Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-26
UNUSUAL PLAYS IN
ANNUAL BIG SERIES
Brilliant Peformances Usually
Enter in Worlds Clashes
for Baseball Titles
SEVERAL "BONERS" PULLED

Unusual plays. brilliant performances
OF individual players and freaky things
have entered into many of the series
for the worlds baseball championship.
Such occurrences are recalled each year
in fandom and lend to the speculative
interest in the championship games
about to be played.
The outstanding feature Of the series
in 10OS, in which the Chicago Cubs
defeated the Detroit Tigers. was the
hurting of Pitchers Overall and Brown,
or the Cubs. Overall won two games,
the second, In which he allowed the
Detroits four hits and won G to 1, and
the fifth, In which he allowed three hits
and won to o. Brown shut out the
Tigers in the fourth game, 3 TO 0. the
Tigers getting but four hits of his weird
delivery.
In 1909 Babe Adams, veteran
Pittsburgh hurler. won three games for
the Pirates, the first, fifth and seventh.
against Detroit. Hans Wagner, Pirate
shortstop, played brilliantly, as did
Moriarty, Detroit third -sacker.
Bender and Coombs pitched and won
the entire series for the Athletics against
the Cubs in 1910. Coombs won all
three games in which he started and
Bendcr won one and lost one. Eddie
Collins performed brilliantly nfeld and
ut bat for the Mackmen. The Cubs
were favorites to win in the series.
Inc home runs of Frank Home
itun Baker contributed largely to the
Athletics victory over the Giants in the
series of 1911. In the second game
Baker & homer put the Athletics in the
lead and his homer in the third game
tied the score. after the Giants ap-
peared to have the game on ice.
Thrills In 1919
Thri Is aplcnty were had in the 1912
games between tho Boston Red SOx and
the New York Giants. In the eighth
game at Boston. on October 16. the
score was tied in the ninth. The Giants
scored one in the tenth and led. Harrk
Hooper robbed them Of a run that might
have, STAYED off defeat by leaning over
the fence and taking Doyle's long hit,
which would have been a homer
Then disaster befcll 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 injured in the previous in
ming when he stopped Catcher Meyers
hard liner. Engle took second on the
muff. Snodgrass then made a magnif-
cent catch Of lIoopcr's fly which seemed
good for three bases. Mathewson tried
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 tying
run. IerkeS stopped Mt third. Card
ncr sent a long fly sacrifice to Devorc
and Icrkcs sped across with the win
ming run.
In 1913 the Athletics won from the
Giants again. One of the bright spots
in this series was the great pitching
duel between Mathewson. of the Giants,
and Plank, Of the Athletics, in the sec
Ond game. The Giants won In the tenth
inning, batting Plank for three runs
Barry. Collins and Baker. the great
Athletic infeldcrs, performed well.
Bender pitched Philadelphia to victory
In two games.
The Boston Braves, who had made a
great fight in the National League and
pennant, upset all dope in 1914 by win
ming four games straight from the
worlds champion Athletics. Little
John Evers pulled one of the greatest
bone head" plays in World Series
history in the tenth inning Of the third
game. With the bases full, Baker hit
n hard groundcr to John. John jug
glcd the ball and looked dumb while two
men crossed the plate.
Lewis Hits Hard
The hitting and fielding Of George
Duffy Lewis featured the 1915 series
between the Boston Red Sox and the
Phillles. He drove iH Speaker with
the Sox's only run in the eighth inning,
first game In the fourth game his two
bagger sent across the winning run for
Boston in the sixth inning. He col.
lected three Of his teams six hits off
Alexander In the third game which the
Sox won in the ninth on his single
which drove in a run. More than 43, .
600 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 it went over the
fence, played a brilliant game irr nrs
team in the series of 1916 against
brooklyn. He batted 333 and played
sensationally aheld. His hits ali were
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 ovtr the Chicago Cubs in
1918. Tyler's pitching and hitting also
helped the SOX to win the series. Carl
Mays. who also is member of the
Yankees this year. won two games for
Boston by his alright hurling.
of Cleveland, in the fifth
inning Of the fifth game against Brook
lyn, Elmer Smiths homer with three
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