'A'GESIX*1 THE LETHBRIDGE DAILY HERALD .- ....-.-. •—-—:— •;•'•'••-.••• - *•• -••— ' • —- -•- •-»-•-- -•-- - - •,- - WlDNESDAY>TmL>nmjjmv.i, acirSEPTEMBE LCimoCtnR o\f,30,192 Ii>696 UNEVENTFUL CLOSING OF BALL YEAR "Babe" Adariis, 1909 World's Series' Hero, Wiil Help Pirates Again STOUT-HEARTED BABE ADAMS BASEBALL Pittsburg And Connie Mack Blames Fate And Breaks Femie Ball Team WILL FIGURE IN WORLD'S; SERIES; * •» Washington To ; Results - - Standings For Downfall Of Philadelphia Athletics Back From Coast HOW HE WON THEM CLASSIC « •> * * •> •> Create Record? Fate and the "breaks," In Connl by the same margin. It just teemed Mack's opinion, have shattered hi that, fate was against us. After Fine Trip dream of piloting the Athletics th "We had our full strength on the Almost Single Handed Famous year back to the high places o field sll this time, too, uo there are Major Leagues If Series Goes Limit of Seven baseball and pennant glory that hav no alibis on this score. Wo had our .Missouri Plowman of Pir- 7 he Greatest Golf been beyond his reach for more tha handicaps, injuries and disappoint- a decade. Though Gale Cup Doesn't ates Defeated Detroit Games New Attendance ments earlier in the season, but we Shot I Ever Saw NATIONAL LEAGUE These two factors, he thinks surmounted them and kept around Come Their Way, They , Mark May Be Made stepped in without warning when the the top. Perhaps with bur full PITTSBURG, Sept. 30 — Sixteen As told by Jack Kofoed Show Libs. How to Won earn was winging along ot the top (trength earlier we would have done years ago. on a cold October day. '.here Lost Pet. isttling neck and neck with the came into everlasting baseball fame a By BILL REEKIE Pittsburg .. .. H4 NEW YORK, Sept. 30.— Another even better, but that is only a guess " Play Vashington Senators, to deal the , Mack, generous in d-fnat, does not bulky Missouri ploughman, for Ihe, Metropolitan Amateur Champion New York .. .. SO .574 million dollar world series is in pros- Cincinnati .. .. 7!l .52:1 pect for this year. The first one was Athletics a series of stunning set point the finger of blame at any par- moment one of the great mmindniei: i lacks and drop them from the heights «f the day—Charles (Babe) Aciams | St. Louis ... .. 7i» 75 .500 played in 1923, when She New York ticular individuals In reviewing his (From Our Own Correspondent) Detroit had won iho American Picking out the greatest golf shot Brooklyn .. .. GS Si' .4".:! Yankees opened the enormous new o an almost hopeless position in the setbacks. His philosophy offsetss his FERNIE, B. C., Sept. 27-The Fernie I ever Fav !s a difficult task, Boston .. 69 S3 .454 stadium. The second one was played rear in the short pace ot three disappointment to a large extent Coal Company baseball club, holders Ieagu3 pennant thdt year. 1900, and since I have veeks. Pittsburg the National, but the Pir- played the game and Chicago .. .. IJ7 S4 .444 last year when the Washingtons and )ut he can not conceal the facct thaat of the Alberta Baseball Championship ates' pitching staff had crumpled at watched It for Philadelphia .. 64 85 .4 HO the Giants drew a gate of $1,093,101 In the face of his startling adver- t has been a Mtter blew to one of an honor 'they cannot defem next so many years in their seven-game encounter. Ity—one that has tew major league the strongest amtitions of his lon season owing to the ruling ot the the last—with one exception. Ailamc- -arecr. B a first year man, had won two game? hoth in this flrooklyn 4; Philadelphia 10. This year the passing of the mil- arallels—Mack does not repeat the Amateur Association which next sea- country, and on n ? c Fernie in the and stood on the mound at Detroit in No others scheduled. lion dollar mark will depend on the amiliar refrain of the loser—"wait In the final analysis the fate which *? T. ?S £' Jurisdiction the final struggle, f.tciug another fam- the other side length of the series and whether ntll next year." Mack sees as u stumbling block ,. !i, Colllnil>la, returned to the ous right-hander of that day—the Lite of the water. it is possible to add 10.000 seats to "This was our best chance," he eally has taken ttre guise of Bucky oily this morning-from a strenuous "Wild Bill" Donovan, killed in me There ie, how- AMERICAN LEAGUE the capacity of the Pittsburg park. says. "I figured this as our year /s and his Senators. Harris, ball playing trip to the Pacific Coant. Twentieth Century Limited wreck ever, one that It is a foregone conclusion that the 11 along. We had/only one team to ing his great club to its second The boys returned well pleased with while on his way to attend the b_ e sticks i n my No games scheduled. first two games of the series, which eat but we couldn't do It. Next year traight pe'tnant at the age of 28 the showing they had made out there mind as so as thwarted ehe ambitions of a man although n little disappointed in not hall league meetings in ]i>2.1. will be played in Pittsburg, will be we will have four or five to contend re Adams Wins a Flag masterly that it a "sell out." Forbes Field now has '° ""a twice his age— Mack, the bringing the coveted Western Canada ivith. Chicago. New York and De- title nnd the Gale Cup wth them. They With Detroit was the great 1 cannot b e ob- COAST LEAGUE a seating capacity of 35,000. and roit all will be in the thick ot the all, Latherly tactician who was win- Raymond Cobb, of Georgia, still great lite rated by Barney Dreyfiis should be able to ght in 1926. My club'wiil ;-a strong lag pennants when Harris was in speak very highly of the treatment ac- other wonder- Sacramenlo 0; Seattle 4. mee pants and who captured his last corded them -while sojourning at Van- after 20 years; the powerful Sam put m temporary stands which wil again, I hope, but it has lost Its couver, both oh the ball park and off, Crawford and a string of other dang ful shots I've San Francisco 8; Ixis Angeles accommodate 10.000 more. biggest opportunity. orld s championship when the young seen. It was Vernon 4; Oakland :;. ana also state that they were given eroue batsmen. But Adams carried Wnshingtcn can be depended on "I thought we.'were on the high 8'0 lea" was an «PP«nt"cf made by Jerry fill every nook every assurance when they left for the series and the world's champion- and corner Urn tide until things suddenly turned home, that the Fernte Club would al- ship to Pittsburg by permitting only BILL, HKKKIE Travers some is allotted to spectators in the three you'll remember, against us in the west. Our defense, ways receive a warm welcome if they elx hits, materially aided by bow- years ago. Trovers. games to be played there, following particularly around the infield, fal- It is the second time that a "team won four amateur and one open cham- the two ever visited the coast In the future. • legged, fighting Hans Wagner who 3 games in Pittsburg. It the tered a bit and our pitching slumped. as Staff Wllnon, manager of the club, leemed to be everywhere at once. pionship in the heyday of his career. issue is not settled in those five '" blocke«**d th e asplra" - But I'll wager he never made a finer SPORT SPARKS These may seem the real causes of ions of stated that he was very pleased with .Pittsbnrg scored eight runs for a games, interest in the outcome should our disastrous losing streak, but, you wilh startling swift- the showing of the team In the cham- Secisive conquest in this seventh and ehot in any of his victories than he be so intense that another capacity ess. KHOJI NEAR AND FAR know, the breaks went against us day le n pionship series, and that had the final game. (lid in a foursome that I recall. crowd will turn out for the sixth after day. where we had been hit- ™ , years ago, in 1914, Mack breaks not gone against them at crit- .Today Babe Adams, now 43 years It bad reached, the eighteenth hole, same to be played in Pittsburg and Amcrlca n all square. The hole was a par 4, ting in the pinch we knocked into ant ™i ?' ,, "eague pen- ical moments in the first two games old, stands ready lo pitch his heart Spunk Sparrow, hockey player d seventh' i£ a seventh is double plays, once into even a triple - ™ F ave one of the *re"t- they might easily have brought the out for another Pittsburg triumph in some 375 yards in length, with a soggy luxe, was in the city Monday" givin *ei°lr at machines of all time crumble in Gale trophy with them. remnant of a creek about 100 yards play. We lost three straight games •world's series combat and Hie sen!i- us the once over. Split is Smaller to St. Louis by one run at the start our straight world's series games Beat Liberals ment of the Pirate fans very likely from the green. The fairway slanted Players of the contending teams efore tha darling march of th! Bo" down toward this water, and from its of our losing stretch and dropped the While at the coast the Fernie team will draw him into action in at leas't Speaking of the new dance, th "II not enjoy as big a split tills ast two to Washington on Labor day played seven games in eight days, four one o[ the games. His arm has cot farther side continued up a hill toward Charleston, an evening of dancin ••ear as ihey dirt in 1924, however. ™ %"££* «•"**«*•»>*." against the Fraser Cafe is the r.ham- the stamina of old hut his courage anil the putting carpet. starts in with the hop-skip and jum ;bicb win This is the law ot baseball. sc.vre tied 2-2. Bishop pitched the he green, the pennants will draw the game. With men on he could be as pitcher for his home town Hav- old days they sent him to the A'uta the This law is inexorable. counted on to deliver. second game for Fernie and won four makers came to notice. The Parsons . the most difficult part of tariiim. .Now they give him a Charles Kogers Peckinpaugh, one of the run? to three. Jacobs and Blair split' team of the Missouri Valley league Terry's position was the fact that if ton cup. The players' pool in the world se- nost brilliant and constant shortstops Meanwhile, he more than lived up the final game between them and won picked him up iu 1905 and he won 30 played the ball, he not only hart a es this year will be arranged on laseball has boasted, is about to bow to expectations of his home-town folk easily by a score of ten runs to four. out of 40 games, enough to attract the errible lie, but an almost impossible However, pverybody is doing th be basis of the UEllal 60 pef Mnt this law. and New York fans as a fielder He attention of the St. Louis Cardinals. tauce. His left foot could find solid Charleston now. And if you acl For the last couple of years became one of the fleetest, surest SMYTHE HELD Up BY STORMS the gross receipts of the first his shortstops in the game. After spending half of tlie season on support against the bank, but his right normal, folks will think you are crazy ames. Last year 75 per cent, of pins havp fsil.ec! ts stand "the daily a St. Louis bench he was sent to must be almost knee deep in the grind. This year they have T1 mnde an SPBZIA. Italy, Sept. 30.—Ceo. ... creek. hat amount went into the winning again n S' H '"Slant hit' with Louisville and thence to Denver In Four hundred college footbal nd losing teams of the world series faltered under" him. the New York bosses is indicated by Smythe, Canadian canoeist, paddling Still. he was not satisfied to drop from Naples to Leningrad, Russia, on the Colorado capital he became a coaches In the United States will com iffL ,arm arrangement will be Peckiupaugh, when he is forced to the fact that when the late Frank hero, wiili us victories, out of 50 back, and take the penalty. Travers blue with Yale university and the ifferent, ,0 per cent, going to the the baseball rocking chair and slip, Chance resigned as manager of the a wager of 10.000 lire, has been forced •games and Plttsbiirg snatched him was none of your "safety-first" lads. pers, will look back on an interesting lankees near the close of the 1014 to put Into Porto Venere Roads, be- If there was Unlled States Intercollegiate Athletic vinnmg and losing clubs. „ <-
Uneventful Closing of Ball Year
