The Alaska daily empire., 1921-09-29
UNUSUAL PLAYS AND GOOD WORK
 IN BIG SERIES
Brilliant Performances of h. dividual Players World
 Series Are Reviewed.

NEW YORK, Sept 29.-Unusual plays. brilliant performances of in dividual players and freaky things have entered into many of the SC ries for the worlds baseball cham pionship. Such occurrences arc re called each year in fandom and lend to the speculative interest in tae championship games about to be played
 The outstanding feature of the se- ries in 1908, in which the Chicago Cubs defeated the Detroit Tigers, was the hurling of Pitchers Overall and Brown of the Cubs. Overall won two games. the second, in which he al- lowed the Detroits four hits and won 6 to I, and the fifth, in which he al lowed three hits and won to Q. The Tigers getting but four hits off his weird delivery.
 In 1909 Babe" Adams, the veteran Pittsburgh hurler, won three games for the Pirates, the first, fifth aud seventh. against Detroit. Hans Vag- ner, the Pirate shortstop, pla, ed brilliantly. as did Moriarty, the De. troit third-sacker.
 Bender and Coombs pitched and won the entire series for the Ath'et- ics against the Cubs in 1910. Coombs won all three games in which he started and Bender won one and lost Cne Eddie Collins performed b:iI iiantly afeld and at bat for the Mackmen. The Cubs were favori.es 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 .n the third game tied the score after tae Giants appeared to have the game on ice.
 Thrills In 1912 Games
 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 16, the score was tie in the ninth The Giants scored one in the 10tl and led. Harry Hooper robbed them )f run that may have stayed eff lefeat by leaning over the fence and taking Doyle's long hit which you'd have been homer Then disaster befell the Giants in Bostons hals Snodgrass muffed long fly by Engle who batted in place of Wood .he Boston hurler. whose hand was in. jured in the previous inning when he stopped Catcher Meyers hard liner Engle took second on the huff Snodgrass then made a mag nificent catch of HOOpers fly which seemed good for three bases. Ma. thewson 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 Mefkle As it occurred later. by cap turing 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. Gardner sent long fly sacrifice to Devore and Yerkes sped across with :he winning 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 Atl- letics. in the second game. The Giants won in the 10th inning. bat ting Plank for three runs. Barry, Collins and Baker. the great A.h- letic infielders. performed well. Ben der pitched Philadelphia to victory in two games.
 1914 Dope Upset
 The Boston Braves. who had made a great fight in the National League