New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1915, Page 8

BRITAIN NEW illy Players Waich Yankees Maul Red Sox--Giants Hit Cellar Position When Braves Beat Them Twice--Billy Kopf Gets Back Into Game--Live Dope on Coming Series Written by Expert JWILLBESTAR | { COMING SFRIES? istory Repeat and Some In- | | fual Player Obtain Honors? : ! who will equal the Boston sluggers.” York, October 5.—In nearly series for the world's baseball pionship some player on each of ending teams has been picked fans as a tower of strength in department and in the mind’'s the baseball public he stood shoulders above his co- This year's contest for the r title of the diamond will | no exception to this accepted | In looking over the list of elig- for the coming battle between hiladelphia Nationals and the E and and Alexander ler naturally are the first the eyes of even the casual ob- furnish to as the ones who may ar plays of the coming contest. ! plavers, however, on sides have shown remarkable de to do the ring thing at the time during the long season’s | Quick thinking and fast ac- action are the essentials which great baseball players. While o players mentioned have shown rful control and effectiveness in positions, a great deal should be bout many others who, While not | pminent, have been equally ef- in their pennant winning work ason either at bat, on the paths the field. he minds of many baseball ex- Manager Moran's feat of mak- supposedly mediocre team a nent winning aggregation is y as great a performance as | ccomplished last year by George gs with the Boston Braves. The men are virtually a «cast off” as thirteen of them were let y other major league clubs. in Luderus was once with the go Nationals; Killifer was tried Louis and let go; Adams iwas the New York .Giants for a time; Demarce came from the k and McQuillen played with hnati and Pittsburg; Niehoff was (Cincinnati; Dugey and Whitted | from the Braves; Stock was erred to Philadelphia by New Byrne was once with St. Louis bittsburg: Cravath, the fence de- er, plaved with” Boston, Chi- and Washington American rt chased flies for Cincinnati and r saw service with the Boston nals, New York Giants and Cin- 1. xander, Mayer and Rixey, ers and Bancroft are the only bers of the team who grew into Inal League material while with lub. Tincup, Baumgartner and r are youngsters who have yet n regular places on the team. xander's great work in the box g the season has placed him in imelight as the star pitcher of ational League and the backbone other eys Reserved Now for . cagues'and Parties AETNA OWLING ALLEYS : quently : great | world | the New York Giants in 1913. | three years ago are still wearing the i of |on the team and of the Quaker City team. If the series goes (0 the 1.ait of seven games Alexanuaer, 1L 1S expected, will ve on the mound in at least three games, beginning with the opening clash. Aft- er he had won his thirtieta game, a few days ago, Alexander when asked what he would do in the world's series, replied: “Just whatever Man- ager Moran tells he. 1 have been well supported by my teammates and 1 must say they have saved me we have Phitlies hitters but 1 think ome fence busters on the Demaree, McQuillen, Chalmers and Rixey on his pitcaing stafi, Manager Moran feels that he has a formicable array of boxmen to back up Alexander in attacking the Red Sox defense. The intieid com- posed Passert and Whitted are well able to take care of the outergar- den. Captain Luderus stands second in the batting list of the National League and with Cravata, Whitted, Stock, Becker and Niehoff the hitting of the Moran tcam shows considerable wtrength. Should the majority of games be played on the Phiadeiphia grounds, taat the park with its short rences will suit tnc home hitters | much beiter than the visitors is the opinion saared in Ly inany close fol- ivwers of the game. Including Manager Moran, members of the Pniladelphia Nation- als have b members of tormer ser: he other four ; W hitted, Becker and Moran was with the Chicago Cubs when Krank Chance was man- ager of the National League pen- nant winners. Demaree was Wwith Whit- with the 1oston Braves last year. Beals Becker played left field for the New York Giants in 1911 and 1912 and Dugey was with the Boston Braves last year. (ompared with their Philadelphia opponents the roster of the Boston Red Sox includes many world's series winning veterans which naturally gives the New kngland team the ad- vantage at least of experience. Ten of the players who were on the championship eligible .list for Boston With Mayer, five De; Dugey. ted played Lannin uniforms, Jack Barry who was with the Athletics of Philadelphia through victory and cefeat is an ad- ditional help this vyear. Only two of the-old pitchers, Wood and Col- lins, are now with the team. The‘ former, however, may not be cflllcdi upon during the coming conflict while | the veteran southpaw Collins has not | been able to reach the standard of merit he attained in previous years. nager Carrigan has a fine staff from which to select moundmen and it looks as though the bulk of the work in this department will be en- trusted to Leconard, Shore, Foster and Ruth during the series. Shore and Koster are right handers and the other two are left hand twirlers. Then therc are Gregg and Mays who with Collins and Wood form a strong reserve to be called upon in case it becomes necessary. Ruth and Gregg stand among the .300 hitters this sea- tre- | Boston may boast of some | | | Philadelphia, Oct. 5.—Keep your eye on Rixey and Burns, the two Philadelphia players who have seldom been mentioned as capable of big experts. According to those on the inside, Pat Moran intends to use Southpaw Rixey against the Red So siuggers in one of the games. Patrick Lelieves Eppa is capable of mowing down the star strikers on Bill Car- rigan'’s team. He figures the Boston doings in the world’s series, say some ' Big Things are Expected of Southpaw Rixey and Burns boys will have some difficulty in con- recting with Rixey's slants. With Killifer laid up, Burns will have to do the bulk of the backstopping. Man- ager Moran says that Burns will sure- 1y stop the Boston speed boys from stealing many sacks. The youngster has handled all the Phillies in such musterly style during Killifer's ab- | sence that Moran thinks he will come pretty neaer being the hero of the scries. this season, his batting average of .332 speaks for itself. Twenty-four two-baggers and twelve three-base smashes in addition to one hundred and seventy-one singles make up the sum of bingles accredited to the cen- terfielder, so far as the records go this year. These together with seven- teen sacrifice hits and twenty-eight stolen bases as well as a fielding son while Leonard, Wood and Fos- ter also have proven themselves to be very useful batters. Certainly Car- rigan has no need to worry as to the strength or ability of his pitching force. T Speaker, the player most talked of on the Red Sox team, to- gether with Lewis and Hooper, make up the great outfield, considered by many to be the best in the country. These three have been playing to- gether for several years and under- stand each other so well that there !is never a hitch or jolt to mar the smoothness of their play. course, Speaker is the pillar of strength while he has not been credited with a home run hit RANTLAND RICE | Peer of All Sport Writers WILL WRITE THE STORIES OF THE Worid’s Championship Baseball Games FOR “Theflgrald”‘ Rice’s BaseballStories HAVE Won for Him Recognition as A Writer in a THESE SPECIALS Direct to “The Herald” Class by Himself BY LEASED WIRE from the Battlegrounds in Boston and Phila- delphia. Be Sure to Read Rice’s Great Articles { | stronger | hand pitchers, while Gainer gets best | average of .975 testify to the useful- ness of the big Texan, who at bat and in the field has earned a place among the greatest players in the history of the National game. Left-fielder Lewis who has with the team half a dozen years, also has a fine season’s record. With a fielding average of .933 Lewis made one hundred and fifty-six base hits; twenty-nine doubles, seven three baggers, two homers, sacrificed twen- ty-nine times and stole fourteen bases. His batting average is .2 Hooper the other member of the outfield has a fielding average of .974. His contributions Wwith the stick include one hundred and thirty singles, eighteen doubles; fourteen triples, two circuit wallops, and six- teen sacrifice hits, a batting average of .242. Besides he pilfered bases seventeen times. -~ As to the infield of three years ago, Gardner and Wagner still remain but the latter is not likely to be seen in the coming series. Gardner at third base, however, is well to the fore among the hitters. Always dan- gerous with the bat, he is a first class fielder with an average of .923. The Red Sox did not “find them- | selves” as a league-leading combina- tion until the accession of Barry. His conversion from short stop to second base was the deciding factor in Bos- | ton’s progress pennantward. The coming of Barry resulted in an unusual alignment of “Key-stone combinations.” As preparation against accidents, Manager Carrigan has an interchangeable combination in the | infield. Four short-stops are avail- able: Scott, who plays the position regularly; Janvrin, his understudy; Barry, who played a star game that position for so many vears with the Athletics, and Heinie Wagner, Red S6x regular at short in the World Series of 1912. The three latter men are available also as finished second basemen, and Janvrin and Barry can bring experience to relief to Gard- ner at third baso, iif necessary. First base is protected by the rever- | sible pair, Hoblitzel and Gainer. Both | are good flelders, but Hoblitzel is as a batter against right been batting results off the delivery of lefthanders, FOOTBALL CHALLENGE. The West Ends of Meriden is de- sirious of arranging football games with any local elevens, averaging in weight from 120 to 130 pounds. The club has been in existence three years and ha never drank from the cup of defeat. All challenges should be addressed to Edward Kroeber, Man- | ager, Linsley avenue, Meriden. in | NATIONAL LEAGUE. Yesterday's Results. Brooklyn 3, Philadelphia 2. Boston 4-5, New York 1-4. Only two games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. w. L. 88 62 81 68 80 70 73 80 73 81 72 81 ok 83 68 81 P.C. 587 541 .533 477 474 471 .461 456 Philadelphia . Boston Brookly Chicago Pittsburg St. Louis Cincinnati New York Games Today. New York at Boston. Brooklyn at Philadelphia. Only two games scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Yesterday’s Results. New York 5-3, Boston 1-2. Washington 7, Philadelphia 3. Only two games scheduled. Standing of the Ciubs. - L. 99 49 54 61 66 P.C. .669 .649 .604 .563 .456 .409 .375 .273 Boston Detroit Chicago Washington New York St. Louis Cleveland . Philadelphia ... Games Today. Boston at New York. Philadelphia «t Washington. Only two games scheduled. 93 85 68 63 57 ECOND PLACE FOR BRAVES, Looks as if Stallings-Evers Combina- tion Will Grab Second Honors. Brooklyn, Oct, 5,—When the Braves | slipped over a double win on the Giants yesterday Wilbert Robby and Colonel Cholly Ebbets reconciled {hemselves to a third-place berth in Governor Tener’'s pennant parade, providing the schedule is played out. Brooklyn still may get a clear title to second place, but to get there they must beat the Phils twice while the Braves lose three to the Giants. Then 3rooklyn would finish with a percent- age of .539, against .533 for the PBraves. But it is doubtful if the Su- perbas may count on New York as an ally. Should the Brook!vns win two more from the Phillies and Boston lose two out of three to New York the two teams would be tied with eighty-two victories and seventy defeats. It Loston wins two out of three while Lrooklyn is winning two they will jead Brooklyn by a game, Should Brooklyn break even and Boston lose two out of three the Braves still would win the runner-up position. BASKETBALL SCHEDULE. Wesleyan Management Arranges Sea- son’s Games—Will Not Meet Yale. Middletown, Oct. 5.—Manager Slo- cum of the Wesleyan basketball team vesterday announced his schedule, land it was ratified by the Athletic iCnuncL, The new teams that ap- pear on the schedule this year are | West Virginia, Connecticut Agricul- | tural c. llege, and Rhode Island state. | Those teams which were on the schednle last ear and are dropped this ycar are Yale, Swarthmore, and Massichusetts Tech. This is the first time in nine years that Wesleyan has faited to meet Yale while in those pnine years Wesleyan was the victor eight times. The schedule is as follows:— December 11—Connecticut Agricul- tural College at Middletown. December 15—Rhode Island State at Midcdletown. Janusry 8— at Middletown. January 14—Union at Middletown. Jaauary 21—Colgate at Middletown February 9—Dartmouta at Middle- town. Februvary 11—Amherst at Amherst. February 15—Dartmouth at Han- over. Febrvary 19—N. Y. U. at New York city. Februery town. February town. March 1—West Virginia Wesleyan at Middletown. March 4—Union at Schenectady. March 8—Williams at Willlams- town. March 11—N. Y. U. at Middletown. ew Hampshire State 22—Williams at Middle- 26—Amherst at Middle- YALE ATHLETICS DISCUSSED. General Athletic Committee Talks About Quimby's Successor, New Haven, Oct. 5.—Yale's general athletic committee last night discusseq effairs of all branches of sport, al- though nothing relating to football was taken up. It was announced that a new assistant crew coach to suc- ceed Eugene Gaininni will be selected. The new baseball coach to replace Frank Quimby, who resigned during the summer, will not be named for two or three days, although his en- segement was announced last night. The Yale-Columbia crew race will be held Friday, November 12, the day before the Yale-Princeton foot- ball game here. Although no official announcement was made, it is ex- pected that the race will be rowed on Lake Saltonstall, near this city, Alumni members present at the meeting included Dr. Josh Hartwell, Fred Wallen, George B. Case, and John R. Kilpatrick of New York city, and Professor Robert C. Corwin of the Yale faculty. YANKS BEAT SOX AS PHILLIES WATCH Moran and Hirelings Take Notes of Red Sox Plays. New York, Oct. 5.—Three scouting Phillies sat in the grand stand at the Polo Grounds yesterday MRIter- noon and wished they could do to the Red Sox what the Yankees did. Chief Moran, Alexander and Killifer took notes of the ways and means of the American league champions, and the Yankees took the measure of the American league monarchs. Nobody cared enough about the Yankees to make a single entry for future ref- erence, but unnoted and ursung they swatted the Carrigan colony twice— 6 to 1 in the first game, 3 to 1 in the second. The scores: First Game. r. h. e Boston ........ 000100000—1 7 2 New York .. 00102200*—5 10 Batteries: Leonard, Gregg and Car- rigan and Haley; Markle and Alex- ander. Second Game. r. h. e 010001000—2 4 1 New York . 00000012*—3 7 2 Batteries: Foster and Thomas; Caldwell, and Nunamaker and Schwert. Boston Kopf Back in Game. Washington, Oct. 5.—Connie Mack's young pitchers, Nabors and Ray, were wild and ineffective here yesterday. Washington winning, 7 to 8, in a loosely played game- cn the slab for the Senators, passed eight of the visitors and fanned seven Harper was a puzzle until the final two innings, when the Mackmen i bunched four hits and shoved over three runs. The score: r. 000000012—3 ‘Washington 12010120*—7 Batteries: Nabors, Ray kine; Harper and Williams. h. e. 9 3 9 0 and Per- Philadelphia BOY WONDER WON'T SIGN. Worcester, Mass,, Oct. 4.—Fred Mitcaell, coach of the Boston Braves, made a trip to Worcester yesterday for the purposz of signing up Em- mons J. Bowen, the sensational 18 years old New Haven schoolboy out- fielder, now a freshman at Holy Cross ccllege, but he was unsuccess- ful. Despite the flattering offer which George Stallings’ right hand man made him to join the ranks of professionals, Bowen turned it down, saying that he preferred to stick to colleg2 ball until he had completed his edacation. This is the second at- tempt made by the Braves to land this promising youngster. Harry Harper, | The World Series Round-Up. No Infields, The Dope is there with clinch; Dope is there clinch; Or: the season’'s records stands pat— And points the way cinch. a deadly The with a deadly the Dope to a three-ply On the season’s records the Dope stands pat— It lifts each star to a lofty peak: And then—a Rohe steps up to bat— Or a Lank Hank Gowdy has his week. Infield prices for this season have gone down The bull movement has been suppressed, with the bears in charge. The $100,000 stuff has been swept from the market, scatterel from Chicago, Ill., to Trappe, Md. That once star quartet—Baker, Col- lins, McInnis and Barry—who used to sing that stirry ditty, “The Old Oaken Bludgeon,” is now a part of the me- dieval history of the game—gone with the forgotten tribes that used to rule. No Great Infields, On the form shown in 150 games there will be no great infield at work in Philadelphia or Boston these next few stirring days ahead. There will be no Baker-Barry-Collins stuff—no Tinker-Evers-Steinfeldt combination. There will be no combination as po- tent as the Maranville-Evers couplet of a year ago. The two opposing inflelds are not weak—but neither are they anything to be sought out as a resting place for surplus supplies of olive boughs and laurel sprigs. Merely Normal Of the eight infielders who will meet, only one is displaying a batting average above .280. His name is | Luderus, the mauling Philly. Most of | the others are good inflielders, but | soft and spongy at bat, ranging in the main between .195 and .240, In a short series they may extermi- nate the cover on the ball. But bat- ting up to form against the pitching they will get, the two inflelds are hardly likely to reach a .200 average. Around First, Luderus is one man in the Philly infield who is likely to be a dangerous factor at bat. He isn't as shifty as Hoblitzell, the ex-Red of old renown, but in the advance dope sheet he is I'sted well above his Red Sox rival. There is nothing tempestuous or bubbling about the temperament of the Philly first baseman. A hard hitter over the long route, he happens to be one of those calm, unemotional souls who consider a ball game as being just a ball game, whether there be 1,000 or 50,000 in the stands. As a slugging mate with Cravath in the short Philly park, Luderus is more likely to be a vital factor than Hob- : litzell, who, while better around the | bag, isn’t enough of a whirlwind to overcome the other odds. At Second. What the Phillies gain at first witp Luderus pitted against Hoblitzell or Del Gainer they more than lose at second. With Evers suffering an off-year, Barry is the next greatest second beseman—next to his old pal Collins, Whereas Niehoff is outranked by None Better On Tap at Taps in this Vicinity: as one glass will conclusively prove. Ask for your ale or lager by the name—— FISCHER — For Goodness’ Sake! ON TAP AT LOUIS W. Y | | | | | | PORT LIGHT- Grantland Rice the majority of second basemeg. in his own circuit—certainly by Doyle, ¥ivers, Huggins, Cutshaw and possibly one or two others Barry is a star—and fairly ady and Second base isn't even spot. His regular job was third—and while Barry has been sbifted from short to second, the ex-Mackman is a more versatile type. Barry did poorly last fall in the Lig series after starring in other yeavs #0 he is sure to make a desperate at- tempt Lo wipe out that 1914 deficit. You will find him hustling harder when the bell rings than he ever stled before. And you will also find against the test he has speed and brajns in more than average abundance, with the faculty of rising above the normal when the main test reports. At Short. Beaten back at second, Tegaln part of their lost short, where in young Bancroft, th Niehoff reliable his while isn't. camping around” the Phillies ground at the | 1ising star imported from the Pacifie Coast, they have ancther Maranville. Bancroft hag been outbatting his rival, Scott, and Scott, though a fine infielder—one of the steadiest that ever pushed a paw in front of a tounder—hasn’'t any margin in the fielding game, These two youngsters, barrassed by the magnitude of tie proceedings, should furnish many a flelding thrill. Both can go far and unless em- ! fast in pursuit of the bounding ball, | experienced workman in end both are clean fielding types that make observation well worth while. It isn't overly probable that either will peel the epidermis off the ball o any Bakerian extent, but defensively thy should be leading features of the champlonship week. Gardaer Leads, Milton Stock is a pretty good third taseman, but he isn’'t a Larry Gardner by one or two strides. . Gardner on form is the better Rit- ter, the better infielder and the more the smoke crift of decisive warfare Stock has this one advantage—once in a while through brief periods he develops a batting frenzy and pounds the ball with the power of a ‘?0 hitter. Every now and then he falls | heir to a batting streak worthy of a Cobb. And even fine pitching in one of these spells won't hold him under curb. But for a steady, sure performance, Gardner is well beyond him, and de- serves the margin, 8o, as the records and the general play of the season go, the two inflelds are nearer an average than any por- tions of the two machines, Philadelphia has an advantage in, two spots—first and short—whiles Boston has the advantage at second and third. The Phillies have one dangerous ifi-- field batsmen in Luderus, and the Re Sox have two only a slight less dan- gerous in Barry and Gardner. Heinie Wagner was a great steady- ing influence in the Boston-New Y&rk series of 1912, and Barry should exert this same influence at the 1915 meet- ing. Whereas the Phillies have neo man of the Wagner-Barry type to help hold a machine together and keep keen inspection upon the gen- eral status of affairs . In this respect the Read Sox have a distinct advantage. Our Special Brew is a special Brewery Bottled product that's ALL guality. On Sale by your dealer or The Hubert Fischer Brewery HARTFORD, CONN. (a1s) FOVL, HUTEL BELOIN, KEEVELRS & QU MANN SCHMARR, W. 7 J. McCARTHY,