South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-13
There will be Little Argument
About the Fatal Ball Pitched
by Harlem Hurricane"
in Sixth Round.
BY Damon Runyon.

BOSTON. oct. 13.-There probably
never will be much of an argument as
TO the nature OF the third ball pitched
at Duffy Lewis, citizen of Boyes Hot
Springs, Sonomo county. Calf, by
George Chalmers the Harlem Hur-
ricane," in the sixth inning OF the
fourth game of the world series Tues
day afternoon. Monday in the ninth
inning Grover Cleveland Alexander
flung one ball at the chunky left field
er OF the Boston Red SOX and Duty
broke up the game on the Philadel-
phia star.
Whereat the baseball world chatter
ed wildly Alexander was careless they
said. Alexander had put the ball
right in Lewis groove" Alexander
should have worked" his man more.
good ball 10 hit 1t was a waist
high curve that ne threw. 1t was a
high fast one. 1t was a low twister
But whatever it was. it wasn't rignt
and so on and so on. all night long
around the hotel lobOies of Boston and
through several columns Of the morn
ing PAPERS
And He Hit It.
Tuesday George Chalmers. a canny
Scot. pitching the wisest baseball
shown by any Philadelphia hurler IN
this series, slipped two strikes over
the plate on Lewis in the sixth and
then tried another. Baseball history
Will record that the Red Sox won this
game by Il score Of TO l.
Outguessing the crafty Chalmers
with rare Judgment, Lewis slammed a
two tagger to left field scoring Dick
Hoblitzel with what proved to be the
winning run. H0blitzel had singled
after the great Speaker had been re-
tired
Lewis did not offer at the first two
balls thrown his way by Chalmers. He
stood quietly at the plate, ripping his
long bat through the air while Billy
Evans the immaculate umpire from
the American league lifted his right
arm twice in quick motion to Indicate
the strikes.
An ordinary pitcher might have
wasted" the next ball-might have
pitched ii wide of the plate, but
Chalmers was no ordinary pitcher
Tuesday. The ScOtt-born Harlem
raised hurler of the Phillies was gen.
orally pronounced one of the sagest
men who ever mounted a mound so
far as his work Tuesday afternoon
was concerned, an opinion that might
be used to point out the queer quirks
in the mental attitude of baseball peo-
pie. Monday Alexander might have
been trying 10 sneak one over on
Lewis when he laid that first ball on
top of the plate and he was criticised
for his pains. Tuesday Chalmers did
substantially the same thing and it
is called smart pitching. He tried to
cross" Lewis but was outguessed.
Got Lucky Triple
The clout of the Californian puts
the Boston Red Sox nearer to the
greatest financial reward ever reaped
by ball players in a championship
contest of this nature. They had a
one run lead when Lewis drove in
Hoblitzel in the sixth but in the eighth
old Wooden Shoes" Cravath, the
home run hitter who had been sadly
handicapped by the vide area Of out
field at the Braves new yard and by
the distant fences got a lucky triple
and scored on Fred Luderus' third hit
Monday, Luderus, the only left
handed hitter on the Philadelphia
club, hung helpless on the plate be-
fore the side arm sweep of Dutch"
Leonard. striking out three times
Tuesday he was the hitting star Of the
Phillies against the long drop Of
Ernest Shore, the Georgia boy.
Cravath has hit two or three Phil