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Show THE somewhat dusty flies show that a Boston club has never lost a world series contest, with six victories vic-tories out of six starts five for the Red Sox and one for the Braves. This world series mop up began 43 vears ago. It began when the ; Boston A. L. entry of 1903 came from behind to whip the able Pirates with such stars aboard I as Hans Wagner, I Tommy Leach, Fred Clarke, Sam Leev-i Leev-i er. Deacon Phil-! Phil-! lippe, Jimmy Seb-j Seb-j ring and a few oth-ers. oth-ers. Apparently p beaten, the Bos-GrantlandRice Bos-GrantlandRice tonian delegation rallied to ride home on the stout j right arm and the stouter heart of Big Bill Dineen. That was victory No. 1, although the world series of 1903 was on the unofficial side. Nine years later the Red Sox found John MrGraw and his Giants in the road. This series went to eight games, where in the final spasm Giant support blew wide open as Christy Mathewson lost a contest he should have won in a common canter. Earlier in this meeting around the fifth inning, Harry Hooper saved the day for Boston with the most spectacular of all world series catches when he pulled down Larry Doyle's almost sure home run over the right field fence. The ball already al-ready had passed over the fence when Hooper made the miracle catch, crashing into the crowd. He must have used a net. Speaker Clinches Flag After that Fred Snodgrass dropped Clyde Engle's easy fly to center that popped into his glove and then popped out again, Engle reaching second. That was a bit discouraging. But a moment later on, Matty fed Tris Speaker a slow floater and Tris lifted the ball on a high foul pop-up near first base that Fred Merkle lost. Chief Myers made a futile chase as Merkle was vainly looking in various directions direc-tions for the ball. The high pop-up dropped between these two only 10 feet from first base. Then Speaker I broke it up with a single scoring Bangle. Two years later the Braves crashed into the big show by beating beat-ing the Athletics four straight. Rudolph, Tyler and James did it. The famous Athletics curled up like a feather attached to a burning match. In these three world series Boston was three up. In 1915 the Red Sox broke back into the great white spotlight again. They lost to Alexander, one of the great pitchers of all time, and then won the next four games. In 1916 they won the pennant again and took on the Dodgers. The mala feature here was Babe Ruth's extra inning victory over Sherrod Smith. The Babe was then a great left-hander in the box. Ruth's Last Hurling In 1918, the Red Sox returned to the post-season carnival for the fifth time. That year they whipped the Cubs where Babe Ruth, dating back to 1916, turned in 29 scoreless innings. Babe was the master of that party, his final as a pitcher before he turned to home-run h.t.ir,,, Ed Barrows' suggestion. Babe usually carried the world series along with him, using his pitching or batting eye for this worthy pur-Pose. pur-Pose. It has now been a matter of 28 years since Boston saw its last world series. In the last 10 years, Tom Yawkey has spent enough money to win three championships, but this hap-pened hap-pened in the era or epoch where the Yankees had too much stuff. It is only natural that Boston supporters sup-porters are looking fr another rd scries mop-up, making it seven in a row. This time they have the best team the home of the bean and the cod ever has sent Into action. It Is an even better team "n the 191a outm J 7'f "00per for the ! d-'fensive outfield in baseball h story. Plus Smoky joe Wood in Sat: ,,us Bi" " The 1946 Red Sqx j ball s two essentials - hittine and Pining. But the Red Sox old rec " ord proves that Joe Cromn's young n are far from being invincible8 They are the best team in baseball' anyway although their man-agains ! "an selection doesn't leave any margin over the Dodgers or snare of baseball. . Query and Comment eESE batants mll?PUm -entmTiL6 can?., 1 COmin8 seaon you an list Armv-Nntrn r best. 1 be 8rnng the I |