Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-06
AROUND THE BASES

The strain of playing for high
honors and big money which usually
is inquired on as likely to affect the
work OF some pastimers in the
worlds series will not feaze a goodly
percentage of the participants in this
years classic. No fewer than four
teen of them have been through the
mill. Eight of the Red Sox and six of
the Cubs have played in the big
series before, Bush, Schang, McInnis
and Strunk as members of the Ath-
letics; Hooper, Scott. Mays and Ruth
as members of the Red Sox. OF the
CUBS, Merkle took part in the base
ball classic when with New York and
later with Brooklyn. Paskert was
with the Phillies in the big event in
1915. Catcher Killefer also was with
the Philliies that year but injured his
arm just prior to the series. a mis-
hap that had a great bearing on the
result with the clash with the Red
SoX. He did, however. go to bat
once in the last game, acting as a
pinch hitter. Tyler. Deal and Mann
were members of the Braves when
they took four straight from the
Athletics in 1914. Merkle, Hooper,
Strunk and McInnis might be called
worlds series veterans, McInnis and
Hooper each having been in three
big clashes while Merkle and Strunk
each have been in four. Peculiarly,
Deal. Tyler and Mann were members
of the team that defeated Philadel-
phia when Bush, McInnis, Strunk
and Schang were Mack warriors.
None of the four Athletics did much
at the bat in that series while Bush
was batted hard.
II am glad the season is over" said
Clark Griffith. Now we can all put
our shoulders to the wheel and help
in the job of licking Germany. When
the war is over there will be a new
era of baseball and the sport will be
bigger than ever. 1t is simply taking
a vacation until the serious business
of winning the war is finished"
The 1918 world series battles are
detailed to the soldier boys abroad
at the expense of the National Com
mission, as a result of the official ap-
proval of the series by the Federal
government as expressed by Secre-
tary of War and Provost Marshal
General Crowder. In this connection
the National Commission gladly
avails itself of the service of the
Committee of Public Information
which extends to our American Army
camps, Y. NJ. G.. A. and Knights of
Columbus huts, Red Cross Head
quarters, hospitals in France, Italy
and England, and all other places
where soldiers on foreign service
gather. This Bureaus facilities for
furthering and distributing news di-
rect to our American forces is un-
surpassed, and with the co-opera-
ton of this agency the success of the
Commissions efforts to keep our SOL
diers and sailors promptly informed
of the progress and results of the
world series is assured.
Zack Wheat, of Brooklyn, earned
the batting honors of the National
League by the narrow margin of one
n-thousandths of point over Ed
die Roush, of Cincinnati. according
to unofficial figures worked out after
the last game was played. The fig
ures are: Wheat, .33496, and Roush.
.334S6." Ty Cobb again leads the
American League with $50, just
three points below his mark of last
year. : =.
This is known as the 'iron-jaw"
series. Both managers have that sort
of an inferior maXillary. Neither
knows the meaning of quit" or
cant" Fred Mitchell, or to give
him his right name. Fred Yapp,
served his time as pitcher and "a
catcher in both the major and
minors. He was never famous
pitcher nor catcher, although he was
a mighty good player in his time. He
won his way to fame as coach of the
Boston Braves in 1914,
and when he took the management
of the Cubs two years ago there
wasn't a baseball critic who knew
him but that predicted he would sue
ceed. Ed Barrow, like Mitchell. has
much to brag about in the
line of his accomplishments on the
diamond as a player. He was sue
cessful as a manager, however, and
when he got into the political end
of the game he Immediately made a
name for himself.
Anyone who imagines he can be-
come an expert trapshooter in short
time has another guess" says Peter
Carney. THE art of shooting in the
field is not to be mastered in day
or year. 1t is the result of ripened |
experience, and seasons of constant |
practice and close observation are |
required to insure its possession"
DIR. AL Sharpe has returned to |
ithaca to make preparations for the !
football season. He has |
been engaged throughout the sum-. |
ner as a physical director at an !
army camp, but the athletic authori-
les at Cornell were unwilling to part
With him, even for the duration of
he war. because they believe he will
De of quite as much service as coach
If the Cornell football, basketball
ind baseball teams as he would be
f engaged in similar capacity in
he army or the navy. The Cornell
ootball schedule is similar in many |
scott out, Vaughn to Merkle. No
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