New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-06


cry with fusillade Of four successive
HITS, each one a resounding blow upon
The nozzle. Frisch wound up the after
noon with three singles and a triple.
but the record crop went back to seed
without mate at hand to help him
on the way. Outside of Frisch a lone
single by Rawlings was the total dam
age that Mays suffered as he went
stoiidly about his business of hating
the remaining Giants in their spoors
that stopped on the short side of first.
Mays Has Slight Slip
And when Mays, with human touch,
Tipped g triie, Roger Peckinpaugh was
all over the plain after the manner OF
ball-plsying centipede as he drove
the final spike in any Giant dream of
breaking through.
The Giants, a trife below form, we're
against an immutable. material law
the Force Of Habit. For if you will
turn your memory back a few brief
years you will recall the fact that the
Boston Red Sox never lost q world
series. They stopped the Pirates in
1908, the Giants in 1912, the Phillics
in 1915, the Robins in 1916 and the
Cubs in 1918.
Yesterday their post-graduates, in
The persons of Carl Mays, Babe Ruth,
Nike McNa.fy and Wally Schang, blew
gray embers back into ancient fame.
1t was Mays who tossed the first
wrench into rival machinery 1t was
Ruth who hammered in the first run
With a low, rakish single to center
iield. It was McNally who added the
cllnching tally with his double and his
iar'ng steal of home in the fifth. And
= was Schang who supported Mays in
Winning form.
The Giants have great machine.
But after all, who are they to over
turn material law, built and banked
upon the tradition of eighteen years?
While Mays was toying with the
Giants, Shutting Phil Douglas was
-rowded into hole at the start. in the
making of which he had no important
when Rawlings misplayed Miller's
srounder, due, in part. to an unexpected
hop. This brought Babe Ruth up and
before Shutting Phil had time to think
II over, the Babe slashed a long single
20 center for all the runs that Cart
Nays needed over the nine inning
s.~etch.
And the Bambino Fan.
After walking Ruth in the fourth
douglas countered by turning his full
setting him gently but firmly in the
Phantom Swing at the next two starts.
\ the sixth, with Peek on second, the
Babe stood and watched the Shutler
burn third strike over the middle
lat had more smoke than a burning
oil we'll. He took cut at another
n I'd strike in the eighth that broke
With great violence at least six inches
snder his 54-ounce club.
Nally had upset the bowl Of cherries in
the fifth. Mike was on third at the
i1me, with two men out and Miller up
Douglas, with his entire attention cen
erred upon getting the ball to Snyder
before something large and round
struck 1t IN the face. paid no more at
tention TO Miller than Greece and Tur-
key are paying to the armistice. He
took his usual wlnd-up, and as ne did
he fasteying McNally. with big lead
off third. changed his forwarding ad-
dress to in care Of the Home Plate
The ball from Douglas came in waist
high, but as the flying Michael hit the
dirt and skidded over in shower of
dust Snyder made the mistake Of tag
ging his feet on the starboard side OF
the plate.
Even this spectacular episode failed
70 III, the crowd TO any great emo
fional heights. With this run over, the
Yankee destiny, so far as the opener
Has concerned, stood assured. The
eioaIng curtain came in the sixth. Ban
c7oft's wide throw to Kelly gave Peck
lie a. first. and Bob Meusel followed
Sifh a mighty whack 10 the fence in
eft center. This blow sent Peck
seurrying to clover with the third and
final run, but in the riotous enthusiasm
Of the moment Meusel overlooked the
slight detail Of touching first as he
whizzed around the towpath. This
lspse cost him a highly desirable triple.
but, as long as it scored run. the
ispse was soon forgotten. Mays At that
r. oment needed another tally almost
"A badly as John D. Rockefeller needs
another dime
Bob Misses Hit
This blow OF Meusel's. which doesn't
70 az a nit plus the single and double
contributed by Ruth and McNaily, were
oil the legitimate wallops that Shutting
Phil allowed He was good enough,
but 1t wasn't his day. lie had his
splitter under fine control, and his
pitching to Ruth in the closing frames
vas the work Of master. But fate
rad decided in advance to remove the
iaurels from his clammy brow
The fsnkg got their victorious ad-
~sntage by upsetting the dope The
Giants were supposed TO be the
smoother machine with the stronger
defense and the greater alertness upon
attsch. The Yanks were supposed to
can upon tho maulirg power Of their
dig bats. In place Of this they offered
an impenetrable defense that was not
- be shaken at any point. Even Ruth.
place Of getting four hits and one
put out, got four put outs ard one hit.
Peek and Ward around second out
played Bancroft and Rawlings by a
dozen kilometcrs. The two Yanks ran
down eighteen chances without an
eYror, ard AZ least xix ri these be-
'onged 10 the stem winding variety
that you read about. Peck alone blew
nimgeE ~ ten accepted chances
through one Of the most brilliant az.
terpoons Of his long career. The old
boy has slowed up almost as much rs
Men q War had when they Grated him
ard sent him in the general direction
Il HE old KentDckg home last fall.
with two stolen buses - orc for the
Giants, the visiting club Upxet an
1sher pot II dope, FOR superior Clan.
8setnees md alree1y been checked