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

Center-- reat| e hillies Find Impenetrable béfense on Initial Invasion of Uncle Sam’s Chief Brai Alexander is Not So Great--Adventures of New Britain Men in Soxland--Shake-up on Yale Eleven IPLE TRENCH DEFENSE - STOPS PHILLIES’ ASSAULT eartening Effect on Batters Who Are Unable to Pierce Barriers When Sox Pitcher Falters for a Moment. (By Grantland Rice.) on, Oct. 12—This is the gold- of scientific research. Forty- housand three hundred sturdy Englanders and others paid [l yesterday to observe whether the guy who invented arith- was right when he sald that n't equal to three. are. willing to admit now he fellow knew something, and bla Henry W. Arithmetic was ately correct. One great r isn’t as useful as three great 3 ' ‘when the lone t & harder hit- one Carrigan has unrolled tching films, and in each ‘case has flashed upon the main First it was Shore.. Then it oster &nd yesterday it fell to the Herbert-B. Leonard, the Red buthpaw, to break through the hdrian bag¥ler and put Boston happens 4 'be the score of the and the standing of the series. greatest crowd that ever paid a baseball game in the fifty- history ofi the sport saw Alex- battle in ‘vméi"a'(nst a tide as mnot to “'stemmed—the tide of power:that came from Leonard’s arm and from Bos- ts. I Lewis Turns the Tide. saw the great Nebraskan le against this double fate with e courage and the skill he had Harry Hooper singled in the inning and a']ulty crack from Lewis brought him home. se 42,000 and more, forming the bst human fringe in baseball an- saw Big Alex caught between ence and a defence that made timate fate as inevitable as the bt gravity. He was against an be that came charging in with and power. And upon the oth- ng he faced a defence that was b be broken by the futile Philly . Under this double burden it o wonder that he fell where only ler-phenom could have scrambled. through. job they put up to him was be- the skill of any one pitcher in ame today. With a club that hble to give him a few runs he have rambled on to glory, but ing for a club batting over .250 assignment that belongs to a bri or a machine gun, and beyond ange of anything composed ly of human flesh. s third game was a California n the big series. Harry Hooper, n Clara, scored the winning Duffy Lewis, of San Francisco, himsélf to three solid . blows, even above these two Dutch d, of Fresno, absorbed the ht. Leonard a Pitching Puzzle, e stocky Teuton who first ironed fhe kinks in his left arm at St. s college, stopped the Phillies a thud that must have been i above the roar of the cannon- in Flanders. In the third round Leonard wavered. In this dizzy er only the brilliant fielding'of Barry and Duffy Lewis pulled through with his hide and shirt on, After Burns had opened with hgle and Hobby had muffed the on Alexander’s sacrifice Stock ificed and Bancroft scored Burns a hit. e Philly attack at last was get- under way. Paskert followed a short fly back of second, which took over his shoulder. for one he great plays of the year. This der catch saved a run and a hit, ex was then on thrd. Cravath jwed with a mighty wallop to deep which Lewis pulled down almost nst the far away fence, and as long blow -dropped into a Red glove the Phillies ceased firing e day. From that point on they pitched to.death. aving escapedifrom a grotto of m with his scalp still intact, Leon- settled: down' to the exclusive as- | ment of grinding the enemy into mud. Not a man reached first for the'last six rounds, One by they came to the plate in order, to be turned back toward the here was renewed confidence in gouthpaw's work when Speaker led in the fourth and scored on bby’s outfield fly. With the count up, Leonard pitched Alexander he field; He had more stuff than Phillies had ever seen emanate a left arm. Fine speed, fine trol and ‘the proper sort of curve le the three main agencies he em- ed to sfart the National league pions down the soapy chute. He only had the stuff but he knew bre to put it, and it was only a ter of how long Alexander could k a losing game. ‘he Phillies hung on until the h, when Hooper singled, Scott ficed, Speaker walked and Lewls lcked one beyond Bancroft's quiv- pg finger tips. Three Lines of Defence. 'here are those today who are he- ing the Phillies for the softness of bered that said Phillies are up against one of the most stanch and stalwart defensive clubs baseball has ever known—a defence that extends three trenches deep, starting with the pitching, moving back to the infield and then on to the outfield. The club that breaks through the first line is only one-third of the way to success. For, even with the pitch- ing and the infield trenches passed, there are still Lewis, Speaker and Hooper for the final barrier. In the third inning yesterday the Phillies charged by Leonard in their first assault. But in their second they were repulsed by the infield, when Barry made his star catch, and in the third assault, against the outfield, Lewis barred the way. This Red Sox defence, once keyed | up, is almost impregnable to assault. Before scoffing at the Phillies it is well enough to remember that the Detroit attack, led by Cobb, Crawford and Veach, met the same gory fate. Also that the White Sox charge, led- by Collins, Fournier and Jackson was almost as helpless. If Cobb, Crawford, Veach, Kava- naugh, Fournier, Jackson and Collns, masters of the intricate art of maul- ing the pill, failed to hammer their | way through this Red Sox triple l\n(‘k of defence, why should any one ex- | pect the lighter batting Phils to turn | the trick? The answer is fairly sim- ple. They shouldn't. When Alexander walked dejectedly from the field Monday afternoon, beaten in, his:second start, the cause of the Phillies assumed a mottled blue-aspect.. They have come against pitching that they can’t 'hit. They have come against a club outbatting them more than two to one—twenty- four nits against eleven up to date. They have met a stronger club upon defence and stronger in attack, as the season’s records will show—a club that has no weakness to speak of. Chance of Phillies Cut Thin. Their one chance was for Alexander to win three games and have Mayer or Chalmers come through with an- other. That chance now, cut thinner with Alexander's defeat, up to George Chalmers. If Chalmers fails it is only a question of five games or six before Boston absorbs her fourth world’s championship out of four starts, dating from 1903, when Bill Dineen and Cy Young overwhelmed Doc Phillips and Sam Leever. The Phillies’ main chance, after all, was Alexander, and in both starts he has been hit fairly 'hard, despite the low scoring. ' His yield has been four- teen hits, and most of them were de- livered on the crest of the beak. The Phillies have averaged less than four hits to a game, and most of them were delivered on the crest of the beak. The Phillies have averaged less than four hits to a game, and of their eleven hits only seven have been clean drives, bereft of any fuzz. You can call this weak batting if | you care to. But you'll be wrong. It is rather more great pitching and | fielding. You can call it weak batting | if you also care to figure Cobb and Crawford, Collins and Jackson as be- ing effeminate with the mace. Against this defence the Phillies couldn’t even score in the first round, when the sun spotted them two bases on Stock’s opening punch to Speaker. ‘With Stock on third and only one out Leonard enticed a foul pop from Pas- kert and struck Cravath out. Yet you would hardly call Gavvy any pygmy with the punching rod. Fred Luderus finished second in batting in the Na- tional league, yet Leonard fanned nim three times in a row. If Luderus is a poor hitter the records might as well be tossed overboard. And there is something more than defence to this Red Sox‘club, as good as that defence is. If you don't be- lieve' Speaker or Duffy Lewis can hit ask Alexander, who was rated a pret- ty fair pitcher from April through September in a fifty-game test. Lewis alone has tapped big Alex for a .625 average in his two starts, with five clean drives out of eight trips to the plate. The Phillies may yet win, just as anything may happen in baseball. A victory for Chalmers today may in- spire them beyond their natural speed But when Alexander, their main hope, was overthrown, their radiant dream of 60 per cent. of the $80,000 pot lost a big segment of its early promise. In spite of being outhit they have had their chances to win, but with both fate and that Red Sox defence against them these chances went to early seed. If they can yet rally and devise some attack that will carry those triple line of Boston trenches— pitching, infielding and outfielding— they can make several hundred times more than 60 per cent. of the net by selling the secret to a few million folks ¢n a 800-mile European front, who are loking for exactly,that same method. In either case the situation requires bigger guns than the attacking partles have in stock. The one Philly chance now is that fate will come to their ald with enough correct breaks to completely dismantle the effervescent is | able. { allow you to throw your Winning Astor Cup Race Puts ““O. K.” On Gil Anderson as an Auio Racer From his place as a twinkler in the firmament of motorcar drivers, Gil Anderson became a fixed star when he won the first of the series o7 five races for the Astor challenge cup over the new Sheepshead Bay Sped- way. He drove his white Stutz car the 350 miles in 3:24:42, equivalent to a speed of 102:60 miles an hour, and faster by 74-100ths of a mile— | practically three-quarters of a mile— than the world’'s best competitive rec- ord, that made by a Peugeot car in the Chicago Century challenge race of only 100 miles. Anderson’s effort | ‘PART._OF 97000 WHO SHWFRHCE < fiNbEk’SDN PASSING Ci | time, netted him the first money prize, $20,000 and .several hundred more in accessory prizes, a portion of which he, of course, shares with his mechan- anician, C. W. Scoit. Tom Roome: driving a Stutz, finished second, forty even seconds behind Anderson, Ed O'Donnell, in a Duesenberg, a distant third. Here are some of the facts in connection with the race: Winner, Stutz (Gil Anderson) time, 3:24:42; average, 102:60 miles per hour, Second, Stutz (Tom Rooiey); 3:25:29; average 102:19 miles Third, Duesenberg (E. time, 3:39:55; per hour. O'Donnell) ; OMPETITOR IN _AUTO RACE with | average, | (;s;s Fourth, Du time, 3:4 per hou: time, 3:- 95:45 senberg average, Ogren miles per hour. (P- Henderson); 92:21 miles (Tom Alley)! Delage (Carl Limberg); time, : average, 84:22 miles jer hour. Seventh, Sebring (Ora Haibe); called off the track after completing 296 miles Bighth, Mulford Special (Ira Vail and G. Sebold); called off the track after completing 256 miles. Value to the winner, $20,750; number | of starters, twenty; number of cars i eight. Attendance (official MIGHT JUST AS WELL KEEP STILL IN “HUB Highly Educated Conductors Gan Argue Till Blue in the Face , it is impossible for me to per- mit you gentlemen to walk the trackKs. | Just consider the hazard, the possi- | bilities of a casualty. Mathematicians Lave approximated the odds in favor of death as seventeen to three, Of course it is within the realm of possi- bility that you might ascend to terra firma unscathed but such is not prob- Only last week at a lecture T | attended at the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology I learned of the great danger from our third rail. No, I am sorry gentlemen, but I cannot lives away. Electricity, as you are perhaps aware, is one of the most deadly known to mankind and I fear me your blood would be on my head| should I be so reckless as to open the doors.” The above was the speech delivered i Dy a conductor in the new Beacon | strect subway in Boston vesterday. | 1t was presented in a calm, impassion- | ale manner, indicating the heights of | education reached by the blue-coated | attendants on the trolleys in the pie and bean belt. But it broke its shafts | against an impenetrable desire to get | out of the subway, said desire being | in the possession of a number of base- ball fans from New Britain. The con- | tingent was led by Dr. H. T. Bray, former health officer. The New Biritain men argued’and argued. The! trains for New Britain left at 5:50 ana 5:52 respectively and they had been waiting in the subway for nearly an hour while the Boston Elevated Rail- road company had sent to Harvard for a deck of professors to come out and diagnose the ailment of the car abead, which refusel to move, The Hardware city mer left Braves' field about 4 o'clock and were sailing aicng pleasantly through the ‘“sub” when the car entered a state of coma. The car ahead was stopped. The delay was not considered of moment until the minutes grew into quarter hours. Then the men from Connecti- cut became nervous and began to con- sult their watches. The conductor | was besought to allow them to walk | the tracks to the next station. But| what was the use of arguing with a | an who could show you you were wrong from standpoints theological and phychological, and according to | the rules of international law. Coun- sel for the respondents withdrew the | cage just as the conductor was dip- ring into his pocket for his Harvard sheepskin. It was a tight rqueeze. The trolley remained stalled in the subway for nearly an hour. The local men were the only ones who didn't enjoy theo| agents | dope. Otherwise their cause is back 'punchA But it should be remem- in the bogs. delay. Al the others, being Bostonese | to the backbone, spent the time pleas- [ Welch, James, Daly, antly di cffect of color tones on .the | un ant, Just as the gates at in the South station were flung wide, the New Britain delegation arrived and the day v saved. But their troubles had only com- nenced. J. J Walsh, the well known restauranter, had enzaged (wo seats in the Pullmaan for mself and Or. Bray. But when thek not there the seats were occupied and nc amount of argument could persuade the dusky autocrat in charge of the car that two seats had been reserved. He grinned until his face looked like the bay window in a hotel with all southern exposure. Like the Japanese, he was “sorrow for them.” Yes, he was very scrrow, but the gen’l’'men could see he cculdn’t do a thing except express his regrets because the seats had been | sold. who saw the game yesterday in addition to Dr. Bray and Mr. Walsh were Daniel Collins, John Moore, James P. Sullivan, John C. O’Brien, Jr., John F. O’Brien, O’'Brien, P. J. Riley, Edward C. Schieblin, Dr. Andrew J. Barker, John 5. Smith, James J. ughton, Sealer of Weights and Measures James J. Frederick Mc. Thomas Crowley, C.. A. Bell, Thomas W. Frank A. Reilley, B. W. Charles Johnson and Arthur Among those Enroe, O’Brien, Murphy, Brown, Taylor. WILSON 1S SHIFTED BACK T0 0LD JOB Yale Captain Sent to Quarterhack —Smith at Right Hall New Haven, Conn., Oct. 12.—Yale began another reorganization of her football forces yesterday afternoon. The first move was the transfer of Captain Alec Wilson from right half- back to that of quarterback on the He has been playing at half- back all season, but the failure of Thompson and Bentley to develup quickly has necessitated a shift, and ‘Wilson was sent back to the position he played last season. Smith, whe playing during tue past two weeks has been sat story to the conches, took Wilson's place at right halfback, Charle Taft, whose gain on a forward p: Saturday, made possible the only touchdvwn scored against Lehigh, was sent in at left halfback instead of Scovil, who was unable to report because of reci- tations. Harry LeGore was at full- back. a place left vacant by the in- Jury_ of Guernse, Whether the shift bf Captain Wil- son to quarterback will be permanent depends entirely upon whether an- other quarterback can be developed, the coaches says off a man can be found to fill the place satisffctor- ily the Blue leader will return to half- *varsity. Fred | Frank | where his bulk is an s ther than the bandicap it quarterback position. At either post however, he can play a defensive po- sition back of the rush line with equal effective: 5 Wilson's work in signal practice yesterday afternoon was sharp and snappy, and the baekfield worked smoothly and well, considering the fact that it was the first time this particular combination has worked to- gether. back, Fears for Guernsey. None of the men on the hospital list appeared at the field. Baldridge and Black, both of whom had ankles twisted in the Lehigh game, will not be able to play for several day i was said, but Betts and Thompson who had their knees twisted, will be out shortly. Otis Guernsey, who suf- fured an injury to his shoulder, was not able to report. He will have an X-ray taken to ascertain whether the collarbone is cracked or the shoulder tendon pulled. If the latter proves to be the case Yale will be minus her best drop-kicker indefinitely. Durfee. who has been on the 'var- | sity squad two years and has shown rapid improvement this season, took Black’s place at left guard. It was Lis first appearance on the 'varsity, C Sheldon was unable to report on ac- count of recitations, and Gates took his place, The 'varsity line-up was: Moseley; left tackle, Gate: Durfee; center, White: right guard; J. Sheldon; right tackle, Osgood; right end, Allen; quarterback, Wilson; left halfback, Taft; right hal%ack, Smith; fullback, LeGore- Another evidence of the football re- i organization was the announcement | that a number of graduates have been asked to come back and heip round the team into condition. The first to arrive, it was stated, would be Jim Rogers, '97, football captain and star tackle. He will help train the Yale tackles. ‘“‘Pudge” Heffelfinger, of Minneapolis, also may return late in the season. This invitation to graduates marks a change of policy, for last season no graduates returned to help coach, with the exception of Tom Shevlin, who spent only two days at New Ha- ven. TRIBUNE BOWLERS. The Tribune bowling team will journey Southington Thursday night to roll against the team of that town. It will be the opening night for Southington's new alleys. A large rooting delegation will leave on the 7:07 trolley. The following men make up the team: Nyack, Capt. Pluecker, E. Leupold, Richter, Ander- son, C. Krickson, F. Bretschneider. All wishing to accompany the team should be on hand to cateh the 7:07 trolley. to Alleys Reserved Now for Leagues and Parties AETNA ROWLING ALLEYS PORT o) by Those who figured that baseball was | &n expiring have another - ha pastime »ss coming. Already more money been taken in than ever before this stage | The greatest crowd in baseball history Interest has w before, game has gathered at of a series has broken past records. been as keen as it ever and the grip of the old never been stronger. Stands the Test, All of which brings up a point There vcems to be a gencral tendency in certain directions to hand baseball a rap at cvery chance. There is a tendency among more than a few to m no opportunity to give the game a downward shove, Yet no amuse- ment yet devised has ever furnished cne-third the pleasure or the recrea- tion that baseball in its fifty-ye tery has furnished to too many iions to be counted, Baseball Leen the atest fagtor for pleasure and for health to more people than any other two games ever put for- ward. Cricket in England has sur- vived for centuries, has golf in Scotland. Baseball, from the point of the spectator, is a game far beyond cither. Yet by many it is being awarded an early death, when within a few years from now it is sure to be more popular than it has even been before. Here to Stay. You can get the answer to this in the present world’'s series. No game 18 going to fade away that can thrill the big crowds as baseball has been doing for the last few days. There is no other game in the world that re- quires as great a combination of speed, power, quick thinking, stamina and team play as baseball requires. | To say that baseball is upon the verge of collapse means nothing else than | | to say American sporting blood is be- | ginning to run sluggish and that the | nation as a race is sliding backward. ebal]l has its defects in certain quarters. It has several details that | must be remedied It isn't always ran as it should be run. But this is no weakness for the game itself, which still stands above them all, and which deserves the support of all who care for a public institution that has rendered far more than its share of good to the big majority. Another variation of sport in its uncertainty being shown in the present series. This was supposed to Le baseball's off year. In many ways it has been. Public interest was to be below past standards. Probably it has Leen. Yet the players will divide more money than an other world series has ever given them, and for the first four games the attendance will be well beyond that of any other four games ever played. | Case of Alexander, | “Why should not Alexander work four games in seven days if called | upon?” queries Arthur Irwin. “I re- | member well enough when Radbourne | pitched three world series games in three successive days and only allowed | cne run, the result of a high peg | made over first base. He was as |strong in the third game as in the first, and could have easily worked ! four games in a row without a d | rest.” Matty's Opinion. adds point an interesting When asked Mathewson feature to the | one LIGHT Grantland Rice work upon two to Alexander could succession if called the Giant veteran gave this “In my own would much rother work two cession than to work two g There stiffens up & man’'s arm, whereas if he went back in the next afternoon no soreness would have time to develop. “Any number of pitchers have worked two games in one day by pitching double headers. Rube Mar- auard pitched a twenty-one-inning game—both Marquard Adarfia d!d, and both were as strong at the finish as at the start If a pitcher can pitch two games in one day, why not two games in two days? I don't think Alexander wduld lose any part «f hig effectiveness by working two cays in succession, and it wouldn't surprise me much to see him turn the trick. If the series starts going gainst the Phillies, Pat Moran will more than probably Tush Alec back in. Or if Boston should win three xames to the Phillles’ two, Alec would almost certainly pitch the last two.” whether days in double up, view case 1 days in suce with mes nes rest are 1t extra day day’'s when that and All of which sounds reasonable enough. It is a cinch that if Boston cver gets the series to 3 and 2 in hér favor she will meet Alexander in the th game, and it she wins, this will catch the Big Boy from Philodelphia in the seventh. The only thing that might upset this arrangement would be that Alexander had pitched and lost the fifth game. SERI FIGURES, = - Played at Braves Field, October 11, 1915, Official Total WORLD 42,300 $83.191.00 attendance receipts sh $44,923.14 8,76 9.10 Players’ Club own (equally divided) National Commission 29,94 - - 8,38 $83,101.00 first three Total Total games Official attendance Total receipts receipts for Players' share Club owners' share (equally divided) National Commission $100,5604.44 67,063.08 18,628.60 ..$186,286.10 The paid attendance of the third game last year between the Braves and the Athletics, played at Fan- way Park on Octobe 12, was 35,620, and the receipts weré $63,868, - The players will share in the receipts of the first four games. The winning team will receive 60 per cent. of the players' share and the losing team will get the e mainder. The fiPmm" have twens ty-three eligibfe players and the Red Sox have twenty-four. On the basis of 60 and 40 per cent. division each member of the wifi- winning team will receive $1,171- .87, and the members of the las- ing team will receive $748.70 of yesterday's game. Today's game is the last in which the playersd will share to enj oy IS ALE Brewed b at Hortford ON TAP AT LOUIS W. FODT, HOTEL MAN SCHMARR, W. Todag’s the dag a foaminfl <flass or two of S Connecticuts Best The Hubert Fiachergnwerg BELOIN, KEEVERS & 00, J. McCARTHY,