The Washington herald., 1921-10-10
GIANTS BATTER
OZARK HURLER,
EVENING BREAK
Mays Guard Drops and
Yanks Lose, Score,
a to 2. u
BAMBINO SMASHES
POWERFUL HOMER
Swipe Sends Ball Into
Two Quarters of
Grounds. -
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

shadow of the Ozark foothills. heavy
with the graveyard odor Of cypress
and the ghost flower that lured Sam
Houston from the white race to the
red. the Giants bludgeoned their way
to an even break in the series today
Just as they were taking the last count.
Score, to 2. For sixteen innings
Carl Mays. Kleagle and centurion OF
the Ozarkian guard, held them in the
hollow OF a hand big enough 20 palm
one Of the watermelons some excited
planter sends each year 10 the Pres
ident.
Starting as far back as last Wed
nesday and running through the
seventh inning Of Sundays exciting
test, Mays had held the baffied Giants
not only runless but helpless and hope
less as well Leading / 20 at the
start Of the eighth inning, with his
big foot upon their broad. red necks.
the Tarzan Of the Ozsrks. was just
emitting a victorious. anthropoidal
gurgle when Emil Meusel, Of the
Giants, slipped UP from behind and
soaked Carl on the head with a long
acclaimed by the greatest crowd Of the
series. knocked Carts heart from its
ancient moorings between the NTH and
seventh ribs. For after this intercostal
lab. Carl. Of the Ozsrks. was no longer
in the same frame of mind. His goat
was bleating far from home as Giant
after Giant stepped up with a toehold
and took a running slam at mis- waning
stuf.
shufninE Phil.
II was bing- bingham with Shur-
fling Phil Douglas. Of Tennessee.
proudly proclaiming the superior
contours OF the Blue Ridge Noun
tains to anything the Ozarks had 10
offeT. For Shutting Phil, with his
slight stoop and his whirling spit
ter. was on the crest Of a conquer
ing wave. He had everything but a
kind word from Miller HugCins and
the Yanks as he whitfield eight
Yankees and held them in check.
II is at this point that the big heart
interest drama Of the series steps
in and crowds out the salient facts
Shortly after high noon there was
a terrific uproar in certain SAM
tarium as "a burly figure overpow-
cred four doctors and five guards,
tore the big iron door from its
hinges and bowled in the direction
. of the olo Grounds stone walls
do not a prison make nor iron bsr-
/ a cage" Not with the great Man
DARN OF Maui hearing from far away
/ the plaintive call Of his clan crying
aloud in the wilderness for the big
mace to report
10, the Champion Comes.
And SO it came about that shortly
| before game time there went up
| from the packed stands the rolling
| thunder Of $4,000 human voices, bel
! lowing. barking, bounding from
/ pillar to post, as the Mandarin, with
his right elbow swathed in tape and
! rubber, stalked upon the field.
You guessed il. In defiance OF
all orders, Babe Ruth has returned
to his people for one Of the greatest
ovations that ever thundered its
tribute over a field. II the guillo-
4 tine had removed his head. his vast
torso in the act OF falling would
have turned aud rolled in the d.
rection sf the game that to him is
/ all existence.
! And having broken bondage and
arrived. il then fell TO Ruth's lot
lin the final inning TO establish
record that has never been ap-
preached You have heard before
of sluggers hitting home runs 10
the left field bleachers, the center
field bleachers. the right held
lbleachers, or over the fence.
An UnequaIed Lam.
i But Ruth is the only man in base
ball history that ever sent single
into both grandstand and bleachers.
covering two sectors through the
tremendous power OF his blow.
The Giants were leading 4 20 l..
} through their closing rallies against
Mays with one out in the ninth as
the Bambino sauntered up. Douglas
cut a low curve over the plate and
in spite Of his bandaged elbow and
its two-inch slit the Babe let fy
with everything he had. The ball.
WinginR its way to right center.
struck the far right field tier OF the
upper stands with such astonishing
force that IL bounded far over into
the right field bleachers as 10000
male and female lungs sounded the
tribute of the tribe TO the old-fash-
ioned qualities of gameness and
brawn
In spite of his mangled elbow,
that looked like a veal outlet
Dreaded, the big Babe had deliv-
cred the stuff for which the multi-
tude clamored. He had socked the
only home run Of the series. and
he had soeked IL so hard that the
upper grandstand quivered for a
moment as II one OF the new dis
armament bombs had exploded un-
der its main post. He had hit 4
home run into all the stands there
were in that part Of the field, and
the only wonder Is how the ball
kept from bounding again ever into
the left-neld seats.
First -Four Innings.
For the first four innings OF N.
fourth game Mays and Douglas held
, rival batsmen at bay.
Mays had not permitted a clesn
hit as the helpless Giants paved
, away at bis underground ball
helpless and bewildered as a Polish
wrestler making out an income
tax form.
Douglas had been almost as &C.
fective. with only singles by Mo-
Nally and Ruth marked up against
his battling splitter. Then iu the
fifth, after Pipp's single had opeuoi
, the zap. wally Sceang Leaned
abruptly against a fas. H7e and