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Show 1 1 YOUNG TWIRLERS MAY BE STARS OF SERIES. New York Sept 2 ft With a warning Of the regular baseball season, a creat majority of the fans are busy delving into dope on the coming world's scries, scr-ies, which will be played by New York National League Team and the Philadelphia Phila-delphia American League team, carlv next month. Naturally, one of the most important impor-tant factors in the calculation! of the uopestera is the respective pitching strength of the two teams In con-' sidering this angle of the coming struggle, there many who assert that this will be the year in which the great veteran twlrlers of tho rival learns will be forced to make way in the limelight for two youngsters. To b more exact, there those who think that the youngest twlrler on the respective re-spective teams will be the heroes of the series. Al Demaree. striving his first vear as a regular on the Giants' pitching torps, bids fair to lead the National league hurlera in the winning percentage, per-centage, and it is the fond hope of adfast New York enthusiasts that Steamer AJ" will pitch wide circles around chief bender. Eddie Plank and tew of Hack's sensational young box i performers. Buttonhole any Philadelphia fan and he will bet monev, marbles or chalk that Bob 8hawkey, the Juvenile Of the Macklan staff, will outpltch I such established stars as Mathewson. Marquard and Tesreau in the big ' scries. "Babe" Adams. Jack Coombs and .roe Wood are generally considered the greatest worlds cnampionshlp 1 pitchers of modern baseball history. Bill Dineen was the flrat to gain fame as a pitching hero in the inaugural world's 6orles between American and National League teams in 1903. when ! the Boston Americana nosed out the Pirates In their memorable encounter of eight games. Dineen now an American League umpire, was the greatest right hander of his time. Pittsburg ha3 won three of the first four games, Dineen grabbed off a victory for the retreating Bostons in the second tilt. Dineen succumbed to I Phlllippo e in the fourth clab. Old Cj Young saved tho Americans by ' beating Kennery in the fourth game 1 Dineen thrashed Leever in tho sixth. and Young performed the same operation opera-tion on PhtUlppe In the seventh In the eighth and deciding game. Dineen routed Philllppe and the Pirates and secured for Boston the world's championship. cham-pionship. The score was 3 to 0. in this critical clash, Dundee struck out the great Wagner, with the bases con-gc-sied. Mathewson still holds the record of three straight shutouts triumphs over the Athletics In 1905. He beat Eddie Plank I to 0, In the first game, and l-lanked Andy Coakley. 9 to 0, In the third game of the series; and shut out Redskin Bender, 2 to 0, in the fourth and deciding game. Ed Walch pitched fielder Jones's Chlcase White Sox to victory over the Cubs in 1916. Walch won two Barnes Including a 2 to 0 shutout that took all the vim out of the Chancemen and made them easy picking in the final game. "Babe', then practically an unknown, un-known, twirled three straight victories vic-tories for Pittsburg over Detroit in ISO, winning the world's series for tho Plrares. The youngsters' performance perform-ance was sensational in the extreme He yielded only eighteen hits In the three conflicts, struck out eleven slugging Tigers and walked only six batsmen. Jack Coombs of the Athletics, equaled Adam's record of winning throe straight. In the 1910 series, but he was lucky. Although be beat the Clubs every time he tolled against them. Chance s men slammed Coomb's offerings viciously. Nothing but superb su-perb support and abilltv of Macks-men Macks-men to make plenty of runs enabled Coombs to survivo three victories In succession. That storic redskin. Chief Bender was the prime twirler of the 1911 series between the giants and Ath-letlce. Ath-letlce. He contributed two triumphs to the Athletic cause. He lost one Kame, though he gave sixteen hits in the trio of encounters, Ist year. Joe Wood was credited three victories and one defeat, but Christy Mathewson was recognized as Lhe pitching hero of that series al though he lost two zanies and tied another. Hard lack deprleved him of victory In each instance We will now- harp to ancient history, his-tory, starting with are world's serins ser-ins In 18- Comlskey's Browns heat Anson's Cblcasro White Sox that year, Caruthers and Foutz pitching great ball for the Browns. In 1K&5 .merles b -tween Chicago and St. LoulB, earn team won three tames and one was a tie The players got $41 apiece out of this series. Last year each of the Red Sox drew 54.024.CS for his share. Comlskey's Brown? figured in four world k' champion clashes. Detrolts beat the Brown in 1 SR7 "Lady Baldwin." Bald-win." one of the jrrcatest Southpaws in his time, won six games and lost one for Detroit. The world's series If 18RR between St. I ouis and New- York was marked by a splendi-1 pitching duel between Timothy Keefe and Charlie Kirvr Keefe beat Kinc three straight. 2 to 1, 4 to 2 and to I ; and won tho series for New York. In the Temple Cup series of 1895 between Cleveland and Baltimore old Of Young won three straight for the Cleveland outfit Baltimore won one, Ksmc, Charlie Esper defcatin: "Nig" Cuppjr. Baltimore and Cleveland also' hooked up In 19fi. Voung was batted out of he box by the Orioles In the first game. Holier and Joe Corbett pitched four straight victories for Baltimore. Bobby Wallace, now with the St. Lewis Browns and the veteran of the American league, pitched the second t2ame for Cleveland, working agsjnat Corbett. |