Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-13 | Page 6 | M'Innis Aids Pirates in Victory

I I I t i r I I I MINNIS A AIDS AIDS' I 0 S i PIRATES IN VICT VICTORY RY Veteran o of 6 Classics Brings I Change an e of L Luck uok By FRANK GETTY United Press Staff Correspondent PITTSBURG Pa Oct 13 When 13 When John Phelan McInnis was a boy back in the picturesque old fishing town of ot Gloucester Mass he used to sit on a a awe weather beaten we Ui beaten r-beaten coil coll of ot hawser and watch the sailing ships fade out against the lowering mackerel sky and dream about be beIng being being be- be ing a pirate Thirty years and more have gone gonet Eby by since Stuffy dreamed those boyish dreams and now he Is a different different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent kind of Pirate a most Important important Im- Im member of ot Bill McKechnie's McKech- McKech pies pie's fighting Corsair crew from Pittsburg Stuffy McInnis is playing in his sixth worlds world's series and while his under may no not be what they used to be and If it the years have dimmed his batting eye and hang a little heavily on his throwing arm it is doubtful if it in any previous classic of baseball McInnis has contributed as much to a teams team's victory as s he did in Mondays Monday's game Stuffy himself will tell you he was the change of luck As he rolled away from Griffith Stadium in a taxicab with Vic Aldridge Aldridge Ald- Ald ridge to take the train for PIttsburg Pittsburg Pittsburg Pitts- Pitts burg McInnis leaned out of ot the window and yelled to me I I told you ou I would bring them thema a change of luck when I got in But while It is not so apparent in the box score Stuffy McInnis contributed a whole lot more than the duties of a mascot to Pittsburg's Pittsburg's Pittsburg's Pitts- Pitts burgs burg's 6 to 3 victory o over er Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington In the fifth game of the series There were times Umes when McInni was nearly a whole team in himself himself himself him him- self on the defense As he played first base there were eight other Pirates scattered around the field but hut Its It's brains that wins win's ball games and that was what Stuffy was furnishing nothing else but Vic Aldridge who was pitching for Pittsburg was constantly In hot weather Every time this happened It was Stuffy who strode across the diamond and told Vic Vie how tb to pitch to the next batter He waved the fielders fielders' to the most suitable positions positions positions and steadied and whipped up the Infield to tight air-tight baseball Pittsburg would have been In a abad abad abad bad way for pitchers if Aldridge had been taken out and it was largely due to Stuffy McInnis that this was not necessary The old head head that's that's what they grew on the shoulders of John Phelan Phelan Phelan Phe Phe- lan McInis who started playing I baseball with the whalers of of- New Bedford twenty years ago I Stuffy who Is 35 one of ot the declining veterans of ot baseball played In the world series of ot 1910 I 1911 1913 1914 1917 1917 and this year