Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-20 | Page 41 | Adams Staging a Comeback World's Series Star in Form

Adams' Staging a Comeback 4 fS iS World's Series Star in Form !?r- ? - ---- NEW YORK, July 13. Lids off to Babe Adams. You've simply got to hand it to the hero of the 1009 world's series between the Pirates and Detroit, De-troit, who was relegated to the down-and-out club three years ego and who has staped a comeback that has some ot j the wisest baseball birds whistling for breath. The ancient Babe ranks high anions; the winning pitchers of the National league this year. At present writing be is pitch ins: at a . 7 0 clip and has won nine gams of ball for Hugo Bezdek's pennant hunters. And they said he was through. On the last day of June the ancient hurler stacked up against the Cardinais at Forbes tield and won his game with ease, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the opening of the famous hall p:-irk. an opening in which he participated as a member of the Pittsburg club. That's co-Ing co-Ing some. No other ma.ior league pitcher has ever had that pleasure. If Adams feels a bit chesty about U he is entitled to feel that way. "When Ba nicy Dreyfus, the president of the Pirn tes. parted company with Adams by giving him his unconditional release, he did so with regrets, for the Babe is by far the hardest working and altogether the most picturesque slabs ter Pittsburg has had in years and years. Adams was always immensely popular in Pittsburg. With the veteran George "Mooney" Gibson as his backstop he pitched the hearts ou t of the opposing clubs during the heyday of his career, and it was with regret that Smoky City fans saw him pass along. But what did the Bal e do? Ho faded into shadows jusi outride the glare of the major league spotlight and wound up in the Western league, where, as a member mem-ber of Jack Holland's St. Joseph-Hutchison aggregation, he earned his three squares with surprising ease. Uis pitching pitch-ing was so effective that John Ganzei, manager of the Kansas City Blues, brought him" up another notch into ihe American association, and (ho veteran helped the Blues win a pennant. Doff tho sky piece to Babe Adams, for he is made of the stuff that made "Iron Man" McGinnity famous. -