In our 8th World Series it will be the New York Yankees in their first series versus the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs won 88 games on the season 2 better than Cincinnati and the Yankees won 84 games on the season 2 better the White Sox. The Cubs are led by their pitching staff of "Grover Cleveland" Pete Alexander and Hippo Vaughn both twenty game winners. The Yankees did not have a twenty game winner on the staff but Shawkey, Carl Mays, and Quinn did win 19, 15 and 15.
The series starts in Chicago, where the series has been played and won twice before in 1906 and again in 1910. The game is an extra inning affair where the visiting Yankees win by the score of 9-8. The score was tied at 3 to 3 in the top of the sixth when the Yankees scored 5 runs on 9 batters to the plate Ping Bodie delivered the big hit with a double that scored 3. The Cubs countered with 3 runs in the bottom of the frame. Charlie Deal hit an inside the park homer scoring 2 runs. Two innings later Deal doubled in two more runs to tie the contest at 8. The score stayed that way until the top of the 11th when Yankees George Mogridge singled in Vick for the win.
BOX SCORE GAME ONE
Game two at Wrigley field in Chicago pits Alexander against Shawkey, ace versus ace. The visiting club carves up Alexander for 5 runs, Bodie goes 4 for 4, Lewis hits a 2 run homer while Bob Shawkey toses a shutout allowing only five hits. The series heads to New York with the Yankees up 2 games to none.
BOX SCORE GAME TWO
With the score tied at 1 each the Yankees score 2 runs in the bottom of the eight as Del Pratt singles in two.