Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-14
PHILLIES BAT FAR IN BOSTON,
RED SOX DITTOED IN PHILADELPHIA
Rice Tells How Local National League Champions Lost
Baseball Grown in Worlds Series to Bill
Carrigans Red Sox
BY GRANTLAND RICE

They saved Alexander, the nonpareil
for a tomorrow that will never be-
While Boston bats were booming the
chorus of another triumph and closing
out the series against the shoots of
Mayer and Rixey, big Alex" stood along
the left-feld line, wasting his benders
on the Philadelphia air, two hundred
yards from the range of Red Sox war
clubs that were rolling out the requiem
of Philadelphia hopes.
The Red Sox bagged their fourth
straight victory and wound up the series
as successors to the Braves. So the
championship still lstays in Boston, a city
that has never yet lost a worlds series
tamboree out of four starts, against
Pirates, Giants, Mackmen and Phillies.
BY the margin of to the new champs
overwhelmed Mayer and Rixey, using
thre home runs almost exclusively for
this worthy purpose As we understood
II, this short field was to be a Philly
! asset only second to the main pinion of
Grover Alexander. Over the low barriers
OF these brief palisades Cravath and
Luderus were to fire a series of deadly
Volleys, driving one Red Sox slabman
mound
As expounded in the early dope, nothing
could nave sounded fairer The only
kink in the business is that the done
picked the wrong club. The Philles did
All their long-distance batting in Boston
where the only chance for a home run
was smash into the Atlantic Ocean,
beyond range of the rowboat station.
Two were pounded out of the lot bv
Harry Hooper, and the other fonr-nIy
shot came from the old snickersnee of
Duny Lewis, whose all-around work nut
MIN far In front as the main bloke I'm the
nero output. 1t was Duffy Lewis, the
Californian catapult, who did more than
any other TWO men In halting the Phillies
at every start. Both upon attack and
DEFENSE Duffy had the Phillies goat
banqueting from his clammy hand He
cut on runs and hits in profusion by his
outheld play, and at bat he hit them all
with equal gusto and eclat, from Alex
ander down.
In the eighth inning of the Phillies'
maj stand, after Mayer had been ex-
PEELED by volley of hits Eppa Rixey.
the Virginian Spiral with Southern ex
posure seemed to have the Red Sox stop
ped. For four rounds he had the Champs
reeling in daze, lucky to gather one lone
oIoW' The big left handler. the tallest
and rangiest OF all the tall and rangy
guys you hear about, had pretty fair
control, good speed and also what we
once heard scribe of daring originality
call hop to his fast one" The PhiIls
were then leading to 2, through the bat
ting prowess of Luderus. and that sixth
game In Boston on Alexander's tomorrow
looked to carry all the essential requisites
of a cinch.
And then in the eighth Gainer singled
for the second Rixey tap And before
long, gaunt Eppa knew where the gas
pipe was hidden the blow-off came He
whizzed up fast one to Lewis and some
thing large and round cracked II on the
cupola. A dozen AZ centimetres firing
at once couldn't have sounded any louder
TO the astonished Eppa, who turned more
In sorrow than In anger to observe a
gray-white streak looping it's way to the
centre-feld seats.
That blow tied up the count. And in
the ninth Hooper. who had contributed
a homer In the third with a long, low
drive that bounded over the barrier.
closed out the quarrel with another rap
of the same type, pounding one on the
bound into the right centre seats. And
all this time, with the battle hanging in
the balance, with steadiness and sureness
needed in the Philly box above all other
details, there was Grover Alexander still
tossing ball back and forth along the
left field line, still warming up for to-
morrows big test. But what doth II
profit a bloke to gain the best warm-up
that ever was II his pals lose the last
game to be played? 1t might have been
Just as we'll TO give Mayer and Rixey
at the start of the ninth, where one lone
tally was TO win the game. no second
sight OF second guess was required TO
pick Alexander for the job. For Philadel-
phia II was either Alexander then or
nothing. The best he can do with that
last warm-up now is to save II for next
April or use II this winter on the coast.
II ought TO make a big hit at the San
Francisco Exposition, for Il is the most
expensive warm-up that baseball has
ever known. IL cost the two clubs that
sS2 600 waiting over In a Boston safe
George Foster, the star OF the second
game. yielded nine hits for a total OF 10
bases. But Hooper and Lewis carried
him safely over the ranging tide on
raft made out OF rounded ash. Foster
worked the only poor Boston game Of
the series, but Il requires no enduring
pitching skill TO win a ball game where
your pals garner 10 hits for q bases and
hit enough home runs 10 save the day.
The Red sox won through class that
counted both ways They had the surer
defense and the harder attack They
had the better pitching and the better
everything else. including the necessary
breaks The Red Sox won by backing up
sound pitching with an impregnable de-