The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-10-07
DOPING THE Big SERIES
WITH HUGH s. FULLERTON

them. He IL a close student OF batters.
cheekmstes their plan Of attack well oy
unexpected moves In pitching and yet
ne has not devised any brilliant plan a.
attack for his own team. Indeed. The
Philly attack has lacked punch and mas
been erratic and uncertain. Their scor-
ing has been largely due to straight
slsmming OF the ball
Moran hasn't n great deal Of speed on
his team to use Tor base running pur-
poses. and he does not believe in much
base running. using ~ as a surprise In
stead OF as regular diet. studied the
base running OF his men and have been
surprised to find that even the slow
men have been extraordinarily success
ful i'm advancing safely when they did
fact that they have known the weak
nesses of certain catchers and that
Moran has sent them TO run bases when
he detected weaknesses behind the plate
on the opposing team.
The best feature. perhaps. OF Moran
Is that he has crowd OF ball players
that are devoted TO him and will work
their heads off for him. They are pull
| ing together and pulling for Pat. which
makes any man pretty good manager.
Csrr1zsn's strength
Carrigan's strength is chiefly in d.
recting the attack Of his team. and he
does not appear TO devote enough time
TO the defensive end of the game. Like
and pitching. which is natural. since he
is a catcher.
Carrigan undoubtedly has improved
krtsttiN "A OF men since ne
was placed In charge OF the Boston
team. But he has not yet succeeded I'm
getting that absolute control OF chem
through sympathy and good feeling that
should exist in a winning ball club. lie
had material enough to win the Ameri-
can league pennant In a runaway style.
He ought to have won u by a city block:
and he had a close call when Detroit
made its final desperate effort. Truth
u. that the breaks OF luck In two close
games are all that saved his team from
losing out. You must give him credit
Tor rising TO the emergency and spur
ring his team to its greatest efforts
can leaguers predicted that IL Detroit
ever tied the Red SoN. Carrigan's team
would stop. They didn't stop. They
Fought harder than ever and won.
The Red Sox were over confident this
year. They took chances and liberties.
thinking no other team could catch
games.
There is no use concealing the truth.
Ihere are too many stars on the team,
Tor any manager 10 get perfect team
work from Two OF his stars have slip
ped IN their work this year. We dis
covered that in studying them. We
found Lewis below par in several re-
spects. and we found Gardner not as
good as he should be and has been.
When team that outclasses its
league has hard time winning its pen
nant, the manager must stand the blame
Tor not keeping the men on edge and
working every minute. This IL not pcr-
-
mink any manager could have done a.
but part of the managers Job is to ac-
cspt the blame for all those things and
give the players credit for everything
that Is good.
| do not think this negligent PLAYING
or part OF the club will have any dele
FERROUS effect upon its work in the ser
les. The Red SoN gave the lie TO the
charge that they quit" under pressure
cisive 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
chance at the big end OF the worlds
series money will do. OF course
me reaction worse. When they played
the Giants. the Red Sox came near
throwing away the series by blaming
each other instead OF playing II out
hard. Last year the Athletics started
blaming each other bitterly after losing
Two games and the bitterness increased
steadily
Expect Hard Series
However the Red Sox do not expect
70 win easily. They believe they have
the better team, but, with the warning
they are not liable TO lose through over
confidence or be careless and let the
Phlllies get the jump on them.
tomorrow We will take the figures
ard reduce them 20 the thing we have
been working toWsrd-scores II Won
have been keeping your own dope" and
my rules. you can dope II yourself m
not, you can take my values In Figures
and reduce them TO the scores OF each
game.
This l. the way I do IL
] figure Alexander and Kfllifer Wool
and Cady as the batteries
stock - first up for Philadelphia. lie
HoeSn MT speed such a. Woods We
know his batting and waiting value. his
Strength against speed pitching VIII
~" walk or make n hit7 The chance
~" 70 I against hit; Wood - not ia
bIc 10 De Wild. having worked in worlds
series games before. Put stock down "a
sure out Bancroft does not relish speed /
such as Woods-another out. Paskert fs
better chance he may hit a fast one.
s W.. chances are = 20 ] he viii not reach
llrst Figure u a scoreless Inning
axe the second inning Cravath leads
ora great hitter. keyed and on edge
o2d VIII work harder. knowing Crs-
Vath abiiity 20 hit with more speed
more ~ more chance OF wiIdness. ora.
VAIN may get Wood in the hole 10 n.
does the chances OF a hit or OF pass