New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1915, Page 12

e ns Disappointed With Bad Break of Weather for World’s Series Opening--Closing Games in Both M a]or Leagues Are Farcical--Cubs Shut Out Sox, Lavender in Fine Fettle--Harry F. Grant Dies NYEAR'S FFERENCE DOES —*f—*—— the Braves Ified the Sox This Year Vice Versa ork, Oct. 8.—Twelve months the Boston Braves defeated delphla Athletics for the tle of baseball champions, nes were played on Amer- le grounds and this year the g teams will meet in Na- gue parks. An exchange of between Presidents Gaffney n. of the rival Boston clubs s8ible ' an additional seating of ‘the games last year. In F the kindness of President hst season, President Gaffney d Braves Field at the dis- he American league pennant or the coming series thereby accomodations for sever- nd additional spectators. pw home of the Boston Na- where at least half of this ttle will be staged, will seat a4 few hundred {n excess of prsons. © At'first an erronéous bn prevailed that Braves ler the erection of temporary ould accomodatc over 52,- tators. In fact a semi-offi- pment was made to that ef- President Lannin accepted of President Gaffney, Red pials have been busily en- ecking up the seating capac- e National league grounds, b found the first reports to derably in excess of the ac- Ires reached after a thorough In. of the grand and other nd bleachers. It has also d that a municipal ordinance ich prohibits the erection of structures and as the time ort in which to build per- stands on the grounds, a lib- imate of the park’s capacity about 42,000. This, how- 1 be, far in excess of the fies of Fenway park, where prsons, the largest attendance eréd at a baseball game ithessed one of the games . Brayes and Athletics !' field extends 385,500 Tespectively from the left, center and right over the broad reach- Field, the fences In home plate, the fleet Boston wt‘! ‘have ample room . for at! i ) . er | Red Sox. in 1f"be these great fq ces on Braves’ ke| he shorter boun- llg, elphia park, of- tpthome run drives u reach of a fast {pf Philadelphia’s of- L1 will be robbed by ed Sox supporters be- ‘\plrk the home of dmmy years, is one of unds in either the erican leagues. 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Next to him in im- portance is the man who receives the provided the batter does not in- an- tercept it. Both the Phillies and the Red Sox are well provided with backstops, although the prospects of the Quakers were injured when Killi- fer, their star catcher, was injured and his playing in the big series made doubtful. He has a good un- derstudy in Burns. Cady is consid- * ered the best bet of the Red Sox behind the plate, although Manager Carrigan dons the mitts sometimes. Pat Moran, manager of the Phillies, was also a catcher in his playing days. Thomas is second string catcher of the Red Sox and Adams of the Phil- lies, in the last few years. With addi- tional seats, temporarily built for the coming series, the seating capacity of the grounds will not be more than 20,000. Probably more than two games of the serles may be played in Phila- delphia and the park with its short fences. will certainly suit the Nation- al league hitters. Three of these, Cravath, ‘Luderus and Becker, the pinch batter, are liable to hit one out of the: enclosure for a homer, off any of the visiting Red Sox pitchers. ‘When great boxmen are on the mound runs generally are few and far be- tween and a home run.might win a game partically if Alexander should be pitching for the side accredited with the. circuit clout. Royal Rooters There, Thousands of persons learned that they ‘had - been successful in their applications for grandstand or pavil- ion resepvations for the world’s series baseball games to be played at Braves Field beginning next Monday. After several' days and - nights of works, with only snatches of+sleep, Presi- dent Joseph J. Lannin of the Boston Americans and’'an augmented office staff' put the last of ‘the notices of reservations in:the .postoffice today. There were about 10,000, .covering 25,000 seats for each of three games. Under the system which has been in effect at world series games here in recent years, applicants will pre- sent - their notifications and money at the box offices and receive the tickets. All. reservations ‘not called for by 6 o’clock in the evening of the day preceding the first game in this city will be disposed of at public sale, to start at 9 o'clock in the morning of the game. The /movement of Red Sox sup- porters to Philadelphia began yester-. day. New York morning trains car- ried crowded cars. The Royal Root- ers, numbering 400, had chartered a special train. Accompanying them ‘were a band and twenty singers, who will hearten the Red Sox on the for- eign field with the strains of ‘“Tes- sie,” Boston’s world series song. They carried a banner inscribed . “We Have Yet’to Follow a Loser; Red Sox ‘World Champions for 1916.” XAVIER CLUB WANTS GAMES, The old Cherry X club’s big bas- ketball team have completed their home schedule for the coming season, having booked some of the leading heavyweight teams, of Greater New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and are now in the fleld to book games with all teams for games on opponents courts. Will travel any night in the week within 160 miles, for a suitable guar- antt. ‘For games address, James J. A. Rogers, care Xavier club, 2056 West 14th street,-New York city: Alleys Reserved Now for Leagues and Parties AETNA BOWLING ALLEYS MURPHY WINS AGAIN WITH PETER SCOTT Unbeaten Son of Peter the Great Wins Transylvania Handi- cap. Lexington, Ky., Oct. 8.—Peter Scott, the Peter the Great-Jenny Scott stallion, driven by Thomas W. Murphy, won the $5,000 Transylvania Stake, the chief attraction of the Grand Circuit card here yesterday, in straight heats. Worthy Prince was a close contender in the first two heats and Lizzie Brown in the third, but the winner was not extended and won apparently as Murphy pleased. John E. Madden announced that he had sold Walnut Tree to H. H. Schles- singer of Milwaukee. No price was given, but it was said it was in excess of $10,000. Summaries: The Tennessee Stake: Three in Five; Pacers, $3,000 (Four Heats ‘Wednesday.) Napoleon Direct, ch h, by Walter Direct (Geers).. 1 1 Peter Stevens, b h, by Pet- er The Great (Sned- eker) 34 Walter (Legg) Braden (BEgan, Time—2:02, Cochato, Direct, . 243 205 1- 2:011-2. 2:09 Class Pacing; Three in Five; $1,000 (Four Heats Wednesday). Barlight, br g, by Hal Burk (Mann) 211 Areta V, ch m by Con- stenaro (Jamison) . 134 Fern Hal, blk m, by Gold Hal (MacPher- son-Fogarty) Frank Patch, br h, by The Patchen Boy 7516443 "2:08, 2:071-2, 2108 1°2, 2:09 1-4, 2:07 3-4. 2:12 Class Pacing; 3 in 5; $1,000. Dwight Logan, br h, by Bert Logan (Valen- tine) . Jay Ell Mack, b h, by E. J. (L. Wilson) () al SEE3 £ May Direct, b m, Very Direct (Taylor Fograty) Bessie R., inson) Dexter (Egan) Lord Seymour, br h, P. Wilson) Patrick M, blk g (Gos- nell) Comet, b m (Nuckols). Lady Venus, (Stout) Red Mike, Allister) S Time — 2:111-4, 2: , 2:07 3-4, 2:07 1-4, 2:18 1-2 The Transylvania, for 2:08 Trotters: 3in 5 Peter Scott, b h, by Peter the Great (Murphy) ... Worthy Prince, b h (Lux) ab e Bl Al br m, (Rob- Direct, | Axtien, ch h Lizzie Brown, b m (Valentine) 5 Peter McCormack, br h (L. Shuler) . (Harris). . St. Frisco, b h (Geers). Miss Direct, br m (McDevitt) .10 Lucille Spier, b m (Slaughter)6 1 Lou Jennings, br m (Brennan) 8 Evelyn D, ch m (T. M. Hall). 9 Time—2:06 1-2, 2:05 1-4, 2:06 3-4 2:07 Class Trotting; 2 in 3; $1,000. Ross B.,, b Petronius (Wright) Mirthful, b m, (Murphy). Lettie Lee, b m (White) Exall, br h (Pearse). Hazel Laing, b m (Shank). Star Winter, b g (McDona]d) Hyper, b h, (Higginson). Harry J. S., blk h (Tyson). . ' Time—2:05 3-4, 2:05 1-2 Pacing Division, Kentucky Futurity; For Three-Year-Olds; 2 in 3; $2,000. General Todd, b ¢ by Todd (Rea) Lady Aubrey, br f (Snedeker).. Sad Thoughts ch f (Cox).. Arkancello, b ¢ (Edman).. Time—2:08, 2:10. 3 6 4 9 ] 7 8 “m\l.-muw‘- dr CUBS TIE IT UP. Lavender Has Comiskey’s Men at Mer- cy—Omne Sox Reaches Third Base. Chicago, Oct. 8.—The National League evened up the series with its American League opponents yester- day, when they shut them out, 4 to 0 in the second game for the champion- ship of Chicago, The pitching of Lavender was the deciding factor. Only one of the ‘White Sox reached third base, and | that was in the first inning when a base on balls to Murphy, a sacrifice and an infield out allowed the Amer- ican Leaguer to reach third base. The score: r. h. e Americans .000000000—0 4 2 Nationals +...01000300x—4 7 0 Batteries—Benz, Cicotte, and May- er; Lavender and Archer. REVENGE, CRY PIONEERS. The second game of the series be- tween the Red Men and the Pioneers will be played Sunday at the Ellis streets grounds. The Red Men won 'he first game but the Pioneers will have their fastest team on the diamond Sunday and are looking forward to tieing up the series, BURNS AND TAYLOR BREAK. silvie Burns, manager of boxers, says he is through with Jimmy Taylor, who has been under his wing for the past few months. The poor showing Taylor made against Frankie Burns Wednesday night is responsible for the break. ANNEX TO PRACTICE. The Annex football eleven will hold a practice this evening at 7:30 o'clock, at the corner of Church and Stanley street. The practice will be held rain or shine, and all candidates 1 are requested to be in attendance. .. Ce The vast flood of gossip attending the world series preliminaries is over. | starts. | the Enough language has been split to bring about two wars or to. complete a library—but after all there will be more packed within the confines of one small, common looking box score | than in all the thousands of words | that have gone before. The Conjecture Brigade. Yet it is the nature of most humans | to discuss, to conjecture, to guess, to argue and to debate. Also to pro- phesy. And to many of these any shred of dope is acceptable food, in that it might produce a hunch or furnish an edvance tip. We have | | in mind a certain big | league catcher who has backstopped batted is his | for Alexander and who against Ernest Shore. opinion: “Granting that Alexander is the greatest pitcher of the year—which he is—he will have the hardest battle of his life when it comes to beating Shore if Carrigan starts the tall boy against the Philly star. “And for these reasons: 1. Alex- ander is a low ball pitcher and at least four of the Red Sox can murder a low ball—the hardest ball in the game to hit. 2. There is only one way to hit Shore effectively—and that is to stand up in front of the box and smash the ball before it begins to sail or break. But the two best bat- ters on the Philly team stand in the back of the box and slug. To hit Shore properly they would have to change their entire methods. If Shore ritches against Alexander in three games 1 would be greatly surprised to see Alex win more than one.” Another Dope Yarn. Then we bumped into another ex- pert who had something on his chest and the following was unravelled: “The Phillies are sure to win this series within six or seven games. They should win through getting such a jump as the Braves got last year. fi'hey not only have the advantage of Alexander to put them away in front. But in both games played at Philadel- phia they have a big advantage in that the fast Boston outfield will have no chance to cover ground—as there isn’t any great amount to be covered. Speaker, Lewis and Hooper upon de- fense will not be a bit more useful than Whitted, Paskert and Cravath, Rut Cravath and Luderus, having the range of the shorter walls, will be far more valuable on attack than any three Red Sox. So in the first two games—in three of the first five games, the Phillies have a big advan- tage on both offense and defense—an advantage large enough to put them safely through.” Still More Experting. Here is still another opinion launched by a close student of form: “Ten days ago I thought the Red Sox would win in five games. Now T believe the Phillies will win in six games. For the Red Sox have fallen into the same slump that caught the Mackmen last year. Carrigan gave has Here { €hore, Foster and Leonard in turn a final workout and none of them looked to be upon the edge that Ru- dolph and James were last fall. At bat the Red Sox have been listless for a week, batting lightly against both Washington and New York pitchers. | some time next week. They were undoubtedly trying their Lest, vet they were not pitching nor batting up to past form. They raven't been playing as good ball for ten days as the Phillies have, and I aon't dbelieve they will play as good through the series.” As a Series Team, These opinions among the insiders are piled high in massive layers. ‘Here is still another from one of the game's veteran entries: “The Red Sox should win because | they happen to be the greatest series club in baseball. I mean by that that , no other club has played as effectively in all the big series of the year— But when the Red Sox met the Tigers and White Sox there was a different yarn to spin. Once keyed up, the Boston winners played at top speed with sufficient batting and pitching power to beat back all op- position. In many ways the Red Sox have been a queer club. They have hit good pitching hard, whereas they have done most of their light batting against only average slabmen—men they should have beaten easily.” The Case of Weilman, “Alexander is a grand pitcher,” re- | marked an American league supporter vesterday. “But so is Weilman, of the Browns. Weilman beat the Tigers | c¢ight times this season. Could Alex- | ander have done more? He also held the Red Sox to one run in three games—one run to each game, rather, ' J3ut he lost all three because Foster happened to beat him 1-0 at every start. So it must be remembered that | to win Alexander must be at his best. | He may hold the Red Sox to one run or two runs and still lose.” Is Boston Due? “Do you know why I am picking the Phillies?” remarked another in- sider—if there be any such thing as 'an insider where the revolving dope is concerned. ‘Il tip you off, Boston has never lost a world serfés. She won with the Red =ox in 1903 against Pittsburg: with the Red Sox in 1912 ugainst the Giants, and with the ' Grantland Rice Braves in 1914 against the Athletics, This makes three wins out of three So now she is due—just as Mackmen were due—and all others in sport who hang around for a sufficient period. Also this is the vear of many upsets—those who have Leen winning in the past have had a tough time of it. The psychology is all against Boston—and don't at the psychology of the occasion is big part of the business.” Having digested these various oninions, all offered by those who are supposed to know what they are de- bating about, you can either make your own guess or restrain your im- ! patience until the last man is retired The latter is ruggested as the safest system. GIANTS POUND BALL Twenty-Four Hits Are Made by Win- ners—Doyle Clinches Batting Honors. Boston, Oct. 8.—Giants and Braves closed the season yesterday, the for- mer in last place and the latter in second position. The game was marked by an avalanche of hits and runs, made possible by indifferent pitching and lax fielding. New York scored fifteen times to Boston's eight. Under the easy hitting conditions Captian Larry Doyle of the Giants bolstered his hitting average so that, unofficially, he leads the league bats- men. Notwithstanding all the action crowded into the contest, it was com- pleted in one hour and two minutes, a record for the season in both major leagues. The score: r. h e New York .....002430015—15 24 0 Boston ..202200002— 8 17 2 Batteries—Stroud and Kocher; Da- vis and Whaling and Blackburne, forget | ! popped AROUND BRAVES FIELD | YANKEES WIN FINAL FROM CHAMPION SOX Boston Takes Things Easy and Yanks Take Advantage of Them New York, Oct. 8.—No.matter what the Yankees have done in the past, they at least closed the New York baseball season in fitting mannar yes terday when they defeated the Red Sox in the last game of the year at the Polo Grounds by a score of 4 to 3. The Boston men didn't as it was just a bit of practice care for | them, The Bostonians got a tally in the first inning when Scott singled to right, went to second on a wild pitch, and scored on Hoblitzel's double to center. In the third the Red Sox added a pair of runs. Scott started it again with a single to Peckinpaugh. Speaker walked and both advanced after a fly had been caught in centre field. Lewis ztpped a single to cen- tre, and both Scott and Speaker scored. The Yankees tied up the game in the fourth by bumping Collins' slants hard. Pipp tripled to right and scored on a wild pitch. Baumann one to Lewis. Hendryx singled to left, and scored on Schwert's double to left. A single to right by Vance brought Schwert to the plate. A double by Hendryx and a single by Miller accounted for the winning run in the ninth. The score: .102000000. 3 8 New York .00300001—4 s 3 « Batteries—Brady, Vance, Brown and Schwert, and Walthers; Collins, Gregg and Haley. Boston ST. LOUIS GAME POSTPONED. /St. Louis, Oct. 8—The third game of the post season series between the Browns and Cardinals was postpon- ed here yesterday on account of rain. The American leaguers won the first contest, while the second game re- sulted in a twelve-inning tle. « TAFT ELECTED CAPTAIN. 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