The Washington herald., 1921-10-13
Handling as Chances Per-
fectly, His 2 Misplays
Defeat Yankees, 81.
H0YT is LAST HOPE
OF HIGGINS TRIBE
Needing But 1 Game, Nc
Graw Seems Safe With
Nehf and Barnes.
BY GRANTIAND RICE.

Gibraltar has fallen. verdun has
collapsed. The Chinese Wall has
crumbled to yellow dust OAR
tagnan has backed out of quarrel
and history is upside down.
For the Giants won their fourth
victory by surging through two
wide gaps opened by Aaron Ward.
the strongest sector In the Yanks'
defense. Fate, at times has a mock
ing way of leading some hapless
human to within a stride of the far
summit and then suddenly rolling
MS broken body down the rocky
slope to the deep ravine below.
Up to today's seventh battle.
Ward, the brilliant, had run down
forty-six chances with only one ex-
cusable misplay and those cheering
beneath the banner of the Yankees
mad looked upon him as an i'm
pregnable barricade. He had been
covering his territory with both
feet and both hands, blocking the
road for each Giant attack with a
consistent staunchness that was not
to be equalled by any member of
either team. He had been all over
the lot. using the single and double
grab after the manner of Lajoie,
Collins and Johnny Evers in a triple
blend of armor plate resistance
Errors Defeat Yankees.
And then, in the vital game of the
series before the greatest crowd of
the merry carnival, he paints across
the golden glow of a promised
Yankee triumph the sable coating
Of Yankee defeat. Through
Wards two misplays the Giants
pushed the two runs needed to beat
Carl Mays in the greatest game the
big boy with the undertow delivery
has ever pitched.
But for these two errors Mays
would have beaten the Giants and
the brilliant pitching of Phil
Douglas by the score of to 0. leav-
ing the Yankeesl within a lone game
Of collecting the winners end.
The difference between being a
nero and a goat in this fickle, pallid
existence is frequently a matter Of
ZEN or twenty minutes where there
IS no head wearing the crown that
by tomorrow may not be resting
upon kennel straw. The fate OF
ward has been an even harder blow
than the tragedy of the crippled
Ruth. As a result OF Wards one
bad afternoon after a week Of sin
gular triumph, the Yanks tonight
are on the verge of disappearing
into the ghostIy fogs of woe and
sorrow.
Giant. Ready for Finale.
With Mays victorious, as he
should have been, Waite Hoyt to-
morrow afternoon might have car
ried them safely to the mountain
top with a firm grip upon lot OF
extra change at the edge of cold
- cruel winter. As it is, the
Giants leading by a game. are now
noised for the death thrust with
Arr Nehf and Jess Barnes eager to
men hostiIities. For even II Hoyt
IONS Nehf tomorrow for the third
sime- who is there to step In front
~ the Kansas cyclone in the nnal
md deciding game? We pause
briefly for some reply, unless a
faint echo answers-"Mays again
with Mays defeat the final
,urden now falls upon the youthful
,boulders of the Brooklynite, who,
20 far. has been another Atlas hold
No nm the Yankee world. He now
his chance to step up with Math-
Hson, Babe Adams and the specta-
IuIar few who have won three
Games in one post-season test.
when Mays and Douglas stepped
mt for their third joust In the
seventh game the greatest crowd of
the series was present. There were
.s many thousands dashing about
In dizzy circles outside as there
we're packed in stands and bleach
ors waiting for the critical moment
to break.
when Pipp's double and McNally's s
.iuaIV single showed showed the
yanks in front as early ss the sec
ond round. their numerous support
ars were as full f'pep as the air at
bawp. Mays was on the edge of a
bIr day one of his best, and that
Ione tally was not to be despised.
Young safe mt First.
In the fourth with Frisch re-
tired. Young raped one sharply at
ward. Ward had been one spot that
meant Giant death since the series
started. but to the astonishment of
the multitude the ball struck the
. top of his glove, bounded a foot or
so away and while .he was making
a brace of futile, hurried grabs,
Young scampered safely over the
baR. This bobble was officially
scored a hit. but as Ward was di-
rectly in front of the ball even with
the tumble he might still have
nailed his man at first He had
missed too few to know what to do
with the turn of the tide.
Mays then struck Kelly out for the
second time as Young stole second.
KeIly's out should have retired the
side but. as II was. Young was on
second. and when Meusel singled the
score was l and 1.
Douglas and Mays both settled down
after this ito spectacular pitching
starting in the third Douglas retired
thirteen Yanks In order until Frank
Baker. who had supplanted the in
Jured McNsliy, peeled OF a hit and
broke the spell.
All this while Carl Mays was riding
the crest of hig hendeavor and golden
hope. He was stopping the Giants at
e. every turn. pausing here and there
10 strike one out. He had gone through
the series without yielding a pass and
his control was as perfect as ever. In
place of weakening as he did last
sunday, Mays looked to be getting
better and better as the game rolled
along.
He had two men out in the seventh
when the crash came. Rawlings poked
cestinssd on zPa0e Thrss