Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-11

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phia National League only FIVE hits Off
champions. shore, against
eight for the Red Sox, but we won. on
Saturday afternoon Foster pitched a great
game of ball-there is no denying that
and We could get only three hits off him.
While we were doing this Boston was
getting 10 Off Mayer, and yet In the breaks
OF the game had not gone so persistently
against us we would have had at least
fighting chance TO win, Considering the
two games separately, we have made only
eight hits off the Boston pitchers, and
they have made IS off ours, yet we have
broken even with them.
Now l figure that in the two games in
Philadelphia we were simply having a
batting slump from the reaction after
winning the pennant 1 think that we
will come back in this end of the game
and that we will be able TO hit Shore,
Foster, Ruth, Leonard or Wood hard
enough to win easily, even II the pitcher
we have gives up several runs.
JUST A BATTING SLUMP.
The Phillies this season have never had
a long slump of any kind, and don't be-
lieve they will have one in the worlds
series. We have had our little hitting
slump, and still have managed to remain
on an equal footing with our opponents.
This to me means only one thing: that
when we start, the Red Sox pitchers
will see some batting that will open
their eyes and that we will be the final
victors.
I said before the series began that I
was confident we would win, and I am
more firmly convinced of 1t now than
ever
1t is hard TO make me believe that
Foster can get away with another such
game as he pitched Saturday in Philly.
hand It to him for doing fine work, but
DON'T believe that he will have as good
control as he did in that game, when 1t
was almost perfect, and / don't think
that he will have as much stuff on the
ball again. He worked himself TO
frazzle in pitching that one ball game,
and l figure that IL will tell on him II
he starts again. Then, too, even If he
does have as much control and as much
stuff on the ball as he did In that second
game, think that we would hit him be-
cause I feel sure we are about to get
out of that hitting slump.
So far as the games in Boston are con-
cerned, l had Just as soon play there as
at home. in the first game some of the
boys were little nervous or over-anXious
or whatever you want TO cali II. But
that has all died away as any one could
see on Saturday. They were in there
fighting to the last minute, and there WAS
not the least sign of any man on the
team being nervous.
NO FEAR OF NEW FIELD.
They say that playing on field away
from home before a big crowd has a lot
to do with the result. This may be true
in the league season because players can
naturally do better on the grounds that
they are used to, for physical reasons.
IQraF h al 90, To-.
with the Braves field than we are, so
I don't see where they have anything on
us. Everybody that sees the game in
Boston may be against us, but that does
not prevent me from thinking that our
fellows will play just as good ball here
as they did in Philadelphia.
There isn't man on our club who pays
the slightest attention to anything hut
the ball game when he is out there. And
now that all of the fellows are playing
the worlds series games just as they do
those In the league season, / think that
the Red Sox will go down in defeat In
spite OF all the predictions to the con-
trary.
1 want to say n few things about the
game that was played at home Saturday.
In the first place, just because the Red
SOx made 10 hits off Mayer doesn't mean
that he didn't pitch a good game In
fact, when a club makes that many hits
and would have scored only one run II the
fielding had been perfect seems TO me to
indicate the pitcher is pitching just the
right kind OF ball. Our helders are
praised by the New York papers for their
work in that game and Mayer isn't given
much credit.
Yet in New York Mathewson was al
ways praised because he pitched the same
kind OF ball. That is, he was reserving
his best for the pinches and, therefore, a
lot OF hits were made OFF him, but which
did not result in runs. That Is Just the
kind OF ball that Mayer pitched ana I
want 20 say that I was not in the least
disappointed at II. On the contrary, I