Evening journal., 1917-10-03
.AEW HERO FOUND
!. IN each BIC Series
Exception for Seasons Stars
10 Be 0utclasSed by
Lesser Lights
COLLINS IN THE
HALL OF FAME


Which player among the Giant and
White sox stars will be the baseball
ero Of 1912 VIII it be the great Ben
~ Kauff or Heinie zimmerman who
sill be the leading Giant light or will
ne honors go to some lesser light like
%lolke or Rarlden? Then perhaps it
ill be Fletcher, who never amounted .
80 much In a worlds series, who Will /
azzle all by his sensational play.
Looking into the Chicago camp, VIII I
again fall TO the lot of Eddie Collins. /
aptain Of the White Sox, TO torment /
ne Giants and their adherents as he |
id in 1911 and 1913 and will Joe Jack |
on the leading thumper Of the SoX, |
We up TO his reputation? Such arc ,
uestiOns which only time can answer. !
In the past some stars have certainly ]
we'd up 60 all pre-worlds series cal |
ulations. Some star players like Col !
MS, Baker, Mathewson, Coombs, Lewis
nd Hooper always played even above
lelr normal clip in worlds series
ames Lewis and Hooper have been
specially brilliant In recent worlds
cries, both Of them surprising Speak
e. ordinarily a far greater player.
Obj was perhaps the bigger worlds
4 cries disappointment, and Alexander
| laved far below expectations I'm 1918.
Twice players who were not given a
| imble in discussions before the series
ere the stars Of their respective
4 aams. These were George Robe, White
OK substitute lnnelder OF 1906, whose
'lnles enabled the Chicago Americans
! )rwn their FIRST worlds series VIC
4 Dry. and Hank Gowdy, the Brave
atcher, now color sergeant IN an
hio Field Artillery regiment
Gowdy's play in the 1914 WORLDS Sc
es was the greatest individual effort
4 yer nut up by worlds series player.
ooked upon as a catcher OF not even
II verage ability, a player who seldom
rose above .230 in ;he batting aver
A ges. Hank batted 535 in the four
ames Of the series. lie got six hits,
IN which only one was a single. Inc
,st Of the collection consisted q three
oubles. a triple and a homtr. Hank
lso walked five times In the four
. ames His catching was Of the high
. & grade.
The next most brilliant performance
that Of Gowiy was the oll aroura
lav Of Duffy Lewis In the 1918 world S
. sries between tho Red Sox and the
| hillies. Dufy hit iii, being especi-
llv hard on Alexander. His heloihe
.ln never be forgotten by any on7
no saw the series.
ollins' Wonderful Work.
The immense area occupied Dy
raves Field in Boston gave Lewis a
nance TO show out0elding at Its best
j ime after time big Cravath would
md nonderous wallOps far into the
III neld. but. turning his back to inc
am Lewis would grab them out Dy
( ne distant fence.
Ct. The greatest all around play by q
IS rorld's series innelder was the Wolse
eddie Collins at second base in lyl'
nj iol3 or the general play Of Char
# ~ IIerzog. of the Giants in the 1914
rios with the Red SOx. Both players
,ere so brilliant that 90 is hard to draw
no limo Collins hit 429 in the games
i'm the Cubs i'm 1910 and All In th'
,snt series of 1913. In both he wal
+ marvel in the field. ,,-
W Collins i'm those series was uoallnt
<I long with team which was Wlhulu,
Nvalkoycr victory. while Herzog j
oi2 was lighting with team Whlcl
II yas from the FIRST game almost con
,sntlv the under dog Il was the flght
s 1g spirit OF Hcrzog which enabled IN
iants TO tie up the series after bostoi
adj Them 3 TO 4, and IL. was througl
n fault of Charleys that the last gam
,s kicked away. HerzOg hit .4uV u
ght games and accepted q ohance
,ithout an error at third base.
The 1912 series also saw what mos
,orid,s series followers regard as tn
rcatest worlds series catch as we
Inc greatest worlds series pinch hll
*. ,ooner made a catch which STAYED o.
IA ,oston defeat in the last game Wlic
@IsJ> over had an equal. There was ten
1|T orsrv stand I'm right field, with q shoi
81 once IN front of &C.. Hits into the stan
"a vent for home runs. @
Ioopers Cifcus Catch.
movie knocked a wicked crash mi
Fl cen right centre in the nth innln
nd there was a cry Of eXhultato
rom the Giant bench when 1t was see
M hat the ball was clearing the rigI
.& old fence by quite a margin. 81
looper after running up TO the fenc
.@'iX ont his back across it, and by tWis
nc sideways caught the ball before
o1ld fall into the crowd. Writers
escribing this catch have repeater
ia that Hooper climbed on the 9TH
X ide Of the fence 90 catch the ball, bl
his Is not so, as he kept his feet on u
loving field. The Giants, however,
- s,a 10 this day that It was not leg
n $atch. on the ground that any ball u
%# ver the stand should have been
~ ome run. and that Hooper surely HI
- ought this ball in what was agre
3* non as the home run zone. But /
be fact that Billy Evans, who w
5 harding the right field foul line, W
ooking right at the play, it would ma
zen impossfble for the officials to ha
scertalned whether or not the bi
ad been caught.
This catch and Henriksens pin
ouble saved the day for Bosto
Sothewson had a lead Of 90 0 goi
ito the seventh inning, when wi
tshl on second, Henriksen, while b'
I'M, for Bedient, doubled cleanly oN
ocond base, sending in the tieipg ru
The player with the highest worll
cries batting average over street
wears IS Frank Baker, formerly
he. Athletics, with .31S for four seri'
is averages were 400 in 1910 80
90 I5O In 1918 and $50 in 1914. ]
-orid's series home runs OF 1911 a
oi3 on Marquard and Mathewson,
mong the greatest swats in baseba
Two Red Sox players both had
istinctiOn Of making two home ~
lie same worlds series game-I
ougherty against Pittsburg in is