Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-27
Freak Plays and
Brilliancy Seen in
World Series Games


series for the worlds baseball
championship. Such occurrences
are recalled each year in fan
dom and lend to the speculative
interest in the championship games
about to be played.
The outstanding feature of the
series in 1908, in which the Chicago
Cubs defeated the Detroit Tigers
was the hurting of Pitchers Overall
and Brown of the Cubs. Overall won
two games, the second, in which he
allowed the Detroits four hits and
won six to one, and the fifth in which
he allowed three hits and won two
to nothing. Brown shut out the I'll
gers in the fourth game, three to
nothing. The Tigers getting but four
hits off his weird delivery.
In 1909. Babe" Adams, the veter-
an Pittsburgh hurler, won three
games for the Pirates. the first, fifth
and seventh, against Detroit. Hans
Wagner, the Pirate shortstop played
brilliantly, aS did Moriarty, the De-
troit third-sacker.
Bender and Coombs pitched and
les against the Cubs in 1910. Coombs
won all three games in which he
started and Bender won one and
lost one. Eddie Collins performed
brilliantly afield and at bat for the
Mackmen. The Cubs were faVorites
to win in the series
The home runs of Frank Home
Run Baker contributed largely to
the Athletics victory over the Giants
! in the series of 1911. In the second
game Bakers homer put the Athlet-
I les in the lead and his homer in the
third game tied the score after the
Giants appeared to have the game on
ice.
Thrills aplenty were had in the
1912 games between the Boston Red
SoX and the New York Giants In
the eighth game at Boston, on Octo-
Der 1G the score was tie in the ninth.
The Giants scored one in the tenth
and led. Harry Hooper robbed them
| OF run that may have STAYED off
defeat by leaning over the fence and
taking Doyle's long hit which would
have been a homer. Then disaster
befell the Giants in Boston's half
SnodgraSS muffed a long fly by Engle
who batted in place of Wood, the
Boston hurler, whose hand was in
jured in the previous inning when he
stopped Catcher Meyers hard liner
Engle took second on the muff.
Snodgrass then made n magnificent
catch of Hooper's fly which seemed
good for three bases. Mathewson
tried all his cunning to strike out
Yerkes, and failed, Yerkes walking.
Speaker hit the first ball pitched for
an easy foul which should have been
caught by first baseman Merkle AS
it occurred later. by capturing this
foul Merkle would have saved the
game for the Giants for Speaker
! singled. sending Engle across the
pan with the tieing run. Yerkes
stopped at third. Gardiner sent
long fly sacrifice to Devore and Yer
kes sped across with the winning
run.
IN 1913, the Athletics won from
the Giants again. One of the bright
spots in this series was the great
pitching dual between Muthewson of
the Giants and Plank, of the Athlet-
les, in the second game. The Giants
won in the tenth inning, batting
Plank for three runs. Barry, Collins
and Baker the great Athletic infield-
ers performed well. Bender pitched
Philadelphia to victory in two games.
The Boston Braves, who had made
a great fight in the National League
and won their way from the cellar to
the pcnnant, upset all dope in 1914
by winning four games straight
from the worlds champion Athlet-
les. Little John F,vers pulled one of
the greatest bone head plays in
worlds series history in the tenth
inning of the third game. With the
bases full Baker hit hard ground
er to John. John juggled the ball
and looked dumb while two men
crossed the plate.
The hitting and fielding of George
Duffy Lewis featured the 1915 series
between the Boston Red SoX and the
Philadelphia Nationals. He drove in
Speaker with the SoX's only run in
the eighth inning first game In
the fourth game his two-bagger
SeiI uNipoo lIAt NIllIlIllS run LOT bOS-
ton in the sixth inning. He collected i
three of his teams six hits off Alex
ander in the third game which the
SoX won in the ninth on his single
which drove in a run. More than
$4,000 persons witnessed the game.
Harry Hooper, of the Boston Red
Sox, the same player who saved his
team the series in 1912 by catching
Doyle's long hit as II went over the
fence, played a brilliant game for his
team in the series of 1916 against
Brooklyn. He batted $50 and played
sensationally afield. His hits were
all timely and contributed to the Red
Sox victory
Babe" Ruth, now the home-run
champion and a member of the New
York Yankees, pitched the Red Sox
to two victories over the Chicago
Cubs in 1913. Carl Mays, who also
is member of the Yankees this
year, won two games for Boston by
his alright hurting.
Last year the triple play made by !,
Wambganss of Cleveland in the fifth
inning Of the fifth game against