New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-15
Five Shining Lights
in the World Series

team mates handed him over Dutch
Leonard.
Then there ia Hi Myers. In the sec
ond game at Boston he performed ner-
culean deeds that would have estab-
lished his claim to worlds series fame
in spite OF the setback his club SUI
so-ed had he not disgraced the per-
Torrance by a mediocre showing IN the
same patrol in the last game at Braves
Field.
On his good day Myers hit the great
Ruth for q home run. the only score
his team made; he saved the game by
wonderful throw to the plate that SIDE
tracked the winning run, and he maze
wonderful shoestring catch where
fs;!ure would have been home run Tor
the enemy.
II was this same game that uncovered
the real hero of the Brooklyn side IN
Sherrod Smith, the husky young soutn.
paw who drew the hard assignment OF
facing Ruth. Ruth was generally con-
coded 70 be the best pitcher of the Red
Sox and the leading southpaw OF tho
American League. Yet Smith out
nitched his left-handed rival. He
should have shut out Boston in nine
innings but for Cutshaw's tumble on an
easy grounder. He might have won his
own game with a long hit had he NOS
been coached into trying to stretch q
double into three-base hit.
Smith lost to Ruth in fourteen inn
ings. He lost after Brooklyn failed 70
grasp one golden opportunity to break
the il tie in the eighth inning. over
caution on the part OF CoomDs' VINO
earlier had coached Smith TO certain
destruction and at the same time left
him so blown that Scott Immediately
olipned him for the triple that eventu-
allv tied the score, cost Smith WORLDS
series triumph. Coombs stopped at
third a runner who could easily have
made the plate on long single to CEN
tire in the eighth inning.
Shore Pitching Hero
Shore was the pitching hero OF the
Red Sox because he won two games
the opening and the closing contests
The rangy Highlander OF boston mace
good his claim in the last battle, wnen
he set down Brooklyn with three hits,
ono of them a scratch. Shore took the
measure of Pfeffer in this engagement.
He clearly outpitched JEFF, and but lot
a nessod hall would have shut out the
Dodgers.
Supported as was Shore, Pfeffer prob
ablv would have appeared to equal ad-
vantage, but il was his misfortune 10
be toiling with a club whose mind was
centred on the losers end of the purse.
PfeFer figured prominently In BrooK-
Ivn's only victory. He held safe one
RIM lead that Jack Coombs turned over
10 him when the veteran walked out OF
tho box. Shore was credited with the
first game. though, like Coombs, he did
NOT larry TO the finish. Carl Mays was
called upon to stop Brooklyn rally
that threatened Boston with disaster IN
the ninth inning.
Scott the shortstop of the Red SoX,
saved this opening game for Mays ana
Shore and the whole Boston outht by q
remarkable stop and throw from posi-
ton away in behind Gardner. This play
retired Daubert for the third out OF the
ninth inning. The bases were filled ana
the tying run was over the plate when
Scott nipped Jake. Scott was without
doubt the fielding sensation OF tne
series. He made any number OF Dri4i.
liant PLAYS, several of the calibre OF that
which cheated Daubert of hit ana
saved the opening game. ~.
scott was Boston's infeld lion. He
had thirty-six chances in the five games,
the most of any player engaged. Untii
the last game his record was clean
Twice he erred then, but neither bobDle
was at all costly.
Duffy Lewis, the Native Son who
patrols left field for the worlds cham
pions, always has shone at his best IN
world series events. His bludgeoning
was one of the contributing factors
toward the defeat Of the Phillies in
1918. Again this year Lewis was the
leading slugger of all the regulars en-
gagged. He hit 1853 and he felded per-
fectly. Lewis made any number OF won
derful catches where the game hung In
the balance.
Larry Gardner, third baseman OF the
Red Sox, got only three hits in the fve
games, but these three placed him on
pedestal with Home Run Baker. Two OF
them we're home runs, made In con.
secutive days. The first one knocked
Jack Coombs out Of the box, though 1t
did not retrieve victory; the second one
unsettled Marquard and put the
Dodgers 70 rout. Gardner. therefore,
made the most Of his few blows. But
sfield he was terror-almost the
eoual If Scott In range and certainty.