New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-16
Spill All
The Beans in
Final Test
Uncertainty of National
Game Illustrated by Series
This Year
By Louis Lee Arms


a few cylinders just when the race be-
gan 10 get interesting. Consequently
a few million Of us who backed our
opinion with something more negotis-
bic are left holding the bag. the Giants
are out various and suniry thousands
and everybody Is SIS happy as . sore
toe.
We losers know, OF course. that the
gentlemanly Giants should have Won
yesterdays game, 2 TO 1. and that Sat
urday's free-for-all wa. a gif. to the
Sox as magnificent as anything Andrew
Carnegie might have given. but, after
all, what does that get US?
Diabolic Uncertainty
The main fault with baseball is its
diabolic uncertainty. Before a series
you may point 70 the incontroyertibie
fact that black is black, but slorg
about the third game it will probaby
turn white. For one. we did not ask
Heinie Zimmerman 10 hit 400. We never
ed the pride Of The Bronx TO play an
ordinarily steady game and do such
hitting as ne thought necessary for the
cause.
Whereupon Mr. Zimmerman hits tho
ball for an average OF about a dollar
and a quarters worth, strikes az pi,che
that a hook and ladder company could
not reach, and concludes a grand ard
edifying performance by chasing I'd
die Collins over the plate with vastly
important run. The Great Zim IL
graced with q single track mind, ard
now and then few cnders clog his
mental calculations
Plays may come and plays may 20.
but the memory OF the Great Zim, ball in
hand, pursuing the feet-footed (. Trow-
bridge Collins down the boulevard tow
ard homo plate will linger on forever
Then TO show further the uncertainty
of our national foibe Dayy Robertson,
who can ordinarily stand with his back
70 the audience and pick balls OF the
right field wall, dropped an apparently
innocuous ny. Snodgrass, himself, in
his palmiest days could not have ex-
celled that muf: SO how is IL possible
70 dope baseball?
Before the series il was written In
the Kings English and other languages
that the gentlemanly Giants, il they
tumbled, would tumble because their
pitching would be unable 10 stand the
wear and tear Of world series. With
the exception of the second game, tho
| pitching given the Clan-na- McGraw
was good enough 10 win eight out OF
ten games. To be sure, Ssllee received
a sleigh ride on that cold Saturday in
Chicago, but the Giants previously had
! piled up enough runs 70 win had they
played anything like normal ball.
Giants Outgamed
Before the series 1t was said that tho
| Giants would outgame the Sox IL
gameness were necessary. and il usu-
ally is. As matter of fact the
| Giants cracked wide open in both the
| fifth and the sixth games, while the
! slim-legged, quiet Chicagoans, with the
exception of bad start in the fifth
game, played the great and gentleman
| ly Giants as though they were facing
a
were as certain TO win.
Benny kauff gave a chills and fever
touch to his fielding all during the
series. He had one big home run day,
but the majority were run home dsys.
Holding an extra important position in
the batting order. ii was almost certain
! If he couldn't hit the Giants would
have many promising rallies spoiled,
and that's just what happened To
make it even more intricate Benjsrino
al most Invariably hit the ball in the
air.
There is some hope that a ground
hit ball will do some good-it has been
known TO advance base runner-but
for the notorious mp-backed liner
there is no chance apparently, unless
IL is hit a. 2 Giant in the pinch.
In way the Giants did better THAI
might have been expected with tho
Great Zim and Benjarino eontributing
no more than plratical wallops At the
ball which were successful only in con.
vincing the fans that bat can dis
place lot of autumnal atmosphere
/ II IL IS properly swung. Eddie Collins,
who WAS working against the tire
mendous handicap OF hitting almost
nothing except left-hand pitching, dld
not try for a home run on his every
/ appearance at bat, and consequently he
only nit a mere matter of some 400
odd.
The Giants may believe, after their
| repetltiye failures in world series
| events, that there is a ink upon them
in the interleague plsy-off, but the
| 1917 series would go 20 show that they
are their own greatest ink.
Fifth Game Turning Point
The turning point in the current
series was the fifth game. The turn.
! ing point in that game was the unex-
peetedly mediocre work Of the Giants
infield and outfeld in its support OF
Ssllee. Zimmerman and Herzos both
let ground balls drift by that they
should have nsbbed. and Herzos in
creased his culpability by muffing q
! thrown ball that could hardly be con.
sidered In the A Is C's of baseball.
The winning run in the fifth game
came over because Robertson was
bothered by the sun and got a late
start after Gandils drive. The sun Is
given equation, like a White Sox fan.
so IT is obvious that Robertson, not
the sun, must be blamed, for the sun
cares very little about a world series.
The Giants went into the sixth game
with a commendsble spirit, and if they
were at all nervous or inclined to
think too much Of those winning thou
sands they were veterans enough to
mask their thoughts. OF the two teams
yesterday they seemed much the more
formidable at every stage Of the game
except when they committed hsri-ksri
in the well known fourth inning.
1t is as obvious as Romaa nose that
no ante-series doping could possibly