The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-10-08

The collapse Of the Cub twirling
staff enabled Coombs to walk home to
three easy victories. as the Athletics
scored twenty.eight runs in three
games he pitched. He won by scores
Of 8 to 3, IL to s and to q.
His Greatest Game.
COMBS greatest worlds series game
was pitched on the Polo Grounds In
tho third game of the 1911 series.
Mathewson led. to o. up to the ninth
inning, when Baker tied the score for
Coombs with q home run. Jack then
won in the eleventh inning by q score
OF Q to 2. Coombs permitted only three
hits in the eleven innings.
Coombs pitched another masterpiece
the next time he faced the Giants. but
injured himself internally while put
ting all his strength into q pitch.
Mack kept Coombs In. despite his
better judgment, and the Giants were
able to tie the score on Jack in the
ninth inning. Strunk ran for Coombs,
after he opened the tenth with a single
and in the second half Plank was
touched up for New York's winning
run. The defeat was charged to Get
tysburg Eddie.
Beat Mays in 1915.
In 1916 Coombs, then q National
Red Sox pitcher the Dodgers got
friendly with in their Inflated series
four years ago. With his team ahead,
| 4 to 8, Jack felt himself slipping in the
seventh after Gardner had hit him for
a home run, and relinquished his post
| to Pefeffer, who held the one run lead
| to the end. That was Brooklyn's lone
victory.
Next to Coombs the worlds series
pitchers with the best records are the
two Babes-Adams. Of Pittsburgh. and
Ruth, formerly of the Red Sox and
now slugger-extraordinary of the yam.
kess. Both Babes have three victories
and no defeats. Adams won his three
| In one series, while Ruth won his In
two. Adams was q kid in his early
teens times In the worlds series OF
1909, and practically won the worlds
title for Pittsburgh single-handed, n
the series went the full seven games
At the time Adams was O kid in hi,
early teens and was putting in his
first year in the major league.
Last year Stanley Coveleski Jumped
into the ranks of the famous when h,
won three games from Brooklyn ant
did not meet with q defeat.
Ruth was the most disappointed
man In Boston when Bill CarrigaI
failed to use him in the 1915 seriei
with the Phtllies. Babe led the Ameri
can League in games won and los
that year, but Carrigan got along Q,
well with Shore, Foster and Leonar,
that he had no occasion to use hi
big Babe.
/ Babe Gets His Chance.
|, Ruth got his chance In the secon,
game Of the 1915 series with Brooklyn
HI Myers hit him for q homer In tn
first inning. but thereafter Bah
pit ed twentyAnine consecutiv
worlds series innings before anothe
run was shaken out OF him, brealxin
. Mathewson's former record of twenty
J eight scoreless worlds series inning,
|, Ruth won the game from Brooklyn 4
. fourteen innings. beating sherro
!. Smith, Q to 1.
He won the first game Of the 1s1
: series between the Cubs and Red So
4 last fall, defeating Jim Vaughn in
pitchers battle, i to o. Ruth ais
i, pitched most OF the fourth game {
\ this series. While his team led 3 to
: In the ninth he was taken out wit
: two men on the bases and none on
Bush came. in and saved the game fc
him, Ruth having shifted to left fiel,
Chicago scored two runs on Babe
the eighth inning Of this game, breal
{ ing his wonderful scoreless streak.
: Is singular fact. however, that viii
o Ruth has pitched twenty-nine consec,
/, tive scoreless worlds series innins
g two innings over three full nine 4