Imperial Valley press., 1921-09-26
PLAYS THA I
MADE BALL
PLAYERS
NOTED
Coming World Series Recall
Stories of Unusual and
Brilliant Pc rfOrmances
That Entered Into Past
Games.

NEW YORK, Sept. 26-Unusual
plays, brilliant performances of indi-
vidual 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 speeu
lative 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 Pithchers 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 Tigers in the
fourth game, three to nothing. The
Tigers but four hits off his wierd
delivery.
In 1909, "Babe" Adams, the vet
eran Pittsburgh hurler, won three
games for the pirates, the first, fifth
and seventh, against Detroit. Hans
Wagner, the Pirate shortstop, play
ed brilliantly, as did Moriarty, the
Detroit third-sacker.
Bender and Combs pitched and won
the entire series for the athletics a
gainst the Cubs in 1910. Combs won
all three games in which he started
and Bender won one and lost one.
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 Athletics 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 October 16
the score was 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 have
been a homer. Then disaster befell
the Giants in Boston's half. Snod-
grass muffed long fly by Engle who
batted in place of Wood, the Boston
hurler, whose hand was injured in the
previous inning when he stopped
Catcher Meyers hard liner. Engle
took second on the muff. Snodgrass
then made a magnificent catch of
Hooper's fly which seemed good for
three bases. Mathewson tried all his
cunning to strike out Yerkes, ard
failed, Yerkes walking. Speaker hit
the first ball pitched for an easy foul
which should have been caught by
Ifirstbaseman Merke. 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 tieine
run. Yerkes stopped .at third. Gard
ner sent long fly sacrifice to Devort
and Yerkes sped across with the win
ming run.
In 1918 the Athletics won from
the Giants again. One of the brigh
spots in this series was the grea
pitching duel between Mathewson O
the Giants and Planks of the Athletics
in the second game. The Giants wol
in the tenth INNING, batting Planl
for three runs. Barry, Collins and Ba
ker the great Athletic infielders per
formed we'll. Bender pitched Phila
delphia to victory in two games.
The Boston Braves, who had mad
great fight in the National Leagu
and won their way from the cellar t
the pennant, upset all dope in 1914 b
winning four games straight fror
the worlds champion Athletics. Littl
John Evers pulled one Of the creates
"bone-head" plays in worlds serie
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