ing high and coming low. but never very near the Athletics' bats Rudolph tossed out Collins. No runs, no hits, no errors. Shibe Park, Philadelphia.--- At the end of the sixth inning the score stood: Braves, 6; Athletics, 1. BRITISH VICTORY ON AISNE London, 4:40 a. m.—The Times cor respondent south of the Alsne says: “At one center —and that is the most Important—the British victory on the River Aisne It now complete. The Germans have evacuated their trenches, leaving In some of them many soldiers who died from a severe visitation of typhoid. They left two of their heaviest guns In the quarries, heavily cemented in place. After 16 Days. "Two salient events marked the part of the fighting of which Solsson# was the center. First, the capture by the allies of Fort Conde after a siege of 16 days, and, second, the re markable slaughter by the British in a series of German attacks. "It Is agreed that wherever the Ger mans have dealt severe havoc to the allies around this position their suc cess was due wholly to a spy sys tem . Captured 7 Spies. The allies soon found out that the Germans were able to diagnose their movements readily and instituted a systematic search for offenders. They captured seven spies one of them a woman who used eleotric flashlight signals from a window SKY LAST NIGHT RED FROM FLAMES BURNING ANTWERP London, 5.45 p. m.—ln a dispatch from Amsterdam fill'd at 12:46 t'nla af ternoon, the correspondent of the Houter Telegram Company says: "The uninterrupted thundering of gun* was hoard at Itnsendaal from Antwerp throughout the night. The filing slackened a little In the ear ly morning, but It has now resumed with full force, "The sky line last night was made rad by the flames of hnralng Antwerp." Rosendaal Is about twenty miles north of Antwerp In Holland. STATES HUGE HOWITZERS USED ON ANTWERP CATHEDRAL London, 2;15 p. m,—ln a despatch from Ohoot Thursday midnight the correspondent of the Star transmits "An officer whom I met states that the bombardment of the cathedral nt Antwerp had begun nt the hour ha left tha city, which was 10 o'clock Thurs day morning. Fire had broken out In many placea. The Hermans were using their 10-Inch Howl tsars with terrible effect on the Inner ring of foite but gone of smaller calibre were being employed for the desttmctlo nos the city lts«f "The elrshlp which dropped a bomb on the law courts wae subjected to a terrific fire and muet certainly have been hit. "The burgomaster of Antwerp has declared hie Intention of eupportlna the military In resisting to the last." OFFICIAL BULLETINS FRENCH Paris, 3:06 p. m.—The following of ficial announcement was given out in Paris this afternoon: "The general situation has under gone no change. “On our left wing the two opposing bodies of cavalry are stll operating to the north of Lille and of Laßassee and the battle continues along the line marked by the regions of I-one. Arras, Bray-Sur-Somme, Chaulnes, Roye ami Lassigny. “On the centre of Oise and on the Meuse, only actions of minor Import ance have been reported. “On our right, In the Woevre dis trict there has been an artillery con test along the entire front. “In Lorraine. In the Vosges, and In Alsace there has been no change.” Parts of Antwerp Aflame Bombardment of City Terrible. Germans Charge With Use of Incendiary Bombs—Report Repulse of Besiegers—Air planes Over Ostend London, 10:15 a. m.—Borgerhaut, a suburb of Antwerp, In burning, ac cording to a Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam. Palace of Justice Burning. London, 6:05 a. m.—The bombard ment of Antwerp haH been terrible, says an Ostend dispatch to the Reute: Telegram Company under date of Thursday. “The Germans threw Incendiary bombs," the dispatch adds, "with tin result that many parts of the town be tween the railway station at the south and the Palace of Justice are In flames. “It Is rumored here that the Ger mans have been repulsed on the left bank of the River Nethe. "A Taube aeroplane flew over Os tend at 4 o'clock this afternoon." GERMAN London, 10:30—The official com munication of the German general staff given out at Berlin In the even ing of October. 8, is contained In a. dis patch to Heuter’s Telegram Company from Amsterdam. It says: “From the western scene of war no facts of decelslve Importance can he mentioned. Small progress has been made near St. Mlhlel and In the Ar gonnes. "Before Antwerp Fort Breendonk has been taken and the attack on the inner fort line has begun. The bom bardment of the quarter of the town lying behind was begun after the dec laration of the commander of the stronghold that he took the respon sibility. “The airship hall at Dusseldorf has been hit .hi a. bomb thrown by a hos tile aviator. The roof of the hall was pierced and the cover on an airship In the hall was demolished. DEVELOPMENTS FAVORABLE TO MILLIES Great Battle to Decide Strug gle Along the Aisne Expected. Importance of German Re treating Move on Right Bank of Meuse. Paris, 6:50 a. m.—Most of the let ters from soldiers at the front speak of the great battle that. Is expected "or the morrow that will decide the great struggle along the Aisne which show that they, as well as the military critics, are baffled by the Immense operations of which big battles, here and there, constitute mere details. Heavy fighting occurs every day along some part of the battle line, the Importance of which cannot be gathered from the sober detailH of the official statements, so It Is Impos sible to assemble all of the simultan eous movements bearing on the gen eral situation. The critics are agreed, however, that developments are favor able to the allies. While points of the greatest Interest recently have been at the point, or elbow of the battle In the region of Roye and on the extreme left, atten tion Is called to the Importance of the German retreating movement on the right hank of the Meuae beyond Hat tonchfttel, which endangers their last position In the region of St. Mlhlel. It Is not considered possible that the Germans can remain In thla region end their retirement may entail a general retreat of the army operating between the Meuse and the frontier. 10,000 TAKEN PRISONERS BY ROSSIS Paris, 3:60 p. In the recent bat tles along the Hast I’russlan frontier the Kusslans took 10,000 prisoners and forty cannon, according to a dispatch from I’etrograd to the llavaa News Agency. $6.00 PER YEAR—FIVE CENTS PER COPY. ANTWERP SIEGE, AISNE FIGHT BECOMING MORE CLOSELY RELATED Battle Line Almost Reaches North Sea With Ever Lengthening Western Wings—Paris Con tends Situation Nearly Stationary With Con tinuance ot Violent Fighting London 10:05 a. m* —Ho far ns England kn«>WM this morning: Antwerp la still holding out against the German on *la ught. King Albert has withdrawn from the city toward Ostend, wheTe the administration la now fully established but practically the entire Belgian field wrmy hn« remained to resist, ns long us possible, the fire of tho great German guns. Defenders Hoping. The nations opposing Germany hoped the defenders could hold out till the Al lies delivered some decisive blow along the battle line in France, which has now aJmost Reached the North Sea and taken in conjunction with the fighting which extends across the Belgian frontier to the northward of Lille, makes a gigantic front sprawling like a snake half across Belgium and across practi cally all of northeastern France. Most Desperate Efforts. Though separate conflicts, the siege of Antwerp and thp battle of the Alsne are thus becoming more and more close ly related and both the Germans and the Allies are making the most des perate efforts to crush each other and tlmash through the ever-flengthenlng ‘BATTLE TO TOE DEATH AND 01 - NO QUARTER’ Captain Coleman, U. S. A., at Fight Along the Marne, Re turns With Assistant Sec retary of War---Quotes Speech of Kaiser. New York.—Assistant Secretary Breckinridge of the war department and twenty army officers who went to Europe on the gold cruiser Tennes see soon after the beginning of the war, returned today on the Lusitania. They will report direct to Secretary Garrison their activities In helping Americans In the war zones. One of the returning officers, Cap tain I/ibert Coleman, was quoted by the New York ICty News Association as saying that he was with the right wing of the allied armies at the tint tie of the Marne and that there were 6,000,000 men engaged In the battle. Lack of Food. "The German retreat was due to lack of food stippllcH and ammuni tion,” he was quoted as saying. 'The Germans will never again get as near to Parts as they have been. The Freno hartlllery, as I observed It, was superior to that of the Germans; but the German cavalry was better than that of the French. "Every Frenchman knows that he Is fighting for the existence of his coun try and he fights fair. War to Death. ”T have In my possession a speech the kaiser delivered In 1910 In which he said that the next war would be war to the death and In which ho or dered his men not to accept or give quarter and to take no prisoners. I am told that the speech was repeated by the kaiser at the outbreak of this war.” Captain Coleman was said to have characterized ns wonderful the bayo net charges of the French troops at the battle of the Marne. THE GERMAN CRUIBERB. New York,—Willard J. Hauter, of Schenectady, N, Y„ who arrived yes terday from Naples, brought word of the German warships Qoeben and Breslau, the sailors on which, he said, hsd been granted Turkish citizenship. Mr. Hauler went to Naples direct from Constantinople. “Everyone In Constantinople, ” he said, "understood that the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau were an chored out In the Sea of Marmora, as they were too badly damaged to come Into the harbor of Constantinople.” Insist That One Zeppelin Airship Was Brought to Earth Over Antwerp London,—The Kvenlng Htar's Antwerp correspondent telegraphing hy wsy of Amsterdam says that eye-witnesses of the Zeppelin flights over Antwerp Insist that they saw one such craft hit by shells from the forts and fall to the earth. During the bombardment of Antwerp Thursday night It ts estimated that shells fell at. the rate of twenty a minute. Many civilians were killed. In nddltlon to the law rourts and museum which were damaged by shells, fire broke out at many points In the city. HOME EDITION western wings. It Is contended that the Germans fail ed in their great effort to drive a wedge through this region and toe latest Paris communication contends that the situa tion is stationary, though most violent fighting continues. The Last Word. If Antwerp falls it will prove the In effectiveness of modern fortiflcat lons against modern guns, for Antwerp la the Inst word in ingenious barriers. The situation on the east Prussian frontier is becoming more like that In France. Being driven from Poland the Germans are making a stubborn stand and with reinforcements from Koenigs berg will doubtless give a battle which will determine whether the Germans will again invade Russia in this region. New Russian Army. Roundabout despatches reaching Lon don from Petrograd say that a new Rus sian army has arrived at the frontier near Posen, while another is marching toward Thorn. All reports of the surrender of Przemysl apear to be premature es were various reports about the beginning of a buttle at Cracow. VIENNA REPORT SAYS RUSSIANS AREFLEEING Official Statement Declares Further Advances Made By Austrians, Przeszow Recap tured and Thousands of Dead and Wounded Vienna, (via Amsterdam and Lon don, 11:20 a. m.) —The following of ficial announcement signed by Gen eral Hoefer, deputy chief of the gen eral staff, was given out at Vienna today: "Our troops have made further ad vances and yesterday they repulsed the enemy on the road to Przetnysl, near Barycz, west of Dynow. Przes zow has been re-captured and guns have been taken. “(n the territory between the River Vistula and the River San we took many prisoners from the fleeing Rus sians. Enemy Repulsed. “The renewed violent attacks on Przcmysl hav bean splendidly re pulsed and the enemy’s dead and wounded were counted by the thou sanr. "We have had victorious battles at Hzlget, In Maramos County, Hungary, and in East Galicia. The lanstrum and the Polish legionaries rivalled each other In gallantry." BELCH® QUITS ANTWERP Albert’s Presence on Field Up to Friday Morning Greatly Inspired His Troops. London, 2:48 a. m.—An Amsterdam despatch to Heater's Telegram Com pany, dated Friday, quotes the Nleuws Van Iter Dag of Ghent as saying that King Albert left Antwerp this morning and has arrived at Helsaete. a village near the Dutch frontier town of Sua Van Ghent. Ineplred by Pretence. London, 4:13 a. m.— Fleroe reelatance of Antwerp's defenders on the Scheldt wns partly Inspired by the presence of King Albert, says the Ghent correspond ent of thn chronicle In a despatch un der Thursday's date. “King Albert re tains command of tils troops." the des patch says, “and Is continually In ths field directing operations, an example almost galvanic In Its effect to his brave forces.’'