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Show Inn THREE WAIVERS Bender, Plank and Coombs Will Not Be Retained by Philadelphia Manager. HEROES OF BIG GAMES Great Pitchers' Wonderful Career in Baseball Plank Greatest Left-hander. M Philadelphia Oct. Hi Connie JB MCk manager of the Philadelphia 5 Athletics, innbnnoed today that he Wm had Uked wn Ivors on Pitchers Ben- m der. Plank and Coombs 1 Mack's announcement was in con- I i flrmatlon of a statement made bs , -m Hughy Jcnnincs. manager of the be tlj troit team at Ithintic City. Th 1 Philadelphia manager said he had ;1 no intention of returning any of the I 'M three pitchers for the season of 1915. y.,M Mack said he wanted it understood that he did not think Binder and Plank's usefulness as pitchers was over. "I am for the American league In vic.tcry or defeat." Mack said, "and I am going to keep these players for our league. If poesfble. 'I would not have asked for waivers waiv-ers at this limo hut for the fact thai one of them told me he hart been did 'ring with the Federal league." The three pitchers did wonderful work in their careers. Each has fig- I ured as a hero in world's series games. Plank, acknowledged as one of the greatest left banders that ever ev-er pitched a ball, joined the Athletics Athlet-ics in 1901, and figured in the winning win-ning of six American league pennants pen-nants Ills best performance in a ; world's series was in 1913 when he won from the New York Giants, allowing al-lowing the National leaguers two hits to the final game. Bender joined the team in B"i2 and was known as the "sure money" pitcher In every world's series. He won games in all of them except in the series with the Boston Nationals this year. Coombs has not pitched much for tWO ear6. He was injured in a world's series game in Now York in idll and never luily recovered He has a record of winning a 24-inning game against the Boston Americans Coombs earned tho fit'e of "iron man'" in pitching the Athletics to three victories vic-tories against tho Chicago Cubs in the world's series of 1910. The I waiver on him caused no surprise I here, but that Mack wontd let Bender Ben-der and Plank go was not expected. |