The Washington times., 1916-10-07
FULLERTON PICKS
RED S0X TO LAND.
TODAY'S CONTEST.
Times Baseball Expert Says
the Worlds Series Will
Stage lust Five Games.
BY HUGH IS. FULLERTON.

by nON1 -. OLLEhiOiNs
Boston's Red sox again will fly the
worlds championship banner at the
close of the impending dispute with the
Brooklyn Dodgers II the grand old dope
u correct.
The Red Sox dope to win four out Of
fve games from their National League
rivals and to swamp the Dodgers. SO
far as I can see. no possible switching
more than a fighting chance for victory.
and the only opportunity for jubilation
In National League circles that is evil
dent from study Of the pitchers. one
against the other, is that Jack Coombs
promises to win his game from his an
Gent and honorable enemies, the Red
Sex. RUDE Marauard promises to give
Ruth terrific battle. There is
chance Gas always there is a chance) of
luck or accident turning that game up
side down. but the other games are
LIABLE So to be pretty close to the figures
The great difficulty in doping a worlds
series Is the. odd objection managers
have to giving us accurate information
as to which pitchers will work In the
games. In this case we are pretty GER
tain that Carrigan will work only four
pitchers, eliminating Foster from con-
sideration because he has not Deen IT
reduce this number to three, arl try
to go through with two lefthanders
and one right-hander by working Shore
hard. 1t Is possible. too. that he may
use Shore and Mays and Ruth, and
leave Leonard as the rescuer in case OF
trouble.
However, It looks to me as II. with
will start with shore and follow up
with Ruth and that. 70 meet this play:
Robinson VIII be compelled to shoot
nrst game and use PREFER.
Pfeffer Good Pitcher.
This fellow Pfeffer IL quite a pitch
or. and. in studying the dope on his
work against National League batters
who compare with the Red Sox in
style and hitting strength. l am sur
prised to find how few OF them have
batted him effectively. Hornsby. for
instance, and Sherry Magee hit him
hard. while he stopped batters who
are supposed to be their equals. and
his work against left handed batters
was particularly effective. I studied
his figures against twenty-five left
ssasoS thsy Sstsd she tre
der s.20S against him, indicating that
he keeps his fast one in the right
place and uses his curve effectively,
even though he Is not noted foc his
Undoubtedly. the Red sox will rap
his offerings freely. but he ought to
be able to keep them scattered. How
ever, 1t appears to be OF little diff
ference how many runs. over two.
the Red Sox get, as Shore figures to
hold the Dodgers to one run, which
probably will be scored on a long
Ruth Is Carrigana, most logical
choice to work the second game and
that move by using Marqusrd. who
has been remarkably effective this
season. He is better and smarter
pitcher than he was when the Red
SON whinned hi m In that nthnr q
series. although he does not possess,
hold the Red ID Sex to fever bits than
that he Will be beaten, and very
probably Ruth's hitting will be a
large contributing element in his own
victory.
Boston for First Two.
With two victories In their craws the
Red Sox would use Mays and send him
against the veteran comeback Coombs
You may look for a free hitting game In
this event; for the Dodgers figure &c
to hit the ball far away. Coombs, al
he now pitches. usually is hit freely. but
not consecutively, and i expect him t
record q handy victory by keeping the
Boston hits scattered through man,
innings.
At that stage Of the game on,
naturally would expect a worlds serie
series for the teams to get over thei
first anxiety and to begin to play bal
naturally and take the chances. How
ever, In this series ! expect the scores
TO tighten up. for. although the battinI
and fielding will be more natural, tn
pitching ia very liable to get better.
II Carrigan uses Leonard. and Robin
spit ball. we probably will see a clos
and interesting game. Cheney Is a dan
gerous pitcher at any time that he ap
proaches rightness Leonard is not tn
air-tight kind of pitcher. nor Is h
possessed of the speed and shoot he ha
a few years ago. He has been relyin
upon strategy instead of brute strength
year. even while winning. That Brook
lyn club ought to tag his pitchin
steadily all the way through the gam,
and not get much more than the littl
with the Red Sox winning on thei
class, rather than on the pitching.
With the series standing that wa!
there would seem to be nothing &c
and, of course, NCarrigan would sen
shore right back because Shore is no
his best and most reliable pitcher-a fe
low witfr a wofld OF nerve and one WI
gets better under trying circumstance
He is really a great pitcher. Just WI
enough to hold the opposing team at
distance and with control enough
shoot them over II need be.
This game ought to end the serie
with a close score and leaving BrooglS
and its suburb. New York. with plen
OF cold comfort in the matter OF Nigh
hAve-been.
Long Hits May Decide.
The surprise of the doping OF I'll
series. pitcher against pitcher to N
has been the fact that the Red 81
do not figure to hit the Dodger pitche
nearly so hard as l imagined 9TH
would. The Red Sox do not appear
hit that style of pitching as we'll
they do a lot better pitching. T
Brooklyn club is an odd one in tn
respect. anyhow. 1t has habit
trimming the life out of one club, LOST
steadily to another, which perhaps
easy picking for the club Brook
could beat all the time II that Broo
lyn team finds pitchers that 1t lik'
no matter how good they may
against other clubs, they hit them m'
rily.
Unfortunately for their consecuti
hitting. 1t looks as II part OF them II
the style OF some of the Red SoX a
do not like the others while othc
like them just the opposite.
One thing also that strikes me
siudyinR this series is that IL is We