Show I I II SUCH IS BASEBALL if t t M M y- y t Evers Will Manage Player Whose F Famous Bon Boner r He Capi Capitalized li ed By DEAN SNYDER Scene shifting in the baseball I show I pla plays s 's strange tricks of coincidence some some- times t Next year l Fred red Merkle 0 will be some some-j playing play play- plaY plaY-I ing under the man who capitalized his copyrighted bonehead play lay back in 1001 and beat the Giants out of the pennant The quick thinking brain of oC Johnny Evers which figured figurel out that historic play like a flash nash will be doing MerI MerIde's Merkle's Mer- Mer I Ides kle's thinking for him in 1921 But we wonder if It the author of the famous boner has lias any more like them In his system and if one will crop out at some Inopportune time and cheat th the ne new Cub pilot Il out a money series er at ator or I Merkle's Merk-le's failure II to touch CI Second ond In that thai game twelve years ago cost each and every Giant approximately 1000 The Merkle boner of 1908 came caine late in inthe inthe inthe the s season eason when the Gla Giants and Cubs Cuba were dashing down the pennant stretch neck and neck HOW IT HAPPENED In the crucial game two were out In the ninth Inning The score was tied Mc Mo I Cormick occupied third and Merkle was wason wason wason on first Bridwell hit safely to the outI out out- field The crowd swarmed across the I field fJeld McCormick crossed the plate Merkie Merkle Mer Mer- kle kie started toward second stopped and ran to the clubhouse Evers then the great Cub second baseman noticed Merkie's Merkle's Merkle's Mer Mer- kles kle's omission to touch second and complete complete com corn the play He shouted to Schulte to toss him the ball bail Evers called to the I umpire and touched second with the ball bail The umpire declared Merkle Merkie forced for forthe forthe the final out and McCormick's run did I not count The tie game was was played over later tater and the Cubs won the the pennant going with it il f EVERS' EVERS RECORD I That's how liow smart mart Joi Johnny Ev Evers rs was twelve years ago He Was one of the celebrated trio hjo of ot the Tinker to Evers to Chance play The Cubs won four pennants while he was a a member of the fast clicking machine He went to Boston Boston Bos Boa ton in 1914 and the Braves copped that year During the war he served abroad as baseball director for the Knights of Co Co- lumbus s I I This year ear car when Christy Mathe Mathewson's sons son's I health failed McGraw called Evers in to coach CI CIt t the f faltering Giants an T The rapid rise f of f the e I after ter he ee began d to adorn their coaching box showed that the Evers brain was still very much alive Evers gave McGraw all the credit however I simply put the dash and pepper in the boys bos he says Everyone assumed that McGraws McGraw's mantIe mantle mantle man man- tle tIe would fall on the midget pepperbox But the team which he once helped to tomake tomake tomake make so powerful as a player has called him to take the place of Fred Mitchell ell MERKLE'S JINX t Merkle ordinarily is a good ball player But he seems Jinxed as a money ball player His failure to g go after a high foul loul off Tris Speakers Speaker's bat in the world series between th the Giants and Red So Sox in 1912 kicked New York out of a world championship that year He seems to be jinxed as a goat player in a crisis Will he unburden himself of another boner under the alert master maiter mind of the Cubs' Cubs new leader We shall see I |