The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-09-29
DECIDING PLAYS
OFFORNERDAY.S
Being RECALLED
Every Fan Attending Worlds
Series Hopes to See
Super-PIays.

NEW YORK. Sept. 2s.- What
eVery fan goes to the Worlds Ser
les to see Is one OF chose plays"
one Of the super-plays that ho
can talk all winter and read about
In somebody's memoirs in the
years to come. He goes in thu
hope that he can tell some eager
listener, Il saw 1t. ] was there >.
And in the hotels Of the partl.
cipattng clubs IN the days before
the series is under way there will
be that same jovial crew Of "al-
ways there's. Some OF them spend
a week crossing the continent to
experience the feel OF a chilly bub-
Die creeping up their spines to be
exploded near the base Of the
brain by somebody's one-handei
stab OF a hot liner or some other
OF the deciding play -one Of
the many "climaxes" of the SER
les.
None of the Old Guard who
take their baseball straight ever
VIII forget the series Of 1908 when
Orville overall and Three Fin
ger" Brown pitched the old Quo
machine of the genuine mahog-
any" days to four victories to ons
+, defeat against Detroit. Ed Ruel-
bach and Ed Pfeister were other
hurlers Of the old Cubs.
In the hotel Hobbies now they
are heatedly discussing the pitch.
ing duels between Christy Math.
ewson and, RUDE Marquard Of the
Giants against Chief Bender and
Eddie Plank Of the Athletics OF
only 10 years ago, and how Frank
lin !. Baker the young Maryland
er was permitted to sign Home
Run" before his name when the
dust had cleared away.
Others talk Of the "Hitless
Wonders" of 1906-the team Of
the late Jiggs Donahue and the
amusing Nick Altrock that swamp
ed 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
Pittsburgh Pirates, who won three
games for the Smoky City" team
from the Tigers Of other days
the 1908 American League cham
pions.
The Boston tribe speaks touch.
lngly-almost tearfully-of Ithr
1912 series which the Red Sox
took from the Giants, winning
four, losing in three and tieinS
one, at was in the eight and fin
al game at Boston on October 16
when the score was a tie at tho
end of the ninth" so the legend
runs,
1.-The Giants scored one In the
TENTH" says the Old Fan. Scored
one and led. Harry Hooper did
the job. Why, sir! he leaned over
the fence and took Doyle's long hit
that was ticketed for a home RUIZ
and as turned out later, 1t was the
saving play Of the series. 1t was
the deciding play. That was the
climax.
4 Eat any rate the world went to
pieces for the Giants in their half
Of the inning. Snodgrass muffea
a long fly hit by Engle who bat
ted for Wood. Engle went to sec
ond on the error. Snodgrass
tried to redeem himself on the
next play by safely catching a ter
rifle liner that Harry Hooper hit
with the intention OF ending the
series.
"Christy Mathewson. twirling
for New York, put all the fooling
he had into his pitching to Yerkes
but the batter walked. Then Fred
Merkle, the Giant firstbaseman,
muffed foul from the bat OF
iris Speaker and then"
That, breaks In the listener.
was the climax. That, not Hoop
er's catch, was the deciding play.
Now l was there and"
"And then" goes on the first
speaker, frowning, "old iris
singiaI and Engle came home with
the tying run. Yerkes scored,the
winning run one minute and eight
seconds later-by my watch
when Gardner sent a long sacrifice
fly to Devore!" .a
None Of the fans forget the
triple play made unaSsisted by
Wambgnass of Cleveland in the
fifth inning Of the fifth game
against Brooklyn In 1920: Elmer
Smiths homer with three on Ia
the first shining Of the same gains
and BagbYs homer with two on In
the fourth inning, also OF the
same game.
None Of the bowling mob who
shook the concrete Polo Grounds
will forget the fifth inning OF the
first game last year when Mike
McNally, who had hit two bag
ger and had gone to third on
Schang's sacrifice, stole home with
Mays getting ready to hit the ball,
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