The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-12
Baseball
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20 the full nine games Regard. they
say how the teams over the span of
Il whole week showed themselves inn
bued with tit for tat spirit. The
Yankees took the first two then the
Giants took two. The Yanks then
forged ahead, only to have the Giants
catch up with them yesterday by
pummelling the service of Harper and
Shawkey for Is hits and runs.
The advantage of power in the box
now lies with the Giants Douglas and
Barnes have shown they can halt the
Nsh Of Yankee bats. Douglas is
booked to pitch today and Nehf to-
morrow. Nehf lost two games to the
Yankees largely because his team
mates made but one run in eighteen
innings they labored with him. This
would leave for the possible ninth
game assignment Barnes. who twice
! has successfully rescued Toney from
the fury OF a Yankee attack, and then
held them while the Giants pounded
ont victories. Besides. there are the
second string fingers as yet INFESTED
On the other hand higgins has
trotted out only two successful pitch
erS-Il0yt and Mays-and the Giants
vow they no longer dread the under
hand shoots Of Mays. having beaten
him on his second start. 1t is Mays
who may have to pitch fourth time
if the series goes the limit
Yesterdays game was exciting the
| first four innings, so crisp and full
of thrills that what followed seemed
drOwSy though the closing rounds pro-
duced as much interest as the aver
age contest.
Nobody may remember those last
innings a year hence. but even the
most callOuSed folk do not expect to
stop talking about three home runs
in less than ten minutes, the three
occasions when fielders stopped ter
rife clouts they could not catch, by
| hurting themselves in front of the
flying sphere, the long run of Chick
Fewster to absorb Young's foul hard
by the bleachers in the first inning,
the undaunted spirit that carried the
Giants to victory after the Yankees
| had gone ahead of them and the man.
ner in which Barnes curbed the Yam
KEGS when their bats were merrily
swinging with the joy that Toney fur
nished. There was a big hubbub by
the rooterS of the three home runs
in the second inning. But the play
ers were surprisingly calm in their
reaction to these wallops Just as if
banging the ball into the outlying
sections of the amphitheater was
nothing to make a fuss over. When
Emil Meusel propelled one into the
lower right field stand with Kelly on
base, not a person grasped his palm
as he crossed the plate and walked
to the dugOut. The homer that Sny-
der poled Il moment later. the play
ers appeared to accept without parti-
cular enthusiasm and this also was
the case Immediately afterward when
Fewster put the Yanks ahead once
more by cracking one into the bleach
ers with Shawkey on bases. That
fellow-Babe Ruth-sat in the grand
stand yesterday. Mayhap it was just
as well. His sub, Fewster, hit a home
run which Babe probably couldn't
have done with his sore arm. and the
sub got several long flies. far from
his position that Babe might not have
reached because OF his sore leg.
Rain in Early Morning
i New York. Oct. ~. Rain, with a
L..
| threatened the peace and comfort of
ticket holders for the seventh worlds
series game. The weather forecaster
thought the rain would end before
gametme. but warned spectators that
overcoats would be in order.
Babe in Bad Shape
New York, Oct. 12.-Babe Ruth,
out of the worlds series because of
injuries, is suffering from five diff
ferent hurts, any one of which prob
ably would be sufficient to keep ball
players from the game.
Here are Ruth's injuries
Infected upper left arm, in which
surgeons have made three inch in
cision. The original injury was suf-
fered in the ClevelandN New York Sc
ries. The wound was torn open twice
in the games Of Sunday and Monday
and the arm is badly swollen.
Sprained left knee, suffered in mid
summer; has never had enough rest
to regain strength
Pulled tendon, or Charlie horse"
in right leg; torn loose again Tues
day when he scored from first on II.
Meusel's two Dagger.
Sprained wrist, caused from falling
on his arm when sliding bases.
Strawberry or open sore on his
hip, caused by sliding bases, and con.
stantly reopened
Ruth says he could stand the pain
and would play but for the warning
OF physicians. that constant aggrava
ton would spread the infection in his
arm and make another and more Sc
rious operation necessary.
The Giants are going to lead the
Yankees a dogs life from now on.
said Manager McGraw today. He was
feeling snappy over the Giants vic
tory of yesterday Commenting on the
lighting spirit of his men, McGraw
mentioned their having won three of
the last four games after the Yam.
KEGS had twice downed them at the
start.
Chick Fewster received a shock
when the ball he hit into the bleach
erS Tor home run was returned IN