The Washington times., 1915-10-10
IMAGINATION GIVES HALF TONE.

conjure up. II you can. q worlds Sc
ries battle-crowded stands. the Presi-
dent Of the United States and his girl
in a box. darkness coming down. the
score tied In the ninth inning. two down.
the winning runner standing on second
base-let your Imagination run amuck.
and you'll have only a half tone of the
situation at ten minutes past o'clock
In the second game Of the worlds
series between the Phillies and Red
Sox.
Then have a little runt of q pitcher
Who has held enemies to three hits.
come up and pole out a single that
brings Larry Gardner home standing UP
with that winning run. and you'n begin
to understand the magnitude OF what
George Foster.l the runt. did for cul-
tured Boston.
six inches. and weighs probably all OF
whole Phiiiy team put together. He got
as many hits himself as the entire clan
Of Moran did. and he licked It single
SIacided. President Wilson and tho
Presidential fiancee might as we'll have
been in HongkonR for all the attention
paid to them after the start of the
ninth.
The crowd was rather apathetic at
the start Of the game. Tle same crowd
saw a rather putrid brand OF baseball
all. 1t spent it's time looking at the
Presidents fiancee 1t isn't often a
crowd gets to see a worlds series base
ball game. and the Presidents fiancee
all for one admission.
But while Boston is paying homage
a. - - -
tho image OF Eddie Burns. Philly sec
ond catcher, In the Commons. For had
not Eddie dropped a foul third strike
on iris Speaker in the very first inning.
and had he not a little later dropped a
Penn might have been smiling instead
of weeping.
Eddie pulled a couple Of bad ones.
Even his best friend will have TO admit
II. After Hooper had walked to start
the game Scott died on a pallid foul
the ball for this third strike. The
crowd yelled Its delight. thinking the
Texan had whifYed. But Burns drop
ped the ball. and on the next ball
pitched iris shot a single between first
That was the break that put the Phil
lies on the Fritz.
On the next ball pitched iris started
for second. With Hooper on third.
Burns decided to take a chance and
made a nice throw. which nipped the
Texan by a foot. Hooper started home
and Niehoff whipped the. ball straight
into Burns out-stretched hands. Hooper
was caught fat-footed. but Burns drop
ped the ball. and the first run of the
game had been scored.
That seemed about all that George
Foster wanted. For four innings he
pitched marvellous ball. Not man
reached FIRST base, and Of the twelve
men who faced him In those four
sessions five were struck out. In the
second inning he famed both Cravath
ond Luderus-two OF the biggest
guns Philadelphia has. and the men
on whom she depends to trot Penn
sylvapia ward with the bacon.
Things perked up a bit at the start
of the NTH. The. crowd had grown
rather tired watching the Presiden-
tial box, and began hollerinG for
Gabby Cravath Iugged his big
bludgc on to the plate and slapped a
double down the left field foul line.
That was all the crowd needed. Gabby
had redeemed himself. Fred Luderus
caught the first ball pitched sauarely
on the pick. The ball careened In its
flight just out of Speakers reach.
and Gabby came home with the tying
run.
Foster was peevish. So he opened
another valve. and asorEs whitted's