The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-09
ALEXANDER GETS
 LUCKY BREAKS INs
 FIRST OF SERIES

1 Philadelphia, Oct 9-Philadelphla won the first game of the Worlds seeries yesterday afternoon. With Grover Cleveland Alexander pitching, the National League representative | defeated the Boston club of the American League by a score of to J. It was Alexander the Great | against Ernest Shore, and while the better-known pitcher triumphed, n cannot be said that his success was as personal and individual a matter as had been predicted. In fact, lt might be emphasized without fear o1 contra diction that the. great AlezaH- der was outpitched by Shore, who al- lowed only five hits, four of which were about as huky as any recorded 1n a Worlds Series contest Alexander on the other hand, was located 10F eight hits, some of very lusty typeT
 For it's victory Philadelphia. can thank Thursday nights rain almost as much as Alexander. The dOwnpCur Of more than I 5 hours made the d1a- mond waterlogged and slow, and t9ls condition turned the tide in favorl pE the Quakers. The much-talked about "home run'' outf1e1d in the Broad street band box. that was expected to give the Quakers a big advantage, d1Q not, figure, for the locals could drive the ball out of the inf1eld safely only once.
 There was nothing Hercu1ean, nothing Titanic about AIexandeF's achievement. Dame Fortune smiled on him at every turn, or rather shall it be said that the great Alexander prof1ted by almost every break iu the tanse struggle that was made all the t&nser as the teams dashed neCk-ahGA- neck into the second half of the eighth inning, with the score a. tie at one run.
 Divested of it's importance, it's spec tacular side, and viewed from a strictly baseball standpoint, the game was nothing to rave about If one had no fear of committing lese ma jeste in thiis >[baseball-mad. city he might say with truth that it was a, mediocre exhibition Not that there are very many marks in, the official error column, but there were quite a. few errors of omission, and a few plays that will go down in Worlds Series history as masterpieces of the John Anderson variety.
 Shore may get a lot of satisfaction out of yesterdays game if he iG not too sore: Shore has reason 10 pc angry. He was about as lucky yes terday as 8 fellow who sold his -W ar brides before. they began to rise in the percentage tables on the stock market The ''bones'' beat the long youth-he contributed one and EV- erett Scott the other.
 Shore worked the entire nine in- nings and during that/1onge time not a Phil, felt that keen sense of Soy which comes to a batter when he knows he has prodded out @ clean live hit The Phils made only five hits and they were all itchy, scratcly affairs, which crept into the box score as though they knew they had no business to associate with the eight clean sraps manufactured by the BOs- tons, Only one Quaker blow went to the outfeId, and it was a dinIky hoist F1y Dode Paskert, which just had enough force to clear HobIitzels dome and fell to earth before Barry could run over and catch it.
 In batting, the Red Sox were far superior to the Phil vicitors- Against the five freak hits which Shore allow ed, Alexander was hit safely eight times each of the blows being a line drive to the outheId. There was not | an extra, base in any of them, how ever, and no two came in the same inning. Three times during the game the first Red Sox batter to face Big Alex tore off a screaming single, only to- remain stranded somewhere between first and third
 Alexander felt the strain that the confidence of the National League ayd- herents had placed upon him and during the first three innings of the game was plainly nervous. In two of these innings serious trouble threatened him. Shore gave the Phil lies star a fight from the time play was called utniI the last, man was out