The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-10-01
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DACK in 1904 the Ameri-
II can league race wound
up in a Garrison finish.
Early in June Clark Griffith's
New York team, then known
as the Highlanders. went into
second place and were chas-
ing the league-leading Bos-
ton team hard. The fight
that followed during the rest
of the season was one Of the
most bitter ever staged in the
league. Early in August New
York went into the lead.
Then they were dislodged,
fought their way back and
were dislodged again. Chi
cago also remained a POSSIBLE
ity until the last week in the
race.
The teams went into the
last series almost neck and
neck And then came the CHESHIRE
catastrophe.
CHESHIRE during that season was
81 the peak Of his career. With n
record OF Al wins and ~ defeats for
th< year. he had led all other Amer.
tcan league pitchers BY. big mar
gin.
And with the Highianders needing
two more victories to cop the flax
and Boston needing one. Griffith
cent cheshro In to pitch the "croo-
eiAl" game.
During the first part OF the game
ChAbro held Boston sccreiess while
The Highlander scored two runs In
the NTH. But In the seventh. VII
uAms. on second. made = bad throw
60 the plate and let IN two Boston
runners. tying the sccse.
Everybody tixhtened up then. and
Boston came to lat In the ninth
With the score sim tied. criser
singled and moved over on Dinesn's
oacrifice.
Cheshire prepared to feed the next
batter = spitter. but his finger
clipped on the moist ball. the pitch
went Wild and hit the stands and
Cftgt- went home with tie winning
rum. giving Boston the American
hague championship
NHAr wasn't the only time team
! has been erased ~ = pennans
winner by an uniooksd-for possibii-
~.
Larry LAjoie. ne former hard
hitting ieader Of the Cleveland
Maps. also looks back On an II I
only had"
Back in 1905 an the western
american league teams were bupchsd
- closely. that It the END Of Sep
tsmbcr only about 20 points sspar.
eted the four. 49,
The ssassn weunl up WITH shs
Western teams meeting. 81. Louis
BUNDLED the league-leadinG Detroit
team. In the first Cieveland-cht
oaeo game Addie Jess pitched . no
hit game against Big Ed walsh OF
the White sox. beating him I to 0.
aItho Walsh famed IL Maps IN eight
1nnings.
Larry's disaster came In the next
eomc. The Cleveland leader came
10 bat in the seventh inning with
one man down and the bases fun.
Fielder Jones white Sox manager.
yanked Smith. who had started the
game. and sent In va Walsh 10
pitch 10 Lajoie. And Walsh deiiv-
creditor Larry struck out
a hit would have won the PEN
nant for Cleveland. for On the fol-
lowing day Cleveland lost to st.
Louis while Detroit beat Chicago.
winning the pennant from Cleveland
By just four points
HHERKLE and Snodgrass can both
AVA look back on IF only I hadn't"
experiences. For their boners coat
the Giants the 1919 series with the
Red sox.
Each team had won three games.
One had been played to a tie. In
box and the Giants were leading By
pne run in the tenth.
EngIe flied high to Snodgrass. and
he let the ball trickie thru him.
This fused Matty. and he let Yerkes
walk. Up came Iris Speaker. a
dangerous litter. Spoke fouled
high one over first and Merklc stood
Is II in a trance and let 1t fall safe
In the coacher's box.
Then Speaker singled. sending
over the tying run and making II
possible for a sacrifice fly TO bring
In the run that decided the series.
AIRY DOYLE OF the Giants
IL pulled one in the fifth game Of
the 1911 series that. had II not been
for the sportsmanship OF Captain
Harry Davis Of the Athletics. might
have wornd up the series earlier.
The Giants had scored two runs
in the last half Of the ninth and
tied the score. The Athletics had
failed to score In the tenth.
Doyle. first up for New York.
doubled and went 10 third on snod.
grass bunt. Mcrkle hit high fly
just inside the right foul line. Muir.
pnv made a great return TO Catcher
Lapp. but Doyles fadeaway slide
beat the ball.
busting off his clothes. he walked
TO the bench. never noticing the
fact that he hadn't touched the
plate. Lapp, too, turned away.
thinking the game was over. UNI.
pire KLEIN remained at the plate.
waiting for a protest. Davis. on
first, saw the play, but the crowds
were already breaking onto the
field, and rather than take chances
on starting a riot among the fans.
the Athletic captain refused TO pro.
test Doy1e's run.