The New York herald., 1921-10-13
The Old Law of Averages
Swerves Victory for Nc
Graw's Young Men.
BOBS UP IN TWO CRISES
Ward Wabbles After Max
ing Fine Record, Needed
Tallies Recorded.
MATES SADLY MISS RUTH
Contest Abounds in Fine Plays,
With $45,O or ST, ,725 for
Each Man, at Stake.

iduAeeS again yesterday, winning
by the score of to 1 and getting
such grip on the title OF champions
OF the universe and points north,
with their advantage Of four games
to three in the late evening of the
world series. that their hold might be
compared to that Of our little
brothers Of Nippon on Shantung.
The Giants won because they had
the irresistible aid of the best ball
player on earth, Mars or the moon
a hard boiled egg with three aliases,
an absolutely impartial, impersonal,
implacable foeman whose enmity is
ruin to his adversaries and gain and
glory to his protagonists. Sometimes
this fatal foeman plays under the
name of Law of Averages. Occasion
ally in baseball as in all other sports
lin every human activity. indesd--
his name appears Though never in
the box score) as Doctrine Of
Chances. At other times he Is glori-
fled or mathematical as Theory OF
Probabilities.
Nobody can beat him. He played
against Napoleon at Waterloo, for ex-
ample, when that world series went
against the French team. All history
is the pudding for the plums of his
achievement. His drinking cup is
the vessel that goes too oft to the
we'll. He detects genius and will not
tolerate perfection; a commonplace
fellow but. as one notes, formidable
beyond belief.
Old Law OF Averages Bobs Up.
In the fourth inning OF yesterdays
lively encounter, when Ross Young,
right fielder for the Giants, sprang
determineily to the plate. Umpire
Rigler, in justice to the $4,000 or so
in the seventh days crowd, should
have made this announcement:
Law OF Averages batting for
Young"
II would have explained go much oa
tho voc that befell the Yankees had
Riglor beloved this information, for
it was not Young that batted. n was
this incarnate spirit OF the mediocre,
this unforsiving enemy OF persistent
perfection, who slapped grounder to
young Aaron Ward. playing second for
the Yankees. He knew what he was
doing, this invisible substitute when
he selected Ward as the man to hit TO.
Whet happened as half-of tho great
crowd Doomed In Joy and half groaned
In sorrow? Ward, the infielder with
the best record for both teams: Ward,
who had made forty-two plays up TO
Tuesday, many Of them very difficult,
some of them superlativeiy brilliant,
without single error. and who had
made forty-six such plays up to yes
terday with only ono mistake--fum-
bled. His fingers were butter for a
second or two. for Just long enough
to let Young--the invisible substitute.
rather--get safely TO first base.
Next thing any one knew Mcusel
OF the Giants, who has distinctly out
silone Brother Bob of the Yankees,
wharged the ball clear to the left
field fence for two base hit, and Kid
Averages had scored the first run for
the Giants, the ruin that tied the score
at and I. Two were out when Irish
Mcusel showed the stuff that was in
him, but the point is, there should
have been three out, and the reason
there were not three out was that
the Law or AveraCes--call it what you
will---was dissatisfied with the hitherto
shining perfection OF Aaron Ward.
This young man had been all the while
a little too sure. a little too dependable,
little too skilful.
piucks Destfny's whfslxers.
Ward had dared to beard the fates.
He had plucIsed at the whiskers Of
destiny. He had wrisgled his fingers
at mathematics. Like Procrustes, he
should have tossed ring into the
eea Cor into the bleachers, no bad imi-
tation In exciting moments of toss
Ing sea), but II he had done SO the
jewel would have come back to him,
for misfortune was riding his back.
The Law OF Averages never does
things by halves when IL sets about
to rectify unbalanced achievements.
In this fourth inning It gave poor
vya-d "a nasty Sian and caused the
whole Yankee team to weep inside
their souls. but 1t wasn't through
with either the individual or the COM
pany 1t had stolen the small but solid
advantage of one run that the brill
liant. courageous pitching OF Carl Mays
had won for the Yankee team.
Now K prepared to grind Ward
Mays, the whole association, into the
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