Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-12


ment suggestive Of his Teutonic title,
the two solid swats coming of him in
the same inning. But he wiggled away
from the doom that seemed impend-
ing and was crowned tonight with the
laurels Of victory. With one out, one
run over and runners perched on third
and second In the third inning, it was
no place for a nervous pitcher when
Paskert came to the plate and Home
Run" Cravath' swinging two bats in
impotence the next man up.
6arry's Wonder. Catch
But Dutch" was not to be scored
on again. Among the eight enterpris-
ing young men struggling behind him
for the honor of Boston and the Amer
lean League, was faithful old Jack
Barry, already tried and proved in the
fire OF more than a score Of world Sc
ries contests. Alexander himself was
on third base and Bancroft on second.
ALEX" had been running in his deep
blue sweater, but when he got to
third and was hopping for home he
cast the sweater to the side lines and
prepared for the sprint. The Boston
inf1eld was drawn close within the dia-
mond and the situation was tense. A
base hit would mean three runs for
Alexander to work under and there
was not fan in the 40 odd thousand
hearts that such margin meant sure
victory for the visitors.
There was a wide gap of safe ter
ritory between the men Of the inner
defense and the three fielders on out
post duty when Paskert raised a
Texas Lacquer that seemed labelled
for a safe descent in the very midst
OF the unguarded, unattended pas
ture. Hooper in right and Speaker in
center started with the crack of the
bat. but the home fans groaned as
they realized that both were too far
away. Then they saw that Barry, too,
had turned his back to the ball and
was desperately running with it..
Would he be able to keep pace with
the now rapidly falling. looping sphere
or be able to hold it unbalanced as he
was?
1t was just fighting chance, but
the fans prayed for it and the Phil
adelphia base runners respected it..
Still on a dead run, Barry gave a con-
vulsive leap under the ball and a mo-
ment later had whirled and thrown
the thing like a flash of lightning to
the plate to head off any attempt of
Alexander to score on the catch. Far
ry made the play as if it were a GUS
tomary, daily pastime. But the stands
and the bleacners knew what it meant
and they sent up shout. The danger
was not yet past, however, for
"Gavvy" Cravath and his war club
had to be reckoned with. And "Gavvy"
strived nightly to win He smashed
out line drive to left center that
sent Duffy" Lewis almost to the
fence to get. On the home grounds of
the Philadelphia club, Cravath's blow
would have been an easy home run
to the bleachers. Today it was valu-
less. So much for those we'll known
breaks of the game
Phillies Weaken
Failure in this third inning to place
themselves in a winning position SEEM
to take the life out Of the visitors and
they never were dangerous again
Leonard got better and better as the
game progressed. Neither Cravath nor
Luderus, the heavy Philly artillery,
could connect for safe blow. In fact,
Luderus. second batsman of the Ma
tlonal League, was about the easiest
person Dutch" had to deal with.
Three times "Ludy" faced the star left