New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1915, Page 8

hillies by Game Tactics Win Many More Friends--Rice Tells About First Game of Series--Chicago mericans Take Lead in Post Season Series--Mohr and Marto and Waltz and Rocco at Hanna’s Show A E'S OWN STORY OF BIG SERIES ns Writer Views Contest nd Chronicle the Result ladelphia, Oct. 9-—The God of , according to Napoleon, gves he side that carries the heav- rtillery. This theory may op- perefectly in the red game of but it doesn’t always go in bate- he world’s serfes opener the Red aulted Alexander for eight shioned hits, the kind that their way to safety on a line. Phillies drove only one baschit d the infleld with Shore firing the mound, yet at dusk Friday g the tidings had travelled d through the soscal circle of pul, Neb., that the score stood lows: Alexander, 3; Boston, 1. [St. Paul's leading social circle he tiding absolutely right. the home fan all victories are fHiant in color as a flash of the ern Lights or the Southern But to the non-combatant omes from alien flelds this first le for the championship of the well known universe was be- pt color, even to the point of drab- vas bereft of color because Inder, while always good, was not best, and because most of the us tallies came from soft blows truck the still softer turf with ie English or pro-German skid- causing Mr. Shore more anguish nnoyance than he could stand such an occasion—an occasion d with 20,000 souls, with 60 ent. of the swag at stake. Red Sox Hit Hard, ré was no upset to the dopc— picked Alexander to win. But was an upset attached to tha hings came about for the Red it Alexander harder than the s hit Shore. But for all that ig Philly star pitched the better and for all those soft, skidding l taps the Phillies deserved to They deserved to win because still has an cdge on brawn st the ultimate test and when etal sinning arrived it was al- the Red Sox who wandered in ze and did the wrong thing in rong way. by could hit the old pill, they catch it and they could throw t that isn’t all of baseball by pen dusty leagues. For always b big moment the Red Sox went into some mental maze that ht di=asier. er the game the polite and fash- le chit-chat of the evening was the effect that the Phils had all ck. Buf if you will only follow end of most sports you will find fate, the iron-handed, usually with the side that plays the ball. And so fate sat in the pig game which has given Phil- hia the jump and Alexander two rest before he goes back to 'the gain upon a hostile fleld. side of any Iluck, there were ital factors that brought defeat e Red Sox. One was the iron- ed steadiness of Alexander, who ps cool under a heavy fire as if ad been pitching world’s series since he left St. Paul, Neb., flat its bush league back. was not at his best—he was not ing one of his wonder after- but when the main test came, ong more blow would furnish le,“the big fellow had enough ich is always the answer. He had h to hold Boston to one run, jugh he needed a grand catch by Paskert in the eighth to keep rown on the proper angle. [Dode had not traced far and fast mighty wallop from Larry Gard- the big dance is St. Paul, Neb., t have been called off last night he red fire burned in Philadel- would have been tinged with an o flame, Pinch-Pitching for Phillles. the first eight rounds some Red batsman slashed a drive to safe But in no one round were there hits lumped together, which is h-pitching to a high degree. ore, while more brilliant was not ly as steady. He had a barrel full uff, but against this he had his own mates and himself set riance. kert's sliced punch in the fourth g was the only drive from the IRed Sox pitcher that struck out- territory. Yet in the eighth round the battle lines were in hand to conflict and the issue was hang- in the mists of doubts. Shore lost balance and broke, reeling so bad- jat two fatal passes and a badly ed tap put him out . may have been that all that shoal ratchy infield hits, most of them badly batted balls, finally got il Shore's nerves, but the main is that within two jumps of the the Bceoton pitcher did a Mount eys Reserved Now for eagues and Parties AETNA BOWLING ALLEYS | question Two Leading Swat Artists Of Boston and Philadelphia Teams Who May Prove To Be Heroes of Series CRAVATH SPEANER Philadelphia, Oct. 9.—Who will be . Speaker is the greatest outfielder in | league in home runs with twenty-four the hero of the world's series? This is now being asked by the fans. Although the fans have their favorites the majority of them pick T'ris Speaker of the Boston Red Sox and Gavvy Cravath of the Phillies. the game. He plays the outfield like an infielder. He is also some batter and base runner. Next to Ty Cobb, he is the greatest player in the game today. Cravath is the leading heavy hitter of the Phillies. He led his to his credit. This is the greatest mark since the days of Buck Free- man. Philadelphia fans believe he will pull off the same stunts as Home Run Baker did against the New York Glants a few seasons back. McKinley, the final impeis coming when young Scott failed to cover sec- ond in the eighth on Barry’s miracu- lous stop well back of the bag. But this comes in for latter mention. Four vital factors were introduced as appertaining to the Red Sox de- feat. The case of the first—Alex- ander—has been proved. One of the Vital Factors. The second developed in the first round before big Alex had hit his stride- Harry Hooper opened the jubi- lee with a safe smash, and Scott sacrificed. Speaker drew a pass, and Hoblitizel forced him at second. This ! combination left Hooper on third. with Hobby at first, two out and Duf- fy Lewis up. Now, Duffy Lewis happens to be the most dangerous individual batting factor of the campaign He has the punch in the pinch as well as any man in baseball. Alexander was up against a rugged proposition when Hoblitzel came to his aid by strolling too far off first, being easily shot down on a fast peg to Luderus, This play broke up one of Boston's best chances to get away on the jump. The third vital factor cropped is the fourth round, singled to right. Cravath followed with a sacrifice to Shore, a fairly sharp tap that found Paskert off to a slow start over the muddy towpath. Shore, handling the sacrifice, haa twenty-seven minutes, or a bit less, to nail Paskert at second. The Philly outflelder was still many yards from haven, but Shore, after hesitating, threw to first, and thereby helped to produce the first run. For an infield tap by Luderus shoved Dode on to third and Whitted’s slow infleld grounder went for a timely hit and did the rest. The fourth and deciding factor knew birth in the eighth round, just after Speaker’s pass and Lewis's single had tied the count. The Phillies were at bat, with Shore still pitching grand ball. After Alexander had passed out, Stock walked. Bancroft then followed with a clean, sharp pab toward cen- ter field. Barry started for ball and young Scott apparently started toward center field to help the relay back in. Then, to his amazement, he saw that Barry was about to make an im- possible play, and instead of whirling in toward second, stood as fixed as the pyramids while Barry snagged the ball with one hand far back of sec- ond and turned with no one there to take the throw. If Scott had covered Barry's great play, the climax of a great day for the ex-Mack, would have forced Stock at second and cracked the rally. But this fourth mental Boston lapse was -oo much for Shore and fate to stand. out when Paskert [T e e Shore then went sky high, walked Paskert and filled the bases. Cravath's slow infield tap passed from Scott to Hobby, but Stock scored, And a mo- ment later a short, fuzzy tap in front of the plate eluded Shore, vielding Luderus a hit and Bancroft the third Philly run. ‘Where the Red Sox Failed You can call this fate, hard luck or what you will; but here were three chances to break up Philadelphia ral- lies and choke down runs which Bos- ton failed to take. Those lucky, slow share of it, but they would never have scored a run if the Red Sox had played jam up baseball, the sort they have usually played in the big sames of the year. Philadelphia won through greater steadiness of Alexander, plus the mental lapses of the Boston club. Yet the Red Sox have upon the aver- age a quick thinking club, one of the quickest in the game. But in this first test they were found wanting at too many places along the highway to expect any triumph . o The Phillies backed up Alexander well, with Paskert starring, but they were helpless before that sailing shoot of Shore, as only one of their five hits was pumped beyond the sfoggy infield. The other four were scratchy enough to strike matches with, but Boston's laggard thinking made them as valuable as line drives to unguard- ed spots. The bulk of their offence came from the Red Sox, who blund- ered at the wrong time to beat a man like Alexander. On the form of the first game the Red Sox showed the strong#t attack and defence, led by the brilliant Bar- ry, physically as good as the Phillies. But Alexander failed to weaken when crowded closely—and Shore did. And the Phillies made no mental slips— and the Red Sox did- And this is qulte sufficient to tell the story or spin the varn of the first big battle. The game was played upon a slow heavy field, but beneath a cloudless sky and before a crowd which filled, if it did not jam, the given space. The battle today should furnish an even better line on the possibili- ties and probabilities of the two con- tenders. TROTTER TO BE RETIRED, Lexington, Ky., Oct. 9.—W. E. D. Stokes, owner of Peter Volo, two, three, and four year old champion trotter, has notified Trainer T. W. Murphy that he intends to retire the horse at the close of the Grand Cir- cuit meeting here. Peter Volo will be taken to Patchen Wilkes Farm and be retired with Peter the Great. ‘twisting, dinky infield taps did their | the | IT'S SURE SOME JOB T0 BEAT TY COBB | Georgian For Eighth Time Leads American League in Batting For the eighta Ty Cobb is cham- American leasue, Chicago, Oct. time in his career pion batter of the according to averages published here Beginning in 1907, the Detroit in every today. player the hitters 1908 Criss has lcd when the of- scores gave of St. Louis he .341 4 games to Cobb's .324 in 150. Today Cobb's average for the sea- son just .369. stolen | bases the Georgian has | league at 97 for the The old mark of the American league was 88 credited to Milan of Washing- ton in 1912, In runs scored Cobb i5 ahead of all with 144 and leads in total bases with 271, Those which’ ason except ficial the in palm, having batted in cnded is In set a new record season. in batting, least . half Cobb at following have played in the games are: E. Colling, Chicago .333; Chicago .3 Speaker, Boston MclInnis, Philadelphia .314. Bobbie Roth, Cleveland, league in circuit drives, Detroit led in club batting .265; Chicago was second with and Boston .260 was t d. Larry Doyle of New York is the National’'s champion with an average of .315; Cravath, Philadelphia, led in runs scored, with 88; in total bases | with 268 and in home runs with 24— one below the hig league record set by Buck Freemian of Washington in 1899. Manager Herzog was the lead- ing base stealer, with 34. Following Doyle, tne leading bat- ters were: Luderus, Philadelphia .313; Griffiith, Cincinnati .307; Daubert, Brooklyn .304; Hinchman, Pittsburg, .304. Cincinnati led in club batting with 254; St. Louls finished second with 253 while Philadelphia, Brooklyn and New York were tied for third with 1.248, Fournier, .319; led the with seven. with .261, Y Alexander, for 1915, has been so frequently compared to Mathewson of 1905 that it might be tinged with a touch of interest to retell the story of the great Mathewsonian year, end- ing in the greatest pitching achieve- ment ever put forward upon the fleld. Matty in 1905. Mathewson that year won thirty- cne games and lost nine. Alexander, according to the unofficial average this season, has won thirty-one games #nd lost ten. This shows how evenly the two have travelled through cam- paigns ten years apart. But main interest, after all, in a study of the three world gumes that Matty pitched. His first contest was against the Athletics in Philadelphia on October 9, ten years ago to the day. In that contest he was called upon to face such batsmen as Topsy Hart- sel, Brisco Lord, Harry Davis, Lave ‘end Monte Cross, Socks Seybold, Danny Murphy and certainly not the weakest batting club | that ever caressed an inshoot or bom- barded a curve. | In that first battle he by a score of 3 to 0 and held the | Mackmen to four scattered hits, se- | cured by Hattsel, Davis, Murphy and | Schreck. He failed to give a base on balls or hit a batsman—as close to perfect pitching as one would want. His Second Start. After Bender had beaten Joe Mc- Ginnity at 2 to 0, Mathewson again stepped out against the Mackmen on October 12, three days later. In this | contest he beat Andy Coakley 9—0, and again held the Philadelphia line- up to four hits, secured by Harry | Davis, Lave Cross, Monte Cross and Sccks Seybold. In this game he gave one base on balls, In his third start, October 14, in | New York, he beat Chief Bender at | 2 to 0, allowing six hits, and again failing to vield a pass. Hartsel in this Jast game was the only Mackman who got as many as two hits off Matty in one battle, comes series beat Plank PORT Ossie Schreck— | LIGHT Grantland Rice The Three Games. So Matty not only pitched three sghut-outs within five days against a club that had finished second in bat- ting in the American league. In ad- ditton, in the three games he held the Mackmen to fourteen hits, an average slightly under five hits to a game, and in the three games he gave out but one pass, testimony to his remarkable | steadiness and control. There isn’'t any question but that if Philadelphia had won McGinnity's game Mathewson would have been ready to work the final game of the | geries with as much stuff as he started with. For he says that his arm felt &r strong at the finish as it did at the start and that at no time through the series of three shut-outs in five days did he feel stale or overworked. Hard Target. This 1905 mark of Mathewson's is a hard target to shoot at. When a | man against the big test pitches shut- out ball at every start about the best | way a rival can do Is to negotlate a draw. In that series Mathewson showed | plainly enough that a pitcher of the Alexandrian type can work four games in seven days—or will it be four games in eight days with a Sun- day intervening. Mathewson worked three games in five days from October 9 to 14. He was as strong and as fresh in the third start as in the first. It would have been easy enough for him to have rested during the sixth battle and then come back for the seventh. He might not have pitched & fourth shut-out. But he would al- most certainly have won his game, as his mastery over the Mackian slug- gers was absolute. Judging from this Mathewsonian standard, it would be easy enough for Alexander to pitch the first, third, fifth and seventh games, if the series goes that far. | For Alexander is like Mathewson then was in many ways—about the same | butld physically, about the same age, { with about the same amount of re- | verve strength. | BRESNAHAN’S INJURY SERIOUS. Chicago, Oct, 9.—Roger Bresnahan manager of the Chicago Nationals, probably will be unable to play ih any ,of the remaining games In the series for the city baseball championship, it became known yesterday. Bresnahan was seriously spiked in the left foot on Wednesday and the injury caused him such pain that physiclans advised | him not to resume playing. GAME POSTPONED. Hartford, Conn., Oct. 9—The game | between the Yankees and the Giants which was to have been played here yesterday was postponed. It will probably be played Tuesday. NEW MEN IN H Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 9.—Coach Haughton planned to send several new men into the Harvard lineup for the football game against the Car- lisle Indians today. A hard game was anticipated. VARD LINE. America’s Greatest Humorist. (Richmond Times-Dispatch.) ‘When the New York Sun started a contest to settle who is the greatest American humorist, it submitted the issue to a jury of humorists and al- leged humorists. Replies were re- ceived from George Ade, Ellis Parker Butler, Irvin S. Cobb, Sewell Ford, Idward S. Martin, Walt Mason, Tom Masson, S. A. Waldron, Carolyn Wells, >, B. Lewis (M. Quad), and J. Ken- drick Bangs. The verdict is for George Ade and Finley Peter Dunne, running even, and Harry Leon Wilson, Booth Tark- igton, Irvin S. Cobb, George Fitch, Mark Twain and Oliver Herford, one vote each. If dead ones Wwere considered, what sort of a jury could overlook Artemus Ward and Bob Burdette and others of their day? Of course, the old “‘gag” as to the difference between humor and wit was ccnsidered, as it always will be when such a question comes up. But does the verdict decide the question It should not. It is by interested indi- viduals, and while each is properly in the class considered, and competent to judge of others, not one who gave #n opinion could or would have put himself in the contest. If there is to be any decision in such a case, it should be given by in- teiligent readers, who are not in the profession and it may well be doubted if they would settle the question. ‘What is humor or wit to one is agony { to another. There are different de- grees of these gifts, as there is glory umong the stars. The question can- not be correctly considered in the ccnerete. With due respect to the two who are tied in the contest, Ade and Dunne, there is as much difference between their conception of humor and the way of expressing it as there was distance between the thirsty rich man in hades and the poor man who had a place in Abraham’s bosom, Some of the jury in this case must have felt themselves very much out of + Place when they were asked to serve. RED MEN V PIONEERS. End Boys Out Redeem Themselves for Defeat. All roads lead to the Ellis street grounds Sunday where the Ploneers and Red Men will meet in the second game of the series as the Red Men won the first game it has made the rivalry greater and the baseball fans will turn out in large numbers to witness the results of the second game. The Ploneers are somewhat disappointed in the results of the first game and are sure they will turn on the Red Skins. Obery, Blanchard, Peterson and Borg will work for the Red Men while Johnson, Winkler and Noonan will shine for the Pioneers. Game called at 3 o'clock sharp, Um- pire Rosanna. South to AMERICANS WIN ANOTHER. Cubs Pitchers Weaken and Sox Profit By It—Faber in Fine Form, Chicago, Oct. 9—The White Sox vesterday won the third game of the series for the city championship from { their National league rivals, the i(‘ubs, 5 to 2. The series now stands | 2 to 1 in the American lcague's favor. The game was a pitching duel be- tween Faber and Pierce, in which the latter weakened in the eighth and the Americans won the game. Score by innings: | r. h. e Natlanals .000000002—2 5 0 Americans .00000006*—5 12 1 Batteries—Faber and Schalk; Pierce. | Zabel and Archer. | fight | will be satisfied with his work, | being no question of that | ana | that exists betwen them, HANNA ARRANGES AN ALL STAR CARD Iter Mohr and Johnny Marto l‘ Meet Here October 28—Roceo- Waltz May Be Matched. One more effort will be made to place boxing in this city back on the basis where it belongs, when Mannger W. W. Hanna will stage an exhibition in the armory on October . wh Walter Mohr and Johnny Marto wil clash in the star bou: for twelve rounds at 136 pounds. Both scrap- pers enjoy A-No. 1 records, Mohr hav« ing having defeated such men as Gils bert Gallant, Sam Robideau and had two draws with Leach Cross to his credit. Those from this city who saw him fight Cross in Waterbury a year | ago speak of his ability in the high- est of terms. from bell He is a youngster wiha, to bell, and the fans there Marto for a number of years was rated as one of, the best boys in and around the metropolis, Always in de. mand by promoters, he was one of the busiest fighters in the country. = His record stamps him as & boy who gives the audience a battle that will satisfy them The management is making an atf tempt to bring together SBammy Walts Joe Rocco for twelve rounds to decide the question of supremacy This will be a bout that should pack the armory from door to door. In Hartford Walts is looked upon as unbeatable, and in this city Roceo is one of the best Ik boys who ever drew on a padded mfi The bout has not been closed us yet, but the management is hopeful that . the managers of both fighters can be brought together to a satisfactory agreement. The usual curtain raiser cede the star bouts. will pre- ALLEGED BOWLERS BEATEN. Landers Bowlers Who Wanted Chance to Do Things, Get It. The Landers Printing Room Bowl- ing team, who wanted to take a fall out of the Herald Stars, ran up against a snag in the R, & E, team last night. The Landers enthusiasts took the first string with a burst of speed on the part of Nelson but in the second R- & E. brought up the heavy artillery in the form of “July, bo” Nyack, who proved to be - support needed by his team Landers’ Printing Room. Cunningham 7 65 77— 219 Kuchne 82 101 69— O’Connell 82« Nelson 84 84 431 418 Russell & Erwin. W. Kilduft .83 75 E. 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