New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-10

enough TO get the ball in reach, but the
throw was trife low. and the feet
Hooper scrambled safely around for
the opening run.
After this. for the next three rounds.
Foster pushed back the Philly attack
without permitting runner to regis
ter a: first. much less vote AZ the
plate. But. in the fifth. Cravath ana
Iudorus suddenly recalled al the vas
volume Of words pcnncd about their
ability % hit one on the nose. Ora
vath started the vocal cataclysm by
pouad,ay one down the left field line
Tor t,-o bases and Luderus drove hlm
home with a long double 20 right cen
tire. ,,.,,.
So rose. flashed and faded the Philly
attack upon the bewilCcring supply
Of fancy pitching that Foster pushed
athwart the plate Foster is no pc
hem3t1 You might add foot 70 ms
statue and fifty pounds 20 has weight
and eIi not call him cave man.
But PC had tho arm and the head and
the heart. which is all that a pitcher
ncccs.
After this Hurry the battle mainly
consisted in Boston's rabld attempt
90 break through the Philly defence.
STOCK killed "a hit back Of third, WHIT
ted raced forty yards TO pull down a
left field blow, and in the eighth Lewis
rappec one that left a flaming ral!
Of IRE. only 70 have Bancroft rush over,
hook the ball with his gloved hand
and murder another hit at FIRST.
But this sort Of thing could hardly
last forever. The pessimist is abso-
lutelv correct, so far as Philadelphia
fans are concerned. They, too, Will
admit now that there is always an end
20 the good things OF the world. only
the evil that men do, as Avon Bill re-
marked. lives after them. Even that
defense could stand up no longer when
the ninth was reached, and Gardner
singled. Janvrin's tap to Mayer put
Larry on second and Fosters long blow
70 centre sent Gardner home with a
tally that looked as big as the base
OF Mount Mckinley.
Mayer Prevents Rout.
The queer part of this game was that
PHILADELPHIA. with three hits, should
have given Boston such battle against
the batting. pitching and fielding that
Boston displayed Only Mayors cool
ness and his support kept the game
contest. OF the fourteen brilliant
fielding plays made through the after
noon. Philadelphia gathered nine and
Boston five That was the margin thai
made a battle in place Of rout.
SO after all the Philly hopes and
dreams again 20 back 10 the business
shoulder Of Grover Cleveland AleXaa-
der. II is Alexander now or nothing.
Boston apparently has too much al
vantage al bat. too wide margin with
the wood. 20 be beaten unless one great
pitcher can stand her at bay and spray
her with enough shrapnel TO win al
least three games alone.
Both clubs left upon a pleasant jour
ney Saturday night for Boston, as both
left with confidence. The Red Sox 20
home with an even break, confident
they can beat even Alexander and that
If thew don't one Of their pitchers, plus
their big bats, will upset George Chal-
mers and still keep them in the fight.
The Phillies are confident IN their
belief that Alexander will pitch one
OF his oldtime games on Monday and
win TO a certainty, with Chalmers a
good even bet for the Tuesday battle.
But after the first two games Bos-
toms greater preparedness, at the art
Of manufacturing the old-fashloned
base hit has made the Red Sox favor
ties with those who back their belief
with kale. They can't see where the
Philhes are going to make enough runs
to win, and they can't see how any one
except Alexander can stop Boston bat
ting. And there isn't any certainty
that even Alexander can work against
such heavy odds and continue to de- .
liver without being halted somewhere
aloUg the march and relieved OF his
crown at the point Of big bat showed
against q fast one.
Personally or impersonally speaking, .
II now looks as if but why not let
the pop-eyed future take care Of itself
And yet the Phillies must either de-
velop an attack. or prepare to evacuate
the citadel o. Fame about next Thurs
day night The old base hit is still a
part of the Big Jubilee.
lCoDdgN Ieli by The New York Tribune)