Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-29
PLAYS
ARE DESIRED
Give Fans Something to Talk
About for Months to
Come

sSPt'
every fan goes to the worlds series
to see is one of those p~lays"t-one
OF the super-plays that he can talk
about all winter and read about IN
sc mebody's memoirs in the years to
come. He goes in the hope that ne
can tell some eager listener, Il saw
il. 1 was there"
| And in the hotels of the partici-
pating clubs in the days before tire
series is underway there will be that
Sc me jovial crew of always there's.
Some of them spend a week cross
ing the continent to experience Ike
feel of a chilly bubble creeping up
their spines to be exploded near the
base of the brain by somebody's one
handed stab of a hot liner or some
other of the deciding plays"-one
o: the many "climaXes' of the
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 n defeat against De-
trcit. Ed Ruelbach and Ed Pfeister
were the other hurlers OF the I'D
Cubs.
In the hotel Hobbies now they are
heatedly discussing the pitching
duels between Christy Mathewson
and RUDE Marquard of the Giants.
against Chief Bender and Eddie
Plank of the Athletics, of only ten
years ago, and how Franklin j.
Baker, the young Marylander, was
permitted to sign Home Run be-
fore 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 o~ne-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 1903
American League champions.
The Boston tribe speaks touching
ly-almost tearfully-of the 1912
series which the Red Sox took from
the Giants, winning four losing three
and tieing one. at was in .he
eighth and final game at Boston on
October 16 when the score was a
tie at the end Of the NINTH" SO the
legend runs.
1.-THE Giants scored n 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
vas ticketed for a home run and, as
turned out later, it was the saving
play of the series. 1t was the decid-
ing 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 batted for
Wood. Engle went to second on the
error. Snodgrass tried to redeem
himself on the next play by safely
catching a terrific 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 first baseman,
muffed a foul from the bat Of iris
Speaker and then"
THAT" breaks in the listener,
twas the climax. That, not Hoop
er's catch. was the deciding play.
Now I was there and"
And them" goes on the first
speaker, frowning, "Old iris singled
and Engle came home with the ty-
ing run. Yerkes scored the winning
run one minute and eight seconds
later-by my watch-when Gardner
sem a long sacrifice fly to Devore."
None of the fans forgot the triple
play made unassisted by Wamb-
gnass of Cleveland in the fifth in
ming Of the fifth game against
Brooklyn in 1920; Elmer Smiths
homer with three on in the first in
ming of the same game and Bagby's
homer with two on in the fourth m
ming, 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 Nc
Nally, who had hit a two-bagger
and had gone to third on Schang's
sacrifice, stole home with Mays get
ting ready to hit the ball.