New-York tribune., 1921-10-07
Magnificent Pitching and.
Impregnable Front of
the American Leaguers
Again Humble Rivals
NeI1f Also a Star,
But Error Is Costly
Ruth, Held Hitless, Walks
Thrice and Scores Run:
10000 Watch Struggle
By Grantland Rice

The Western Front is now SOM
Der memory Of half-hlled trenches
and grass-covered dugouts, where
only forgotten ghosts and rain
washed crosses remain.
But from the glory of Verdun
Colonel Tillinghast Huston, Of the
18th Engineers, brought back this
slogan and rammed it down the
throats of his worlds series bali
club: "They Shall Not Pass" Carl
Mays and his mates responded nobly
TO this slogan OH Wednesday. And
Yesterday young Waite Hoyt, Of
Brooklyn, hardly more than mashic
shot from his school desk at Erasmus
Hall, tied the Giants into a row Of
true lovers knots, while forty thou
sand fans again looked on in Won
der at the unwavering stanchness Of
The Yankee defense.
Yankee Defense Perfect
on can't beat q ball club that won't
9c beaten. For eighteen innings now
nc Giants have been hanmering at
nc Yank defense without leaving a
ar, or tearing of splinter Seven
cheir best men have yet to make their
'r.t hit. Burns, Bancroft, Young,
ely. Emil Msusel, Snyder and Smith
ave all been held in complete subju-
-a:ion, with Frisch and Rawlings in
possession of the seven Giant hits. In
.ddition 10 the epochal pitching of
lays ana Hoyt. some idea OF the gran
wall qualities Of the Yankee de-
af.se can IL gained from br.ef in
psction Of the inheld play Of Peck
gd Ward. These two premiers cave
accepted no less than thirty three
'ouces without slip CT any sort
Nerd alone has handled nineteen plays
ifhout bobblc. The tip that Peck
.Ii Ward were 10 be outplayed by
bancroft and Rawlings has been ham
ered INTO q three-cornered lump, for
&c tso former up TO date have risen
- heights that Evers and Tinker or
Hafry and Collins could not have
urrassed.
Babe Steals Second and Third
The Babe himself became worked up
20 such & frenzy after his third pass
rat in the llth frame he stole second
nd third on two pitched balls, and was
n the act of pllfering the plate when
.Nensel's tap left him stranded only a
aaif-knot out Of port. With Ruth
rolled after completing two-thirds of his
triple stoai. Ieusel tore q page out OF
acNail.'s diary in the eighth by steal
'ag home as the bali bounded out OF
Smiths glove with Mcusel twenty feet
away.
The Giants, who were expected to
come back with a rush in the second
game, we're again branded with the
Yankee trade mark, which consists
mainly Of great pitching in front Of
an impregnablc defense. For eighteen
innings they have aoundered around
IN their vain cropping for single run.
They believed the main fury Of the
storm had passed when Carl Mays
stepped aside, but the Brooklyn kid
aeid tlau in egco greater subsection
as Re brcezed q fast ball and q curve
by their futtering bats through inning
after inning, q cool and collected as
another Nstfy from another year.
taere were old timers in the crowd
who shook their heads as the kid con-
-.nued % crcyl his speed over the
psate, almost certain that he must
Feaken IN The closing stretch. But
~nen ne wobbicd slightly in the ninth
!.is brilliant infeld throttled he last.
's'ant rally with daring double play
mat took no notice of runner round
'ng third
h7yt, surrounded by such iron-riobed
sgppcIt, Has =, good to be beaten, for
railc ne "a e .our passes has unshaken
nerve rsn sined steadfast through any
tcoasausd or page ss.ise>