New Britain herald., 1915-10-14
HE BEST TEAM WON," SAYS RICE; PHILLIPS WERE GAME
kis and Hooper By Stellar Work Throughout Series Earn Premier Honors-Alexander Looked Blue
 When Moran Picked Mayer.

start of the ninth, where one lone tally was to win the game, no second sight or second guess was required to pick up Alexander for the job. For Philadelphia it was either Alex | ander then or nothing. The best he can do with that last warm-up now is to save it for next April or use 1t this winter on the coast. It ought to | make a big hit at the San Francisco exposition, for it is the most expen- sive warm-up that baseball has ever known. It cost the two clubs that $82,000 waiting over in Boston safe George Foster, the star of the sec ond game, yielded nine hits for a tot al of thirteen bases. But Hooper and Lewis carried him safely over the raging tide on raft made out Of rounded ash. Foster worked the only poor Boston game of the series, but it requires no enduring pitching skill to win a ball game where your pals gather ten hits for twenty-onc bases and hit enough home runs to save the day.
 i Red Sox Had the Class. The Red Sox won through class that counted both ways. They had the surer defence and the harder attack. They had the better pitching and the better everything else, including the necessary breaks. The Red Sox won by backing up sound pitching with an impregnable defence. and by collect ing forty-two hits to the Phillies twenty-six. And yet, in spite of these thick margins of superiority, the Phil lies came within one run of each los ing battle, and completed the five games with ten runs scored against eleven.
 The only wonder is that they were able to make battling so close so far as runs were concerned, for in all other ways they were up against a club that had them faded to the frazzle that you read about. The one feature which prevented the Red Sox winning the last four games in a romp by easy scores was the steadi- ness and the gameness of the Philly defence and the lack of concerted power in the Red Sox attack.
 The power was there, but it wasn't consistently applied until the final game, when three runs were needed in two innings to save the afternoon. Then the old rataplan of swats be- gan IO eCAO lne TdIIGTS ana among | the caves as Gainer, Lewis and Hoop | CT opened up @ fresh bombardment | There were two strikes called on 1 Hooper and no balls in the ninth when Rixey pushed one over, and in 1 place of waiting the right fielder let | drive for one of the hardest blows 1 of the week, a punch that would ] have rolled for a homer in almost l any park
 l There is no part of an argument | but that the better club won. And yet l of all the series we have ever seen Fate in this one just closed out came l nearer to being master of the fina result The queer part of it all is that the better ball club with the bulk of the breaks barely slipped | through with its skin still on in al four victories. That part of it Is wei l beyond the confines of the rope. Here is an example: These shor Philly fences might have been part o1 | his trail to home run fame. Yet in Philadelphia Cravath in three games | struck only one solid blow, a low l line drive, while in Boston where the fences do lay back against dim hor l izon, he hit the ball with the power 
 got three blows in Boston that il
 Philadelphia would have been homo
 runs. In Boston they were merel,
 outs. And in Philadelphia, where ;
 long hit would have done the job
 he couldn't hit one over the plate
 much less over the fence.
 How Cravath Failed.
 Take this final game. Tn the frs
 inning, after Stock had been hit ant
 after Bancroft and Paskert had sin
 gled, Gavvy was up, with none ou and the bases full. A boding husl
 fell upon the multitude. The bi
 moment had arrived, and eager eye
 were focused on the blue sky beyont
 the adjoining walls. Which fenc
 would he hit one over? The answe
 was a soft, spongy tap to Foster, ant
 resulted in a double play, and onl
 the two-bagger of Luderus gave tn Phillies their jump. And after thi
 Cravath came up twice. only to pad
 dle the ozone with series of Gu
 Hills that left the ball intact.
 Even when triple by Garnder il the second and homer by Hooper il
 the third had tied the count, tn Phillies still had their chance, whel
 Luderus belted a winging fly over tn
 right field wall, preceding singles b.
 Niehoff and Burns and a wide pe
 by Gardner in the fourth for two addi
 tional tallies. But even these wer
 not enough, not with Alexander stil
 left warming up. Not with Lewis an,
 Hooper adjusting their sights to tn
 low fences beyond Cravath's hom
 range.
 A two-run lead wasn't enough fo
 the Phillies at any stage where tn