The Washington herald., 1921-10-08
SEVENTH INNING
STORM WRECKS
YANKEE GAME
Giant Sluggers Rout Two
Pitchers While Collect
ing Eight Runs.
Continued from Page One.

Sonttnned from rage one.
whirlpool OF fate. For twenty in
nings they had known no spoor that
led to the home plate and here they
were on their way to another defeat.
IL was here that Shawkey, with
guiding hand. began to show them
the lost trail to glory. for the paths
OF glory, In this game. lead but to
the plate. Shawkey. with the SUD
denness Of exploding powder. lost
All control. Somewhere from out
OF the timbered wilderness he heard
the Call of the Wild and before
Huggins could summon his reserves
BOB had filed the bases on two hits
and a pass and had then forced two
GIANTS over. For twenty innings
tney had been as helpless as infants
ana here at last was a friendly hand
IN time of trouble pushing them
gently but firmly around the tow
paths as one might lead a blind man
tnrough the tangled trafic at Fifth
avenue and Forty-second street.
At this point Shawkey was der
ricked in favor of Quinn. but the
Giants had now picked up the lost
tran leading back to camp. They
were no longer bewiidered strag-
Pliers In the jungle. They were out
once more. the thin. blue camp
smoke of success. Shawkey left
quinn at q tough spot on the road.
where Rawlings single tied the
count at and 4.
Crowd I'm Uproar.
The crowd was now in a wild and
woody uproar. partisan, clamorous
and full of battle flame. The neu-
trails seemed to have swung over to
the Giants. then the underdogs.
For the next three innings the
main battle was between the two
fanatical factions. as Quinn and
Barnes strobe forward, side by side.
both brilliantly supported. with
Barnes having a shade the better of
thinga
In their half of the seventh, the
Yanks passed out as quickly as a
hat-check boy reaches for a tip.
And here were the Giants with
Frfsch at bat again. Frisch who
mad already reached hrst every
time up.
As the Fordham star walked out.
that part of the crowd that had
cheered Ruth's second strike out.
opened up a salvo of acclaim. AL
ways. over the far horizon, the
populace peers for a new king in
the realm of sport And Frisch so
Tar had surpassed the great Bam-
bino at bat.
Tho Fordham response to this
rousing welcome was a stinging
blow to safe soil. Young followed
with a double. and above the tumult
you could hear the call, They're
on! They're on"
MeusePs. Double Cleans Up.
Somebody said something here
more than a mouthful-than Demos
themes, with his pebble workout.
could hope to get away with. Kelly's
pass filled the bases. and when
Meusel smote a double to right the
avalanche was under way, the
simeon was at work, the earthquake
had started. the tidal wave was on
and the Yanks were utterly and
completely swamped.
The Giants were loose at last Jns
ball and chain was off. Their bat
ting eyes were free from dust, and
their lusty war clubs -Eere E.akIng
up for lost time. They had started
this third game with the mildewed
batting average of III against
Mays and Hoyt An average of III
for the champions of the National
League, But here was different
meat to feed upon, and they were
hungry men. After Meusels double.
Rawlings singled. and Quinn heard
the moose call sounding him to pack
and go. Rip Collins followed, step
ping into the middle of a fusillade
that blew his cap on before he
knew what IL was all aoour. With
out pausing for an extra breath the
Giant attack struck Collins under
the right and left ear IN rapid sue
cession, as runner after runner
rippled over the plate.
Young Gets q Triple.
with two men out. Frisch came
up for the second time and walked,
completing five safe arrivals at
first base out of five starts. Young
followed for his second chance. He
had already donated a double to
this same round and now in a burst
of fervid generosity he decided to
contribute a triple. His blow to
left center went clean to the fence.
Cracking three world series records
viz: eight runs in one inning.
two runs for one man and a double
and a triple for one lone batsman.
So Collins followed Shawkey and
Quinn out through the shadowed
Rogers summoned to take anything
that was left.
The Giants got three new hits
and another run in the eighth to
complete their work of destruction
and to even up for the festive as
paragus cast their way by Carl
Mays and Waite Hoyt.
In this defeat, the Yanks had
dropped a queer type of game.
They had fielded brilliantly and
their eight hits had netted five
runs. They had shown a stronger
attack than upon either of the first
two days-they made more hits,
scored more runs and had been as
fawless in the field. And yet in
spite of this. through the weakness
Of each man who stepped to the
box, they were fairly slaughtered
and completely overrun. All OF
which shows again. the vital impor-
tance of the entry who stands in
the middle of the diamond and
casts his wares in the direction of
the. plate. 1t might be said that
Schang, by calling for So many
pitch outs, failed to help his falter-
ing boxmen who were none too
steady as 1t was.
Shawkey Very Wild.
Shawkey's fate might have been
settled even sooner IL Ward had
not high jumped five feet for Raw
ling's line smash with Meusel tear
ing for second. This remarkable
play throttled the first rally, but
cbowkev was having anfiraIv g.