Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-09-29
FANS At TEND SERIES
TO SEE GREAT PLAYS
Old Timers Find MUch to Talk
Of In Great Feats in Ma
tional Pastime.
Nv Associated Press to EverytEvening.


Now York. Sept. 2s.-W'int every
fan goc. 10 the Worlds Series to see
Ia one of chose plays"-oneSpf the
rurcr-plays that he can talk about all
winter and read about in somebody's
memoirs In the years TO come. lie
goes in the hope that he can tell
some eager listener. Il saw 1t. i was
there"
And in the hotels OF the participate
ing Gibbs In the days before the
series Is underway there will he 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
splncs to be exploded near the base
of the brain by somebody's one-hand-
cd stab OF hot liner or some other
OF the deciding plays"-one OF the
many "climaxes" of the series.
None OF the Old Guard who take
their baseball straight over Will forget
the series of 1908, when Ed Overall
and Three Finger" Brown, pitched
the old Cub machine OF the genuine
mahogany" days To four victories to
one defeat against Detroit. Ed Ruei-
bach and Ed Pfeister were other hurl-
crs OF the old Cubs.
In the hotel Hobbies now they are
4 hcatcdly discussing the pitching duels
. between Christy Mathewson and Rube
Marauard OF tho Giants against Chief
Bender and Eddie Plank of the Ath-
letlcs OF only 10 years ago, and how
Franklin j. Baker. the young Mary
lander, was permitted TO sign Home
Run" before his name when the dust
had cleared away.
Others talk OF the 'Hitlcss Wonders"
OF 1ao6-the team of the late Jiggs
Donahue and the amusing Nick AL
trock 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
bas.
They talk. too. OF Babe" Adams,
the old war horse OF the PittsburS
Pirates. who won three games for the
Smoky City" team from the Tigers
OF other days-the 1909 American
League champions.
The Boston tribe speaks touchingly
almost tearfully-of the 1912 series
Giants. winning four. losing three and
tieing one. "1tswas In the eighth
and final game at Boston on October
is, when the score was tie AT the
end OF the NINTH so the legend runs
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
;icketed for a home run and. as turn
ed out later, Il was the saving p,ay
of the series. 1t was the deciding
play. That was the climax.
AT any rate the world went Il
pieces for the Giants in their half oi
the inning. Snodgrass muffcd Ions
fly hit by Engle, who .batted fol-
Wood. Engle went 10 second on th'
error. Snodgrass tried TO redeem
himself on the next play by safely
catching a terrific liner that Harr!
HOOPER hit with the intention OF end
.ng the series.
Christy Mathewson, twirling 70
New York. put all the fooling he ha'
into his pitching TO Yerkes, but tn
halter walked. Then Fred Merkle, tn
Giant first baseman, muffed fou
from the bat of Iris Speaker ant
then"
That" breaks in the listener, va
the climax. That, not Hooper's catcl
was the deciding play. Now l wa
there and"
And then" goes on the first speak
er. srowning. "Old iris singled an
Fnglc came home with the tying run
Nerkes scored the winning run on
minute and eight seconds later-o
my watch-when Gardner sent lon
sacrifice fly 10 Devore."
None OF the fans forget the tripl
play made. unassisted, by Wamos
enass of Cleveland in the fifth innin
o. the fifth game against Brooklyn J
1920; Elmer Smiths homer with tire
on in the first inning of the sam
game, and RaSbys homer with two o
in the fourth inning. also of the sam
game.
None OF the bowling mob who shoe
the concrete Polo Grounds viii forge
the fifth inning Of the first game las
year. when Mike McNally, who ha
hit a two-bagger and had gone
third on Schang's sacrifice, stole HON
with Mays getting ready TO hit IN
hall