Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-09-29
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/super-playS that ne can Idih t'DouO
all winter and read about in some
body's memoirs in the years to come.
He goes in the hope that he can tell
some eager listener, IT saw it. !
was there"
And in the hotels of the participant
ing clubs in the days before the Sc
ries is underway there will be that
same iovial crew of always there's"
Some of them spend week crossing
the continent to experience the feel
of a chilly bubble creeping up their
spines to be exploded rear the base
of the brain by somebody's one hand
ed stab of hot liner or some other
of the deciding plaJe---one of the
many ""climaxes" of the series.
None of the Old Guard who take
their base ball straight ever will for
get the series of 1908 when Ed Over
all and "Three Finer" Brown, pitch
ed the old, Cub machine of the 'gen-
irvine mahogany" days to four vic
tories to one defeat against Detroit.
Ed Ruelbach and Ed Pfeister were
other hurlers of the old Cubs.
In the hotel Hobbies now they are
heatedly discussing the pitching duels
between Christy Mathewson and
Rube Vanguard 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.
Those Famed Hitless Wonders
Others talk of the "Titless Won
ders" of I9O6-the team of the late
Jiggs Donahue and the amusing Nick
Altrock that swamped Frank Chance
and his bristling Cubs, four games
10 two, and how Donahue made sew
eral one-harded catches or badly
thrown balls by stretching an unbe-
lieveable length while holding one
foot on the bag.
They talk, too, of Babe" Adams
the old war horse Of the Pittsburgh
Pirates, who wan three games for the
Smoky CITY" team from the Tigers
q other days-the 1909 American
League Champios.
The Boston tribe speaks touching
!y-alm9st tsarfully-of the 1912 Sc
ries which the Red Sox took from the
Giants, winning four losing three anc
tieing one. at was in the eight
and final game at Boston on October
IS when the score was q tie at the enc
Of the ninth" 50 the legend runs.
The Giants scored one in the
tenth" says the Old Fan. Scored
one and let. Harry Hooper did the
lob. Why, SIR! he leaned over the
fence and took Doyle's long hit tha
was tickeced for a home run and, a:
turned out later, it was the saving
play Of the series. 1t was the de-
Gliding play. That was the climax.
at any rate the world went tt
pieces for the Giants in their half 0:
the inning. Snodgrass muffed Ions
fly hit by EngIe who batted for Wood
Engle went to second on the error
Snodgrass tried to redeem himself OF
the next play by safely catching
terrific liner that Harry Hooper HI
with the intention OF ending the Sc
rieS.
"Christy Mathewson, twirling TO
New York, put, all the fooling he ha'
into his pitching 10 Yerkes but tn
batter walked. Then Fred Merkle
the Giant Hrstbasemau, muffed fou
from the oat Of iris Speaker an
then"
That" breaks in the listener
was the climax. That, not Hooper
catch, was the deciding play. NeN
I was there and"
"And them" goes on the first speak
er, frowning, odd iris singled an
Engle came home with the tying ruI
Yerkes scored the winning run on
minute and eight seconds later-b
my watch-when Gardner sent
long secarifce fly to Devore.'
None of the fans forget the tripl
play made unassisted by Wambgnas
of Cleveland in the fifth inning II tn
fifth game against Brooklyn in 1921
Elmer Smiths homer with three Q
In the first inning of the same gan
and Bagby's homer with two on
the fourth inning, also of the san
game.
None of the bowling mob who shoe
the concrete Polo Grounds will frg,
t. eSth inning Of the first game la
sss<hen Mike McNally, who ha
<stwo-baEger and had gone
y On Schg, sacrifice, sto
- - ing ready TO b