The daily star-mirror., 1915-10-02
WORLDS SERIES
DATES ARE FIXED
PHILADELPHIA WON THE TOSS
FOR THE FIRST AND SECOND
GAMES AT CONFERENCE
Boston Americans VIII Go Against the
Philadelphia Nationals October
(
Sth and 9th
By GEORGE R. HOLMES

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. 2. - The battle
lines have been drawn. The Philadel
phia National and Boston Americans
will meet October 8th at Philadelphia
with the worlds championship al
stake. The second game on the 9th
will be played at Philadelphia and the
third and fourth games at Boston on
the 18th and 18TH If fifth game is
necessary to decide the series it will
be played at Philadelphia. Should
the series run to six days it will be
played at Boston. Should the struggle
still be unsettled a toss of the coin
will decide the city for the seventh
battle If the game is postponed the
teams will remain where they are un-
til it is played. The national commits
sion settled the location today by a
toss of coin and Philadelphia won.
The coming worlds series promises
to evolve into a pitchers battle from
the very start. On the one side, Alex
ander, on the other, five of the best
pitchers in the American League-Joe
Wood, Dutch Leonard, George Foster,
Ernie Shore, and Babe Ruth.
There isn't much question but that
the Great Grover is a better chucker
than any of the five, but the trouble IS
there isn't five of Grover. If there was,
there probably wouldn't be any Ma
tional left.
Bill Carrigans prize quintet has
won in the neighborhood Of 80 games
for him this year. Each will wind up
the season with percentage lowering
around the 700 mark. The average
for the five will total over 700.
Against this crowd of winners, Irish
Pat Moran has to offer-Alexander.
Mayer who has been hard worker
this season-not quite so successful
as the Boston fingers, but still good
enough to be reckoned with; Demaree,
an in-and-outer who pitches world
series ball one day and tall grass var
iety the next RiXey, a 800 worker;
Chalmers, a veteran undoubtedly OF
worth. but of doubtful success, and
an Indian gent by the name OF T1ncup
who can scarcely be counted on com
prise the balance of the staff
1t is practilly certainty that Nor
an will pitch Alexander the first
game. Who to shoot against him IS
probably causing Bill Carrigan several
sleepless hours. Smokey joe Wood?
The smokey one, ifehes right, un-
doubtedly would give the Great Grover
a battle from the word CO. but Joe
hasn't been worked very hard OF late
Some said it was because Boston was
holding him in readiness for the Big
Clash: others contended that 1T was
because Wood was ailing-that 1t was
because he never had fully recovered
from the illness that temporarily end
ed his meteoric career after the 1917
worlds series. Probably Carrigan him
self is the only one who knows Ger
ertainly, fandom at large doesn't.
Granting that Alexander wins the
first game, and thereafter works every
other day, Boston's advantage In the
pitching department still is great. For
it is doubtful whether even Alexander,
as great as he is, can work every other
day and win his game. Not only would
the physical strain be terrific, but the
mental strain would be even greater.
In Leonard, Carrigan has one OF
the hest, if not the best left-hander IN
the game.
The odds are against Grover, and II |
he wins out against the Carrigan clan,
even the lustre of the great Rube Wau-
dell will be shared by the Quaker
hurler