The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-17
Jack Barry Is Luckiest
Ball Player from Worlds
Series Play Standpoint
Some Baseball Players, Recognized Stars of the Profession,
Find It Impossible to Hook Up With a Worlds Series
leam During Their MajO League Careers; Walter
Johnson and Nap laoie Examples,

Some ball players. recognized star.
OF the profession. find il impossible {,
nook W with a worlds series team
during their long careers in the major
leagues. Others are fortunate enough
to move from club to another and
lind themselves OIL pcnnant winners be-
fore and after the change.
Many a great player spends MANY
years IN the big leagues and never ha'
the luck to be connected with a pen.
nant winner. Napoleon lajoie, after
t~wenty-one years in the majors with
out ever getting into a worlds series.
found himself with a pcnnant winner
IN MS firSt season in the minors after
closing his career in the majors. HIS
case Is the most striking example of
a great player missing the big dlvi-
dends, The smuggling Frenchman was
connected with the Athletics before and
after the days OF worlds series pros
pcrity, and while manager OF the Clcvc.
land club his team was once beaten ont
on the last day OF the season. He
never had a chance to shine as a world
series player or collect a worlds series
check.
Johnson Misses II.
Walter Johnson is another who has
been a recognized star for more than
ten wears without ever getting his OPP.
p%ortunlty to shine or collect Had h
ever drawn the chance IN the years
OF his greatest triumphS he probably
would have come as close 10 winning
the series single handed as did Mata
cwSon IN l9vS. Sherwood Mage f.,
another who can hcwail hi, fortune
He forced the Philadelphia club to
trade him IN the winter OF l9ll-lS 10
what he thought was a pennan, win
ncr, but later developments proved that
he simply kickei himself of A pen.
nant winner and landed nowhere. Nan
Rrickcr finally landed IN a series a.
he was about to pass on oi the majors.
but many another star has not been
so fortunate. The great Wagner iir
utcd IN two series over a stretch ut
twenty year, IN the majors and Cobb
has taken part nm three.
Jack harry. of the Red Sos. has been
The lu.k,e>t PLAYER IN baseball from
the standpoint, ot worlds ,crie, play
TIE figured IN four with the Athlete,
between 1910 and 1914, then was sold
10 Ro,ton and shared IN the dividend,
OF lPlS and 1910 But Ne was only un,
OF many PLAYERS who wa, sold ~ traded
alter his team had won one or more
pennaui, and found himself again con-
ncr'cd with a pcnudni winner
Charley l~lcryog PLAYED m three ,cr,,.
with the Giants, was allowed 4, pr,
away and the wa called back. onl, ~
Ind himself again with a penndn, wiz.
net Fortune surely has smiled r,
the captain of the Giants Ne wa,
away from the Giants during IN, ln,
ing years, but he drew a manager
salary during this time. came barl
under the same high salary and NOW
gets another dividend linn Thorpr
and Jack MURRAY also have been f.,
out by the Giants and called back in
time to share IN the sctic.
Ira Thomas, traded bv the Yanks :,
the Tigers several seasons ago +, an
other PLAYER who cannot complain. lie
figured m a series while with Dctroi,
then was sold to the Athletics aud hp
] ured IN four more Pcnnock, W,ckoli.