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Show sxtMiiivi wiia to pImv for tho talh. But l.ml.v tUshed hi two uin,-h befouled, and then ho oraokod on kgainit the light i-on tor Moaohori for two sacks, tearing Orvth easllv. Whlttod, with two htrikos on him, hit to thOTt Md WW lout, but l.iulorns ioncho.1 third. This cot tho nteo t'or tho lone ftv or hit wln.'h WOUla Imvo olianma tho nni.vt of tho gam, NiohoiT did hll Kst nod hit h torrid.- Unor, but it wn dirootlv at HoUltMl 's hood. nd thnt ter. Burni itmeg out, ami tho Phillies' DOu onportimttv wits gone. In the sHvonth inning Xiehoff rausetl some trouble when, alter Karrv singled with an4 down, Thotnne hit hard to short, forcing Imrry. Nlehofl held the ball. 1 thought he might have shot Li to nr!t for a double play. Poster single. sin-gle. 1, and then Oarrigan begHn to shake thing up a bit, putting Janvrin in to run tor Thomas. Mayer almost fell in fielding Hooper's bounder, and tho Sox right fielder got hit. That nut three on with two tlown, and Honriknen was sent in to hit for Scott. Mayer dhowed nervo in this pinrh b' causing the pinch batter to lift an'innold tiy which I.ndertis was under. Bancroft's Great PJay. Bancroft's great pliu on Lewis in the eighth was a big help" tu Maver. The Philly short st op raced over back of second, stabbed u high bounder ulth his gloved hand, and made a perfect snap throw to tirst, retiring his man. Gardner's fine work in the same inning in-ning aided Poster. Niehoff. the tlrst man up, slashed one hard to Lurry's left. He jumped for the ball with one hand and got the Quaker at first. But Mayer could not baftlo the hardhitting hard-hitting Poster in the ninth, and that lost the ball game for the Phillies-With Phillies-With Gardner on second as a result of his single, and two outs, the Sox flinger smashed a clean single to center, cen-ter, which won htm his game. T e Phillies had more tough luck in their hall'. Stork first protested that he had been hit by a pitched ball, but Umpire Kigler refused to allow him to take first base. This made the Quaker intielder mad clear through and he leaned against one and hit it on a line over third base. Lewis was on the job and pulled it down, thereby preventing what might have been a double or triple, if not a homer. Bancroft fanned, but Paskert got his bat against one and started it for the bleachers. Speaker hustled to the barrier and nabbed the ball just in the nick of time. Phils' Attack Improves. Certainly Poster was entitled to the victory, but 1 again want to say that the Pnillies attack looked better than it did on the first day. Paskert got a hold of one pitched by toe Sox hurler 1 in the fourth inning and smashed Vt viciously to right center. Hooper got it near the bleachers. One of the features of the game was Stock's wonderful stop and throw of 1 Barry's hard grounder on the line back of third in the fifth inning. Jack was first man up and had the ball gone through it surely would have been good for two or three bags. Luderu? played a jam-up game around the first bag." His handling of Stock's throws by shifting his feet impreseed m The only error in this game was charged against Burns for his dropping of Niehoff' s throw in the first inning. The Boston players are showing more "pep" than the" Phillies in this 19U series. Tb Phillies are slow in shoot ing the ball around the infield. Phils Make Mistake. 1 believe that the Phillies made a mistake today in waiting Poster out in the early inniDgs. They should have swung at the first good one. When he gets a batter in a nole he uses a nice tadeaway ball with success- Manager Moran displayed good baseball judgment judg-ment when, in the final innings, he switched from waiting out Poster to hitting anything over the plate. The teams both play what we call the ' ' army game, " no man trying to beat out bunts, but slashing' away for long hits. I believe that If we run into some coid weather in Boston the Sox pitchers will Rtffer more lhan those of Manager Moran 's staff. Shore is the only Boston flinger who won twenty games, 1 think vou will find. Wood, Leonard and Poster Pos-ter all have trouble in the spring and late fall. The Boston pitchers are not ueing their celebrated "bean ball"' 60 far in this series, and their effectiveness effective-ness seems to be impaired. I rather imagine we will see a lot of Fo3tcr before this series is ended. His stvle is hard to fathom, as he has a pe'.-uliar delivery and the ball gets to the batter so quickly that he usually hits late at it. On the other hand, Maver side-arm pitching should be just" as hard for the Sox the next time he starts, and he might have better luck if his mates got two or three runs for him. Of course, we all expect to see the great Alexander bacdt on the mound in Boston Monday, and judging from what I learn about him, he raay be better then than he wat? in the Phillies' Phil-lies' park on Monday. I figure that Leonard will be started by Carrigan, with Thomas behind the plate, since he is a left-handed hitter. The series ft just where It started now, with both teams on an even basis and agaiD Philadelnhians are putting it up to the raightv Alexander. I wonder if thev will continue to put it to him on the odd game all the way through. THINKS f If S CLUB ; IS BEST BET fJ Hi Opinion on Fact' 1 (t Philadelphia Slug-, Slug-, L Have Begun to As- sert Themselves. v BALL HARD. BUT ; iWAYS AT FIELDER j Detms Pitching Staffs bout Even, Excluding Ijexander, Who Gives J Phillies Advantage. By TT COBB. i L (tampion Batsman and Base ir ind Greatest All -Around ' Baseball Player. (jprtghl. 1915. hi- Ty OobcO ' jlapELTHIA, Oet. 9. Foster's I ut'wl effective pitching and his , 1 kit in tlle ninUl inniis en' ! j tie Boston Red Sox, American I i (hmpions. to defeat the Phil- - the second same of the 1915 s series. Without question Kos-,,- irai the bet of the series M c- he deserved to win his pame. pled to the Boston twirler was j L Maver, a side-arm heaver, and rei was fuck better than the hit LjB&atos. However, Mayer d'.J j the " breaks ' in this battle an.! 1 litis M fortune to be up against i at his best. ...... thought tho most notice- ii today's game was that the Pbil- jgensive began to assert itself. slashing away at the ball by m clubbers must be reckoned with he reminder of the series. ib Picks Phils. rat though toe series is even up chit) having won one game, it i that the Qu-akers are the best Aicer may be counted on to ,isd the National leaguers are - itg &b even up battle against the itttoot the great Alex. The Red hare jam-up pitchers, but they m i'i an Alex, figuring that the Xe-S Xe-S la Till be at his best in the com-Spaces com-Spaces in which he will work. Tray's contest the attack of the fcf, wtt much harder and more de-Jgfi de-Jgfi (ban that of Boston. The BEs earned their one run: the Re-i Tfin;f: only one of their two. The ps reversed the order of things Bftat happened in the first game Lashing the ball viciously, but at tier. The arrigan men had the HvBefc aided the National leaguers . is opening battle. first inning was a tough one for tr.t First, with Hooper on first, dropped a foul tip which would I been a third strike, and then ier hit a single. With Hooper on 1 and Speaker on first, the double ias attempted, and unfortunately illy catcher let the ball slip away i him when he had Hooper at the t It would have been a double :-. ;:ied the inning, too, for fcr aa out at second. Xiehoff did aut well and it was a hard break Mayer. It is possible for these 0 to happen sn any game, but it 1 when a pitcher is put in a hole ae hrst inning of a world 's series fer in Trouble. '- ack of control was a f arte, ar-te, for he passed Hooper and w to he i in trouble with every- man d him, because of his inabilitv " toe ball over the plate. Mayer rs 1 1! very effective, and I think any strle-arm or underhanded pitch-ves pitch-ves the Soi trouble. to the first inning Maver got go-strack go-strack out five of the six men : lltfPPed np to the plate in the sec-Jf sec-Jf third innings.. He had worlds i I looked for him to go . Pwithont being scored on again, rater had to be reckoned with, for " fas in rare form. The Bed Sox "taa fine control, cutting the in- - i t -5 faet one and puttinP the on, side. Maver appeared to have H ft nnder perfect control, but 1 ia.vs Bet his fast one where it have jone f 5.tkt, first '"oing there was little S? , fans util the fifth. Tn "Won half of that inning Foster 'two-bagger, the first extra base ' toe senes, by the wav. It was 1 Et w-ti t t0 be ""eoi'ed to a U i pitcher on second and , Stayer showed good judg-IH judg-IH ga5"ng Hooper, to take a J Scott. The shortstop was an p at Work. :ncd the Phillies' half of . 0T smashing a two bagger to looked for Ludenis to bunt I jl, u" a man on second, none sTOi needed to tie, it |
