New Britain herald., 1918-09-10
WORLDS SERIES
 PRACTICALLY ENDED
Red SOE Should Have No DifH-
 Culty in Winning Classic
As far as the disposition

As far as the disposition of the championship is concerned the worlds series may be regarded as over. With lead by three games to one. the Red Sox hold an advantage which, appears well nigh impossible to overcome. If the Cubs turn the trick in spite of that handicap they will have to make worlds series his tory, for no club under the present seven game arrangement of the se- ries has been able to triumph after being two games to the bad In 1903, when the series was decided On the basis of the best five out of nine, the. Boston Americans, under Jimmy Col lins, defeated Pittsburgh by taking four games in a row. Boston won the first contest but then the Pirates took three in succession and the bat tie was regarded as over.
 Under the seven game system the nearest any team has been able to get to victory after being in the rear by one to three came in the 1912 competition, in which the Giants tied things up with the Red Sox, but were beaten through Snodgrass famed huff and Merkle's failure to get a foul ball. So it looks as if the Cubs were confronted with a Herculean task. Their rather disappointing bat ting averages do not. give their sup- porters very much hope.
 It would be both interesting and profitable for some psychologist to find the reason for the potency and chartn of the fourth inning in worlds series games. When Ruth hit his two run. triple yesterday he chose the fourth in which to make it, thus recording a fourth inning decision in three out of the four tilts of the current series.
 Last year five of the six games be- tween the White Sox and the Giants were settled in the fourth round. -In that series it will be remembered that such high lights as Felsch's home run that won the first game. the five runs that beat the Giants in the second. the two counters that won for them against Cicotte in the third, Kauff homer in the fourth and Trimmer mans heroic chase after Collins and Robertson's huff in the sixth tussle all came in the fourth inning.
 Evidently there is something in the makeup of a ball player that prompts him to do great things or crack under the strain in the fourth session. It cannot be a mere coincidence that so many worlds series struggles are decided in that inning.
 Ruth made yesterdays game the medium for considerable distinction for himself In the first place, his hit was the first he made in a worlds series. Neither against the Brooklyns In 1916 nor against the Cubs until yesterdays fourth had he been able to land a safety. ..-<' a-
 In the pitching line Ruth distin- IN51 hxy worlds series record for scorelesS fn- nings. His mark is twenty-ntne in- nings-thirteen in the fourteen inning game against the Superbas in 1916, nine in the opening battle with the Cubs at Chicago and seven yesterday. The best previous mark was twenty eight innings, and was credited to Matty. Blk Six pitched twenty seven scoreless innings against the Athletics in 1905, and hurled another scoreless inning against that club in 1911. These are little details of interest which it might profit the National Commission to record in the official data.
 The Red Sox played another error- less game yesterday, giving them g. fielding record unapproached@ in worlds series history. In four games the Boston club has been charged with only one error, and that was no palpabIe misplay and might have been converted into a hit for the batsman. In the second game White man misjudged a fly in the sun at Comiskey park. That was the 1one error. The Cubs, too, have been putt ting up a remarkable fielding game.
 No Boston club has lost a, worlds series game in Boston since the sev- enth game of the 1912 series when the Giants showed under the Sox. II tot 4. Since then Boston has cheered nine straight worlds series victories-one by the Red Sox in 1912, two by the Braves in 1914, two bv the Red Sox in 1915, three by the Red Sox in 1916, and one by the Red Sox in 1914.