New Britain herald., 1915-10-13

field doesn't wind so far away-the
 fairest test, after all, where the skill
 of the fielder counts most-the series
 would be three games to one the other
 way around. These three blows of 1 Cravath-home runs that might have
 been, which the superlative fielding
 skill of Lewis and Speaker turned into | outs of no more value than pop 1 foul-could have upset the dope and 1 put the better ball club practically out | Of the fight.
 Such is fate, ., some one has hinted before. Cravath today boasts the puny average of .154. Yet if Philadelphia had been unlucky
 enough to have lost the toss Cravath
 would have done his last two days batting at home, where very likely
 Fame would be reaching down a gnarled mitt to lift him up with
 Baker, Gowdy and oether worlds
 series heroes of a vanishing past.
 But Fate is one thing and the box
 score is another. It will be Hard
 luck, Gavvy," for a day or two as he
 passes some friend in the street, and
 by next week it will all be forgotten
 all except the exact figures of his bat
 ting average, which will keep even
 pace in the records with Time the
 Eternal
 The Red Sox won the third game, yesterday afternoon almost precisely as they won the other two. They won tt by the same score, in almost the same way. Foster, Leonard, Shore it doesn't make much difference which one of the three is in the box. Their records for the last season show these ;4@I, Ty .69O; Leonard, .6S2. And still back Speaker. extending their freckled and ranging from close behind the in- field to unlimited spaces.
 They knew no boundary in any game. In the battle yesterday Lewis caught Cravath's drive at the foot of the fence that looked to be ten leagues away. Tn the fifth round he caught Stocks low line wallop fifty yards nearer ina shoestring stab And then in the eighth he nabbed Bancroft's drive just over Gardner's head. Here was a range alone on three line drives of nearly one hun dred yards. Beat it? All right but what with? Not with round piece of wood hewed out of hickory or ssh.
 Shore Pitches Good Game.
 Shore pitched better game, so far IS throwing the ball is concerned, on he day he lost. Beyond the ever present danger of Cravath's long blows in the early part of the game, he had only one close call, when Ciavvy tripled in the eighth, and Iluderus bludgeoned his third safe hit for a score. The other hits off Shore were set too wide apart to be turned into runs.
 Chalmers pitched about as we'll yes- terday as Alexander did on Monday. The Bronx delegate held the Red Sox To pair of runs, which is like say Ing, against this Boston defense, that all he gave them was enough. Two runs for the Red Sox with the defense they carry isn't any more than s1, 100000 would be to you or me. Not a bit.
 In the third inning pass to Barry, Cady's single, Shores sacrifice and Keepers hit rolled in one tally. In the sixth Hobby singled, and Lewis. the batting leader of the series, drove hlm over with a double. That was good enough pitching to win any or dlnary affair. It was good enough to finish above $50 on a count. But it wasn't good enough to beat ball club that would Just as soon let you make a run as J. Pierpont Morgan would let you have his yacht. It wasn't goon enough to beat ball club that never had any better defense than the Germans have at Heligoland, or Gotohelland, or whatever it is. Hardly a bit.
 Just one point in passing. Despite | their inability to break through the l Red Sox defense, the | Phillies have played good, game base | ball in every other way, and have re- fused to falter at any stage upon de- fense.
 When a ball club isn't batting it generally curls up and quits. The | Phillies haven't They have kept | plugging along with the best they had in stock, and they may win yet. As we remarked a few lines above, all l they have to do to win the series now Is to beat Foster, Leonard and Shore in succession by hitting drives that | Speaker, Lewis and Hooper can't catch. It can be done, Pittsburg Phil ran 8 shoe lace into a million Or so, lnd there was still another guy who electricity, and also, there | Is Alexander.