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Show PICK! 1814 HERO 15 DIFFICULT TASK Every Championship in Past Struggle Has Had Outstanding Out-standing Figure. ' Who will be the hero of the world's serins this year? Just as the world's scrie? itself is the blue ribbon event of baseball, so is it the crov, uiijy event in the career ca-reer of a player to achieve fame in tbe biz Karnes. Each year has seen its own hero or heroes and annually before the start of the series there is an: eh speculation as to who will be the new addition to baseball's honor list. I S-iuee when the first series was played 'for the championship of the (world, between 'he Providence team, jof the National league and the Metro-j j politans of the American association, 1 j fortune, has .smiled upon many nth- ! ; leten. However, most of the perform- i unn'H of the days when baseball was j really "in its iii':iiicy ' ' have failed i in the d:m mi.-ts of tbe j.ast. They .have lou since ceru-cd to be upper-I mot in the nnnd ot faiulom; iu these latter days they exist only in the record rec-ord books. Few fans, old" ones even, can recall vividly the heroes of the championship series that preceded the present one? between be-tween the Natiuiial and American league teams. The memory fails them whi u thev try to date tack farther than the last decade or bo. They, the majority, of course, do not know that , iu the first series ever played to decide- the world's championship, Charley ("Uld floss1') Kadbourne pit-lied and won all three ames for the Providence team. And eo it is ri'ht down, the line to the modern world 's series contents con-tents between tho National and American Ameri-can league teams. Therefore, 'twere better to continue the review of the heroes from the Ked Sox Pirate scries in 1 i u3 to 'late. Not Always Stars. It is not aiways that the hero of a world's f-eries ih a star play or. Frequent Fre-quent ly he is of but mediocre a hi lit v. Si ore frequently, though, lie is a fair performer who rises in his niiL'ht during dur-ing tins short series ami plays the jjamo (it his life, ovorshadowiuir for the iioiicu the deed,-' of the mure brilliant or consistent pi avers. The ciije of iJcorjjM K'olin of the .lOOti White Sox i team is an outstanding instance of this and f hero are ot hors. The real st a rs I of the -Hiue who et t he opport unit y i to commit heroic nets in the series are i few. Ty Told) figured in three con-jseeutie con-jseeutie world's series, in 1Pi.i7-? V, vet never dist itiK'uished himself, and .toe Wood, w hile he won t w n crimes from the d ia nts in the 1 :t 1 'J series, was lost in the i;lare of Ihe spotlight thnr surrounded sur-rounded 11 nyh He, 1 lent jur as Adams over-diiidowed Warner ill 1 00. The hero uf the fir.-t series bet u -en t he Nai iunal a nd A inerien n leagues, in 1 to,"i. wa s .Hill ! i iieen. now an nm pi -e in the A nmriciin lea i;ui Pi J ehint; f ur i Mir Ued Sox, he won 1 iiree of the J games necessary to clinch the title. lie pitched thirty-sii inninps and the Pi-' rates, Boston's opponents, were able) to score in only four of the innings. , Deacon Phillippe, for Pittsbjurg. also won : three games in the series, but he lost two, and the honors went to Dineen. Owner Brush of the Giants declined to allow the Giants to meet the Boston Americans in 1904, so there was no series. Beginning in 1905, however, it was made compulsory for the pen. oant-winning teams in the two major leagues to meet in a series to decide the championship of the world. .Matty in 1905. The Athletics were the opponents of the Giants in the world's series of1 lJi", and Alathewson was, the hero. 1:1 e v;on three games from the Philadelphia Phila-delphia team, shutting them out each time. In 100G, George Robe's big bat decided de-cided the series and made him the h-Tit. Kohe was a utility player and filled in for Leo TannehiH at third, "Tunny" being out of the game be-eau-e ef injuries. In tho first game. wt;h the score tied, Kohe tripled and so:ed The winning run on a bad return. re-turn. He knocked in the only r:;ns n ado in the third game when he tripled with the bases full. In all he made M'en hits, most of them Timelv. Apparently Ap-parently he ' ' played better than he knew how" in the series, for he never, did mucji after defining the champion-r-hip. After war mine" the bench and renting on his laurels during most of the 1 L07 season, he was relegated to tbe minors by the White Sox. Johnny Kiing was the hero in the series of lf'UT and 19'JS. Catching for the Cubs, he picked up all the signals sig-nals of the Petroit team and was able to outguess them at all rime?. He spoiled their plays both on the defense 'and offense and the best the Tigers eonld do was tie one gair.e in the first series and win one in the second. , "Babe" Adams's Day. Pitching three victories over Detroit ! made ''Babe" Adams, then a vouncQter with the Pirates, the hero in l'.f9. Jaek Coombs and Eddie Collins shared the honors in 1910. Coombs j pitched mid won three tames in seven drns arid had the wonderful Cub machine ma-chine at his mercy. Collins 'a bat and great base running were big factors m the series. Frank Baker's two home runs in the series of 1911, against the Giants, made him the hero that year. These timely 'hits won two games for the Athletics. Ihiirh Bedient was the particular star in 1912. when tbe Giants played the Red Sox. Ho ramred in when Wood. Boston's star pfteher, failed to work as we.l as had been expected, and gained , fame bv pitching against the Giant batters bat-ters like a veteran. Before the series Be lien t had not been seriously considered consid-ered oven as a relief pitcher. Experts are inclined to share the J honors of Inst year between Eddie i Plank, the Athletic left-hander, and i Chrisdy Mathowson, the Giant main-Jstay. main-Jstay. These two veteran? opposed ea-'b I other twice and each won one of the games. In the second came of the se-i se-i ries they battled through the firae nine j innings without allowing a score. Plank I weakened in tho tenth aud three Giant J runners scored. Matty held the Hack-j , men safe in their half and landed the1 i game, IMh ! With the scrip" standing three games i to one n-jninst him. McGraw called union un-ion Mathewpon to work in the fifth game. Plank was his opponent, a ain jmd this time the let'tdiuuder triumphed, tri-umphed, 3-1. and the series was over. The names in which Plank and Mathews Math-ews on worked weie the best pitched itiiiM's of the sej-ios. 1 Who will lie tiie hero this year? |
