Seward daily gateway., 1925-10-05
BASEBALL

bprgh's pennant victory this year is it's fifth in the twenty-five years but it will mark only the third time that the Pirates have battled for the Worlds championship with an Am erican League rival.
 Back in 1901, 1902 and 1903, the Pi- rates, then under the management of Fred Clarke-who has come back to help in this years triumph -domin- ated the senior circuit but it wasn't until the last year of this reign that the Worlds series idea took root.
 In that year, the Pirates met de- feat in the first championship strug- gle at the hands of the Boston Red Soxf losing five out of eight games.
 Six years later, in 1909, still un der Clarke's leadership, the Pirates swept to the top once more and for the last time prior to this season. They battled that year against Hughey Jennings Detroit Tigers for the premier title and won out after a nip and tuck fight that went the limit of seven games before being decided.
 The Pirates and Tigers won on al ternate days in that series and Babe Adams, the only playing survivor still in Pirate uniform, was the hero of the National Leagues triumph. He was credited with three of the four Pirate victories.
 That series, incidentally, was one of only three which have gone the limit of prescribed games, which at various times has been fixed at sev- en and nine contests.
 It ranks among the most keenly contested of all championships, tho for closeness and spectacularly dra- matic elements it was eclipsed by both the 1912 series, in which the Red Sox conquered the Giants af- ter eight games that included an eleven-inning tie, and the 1924 thrill Ter, in which Washington's first pen nant winning team fought it's way to victory over the Giants in seven sen- sational games.
 Two twelve-inning battles, fought out before the President of the Unit ed States and a baseball-mad national capital; an unhill fight by the Sena- tors under the inspired leadership of their young pilot, Buckey Harris; and the final triumph of Walter John son, famous pitching ace, after two tragic defeats-these were the high spots of last falls baseball drama which stirred the entire country as it had never been before.
 Nerve-testing as was this series, however, it is doubtful whether the rival players experienced as great a strain as those in 1912. It is recall ed that in the eighth and final game of that series, the players were hard ly able to control their emotions, So tense and exhausting was the strug- gle. The game went to ten bitterly fought innings before the Red Sox gained a 3-2 decision, with a fatal error by Fred Snodgrass, Giant out fielder, contributing to the downfall that was heart-breaking to the Ma tional Leaguers and their mound ace, Christy Mathewson. When 1t was all over, the rival managers John McGraw and Jack Stahl, declared their men could NOT have stood the strain of another game.
 The quickest series on record was that of 1914 when the Boston Braves, after their sensational pennant drive, overthrow Connie Mack's Athletics in four straight games. The Chicago Cubs, conquering Detroit in 1907, and the Giants, downing the Yankees in 1922, also hung up records of four victories and no defeats but in each instance a tie game prevented a clean sweep.
 Harris Up Again.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 5. (P) Stanley Harris, the "boy wonder" has in his grasp the opportunity to prove himself one of the five great est baseball managers of all time.
 In 21 years of worlds series his tory only souc men--far-famed for many seasons-have captured the na- tional game"s greatest title two yeas in succession. They were the late Frank Chance with the Chicago Cubs in 1907 and 1908, Connie Mack with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1910 and 1911, Bill Carrigan with the Bos- ton Americans in 1915 and 1916, and John McGraw with the New York Giants in 1921 and 1922.
 Today Harris stands with one vic- tory to his credit, the conquest Of the Giants a year ago, and another worlds series in the 0ffing, this time