The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-02
10 LUCKY GUYS!
Eight McGraW Men Have Eat
en- World Series Pie.
White SOx Have Two Veterans
of Former Classics.
BY JACK VEIOCK.

New York, Oct. 2.-Ten players
who have divided the fruits of for
mer worlds series will be in the line
ups or on the benches when the
Giants face Chicago's champion White
Sox in the Windy City in the first
game of the 1917 classic, october g.
OF former worlds series players
who will be in on the big, juicy melon
this year, Eddie Collins, the nervous
little second-sacker of Comiskey's
team, stands out as the one with the
greatest experience in battling for the
purple and gold banner.
Eddie has played in four series for
the worlds baseball title, and the one
this year will be his fifth. He has
been a member of three worlds
champion teams and by the time the
players end of the gate receipts are
divided next month he will have col
lected more than $4,000 from worlds
series alone.
Collins was a member of the great
Athletics in the days when they swept
everything out of their path and drove
straight to the worlds championship
with few halts. He played under Con-
ME Mack in the series of 1910. 1911,
1913 and 1914. Eddie Murphy, sub
stitute outfielder of the White Soy, was
a team mate of Collins on the Phila-
delphia champions of 1913 and 1914.
Only Six Veterans.
These two players are the only
members of the White Sox who have
ever played in worlds series, for
the stars of Comiskey's champions
back of 1906 have passed. The lineup
of the last Chicago American league
champions included Owen, Altrock,
Patterson, Smith, Walsh, Roth, White,
Hart, Sullivan, Isbell, Donohue, Tan
nehill, Robe, Davis, Dougherty, Hahn
and Jones.
Eight members of the present Giant
team have played in the bigsOctober
classics, and of this number Artie
Fletcher, Charley Herzog and Jack
Murray have seen the most service.
Fletcher and Herzog were members
of the New York champions of 1911,
1912 and 1913, along with Murray,
who for a time during the 1914 sea-
son was with the Boston Braves, who
won the pennant that year.
George Burns played the outfield
for McGraw in the worlds series of
1912 and 1913, and Jim Thorpe was
on the bench with the Polo Grounders
in the 1913 games. Jeff TesFeau and
AL Demaree are the only pitchers
with worlds series experience. Tes-
reau was in the melon-cutting bee OF
1912 and again the next year, while
Demaree was with the Giants of 1913
and the Phillies of 1915.
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Ole Heinie Zimmerman, the Great
Zim of Cub fame, has seen service
in two worlds series. He played
with the old Cubs back in 1908 and
again in 1910. He is old in experi-
ence as a player, but still holds his
own among the best third basemen
of the day.
One veteran worlds series perform
er who might easily be overlooked III
digging up former stars is George
Gibson, once the star on the receiv-
ing end of one of the greatest bat
teries that ever won worlds series
game. Gibby caught Babe Adams in
the series of 1909 against the Tigers.
and emerged with his team on the
winners end.
Experience in former worlds series
is valuable to a player. This cannot
be denied, and many Giant fans point
to the fact in supporting their con-
tentions that New York will defeat
the White Sox. AS far as worlds
series experience goes. the Giants
will have some advantage, but after
all, it is the series of 1917 that will
be decided this month, and the
ghosts of other years will have nothing
to do with it.