Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-25
BOSTON TEAMS HAVE
 LUCK IN SEI
No Team From the Hub Ever Lost
 Worlds Title.

No Boston team ever has lost world series, and none ever will be conquered while Dame Fortune con- tinues to smile so sweetly upon the athletes from the city of culture and baked beans.
 Five times Boston has entered a club in the blue ribbon event of base oakland five times has Boston taken unto itself the first prize. Why, Partly because those Boston Clubs have been great ball ones, but often CT, it would seem, because luck is with Boston; that every time some "break'' comes it comes to favor them.
 Skidding back to 1913, when the Hub City made it's first entry in the big affair, one finds that luck saved the Red SoX of that year from being beat lost.
 The game had gone to the ninth in. ming. The Sox were three runs be- hind, and if they lost that game the series went to the Pirates. In some way or other they got three men on bases, and needed exactly four runs to win. Two men were out. The batter rolled puny grounder to Wagner at short. The Flying Dutch man picked it up, pulled back his arm and swung to make the throw to first for the final out which would give the championship to the Pirates
 But at that very second the Boston rooters bans struck up "Tessie' then a new and popular song, it boomed out first strains at the very fraction or a second that Wagners arm was swinging for the throw and the noise so unsettled Honus that he threw the bail into the grandstand, permitting Tour runs to score, giving the game ana ultimately the series-to the Sox.
 1n 1914 luck again was with the SoX. They got the majority of the
 breaks al the way. In the final inning of the final game. Fortune smiled again upon the Bostonian bat ters. The Giants were in the lead and it looked like the game and the series for them. Up stepped a Boston batter who promptly knocked the ball out 1n the direction of Fred Snodgrass. The Giant outflelder didn't have to move more than three feet for it. It ! was one of the easiest chances ever offered to any player in the series. And Snodgrass made the huff that now is history. The foozle enabled the Sox to rally enough to win the game and the championship
 If it wasn't luck, what was it that 1 assisted Hank Gowdy in that 1914 affair? The Braves catcher never hit
 much beyond .250 before that series ] or since. Yet in that event he was | the batting demon; the boy who belt ed the balls to all portions of the lot; who hit for extra bases almost every time he was up. At least a half dozen other times in that series luck was with the Rraves-and the Braves went over the hurdles in four jumps In 1915 the Red Sox beat the | Phillies four out of five. They were a i better team, perhaps, but none can i deny that it was luck that aided them materially in their triumph Every i thing broke nicely for them In that | final game their only chance for vic
 tory was to pole out few honers
 And they did it. But each of their
 circuit swats were lucky ones, the | ball bounded into the bleachers Not ] one was an ut-of- the lot belt; not
 one would have been better than 8
 two -bagger on any other ball field. | Coming now to the 1916 affair, one | finds that luck favored the Sox again
 Even without it they probably would
 have vanquished the men of Ebbets
 but luck enabled them to do it quickly They won that second game the 14
 inning affair, to l. Yet the Dodgers
 should have won it 1 to in nine l stanzas. They didn't because the SoS were lucky. With the Dodgers one run to the good and a man on third Ruth bounded easily to Cutshaw. Had i Cutshaw picked up the ball cleanly and thrown it to the plate, he would have nipped Scott by ten feet But 1 fate ruled that he should pebble unti1 the 14th when Gainor won it with a | long single.
 That was just one instance of seve-
 ral where ''breaks" favored the Sox where the proverbial Boston luck l which has saved it's teams on four previous occasions helped it's 1916 az 1 gregat1on to keep untarnished the Beantown record of never having lost
 world series quarrel.