Show I ET SOUTHPAW HANDS DS REBUFF T TO LEADERS E Ew I V i g e g 8 0 c 8 8 w e 8 c 8 fc-C fc 8 fl I IA Aviator i tor and Thrill Fans Horses Enter Events Tomorrow I t 1 SECOND COMPARISON BY HUGH FULLERTON i AGAIN SHOWS RED SOX TO BE STRONGER THIS TIME B BARRY RRY OUTCLASSING Phillie ie Second-sacker Second Is Just an Ordinary Good Ball B ll Player but the time Old-time Star Barry Is More Than That Figures and in in the Big Show how Will Wil Shade Moran Moran's s Ke stoner to I f t i J s I II III THE SECOND BASEMAN I T r J B By HUGH UGH FULLER FULLERTON T 0 I Value in Value in Value in Value in Offense Defense Season Series Barry 1 I l p pERHAPS no no c comparison between regular on the rival teams in rl this worl worlds world's s 's championship series shows more moie superiority one one o er the other than does oeS oe'S Jack Barr Barry Bany over o l It is 15 the wily foxy fox veteran hardened in hundreds of battle brainy and an a born leader against an 11 ordinary ball player without great experience experience ence who is 11 1111 flin doing dohi I r just n th the best hest lie he can cnn and inn improving ill roving a It is hard hartl luck to be brought I ui up in comparison with one of or the greatest ball players ers pla ers of the era eia and if friends of N choff are dissatisfied with the valuation placed upon him hint in this series erics they should not bej be for Lein rated that close in ability a t to 1 Jack ack Barry is indeed a compliment Barr Barry has faults He Hc is is not nut a n heavy y hit hit- hitler ler is a bit stran strange e as a second L baseman r because became he lie has ha played pla short for mall many years and it has been hard for him hum to tu change back to the dif different erent angle u of making making mak mak- ing ing throws s It was Dairy Barry who won wun the American league uc pennant for Boston just as ashe ashe ashe he would have ha won it for either Detroit or ur for lor Chicago had either of those those- teams been fortunate enough to secure him lie Jle rallied the fled Red Sox at nt a stage of the season when they wr rite g just dust as 35 surely as all any team ever went to pieces This Ibis man IDan with all duo due re regard ard to E Eddie Collins was the brains and the spirit of the Um Athletics during their winning years and although he accomplishes his work in such a quiet wa way that the tue fans funs hardly t notice him he hc is one of the f. f greatest t ente-t field leaders the game une e ever has known N is a a. pretty nifty pla player placer er him him- self The file first time I saw mw this fellow fello ts was ras the tue spring spring- he ho hr broke into the bi big show shuw It H was at the sprint spring prin training camp an and the players were coming down clown into the sliding slid slid- sli sliding l ing pit 1 noticed a quiet determined detel mined sort sortE E o of fellow who evidently c was ju lust just t ng bc introduced in- in in introduced in- in to tu that sort of thin thing He Ile was wasp watching keenly the way WHY the th older fellows s p i hit the lilt dirt and amI when he came carne he finished t with a n dash dah hit the sand hard his teeth I clinched an and he Jle meant business He lie is rather lather 3 agile le than speedy and nul he be is is a cork- cork u I 11 1 Above Jack Barry former Athletic star favored b by p Fullerton Below Artie Phillie second sacker I i T 4 t tk S t k lr at att ty t y l s inu ing lUg i t uti er on out straight ht figures fi ure Barry He has hns been rapping the lie ball hall all this ibis s season son at about GO which is slightly above c his normal hitting gait g Darr Larry Barry is or ordinarily a 10 batter and is twenty points below that on this season On the attack however howe is not nearly as dangerous n u man as 05 is his rival li for the job job for this reason Barry is a pinch hitter one of the best 1 I have h had lead pitchers of the caliber of Jim Scott Ed Walsh r and Walter Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son tell me that they thc would rather sec see Collins or Baker coming to bat in a af ar r f pinch than to see sec Barry up there in in a crisis of a game And if you yon stud study Jack Tack Barrys Barry's s work year ear in and year car out you ou will be surprised etl to discover when the the paths waiting to be how many man blows he ers delivers runners are aie on driven r cn home t We Vc are compelled oven even allowing in for Barrys Barry's pinch hitting and the difference difference dif dif- if- if ference between the National league pitcher pitchers who have been ben weak weal this season season sea sea- son and th the e American len league pitchers who have e been up tip to the n to give ie a numerical advantage Hl e as nn an offensive offen i c player and a n considerable e edge ge at nt that because became Barry is not nott running the bases hases and with witha a 1 a running ball haB club i. i h ti netting a number of pilfers that show he lee is spry and anil sI speedy enough h to get et by with 1 the steal stuff But when hen it com comes to defensive e 01 work and inside work Barr Barry piles u up p n large majority over O hi his youn younger er rival al has hns improved c a n lot as a fielder field field- cr er since he lie joined the Ph Phillies ill i s The players tell me he i is ig getting better right k along j steadier and that he lie i is working beautifully with Bancroft on h the pivot plays around second The number of double plays the they have made maden round n the base is enough to prove this statement if te te te i r. r Yv Y v j i HO Ol O l 1 F 11 Barry Bam Bamis is it past master of plays mound around th the c ba bag bap all and l further than that a n great student of pitchers f au end and batters halters halters-a 3 a part of the game as a yet can can know little hUle about Barry doer doe hi his work largely b by b 6 knutt knowing rn g what batters botters will do w with ith certain kinds of vf pitched ed 1 halls galls and with being bang there to get the ball bull Ho lIo coaches hitchers quietly and helps help tho tiro mover mO the rough places rN On a n seasons season's work look looks much better compared with ith Barry Barn than he does doe when they the arc are sized no up with i a n view vie vieto to what whal thc they arc lin liable le to do co in the the com coming n contests conlest In such u n series the wiliness and anti the tho experience of the veteran must count heavily 11 a against tho inexperience of this figures to he be a n n much uch better belleI batter than that in the the series ff 1 l Pair nall Barry a 1 batter balter season s hitting tO does doe not seem to have a n. chance to hit much n against the He Red Sox pitchers Wood ought to stand him hint on his head Ind I cannot figure fiure how he ho con cnn hit either Shore or Ruth It H nth uth and his chances of hilt hitting n hard against lg Leonard are aro small I T scarcely cun can think of or a harder bunch hunch of pitchers r to send against than the ones ho must mint m l t face I cannot figure how how- he will bat for the series serres if Carrigan nn uses Wood twice Leonard Shore and anel Ruth Huth Barr Barry Bany will not hit Alexander hard in hard in fact I do not think any of the Red Hed Sot Sox will hit hit Alex but hard mL but Barry Bany has luis batted h n against Alexander knows him well uell wc nn and has the tho nerve and courage to stand up and antI take p. p crack at nt the tIc speed kings king's offerings lIe He surel surely will hit Chalmers or 01 Mayer Ia er and does docs not figure figuie save aVe as ns a n Possible possible pos pos- f sible ihle finisher of some g game On the comparative e figures m my final calculations show ow Barry Hurry 3 32 points point better than adding considerably consider consider- f I ably iLl to tu the Red Sox Sov total advantage Let T us now OW compare the center fielders and tomorrow well we'll dope them before going going- oin around the infield y r i i r 1 SR I tift 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