The Washington times., 1925-10-17

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of the world.
Traynor, their third baseman.
and Carey, their center fielder, with
Wright, their shortstop, are three
Of the greatest baseball players
have ever seen anywhere. Traynor
impressed me in the first game.
He lighted right into my stuff and
] had plenty that first game.
Max Carey is great batsman, q
fine outfielder, and pretty near the
greatest base runner I have ever
seen. / think fA played the best
ball Of all the Pirates against US
during this 1926 world series. He
admit that.
Traynor played wonderful base.
ball all through the series, but
right beside him was a wonderful
ehortstop, Glenn Wright. The
Pittsburgh shortstop was all over
that infield. making impossible
stops and throwr.
would like to add NEED Of
praise to Eddie Moore, who played
3 good game with q bad finger.
His running twice put US In q
hole, and his fielding was good
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The Washington club offers no
alieis for its defeat by the Pirates.
They kept right after US all the
way once they recovered from their
nervousness in the first game, and
1t was unfortunate that we could
not have played the final game un.
der better conditions. I am con-
Sd so
ter team won. We both played I'M
der the same conditions. It is
foolish to say that either club would
have done better under other con-
dis'ons. We were put to the same
test and they beat Us. That's all
there is to it.
would like to stop some Of the
criticism aimed at Bucky Harris in
sending me to the slab in the
seventh game. I wanted to go.
wanted to go the day before and
all our players knew it. One and
all said that I was the best, and
] honestly believed could win.
Well, I was ahead till the Pirates
hammered me so hard in that de-
cisive eighth inning. I was handi-
capped. perhaps, by the rain and
the mud around the box, but the
same thing applied to Kremer. a
mighty fine pitcher. by the way.
A world series victory depends
upon many things the fans over.
look. The biggest thing is the
breaks that something that
sways victory in one direction or
the other. Last year they said a
pebble in front Of Lindstrorn made
us world champions. Now they
probably say that the mud at
Forbes Field made the Pirates the
winners. That's what I mean by
the breaks" / could go right on
down through every game and show
how the "breaks" won each game,
but that is unfair, unfair to the
winning team.
I was I'm fine shape when the
series opened. ] was still strong
In my second game until l got
that "charIeyhOrse" again. In the
final game 1 was ready. Condi.
tons Just suited mo. My fast ball
was good enough for ordinary
uses and my leg did not bother
me at all. But the Pirates hit
me and beat me in the rain,
that's all there is % it.
Roger Peckinpaugh, a wonderful
fellow and a great ballplayer, had
the worst of luck in the series.
am sorry for him, knowing how
hard he tried to make good. It
Just seemed that he had to be on
the Job when things went wrong.
But he Is still a great player. al
ready voted the most valuable to
his team in the league" and he
will be back again next season
great as ever. I shall owe him
many a vote of thanks for stops
and throws next summer when We
are en- our way to our third pen
nant.
Joe Harris, too. comes in for
much praise. He hit the ball hard
and most of his hits came at the
right time. He also played a good
game in the field and proved the
wisdom OF Bucky Harris in taking
him when Boston wanted to get rid
Of him. Joe Harris has a world Of
courage in his makeup and he
showed that in this world series