The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-30

dle frank 10 Years Ago - How Red
Sex Beat Giants In 1912.
NEW YORK, Sept %. - What
every fan goes to the Worlds Series to
see is one of "those plays''-one of the
winter and read about in somebody's
memoirs in the years to come. He goes
in the hope that he can tell some eager
listener, Il saw it. / was there"
And in the hotels of the participating
clubs in the days before the series is
underway there will be that same jovial
crew of always there" Some of them
spend a week crossing the continent to
experience the 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 declining plays'-one of the
many 'climaxes" of the series.
Famous Pitching Battles.
None of the Old Guard who take their
baseball straight ever will forget the
series of 1905 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 RueIbach and Ed
Pfeister were other hurlers of the old
Cubs.
In the hotel Hobbies now they are heat
edly discussing the pitching duels be-
tween 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 Wonders
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 stretch
ing an unbelievable length while holding
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 1909 American League cham
pions.
Tie Broken BY Red Sox.
The Boston tribe speaks touchingly-
almost tearfully-of the 1912 series which
the Red SoX took from the Giants, win
ming four, losing three and tieing one.
! 1T was in the eighth and final game at
Boston on October 16 when the score was
tie 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.
Harry Hooper did the job. Why, sir He
leaned over the fence and took Doyle 5
long hit that was ticketed for a home
run and. as 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 to pieces
| for the Giants in their half of the inning
| SnodgraSs mufTed long fly hit by Engle
| who batted for Wood Engle went to sec
Ond on the error. Snodgrass tried to re-
deem himself on the next play by safely
catching terrific liner that Harry
| Hooper hit with the intention of end
| ing the series
''Christy Mathewson. twirling for New
/ York. put all the fooling he had into his
pitching to Gerkes but the batter walked
| Then Fred Merkle, the Giant first base
man, muffed foul from the bat of Iris
! Speaker and then"
| That" breaks in the listener. "was
! the climax. That. not Hoopers catch. was
the deciding play. Now was there
and"
And then" goes on the first speaker
| frowning, odd iris singled and Engle
came home with the tying run. Yerkes
| scored the winning run one minute and
! eight seconds later-by my watch-wheu
! Garner sent a long sacrifice fly to De
vore.'
Triple by Wambgnass.
! None of the fans forget the triple play
made unasssted by Wambgnass of Cleve
land in the fifth inning of the fifth game
| against Brooklyn in 1920; Elmer Smiths
homer with three on in the first inning
of the same game and Bagbys homer
with two on in the fourth inning, also
Of the same game.
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