The New York herald., 1921-10-16
WHY GIANTS WON
THEBASEbALLSE
Stronger Batting Club and Bet
ter Numerically in Top Notch
Pitchers.
ny WILLIAM II. HANNA.

First and foremost In discussing the
late world series it should be said that
the Giants, although not necessarily
better baseball club for seasons test.
won this series because they played
better than the Yankees. This was
the point to be decided, and what
might happen We're they to meet again
or were in the same league may be dis
missed as not germane to the dis
cussion.
1t is true that fortune--pure luck
favored the Giants more than the
Yankees, but the Giants proved them
selves ball club of excellence, and
their own efforts and poise went fur
ther than anything else to win for
them. They began by being shut out
twice, and to rally and finally win as
they did Is a fact and factor to be as
clearly limned on the chronicles of the
classic as the facers the Yankees re-
ceived in the way of slaps from the
goddess OF fortune.
Getting right down to cases IL Is as
clear as a b C wherein the Giants won
and why. First, they are q better bat
ting team. AS the writer has pointed
a stronger batting front right down the
line. Weak hitters are not intersperDed
with good ones, as is the case with the
Yankees They are better batting
team than the Yanks even with Ruth in
the latter lineup, though whether they
would have won had Ruth been In all
the games Is another question and
doubtful. We know that Ruths batting
contributed directly To two Yankee vic
tories.
Tho Yanks. with or without Ruth, are
not as good batting team as the
Giants, but the Yankees can hit better
than they did in this series. The
crowded bleachers, with their rolled up
curtains, affected the batting OF both
teams, decreased their batting. There
Is no doubt Of this. 1t is just common
sense to so reason and declare. Hug
gins might have obtained better results
at the bat had he moved such huskies
as Baker and Schang nearer to the top
and showed Miller down. His original
put Schang in third place and Fewst er
eighth.
The fact remains. though, that the
Giants won in the face Of some of the
best opposing pitching ever seen. They
did that because in those last two
gruelllng hard tests they did the secure
fielding necessary to win such games.
The Yankees did not. 1t was their mis-
fortune that they did not, but the stead
fast work of the Giants under the same
severe pressure cannot be called luck
by any stretch Of the meaning of that
word
The third leading reason why the
Giants won is that when the opening
pitcher was knocked out they had man
who could go in and stop further NJ
roads. Such a man for them was jesse
Barnes. The Yankees did not have ouch
a man. II they had had. with the leads
they had stacked up for the original
pitcher they would have won the series
The Giants excelled-. In batting. IN
which department they are intrinsically
| stronger. and they excelled in pitching
to the extent that they had In Douglas
Barnes and Nehf a greater supply OF
first class talent. The Yankees had only
the two crackerjacks. Mays and Hoyt
who did superatively we'll. but couldn't
win. The work OF Hoyt In the series
| glowed like an aureole and he stands
out the most heroic figure in II.
Three respects in which the Giants
were expected to excel they did not
excel. They met their match In the
factors Of speed headwork and sand.
The Yankees. for all the purposes of
this particular series. were as speedy
as their rivals of greater reputation In
that detail and never lost a trick more
than the other side. They were as keen
tactically. and every whit as game
Strateglcally, though, McGraw - a
master mind in baseball foresight
manipulated his pitchers better than
Huggins--which may have been due e.
the different material they had to work
Without did not outdo the midget in any
other way. New York has good reason
TO be well satisfied with each of IT'S
teams this year and to take pride in
| them.
No team ever lost q world series with
better grace than the Yankees or made
a bettAr fight; no team in winning ever
showed\ttself more resourceful or pulled
itself together with better morale or
more cool determination. The sports
manship of the Yankees was fine. the
better OF the two. I think. and though
they were hard losers they were good
losers and lost like men. The Giants