Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-26
RED SOX HAVE BEEN THROUGH
TOO MANY TIGHT ENGAGEMENTS
TO BE BOTHERED IN THE PINCH
Past Victories in Emergencies Have Given Them
Needed Confidence and Carrigan's Crew Will
Be Hard to Down in Title Series
BY GRANTLAND RICE

THE Red Sox, with Speaker and Barry
- on deck only beat the Tigers by
three-game margin last year This season.
with Speaker gone and Barry injured. they
are upon the verge of extending this mar
gin game or two. We'd like to see how
far they could widen the gap by losing
Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore and Larry Gard
ner The odds are they'd dismantle the
league by July.
Over the Old Trail
A number of interested noncombatants
are anxious to know just how II is the Red
Sox are able to display such strength at the
more important spots OF the schedule where
the pennant is at stake.
In the main II is a matter of working
over an old trail. They have taken the high
hurdles before, and 30 facing q test series
and winning II Is no new assignment.
Carrigan, Cady, Gardner. Lewis and
Hooper were Red Sox stars in the drive of
1919.
Jack Barry has been through five pen-
nant campaigns before. The Red Sox pitch
ing staff was tested last summer, 30 no fiut-
tering duckfits beset their breasts as they
take the field in a showdown engagement.
To them now 1t is merely a ball game
They have Travelled the highway too often
before TO be bothered in the pinch, for past
victories In such emergencies have given
them the needed confidence. whereas Chi
cago and Detroit were remembering all the
while what happened last year when the
Carrigan encourage blew into town with a
mace in one hand and a marlin spike in the
other.
Not Precisely the Same
The National League so far has shown
no such club. Brooklyn. with a chance to
sew up the race, blew five games in a row
to the Phillies.
The Phillles, with a flag tapping almost
directly above their noble brows. then pro-
ceeded to blow four straight to the Giants
Neither club was able TO wage any such
war as the Red Sox waged when IL came
to the final push.
Aye, Such Is Life
The right guard dtvss beneath the toreok
And hits the earth beIoto his foes;
They trampIe on his stdlioart neck
And do tango on his nose.
He bears the brint of play by PLAY,
But, being smothered IN the strife,
He gets small credit from the tray-
Well, such Is Hfe.
The right guard sees a Hne smash come
And hurLs his manly form beneath;
They treat him like a hdlt-soused bum
By toGIktn0 on his ears and teeth.
The right guard plays a oorkin0 game,
But though tho air 10Th cheers "a rife,
But fe'o there are who knotO his gone
Yet such Is Hte.
There isn't any doubt about It, The In
creased cost of observing a world series
where grand stand seats are to be IS a
throw is all due TO the war. HowY You
can frisk us, but what other reason could
there be? The cupidlty OF the magnates /?
Tut. tutl Be reasonable.
The N. L. Cinch
Tho N. Z. totnners haze a oinoh,
A festive pipe, torsooth,
For the only pitchers they hdve TO beat
Are Leonard, Shore and Ruth
Not forgetting, on certain days,
A couple bIokes named Foster and Mays.
"It has been shown" writes j. @. L.,
that good golf can be played by a boy
OF fourteen and an old man OF seventy.