The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-07

ager could have done it, but part of the managers job Is to accept the blame for all those things and give the players credit for everything that is good l do not think this negligent playing of part of the club will have any deleterious effect upon it's work in the series. The Red Sox gave the lie to the charge that they 'quit' under pressure by their over- throw of Detroit in the decisive games. and in that same series they showed that they can get up the speed and punch when they are needed
 There Is nothing in the world that win stimulate team work as much as a chance at the big end of the worlds series money Will do Of course, couple of unex- pected beatings makes the reaction worae. When they played the Giants, the Red Sox came near throwing away the series by blaming each other instead of playing it out hard. Last year the Athletics started blaming each other bitterly after losing two games and the bitterness in- creased steadily.
 However. the Red Sox do not expect to win easily. They believe they have the better team, but, with the warning of the fate of the Athletics before them, they are not liable to lose trough overconfi- dence or be careless and let the Phillies get the jump on them.
 Tomorrow we will take the figures and
 
 working toward-scores. If you have been keeping your own "dope" and making your own values according to my rules, you can dope it yourself. If not, you can take my own values in figures and reduce them to the scores of each game.
 This is the way I do 1t.
 figure Alexander and Kiilifer, Wood and Cady as the batteries.
 Stock is first up for Philadelphia. He doesn't hit speed such as Woods. We know his batting and waiting value his strength against speed pitching Will he walk or make a hit? The chances are to l against a hit; Wood is not liable to be wild. having worked in worlds series games before Put Stock down a sure out. Bancroft does not relish speed such as Wood's-another out. Paskert is better chance-he may hit a fast one; the chances are 4 to he will not reach first. Figure it scoreless inning.
 Take the second inning. Cravath leads off-a great hitter, keyed and on edge. Wood will work harder, knowing Cra- vath's ability to hit. With more speed there is more chance of wildness Cra- vath may get Wood in the hole. If he does. the chances of a hit or of pass are increased. figured Gabby to reach first.
 So went through the entire game studying each man. the direction of his hits. what the opposing pitcher would try to do. figured the chances of getting oh first. of a sacrifice. or run and hit game.
 I have figured each game that way. gone over them half dozen times cal culating chances from the compiled fig- ures. Tomorrow I'll give you a table showing what I figure the scores of each game, the hits and all should be if the pitchers work as they should and the batters hit as they should.
 Last year had the score of the first game practically correct. Only brilliant double play by Maranville made in the ninth inning kept me from having the second score exactly right doped the score of the third game correctly, and approximated the score of the fourth on both sides. Because of Maranvilless dou- ble play that saved the game and gave Boston a 2-to-1 gane instead of the Ath- letics a to 2, we never got a chance to see whether my figures on the fifth game and sixth were correct. One play broke the combination. It may do so again. You never can tell. but you have to believe the old dope.