The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-04
UNUSUAL SURE
TO HAPPEN IN
WORLD SERIES
Reeerassef Past Events Are Replete
With individual and Freak
Plays.

New York. Oct. Unusual plays,
brilliant performances of iRdtvid
ual 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 chan
pionship 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 Pitchers Overall
and Brown of the Cubs. Overall
won two games, the second, in
which he allowed the Detroits four
hits and won. 2 to 0. Brown shut
out the Tigers in the fourth game,
3 to 0. The Tigers getting but four
hits off his weird delivery.
In 1903, Babe Adams. the vet
eran Pittsburgh hurier, won three
games for the Pirates, the first. fifth
and seventh, against Detroit. Hans
Wagner, the Pirate shortstop. play
ed brilliantly. as did Moriarity, the
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Bender and Coo4nhs pitched and
won the entire series for the Ath-
letics against the Cubs in 1910.
Coomhs won all three games in
which he started and Bender won
one and lost one. Eddie Collins per
formed brilliantly afeId and at bat
for the Mackmeu. The Cubs were
favorites to win in the series.
Tho hnpaa RING r,f Ezr4oaL~
Run" Baker contributed largely 10
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
Oct. Is. the score was tied IN the
ninth The Giants scored one in
the tenth and led. Harry Rooper-
robbed them OF a run that may
have STAYED off defeat by leaning
kover the fence and taking Doyle's
long hit which would have begn a
homer. Then disaster befell the
Giants in Bostou's half Snodgrass
m1Ilfed long fly by Engle who bat
ted in place of Wood. the Boston
hurler, whose hand vas injured in
the previous inning when he stop
ped Catcher Meyers hard liner.
Engle took second on the muR.
tSnodgrass then made a magnificent
catch Of Hooper'g fly which seem
ed good for three bases Mathew
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| out Yerkes, and failed, Yerkes
| walking. Speaker hit the first bali
pitched for an easy foul which
| should have been caught by First
! baseman MerkIe. AS 1t occurred
1 later, by capturing this foul Merkla
/ would have saved the game for the
/ Giants, for Speaker singled, send
! ing Engle across the pan with the
/ tieing run. Yerkes stopped at third
/ Gardner sent d long fly sacrifice To
( DeFore and YerkeS sped across with
! the winning run.
In 1913, the Athletics won from
7 the Giants again One of the bright
spots in this series was the great
pitching duel between Hathewson
. of the Giants and Plank, OF the Ath-
Eetics, in the second game. The
Giants won in the tenth inning, bat
ting Plank for three runs. Barry.
Collins and Baker, the great Athlet-
ic infielders. performed well Bend
er pitched Philadelphia to victory
in two games.
The Boston Braves, who had
made a great dght in the National
league, and won their way from
the cellar to the pennant, upset all
dope in 1914 By winning four
games straight from the worlds
champion Athletics Little John
Evers pulled one OF the greatest
"bone-head" plays in worlds series
history in the tenth inning OF the
third game With the bases fun,
Baker hit hard groU4der TO John
John iugglad the ball and hooked
dumb while TWO men crossed the
plate.
The hitting and fielding Of
George Duffy Lewis featured the
1915 series bowen the Boston
Red Sox and The Philadelphia Ma
tionats. He drove in Speaker
with the Soz GEIy run in the eighth
inning, first game. In the fourth
game his two-baggeT sent across
the winning run for Boston in the
sixth inning. He collected tLree OF
his teams winning hits off Alex
ander in the third game which the
Sox won In the nintA on bis single
which drove ia 4 run More than
$4,000 persons witnessed the game.
Harry Hooper, of the Boston Red
Sex, the same player who sapeI
his team in TIE series in 1919 by
catching Qoyle's long 1y IS Il
went over the fence. plsyed 4 bril-
liant game for his team IN the ser
les of 1916 against Brooklyn he
batied sensatioHally afietd. his
hits were all timely and contrib
uted to the Rec Sox victory.
"Babe" Ruth. now the hone-rua
champion and member Of the
New York Yankees. pitched the
Red Sox to two victories over the
Chicago Cubs in 1918. ryler's
pitching and hitting also helped the
Sox TO win the series. Carl Mays.
who also is a member of the Yan-
KEGS this year, wen tRo games for
Boston By his alright hurN8E-
Last year the triple play made
by Wambganss of Cleveland II tEa
fifth inning Of, tae fifth game
against B-ocklyn; Elmer Smiths
homer with three On Ia tAs IFS
iEB.aG of the afth game aDa Bag
byss homer with two on in the
fourth inning Of the same game