FENWAY'S FIRST TEAM
Rain robs the Red Sox of a game,
having scored 10 runs when downpour hits

July 18, 1912 ... A heavy rainstorm in the Red Sox half of the first inning at Fenway Park, cut off all the possibility of resuming the game that was in progress, and a doubleheader will be played tomorrow starting at 2 o'clock. Eddie Cicotte made his first appearance against his old Red Sox teammates and was given a welcome full of warmth by the Boston fans in the in the cold and damp confines of the ballpark.

As the field was not in good shape and a drizzling mist was falling, Cicotte's moist ball was out of place. He was no puzzle to the Speed Boys, who evidently had their hitting shoes on. After shutting out the White Sox in the first inning of the game, when Jimmy Callahan had reached on a base hit and Harry Lord reached on a pass, both men were then thrown out by Bill Carrigan.

Harry Hooper led off the Sox half of the inning, with a slow roller that Cicotte failed to negotiate and Yerkes slapped a base hit to right, sending Hooper around to third. Tris Speaker doubled close to the right-field foul line and scored Hooper and then Lewis was thrown out by Buck Weaver, who held Yerkes at third-base. Larry Gardner was walked to fill the bases and Jake Stahl rapped out a single, with Carrigan doubling and Charley Hall getting a base hit. Then Hooper coming to bat for the second time smashed a single to left.

With six runs now in, Ralph Bell came in to relieve Cicotte and was given a harsh introduction by Yerkes, who banged the ball to left field for two bases. Speaker next singled and stole second and then third, finally scoring the tenth Boston run when catcher Walt Kuhn threw the ball into left-field.

Then the rain now came down hard and with Duffy Lewis at bat for the second time the game was stopped. Lewis and Wagner had both made outs previously and Hooper, Yerkes and Speaker each got two hits and scored two runs each in the inning. Twelve men went to bat for the two outs and while the conditions were poor, of the nine hits made by the Red Sox, eight were solid. As Charley Hall was running smoothly in the first inning, the rain simply killed the Red Sox chances of winning an easy game.

Ben Van Dyke a pitcher with the Worcester ball club has been sold to the Red Sox for $5000 and will report the first week in September. He will remain with the Worcester team until the season closes for the New England League on September 7th. Van Dyke started with the team in 1910 and won 20 of the 24 games he pitched. Last year he won 21 of the 33 games he worked in and has now won 14 of his 19 games pitched this season.