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BRILLIANT PLAYS
IN WORLD SERIES
Players Who Made History
In Deciding Baseball
Contests
BAKER
PROMINENT IN 1911
Great Catch by Harry Hooper Turned
Tide in 1912-"Babe" Ruth Pitched
VIGOROUSLY In 1918 Series-BOstOn
Braves Win Four Straight In 1914.

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Tide in 1912-"Babe" Ruth Pitched
VIGOROUSLY In 1918 Series-BOston
Braves Win -Four Straight In 1914.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Unusual
plays, brilliant performances of individ-
ual players and freaky things have en-
tered into many of the series for the
worlds baseball championship. Such
J occurrences are recalled each year in
random and lend to the speculative in
~terest in the championship games about
Ito be played.
The outstanding feature of the series
in 1908, IN which the Chicago Cubs de-
feated the Detroit Tigers, was the hurl-
ing of Pitchers Overall and Brown of
the Cubs. Overall won two games, the
second, in which he allowed the Detroit
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 Tigers in the fourth game, three to
nothing, the Tigers getting but four
hits off his weird delivery.
In 1909, Babe Adams, the veteran
Pittsburgh hurler, won three games tor
the Pirates, the first, fifth and seventh.
against Detroit. Hans Wagner, the Fl,
rate shortstop, played brilliantly, as did
Moriarty, the Detroit t~hird-sacker.
Sender and CoOmbs pitched and won
the entire series fo- the Athletics
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 aield and
at bat for the Mackmen. The Cubs were
favorites to win in the series.
The home runs of Frank "Home-
Rum Baker contributed largely to the
Athletics victory over the Giants in the
series of 1911. In the second game Ba-
ker's homer put the Athletics in the
lead and his homer in the third game
tied the score after the GIANTS ar1eared
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 Oct. Is, the score
was a tie in the ninth. The Giants
scored one in the tenth and led. Harry
Hooper robbed them of a run that may
have STAYED off defeat by leaning over
the fence and taking Doyle's long hit
which would nave been a homer. Then
disaster befell the Giants in Boston 5
half. S~nodgrass mutfed a long fly by
Engle, who batted in place of Wood,
the Boston hurler, whose hand was in
lured in the previous inning when he
stopped Catcher Meyers hard liner.
Engle took second on the muff. Snod-
grass then made a magnificent catch OF
Hooper's fly which seemed good for
three bases. Mathewson tried all his
cunning to strike our Yerkes, and
failed, Yerk/ walking. Speaker hit the
first ball pitched for an eas fouF which
should have been caught by frstbase-
man Merkle. As it occurred later, by
capturing this foul NIerkle would have
sayed the game for the Giants for
Speaker singled, sending Engle across
the pan with the tieing run. Nerkes
stopped at third. Gardner sent a long
| a. canriEpa 70 hcy-nra md Narl-aa Enn1
across with the winning rum.
Ia 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 see
ond game. The Giants won in the tenth
inning, batting Plank for three runs
Barry. Collins and Baker, the great
Athletic inielders, performed well. Ben
der pitched Philadelphia TO victory III
two games.
The Boston Braves, who had made q
great fight in the National league and
won their way from the cellar TO the
pennant, upset all dope in 1914 by win
ming four games straight from the
world 5 champion Athletics. Little John
Evers pulled one of the greatest .'bone-
head plays in worlds series history
il the tenth inning, of the third game
With the bases full, Baker hit a hard
grounder to John. John iuggled the bal
and looked dumb while two men
crossed the plate.
The hitting and fielding of George
Duffy Lewis featured the 1915 series be.
tween the Boston Red SoX and the Phil
adelphia Nationals. He drove in
Speaker with the SOx's only run in the
eighth inning, first game. In the fourth
game his ~two-baggcr sent across the
winning run for Boston in the sixth
inning. He collected three of his team Z
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
$1,000 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 az it went over the
fence, played a brilliant game for his
team in the series of 1916 against
Brooklyn. He batted 333 and played
seusationally afeld. His hits were al
timely and contributed to the Red SoA
victory.
HEBabe" Ruth, now the home-rur
champion and a member of the New
York Yankees, pitched the Red Sox tC
two victories over the Chicago Cubs III
1918. Tyler's pitching and hitting also
helped the Sox to win the series. Car
MAYS, who also is a member of The
Yankees this year. Won two games fol
Boston by his alright hurting.
Last year the triple play made b,
Wambganss of Cleveland in the fftl
inning of the fifth game against Brook
lyn: Elmer Smith 3 homer with three
on in the first inning of the fifth game
and Bagby s homer with two on in tn,
fourth inning of the same game wcr,