Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-01
LUCK OF BEANTOWN TEAMS
ONCE PLACED IN BIG EVENT.
FORTUNE CARES FOR BOSTON
Whether the Team Re Braves or Red
son, II tx Certain OF Coupling
world Chmm % OnSllin.

No Boston team ever has los: a world
series, anu none ever Will he conquered
so swectly upon the athletes from the
city Of culture and baked beans.
in the blue ribbon event OF baseball
and i've times has Boston taken unto
itself the, first prize. Why? Partly
because those Boston clubs have been
great ball ones, but oftener, il would
seem. because luck is with Boston; that
every time some break" comes it
Skiddiny back to 1903, when the Hub
City made KS first entry, in the big
Red Sox OF that year from being
beaten when it seemed that all hope
was lost.
Tie game had gone to the ninth in
ning. The SoN We're three runs behind.
and ii they lost that game the series
won't to the Pirates. In some way OF.
needed exactly four runs TO win, Two
men me-, We're n,n OUT The batter rolled -
The Flying Dutcnman' n"!'sd it up,
pulled back his arm ana swung TO
out which would give the championship
To the Pirates.
But At that very second The Boston
rootcrs' band struck up "Tcssic," then
a new and popular soug: il doomed out
the first strains at tie very fraction Of
a second that Wagner's arm WAS
swinging for the threw. and the noise
SO unsettled Honus tina, he Il rev the
bail .mt" the grand stand. permitting
ana ultimately the serics-to the SoN.
In 1872 luck again wac with the SoN.
They cot the majority OF The breaks"
all the way. In the maj lining of tho
mai game. Fortune smiled again upon
the Bostonian battlcrs., Til. Giants
wcro in the lead, aud il looked like the
stepped Boston batter. Who promptly
knocked the BAH out IN the direction
fielder didu have TO move more than
three feet tor II. II WAS one Of the
easiest chances eyer offered to any
made the mLh that now is history. the
foo2lc enabled the Sox to rally enough
10 win the game ana the championship.
Ii ii wasn't luck, Whit was it that
assisted Hank Gowdy in that 1911 af-
iairi The BraySs, catcher never hit
or since. Yet in that event he was the
batting demon; the boy who belted the
hit for extra bases almost every time
he was up. AZ least Il half dozen times
IN that series luck was with the
hurdles in four jumps.
In 1915 the RED Son heat the Phillics
four out or fl>e They We're onn better IT,
il was luck that aided them materially
in their triumph. Everything broke
their only chance for victory was TO
pole out a few homerS. And they did
it, But each of their circuit swats
were lucky ones, the balls bounding
into the blcachcrs. Not one was an
out-of-t the lot belt. not one would have
been better than a two-bagger on any
other ball field
Coming NOW 10 the 1916 affair, one
finds that luck favored the Sox again.
Even without il they probably would
have vanquishcd the men of Ehhcts.
but luck enabled them to do il quickly.
They won that second game, the H.
inning affair, to /. Yet the Dodgers
should have won II To o in nine stan
Zas. They didn't because the SoX were
lucky. With the Dodgers one run To
4, II In
bounded easily 10 Cutshaw. Had CUT
shaw picket up the bah clearly and
thrown II to the plate. lie would have
nippcd scott by ten feet. But Fate
ruled that he should bobblc-and Scott
scored the run that tied ii UP and pro-
lomgcd the same until the fourteenth,
when Canon won ii with Il long single.
That wasHust one instance Of several
where the "breaks" favored Tho Son:
where the proNcrhal Boston luck
which has saved its teams on four
previous occasions helped it's 1916 ag-
grcgation 10 keep untarnishcd the
Bcantown record OF never having lost a
world series quarrel