Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-09-26
SOME UNUSUAL PLAYS
OF WORLDS SERIES
Championship Diamond Battles
of Past Were FEATURED By
Brilliant Plays
(By Associated Press)

New York, sept. ZO-OnuSual
plays. brilliant performances OF
individual players and freaky
things have entered into many OF
the series for the worlds base
ball championship. Such occur
rences are recalled each year in
fandom and lend to the specula-
tive interest in the championship
games about to be played.
The outstanding feature of the
series in 1908. in which the Chic
ago Cubs defeated the Detroit
! Tigers. was the hurting of Pitch
ers Overall and Brown. OF the
Cubs. Overall won two games.
the second. in which he allowed
the Detroits four hits and wor
six to one. and the fifth in which
he allowed three hits and WOE
two to nothing. Brown shut out
ut the Tigers in the fourth game
three to nothing. The Tiger
getting but three hits off weird
delivery.
In 1909. Babe" Adams. the
veteran Pittsburg hr.rler. woi1
three games for the Pirates, til,
first, fifth and seventh against
Detroit. Has Wagner, the Pi-
rate shortstop, played brilliantly
as did McTiarty, the Detroit thirG
Isacker'
Bender and Coombs pitched an(
Iwon the entire series for the Ath
Eletics against the Cubs in 1910
ECoombs won all three games il
(which he started and Bender won
one and lost one. Eddie Collin;
performed brilliantly aield and q:
the bat for the Mackmen. The
tCubs were favoriteS to win in tht
lseries.
/ The home runs of Franz
'Hone Run" Baker contributed
largely to the Athletics victor,
over the Giants in the series OF
| 1911. In the second game Bak-
ers' home run put the Athletics
in the lead and his honera;insth'
| 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 al
! Boston, on October 10, the score
Twas 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 de-
feat by leaning over the fence and
taking Doyle's long hit which
| would have been a homer. Then
disaster befell the Giants in Bos-
tons half. Snodgrass muffed a
long fly by Engle who batted in
place of Wood, the Boston hurler,
iwhose hand was injured in the
previous inning, when he stopped
il Catcher Meyers hard liner. Engle
took second the nuff. Snod-
grass then made a magnificent
catch of Hooper'si fly which seem
| ed good for three bases. Mathew
son tried all his cunning to strike
out 4erkes, and failed. Yerkes
walking. Speaker hit the first
ball pitched for an easy foul
which should have been caught
! by Businessman Merkle. AS it
occurred later. by capturing this
foul Merkle would have saved the
game for the Giants. for Speake,
singled. sending Engle across the
pan with the tieing run. Yerkes
stopped at third. Gardner sent g
long fly to Devore and Yerkes
sped across with the winning run
| In 1913. the Athletics won from
the Giants again. One of the
| bright spots in this series was tho
great pitching duel between
Matthewson for the Giants ane
Plank for Athletics in the sec
. ond game. The Giants won il
i. the tenth inning, batting Planl
for three runs. Barry, Collins
and Baker the great Athletic in
felders, performed well. Bende
pitched Philadelphia to victory ii
1.-TWO games.
II The Boston Braves, who mad
I a great fight in the Nationa
J league and won their way from
the to the pennant, upetting al
dope Sin 1914 by winning fou
games straight from the world
{ champion Athletics. Little Tohl
| Evers pulled one of the creates
! "bone head plays in worlds ser
| les history in the tenth inning o
1 fI1e third Game With the ho CO