Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-12
CROWD OF 100000
SEES BOSTON SOX
DEFEAT PH|LLIES
Leonard Outpitches Alex
ander, and Wins His
Game, 2 to l.
DUFFY LEWIS DRIVES IN
WINNING RUN IN NINTH
Greatest Number of Fans in His
tory See Third Game of
Worlds Series.
MORAN STILL HAS CONFIDENCE
Despite Lead Gained by American
League Champions, Hope Has Not
Been Lost by Quakers.


BOSTON, October 1.-THE big batter
faced the big pitcher at Il crucial mo-
mcnt OF tho worlds aerics between the
Philadelphia Nationals and the Boston
Americans to-day--nnd the big pitcher
declined the challenge 1t was in the
thrilling last half of the ninth inning
Moro Than 10000 baseball fans had
passed the frantic stage. and were raw
ing In "A delirium Of excitement. The
score OF this critical third game Of
the series was tie.
Harry Hooper. feet footed. was on
second '>ase. n dancing dervish with
only ono out. when iris Speaker. of
Hubbard City. Tex. stepped TO the
plate, knocked the soil from his spikes.
drew Il line IN the black earth in front
OF his feet, and turned determined
face toward Grover Cleveland Alex
ander. the hghting hope of the be-
wildered Philies who was In the worst
plight Of his pitching career
Big ALEX looked at Hooper. gave
heed to the crowd. and saw Speakers
war club cleaning in the late after
noon sun His mind was made up.
The first ball went far wide of the
plate. Likewise. the second and third.
The Tnaddcncd throng knew what this
meant, and they howled In derisivc de-
light as on the fourth straight pitch
the star center fielder OF the Red Sox
trotted TO first. This put the Issue
squarely UP TO Hoblitzel, lanky guard
ian OF the SoX inner corner. and Alex
ande- faced him with moro confidence.
The yelling OF the crowd and the
strain OF striving to stave on defeat
seemed momcntarily to tell on the
pitcher. however. and he had difficulty
In finding the plate.
hooper REACHES THIRD
on SACRIFICE HIT
II WAS three and one on Hobby"
when the first baseman sent n slow
boundcr toward second The crowd
feared double play, and the lusty
bowling died as suddenly as II snuncd
out by n gigantic mechanical silenccr
But Speaker had taken a flying start
with Hooper, and the two Boston run
ncrs were safe on third and second ~
Nehoff tossed Hobby" out a, his home
station.
Now came 10 bat one duffy" Lewis,
left fielder extraordinary, and Of some
known ability as b-caker-up Of ball
games. The situation was Ideal for
Duffy" He was In his own Home
town. The chorus of 4o.30O of his homo
folks was calling upon him with a
ciamor that carried far from the wide
green reach of Braves Field to
carve for himself niche in the base
bail hall OF fame
duffy" already had made two hits
in three trips to the plate. two sting
ing blows beyond the Phillics lire OF
inner defense, but this decidedly
healthy batting average OF .6GT did not
deter him in the least Alexander,
stout of heart. lighting as he never
fought before, called upon all the re-
serve cunning of his strong right arm,
put into his first pitch all the vile he
could command and sent the fateful
sphere speeding on its way
LEWIs'S HIT SCORES
WINNING RUN FOR son
Lewis met the ball with a smashing
crack. and il flashed over second base.
gray, white streak that no defensive
Philly could reach. and Hooper raced
across the plate with historic run.
IT gave the game TO the Red Sox by
10 ], and the advantage of the series
by the same margin of games won
and lost-two for the Red Sox and one
for the PhillieS.
With the big" fellow defeated in
this breaking" game OF the 1915 con-
nict between the titlebearers of the
two major leagues. the Boston players
and their supporters tonight are will
ing to wager at almost any odds that
the home team will win the series.
The Phllies had placed their hope in
Alexander, but put upon him in ad-
vance the burden of winning three OF
.a Of ha fni
on his part meant n serious sctbacl; to
their chances. But tonight Manager
Pat Moran, Of the visitors, is far from
admitting failure.
The Phillies arc not yet through.
They battlcd hard to-day, and their
defensive work was wonderful II has
been said that Alexander was half the
team To-day the Boston rooters band
went so far rs to blare the old-time
melody OF "AleXander's Ragtime Band"
at the champions of the National cir
cult, but the eight men in gray who
surrounded Alexander in the field were
out there to do moro than form a SGT
ting for the big pitcher. They were
all over the field, and not once did thew
faltcr "Dodc" Paskert In center field.
was a team in himself. In the first Gye
innings of the game he was credited
with seven putouts in a sun field that
had dazzled Speaker into missing n fly
headed directly for him. and which
transformed n seemingly easy out into
n two-base hit for Milton Stock, first
man up for the Phillics.
SPEAKER LANDS FOR
TWO GOOD RAPS
But the hard working National
Leaguers again showed their weakness