Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-10-12
PHILA.
Nationals

BOSTON. Oct. 12.-The statute
books of Massachusetts name October
12 as legal holiday in memory of the
birth of Christopher Columbus. I'm
written law in Boston stamped the
day this year as an additional holiday
in honor of the world series baseball
contenders. Another tremendous
crowd thronged the approaches to the
Braves field FOR the fourth game of
the title test between the Red Sox
and the Phillies and countless thou
sands had no other plan for the day
than to be where they could follow
the play.
The crowd early assumed proper
tions greater than that Of the morn
ing hours yesterday. The bright sun
and the weather vane pointing to the
south promised even more comfortable
weather than that in which the third
game was played.
The balance of the series having
swung In favor of the Red Sox, two
gaues to one, by their ninth inning
victory yesterday, the contending
teams vent into the fourth tilt today
with ew mental adjustment. The
Philli we're forced into defensive
position, In which they were beset by
an all-important question, a problem
of pitching. The iconoclastic Red Sox
had weakened their faith In the pitch
ing prowess of the Quaker idol Alex
ander, who was felled from his high
place yesterday before the swing of
Boston bats. When he toppled, the
Bostons moved into an advantage
which forced upon Manager Moran the
necessity of finding successor for
the dominant part which Alexander
had filed in his campaign plans for
the world championship.
PhIiiios Have Pitching Problem.
Although the Boston lead was only
a single game, the problem OF the
Philly leader was no simple one. An
other defeat today would put the Red
Sox within one victory of gaining the
title, with possibly three games to
play, and for those three games, Fos-
ter, Leonard and Shore are available
in turn for call to resume the pitch
ing services which have proved so
remarkably effective.
Two leading Philadelphia twirlers,
urtried in the series thus far, were
subjects of consideration by Manager
Moran. Chalmers, a right-handed
veteran of several league campaigns,
was thought to be the one most likely
to be chosen to try to stop the rush
OF the Red Sox. His delivery, which
sends the ball to the plate in g. low
and evasive line, cutting corners
closely, has been successful to an un-
usual degree at times. Manager
Moran, in fact, was quoted today as
saying that he would have sent Chal-
uers, instead of Mayer, against Bos-
ton on Saturday, but for an element
which he feared would operate to his
disadvantage. Bppa Jeptha Rixey,
the elongated and erratic left-hander,
was the other possibility.
Ruth Spelling For Chance.
Similarly some doubt existed as to
the choice of Manager Carrigan.
Ruth, youthful southpaw, who
played prominent part in the pitch
Ing which brought the team TO a
championship. has not yet pitched in
the series. Leonard's success against
the Phillies yesterday demolished the
theory that they would fall heavily
upon left-handers, and Manager Car
rigan said he felt certain that Ruth
could win if he were started. But the
Hoston manager also mentioned
Shore as a possible choice and it was
thought that the latter would be
turned against the Phillies to take
advantage of what he had learned Of
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