New Britain herald., 1918-09-09

&33f@W up the agreement providing for 8the other clubs to share in case of a deficit. At the time the players did not see this joker in the new agree rnent because it never occurred to them that there would never be a worlds series which would not be q big paying proposition.
 There has been an unusual amount of trough riding" in this series, and there promises to be more of it in Boston. Umpire Bill Klem has fined Jack McInnis $25 for kicking on a decision at first base in Fridays game.
 The National Commission has taken up the fight on Friday between Char ley Wagner and Otto Knabe, the coaches of the two clubs, and it is very likely that more fines will fol- low this investigation. Wagner and Knabe both submitted letters to the commission explaining their versions of the fight. Both say now that they are sorry it happened, and that the fare-up was due to their hot tempers and their being keyed up to the high est pitch.
 Umpire Klem was a victim of rough play at the plate in the ninth inning of Saturdays game, when Pick slid home with a running broad jump. klem was spiked in the right leg, and the wound is causing him much con- cern. There was rough work at third base on that same play, when Pick slid into Thomas with his spikes gleaming, after Thomas had caught Schang's throw following the passed ball. In the melee which followed he ho1l I>r>lN1 TIvlo some seconds after he caught it, and many of the Boston players, do not hesitate to say that there was inter- ference with Thomas on this impor- tant play. which eventually wound up so gloriously in Boston's favor.
 The commission has warned the umpires to look out for rough work in the Boston games. where it is ex- pected that the home fans will show resentment to the tactics which have been followed in Chicago. Boston fans are rabid and decidedly partisan and 1t Is believed that the games at Fenway park will be anything but gentle.
 That the Red Sox hold an effective threat over the heads of the Cubs in the dangerous possibility of Babe Ruth's big black bat was shown be- fore Saturdays game During the battig practice of the Boston club Ruth thumped the ball over against the right field bcacher fence every time he came up for his turn His drives, in practice. were the same long, savage ciouts which he has been making all season at the Polo Grounds and elsewhere in compiling his rec ord.
 As Manager Mitchell looked It Ruth's terrific hitting against his right-handed pitching he made up his mind right then and there not to send right-hander to tte mound, for, in that case, Manager Barrow would surely have sent Ruth to play left field. It was this threat of Ruth which caused Mitchell to risk Hippo Vaughn against the Red Sox for the second time in two days
 The Boston pitching thus far has woefully squelchcd ChicagOs best hitters The biggest hitting disap- pointment is Charley Hollocher. who hit .316 during the season and has ait only 100 in this series thus far Markle, PaskeIt and Mann have also fallen short of the hitting possibilities expected in the series.
 On the other hand, the Boston hit sere. who were expected to hit have been batting in approved fashion Hooper is hitting 300 in the series Whitenan 400, McIrnis 300. anC Schange 800 In other words. Bostor has been batting up to expectations while the Cubs have fallen far be- low the pace they set in winning the National League flag.