Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-18
LUCK HAS WON WORLDS
SERIES, cORBETT SHOWS
Giants Got All the Breaks in Game
With Athletics in 1908 and
Gained Championship.
FLACK UNFORTUNATE IN 1918
Thought That Side Was Ont and Had
Started for Horne When Babe
Ruth Knocked One Where lie
Had Been Standing.


a.. Every time fans consrcEatc, tho dis
cussion invariably shifts 10 tho moot
3 question:
baseball"
Some enthusiasts insist. and quite
factor. Others claim tina, it is at least
ordinary bail club which is lucky. can
score victories quite consistently over
an OUTFIT OF all-stars upon which Dame
Fortune does not cas-, her SMILES
NO one who has followed the worlds
series doings can say that luck isn't
the most important thing OF ALL" de
clare some. of the veterans. Year af
to defeat simply because luck has been
against them. The first clash between
, Inc IL Red ii, sox and the rir@dGs in l2e3
tional leaGuers. The Eostonians seemed
ssopelessly beaten And then Of q sud;
them TO ride through 10 worlds
Luck Was with the Giants.
The victory of the Giants over the
Athletics in 1905 looked like a clean
cut AFFAIR. but no ono can say that New
was with them. The main dependent
Of the Athletic pitching staff was Rnbe
Wa Wadd ,ha Wn9 MAS iaken sick Tvs, be-
ermore. when the Giant sluegcrs, Don
fell OFF mlserably in their hitting.
Billy Gilbert: who never had performed
Nth the wacns ha wa came one
after another.
The White sox went into the worlds
series of 1906 minus their regular third
,sacker. There gloom in the White
:, SoN ranks when il WAS announced that
George Robe: rookie. would All the
zap at the difficult corner. But Robe.
ordinarily a joke hitter. was the bat
ting demon of the series. His terrific
s hitting won for the American leaGuers
Frank Baker who never had gained
much fame as home-run hitter.
banged GU, ol hemers in suggestive games
swats paved the way to n victory for
Breaks With Red Sox In 1912.
There were so many breaks In favor
OF the Red SoX in tho series OF 1912
mat II would take ALMOST column 10
1S s60b ps,s she Ia MT'hewS9n s"
career, than he did in that series. yet
he failed TO win a contest. Time and
the series sewed up only 20 have luck
go against them at critical moments
= half a S1s brsaks insludins the un.
the Soa tine final game and the series
screen rRsmem ,t%wd hank G"wdy il the islt
season. The dopesters Who busted them
:ssszioreeasiing the outcome Of the
and the ON: time lowly Braves. never
fSvTsd b G9Way t as baisman Ys.
worlds series clashes, hammerins out
one single. three doubles. 4 trips and
figured in the run scoring.
Gowdy Hit Like Wildhre.
Who Will say that the batting OF
Gowdy was not bit OF luck: Never
before had he really done any hitting
and never since then has he hit within
miles Of his worlds series mark. Yet,
Gowdy was able in those four games
70 rise TO sublime. heights and in that
tered heap OF onetime worlds cham
What better instance is there OF
me Red Sox and the Phllles? The
series stood three TO enc in favor OF
the Bfa EG5 and then S sSmf The
into the lead in the first inning. were
LED in he 'hiFd, had forced 70 the
looked very blue for The SON when the
eighth began They needed two runs
10 re 49, ana "a ;hT ne, to Win Gamer got
been doing any batting ( any conse-
quence, caught Jas: o4e and sent IL
a lucky bounG.- arid Went into into the
.Ga,no- and Lewis with The tying ran.
49,, Bali Went Into Bienchcrs.
In The ninth the count was a.
Harry Hooper, who already had batted
en, home run in tina; particular game
walked 70 the plate with one man on.
and none OF. Two Strikes were called
on him. Then Hooper swung and the
made the count "a and won The game
and the series FOR ,hc Red Son The
h.eachers
,.sn. j j.: T2&iheT peculiar trick Of
Only Two homers during The regular
number In single game in u worlds
series. and The crucial game?
.e-,n. the clash Of laIy Three different
5. Times they GOT The breaks and each
and every time !, enabled them 10 Yin
1csture from tho Giants viewpoint Was
the Collins -Zimmerman inciden; in ,he
footed off third base when Fe!scn hi.
a bounder 20 Benton.
~ Was Chased Across Plate
Ninety-n!ne times GU, OF 100 Collins
you'd have heesn trnpped between third
IIeinie Zimmcrman. who hadn't pulied
a,.honer AZ !ear made his mistake
stead o. being tagged out was chased
across the plate
The affair Of 1915 is still so fresh
:. is necessary for any ono to point out
..1arly the unfortunate Once Tie as-
.tsyhled that tic side was retired and
started in toward the plate But the
walking in pitch Was made 20 BABE
Ruth. The BAH sailed over Flack' /.
head and landed Just wherq Tlack had
position, Ruth would have been an
easy out and no runs would have been
scored. But he didn't, and the runs
that came in on tina; hit won the ball
game.
=; I'm another game, FIack, usually a
brilliant nc!der. came in on shor,
NY, had the ball securely in his hand
and then out il popped Two runs
scored which gave the Sox the game
and the series
III those incidents aren't luck. or
tinGed with luck. what is?"-CopyriGht
1919. By King Features Syndicate. Inc.