The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-10-06

World series for the baseball cham
I pionship are peculiar and interesting
! events In national sport. The worl1
series has come to be the greatest sport
Ing event Of tho American year. anu
the biggest money getter the game ever
has known. 1t has also brought down
upon the sport the worst scandals aHd
tho greatest amount Of criticism OF any
thing in baseball history.
Every baseball man knows In his
cart. that the series is In itself Won
derful thing, and that II Is the worst
disaster TO the sport. The answer Is:
Money. The reward for these games
, has grown so largo that they are p
menace 70 the sport. Practically every
scandal that has arisen to hurt the lair
! name Of the sport has been direct re-
suit Of world series. or OF desire 10
get into such series.
/ Tho earlier ~orid series games De-
tween the National League and Ameri-
can Association teams ended IN scano4i'
in which the ST. Louis Browns ana IN"
Chicago White Sox accused each otner
Of unfairness and worse. The nrst re.
, yival OF the series after the naoonai
agreement ended In another CLASH
caused by money and jealousy between
,
! IN. series came scandal after scandal
the ticket scalping scandal In Chicago.
ugIy charges and insinuations In two
other series and finally the hideou5
white Sox-Cincinnati Reds series.
Now. we arc breeding q new and Dig
x.- .candal. 1t is inevitable, for tho
.imnle reason that too much money ls
involved.
low old Series wsrs Won
II Ia interesting, with this series
being played. to study how some OF tho
nrneeding series were won and lost. The
IN nous old riot between the Browns and
White Sox, led By Comiskey and An
.on. ended with a mufred ny, which
caused ugly charges to be made against
one Of the Browns and gave Chicago
- and a technical claim TO the title.
which never was admitted by ComisaSF.
The modern world series. however,
really began with the meeting OF mo
Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston team.
They were two great teams. and me
series In many respects, was Ike the
one now being played. Pittsburgh had
the better chance II seemed. on the
basis Of possessing two almost inVlnc-
ihl. pitchers. But when those two w.ro
done tho others amounted TO little
while the Boston team had better
balanced stan. Pittsburgh had II scent
ingly safe, when their pitcher col
lapsed and Boston won four straight
games and the title.
White Eox-cubs owl War.
Tho only series which really Is SINH
lar TO the present one was that between
the two Chicago teams each OF which
won It's own league championships. The
similarity extends to tho nature OF the
teams. Tho Cubs undoubtedly had tho
better team. not then perfect As II be-
came later, but the first form OF Chances
great machine. Each had great Pitch
ers-but oddly neither was a hard-htt-
ting team; tho White Sox being the
"hltless wonders" be, Luse they played
ball for one run At time and depended
upon alright pitching
Unexpectedly. after tho early games
Of tight pitching. the series desener-
nted into a slugEing match ana u Wild
scramble, Just as this oirs probably Will
do. In the fnal game. I remember.
Frank Isbell. tho famous old warrior,
went all to pieces. made four errors a.
second base. and retrieved the day by
maulng out four doubles and pound
Ink out tho victory for his team.
Tho series was won for the White Sox
By George Rohe. a bush league third
ba seman. who was expected TO be the