Frpak Plays That Decide Baseball Championships fly Hugh S. Detroit's Tigers nml Philadelphia's Athletics wero HtrtiKHK In tliu final series of llio baseball senson In tho Tigers' lair. I'iioii tliu outconio de fended the championship of tho Amer ican league, mid thu chanco to meet tho Chicago CuhH for tho world'H championship. Tho Athletics ucro ahead In tho race, mid although Mack's team had not ripened to Its full strength It looked an If It would hold Its lend. Tho gamo wan tho first of four that wore to ho played In De troit, and in tho eighth Inning the Tigers were leading by tho nanov margin of ono run. Kvery member of tho two tenuis know that tho first gamo probably would docldo tho so rlcs. Detroit wan clinging desperately to the ono run lead that was earned by two terrific drivon by Crawfoid nud Cobb. Donovan wan pitching mtignlfl contly, yet ho could not prevent the Athletics from hitting; time and again tho Tigers wero thrown back on tho defensive and saved by llio won derful fielding feats of Cobb and 'nusli. Tho eighteen athlotcs wero strained to tho breaking point nnd each ono wnB "om his toes" every In Btant. In tho eighth Inning tho Ath letics got a runnor to second baso with no ono out. It looked llko n tied scoro, perhaps victory, when ono of tho strangest frenk plays over seen lntorvcned, snved Detroit, nnd turned tho ontlro tldo of tho season. Tho ,Tattor twlco attempted to sacrifice failed nnd was forced to hit. Ho swung at a fast ball, high nnd out sldo tho plato, nnd sent n twisting, tensing fly ovor tho head of tho first baseman, perhaps Roventy feet back of tho bag, nnd tho ball was falling almost on tho foul line, ono of the fow spotB on tho cntlro playing field whoro tiallB fall safo almost every tlmo, Just out of tho reach of any fielder. Floss man, tho first baseman, turned nnd toro down tho foul lino, IiIh back di rectly to tho plato, but from tho first It was ovldont ho could not reach the falling .lmll. Schaofer, who wns piny ing second, had been playing In per fect position to cut off a right-field hit from tho bnt or n left-handed hitter. Ho started tho Instnnt tho ball was hit and sprinted nt top speed townrd It. From short right enmo Ty Cobb, who, seeing the victory snatched from his tenm by sheer luck, had turned on tho wonderful burst of speedVhat has mado him tho mnrvel of baseball. It looked na If Cobb might ronch tho ball by n fent posalblo only for him, yet Sclmefor, nlthough slower, lint! rnado a quicker Rtart, claimed tun catch nnd reached tho ball. Ilto final leap, mado with hands outstretched, brought him to tho ball Just Inside tho foul lino and, ns ho- accomplished tho wonderful enteh, nnd whllo tho crowd wns roaring with opplunso, Cobb, unnbln to check himself In his frantic effort, crashed ngalnst Schne for, turned n sonicrsnult ovor him and. ob ho wont down, Schnefer nllowcd tho ball to fall from his bands. A groan aroso from tho' crowd. Tho Athlotlc runner on Recond hnd tried to get back to tho bnso when ho saw that Schnefer would reach tho ball, and now ho turned and raced for tho Hal Chase, plate. Sclmefor, dazed by tho shock. reached for tho ball, and, In a sitting position, with a last effort boforo go ing "out," throw wildly to tho Infield, In hopo that eomeono would catch It and stop tho runnor nt third. Ho threw without aim, but tho ball, go ing ovor nossmnn's bend, struck tho grass, and went on tho first bound into Schmidt's hands nt tho plato, ro tiring tho runner who wns stilvlng to Bcoro from second. Philadelphia fall ed to score, Dotroit won the game, won tho sorles nnd finally won tho pennant In tho last fow days of play. This play roveals tho manner In which ono turn of fortuno may chnngo nn ontlro season's outcome "nnd upsot all tho calculations of tho baseball world. No ono ovor has beon ablo to figure out tho percentago of luck In mo national game. I have heard play ers eatlmato that luck Is 20 per cent, whllo others claim It 1b at least C5 per cent oil - w FT? JK A 1 fiju6$ u&ZKzr Fultcrton ! W ii riiiiuiniti) Oddly enough, when ono begins to study tho freak plays that dccldo games and not Infrequently settle pen nant races, It will bo found that most of tho strango bits of piny that seem Inexplicable, happon to clubs during their winning streaks. In looking over tho queer plays of tho last two seasons In my records I picked out twenty and discovered In every In stance that the "luck broko" for the club that was at the tlmo having a "winning streak." Thero aro times when "everything brenks for" ono club, when nothing nnother club may try will win. During tho early weeks of last sea son It seemed as If, no matter wheth er they did well or III, tho freak plays all resulted In their favor. "It's tho only team I over saw," mourned Fred Clarke, "that ran win games by mak ing errors." Thero wns ono play that must still remain Impressed upon the memories of thoso who Bnw It. Tho gmno was nt Chicago nnd hnd gotio Into extra Innings. In tho tenth, I believe It was, Chicago had a runnor on third bnso with two out. Tho bat ter fimnshed n flerco drlvo Just Insldo tho first bnRo, tho gamo seemed over and tho victory Chicago's. Konotphy, tho Cardinal first baseman, dived nt tho ball nB It was passing) slapped his mitt down nnd by this despairing ef fort, ho mannged to mako tho glovo hit tho ball. Out Instead of stopping, tho ball rolled slowly back Into right field on fair ground nnd stopped perhaps twenty-flva fet. behind tho bag. Llko n flash Konctciiy leaped In pursuit of tho ball, retrieved It and whirling ho throw to tho pitcher who woh cover ing tho baso nt top speed, only'n stop aheiul of tho runner. Konetchy IK ono of tho most powerful throwers tho business nnd ho throw with nil his forco In nn effort to mnko tho play and snvo tho day. Tho ball flashed past tho pitcher bo fast ho hadn'J. tlmo to put up his hands, shaved tho head of tho runner, who dodged, and bound ed perfectly Into Hresnnhan's hands at tho plate. Tho runner coming homo from third with tho winning run had been loitering, nnd when to his amaze ment ho saw tho ball beating him to tho plato ho mado n belated effort to slide, but Hrosnnlmn blocked him nnd touched him out. It perhaps was tho only tlmo on record when n wild throw to first bnRo ever caught a run ner nt homo and saved n ball gamo. It was moroly an exaggerated exam plo of tho manner In which fortuno followed tho Cnrdlnnls during that period. Tho most sensational gamo I hnvo over seen during twenty seasons of watching mnjor league baseball was that between the Washington team and tho Chicago Whlto Sox lato in 19tl. It was filled -with freakish plays from start to finish. Tho Washington team Just then was In tho only lucky streak It enjoyed during tho senson nnd seemed a certain wlijnor. First, Wnlter .lohnson hit ono of tho longest drives I ovor snw, a ball that on n still day would hnvo cleared tho deep center-field fence. A high wind, how ever, was blowing directly from cen ter toward tho plato and tho ball, Boar- Ing high, wns caught by It. Tlodto had started straight outward at top speed seemingly without a chnnco to reach tho ball, but nn tho wind checked tho forco of tho drlvo, tho ball began to Blow up and then fall, nt first directly downward nnd then backward toward tho pifrsulng fielder, who actually overtook It, and made a spectacular catch. A fow moments later Walker, In loft field for Washington, raced to left center In pursuit of a vicious lino drive. Thero was a puddlo of water In his path and Walker appeared to bo watching that puddlo jiioro thnn ho was tho ball. Ho skirted tho wa ter nnd turned ns If In pursuit of tho ball and, glancing up, ho saw that the high wind had broken tho lllght of tho pphore nnd "Mint It was coming straight nt his head. 'Ho ducked, throw up his bare, hand ns If to ward off tho blow, and tho ball struck his hand and stuck there. Inning after Inning of sensntlonnl catches, startling stops, lino smashes aimed straight nt fielders, rapid dou ble plays, followed, keeping tho crowd rolled up and wild with enthusi asm. Flnnlly "Prince Henry" Schaof or capped tho climax by starting n play thnt became historic, nnd started never, ending discussion. Clydo Milan, n fnst and clover runner, wns on third, Schaofer was on first, two men wero out nnd a weak bnttor wns at tho pinto. On tho first ball pltchod Schaofer stole second, loitering pur posely nnd trying to draw n throw from tho catchor .that would give Milan n chance to score. As two runs would not do any moro damngo thnn one, the Sox lot him run unmolested, feeling certain tho batter could not hit. On tho next ball pitched, nlso a Bttlko, Schaofer stole from second back to first, again striving to forco, uucngo to throw. Tho Whlto Sox in stantly ralBod n protest, Tho umpires wore sllont. They could not toll tho Chicago players what to do, although palpably tho play was for' tho first baseman to run ahead of Schaofor, tako tho throw from tho pitcher, forco Schaofer back to tho flrBt baBo and touch him out. Milan hadn't a 1 chance to go home it the play was mado that way Rchaefer had no right to first bono but was fr'o to re turn to second If no could escnpo be ing touched, as no runner is out on the bases unless touched or forced. Chicago, evidently Ignorant of tho rules, wan arjjulng heatedly nnd Man ager Duffy ran from tho third bnRo coaching lino to tho pitcher's slab to appeal to tho assistant umpire. Final ly tho ball wns thrown to first baBo, but behind Schnefer, who InBtnntly started for second nnd when tho ball wns thrown to second Milan mado a dnsh for tho plato. Schaofer achieved his purpose, oven though Milan waB caught at tho plute. Then Washing ton protested the game, In enso of do feat, on tho grounds that, when the piny wns mnde, Chicago hod ten mon In uniform on tho plnylng field. Tho game went to tho twelfth In ning nnd finally, with n runner on third baso, and Schacfer again on first, tho battor drovo out n clean sin glo that ended tho contest. Still utiBntlfl'npd with tho frcakn of the day Schaofer ran from first down to sec ond, stopped, looked around to seo If nnyono (especially nn umpire) was looking, wnlked nil tho way around second baso without touching It, and, satisfied that ho had duplicated Mor ale's famous play, came off ,tho field grinning. That evening ho held n celebration to gloat ovor the White Sox nnd.the umpires, not one of whom ad observed his failure to touch tho bag. Among tho abnormal Incidents that (Igured in tho curlier history of tho Germany Schaefer. national gamo, perhaps none Is as well known to old-timers ns tho ono which happened to CHIT Carroll, on tho St. Louis grounds, when ho was a member of tho famous "Browns." Pel Imps you havo wondered why base ball players have plain shirt fronts, nnd why so fow players havo breast pockets. Cliff Carroll Is tho renson. IIo was running forward to tnko a baso hit on tho first bound. Tho ball bounced crooked and hit him on the chest. He grabbed at tho ball hastily and, ns ho clutched It, ho shoved It down Into tho handkerchief pocket on his shirt front. Tho runnor saw Car roll tugging nnd straining to tear tho ball out of the pocket and instead of stopping nt first, he sprinted on to sec ond whllo Carroll, still trying to dls lodgo tho ball, ran to second. Tho battor passed tho fielder and turned for third with Carroll In pursuit. At third Carroll stopped and tried In vain to release the ball, nnd tho runner kept on aorosa the plato and scored tho winning run. ChrlB yon der Ahor who at that time was at tho head of ,tho euphonic trio. Von derAho, Muck enfuss nnd Dlddlebock, whlch operat ed tho club, was furious nnd ordered nil pockots removed from baseball shirts. Other teams followed and the pockots novor havo been restored, ex cept by a few plnyors who nro willing to risk tho repetition of tho accident Of nil tho good luck freaks that 1 ever heard recounted, tho best was that which happened to Frank Isbell when ho was plnylng with St. Paul In i tho old Western lcaguo. In thoso ' days baseball on Sunday was not per-, mltted within tho corporation limits or mi. I'aui, anu n auiuiay pnrK nan been erected outside tho city's Juris diction. Tho ground was extremely Binall nnd wns Inclosed by n high fonco. So small was the inclosure' thnt batters hitting tho bnll hmd against the fences wero compelled to spilnt to first, because If tho ball Imp poned to rebound directly to tho field er, ho could throw n slow runner out. As It required nbout foitf hlis of their equivalent In errors to yield n run, small scores wero the rulo. In tho ninth Inning of this gamo Milwaukee had two runs tho ndvantago and thero wero runners on first nnd second with isboll nt bnt. St. Paul's only logical hopo wns for a homo run over ono of tho high fences. Isboll hit n hard lino smash to right Held against tho fenco. Tho runner on first was i slow man and tho fielder squatted, expoctlng tho ball to robound to him and to whirl and forco tho slow' mnn nt second base, ending tho game. Hut tho ball didn't rebound. It Impaled Itsolf on a wire nail about ten foot up tho fenco, and whllo tho Milwaukee outfielders woro hunting a ladder, Is boll circled the bases and won tho game. Another peculiar,, play once gave tho Chicago Whlto Sox a game that ser.mert lost, llnrvov, a left runne I pitcher, was compelled to play tlrd base because of tho badly crlplded condition of bin team nud In the sev enth inning, Chicago being one ahead, tho opposing team got runncr to first nnd second before nnyono went out. Naturally tho play was for the batter to push down a sacrifice bunt. Tho Whlto Sox had n systehi of play designed to kill tho hncrlflco In that situation. The shortstop nnd aecond baseman, nldcd by tho pitcher, wero to hold tho runner nt Recond ns closo to tho baBo na possible, Tho third baseman wan to play closo. as If In tending to tnko the bunt, but aB tho ball wns being pitched ho wiib to run back, cover third, while the pitcher fielded tho bunted ball, threw to third nnd forced out tho runner nt that point. Harvey had boon carefully coached how tho play wan to be exe cuted, but tho batter, detecting tho play from tho actions of the short stop nnd second baseman, changed signals and decided to try to drlvo tho ball past Harvey hard Instead of bunting. Ah tho pitcher wound up Harvey whirled and sprinted back to third. Tho battor chopped the ball hard and sent a lino hit straight toward third baso. Tho ball struck Harvey on tho back of the head, and bounded high; the. sub-thin hnsemnu. as ho went Btnggerlng on over tho baso, caught -tho ball and, by a fast throw to bccond, doubled tho runner off. Ab Harvey camo off tho field nursing tho bump on his head Mana ger Jones remarked: "That'B using your noddlo, Old Mnn." Iccford Tannehlll was tho hero of a remarkable play lato In tho season of 190G, and, as tho play Raved tho gamo for Chicago, and aB tho White Sox won the pennant by a one-game margin and then beat tho Cubs for the world's championship, tho freak play might bo said to have given tho Sox tho world's championship. The game was ngatnat St. Louis and with tho Whlto Sox ono run In tho lead, nn error and a two-base hit put Drown runners on second and third with one out. The infield was called close to cut off tho runner at the plato and provent a tied scoro, aB Jones, tho manager, saw his team could not hit tho St. Louis pitcher and figured a tlo probably meant n defeat. Tho ball was hit fiercely nnd straight nt Tan nehlll, who Is ono of tho surest field ers In tho business nnd possessed of a wonderful pair of hands for block ing hnrddrlven balls. The ball ap peared to bo bounding true but on tho short bound, It struck something, shot straight, nt TnnnehlH'B chin, lilt him nnd, ns he reeled from tho knock; out blow, tho ball foil back directly Into his hands. Ho throw to tho plate, then sat down looking foolish and took tho full count before he was ablo to get up. Larry Doyle's lucky kick which al most gavo the Giants tho National league championship In 1908 Is an other historic freak of play. Thoso, perennial rivals, tho Giants and Cubs, woro playing what scorned tho decid ing Borlos of tho year; the Cubs need ed ono run to tlo nnd had two men on bases, when tho batter hit viciously betweon Doylo and second baso. Doylo reached tho ball but It broko through his bands, nnd It scorned as If tho error had given Chicago tho game. Instead, tho ball hit Doyle's bhln, bounded straight into tho hands of Ilrldwell, who wns on Recond wait ing for tho throw, and an easy dou ble play retired tho Chicago team, Now York winning by ono run. Tho tnlcs most ofteu told aro those Illustrating how HI fortuno will pur suo teams and tho Instances of "runs of luck" and "tough breaks" aro aa numerous ns thero aro games multi plied by players. Tho Chicago Cubs never will cease mourning tho fact that George Rohe, of tho White Sox, ono of tho weakest players that ever broko Into tho American lengue, and n weak hitter, beat them out of ono world's championship. Rohe, who wasn't strong enough to hold a sub- Ty Cobb. Btltute position on tho team more thnn ono moro soason, mado two threo-baso hits and each of them gavo tho White Sox a victory. Hal Chase lost a game for New York last season In a peculiar fash Ion. Two runners wero on tho bases and two men woro out when nn easy bounder vub hit to third. Hartzoll mado a perfect throw nnd tho Inning scorned over, but ns tho ball camo noar to him Chaso dodged suddenly, throw up his hands as if to protect his face, two runs scored nud tho Highlanders recorded nnothor hard luck defeat. It dovoloped later that a photographer was squatting on, tho ground outsldo the coachers' box nnd the sun rofloctod from tho motal of the camera dazzled Chaso Just at tho critical Instant and caused him to loso sight of th ball. i ANCIENT CITY TO HAVE FETE Wltham, England, Near London, Will ' Celebrate IU 1,000 Years In History. London. Wltham Is a Ilttlo town of Rssex, thirty-nine mllca northeast from London, which Is to celobrato Its millenary this year. It haB a popula tion of about 3.E00 and Is situated on tho River Drain, nlso known as the Gulth, a form Indicating the origin of the name of tho town. In tho days of tho ancient Ilrltons it is said tho place was called Gulth-avon. In that part of tho town caUed chip ping Hill nro earthworks thought to bo the remains of fortifications or dered mado by Edward tho Kldor In 913, but held by some to bo of Hrltlsh origin. Roman bricks appear In tho old Church of St. Nicholas. The tower of tho church formerly was of Chipping Hill. wood, but was rebuilt with brick In 1743. An old smithy thero is pointed out aB ono whero Dick Turpln stopped to havo his horses shod when on one of his pilgrimages for plunder. Tho Spread Eaglo hotel Is bIx centuries old and has been Bald to be tho only four gabled inn to bo found in England. Wltham will recall events of 1,000 years ago, Including tho reconqucst of England from tho Danes. DOLL SOLACED DYING MOTHER Kansas Woman Took Substitute for Her Dead Baby Down to the Crave. Trinidad, Colo. It was only a doll a big, golden-haired, "shut-cyo" doll; but to tho fever-racked mother who tossed on tear-stained pillows in tho county hospital, it took tho placo of another Httlo doll In a Kansas cemo tcry. She cared for It aa sho had cared for tho baby which death had taken front her. And as death approached Bho hugged tho waxen imago to her breast and begged that it sharo her grave Sho was penniless, a county charge; she looked forward only" to a tiny plot in tho potter's field. Dut her pleas touched tho doctors who attended her and a Httlo group of hospital attend ants afterward stood besldo a now mado gravo in tho Catholic cemetery whero lay tho woman and doll. The woman was Mrs. Florcnco Stan col of Great Hcnd, Kan. Sho camo to Trinidad two months ago, Just n month after her three-year-old girl died. Sho had quarreled with her hus band, she said, and left her Kansas home. Ono day sho saw tho big dolMn a store window. It was Just the" slzo of her dead baby. Sho bought It, nnd from a trunk took tho Httlo clothes her own baby had worn. With them she dressed tho doll. Around Its neck sho placed a uecklaco of beads and earrings adorned Its waxen cars. It was only a doll, but when her consti tution broko down and peritonitis set in, she took it with hor to tho hospital to romind hor always of her own little one. And thus It lay beside her body InHho morguo; and thus it was burled by her side. MEMORIALS ARE RESTORED Damage by Vandals on the Gettysburg Battlefield Almost Obliterated by Skillful Repair Work. Gettysburg, Pa. Successful efforts at tho restoration of tho nine mem orials on tho Gettysburg battleueld, defaced by vandals on the night of March 5 last, aro now being made by Lieut. Col. E. I). Copo of tho national park commission. Several of tho mem orials havo already been placed In their original condition, and tho others aro expected to bo completed before tho battlo anniversary celebration in July. The day after tho vandalism many of tho largo pieces which wero chip ped from the granlto monuments wero found nearby and preserved. Whero thoso are sufficient slzo tboy aro being tinted to correspond to the stone. Missouri River Gets His Farm. Atchison, Kan. Joseph Frakea, who four years ago owned a 260-acro farm near hero, will cultivate a rented farm this year, ns nil his own placo has been washed away by tho Missouri river. Two mouths ago 20 acres of his land remained, but tho last aero of this recently dropped Into tho river. s Woman Weds Three Brothers. St. Louis. Although sho married thrlco, Mrs. Jessie Young did not have to chnngo her namo. All her husbands were brothers. Tho first and second husbands wero killed in mlno acci dents. Sues for $100,000 Damages. Newark, N. J. Damages of 9100,000 woro asked by tho executors of Louis C Green, who, they claim, was fatal ly injured when caught In the suction 3f a speeding Pennsylvania express train. - . A Difficulty. 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