The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-16
FATES DECREE
'GRAW LOSES
II IL Evidently Written In the Stars
that Giant Manager Shall
"A. Not Cut in on Golden
Apple.
BUSH Lacquer is BEST
Clarence Rowland is Real Hero of the
Big Series and Justifies the
Judgment of Old
Roman.
IBY H. c. HAMILToNl

UNITED Press STAFF Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct 16.-Somehow 1t
Just seems to be written In the stars
that John J. McGraw shall not win
another worlds championship, and by
the same sign it can be read that Chi
rago shall be a nemesis that shall fol-
low McGraw through his baseball life.
And today the stars and Chicago are
smiling on bush Lacquer" an upstart
who came into the big city on Lake
Michigan to lead the great team
Charles Comiskey had assembled with
dollars and ingenuity Clarence Row
land was just mere Three Eye club
manager and half way scout for the
White Sox when Comiskey made the
baseball world gasp by appointing him
manager to succeed Jimmy Callahan.
Way back in 1908 the nemesis that
pursues McGraw began to make it
self felt. Down in the last grapples OF
fierce season. Cubs and Giants met.
The battle was hard. The clash was
nerve racking. Then came the famous
play in which Fred Merkle forgot to
touch second base and John Evers
Raw 1t. The game was ordered played
over and Chicago won it. clinching
the 1908 National league pennant. A
fierce crowd battled to get into the
Polo grounds that day and they
badgered and hectored the Cubs until
1t SCENE the famous old team just
couldn't win against such odds. 1t was
heart that time that oyercame New
York and today 1t is due to the same
gritty determination that Comiskey
park is brushed up, waiting for its
second world series banner.
ZIn is chief Goat.
Folks here have nominated Heinie
Zimmerman as the chief goat of all
time for worlds series encounters.
Heinie used to be one of the old Cubs
Maybe that's why the south side fans
hoped him and did some plain and
fancy riding every time Heinie appear
ed in Chicago. Heinie, picked In New
York to be principal hero, took it
Just as had been predicted in many
quarters. He untethered his hollow
horned goat and allowed it to brouse
ut will.
Zimmerman takes class today with
all the famous bones who have appear
ed in crucial combats Nearly always
It has been some fish play that drop
ped McGrav in his worlds series starts
In 1912 McGraw had chance to win
and should have turned the trick. But
Fred Snodgrass, Fred Merkle and
Chief Meyers contriyed to let the gold
en- apple be split with the biggest half
for Boston.
1t is felt in Chicago that McGraw
made a big mistake by holding the
White Sox too cheaply. He saw them
collapse and crumble twice in New
York and thought it meant something.
When they came from behind Satur-
day and won game he recognized a
lighting heart and laid it to the home
crowd. The Sox, as a matter OF fact,
are one of the finest scrapping teams
in baseball history. Their record dur
Ing the season proves their best came
out when they had to fight back.
McGraw also was tempting fate by
shooting left handler after left handler
at the westerners. They have con-
sistently bombarded American league
southpaws all through the summer.