The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-10-09
iational Leagues Premier
Moundsman Bests Earnest
Shore in Great Hurting Duel
rENER LEAGUE WINNERS
GET FIRST LEG ON THE
CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE
Bill Carrigan's Boston Red
Sox Unable to Connect Safely
With Clobule at Critical Mo-
ment and Lose Game. 3 to !
BIZ WILLIAM b. HANNA.

BY WILLIAM b. HANNA.
Philadelphia, Oct S.-One for
tho PhtllteA. and by d score Of )
70 1. The pennant- winners OF tho
National League beat the Red Sox,
Of Boston, champions OF the
AmeE4cAxa, this afternoon In tho
game Of the 1918 revival of the
post-snaeon serieu for the laurel
81 baseball II was . doggcdly
fought, not brilliant, game. Tho
Reading was orderly. without any
attributes tnaG dAxxled. The cam
pAign Of each contender was
somewhat cautiously winged. ~ -
the custom In these autumn clas-
stcA Of the diamond; tlo hitting
was curtailed and constantly scat-
tered, and tho work II The men
chosen TO do the pitching domi-
mated the contest throughout.
The pitchers were Grover Alexan-
der. premier pitcher OF the National
league and Ernest Shore, In whom
the American League has none bet
ter. Both curled pitches of rare quail
tty across the plate this afternoon, AL
though there were shortcomings in
the pitching of each. What they ala
was the biggest influence in the bat
tie as 1t unfolded. but there were
uCfu}Hk plays WHICH fyiuNGA tlCtI pATk
remissness. OF alertness on defense.
which entered into the scant scoring
of the game.
Playing Field Slow.
Swiftness Of foo;play--infielder
getting oser gTound--was hamperea
III sisH o. st part of the contest by the
core u ~ the playing surface. Tns
aa9 s4ads, which let down soaking
tasn ~ " Yesterday ana part OF last
night; did not break and scatter until
the middle of the forenoon. The sun
came out at / O'Clock. and then had
10 pour down steadily TO do SUFFICIENT
drying FOR the game to be played
FheFe were seft spots In the infield
! and on the base tines when the game
began at . %, and back of the pitcher
and in front of the shortstops' baili-
wick was burnt hole in the green
blanket. This was where gasoline
mad been burned to sop up puddle
Of water still standing. but the sun
stayed out warm and bright and
friendly once ii had melted the clouds
away, getting the field in pretty fair
shape by the time the conflict was
half over. and giving An almost sum-
mer temperature. The contending
camps had to do their fielding and
batting practice on a field which
\ around the plate was almost an ooze.
ybut the stream OF incoming spectators
reveled their expectation as they
sought their seats and had no dis
comforts under foot to think about
rhey had only to smack their lips and
wait. The early joust was on. Three
fourths OF the field was soon sur
rounded by seats and all Of the seats
were occupied.
j The old cantiiever stand and Its
I plebeian neighbors. the bleachers at
| Broad and Huntington, never had a
gathering OF circumstances akin to
these. The Phillies never had won q
pcnnant before and never had been In
National series before. And In prov
Ing the presiding genius that the sea-
Son showed him to be, Patrick Moran
vt the baseball world by the ears Just
\ - his team set II by its ears In win
J ming the pennant. Therefore. Il was
with added xest that fans, provoked
BY an occasion. assembled by the an
cient grounds-Royal Rooters from
and ncn-partisans from there, here
and eyerywhere :
Royal Rooters Have Banners.
such high lights as there were in
the background came mostly from the
Royal Rooters from Boston. They
had banners and music. Otherwise
frills were not In view. All the color
that came from native rooters con-
sisted OF their yelling when fortune
favored them. The eighth inning was
the most exciting. That was the de-
pistve round. Each side scored. Much
Of the game, aside from the eighth
Was humdrum, though always intense
The Phillies. before their friends
ana In trying to put the cap sheaf Of
supremacy on their season, did them
selves proud in the flrst meeting with
the Red Sox. though. the truth to teil
Il ever team in a big series was dis
ttnct1y favored by fortune. It was the
Phillies today.
This pitchers battle between Alex
Ander, the famous. and Shore, the
formidable, had ordered turns. prank
ish twists. Here Is one of the most
prankish of the six hits assembled by
the Phillies-only one was clean, and
that one was OF the fiukish sort, known
- a Tommy Lacquer. With freakish
bounds to the infield and jabbing prods
which bounced high and took long to
come down. the Quakers accomplish
"a more in scoring runs than the Ros-
IONS did with eight clean-cut base
EAits.
Every Boston hit was clean. The
hall new of the scantling a. welded
~ the Red Sox with hard impact ana
\ velocity. either Aerially or along the
ground. Yet such was the calm, gran-
a ite nerve Of big Alec when men were
an bases that the eight hits OF the
Cox were one to an inning through the
3 first eight innlnga never more than
one per inning. The Boston'a tried
waiting Alexander out and tried hit
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