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BASEBALL-SPOETS OF. ALL KINDS-BOXING
WORLD'S SERIES STANDING no supporting. work from the attack-
Red Sox S 1 .750 mg end of the combination.
Phillies 1 3 .250 The close scores of the last three
games do not represent the respec
tive merits of the teams. In every de
partment the Red Sox have indicated
potential strength which far out
shines that of the .National league en
tries. Their pitching has been bet
ter, though Alexander, supported by
the Sox team, would be choice over
any Sox pitcher working in aPhila
delphia uniform.
The fielding, due mainly to the
startling performances of Jack Bar
ry, Duffy Lewis and Larry Gardner,
has surpassed the defensive doings of
the Morans, and thebatting is over
100 points above thatof their rivals.
Some of the critics .who were pan
ning Hoblitzell took in their flags af
ter yesterday's game. , Hobby was
stamped as a man in the grip of dead
ly fear. But that certainly wasn't fair
to such an old campaigner. Yester-
If last year's Mackian host had
caught for the world's series battles
such opponents as the Red Sox have
in the Phillies this fall there probably
would have been no four straight vic
tories for the National league.
The Macks, torn by dissension and
in the midst of a slump, found a team
in a rush and strictly on its game.
There can be only one answer when
such a thing occurs.
But this is, something' different
again. There is no denying the fact
that the Red Sox are in a batting
slump, taking the team from top to
bottom. Some few of the men are
pounding the ball with greater vigor
than they have ever knowto before,
but the main portion of the onslaught
is below normal.
However, the Red Sox have caught J-day he punched three hits and fielded
the Phils in one of the worst slumps
ever seen in a world's series. The
hitting is the lightest ever known, and
no, pitchers can win ball games when
their mates give them but one run to
work on.
Pitching stands out prominently in
the four games played to date. Each
has been strictly a battle between the
hurlers, with the batters taking soft
smacks as a rule when runs are blos
soming on the bases.
A fair line on the mastodonic task
Philadelphia twirlers have faced can
be secured when it is recollected that
in only one game have the National
league batsmen given their pitcher
more than one run with which to win.
And their -pitcher did win that odd
game, the first, when Alexander was
presented with three counters as a
margin.
In other contests the-Philly pitch
ers have limited the opposition to
two runs per battle, but this stellar
work availed nothing, as there was
his position sensationally.
When statistics and the more im
portant features thatdo not get into
the averages are cast up, Duffy Lewis
will be branded the real hero of this
dual combat for the world's baseball
title.
The chunky left fielder of the Red
Sox has done everything that came
within his view and has gone out of
his way to perform some sensational
stunts. His defensive work in left
field has been magnificent He made
one shoestring catch yesterday that
was a marvel, but it is in his judgment
of batters that he really has excelled.
The" smart wallops of Cravath have
gone for nothing because Lewis
guessed before the ball was hit where
it would descend, and set himself in
that position. He has moved forward
and backward as the prowess of ihe
batters warranted, and the hits to left
field have been infreqnent
Stock tried to make two bases on
a blow yesterday close to the foul
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