The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-02
LIGHTER SIDE TO
WORLDS SERIES
Chance Tells Why Sox Beat
Cubs in Final Series
of Games.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON.

! There was a lighter side to the series
between the two Chicago clubs for the
#, championship of the world which the Sill
perheated fans failed to see Despite the
| bitter rivalry between the two clubs there
was little display of any personal feeling
between the men, and even in the white
heat of the final battles, when Comiskev's
men We're driving the harpoOn deeper and
dee per into the heart OF Murphy. the men
n3 IN. OeSaslon TO Jest and gibe at each
oInef M friendly style.
ffoDably one of the best features of The
series is the fact that 1t bred friendshin
LEW peeweeh the players themselves. and III
Trey ever meet again it will be as friendly
| rivals instead of hostiles Chances fneT
OF course, refuse to admit ComIskeyss
team is the better. although they concede
mat they were beaten fairly ana 0f,f
played. But while they think their tesT,
pest. Their opinion of the value Of several
Oh the Sox has risen many degrees.
T. Says Cubs Loafed.
Chance has the series sized Mn ahout
right. He doesn't say "Oyerconfidence-t
Dut admits that his men were beaten
SIMPLY SIM because they had loafed so long
snaI Wheh they were called upon to make
speed. -
=. DO you know the reason I led thesNa-
1Chai League in base running?" asked
Chance. 1T wasn't because | wanted IN
be champion base runner. As a mater
OF fect, 1 didn't know / was until after h
was all over. / was stealing bases merck
t 70 make the men hustle during the las;
HloItn OF the season.
Il Thought we would beat the Sox. hut
l realized the danger and wanted TO keen
the men playing fast ball. tore hair
an acre of cuticle off myself setting them
an example and trying to make them hus-
Tie, but they had it so easy that thev
slowed up When they came to the posi-
season series they couldn't get their
Ivy Was in Trance.
Little Johnny Evers, who is the freshest
and nerviest little bali player that ever
broke into the game. stunned Isbell on the
opening day OF the series on the West Side
Park. Johnny never even had been intro
duCed. to the veteran, but just as the game
marked:
Say, you. you've been setting 'em afire
around second base in your league. I'm
gust playing in this series to teach YOU
how TO play the bag
Izzy was in a trance for three innings
from the shock of it,
Why Taylor Didn't Pitch.
Half the critics have roasted MANAGER
CEance because he did not pitch Taylor
against the SOX, and nearly all the Other
half have insinuated or said that Taylor
was afraid TO face his old foes. The truth
IS that there were not two worse s1isaD-
pointed persons in Chicago than Taylor
and Chance when the brakeman did. not
pitch. The reason Taylor did not work
turing the series was that the thumb OF
MS pitching hand was knocked back over
lis wrist in a game with Boston almost
month before the season closed. and the
njuI ed member refused to heal. Twice
Turing the last month of the season Tav-
or pitched exhibition games, but pitched
With his fingers alone, being unable 10
"Trip the ball with his thumb at all He
exported to Chance that he was all right
tut the manager watched him too close
:. He begged Chance to let him pitch
g2inSt the SoX. but Slough Foot
moving it would mean almost certain
efeat, under the circumstances, refused.