The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-10-06
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! Weakness Of tho White Sox. but whose
two triples over third base each won
game and gave the American League
It's championship.
Cubs Loss TWO Series.
The Cubs. in spite Of their wonderful
! playing In their own league. lost two
! world series; one to the weaker White
! Sox. one to tho Athletics. The Ath.
J letics series was a surprise TO the fans.
! The Cubs themselves never could ex.
plain It. They gave all credit to Aack'S
machine. but could not explain their
own weak showing. They won but one
game and that with King" Cole, Who
had not been figured to win, pitching.
| Overall and Brown and Reulbach all
failed. Tho series started the dish.
tegration OF Chances team and caused
much bad feeling in the team. -
1sd 1ox-oiants . 0rsat Series.
From the standpoint Of sheer excite.
ment and tensity Of situation. the -.
ries between the New FORK Giants ana
the Boston Red Sox leads them all.
! There never have, perhaps, been 20 many
tense situations or as much despSf1to
! playing.
The Red sox led then by Jake Stahi.
figured to win handily. They had the
series in hand. In spite Of the despSr'
ate resistance Of the Giants and: the
most remarkable playing ever seen In
| a series. which was the third base play
of Charlie HerEog. Smoky Joe" Wood,
now with Cleveland, and then the star
pitcher with the Red Sox. was carded
to pitch tho game which would gtve
| the Red Sox tho series, to ]. He had
! told friends he would win. and had made
wager himself that he would close
| II up. At the last minute Stahi with.
| c.ew Wood and sent "Bucky' O'brteh
/ to pitch. New York won tho game be.
fore O'Brien got fairly warmed mp. The
! change caused q scrap In the club be.
tween wood and o'Brien AMI their
| friends. The scrap was rSnewod the
next day just before the game. and
| Wood, excited and angry. went out to
pitch almost without warming up. white
and mad all the way through. AMI
tossed off his own game In the nrse
inning. ... ..
It looked then asif tho Giants would
| win without trouble, but the concluding
game ended with Snodgras6s muff OF .
fly in left center. which gave Boston the
title. D..
Famous My 10 1xp1ai1sL
Snodgrass has been severely censussd
because Of that muff and all sorts OF
blame placed upon him. A. . matter OF
fact. II was quite an ordinary sort OF
occurrence. The ball was hit almost
dead to left center Either the center
or the left fielder ought to have caught
II, but the left fielder was playing over
a bit too far toward tho foul line. It 10
quite evident that Snodgrass did not
know how his associate was playing the
position. Evidently he concluded that
1t was the property Of tho left fielder.
and hearing no call. became worried. He
stopped, looked to see where tina LEFT
fielder Was. then started again AZ hard
az he could run. He reached the BAN
will both hands and muffed.
The reason for the muff was mat ne
took his eye off the oAR for An instant.
Anv outtielder Will tell you that they
viii muff IS or more per cent OF fly
ba lis II they take their eyes away from
II bali even an instant and have to
look back and Judge II again. his err
ror VS. not In the mutt but In falling to
keep his eye on the ball. .rs
copyright, 1921, the New York Even.
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