The Washington herald., 1915-10-11
ALEXANDER THE
HOPE Of pills
Quakers Are Depending on
Big Nebraskan to Bring
Home Bacon Today.
EXPECT RECORD CROWD
By DAMON RUNYON.

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Boston. Oct. 1o-The hope OF Philadel-
| phia in this current world series which is
| engaged at present in committing on the
New York. New Haven. and Hartford.
grows. 1t grew at least four pounds to-
night.
The hope of Philadelphia weighed in at
about 1S5 pounds on the O'Sullivan at
c p. m and approximately 1Ss pounds an
, hour later when the inhalation of a Sir
| loin steak and accessories had been COM
! pleted. After which the hope Of Phila-
delphia slipped the waiter the conven-
| tional dime, secured a toothpick and went
out in front Of the Copley Square Hotel
| to see what could be seen.
In mentioning the hope Of Philadelphia
in the world series We refer. Of course.
to Grover Cleveland Alexander. alias the
| Great II Philadelphia has anyN other
hope In this world series. it isn't discern
ible to the naked eye. Not at present
writing, anyway-not right this very min
ute.
A man goes mighty long way to he
4 hope when he goes from st. Paul. Nebr..
| to Broad and Huntington streets. but
that's the present status of G. G. Alex
ander.
He's a hope-no. not a hope. either: but
TIE hope Tomorrow afternoon Mr..
Alexander resumes active operations in
the hoping business at the large. airy
and commodious ball yard of the Bos-
ton Braves. with the Boston Red Sox
as his opponents The rest of. the Phila-
delphia ball club is at the Copley Square
Hotel with Grover, but no matter. The
Philadelphia ball club is batting only
Us in this series. SO Grover can scarcely
expect any assistance from II.
Expect $4,000 Fans.
The ward of the Boston Braves holds
something like 5000 people. and there
will be that many present at the game
tor orrow 1t is the first game of the
s.. , to be played in Boston. and with
the clubs standing fifty fifty at this time.
ii.,. haunt of the Wild baked bean and
,h.. ma d-broled scrod finds itself genteely
aCitated
Not that a world series is any novelty
to Boston-not at all. The old cradle or
the National League has been rocked
by so many baseball sensations of late
years that it is almost bias but the
idea of getting into some place where
Il lot of other people won't be able 10
get into. somehow appeals to the Boston
ina gination. And then here is the pros
pect of seeing Grover Cleveland Alexan-
der who is of more local interest at
this moment than Bunker Hill Monu-
m.nt or Percy Haughton.
Among the 500 spectators tomorrow. !
will be all the prominent people of Fitch ,
burg which gave Pat Moran, the old !
Junkman, to the worlds series cause. i
Several reserved seats have been set
aside for them. and they are going to ,
root for Patrick-not that they hate Bos- !
ton. but because they love Patrick more. |
Bill Must Pick Hurler.
Tho old Junkman has one advantage !
tonight over his loathed enemy. Bill .
Carrigan-Pat doesn't have to WORRY |
a bout what pitcher he should work to-
morrow. as he made his selection for
this game the day he won the pennant |
in the National League. II he hadn't
made his selection then, the experts
would have made It for him. so what's
tho difference?
The experts have been mighty oblig !
ing in this series picking the battery
for the manager. and everything. but
Pat crossed most of them yesterday
when he nominated J. "Irksome" Mayer.
1t is with no little pride that we call
attention to the fact that we said Pat
would work "Irksome" and limited ''Irk'
might pitch surprisingly well: We are
proud of that because it was the first
time We have been right in connection
with a world series since Abraham .
Lincoln was assassnated. However. We
view with some alarm the possibility
that Pat may cross us and not work
'Aleck'' tomorrow.
It seems unlikely. but anything is pos
sible in this series 1t is even possible
for Bert Niehoff to get himself one and
no one hundreds safe blow. George
Chalmers. the Harlem Hurricane. is
hanging around in the Philadelphia
offing. and it requires no great stretch
Of the imagination to see Pat growing
reckless and starting George.
Pat VIII Play His Ace.
But we think not Not tomorrow at
all events. When a man. sound in
mind and perfectly sober. holds an ace.
he generally leads that ace. II Alex
lnder can best the SoX again tomor-
row. the Phillies will have the boys
wo down and two to go. and Chalmers
or Mayer can space out Tuesday. leav-
ng G. Cleveland for Wednesday and
maybe Thursday.
But il the Sox beat Alexander tomor-
-ow-Oh. well. we'd just as soon so
back to New York direct as by way of
The experts are commencing to like
his series. They like it because 1t is
running true to form. At least it is
-unning true to form up to the present.
They all said Philadelphia had just one
pitching chance for victory-and Phfla-
ielphia still has it, 1t is difficult to
zee how .15S batting average cant
lope to overwhelm a pounding mark
If PSI, but Alexander may do it.
Among American League baseball
men. the showing Of George Foster in
yesterday was by no
means surprising. as they regard the
,locky young right-hander as one Of
he best pitchers in the game. Only a
ew days before the series began. Wild
Bill Donovan. manager Of the Yankees.
expressed the belief that Foster would
1--WE the Phillies great deal of
rouble.