Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-02

New York. Oct. 1-unusul plays.
brilliant performances of Individual
players and freaky things have entered
into many OF the series for the worlds
baseball championship. Such occur
ences are recalled each year In fan
dom and lend to tho speculative inter
est In the championship games about
to be played.
Tho outstanding feature of the series
IN 1903, In which the Chicago Cubs
defeated the Detroit Tigers, was the
hurling OF Pitchers Overall and Brown
of tho Cubs. Overall won. two games
the second. in which he allowed the
Detroits four hits and won six to one,
and the fifth in which he allowed three
hits and won two to nothing. Brown
shut out tho Tigers In the fourth
getting but four hits off his weird de-
livery.
In 1919. babe" Adams, tho veteran
Pittsburgh hurlcr, won three gamcs
for tho Pirates. tho first. fifth and
seventh. against Detroit. Hans wag-
ncr tho Pirate rhortstop. played bril-
llantiy. as did Moriarty. the Detroit
thfrd-sacker.
Bender and Coombs pitched and won
the cntire series for tho Athletics
against tho Cubs in 1910 Coombs won
all three games in which he started
and Bender won ono and lost one.
Eddie Collins performed brilliantly
afield and at bat for the Mackmen.
Tho Cubs were favorltcs to win in the
series.
The home runs OF Frank Home
Run" Baker contributed largely to the
Athletics victory over. the Giants In
tho series OF 1911. In the second game
Bakers homer put the Athletics in
the lead and his homer in tho third
game tied tho score after the Giants
appeared to have the game on ice.
Thrills aplenty were had in tho 1912
games between tho Boston Rcd Sox
and tho New York Giants. In the
eighth game at Boston. on October Is.
tho score was ito in the ninth. The
Giants scored one in the tenth and
led. Harry Hooper robbed them of a
run that may have STAYED off defeat
by leaning over tho fence and taking
Doyle's long hit which would have
been a homer. Then disaster bcfell the
Giants in Boston's half. Snodgrass
muffed long fly by Engle who bat
ted In place of Wood. the Boston hurI-
or. whose hand was injured In the
previous inning whom ho stopped
Catcher Meyers hard liner. Englc took
second on tho muff. Snodgrass then
made magnificent catch OF Hoopcr's
fly which seemed good for three bases
Mathcwson tried all his cunning TO
strlkH out 1crkcs, ana failed. NCrkeS
walking. Speaker hit the hrst ball
pitched for an easy foul which
should have been caught by Friethase-
man Mcrklc AS II occurred later. by
capturing this foul Merkle would have
saved the game for the Giants for
Speaker singled. sending Engle across
the pan with the tieinc run. Ycrkes
stopped Mt third. Gardner sent a long
sacrifice to oevorc and Ycrkes sped
across with the winning run.
In 1919. tho Athletics won from the
Giants Hgnin. Ono of tho bright spots
in this series was the great pitching
duel between Msthewson Of the Giants
and Plank, of tho Athletics in the Sec
ond game. Tho Giants won In tho tenth
Barry. Collins and Baker tho great
Bender pitched Philadelphia to victory
in two games
The BOSTON Braves. who had made q
won their way from the cellar 10 the
pennant. upset ali dope in 1914 by
winning four games strntgh, from tho
worlds champion Athletics. Little
John Fvcrr pulled ono Of the rreatost
bone head" plays In world's seris.
history In tho tenth inning Of tho thirt,
game. With the bases fun. Baker hi,
hard rrounior to John. John iurglod
tho ball and looked dumb while two
men crossed the plate
Tho hitting and fielding NJ George
puny Lewis featured the 1915 seriea
between tho Boston Eed Snx and the
Philadelphia Nationals. He drove in