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Show WORLD SERIES HERO BACK WITH PIRATES Babe Adams, Veteran Pitcher, Will Try to Come Back. : W After Being Dropped by Pittsburgh In' 1917, He Drifted Into Western League and Then to Kansas City Made Good. Charles B. ("llabe") Adams, hero of the 1909 world series, will try to come back with the l'iltsburph l'irates this year. Adams is thirty-live years old and a real veteran as pitchers po. It was in 191G that Adams took tho toboggan with the Pirates and was labeled as through by the scribes. Ills pitching for that year was more or less ' of a joke, for he won but two games and succeeded in losing nine more before be-fore Barney Dreyfus made up his mind to let his veteran star go. In 1917 Adams drifted into the Western West-ern league, sipned up with Jack Holland Hol-land at Hutchinson and staged a comeback come-back that surprised everybody. He won 20 games of ball for the Hutchinson Hutchin-son team and lost 13, and he was rated as one of the hardest working pitchers in the league, which has always al-ways been noted as a league that harbors har-bors many a hard-hitting youngster, and many a crafty old-timer who is on his way back. Adams' record with the Hutchinson club won him a trial with John Ganzel at Kansas City last season and during the abbreviated pennant race in which the Blues won the pennant Adams captured 14 games of ball and lost but three for the Kansas City club. This feat won him his chance to try a real comeback with the Pirates this year and his boosters are predicting that he will make good. Adams emblazoned his name in baseball's base-ball's hall of fame back in 1909 when. f " " Charles B. ("Babe") Adams. he played the role of hero of ttr world's series between Pittsburgh and Detroit. He pitched the first game for the Pirates against George Mullin and won it by a count of 4-1. Then, after Bill Donovan had beaten Willis and Mullin had trimmed Leifield, while Maddrrx sandwiched a victory over Summers in between these two games, Adams came hack to the mound with 1 lie count of two all and Pittsburgh made eight runs for him, while he held Detroit to four. Mullen came back in the sixth pame for Detroit and won it, and Adams won bis third game and the series when he shut out the Tigers S to 0 in the final contest. v |