The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-03-01
TWELVE HOMERS
IN BIG SERIES
CIRCUIT cLOUTS ARE RARE IN
CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLES,
BUT THEY DELIGHT
THE FANS.

In the eight modern worlds series,
played between National and Ameri-
can pennant winners since 1908, only
IL home runs have been made. and
nearly every one of them made base
hall history. Eight of the circuit clouts
were driven out by American league
batsmen, while the other four of nee
essty flew from the war clubs of Ma
tional league warriors.
The worlds series home runmists are
as follows:
19OS-Patl Dougherty. Boston Red
Sox, ?; Cy Sebring. Pittsburg, /.
l904-No series
1905-No home runs made.
1906-No home runs made.
1907-No home runs, made.
1g0S-Joe Tinker, Cubs, |.
19O9-f'red Clarke, Pittsburg. Q:
Davy Jones, Detroit, / Sam Crawford,
Detroit l.
19lO-Danny Murphy. Athletics, /.
l91l-Frank Baker Athletics, 9;
RUDE Oldring, Athletics, l.
that Frank Baker is not the only ath-
lote who drove out two circuit smashes
in a worlds series. as Pat Dougherty
made two merry-go round slams in
1908 and Fred Clarke turned the trick
SIX years afterward But II is doubt
ful if any pair of home runs ever made
as much baseball history as the two
sent out by the Athletics crack third
sacker last fall.
Dougherty Has Record.
Pat Dougherty. however, has the
honor Of being the only man to pole
out two home runs i'm a single modetn
worlds series contest Pat was near
ly the whole show OF the second game
OF the 1903 worlds series, when the
Red Sox beat the Pirates by a score
of to 0. Two of the Beantown tallics
were The result of Dougherty's homers.
Sebring made a homer i'm the first
game of the 1908 worlds series, but as
Fittsburg beat Boston by score of
Z to 8. Cys homer had little effect on
the final result.
No home run In a worlds series was
made after Doughertys second homer
In 1908 until 1908, when Joe Tinker,
with the aid of a good breeze, lifted
one of wild Bill Donovan's shoots in
&c the right field bleachers at the Cubs
grounds in Chicago. The blow nearly
broke Wild Bills heart. and was with
out doubt the most damaging clout
ever garnered off Donovan's delivery
Tinker made his famous wallop in the
eighth inning OF the second game
when Detroit was leading by a score of
| to 0. Donovan had been pitching
next 60 invinciple ball. In the FIRST
seven innings he allowed only one sin |
gle and overall. who was the lucky
hitter, was quickly doubled up by
Sheckard. the following batsman. In
the eighth, Steinfeldt. the first batter.
struck cut. Holman followed by beat
ing out an inheld tap. and then Tin
lScr hit high fly 10 right. The winl
carried II. and IL landed in the right
field bleachers few feet inside the
foul line. The Detroit players kicked
ong and loud over the welt. claiming
Il should be only a double under the
ground rules, but Umpire KLEIN refus-
I'd to change his decision that II was a
home run. The hit completely upset
Donovan and he fell TO pleces. the
Cubs finally winning hy scoro uf 8
t. I.
1909 Was Good Year.
More homers were made In the 1909
clue ribbon event than in any othe'
modern worlds series. A full quartet
" the four-cushion welts was made In
The exciting seven-game tussle be-
.ween the Pirates and the Tigers. and
hree of them were crammed into the
nth game. which the Pirates won by
score of TO T.
Fred Clarke delighted the Plttsburg
by making a homer in the
irst game. Mullin and Adams were
iaving a pitchers battle. and neither
'ide had scored up to the fourth In
ling when Clarke broke the Ice with