The New York herald., 1921-10-02
Pennant Won by Yankees
When GameneSS Brings
Them Victory BY 5 to 3
Beat Athletics Also in Second Game in Eleventh Inning
by Is, With Ruth on the Mound-Face Tough
Pitcher in First Contest, but Their Aggressive
ness Brings Them Up From Behind
BY WILLIAM b. HANNA,

The Yankees yesterday drove home
the final spike In their long, grinding
and successful campaign for the first
American League pennant ever won
by New York baseball team. New
York has been in the American League
nineteen years, and not until yester-
day, when the home men beat the
Athletics, to 3, in the first game OF
double header at the Polo Grounds,
nave the Yankees-the Highlanders in
the old days on Washington Heights
taken to themselves pennant. Then
they went on and beat the Athletics,
to 6, In the second game-eleven in
nings.
The second game was letdown and
frolic, since the race was over, but
the first was a fight hard and Cruel
ling; and the Yanks won 1t by hard,
persistent fighting Of the gamest kind.
They never showed better as fighters
The game was going against them. and
defeat would have been q stif shock,
might have forced the issue up to to-
day, the last of the season; but they
refused absolutely to yield. They
wouldn't be beaten.
BY smart tactics and aggressiveness
they forced opportunities, forced
breaks in the defence of the other side
which gave them the game and capped
their season with hard earned and
well won championship. none harder.
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have to. the Yankees. did it this year
time and again, and underneath all
their ups and downs. their spurts and
halts, lie rigid tenaccity and pure grit.
They're the pioneers of New York
American League pennant winning.
There was lanky lad named Sulli-
van in the box for the Athletics in the
first game. and he did pitching which
made It hard game for the Yankees to
win. After the game Carl Mays. his op-
ponent pitcher. said OF him:
HE showed me the best fast ball I've
seen all season."
Yankees Make Rally.
Sullivan pitched in Moline. Il.--capl-
tai I, not small--but that la of no start
ling consequence. What counted was
that his fast ball had wicked jump to
the right and to the left. and the Yanks
hit his down breaking curve on top. so
that his infielders raked In many easy
bounders. The Yankees were behind
when the sixth inning dawned. and the
way they broke through the other de-
fence was by aggressive base running
admirably conceived. the same hurrying
the Athletics into errors.
Elmer Miller did useful hitting. He
batted in three runs. and Mays pitched
strong game except In the fourth inning
He was laced for two triples. two doubles
and a single In that backslide inning,
but his poise wasn't disturbed. and he
had the Athletics up q tree and out on
a limb in every other inning before and
after. The grilling he took In one round
improved his game.
Twenty-six thousand fans saw the
ctnching. They had cause for worry
and when the game was over sat back
limp and relieved after they had let
loose cheers for the Yankees. The lat
ter rushed off the field. glad. but with
dignity. No skylarking or anything of
that sort They were elated, but quietly.
1--WE had to win," said Aaron Ward.
There was no other way II could have
gone. 1t had to be-"
Manager Huggins stuck out weary
paw when acquaintances congratulated
him. Thanks" was all he said and
without an atom OF emotion. There's
little Of the vivid or the magnetic about
Hug.
Among the spectators In the press
pen, with its soap boxes and concrete
seats for such tardy interlopers as may
have been there to report the game for
newspapers, were Fred Toncy, Earl
Smith and Arthur Nehf OF the Giants.
doing such chiel stuff as they could.
Henry II. Curran was another specta-
tor. He didn't sit In the press box but
as nearly everybody else did he must
have had plenty OF room.
Triple by Miller.
The Yankees put over run on this
Sullivan party. who has beautiful
overland delivery. in the third inning
on a single by Mays and triple oy
Miller. That sufficed until the fourth
inning, in which the Athletics did n lot
OF rude cutting Witt tripied, Dykes
doubled and c. Walker singled. Walker
kindly ran into an out at second base,
Ruth to Peck. and his demise helped
n lot. although, with two out. Welsh
tripIed and Galloway singled.
The fine art of base running helped
the Yankees in the fifth and sixth
Schang walked In the fifth. with one
out, and Mays popped a Texas Lacquer
to short right. II was evident all the
way that this ball wouldn't be caught.
hut Schang ran as II he didn't see 1t.
He didn't take enough lead and came
near being forced at second.
That was not good base running, but
some came after Miller had forced
Mays. Shang and Miller made a double
steal and Schang made heroic slide
to bring In the run. He didn't spare