The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-12

of excitement. The score of this } was a tie.
 with the Phillies. Speaker gave every
 evidence of coming into his own today and it was not to be wondered at that Alexander took no chances with him in the ninth inning rally that brought a
 sudden end to another game that threat ened to go to extra innings. Besides
 Lewis and Speaker. Harry hooper was
 the only other member of the Red hosed clan who connected safely with the Jump ing curves and sweeping slants fired by the wonder finger of the Phillies But Hooper's hit came in the ninth when it
 was most needed.
 Old Dutch" Leonard of Fresno, Cal, port-side whirler. brave of heart. steady Of nerve and determined of spirit, was the third of the great staff of Red Sox pitchers to take his turn against the invaders of Boston town today Leonard | had nothing but speed, fine change of pace, curve that seemed to jump first one way and then another and had the same effect upon the Philly batsmen and control that gave no man an easy ] speaking acquaintance with the initial | bag.
 Twice "Dutch' was In a predicarnent l suggestive of his Teutonio title, the two solid swats coming off him in the same inning, but he wiggled away from the doom that seemed impending and was crowned tonight with the laurels of vic tory With one out, one run over and runners perched on third and second in the third inning, it was no place for q, nervous pitcher when Paskert came to the plate, with "home-run' Cravath swinging two bats in impatience to be | the next man up.
 l. But Dutch" was not to be scorad m again Among the eight contemplating young men struggling behind him for the honor of Boston and the American league, was faithful old Jack" Barry. , already tried and proved in the fire of more than score of worlds series con tests. Alexander himself was on third and Bancroft on second. Alex had been running in his deep blue sweater but when he got to third and was hop ing for home he cast the sweater to the side lines and prepared for the sprint. The Boston infield was drawn close Within the diamond and the situation was tense A base hit would mean three runs Tor Alexander to work under and there was not fan in the forty odd thousand who did believe that such a margin meant sure victory for the visi- tors.
 There was wide gap of safe terri tory between the men of the inner de- fense and the three fielders on outpost duty when Paskert raised Texas ieaguer that seemed labeled for safe descent in the very midst of the un- guarded. undefended pasture. Hooper In right and Speaker in center started with the crack of the bat but the home fans groaned as they realized that both were too far away. Then they saw that Barry too had turned his back to the ball and was desperately running with It. Would he be able to keep pace with the now rapidly falling sphere or to hold 1t out of balance? It was just a fighting chance. but the fans prayed for it, and the Philadelphia base runners respected it.
 Barry's Great Catch
 Still on a dead run Barry gave a con- elusive leap under the ball and a mo- ment later had whirled and thrown it like flash to the plate to head off any attempt of Alexander to score after the catch.
 Barry made the play as if it were a customary thing. But the stands and the bleachers knew what 1t meant and they sent up shout of relief and ap- preciation.
 The danger was not yet past, however. for "Gavvy'' Cravath and his war club had to be reckoned with. And "Gavvy' strove nightly to win. He smashed out line drive to left center that sent Duffy Lewis almost to the fence to han de 1t. On the home grounds of the Phil adelphia club Cravath's blow would have been an easy home run into the bleachers. Today 1t was valueless. So much for those well known breaks of the game.
 Failure in the third inning to place h hov tr, seemed to take the life out of the vis- itors and they never were dangerous again. Leonard became even better as the game progressed. Neither Cravath nor Luderus, the heavy Philly artil- lery. could connect for a safe blow In fact, Luderus. second batsman of the National league. was about the easiest person Dutch" had to deal with. Three times 'Ludy" faced the star left hand CT and three times he famed the air. There was no fluke about the strike cuts, no questioning of an umpire's de- cision. Luderus took three healthy swings every chance he got but his best effort was . foul into the back stands.
 The scene at the park today when play began was one that will live long in the memory; of the fortunate thou sands who witnessed 1t. Braves field, home of the Boston National league club, and lent to the Sox for the pres- ent gala occasion, is the biggest and most beautiful baseball plant ever con- structed.
 Built like a stadium. its single decked stands rise from the field level to a towering height. The stands all but surround the vast playing field and to- day they were jammed with a happy throng.
 Between the several stands are con- crete runways. These offered vantage ground today for hundreds of spec tators. wedged in the opening like many apples in barrel. They did not seem to have breathing room. Some could get only distant glimpse of .;ome part of the game. but they stood fast and not man deserted until the strenuous game was done. Tue far tenceg were sought out by scores of fans who had bought standing room for deep center Held
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