New Britain herald., 1915-10-12
.IPLE TRENCH DEFENSE
 STOPS PHILLIES' ASSAULT
eartening Effect Eaters Who Are Unable to Pierce Barriers When Sox Pitcher Falters
 for Moment.
(By Grantland -Rice.)

R or SC1eQC1I1C rSSedrCH. fOTIy-
 housand three hundred sturdy 1Englanders and others paid
 yesterday to observe whether
 the guy who invented arith-
 was right when he said that |asn't equal to three. #5
 H are, willing to admit now he fellow knew something. and |bld Henry w. Arithmetic was kximately correct. One great
 r isn't as useful as three great
 rs, especially when the lone 5 woriting g against 8 harder hit #lub. ~.a ..e.:
 by one Carrigan has unrolled Itching films. and in each case
 has flashed upon the main
 First it was Shore. Then it Foster and yesterday 1t fell to the 5 Herbert B. Leonard, the Red
 puthpaw, to break through the hdrian barrier and put Boston
 front by a count of 9 to l,
 happens to be the score of the
 and the standing of the series.
 greatest crowd that ever paid a baseball game in the fifty history of the, sport saw Alex
 battle in vain against a tide was not to be stemmed-the tide of power that came from
 Leonard's arm and from Bos- hts.
 Lewis Turns the Tide.
 Ay saw the great Nebraskan kle against this double fate with courage and the skill he had
 Harry Hooper singled in the
 inning and a lusty crack from Lewis brought him home. pse 42,00O and more, forming the hst human fringe in baseball an-
 saw Big Alex caught between Hence and a defence that made Ultimate fate as inevitable as the bf gravity. He was against an ce that came charging in with and power. And upon the oth- Ing he faced @ defence that was D be broken by the futile Philly k. Under this double burden it To wonder that he fell where only could have scrambled through.
 , job they put up to him was be- the skill of any one pitcher in kame today. With a club that hb1e to give him a few runs he t have rambled on to glory, but ing for @ club batting over .250 assignment that belongs to a bn or machine gun, and beyond range of anything composed ly of human flesh.
 hs third game was a California In the big series. Harry Hooper, anta Clara, scored the winning Duffy Lewis, of San Francisco, himself to three D solid blows, , even above these two Dutch ard, of Fresno, absorbed the Ight. Leonard a Pitching Puzzle. e stocky Teuton who first ironed ,ne kinks in his left arm at St. g college, stopped the Phillies
 a thud that must have been I above the roar of the cannon , in Flanders. In the third round Leonard wavered. In this dizzy ter only the brilliant fielding. of
 Barry and Duffy Lewis pulled through with his hide and shirt on. After Burns had opened with ,gle and Hobby had muffed the " on Alexander's sacrifice Stock ficed and Bancroft scored Burns a hit. as .,a.t
 Le Philly attack at last was get
 under way. Paskert followed a short fly back of second, which v took over his shoulder, for one le great plays of the year. This Ter catch saved a run and a hit, lex was then on thrd. Cravath wed with a mighty wallop to deep which Lewis pulled down almost ast the far away fence, and as
 long blow dropped into a Red glove the Phillies ceased firing he day. From that point on they
 p1LcneQ 10 kuedLH.
 aving escaped from a grotto of n with his scalp still intact, Leon settled down to the exclusive as- nent of grinding the enemy into mud. Not a man reached first
 for the, last six rounds. One by they came to the plate in order,
 to be turned back toward the h.
 lere was. renewed confidence in work when Speaker ed in the fourth and scored on oy's outfield fly. With the count
 up, Leonard pitched Alexander he field. He had more stuff than Phillies had ever seen emanate
 a left arm. Fine speed, fine rol and the proper sort of curve
 the three main agencies he em- ed to start the National league 1pions down the soapy chute. He only had the stuff but he knew ,e to put it, and it was only a CT of how long Alexander could
 9 losing game.
 le Phillies hung on until the I, when Hooper singled. Scott ficed, Speaker walked and Lewis ked one beyond Bancroft's quiv- 2 finger tips.
 Three Lines of Defence.
 Iere are those today who are be- g the Pnillies for the softn ess of