New Britain herald., 1916-10-03
BRAVES FORCE PILLS
 AWAY FROM APEX
Alexander Wins First But De-
 maree Fails to Repeat

|Phillies into first place here yester- |day by banking Boston, ? to o, in athe first game of a double header the BQuaker defense broke behind Al De- l.narec in the second contest, and the Braves pulled back the home guard, z4 to 1, in the aftermath. With every aseat in the park taken and thousands sstanding the Phillies fought desper aately to hold the lead gained for sthen by Alexander, but the strain told .nnd the spirited Braves were able to sfelegate Pat Moran's hard workers to N5ocond place.
 With Dave Bancroft nursisg his dis hip a changed battle front A@as necessary, Bobby Bryne going to Bird and Milton Stock accounting for S he vacancy at short field. This S,hange undoubtedly weakened the HPhiIs and presented an opening for S he attack of the Braves. Twice in N he second game plays developed # round Stock and Byrne which with N lean fielding would have accom- M,lished the downfall of the visitors, M.ut each time the new men in new Positions faltered. The absence of @2ancroft may be a knockout blow to #he Phils.
 @ Because of Alexander's poor work M gainst Brooklyn Saturday many "a oubted that the pitching genius # ould be in condition yesterday. But 3 was all that and more too He 4 4llowed only three hits and registered SS is sixteenth shut out of the season. bn1y one visitor got beyond first base End none was close enough to the 8 late to even encourage Boston. His K reat success makes it certain Alex |nder will be relied upon to stop the Braves again either Wednesday or 2hursday.
 & Ragan Against Stone Wall. @ Opposed to Alexander was Don @ arlos Patrick Ragan and Frank # l1en The first named worked seven W nings and was on the mound when # oth runs were escorted over. Aliens
 ork was only to retire the Phils in le eighth, and he did that success lIly. Ragan was in extra fine fettle. TX Ut he was working against the i'm bssible, or so it seemed. from the M amer Alexander got rid of the S raves
 @ Whitted and Luderus compiled the @o oenfng run of the initial game in 2 e second inning. Whitted began Z c session with double that K unded off the left field bleachers. & 'avath dropped a bunt in front of
 e plate and Whitted sprinted to @ ird when Ragan threw out Cravath & first, Egan taking the throw. Lu- 8b rus then lined the ball to deep E ght center for two bases, Whitted &soring. Bert Niehoff followed with E sizzler behind second which Maran- M le knocked down, but with no x ance to throw out the runner Lu-
 rus might have scored on this blow, # he stopped at third. He never did M home, as KilHfer spanked into W uble play
 @ Killifer made up for his second in- S 1g failure by bringing across the @ cond run. He opened the fifth with
 double and trotted to third on l exander's bunt sacrifice, which
 gan felded and threw to third in
 vain attempt to head off Killifer.
 skert popped to Red Smith, but $rhe successfully worked the
 leeze play, Killifer scoring on the
 nt to Ragan.
 Errors Beat Demaree.
 Demaree was not in extra good zs m in the second game, but he @ ched well enough to earn the
 nors had his support been perfect. 8 posed to Demaree was Ed Run1-
 rh, and Ed proved the honesty of &S seball by showing his very best
 m, regardless of the fact that it c. H. Ebbets who tried to banish from the National league. With
 ston leading to 1 in the seventh K two out Moran sent Claude
 oper to bat for Demaree, and after ude singled, only to be left, Chief
 1der finished the mound labor. | posing of the Braves with one hft # the last two frames
 5oston began the aftermath in the
 and never relinquished this ad-
 tage. Snodgrass opened the at-
 k with rap off Demaree's glove.
 ting Stocks recovery to first for a
 Stock was nervous and Maran- rolled an easy grounder to short
 ck messed up the ball, both run
 being safe. However, he partly
 de up for this error by taking
 holts line drive with one hand
 tossing to Niehof in time to
 oIe Snodgrass off second. Kon- M " slngled to right and Maranvillo to thlTd' A double steal was at
 p'oo' oh" when the PhillieS gave
 tune to running down Konetchv
 dnVll!e scored before Koney could
 ta gged.
 ne Quakers tied the score in the
 nd' which Whitted opened with a
 E. CraVath collected his first of
 Pe singles, putting Whitted oo
 ond. Luderus smashed the ball for
 1t should have been hit. hn+
 ley got his feet in the way and
 T made q recovery in time to
 e out Cravath at second, Whit+ed
 hing third. Niehoff's drive glancod
 Ruelbachs hand to MaranviI1e
 tossed to second. forcing ont
 erus. Whitted scoring.
 Snodgrass Busy at Bat.