The sun., 1918-09-10

and the crowd expected the right handler
would work. but presently he was Joined
by Tyler. Ruth and Jones limbered up
for the Red Sox. The crowd reared ap-
prevail when Ruth strobe out to the
rubber as Brick Owens. officiating be-
hind the bat. called play BALL"
Not much happened in the FIRST three
innings. although shean doubled against
a soft drink sign on the right feld fence
in the first inning. and Agnew caught
Flack or hrst with a sharp peg in the
same inning. while Ruth whiried sud-
denly and nailed the same runner of
; second In the third. Having been elm
mated twice when run was needed so
badly Flack restrained his venturesome
spirit and Rugged the bags closer.
Again the Fourth Inning.
1t is uncanny how often in this and
other world series the fourth has proved
the fatal inning. History repeated IT.
self to-day. In the fourth Shean
walked, Strunk flied to Paskert, a wide
pitch got by ISillefer and Shan went
to second. Whiteman walked. Killefer
strolled out to Tyler and the two whis-
pered together for a few moments, while
the crowd. with McInnis at the plate and
Ruth on deck, yelled for Lefty TO hasten.
McInnis forced Shean at third, and
along came Ruth, swinging three muir
derous looking clubs. Tyler glanced to-
ward Mitchell and began to Midget with
his glove. He looked around and waved
Flack back. but the right fielder dis
dained to retreat more than a couple of
yards. Babe refused to bite on three
low sweeping curves. Tyler glanced at
Mitchell again and shot over two strikes
waist high.
With the count two and three Tyler
looked over again at Mitchell and his
eyes seemed to carry an appeal. but the
grim faced leader of the Cubs made nary
a move. Tyler reached down for a
handful Of dirt and Babes hands tight
ened convulsively on the bat. The ball
came waist high. Babe swung In ter
rlble arc and the ball shot out toward
the right centre field bleacher. Flack
cast despairing look over his Shout
der and sprinted toward New Mexico
The crowd, 22,1s3 persons to be exact.
rose and screeched.
Tyler Prevents Homer.
Flack did r. 'narkably we'll to find the
ball at all, which he did with astonish-
ing speed. He relayed the pill to third
and the ball would have landed in the
Cubs dugout and Babe would have
scored a home run had not Tyler backed
up the throw.
Pick got on first in the ffth by means
of comical little fly, which foated
softly over Ruth's head hut olt Of
Shean's reach. The quick thinking Scott
came In like fash, pushed Ruth and
Shean out OF the way. scooped the thing
up and almost got Pick. Mitchell sent
Zeider to bat for Pick and O'Farrell for
Deal after Merkle had hit two fouls In
the seventh and then walked. A double
play. observation-disclosures, retired the
side after Zeider also had walked.
McInnis singled in Boston's half OF
the seventh and Babe came UP again.
He fooled them all by bunting, but
Chick Deal came darting in and Babe
was an easy out.
'blossomed In the hearts Of the Cub
rooters and there seemed to be a goodly
number of them. as Killefer walked at
the beginning of the eighth. Hendrix
batted for Tyler and drove a single past
Scott that would have bored a hole
through the wall around Sing Sing.
Mitchell whispered earnestly to Flack.
and the latter. who has been hitting
viciously In this series, went to the plate
full of fight.
One OF Ruth's sharply breaking curves
hit the rim OF Agnew's mitt. and both
runners advanced. With men on second
and third and none out Flack fell dowr,
hitting a puny grounder to McInnis for
an una SISTED out. McCabe was inserted
to run for Hendrix, although II is gen.
orally admitted that the latter can get
along faster than the former. Hollocher
also fell down. pushing weak one at
Shean. although Killefer scored.
The tying run was on third, and Les
Mann came through with a steaming
single past Thomas, scoring said Mo
cabe. Paskert's intentions were cold
FLOODED in the extreme. He hit to
Thomas, who made hurried and poor
throw, but McInnis made a wonderful
pickup and the Cubs big inning was
over.