The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-16
STARS DENY HIM
Destiny Has Decreed McGraW
Shall Not Win a Series.
White SOx Happy Holders
Worlds Title Today.
BY H. c. HAMILTON.

New York, Oct. 16.-SomenOW IL
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
cago shall be a nemesis that shall fol-
low McGraw thru 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 Rowland was just mere
Three-I league club manager and
halfway 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 itself
felt. Down in the last grapples of a
fierce season, Cubs and Giants met
The battle was hard. The clash was
nerve wracking. Then came the IA
nous play in which Fred Merkle for
got to touch second base, and John
EyerS saw it,
Played Game Over.
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 it seemed
the famous old team just could not
win against such odds. 1t was heart
that time that overcame New York,
and today it is due to the same grit
ty determination that Comiskey park
is brushed up, waiting for its second
worlds series banner.
Folks here have nominted Heinie
Zimmerman as the chief goat of all
time for worlds series encounters.
Heinie used to be one of the Cubs.
Maybe that's why the south side fans
hoped him and did some plain and
yeared in Chicago. Heinie picked, in
New York, to be a principal hero,
took it Just as had been predicted in
many quarters. He untethered his
holl Ow-horned goat and allowed It TO
browse at will
Heinie Real Goat.
Zimmerman takes class today with
all the famous bones who have ap-
peared in crucial combats Nearly
always it has been some fish play that
dropped McGraw in his worlds series
starts. In 1912 McGraw had a chance
to win and should have turned the
trick. But Fred Snodgrass, Fred
Merkle and Chief Meyers contrived
to let the golden apple be split with
the biggest half for Boston.
1t is felt that McGraw made a mis-
take by holding the White Sox too
crumble twice in New York, and
thought it meant something. When
they came from behind Saturday and
won a ball game he failed to recognize
a fighting 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 rec
ord during 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
south paws all thru the summer.
me Giant leader sent left handler
against them Monday, but he is not to
be criticised for this, or is RUDE Ben
ton TO be blamed for cracking under
the strain, or for the to victory
that cinched the title for the west.
Benton Not to Blame.
Up to the fourth inning Benton had
been pitching just as effective baseball
as Faber, but the fourth had been the
JlnX in four out of five of the previous
games and 1t was destined to be once
more. However, it was not until his
support had ruined him that Benton
weakened and lost heart. 1t was Zirn
mermans wild throw to first on r
Collins's grounder that started things
Inen robertson dropped Jackson's
fly and on Felsch's grounder which
Benton handled nicely and tossed To
zimmerman. and the famous Heinie in
seeking a little personal glory sought
to run down Collins between third and
nome and was so completely ont
classed in the track event that CoIlins
crossed the home plate for the first
run without ever having been touched
This gave the Sox the jump and from
then on to the finish it was easv sail
ing for them.