New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1915, Page 8

NE\')L"BR'iTAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, ice Says Best Team Won Championship--Hooper s Home Run Cost Lannin $70,000--Statistical Re- view of Averages of Players in Series--Yale Gets Assistant Rowing Coach--Sports of All Sorts BEST TEAM WON,” SAYS RICE; PHILLIES WERE GAME his and Hooper By Stellar Work Throughout Series Earn. Premier Honors—Alexander Looked Blue ‘When Moran Picked Mayer. (By Grantland Rice.) adelphia, Oct. 138. — They up Alexander, the nonpareil, oday that will never be. While 1 bats were boming the chorus other triumph and closing out orld's series against the shoots yer and Rixey, big Alex, stood the left field line wasting his rs on the Phjladelphia air, 200 from the range of Boston war that were rolling out the re- b of Philadelphia hopes. he Red Sox bagged their fourth ht victory and wound up the all year as successors to the 8. So the championship still in Boston, a city which has nev- Bt o world’s series jamboree, out br starts against Pirates, Giants, men and Phillies. a margin of 5 to 4 the new ps overwhelmed Mayer and , using three home runs almost sively for this worthy purpose. e understood it this short field to be a Philly asset only second e main opinion of Grover Alex- r. Over the low barriers of brief palisades Cravath and rus were to fire a series of dead- plleys, driving one Red Sox slab- after another from his work- on the mound. expounded in the early dope ing could have sounded fairer, only kink in the business is that dope picked the wrong club. The lies did all their long distance ing in Boston, where the only ce for a home run is a smash the Atlantic Ocean, beyond range e row boat station. - our Home Runs—That's All. f the four home runs that whizzed ss the barriers yesterday three bled from Boston clubs and the br started from the bat of Fred lerus, the big first baseman, who ied the bulk of Philadelphia’s at- 0 were pounded out of the lot by ry Hooper and the other four-ply came from the old snickersnee Duffy Lewis, whose all around ik put him far in front as the main in the hero output. It was Duffy vis, the Californian catapult, who more than any other two men in ing the Phillies at every start. h upon attack and defence Duffy the Phillies' goat banqueting his clammy hand. He cut off and hits in profusion by his out- d play, ard at bat he hit them all Ih equal gusto and eclat from Alex- er down, b to the eighth inning in Philadel- 's final stand, after Mayer had bn expelled by a volley of hits in ston’s third, Eppa Rixey, the Vir- ia spiral with southern exposure, med to have the Red Sox stopped| r four rounds he had the champs pling in a daze, lucky to gather one e blow. The big left-hander, the lest and rangiest of all the tall and gy guys you hear about, had pret- fair control, good speed and also lat we once heard a scribe of dar- originality call a “hop to his fast e.” The Phillies were' then leading at 4 2, through the batting prowess of derus,” and that sixth game in pston on Alexander's “today” looked carry all the essential requisites of cinch. Then in the eighth Gainer singled the second Rixey tap. And before ng, saunt Eppa knew where the s-pipe was hidden the -blow-off ar- ed. He whizzed up a fast one to wis and something large and round acked it on the cupola. A dozen 2-centimetres’ firing at once would jot have sounded any louder to the Btonished Eppa, who turned in more prrow than in anger to observe a Pay-white streak looping its way to ic center field seats. How the Games Was Won. That blow tied up the count. And . the ninth Hooper, who had con- pibuted a homer in the third with a g; low drive that bounded over the ier, closed out the quarrel with mother screamer of the same type, punding one on the bound into the ht center field seats. “And all this time, with the battle anging in the balance with steadiness nd sureness needed in the Philly box hbove all other details, there was [Grover Alexader still tossing a ball back and forth along the left field ine, still warming up for today’'s big est. But what doth it profit a man 6 gain the best warm-up that ever was if his pals lose the last game to fpe played? It might have been just as well to glve Mayer and Rixey their chance. [But with the score knotted at the Alleys Reserved Now for Leagues and Parties AETNA ROWLING ALLEYS start of the ninth, where one lone tally was to win the game, no second sight or second guess was required to pick up Alexander for the job. For Philadelphia it was either Alex- ander then or nothing. The best he can do with that last warm-up now is to save it for next April or use it this winter on the coast. It ought to make a big hit at the San Francisco exposition, for it is the most expen- sive warm-up that baseball has ever known. It cost the two clubs that $82,000 waiting over in a Boston safe. George Foster, the star of the sec- ond game, yielded nine hits for a tot- al of thirteen bases. But Hooper and | Lewls carried him safely over the raging tide on a raft made out of rounded ash. TFoster worked the only poor Boston game of the series, but it requires no enduring pitching skill to win a ball game where your pals gather ten hits for twenty-one bases and hit enough home runs to save the day. Red Sox Had the Class. The Red Sox won through class that counted both ways. They had the surer defence and the harder attack. They had the better pitching and the better everything else, including the necessary breaks. The Red Sox won by backing up sound pitching with an impregnable defence, and by collect- ing forty-two hits to the Phillies’ twenty-six. And yet, in spite of these thick margins of superiority, the Phil- lies came within one run of each los- ing battle, and completed the five games wth ten runs scored against eleven. The only wonder is that they were able to make battling so close so far as runs were concerned, for in all other ways they Were up against a club that had them faded to the frazzle that you read about. The one feature which prevented the Red Sox winning the last four games in a romp by easy scores was the steadi- ness and the gameness of the Philly defence and the lack of . concerted power in the Red Sox attack. The power was there, but it wasn't consistently applied until the final game, when three runs were needed in two innings to save the afternoon. Then the old rataplan of swats be- gan to echo in the rafters and among the eaves as Gainer, Lewis and Hoop- er opened up a fresh bombardment. There were two strikes called on Hooper and no balls in the ninth when Rixey pushed one over, and in place of waiting the right fielder let drive for one of the hardest blows of the week, a punch that would have rolled for a homer in almost any park. There is no part of an argument but that the better club won. And yet of all the serles we have ever seen, Fate in this one just closed out came nearer to being master of the final result. The queer part of it all is that the better ball club with the bulk of the breaks barely slipped through with its skin still on in all four victories. That part of it is well bevond the confines of the rope. Here is an example: These short Philly fences might have been part of his trall to home run fame. Yet in Philadelphia Cravath in three games struck only one solid blow, a low line drive, while In Boston where the tences do lay back against a dim hor- izon, he hit the ball with the power of a Baker or a Crawford. Cravath got three blows in Boston that in Philadelphia would have been home runs. In Boston they were merely outs, And in Philadelphia, where a long hit would have done the job, he couldn’t hit one over the plate, much less over the fence How Cravath Failed. Take this final game. In the first inning, after Stock had been hit and after Bancroft and Paskert had sin- gled, Gavvy was up, with none out and the bases full. A boding hush fell, upon the multitude. The big moment had arrived, and eager eyes were focussed on the blue sky beyond the adjoining walls. Which fence would he hit one over? The answer was a soft, spongy tap to Foster, and resulted in a double play, and only the two-bagger of Luderus gave the Phillies their jump. Anad after this Cravath came up twice, only to pad- dle the ozone with a series of Gus Hills that left the ball intact. Even when a triple by Garnder in the second and a homer by Hooper in the third had tied the count, ‘the Phillies still had their chance, when | Luderus belted a winging fly over the right field wall, preceding singles by Niehoff and Burns and a wide peg by Gardner in the fourth for two addi- tional tallles. But even these were not enough, not with Alexander still left warming up. Not with Lewisand Hooper adjusting their sights to the low fences beyond Cravath’s home range. A two-run lead wasn't enough for the Phillies at any stage where the Red Sox were going out and getting exactly enough runs to win. They were not wasting anything; not a Red Sox tally went to waste in the last four games. They had at all times af- ter that first game just enough to win, but they always had enough. In their first three contests they won by superior defence. In their last stand —— COMPOSITE SCORE OF ENTIRE SERIES SHOWING PLAYERS AVERAGES G, games; AB, at bat; R, runs; PO, put out; A, assists; E, H, hits base hit; HR, home run; TB, total bases; SO, errors; TC, total chances. 2B, two-base hit; 3B, three- truck out; BB, base on balls; Boston. AB R 20 18 0 174 0 1 0 16 0 0 o0 18 8 1 1 i 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hooper . SCOLERINS Speaker Hoblitzel Lewis Gardner Barry Cady Shore Henriksen Ruth Thomas Foster . Janvrin Carrigan Leonard Gainer 0 0 0 0 21 0 - HoocomrooRNWa L H2B3BHRTB SO BB Av. .360 055 .29 Totals 3 57 25 11 Philadelphia, 2B3BHRTB SO BB Stock .. Bancroft 0 Paskert . 0 Cravath 2 1 Luderus 0 Whitted 0 Niehofr 0 Burns . Alexander . Mayer Dugey . Chalmers Byrne Becker Rixey Killifer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Totals 148 10 27 1 1 36 25 10 131 The Summary. Games won—Boston, 4; won, Alexander, 1; Foster, 1; Alexander, 1; Chalmers, Sacrifice fly—Hoblitzel. ter to Thomas to Hoblitzel, Dugey. base on errors- Hoblitzel, Left Philadelphia, 1. Leonard, 1; Shore 1; Gardner, Cady, Cravath, Bancroft, Alexander, Stock, Whitted, S Double plays—Burns to Scott to Barry to Hoblitzel to Barry,. Bancroft to Luderus. on bases—Boston, Boston, 2; Philadelphia, 2 Pitchers' records—Games 1; Shore, 1. Games lost, Mayer, Rixey, 1. fice hi -Scott, ore, Lewi Bancroft to Luderus Chalmers to Burns to Whitted, Fos- Stolen bases—Whitted, Philadelphia, 23. First out—By Alexander, 35; Struck 10; by Shore, 6; by Mayer, 7; by Foster, 13; by Leonard, 6; by Chalmers, 2 6; by Rixey, 2; off Chalmers, 3; off Foster, 2; 8. Hit by pitcher—BYy Foster they won by a slugging attack that rolled up twenty-one bases. When their defence failed they came bound- ing through with the wallop, scoring more runs when needed ‘in the last two innings than they had scored be- fore in any one full game. The one actor above all which crushed the battling was the Red Sox outfield. maintained to the finish the they were expected to show. Of the eleven Red Sox runs, Hooper, Lewis and Speaker scored seven and drove in two more. Lewis led the batting, with a mark of .444, seven points above the slugging Luderus. Hooper finished with .369 and Speaker was Just below .300. Added to this, the value of their outfield defence was even beyond the power of their attack. They cut off more hits and more runs than they made. Duffy Lewis alone would have beaten any ordinary club. No outs fielder in world’s series history has ever before given such an all around others Phillies They form such a vital success. As for the Phillies, they made a good, game stand against a club that ordinarily might have beaten them much worse. The dope for them was factor in a ball club’'s exhibition of rare worth, or has been not so keenly cast. Luderus and Ban- croft travelled to form, and Alexan- der won one game. But always in their case will come the memory of Alexander still warming up when one run stood between his mates and extinction—that and Gav winding up with an average after having done his main slugging in a ball park surrounded by Speaker Lewis and Hooper in place of a short fence to be carried by almost any good average fly. NICKALLS GETS ASSISTANT. ‘Wiman a Member of Last Year's Crew. Accepts Invitation to Assist Coach. New Haven, Oct, 14.—Charles Deere, Viman arrived here today following his acceptance of a request to become, first assistant rowing coach at Yaley Head Coach Guy Nickalls yesterday wired Wiman asking him to take the place. Wiman was a member of last vear's 'varsity crew. Charles D, Wiman was graduated from Yale last June. He was No. 7 in the ’'varsity eight in the New Lon- don regatta last June, but had not figured in rowing in his previous years at the university. He was developed by Coach Guy Nickalls during his last scason’s training. Mr. Wiman will fill the place which for two years was held by Eugene Gianinni, and whose work was directed chiefly to the fresh- men candidates. Gianinni was re- lieved of his work after the races at New London, and later he was re- leased and his contract terminated. TWO BRAV! CANNED. Boston, Oct. 14.—The breaking up of the Braves in preparation for the rebuilding of the team next seeason hegan today when the business man- ager, Walter E. Hapgood, announced that Herbjfe Moran, outflelder, and Bert Whaling, catcher, had been re- leased to the Venice, Cal, club. In return the Braves receive Willhoit, an cutfielder with a high batting average. The New York Americans obtained ‘Willhoit by draft, but released their claim. Bases on balls—Off Alexander, 4; off Shore, 8; off Mayer, off Rixey, 2. off Lenoard, 3; off Mayer, 16; off Shor (Stock and Luderus) Hits—Off Alexander, 14; off Foster, 12; off Chalmers, by Rixey (Hooper). PAWNEES HARD GAME. Columbia Eleven of Hartford to Giv: Local Boys Battle Sunday. The Pawnees will meet the strong Columbias of Hartford, Sunday &f- ternoon at Trau's park. The Colum- bias are coming down with a tear that was undefeated last season and expect to go back to Hartford with another win tucked under their belt but they will have to play some foot- ball to take a game from the Paw- nees, with the Pawnees playing at the clip they are at present. The Col- umbias will have the following line- up: Center, Bout; guards, W, Lins- say, Shettle, and O'Gara; tackles, Con- nors, Sanford and Marrow; ends, Young, Ahern and Farber; quarter- backs, Blesso and Williams; the back- field will be made up of the follow- ing: R. Lindsay, Huband, Kieth and Goodman Vie. Larson will be seen in Paw- nees line from now on which means that the team wll be greatly strengih- ened, the line up of the Pawnees wiil be announced later. The kckoff wil be at 3 o'clock with Dannie Fitzs- patrick as referee. EACH PLAYER WILL GET WINTER’S COAL MONEY Sox Players Will Receive $3,779.99— Philliecs Share Amounts to $2,519.99, Philadelphia, Oct. 14.—Fifth and final game for world's baseball cham- pionship, played at National league park, Philadelphia, vesterday: Bos- ton Red Sox, American league, Phillies, National league, 4. Final standing of the two teams was as follows: Team WS L Red Sox . el 1 800 Phillies .. 1 4 .200 Official paid attendance yesterday, 20,306 Total receipts, $52,029, dr- ided as follo Each club National commission Official paid attendance for games, 143,351, Total receipts, $320,- 861.40, divided a Players . Each club National commission i The pool for the players who shar- ed in the receipts of the first four games was divided 60 per cent. to the winners, or $86,939.73, and 40 per cent. to the losers, or $567,959.82, Each team has twenty-three players eligible. The individual share of the Red Sox will be $3,779.99, while each Phillie will receive $2,519.99. Last year the individual share of the Braves was $2,708.90. B.C) ANNEX IN MANCHESTER. The Annex A. C. football club wiil line up against the strong Tigers of Manchester in that town Sunday af- ternoon. All players and followers are going to leave by motor truck at 12:30 o'clock sharp from the cornor of Church and Stanley streets. The players are fast getting into shape under the coaching of Michael Haugh All the players are requested to re- port for practice at 7:16 Thursday evening. SILKTOWN BOUTS, HOOPER’S HIT COST CLUB A MIGHTY SUM MORAN ADMITS THAT BETTER TEAM WON "omm | Sammy Waltz Has Hard Opponent. T | Manchester, Oct. 14.—The boxing season in Manch: will open to- night when a good card will be staged | The main go will between Chick | | Brown of New Haven, a ring artist | | that appeared here last fall and gavc | a good exhibition, and Tommy Rowan | of New York. This should be a good but besides having these two men | Hooper drove there is also a fast semi-final that will | {10 the right Lring together Sammy Waltz of Hart- ford and Young Brooks amford, Loth active youngsters who can travel a fast pa In the opening bout Chic Bunyan of New York and|arive in the Tommy Wilson of New Haven will be matched. The main will cight rounds, but the other two will be for six rounds. Manager Lewis plans to stage a number of good this winter and in the opening number he brought together a gathering of | six good men, well matched and a | zood card should result Rowan to Meet Brown— With Equal Decision, Bill Carrigan Red Sox Ma Must Refund Says His Club Was be Close to $70,000 for Tickets for Best. When Harry d Boston Philadelphia, are beaten in a Oct, 14.—"“When you row there isn't any excuse to offer,” said Pat Moran, mau- ager of the Phillies, here last night. | “Any team that wins four successive zames in a world's series must gt | the credit | “We playved our best. We gave all we had, but we didn’t have enough. | Our team was the best in the Nation- al league and Boston was the be | American league club. And as they beat. us, they naturally should be re- garded as the best ball club in the ccuntry.” “It was | the best t | never !so hotly | serve a lot of ! stiff battle every fight all the run yesterday ot Box v, hi home o, secor field the title the 1 afternoon and clinched of weorld mpions for a Thav live ccllec ton lost its reasor nning will of will never nint} those Wwho die 1 was a costly he Boston and memories It the gamc Hooper's mind; blow the owners of | Philadelphia clubs The purchased blocks of three tickets for the series in Boston, aRj not less than $70,000 will have to by returned in exchange for the unused And so Hdrry Hooper ere monument to the hone at of baseball so quickly about again was the home of baseball champlons, aw the but it ] bouts a hard-fought series, and am won,"” id Carrigan. I | interesting, and contested. The Phillies de-, credit. They put up a minute and gave us la way through. oz cou we were favored by some luck. We got several breaks of the | I 'game, but the resulis are self-evi- dent. We outplayed the Phillles. | “All my men worked hard for me, I I am elated. We encountered asterful pitching from Moran's staff I wish the Phillies all kinds of luck | and hope they win the pennant in | their league next season.” ) STUDY LAW. coupons. - ed one more Baumgartner o Use Sq to | ts of the Further His ¥ The word that Chicago, Oct. 14.—"Lefty” Baum- ! the artner, a pitcher of the Philadelphia | greeted with noisy demonstratiohs ih Nationals, plans to spend his share | front of every bulletin board,'' was of the World's Series reccipts recelved with mixed feelings by thou: preparation for the law sands of enthusiasts Baumgartner wrote a fellow The victory of the Red Sox was & mate at the University of Chicago to- | popular one, and Lewis and Hooper] day ‘that he will enter the law school | heroes of the contest, were especlally upon his return from the East. The applauded, but through the crowds Philadelphia pitcher was an all- was volced again and again doring around athlete at the University of [the game the wish that the teamd Chicago, but left before completing | might return here for another contest. his senior vear to play professional | There was no lack of support for the baseball He recently married a local team in the feeling—only a dom: Philadelphia girl. PITCHER eries Money P sport : assed ation, Il Boston world's in class- THE D GAME, | [ Pioncers and Red Men to Battle Sun- | | day in Last Game of Series, | The Red Men and Ploneers inating desire to enjoy again the ten- l slon and thrill of another work® series game. Proposals to celebrate the victory of the Red Sox by a banquet at which | the players would be guests were dis- cussed last night in several quarters, Boston, Oct. 14.—The but under limitations caused by a re- wealth's appreciation of the achieve- | quest of President Lannin that ther it is the last game of ball in the city | ments of the world's champion Red |be no such observance. Mayor Curley this season Sox was conveyed to President Joseph |after the Red Sox had won yesterdgs, WY J. Lannin and members of the team |said that his intention to celebrate “Pretty soft for you,” remarked a |in the following telegram sent by |the victory with a dinner was abans friend, “‘getting to see these world | Governor Walsh last night. doned out of deference to the wishes scries games for nothing.” Of all the “Congratulations to you and your |of the club president. | beople we have killed we can't recall | victorious boys. 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