Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-18
SMOKY JOE WOOD SEEMS TO
HAVE BEEN HEREOF THE SERIES
Every Contest for the Worlds Baseball Title Brings Some
Individual Player Into the Spotlight and This Year the
Boston Hurler Seems to Have Been Elected - Pitcher
This Year, Batter Last

Every worlds series must have its
hero. That's a we'll established rule,
for year after year, when the respec,
tive champions of the National and
American leagues have come together
ir the final struggle there has been
some one player who has stood in the
limelight and either pitched his team:
10 victory, or batted the everlasting
spots out of the ball.
Who is the hero OF the series Just
completed? Local fans haven't quite
made up their minds on this point, for
the press dispatches haven't gone very
fully into the individual playing, and
there may have been stellar feats that
Honolulu will not know OF until the
mainland papers arrive. However, it is
q good guess that Smoky Joe" Wood
comes as near being hero as any Of
the Boston players. Probably pitching
honors rested between him and Rube
Marquard, but a losing team doesn't
talk much about its heros. At that.
big Six" seems to have pitched as
well as any of them, but certainly the
luck broke against him this series, his
team cracking behind him at crucial
moments. ~. E..
Presenting then that Boston inclines
to, hero worship, and that Joe Wood
is crowned *
He will be feted. interviewed, photo
Graphed, receive offers for theatrical
engagement, be asked to write book
of some kind or other and may even
marry him, provided he is single.
There win be all kinds of ways for
Rim to make money, provided he is
willing to give part of his money de-
rived from the series TO the devisor of
the scheme into which he is asked to
enter.
A glance at worlds series stars OF
the past is interesting. for in recent
years, with the exception or 1908,
when the Chicago Nationals scored
their second victory over the Detroit
Americans, there has been hero. In.
1908, there was no Individual to carry
on the honors as it was the wonderful
team work Of the Cubs that carried
than through The series 70 fans.
Baker Starred Lat Year.
There was no difiiculty attached to
picking out the hero Of the worlds
Series last year between the Giants
and the Philadelphia Americans. The,
individual who slammed his way into
the limelight was John Franklin Bak-
Ell who. won the series for his club
with his wonderful batting, two re-
msrkable home runs.
The first Of Bakers drives came in
the second game Of the series at Pnila-
delphia. The Giants had won the first
battle and the second was being play
ed in Showdown Plank. the veteran
hurier, was opposed by Rube Marquard,
the sensational southpaw, and the
game was a nerve racking affair with
the score tied to in the sixth in
ming. Both nurlers were performing
wonderfully, but the general opinion
was that the veteran Plank would lose
out. In fact, there was no telling
when Plank would crack under the Sc
we're strain and in the sixth inning,
with two men out, Baker took the first
step up the ladder OF fame by driving
the ball over the fence for home run
thus giving the Athletics their first
victory. e
While this hit was dramatic enough