Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-12
BY J. ED HR111

4 r
BOSTON. October TT death
knell was, sounded ION tn, Phillies'
chances for the VOID titlby their
defeat yesterday. me viery over
Alexander, who IN de opeig game
of the series scored a winver the
Red Sox, paves the Iay foh series
of five games. of which th,Phillies
have won but one.
/ Leonard's victory esterd: gives
Carrigan Shore and loster clean
up the next two CARES. .Axander
undoubtedly has shot Is bolifor he
is not apt to appear in ne seri again.
This puts it up to M,ran eler to
bring Mayer back today whicis not
likely. for he is a pitckr whneeds
more than two days res, or toake
chance and send Chalmen to ttfiring
line.
| Now. Chalmers may be tie darhorse
in the race. He may accenplis what
Alexander failed to do y&terds but
no one seems to think this kelly,
for the reason that nov~th; the
Carrigans are in the lead they arvery
cocky and confident and are It to
make a clean sweep of the aries. the
next two days.
Yesterdays crowd was tie lgest
that has ever witnessed a hall lme.
There were exactly 42.300 pad anis-
sions, and the chances are that all
there were about $4,000 sous the
Enclosure. The receipts also excded
anything ever attained in ! orld
series, the total being ss3.l91.f
,, 1t would got be at all surrrisi if
these figures were exceeded tay,
which is a holiday. Columbus daNand
with the business section cIose{for
half the day it Is estimated thaithe
attendance will go over tie 1900
ready is assured that the winning taa
will get more money than any oihr
victors in series ever haH game
and the losers, too, will fat bette
than have any of the others. Today
the last day in which the play,rs shar
ers already are assured of hating on
game for themselves and wht know
but that there will be two.
Duffy Lewis has been the lane {
Alexander in this series. He hit tn
speed fthe Phillies' star for two sir
giles in the opening game. though the
were not productive. and yesterday h
got three, the final one winning tn
game.
Alexander does not seem to be we
versed in the weakness of the Bosto
batters, for he frequently erred /
pitching to them. He, no doubt. was
great pitcher in the National Leagu
but when the claim is made that he
the greatest in the land America
League players rush to suggest tn
name of Walter Johnson.
Alexander is not the pitcher thu
Johnson is. He has not near the stu
that Walter possesses and, what
more. he doesn't work as smoothly a
does the Idaho wonder. -
He is in a league which is not a
strong as the American and this {
Sox were harder to pitch to than an
team he faced during the regular sea
son. while the Carrigan pitchers ais
held the Phillies' supposedly stron
batters in check.
Luderus, the Phillies' first basemal
and good hitter usually. was made I
look foolish by Leonard. who struc
him out three times in a row. There
one thing to be said for Luderus. h
did not wait for the strikes to b
called. but hit at every one of ther
with all his force.
Cravath would have won the bal
game in the third had it been playe
on the Phillies' ground, for the lon
ny he hit in this inning with two o.
would have cleared the seats in left o.
the Phillies' grounds and fallen int
the street for home run. But tn
Braves field is a big one and Lewis
playing deep. could run forty yard
before getting to the fence, and 1t wa