The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-10
VENERABLE ADAMS
BLANKS BROOKLYN
Pittsburg Worlds Series Hero
Of 1900 Yields Six Hits
and Wins, 2 to 0.
NJ GEORGE b. UNDERWOOD.

II youth must be served, old age, too.
sometimes must have his fling.
Ten years ago Babe Adams. then in
the heydey OF his baseball career. three
times beat the Tigers in the worlds Sc
ries and was the chief factor in bring
ing the championship to Pittsburg.
Where are the champion Pirates OF
1909? Wagner. Clarke. Abstein, Abba
tacchio. o'Connor. PHILIPPE, Camnitz,
Willis. Maddox, Liefield, Leach, Wilson,
Gibson. Byrne-all have drifted Into the
minors or out of baseball. Only Dots
Miller and Adams still remain in the
big show. Miller is with the Cardinals.
Adams is the only Pirate of 1909 who
still Is a Pirate.
Casting Off the mantle Of the years.
Adams flashed forth in all his pristine
glory Mt Ebbets Field yesterday. With
the same old wicked drop and round
house curve that held the Tigers TO ak
hits in each of the three worlds series
games In 1908 working like q charm,
Babe set the Dodgers down with six
scattered safeties and blanked Brooklyn,
to 0.
IL saw Adams pitch the three games
against the Tigers in 1909" declared
Wilbert Robinson after yesterdays
game, and. believe me, Babe had just
us much stuff to-day as he did then.
Why. that old drop ball Of his in the
pnches had our boys biting like cat
fish on a murky night When hits
meant runs Brooklyn couldn't touch Babe
with forty foot polei"
1T was the hardest game l ever
caught" declared Walter Schmidt, the
Corsair backstop. Babe had SO much
stun on the ball couldn't handle It,"
Yet Adams's delivery was 30 smooth
and easy that It was remarked Babe
looked like "a righthanded Nap Rucker'''
In his windup Adams. like Rucker USED
to do. stood with his two feet together
raised both arms aloft, brought the
pitching hand down and up with one
full swing, and over the plate shot the
ball.
Grimes in Hard Luck.
Adams was opposed by Burleigh
Grimes, and the stocky Brooklyn right
handler would have given much TO have
beaten the team with which he was
such a failure two years ago. But Bur
| leight hasn't yet entirely recovered from
his recent operation on his tonstls. ana
In his eighth inning administration the
Pirates Jumped on him for ten hits. YET
withal 1t was hard luck that cost Grimes
the game.
Grimes showed his pitching wizardry'
however, by permitting the Pirates 10
manufacture only two runs out Oh .he
ten hits and. except for bad Brooklyn
baseball in the sixth. the Pirates oniy
would have scored one run. During the
inning Cutshaw, who scored, was trap
ped between third and home, but got
back to his base again when the Dodger
infield was seized with an attack
of the blind staggers. When Cutshaw
did score later in the inning he would
have been out at the plate had not
KildufYs high throw to Kruger made
Ernie Jump OF his feet to get It.
1t would not be stretching things a
point to say that Grimes too deserved
shutout, for Terry's two Dagger that
bounced on Griftith's finger tips In the
nth and put Bigbee in position TO SCORE
would have been caught II Tommy
hadn't misjudged the ball
Adams Launches Rally.
Adams himself started the fifth inning
pittsburg rally by dumping a hunt In
| front Of tho plate and beating Kruger
throw Bigbee forced Babe. Johnston
to Olson Terry then came through with
his double OF Griffith's glove. sending
Rigbee to third. Casey Stengel did the
rest with a sacrifice fly to Wheat. scor-
ing Bigbee Southworth flied to Myers
Cutshaw singled In the sixth and took
third on Mollwitz's lash to left. Cation
forced MolIwitz, Grimes to Olson. and
took second on a wild pitch. Cutshaw
was trapped of third, but in the run
down got back safely and, to make mat
tiers worse, the Dodgers allowed Cation,
who had touched third. to return to
second In the mixup. Schmidt hunted
toward third and on Kildurs high
throw to Kruger Cutshaw Tailed. TIL,
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