Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-12

livered the necessary Inland he might
not. Alexander chose to take a chance
on iioblitzel and Lewis. and his strategy
failed.
Probably the prettiest. and certainly
the fastest play Of the game. cam. in
the ninth. with Hooper on first. Scot,
sacrificed. He sent a slow roller to-
ward second. Ni"hoff playing rather
far back, raced in. picked up the ball
with his bare hand. and while com
plctcly ont of position 10 max" the
throw hcavcd to Ludcru*. The ball,
travelling true as "a die. reached I.udr-
rus II fraction Of second ahead Of
the runner.
was executed by the ph!lles in the
seventh inninE-a double killing that
must rank always with one Of tho most
peculiar plays In baseball.
Speaker had singled 10 left. Hob
litZcl, the next batter. attempted 10
sacrifice. lie caught the bah on tn"
the plate and rolled ahou, two feet
into safe territory before Catcher Burns
grabbed il.
IIoblitze had not made any real
ball looked foul. but Burns threw to
Niehof, who touched second. and then
Niehon threw to Ludcrus, vino touched
Umpire Klein. who was on the bases.
+ refused to make ruling. speaker.
TO irst. Iiohiitzel resumed his place at
p tho bat. The crowd settled back to see
what IIobltzel eventually would do at
bat
A 5n the" . i Was t ,, Ga,cher nnrns
/ o,Loughlin. fairly dragged him TO tho
! plate and showed him the mark where
! the ball had hit. O'Loughlin examined
tn" mark very closely. pondcrcd the
, m" tier a bit ana then declared tho
/ hunt far hit and ruled out both
! Speaker and lIobiitZcl.
All in all. it was IA wonderful game
/ one featured by remarkable plays one
! pinchcs and one that was won by tho
home club in the final INNING scnSa :
ti"nal climax that Tonight has sent
4 Boston into Il deiirum OF baseball JOY.
I harry Thrills Crowd.
"Rlack Jack" Barry electrified the
crowd in the third. and probably saved
the game for Red Sox with Il catch
II" made off Paskcrt's bat in the third
With Alexander on third. Bancroft on
second and one out. laskert popped ~
hit back of second. Barry ran into
short right field and. while runnn.;
hnckw ward. caught the ban ono OF
or twice in season.
Those who We're confident that the
mhiliGs would wi" THE, the S %ia are
cVHporating. not because the rhjIlics
are in the hole. nor because Alexander
WAS beaten. hut because the phillics 81
far seem helpless before TN" Boston
The Phillies have made only eleven
bits in the three gamcs-an average OF
loss ihan four hits per game. OF thos,
eleven hits five have been nukcs.
The I'hiliics got just three hits TO.
day--and only two were clean Tive
other was IL double by Stock. the FIRST
man up in the opening inning. II WAS
- drive that was directly at Tri.
Speaker. tie hardly needed to NOV,
Tor the ball Speaker Judged il. set
himself for the catch and then lost il
IN the glazing sun.
I.udcrus Fans Thrice.
Leonard made Fred LudcruS. tho
second best batter in the Nationa
League look like Il 'bushcr" this az.
| t"rno"n. lie famed I.udcrus thrc,
| times that l.udcrIS was at bat.
And Leonard also had the inca Sfr,
| Of cravath. lie showed no fear Of Tho
| hom"-run king" and pu; them where
| CraVaih usually likes them. The f~s
| time up Cravath inGloriousiy famed
| other two occasions Ii" was thrown
| out by Gardner.
| The sun bothered all the other out.
| iicldcrS this afternoon 1t poured dow.
| It's binding rays on the outfielders ant
every tim" ny was hi, the fielder:
| rushed -" each others territory
ready TO back M the player who wa.
| set for The back in case he missed
| 'askcrt. the Phillies' center fielder. wa:
busy person. During the first hv,
| innings eight flies were driven in hi:
| direction. and he got them all Their
| the hy-catching business. as far as h,
| was concerned, went bankrupt.
| Lewis made wonderful runnlre
\ catch of Cravath's terrific drive in lii.
| third. With two men on, the Cactus
| person connected with one of Leonard,
bcndcrs and sent il toward the lief