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Big Six · 05-26-2003, 05:16 PM

Boston Post, Sunday, September 28, 1909

WORLD SERIES OPENS TO-DAY!!

City Alive With Excitement as Boston Hosts Opening Two Games
New Yorkers Promise to Provide Strong Opposition

BOSTON--The streets of the city to-day are filled with people who care to discuss only one thing: the opening game of the World Series, which will take place this afternoon at the Huntington Avenue Grounds. The Red Sox, champions of the American League and darlings of the rooters, are matched with the New York Giants of John McGraw, kings of the National League.

No further tickets are available for either of the first two games of the Series, which will be played in Boston, but there will be several opportunities for aficionados of the national game to follow the action. A large mechanical board, on which the account of the action will be displayed, will be positioned outside McGreevey's saloon, located on Huntington Street. Similar displays are said to be planned for other locations around the city.

"Tex" Pruiett, the esteemed righthander, will work the first game for the Americans. His opponent will be "Christy" Mathewson, who despite injuries which plagued him throughout the season, must still be ranked among the game's finest. "Matty" has won seventeen contests against only five defeats, allowing fewer than two earned runs per game.

"Pat" O'Farrell, the Sox' second baseman, has never faced Mathewson, but has watched him work. When "Matty" faced the American Leaguers in the '08 All-Star contest, "Pat" had a seat in the dugout. "Mathewson will give us very few good pitches to hit," O'Farrell relates. "We have to be ready to take advantage of any opportunity we receive. Of course, Pruiett for our side is the same kind of pitcher. I would not expect too much scoring in this first game."

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05-26-2003, 05:16 PM	#56 (permalink)
Big Six Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Williamsburg, VA Posts: 2,410 Thanks: 117 Thanked 91x in 73 posts	Off to the Series Boston Post, Sunday, September 28, 1909 WORLD SERIES OPENS TO-DAY!! City Alive With Excitement as Boston Hosts Opening Two Games New Yorkers Promise to Provide Strong Opposition BOSTON--The streets of the city to-day are filled with people who care to discuss only one thing: the opening game of the World Series, which will take place this afternoon at the Huntington Avenue Grounds. The Red Sox, champions of the American League and darlings of the rooters, are matched with the New York Giants of John McGraw, kings of the National League. No further tickets are available for either of the first two games of the Series, which will be played in Boston, but there will be several opportunities for aficionados of the national game to follow the action. A large mechanical board, on which the account of the action will be displayed, will be positioned outside McGreevey's saloon, located on Huntington Street. Similar displays are said to be planned for other locations around the city. "Tex" Pruiett, the esteemed righthander, will work the first game for the Americans. His opponent will be "Christy" Mathewson, who despite injuries which plagued him throughout the season, must still be ranked among the game's finest. "Matty" has won seventeen contests against only five defeats, allowing fewer than two earned runs per game. "Pat" O'Farrell, the Sox' second baseman, has never faced Mathewson, but has watched him work. When "Matty" faced the American Leaguers in the '08 All-Star contest, "Pat" had a seat in the dugout. "Mathewson will give us very few good pitches to hit," O'Farrell relates. "We have to be ready to take advantage of any opportunity we receive. Of course, Pruiett for our side is the same kind of pitcher. I would not expect too much scoring in this first game." (rest of article missing)