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their balance. This forced the world's champions to pop up flies frequently. Walsh pitched with rare judgment, using just the right dope for each batsman. Hooper and Speaker each got to him for a pair of hits, but the pan would never have been dented if Buck Weaver had not aviated in the third inning. In this round Buck fumbled three grounders in quick succession. On one of the -grounders, hit close to second base, Buck saved himself an Buck Weaver. error by one of the quickest pieces of thinking ever turned on a ball field. With one out Buck repulsed Leon ard's hopper and the Red Sox pitcher was safe. Hooper busted the first ball at our shortstop, and again Buck fumbled, with a double play in sight. The ball rolled away, but quick as a flash Buck pounced on it and with a back-hand motion flipped it to Berger for a sensational force-out of Leonard. Then he fumbled Wagner's bounder and Speaker singled for the sole Boston tally. Weaver's play on the Hooper hop per (tongue twister) was a finely executed piece of head and hand work, and Joe Berger, subbing for i Rath at second, also deserves credit for being on the alert to complete his end of the play. Among his three bona-fide errors Weaver sandwiched some sensation al stops and throws from seeming impossible positions. One of the gym nastic stunts retired the Red Sox with a runner on third. Weaver and Berger, besides collaborating on the back-hand force-out, also clubbed to gether for the first Sox run, Buck doubling to left and Joe duplicating to right with two out in the fifth. Berger is liable to displace Morris Rath permanently at second if the regular falls down again in his hit ting. Morris was benched once, but since his return to the game has been sticking along at a great clip and elevating his lowly clouting aver age. In the first inning Berger show ed his alertness when he went from first to third when Wagner fumbled Lord's grounder. The ball did not roll far, but Joe took advantage of the slip. Such wide-awake work on the paths is something not frequently seen among the Sox players. The fact that Joe was immediately caught at the plate on Speaker's remarkable return of Chase's fly did not detract from his work. Tris' heave waB a wonder and Berger would have been safe against the majority of outfield ers. Joe is nervy. His batting is not terrific, but just watch the number of hits he delivers in the pinch. Ping Bodie put himself in position to score on Walsh's' single ihthe tenth by some baserunning that was every bit as good as Berger's, and, though be was applauded by the fans, there was an element of deri sion in their praise, and a number called Ping's feat bone-headed luck. Bodie singled to start the tenth and was sacrificed by Mattick. He over- ran second and Engle made a wide throw to Speaker, who had sneaked in to trap Ping. The ball rolled to ward the outfield and Bodie raced for third. Duffy Lewis retrieved the throw, but made a rotten peg to third