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TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1915.
Page Five.
Red Sox, American League Champions, to Play For World's Championship
POSTER
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iHOMAS
CATCHER
Fence Busters of Boston
Against Moran’s Sluggers
Coming .World’s Series Will" Be
One Between Tealns With
Hard Hitters on Both Stdes.
Speaker, Luderus, Killifer,
Alexander, Cravath, Demaree,
Whitted, Becker, Ruth, Gregg,
Leonard, Lewis, Hooper, Barry
and Gardner Will Battle For
Places in Limelight.
(By Associated Press.)
Now York, October 5.—In nearly
every series for the world's baseball
championship some player on each
of the contending teams has been
picked by the fans as a tower of
htlength in some department and in
the mind’s eye of the baseball pub
lic he stood head and shoulders above
his coworkers. Thi» year's contest
for the premier title of the diamond,
will prove no exception to this ac
cepted fact. In looking over the list
of eligiblea for the coming battle be-
t ween the Philadelphia Nationals and
the Boston Red Sox, Alexander and
•Speaker naturally are the first to
strike the eyes of even the cusuul ob-
erver as the onds who may furnish
the star plays'of the coming contest.
Many other playera, however, on both
'’ides have shown remarkable apti
tude to do . the right thing at the
i ight time during the long season s
grind. Quick thinking and fast ac
curate action are the essentials
which make great baseball player#.
While the two players mentioned
have shown wonderful control and
HTectiveness in their positions, a
great deal should *be said about many
others who, while not so prominent,
have been equally efficient in their
pennant winning work this season
either at bat, on the paths or in the
' field. ; • • , . '
In the minds of. many baseball ex
ports Manager Moran’s feat of mak
ing a supposedly mediocre team a
pennant winning aggregation is
equally as' great a performance as
that accomplished last year.by George
•Stallings with the Boston Braves. The
Moranmen are virtually a “cast off"
team, as thirteen of . them wafe let
out by other major league clubs. Cap
tain Luderus was once with the Chi
cago Nationals;.Killifer waa tried by
St. touis and let go; Adams was
with the New York Giants' for a
short time; Demaree came from the
Giants and McQulllen played with
Cincinnati and Pittsburg; NieHoff was
with Cincinnati; Dugey and Whitted
came from the. Braves;, Stock was
transferred to Philadelphia by New
York; Byrne was once with St. Louis
and Pittsburg; Cravath, the fence de«
molisher, played with Boston, Chicago
and Washington Americans; Paskert
chased flies for Cincinnati and Beck
er saw service with the Boston Na
tionals, New York Giants and Cin
cinnati. , .
Alexander, Mayer and Rixey, Chal
mers and Bancroft are the only mem-*
hers of the team who grew into Na
tional League material while with
the club. Tincup, Baumgartner and
Weiser are youngsters who have yet
to win regular places on the team.
STAR SLABMAN
Alexander’s great work in the box
during the season has placed him in
the limilght as the star pitcher of
the National League and the back
bone of the Quaker City team. If
the scries goes to the limit of seven
games, Alexander, it is expected, will
be on the mound in at least three
games, beginning with the opening
clash; After he had won his thir
tieth game, a few days ago, Alexan
der when asked what he would do
in the world’s series, replied: “Just
whatever Manager Moran tells me. 1
have been well supported by my
teammates and I must say they have
saved me frequently. Boston may
boast of some great hitters but I
think we have some fence busters on
the Phillies who will equal the Bos-
tonsluggers." %iA ...
With Mayer, Demaree. McQuiIlen,
Chalmers and Rixey on his pitching
staff, Manager Moran feels tht he
has k formidable array of boxmen to
back up Alexander in attacking the
Red Sox "defense. The infield com
posed of Luderus, Niehoff, Bancroct
* , oi-.i, n lilmnir combination
and Stock is a »trong combination
and Cravath. Paskert and Whitted
ar« well able to care for the outer-
^•Cap’tain -I.udorus stand* second in
the battinc list of the National Lea
rn* and with Cravath. Whitted, Stock,
Becker and Niehoff the hitting of the
Horan team shown considerable
strength. Should th, .majority of the
games he played on the Philadelphia
grounds, that -the. park .with 4*
short fences will suit the home hit*
ters much better than the visitors is
the opinion sharcd”in by muny close
followers of the game.
Including Manager Moran, five
members of the Philadelphia Nation
als huve been members of former
world's'series teams. The' other four
are Demaree, Whitted, Becker and
Dugey. $Ioran was, with Chicago
Cubs When Frank Chance was man
ager of the National League pennant
winners.. Demaree was with the
New Yprk Giants in 1913. Whitted
played with the Boston Braves last
year. Beals Beckqf fiqld for the New
York Giants in 1911 and 1912 and.
Dugey was with the Boston Braves
last year* $
Compared with their Philadelphia
opponents the roster of the Boston
Red Sax includes many .world’s series
winning veterans which naturally
gives 4lit . players who were on the
championship eligible list for Boston
three years ago are still wearing tht*
Lannin uniforms. Juek Barry who
was with the Athletics of Philadel
phia through victory and defeat is an
additional help this year. Only two
of the old pitchers, Wood and Col
lins, are now with the team. The
former, however, may not be called
upon during the coming conflict while
the veteran southpaw Collins has not
been able.to reach the standard of
merit he attained in previous years.
Manager Carrlgan has a fine staff
from which to select moundmen and
it looks as though the bulk of the
work in this depratment will lie en
trusted to I.eonard Shore, Foster and
Ruth during the series. Shore and
Foster are right handers and the
other two are left hand twirlers.
Then there are Gregg and Mays who
with Collins and Wood form a strong
reserve to b*»if*Vc<l upon in eas«.it
becomes peecssiyy. Ruth and Grieg
stand nmbhg ine '.300 hitters Jfcis
season while Leonard, Wood and Hes
ter also have Hwovon-thorn selves^ to
be very useful batters. Ccrtaply
Carrigan has no. need to worry tut to
the strength or ability of his pitching
force.
8TAR SLABMAN.
Trls Speaker, the player most talked
of on thd Red Sox team, together
with Lewis and Hooper, make up the
■great outfield, coftsidered by manv. to
lie the best in the country. These
three have been playing together for
several years and understand each
other so well that there Is never a
hitch or jolt to mar the smoothness
of their play. Speaker, of course, is
the pillar qf 'strength on the team
and while he has not been credited
with, a Jioftie.run hit* this season,.his
batting average of .332 speaks for
itself. Twenty-four two-baggers and
twclvprlbree-base smashes in addi
tion to one hundred and seventy-one
singles make up the sum pf bingles
accredited to the centerfielder, so
far as the records go this year. These
together with seventeen sacrifice hits
and twenty-eight stoeln bases as well
as a fielding average of .975 testify
to the Usefulness of the big Texan,
who'at bat and in the field has
earned a place among the greatest
players in the history of the national
game.
Leftfielder Lewis, who has been
with the team half a dozen years,
also has a fine season's record. With
a fielding averge of .933 Lewis made
one hundred and fifty-six base hits;
twenty-nine doubles, seven three-
baggers, two homers, sacrificed twen
ty-nine f titfnes and stole fourteen
bases. His batting average is .295.
Hooper, the oftier member of the
outfield has a fielding average of .974.
His contributions with the stick in
clude one hundred and thirty singles,
eighteen doubles, fourteen triples,
two circuit wallops, and sixteen sac-
News Sport
Notes
“The league started with six clubs
and finished with four," says a dis
patch concerning the Northwestern
League. ’Snothing. Lots of leagues
didn’t finish at all.
Those Federal League magnates
who are challenging all clubs in or
ganized baseball surely don't fake
themselves as seriously as the wojrd-
rifice hits, a batting average of .242.
Besides he pilfered bases seventeen
times.
As to the infield of three years ago,
Gardner and Wagner still remain but
the latter is not likely to be seen in
the coming series. Gardner at third
base, however, is well to the fore
among the hitters. Always danger
ous with the bat, he is first class
fielder with an average of .923,
The Red Sox did not “find them
selves" as a league-leading combi
nation until the accession of Barry.
His conversion from short stop to
second base was the deciding factor in
Boston's progress pennantward.
The coming of Barry Resulted In an
unusual alignment of “Key-stone
combinations." As preparation
against accidents, Manager Carrigan
has an interchangeable combination
In’the infield 1 . Four short stops are
available: Scott, who plays the po
sition regularly; Janvrin, his under
study; Barry, who played a star
game in that position for so many
years with the Athletics, and Heinie
Wagner, RPd Sox regular at short in
♦he world series of 1912. The three
latter men aro available also as fin
ished second basemen, and Janvrin
and Barry can bring experience to
relief of Gardner at bird base, if nec
essary. First base is protected bjr
the reversible pair, Iloblitzel and Gai
ner. Both are good tielders, but Hob-
litzel is'stronger as a batter against
right hand pitchers, while Gainer
gets beat batting result off the de
livery of lefthanders.
Old newspapers for sale; 10c
t hundred; 300 for 25c,
ing of their challenges indicate.
We haven’t heard much of Bob
Zuppke yet this fail, but a g.iod guest
is that around Thanksgiving the
names of Moran and Carriban will
belong to the dead languages while
Zuppke and llaughton will be the big
noises.
Connie Mack didn’t do much this
year—nothing except unjover about
a hundred ball playprt no one tv^r
heard of before. Bit. wIiVs betting
ilicy wcn\ be heard of agr.i •! *
You just can’t keep that Cobb fam
ily down. Woman named Cobb won t
tennis championship at Cleveland the
other day.
No4r they’re* pulling it against
Billy Sunday that he used to go tc
sleep on the bases. Well, maybe hi
did, but they don't accuse him of be
ing caught off the sack in this day
and age.
GRIDIRON CLUB HOLDS
FIRST MELTING OF YEAR
At the (icorgiun hotel last night
was heM the initial 'meeting of the
(iriiliron club for this year. A de
lightfui banquet waa enjoyed by. al
present and the program of speeche:
was good. Plans for the year were
discussed and passed upon.
Four new members were initiatec
into the club Isat night. These foul
men were taken from the senior clast
and arc representative men of the
class of ’10. The club announces the
following new member*; Fleetwooi
Lanier, Athens; Theo Smith, Atian
ta; l,eon Folsom, McRae; Gale Bush
Barnesville.
Al! of the old members from Jail
year's club were present. Among
them were: Messrs. Paddock, Hender
son. Clements, Powell, Brown, H
l.unier, Thrash, Bennett, Mallett
Conyers. Coker, Nickerson, Holman
and Whitehead. ,
DOPE SHOWS THAT
RED SOI ABE BEST
ON THE OFFENSIVE
Player
RED SOX.
P. G.
R.
11.
S.B.
Speaker .
. e. f.
148
109
175
30
Hooper ..
. r. f.
144
90
131
21
Lewis . . .
. 1. f.
14S
G8
150
14
Hoblitzel .
. lb.
118
63
107
9
Harry .. .
. 2b.
127
IS
104
7
Scott . . .
. S. 8.
10G
70
70
10
Gardner .
. 3b.
124
55
113
12
Cady ....
... c.
76
26
58
0
Wood .. ..
.. p.
30
G
14
1
Totals ..
!7x
522
931
104
Player
PHILLIES.
P. G.
K.
H. S.B.
Whitted .
. 1. f.
128
45
127
25
Cravath ..
. r. f.
148
85
145
11
Paskert ..
c. f.
•104
47
76
9
Luderus ..
. lb.
138
50
155
9
Niehoff ..
. 2b.
144
62
125
19
Bancroft .
8. 8.
148
78
136
12
Stock .. .
. 31).
04
35
58
5
Killifer ..
.c.
108
28
81
5
Alexander
. . p.
49
10
21
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(BY FRANK G. MENKE.)
New York, October 5.—The last
available figures show that on offen
sive play the Red Sox have the “edge"
in each department—runs, hits and
stolen bases—but the “edge” is small.
Below there are three tables. The
smallest is a summary of the other
two. In the other two appear the
names of the players who are likely
to face each other in the opening
clash.
The regular lineup alone was used
in getting at the comparisons be
cause figures involving all the play
ers on both sides—many of whom
won’t figure in the series at all—
would not constitute a fair eompari-
is the summary of what each
team has shown offensively through
out the season:
Runs
Hits Stolen
per Bases Per
Game Game
Gamo
Red Sox .. .. 4.7 8.4 .93
Phillies .. ..3.9 8.1 .89
You'll notice probably that Bill Car-
rigan’s crowd of speed boys haven’t
any noticeable bulge on the Phillies^
That's really a surprise that statis
tics contained because it was common
belief that the Red Sex as bascrunner
far outclassed the Phillies. . Yet the
total bases stolen by the nine Red
Sox that show in the next table is
101 against 101 by the Phillies.
Here arc the two table3 that com
pare the scoring, hitting and base
running power of the rival aggrega
tions:
DAVE PADDOCK WILD
PLAY ON GEORGIA
TEAM THIS YEAR
Totals
X *449 924 101
Speaker is the brightest star of the
Red Sox outfit—as a matter of course.
He leads in runs, scores, hits, and in
stolen bases. Whitted, of the Phil
lies, however, is close up to Speaker.
Whitted, who has played twenty
games less than speaker has stolen
25 bases against 30 for speaker. That
would make them about equa] in base
stealing skill.
The soclled “Hippopotamus"—Cra-
vath—has scored 85 runs in 148
games—a showing far superior to
that of Lewis ami almost equal to
that of Hooper. And Cravath has
stolen 11 bases against only 14 for
Cooper.
In hitting power the clubs are neck
and neck. The Red Sox average 8.4
hits per gamo and the Phillies 8.1.
The count is in the Red Sox favor In
this connection solely because the
pitchers are included in the figures.
Alexander, of the Phillies, it hit-
ing about 100 points under Joe
Wood.
In runs scored, however, the Red
Sox showed superior. They have av
eraged almost one more run per
game than the Phillies—which is a
remarkable showing.
If the rival club maintained in the
world series battling, their run scor
ing average during “the regular sea-
on, it would spell doom for the Phil
lies. But, fortunately fer the Phil
lies, that never has been the case.
STANDING OF THE GLOB
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Clubs. ’
Won.
Lost.
Pet
Boston .. .
.. ..99
49
.669
Detroit .. ..
.... ioo
54
.649
Chicago ....
.. .. 93
.lit
.604
Washington .
. ... 85
66
2563
Sew York ..
68
81
.456
St. Louis ..
. ... 63
91
.409
Cleveland ..
.. .. 57
95
-375
Philadelphia
. ... 41
107
2173
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Clubs.
Won.
IiOSt
Pet
Philadelphia
. ... 88
Gl
.591
Boston .. ..
.. ..81
08
.544
Brooklyn ..
. ... 80
70
.533
Chicago .. ..
93
80
.477
Pittsburg ..
.. ..73
80*
.47?
St. Louis ■.
. ... 71
83
.461
Cincinnati ..
.. ..71
83
.46j
New York .
.. .. 68
81
.456
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Boaton 4, New York 1.
Boston 5. New York 4, (second 12
innings.)
Brooklyn 3, Philadelphia 2.
No others scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
New York 5, Boston 1.
New York 8, Boston 2.
Washington 7, Philadelphia 3.
No others scheduled.
Likely.
What do you expect to grow up to
A nan I guess.
Dave Paddock made the announce-*
ment egterday that he just couldn’t
keep out of it thia year, his last one,'
so he will play quarterback on the
Georgia football team.
Georgia’s ex-captain la making a
few sacriflcss to' play with the team
this year and he showed the old .
“Georgia spirit” when he agreed to .
don the moleskins for his Alma Ma
ter. Paddock has been serving' kV~
assistant coach of the eleven and aq.
he is now playing a new assistant
coach will have to be engaged. It 1*'
probable that -EmR” Peacock will ber.i
sent for right away. • :
This announcement boosts Georgid
football stock a good, many points
and with Paddock running the team
from the quarterback we should shtrtr
the others a thing or two this year.
A practice was held yesterday ion
Sanford field in spite of the rain.
Coach Cunningham is not losing any :
time and intends to have the .boys in
-hape for the Moccasins on next Sat
urday. About the only change in the* *
lineup is the placing of Captain Tiny
Henderson at center, lie will work
there the rest of the seqaon. It how
looks as it the backfield will be com
posed of Paddock, Deiiendorf, Powell
and another man.
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SALLY LEAGUE IS
TO REMAIN INTACT
//
Savannah,. Qa., October,. B*i-Tha
South Atlantic league will remain in-,
tact for the season of 1916. Thi,. de
cision waa reached at a meeting of
the league directors here, yesterday):
President Nick Corish was reelect
ed president of the league for a term
of three years, and W. H. Walsh, of,
Charleston, was reelected vice preSi-.
dent.
dent.
Other league matters were deferred. ,
until the meeting in January. ,
TODAY'S 'GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE. i
Philadelphia in Washington.
Boston in New York. J
NATIONAL LBACUT.
Brooklyn in Philadelphia.
New York in Boeton.
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