The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-10-05
WATCHING FOR
SUPER PLAYS
TO Be SPRUNG
Fans Go to World Series for
Sensations to Be Dis
cussed Around Stove.

NEW YORK, Oct What every
fan goes to the worlds series to see
is one of those plays'-one of the
super7plays that he can talk about
all winter and read about in some
bodys memoirs in the years to come.
He goes in the hope that he can
tell some eager listener, 81 saw it.
] was there"
And in the hotels of the partici-
pating clubs in the days before the
series is under way there will be
that same jovial crew of always
there's" Some of them spend a
week crossing the continent to ex-
perience the feel of a chilly bubble
creeping up their spines to be ex-
ploded near the base of the brain
by somebody's one-handed stab of
hot liner or some other of the de
Gliding plays"-one of the many
"climaxes" of the series.
1908 Series
None of the Old Guard who take
their baseball straight ever will for
get the series of 1908 when Ed
Overall and Three Finger" Brown
pitched the old Cub machine of
the "genuwine mahogany" days to
four victories to one defeat against
Detroit. Ed Ruelbach and Ed Pfeis-
ter were other hurlers of the old
Cubs.
In the hotel Hobbies now they are
heatedly discussing the pitching duals
between Christy Mathewson and
Rube Marquard of the Giants against
Chief Bender and Eddie Plank of the
Athletics of only 10 years ago. and
how Franklin j. Baker. the young
Marylander, was permitted to sign
"Home Run" before his name when
the dust had cleared away.
Others talk of the "Hitless Won
ders" of 1906-the team of the late
Jiggs Donahue and the amusing
Nick Altrock that swamped Frank
Chance and his bristling Cubs, four
games to two, and how Donahue
made several one-handed catches Of
badly-thrown balls by stretching an
unbelievable length while holding one
foot on the bag. =
They talk, too, of Babe Adams,
the old war horse of the Pitts
burgh Pirates, who won three games
for the Smoky City" team from the
Tigers of other days-the 1909 Am
erican League champions.
1912 Series
The Boston tribe speaks touching
ly-almost tearfully-of the 1912 Sc
ries, which the Red Sox took from
the Giants. winning four, losing three
and tieing one. at was in the eighth
and final game at Boston on October
16 when the score was a til at the
end of the NINTH" so the legend
runs.
"The Giants scored one in the
10TH" says the Old Fan. Scored
one and led Marry Hooper did the
job. Why, sir. he leaned over the
fence and took Doyles long hit that
was tickcted for a home run and,
as turned out later. is was the saw
ing play of the series. 1t was the
deciding play. That was the climax.
"At any rate the world went to
pieces for the Giants in their half OF
the inning. Snodgrass muffed "a
long fly hit by Engle. who battad
for Wood Engle went to second
on the error Snodgrass tried to
redeem himself on the next play by
safely catching the series.
Christy in Game
"Christy Mathewson. twirling for
New York. put all the fooling he
had into his pitching to Yerkes but
the batter walked. Then Fred Mer-
kle. the Giant first baseman, muffed
a foul from the bat of Iris Speaker
and then"
THAT" breaks in the listener.
was the climax. That, not Hooper's
catch, was the deciding play. Now
Il was there and"
"And them goes on the first
speaker, frowning. "Old iris singled
and Engle came home with the ty-