Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-10-09
Five Of BascbalI's Fmkicst
Hits Puts Phillies in
the Lead.
ALEXANDER MASTER
OF THE OCCASION


DHLADELPHIA, oct S.-Groyer
l. Cleveland Alexander won his
game from the Boston Red Sox today,
but the victory was far from beins
the impressive one his teammates OF
the Philadelphia Nationals had pre-
diutcd. The breaks Of the game were
with the star pitcher Of the National
league ana had to be TO give him the
honor Of winning the first worlds
series contest in which he has par
ticipatcd Through a sequence Of
plays as unusual as ever seen upon
a bah field the Phillies won to /.
They made these three runs on five
Of the flukicst hits the game has ever
known. a Texas Lacquer which de-
yclOpcd into the first run OF the
series being the only safe BAH driven
out of the diamond by the Philadel-
phia hatsmcn It had been predicted
the short outfield would prove tho
winning factor for the locals in their
own little park out on Broad street,
but contrary TO all expectations 1t
was the infield. wet and heavy from
fifteen hours OF rain. that turned tho
tide i'm their favor.
"Nory" plays to Blame.
first of the big series, for despite tho
few errors Of commission there were
several Of omission and two or three
plays which will go down in baseball
history as tinged with an ivory hue.
strangely enough it was the Red Sox
,cterans, I'm bait ing for the highest
nonors of the game, who were guilty
f the slips, although the offending
individuals were new members Of the
team.
Big Hobby" Uoblitzel. first base
guardian for the SoX ANONYMOUSLY
ndcd first inning attack by his
e1mmatcs when he calmly lapsed
INTO Sunderland off his home sta
ION and was caught almost flatfooted
~ quick toss from Alexander to
.udcrus for the third out. Hooper
as on third base at the time and
Lewis was at bat. When he was
given his d@ayed chance in the sec
Dud inning, Lewis shot stinging
ngle between short and third.
"Anothcr Bonchcad"
This play hurt the chances Of tho
SuN materially, but 1t was i'm the
eighth inning that the game was
.Ossed away beyond all hope of re-
'all when Scott, at short for the vis-
tors, stood tr1nstiXed as he watched
j1rry make a. Wonderful stop of
rive from Bancroft and was so COM
plctely overcome by the seemingly
miraculous play that he forgot all
bout covering second base, allowing
stock who had walked, TO pull up
safely at that station and giving Ban
croft one of the five strange hits
scored off Ernest Shore. This young
wirlor-"Long" Shore they call him
IN Boston pitched a splendid game.
lhc breaks which went 10 tho
'hilies, seemed to upset him at times
md his fielding was very shaky
But Shore had fast ball with
lOp on it that was on a par with the
lest Alexander had 10 offer. Against
ho five freak hits which he allowed
Alexander was hit safely eight times,
Zach Of the blows being a line drive
To- the outfield. There was not an
.Xtra base In any of them however,
md no two came in the same inning.
Three times during the game the first
Rcd SOX batter 10 face big Alex
tore off screaming single, only %
remain stranded somewhere between
first and third.
Alexander Nervous,
Alexander felt the strain that the
confidence Of the National league adj
uerunts had placed upon him and
during the first three innings OF the
game was plainly nervous. In two OF
.hrse innings serious trouble threat
cned him. shore gave the Philhes
star a fight from the time play was
called until the last man was out
-Four or five times the game hung
i'm the balance with the score a tie II,
the first half of the eighth and with
Lewis on second base, Gardner of the
Red SON smashed into one of Alex
auder's fast breaking out curves for
"a drive which seemed far out of reach
of any of the Philadelphia outfieid but
Paskert started out after 1t from cen
ter field and made spectacular
catch while running at fun speed.
The play brought the big crowd to
its feet and undoubtedly saved the
game for the National league con
testants This play and the wonder
ful stop by Barry back of second base,
which hypnOtized young Scott into q
lapse of Inconsistencies that paved
the way for the two winning tallies,
where the fielding features OF the
game.
\ Freak Episode.
THAT the game was regarded largely
as freak episode In world series
baseball Is shown tonight by the fact
that the supporters OF the defeated
Red SoX have heightened the betting