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NEW YORK GIANTS
COP WORLD TITLE
Deciding Game Of Series Won by Mar.
gin of One Run. Contest Ended in
Blaze of Glory.

new York, Oct. 13.-World cham
pions, 1921-the New York National
League Baseball club.
The Giants won the title, which
VIII be theirs for the next year by
defeating the Yankees in tho eighth
game of the world series at the Polo
grounds today. The American league
champions died fighting hard in a
classic twirling duel between their
pitching act, Waite lIoyt, and Art
Nehf, the Giants star left hander.
However, they lacked the necessary
punch to win, the National league
team taking the game by the score of
] to and the series, five games to
three.
The Giants victory gives Manager
John j. McGraw his second worlds
championship team. The New York
Nationals, seven times pennant win
ners under McGraws management
captured the worlds series against
The Athletics Of the American league
in 1905, but, although winning the
bunting five times since they have
been baffled every time until this year
in their quest for world honors, twice
bowling to the Athletics, once to the
Red Sox and once to the White Sox
in other comEats. This year with a
National league entrant that has
shown its high class by coming from
behind late in the pcnant race and
beating the Pittsburg Pirates to the
flag, the worlds series told different
story. Off to poor start through
their loss Of the first two games of
the series, the Giants gamely came
back, speedily evcned up the series
and then, with but slight let up
while getting their second wind,
rounded into the stretch with a rush
and pushed through with three
straight victories to their final tri-
umph. In every victory, except to-
days, they came from behind to win.
Thus one Of the best and most hotly
contested series in the history OF the
sport was won clearly, and, in the
final analysis, dccisively, by club
whose gameness and all around abil-
ity of the highest grade will be gen
crously conceded.
AS for the underlying reason for
the success OF the McGraw men the
experts may differ, but there seems
little cause to doubt that the. most
widely propounded opinion will be
that it was because of a prcponder-
ancc OF high class pitching ability.
The series showed but two Of Man
ager Higgins twirlcrs capable of
pitching winning ball-Mays and
Hoyt-twhile the Giants put forward
trio OF master workmen in Doug
las, Barnes and Nchf.
Outhit by the Giants in nearly
every game and by many points in
the series as a whole, the Yankees
mono the less made a hard fight of
1t by their smartness in manufacture
ing runs out Of scant material and
the superb work done by Mays and
IIoyt in six Of the eight battles. Their
championship craft went down with
flag flying and tonight their loyal sup
,portcrs were rendering condolences
over the loss OF the series with con-
gratulatlons upon the showing the
Yankee players had made in the first
world series New York American
league has ever earned the right to
compete. AS for the final and dccis-
i've game OF the series, the winning OF
It was due to the superb pitching Of
Nehf against q moundsman to whom
nc had twice lost the decision earlier
in the series Allowing the American
league batsmen but four hits, none
OF them better than singles and three
of them coming with two men out,
the crafty southpaw again and again
turned the Yankees back in order or
baffled their determined efforts to put
across the solitary run for which they
were struggling all through the con-
tost
Hardly whit less creditablc was
the performance OF H0yt, the Yam
kee youngster. Hoyt was in trouble
in several innings, but except In the
fatal first when the Giants scored their
only tally on two passes and an error,
he worked himself out brilliantly,
once with the running catch by Few
ster to help along. Toward the end
ho ,uae poinp atrOnPer than ever re-