New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1915, Page 8

hillies Desperate, and Hope to Win Today’s . DSOX CONFIDENCE GROWS; HILLIES ARE STILL HOPEFUL 3 Says John W. Miracle May Save Moran’s Men— Looks to Alexander to Reach Form Today and Halt Carrigan’s Charges. (By Grantland Rice.) ton, Oct. 13.—The Phillies still f. chance. Old John W. Miracle, g the game of his life, can still iem through. All they have to to win this present world's is to beat Foster, Leonard and three games in a row. All they 0 do is to hit ground balls that can't stop and fly balls that pr, Hooper and Lewis can't | they have to do for the next [days is to go out and get more han the Red Sox can get. They i1l do it. And as old Ring W. pr once remarked: ‘San Fran- lay may be full of grape juice.” unker Hill monument may be It stewed prunes and scrambled In Ernest Shore, the Baltimore ang, inserted the old kibosh in em of George Chalmers, using 1 score for this purpose, those on the flustered Phils were an willing to dispose of their for one and two-thirds cents dollar., The End in Sight. 41,096 paid in souls were ob- big Earnest Shore harass the th one run and seven hits e Red Sox were fusillading Chalmers for two runs and | s, the only guess left was or not the jubilee would end | delphia on Wednesday after- | whether the quarrel would be over another day to end in bn Thursday. pr the right shoulder of Alex- bho hasn’t yet pitched one of al games, the voting would be a Wednesday wind up. But, lexander wins, it will be 9 b, Thursday finish—the voting not the betting. imes in succession the Red e forth and collected two e, dazed Phils were col- (Sn three days in suc- Red Sox defense has pul- \Philly attack, using triple » lation for this exclusive The Phillies have shown the way of a wallop that through this three-ply [ Jle the Red Sox attack, ave about, has been exact- pugh to go out and ob- jxtra tally. ¢ Dooms the Phillies, every twist of the quivering Phillies are a doomed ball all club sent for a vainless ainst three defensive lines ot to be carried by anything 12-inch guns. European the modern game has y one way to carry a line of viz., to offer a heavy can- s a prelude to a charge. illies are willing enough to it some flend in human form swiped or spiked their big pmmon - rumor points to Shore, Foster, Leonard, Speaker, Hooper and Lewis, but in view of the strict libel laws in vogue we refuse to carry the matter beyond the box i score of each day’s game. “Well, it all ends Wednesday." Peering back, as through a glass darkly, we seem to remember having | written exactly this same line three | years ago today. As we recal] it the | world’s series count then stood: Red Sox, 3; Giants 1. There was nothing to it, for Mathewson had just failed to win his second start. One more game would put the Red Sox over then as now. | 1t was a pipe. You couldn’t get a bet | against the Red Sox at 900 to 0, and vet three days later the Gilants, at the chilly hour of 4:12 p, m., had tho series won until Fred Snodgrass and Fred Merkle permitted a brace of pop flies to descsend in safety to the sod. It all ends Wednesday. does. And then again, there s | Alexander, the season’s greatest | pitcher, who hasn’t yet pitcher true to form, And then again there is the cternal dope, which has a jaunty habit of exploding in one’s frontis- plece, just as it borders on a lop- earch cinch. The Red Sox so far have furnished the better all around pitching, the more spectacular all around defense, and by far the better attack. They have compiled thirty-two hits against seventeen. And yet in the four gameg they have lost one and won by the | squeaky margin of one run—and in the four games they had, tallied just seven runs to the Phillies’ six. They have looked to be by far the better club, and yet if Cravath had been bat- ting in almost any other park—at | Fenway or the Polo Grounds or in | Philadelphia—the Phillies today would have three games to Boston's one. Maybe it | The Case of Cravath. Cravath’'s smash to Lewis on Mon- duy would have been a homer any where else, and would have more than likely won the battle 3 to 2. He was credited yesterday with one triple—a high bound over Speaker’s head. And yet in the third and sixth innings he lashed out a brace of blows to Lewis and Speaker that would have been four-sackers almost anywhere else. At almost any other park these far-driven wallops would have added at least three more runs to the Phila- delphia total, as Bancroft was on base in the third when Gavvy, the gatling gun, boomed one so far into the ex- iended plains of left field that Lewls was almost a vanishing speck as he rpulled the mighty wallop down. The records show that Cravath has eonly two hits for the series—a single and a triple. Batting in a normal park of normal boundaries, where the 1Tecords have all been made, this total would read as follows: Cravath, one single, one triple, three home runs. And in a normal park, where the SUIT YOURSELF NOW fork Fall’s here and it’s time to do it. If you haven't sald “Farewell” to your summer suit, yow'd better. : Our elegant Fall Suits and Overcoats are here all ready and waiting to say “Hello” to you. We'll put a smile that won’t come off all Winter on the face of every man that is wise enough to come here for his New Fall Suit. We are showing every new fabric— and every new style feature! 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But Fate is one thing and the box score is another. Tt will be “Hard luck, Gavvy,” for a day or two as he passes some friend in the street, and Dy next week it will all be forgotten— all except the exact figures of his bat- ting average, which will keep even pace in the records with Time the Lternal. The Red Sox won the third game sterday afternoon almost precisely they won the other two. They won by the same score, in almost the same way. Foster, Leonard, Shore— it doesn’t make much difference which one of the three is in the box. Their records for the last season show these pitching figures: Shore, .729; Foster, .690; Leonard, .682. And still back of Shore were Lewis, Hooper and Speaker, extending their freckled talons from one foul line to another and ranging from close behind the in- fleld to unlimited spaces. They knew no boundary in any game. In the battle yesterday Lewis caught Cravath’s drive at the foot of the fence that looked to be ten leagues away. In the fifth round he caught Stock’s low line wallop fifty yards nearer in—a shoestring stab. And then in the eighth Hhe nabbed Eancroft’s drive just over Gardner’s head. Here was a range alone on three line drives of nearly one hun- dred yards. Beat it? All right, but what with? Not with a round piece of wood hewed out of hickory or esh. Crayv of Shore Pitches Good Game. Shore pitched a better game, so far as throwing the ball is concerned, on | the day he lost. Beyond the ever- | danger of Cravath’s long | blows in the early part of the game, | he had only one close call, when Gavvy tripled in the eighth, and T.uderus bludgeoned his third safe hit for a score. The other hits off Shore were set too wide apart to be turned into runs. Chalmers pitched about as well yes- terday as Alexander did on Monda; The Bronx delegate held the Red Sox 1o a pair of runs, which is like say- ing, against this Boston defense, that all he gave them was enough. Two runs for the Red Sox with the defense they carry isn't any more than $1,000,000 would be to you or me. Not a bit. In the third inning a pass to Barry, Cady’s single, Shore’s sacrifice and Hcoper’s hit rolled in one tally. In the sixth Hobby singled, and Lewis, the batting leader of the series, drove him over with a double. That was good enough pitching to win any or- dinary affair. It was good enough pitching to finish above .650 on a season’s count. But it wasn't good enough to beat a ball club that woula Just as soon let you make a run as J. Pierpont Morgan would let you have his yacht. It wasn't goon enough to beat a ball club that never had any better defense than the Germans have at Heligoland, or Gotohelland, or whatever it is. Hardly a bit. Just one point in passing. Despite their inability to break through the triple-lined Red Sox defense, the Phillies have played good, game base- ball in every other way, and have re- fused to falter at any stage upon de- fense. ‘When a ball club isn't batting it generally curls up and quits. The Phillies haven't. They have Kkept plugging along with the best they had in stock, and they may win yet. As we remarked a few lines above, all they have to do to win the series now is to beat Foster, Leonard and Shore in succession by hitting drives that Speaker, Lewis and Hooper can't catch. It can be done, Pittsburg Phil ran a shoe lace into a million or so, &nd there was still another guy who cornered electricity, and also, there iz Alexander. GIANTS AND YANKS ENGAGE IN FIZZLE Spectators Disgusted With Players Efforts to Play Baseball— Schaefer Hooted. Hartford, Oct. 13.—Columbus Day was fittingly and thoroughly desecrat- ‘ed In presence of twelve hundred gull- ible baseball fans, who forsook their positions before the 'world’s series scoreboards to be ‘“entertained” by the New York Giants and the New York Yankees plus Germany Schaef- fer. They pranced and preened on the Wethersfield avenue grounds for about an hour and a half, collecting their guarantees after nine innings had been perpetrated, and the score stood, Giants, 6, Yankees, 3. In the netire farce—for farce it was —only one man, Perrit, in the fifth inning, struck out. Usually the first ball lobbed over the plate was lifted into an outfielder’s hands. Three pitched balls sufficed for some of the half innings, which lasted about three minutes each, To add to the confusion of those who looked on Schaeffer insisted in his foolish pantomine, even after the groans and hisses of the indignant spectators had subsided to an icy si- lence, and after many had left the High was playing on his old , and the crowd demanded to know why he didn’t bring the Yank- ces up to play the Hartford Colonial leaguers, who won the pennant. Fven Bill Donovan “brazened” the city that made him a ball player, anq, succeeding Pieh in the box in eight inning, forced in a run by pas ing Stroud, with the bases full. Th next ball pitched brought in an ava- lanche of four runs, Burns getting a home run when Pieh and High either couldn’t or wouldn't find the ball in the grass, which the two teams cut with lawn mowers for exercise pre vious to game, and while the world’s | series bulletins were being announc- ed Mullen also travelled the circuit in the fourth, when Burns also lost the | ball in the grass. “It's all over!" yelled Schaeffer on the last out, and one spectator re- sponded fervently: ““Thank the Lord.” The score, for those who care to read it, follows: r. 10000050*—6 e ) | 100200000—3 1 Giants Yankees Batteries: Stroud and Dooin; Pleh, Donovan and Wendell. FORDHAM QUARTER OUT WITH INJURIES Former New Haven High School Star May Be Out of Game for Re- mainder of Season. New York, Oct. 13.—Joe Morcaldi, quarterback of the Fordham football team. who was injured in the Union game last Saturday, was again absent from yesterday's practice. ‘Webber expected to have Marcaldi out a week, but the injured so optimistic. He lizaments in his leg and has opened an old injury. Morcaldi will have the X-ray put on his leg and will then know if he will have to give up foot- ball for the season. Coach Vaughn shifted Fordham’s football practice session from the af- ternoon to the morning and a hard two-hour drill was in order in prepa- ration for the game with the Con- necticut Aggies on waturday. No scrimmage was held, but a defensive workout, besides kicking and signal practice, were included. McNeil, an old Yale center, paid Vaughn a visit and gave Treanor a few pointers on playing his position. It was the first time this season that any one assisted Vaughn in coaching. The signal drill was devoted princi- pally to trying out a number of new formations, in which Dunn and Yule figured prominently. Butler played the other halfback position. in player is not tore several FOOTBALL PLAYER KILLED, Decatur, Ga., Oct. 13.—Davis Cham- bers, 17 years old, halfback on a high school football team, was killed here yvesterday in a game with Marist col- lege. His skull was fractured during a scrimmage, Quality Corner Any man who is intelli- gent and sincere detests tight clothes. However, this is the day of slender styles. At Fruhart Bros. they produce the slender styles but they get the armholes roomy and they allow plenty of cloth through the shoulders. von’t thinx you can't wear a shapely garment. tou certainly can'! The ] Stackpole- i Moore- Tryon Go. ASYLUM AT TRUMBULL STREET, HARTFORD, 5 Trainer | 2 There has been some gossip from time to time as to the make-up of the greatest ball club that played. | A certain number of votes have been cast for the old Boston machine of 1898, where Tenney, Lowe, Long and Celling compased the infield. Other votes have been cast for the old Orioles, and the talent has also pro- vided heavy backing in the dope for the Cubs of 1906-07 and the Mack- nien of later seasons The greatest scoring machine them all was the Mackmen, with the old Baker-Collins-McInnis ar- tillery. The club was the hard- est club of them all to hold in check as a run making array. But the Red Sox, while not as great a club as some others in past history, undoubtedly stand as one of the greatest defensive clubg of the game, if not the greatest that ever played. Red Sox Alone. There may have been a greater de- fensive club than the Red Sox at their best—when once keyed up—but we doubt it. No other club has been so well supplied with every detail of de- fensive stuff. They have three first class catchers in Thomas, Cady and Carrigan. Beyond the catching there are three trenches upon defense—the pitching, the infield and the outfield. The Mackmen had a better infield, but the Mackmen never had five pitchers | lke Wood, Foster, Shore, Leonard and Ruth. And the Mackmen never had an outfield to compare with Speaker, Lewis and Hooper. The closest approach to the Red Sox de- fense was exhibited by the Cubs of former years, when they had Kling and Archer catching; Brown, Overall, Pfister, pitching; Chance, Evers, | Tinker ana Steinfeldt for the infleld, with Schulte, Hofman and Sheckard for the outfield. ever of The Red Soy of 1915 are not as | great a ball club as the Cubs of 1910. They don’t know as much baseball and lack the all-around keenness of | that old Cub array. But as a de- | fensive clan they are fully as good if not a whit better. For there isn't a break in that Boston defense at any point. Two Runs Enough. “Few people,” remarked Eddie Col- lins after Monday's game against Alexander, “appreciate how hard it is to score on this Boston club. Runs are harder to make against this ma- chine than any ball club I have ever seen. If you ever get to hitting the pitching, which isn't often, you've still got the infleld to pass, and if you get Ly the infleld you've still got that outfield, which can cover more ground thon any other outfield I have ever seen. The Red Sox are not any won- ders upon attack. They are not the best run-getters that ever played. But they don’t need many runs with that defense. About two runs, as a rule, are enough. And a good part of the time one is sufficient. Weil- man, of the Browns, pitched three games against the Red Sox and held them to one run each start. But he lost all three games by the score of 1 to 0 5 Consistency Cou “It isn't so much a matter of a few games,” continued Collins. consistency of the Boston defense that wins the prize. In a four game series {he opposing club gets Shore, Moster, Ruth and Leonard. All stars and ail hard to hit. You can never figure that { you'll get a weak pitcher tomorrow. | And in addition to this speedy pitch- | Ing, always good, you are always up against the rest of the club, especially that outfield, which has cut off more basehits than any other cutfleld in the game. Scoring runs against Boston is about the toughest job in baseball. At least, the toughest one that I ever tackled.” | A Welcome Change. It is at least a welcome change to get a variety of world series stuff. For the last few seasons that attack has always been featured, especially where the Mackmen were concerned. But this seasop we are getting a chance to study the rate value of de- fense, fully as important a feature of baseball as the attack. The Tigers had the best attacking club in the game, but the best defensive club beat them out. It was thfe Red Sox line of trenches which so )Z'Hhernrl the Phillles in the first thrfe games. On several occa- sions it looked as if they hdd broken through, only to have the last line throw them back. Take that game on Monday, when Alexander lost. Tn {he ‘third inning Barry saved the day with a miraculous catch back of cegond, an almost certain hit. This <1l Joft a runner on third, with two i out. 7 Gravath then smashed one of his htiest blows—a wallop that would have been good for a home run on most National league grounds and Alleys Reserved Now for Leagucs and Parties AETNA ROWLING ALLEYS Y Batile--Giants and Yanks Engage in Farcial Exhibition in Hartford—-High School Defeats Naugatuck, Score 7 to o--Other Sport Briefs PORT NAUGATUCK BEATEN BY LOCAL ELEVEN High Schoolfifioys Pfay Finely in Rubber Town—Dudack Scores LIGHT Grantland Rice most would good for at least a triple in American league parks. It have hit the top of the left fleld fence | in Pittsburg and would have been a home run at the Polo Grounds. It was a terrific wallop, hit almost on a line. But it wasn't long enough 10 this city yesterday by the score of ¥ get by the last Boston trench. For| (o 0. New Britain's touchdown camé Lewls went deep enough by JudgINg |, the jast period, Captain Dudsek it Frn;"wrl,\' the n;;wmem \; was m;r;n [ carrying the ball over from the six save the game. oTe. Wele WO 9 “ ! yard line Parker kicked the goal slons “h;m m; m'trr;elr‘wm ""hu":";‘fl- ; The visitors’ offense was the principal anivStofnavel hiviinkeldE Snd ONEY ause for the defeat of the home save the day. And with that ome | crone for T0 Aot O o the backs chence gone the Phillies could not | swept around the end with the lutel SUSIiEec e pnen togfst bass, ference tearing up Naugatuck's see- o ondary defgnse and paving the way q,,:‘" ,:‘::_p?‘r"n}'hrif‘rfia";:‘ ‘h:el:}fi‘;; for large gaWs. Although outplayeds 2 y the home teanm put up a game fight ; > onl in P ] r,:)::,l‘tyén:,:“]pi:ag;;n(“\.“"(\:nrfi:f”o but in the pinched the visitors lnuI: i - | no y an No one could ever label this as any | N0t be denled, and Ry l‘lm;]plundx'e-np teroclous attack, although it was | flashes of open 'f"""‘“l- “:""T v hampered considerably by drawing :"‘r:""";""‘""" the koal p Alexander in two of the three games. | SUmmary NG Yet with less than two runs on an | New Britain High Muk""rkvl;;xh average to a game Boston wag able [ Hibbard . an to win two out of the first three games through the power of a defense that stands far above any other in the | game. The old wallop still plays its | part. But it is well enough to re- member that a defense which can wipe out the rival wallop is also an important adjunct to the national | jubllee, —Outplayed ar¥l Naugatuck High m suffered the first of the season at the hhnds of the New Britain Hign school team in Naugautck, Oct. 1 outgeneralled, the school football defeat S8olomon ceetssnseea Chevelier left tackle Brackett .... McCarthy, Collins left guard Bradley Skrentny . WITH THE BOWLERS . Live Oaks. 95 98 o8 84 79 79 107 o8 85 95 454 463—1381 100— 89— 93— 97— 84— 261 Lantone Cage . Middleton . Bertini Richter quarterback Dudack (¢) . ceas left halfback CabellUS ..ocssacnconsse Anderso right haltback Anderso 464 Mooney (¢ “It is the | Elites, 88 79 97 107 96 fullback Score, N. B. H. 8. 1, N. H 0 touchdown made by dudack; goa kicked by Parker; referee, Claffer, Ul of Vermont;umpire, Marshall Davi Dartmouth; head linesman , Georg: walte; linesmen, Conley, N. B. H. 8. Young, N. H. 8.; timé of quasters, 1§ 244 261 298 278 Semple 95 93— 8. Edwards Larson Landry FPrior 467 441 449—13L7 Tribunes- 85 85 u1 98 97 456 473 ‘Wanderers, 89 87 minutes. 87— SIS ORCHESTRA, NO BASEBALL, 93 i14 91 98 Pluecker " Ericksor« Leupol« Koge:s k Leonard, Sox Twirler a Crack Drum< voac] mer, But Forsook it for Diamond. San Francisco, Oct. 13.—Putch Leonard, who pitched the Boston Red Sox to victory on Monday in & world 12¢ 84 291 | geries game, forsook music AS a me Githd ! S 280 [ of Jivilihood to play baseall, 102 - 95 79 | " Six years ago Leomrd’s family 91 125 99— 315 [jjved in Fresno, Cal, ani was knowh S e S | for its musical ability. 'Dutch was 496 489 446—1421 5 trap drummer. Un#l his success | as a pitcher altered 1 plans he wis consldering taking up professional ore chestra work. 94— 289 479—1408 \Bronson 266 . Larson Anderson McKay Brennecke R Annex. 285 264 279 273 264 90— 97— 91— 102— 84— 464—1365 96 84 100 92 83 © 99 83 88 9 Foote Huek Hoffman MeBriarty planchette MAY DROP SASEBALL. Minneapolis, Oct 13.—The Univer- sity of Minnesota ~ommittee on Ath- | letics has decidedto recommend the abolition of interollegiate baseball at the university. The recommendation 83— 244 | will come up « a meeting of the 91— 290 | Board of Atiletic Control today. 87— 260 | Among reasop advanced for the ac- 113— 303 | tion is the ommittee's opinion that — university bseball serves as a train- 468—1378 | ing camp fo the summer players.” 98 94— 274 87 90 92 106 473 J. Wright Erickson .. Puppel T. Wright . Anderson 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! Our Special Brew is a special Brewery Bottled product that's ALL quality. On Sale by your dealer or The Hubert Fischer Brewery HARTFORD, CONN. 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