Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-10-11 | Page 51 | What Happened in other Big Series

1 What Happened in Other Big Series The total attendance at the three fames of the first world s ser cs In 8S4 was less than 5000 The total attendance at the five world s ser es games last year was 131 000 Charlev ( Old Hoss ) radbourne p tched and won all three games in the first world s series wheh was played between Providence of the Ivat onal league and the New lork Metropal tans of the Amer can assoc at on The games were plaved on consecutive daj s Seven games were played in the world s ser es of 18So, between the Ch cago Jat onals and St Lou s of the An er can associat on. The ser es was for a purse of $1000 and ended in a te each team w nn ntr three games and t eing one The teams d ided the money each roce v ng t500 Each player s share was $41 75 In 1887 Detro t of the hat onal league and &t Louis of the American assoc at on played a series of fourteen games n the follow ng cities 8t Louis St Lou s Detro t Pittsburg Brooklyn Jew Tiork Philadelph a, Bos ton Philadelph a Washington D C Baltimore Detroit Chicago and De troit Hank O Daj- manager of the Cubs th 8 year ana a famous umpire won two games wh le p tching for the G ants m the world s ser es of 1899 against the Brooklyn team of the An er lean assoc at on Hi first v ctory was won in the s xth game after eleven innings " to 1 Bobby Car thers p tch ng for the St Louis and Brooklyn teams of the American assoc at op took part in s x teen world a ser es games and holds the record n this respect He won seven lost e ght and t ed one Eddie Sun mers w th Detro t lost four games m world s series and won one Only two games n which ne ther s de was charged with an error have been plaed in the world s series Mathewson won three games from the Athlet cs in the 19po ser es, all of them shutouts Adams beat Detro t three t mes in 1909 Coon bs turned back the Cubs three t mes n 1910 and Wood dealt the G ants three de feats in 1912 No no-h t games have been recorded n world s ser es Reaulbach s one h t ga ne aga nst the Wh te Sox in 1906 s the best performance j The 1912 seres between the G ants and Red Sox goes down n h story as the nost exc t ng of modern t mes It requ red e ght games to decide and the final game 'went ten un ngs . muff by Snodgrass and Merkle s fa lu e to get an easy foul lost the champ onsh p for thoG ants in 191' Two home runs by Baker dec ded the ser ob n 1911 between the ithletlcs and G ants The failure of the G ants p tch ng start to 1 ve up to pre s not ces lost the champ onship for .ew ork last year aga nst the Athlet cs V The tblet Cs ha e engaged in fo r world s ser eb of which they ha e won three The greatest upset of the dope oc cuned n 1906 when the Wh te Sox defeated the Cubs it Red Murra r ght fielder of the G ants and ODe of the team a hardest h tters fa led to get a h t n the world s series of 1911 aga nst the Vth letics ft N T C obb has been n three world s ser e but has never sta red n the b g ga nes George Tohe s bat dec ded the ser es of 1906, betw en the Wh te Sox and Cubs He was a ut 1 tv plaver The G ants ha e lost n each of the r tl ee ast world s series Mathewson p tched good enough ball to w each of h s three games n tho 191 ser es against the Red "Sox but lacl of sup ort pre ented him from doing o He lost two of them and the other game res Ited mate lake Stanl won the championsh p dur ng h s first ear as manager of the Fed 8ox in 1912 and was relieved of the re ns the following year ack Coombs has a perfect world s ser es p tching average He has won four games and lost none Manager Herzog of tbe Reds was the batt ng star of the G ants in the series of 1912 against the Red ''ox B 11 Dineen now an American league urap re was the hero of the first n odern series in 1903 He won three of the five games necessary to beat Pittsburg