The Washington times., 1921-10-11

In the very first inning he was in
trouble. With three men on base he
struck out the heavy-hitting Irish"
Meusel. and did something that no
body but the Yankee bench knew
until the game was over. Frisch drove
one at him tl,at opened up the middle
finger Of his pitching hand and Grip
pied him throughout the game. A re-
lief pitcher should have started the
second inning, but Hoyt begged to
stay in. His crippled finger accounts
for the Giants nine hits. but when II
came to showdown of fighting
backbone he gritted his teeth and
hurled them at the Giants till they
were dizzy.
He pitched the greatest ninth in
ming / ever saw in world series.
Yankee pitchers all warmed UP in
the bullpen, still he insisted on going
through with the Job.
Rawlings slashed a two-base hit
and II seemed the turn had come.
Smith, a good hitter, came to bat
and popped a dinky infieid fly.
Snyder. the slugging catcher. went
In as pinch hitter and feebly struck
out. Then with the top of the bat.
ting order staring him in the face
and dangerous George Burns strain
ing every nerve to deliver Hoyt
calmly and deliberately challenged
and Giant veteran and struck him
out on five pitched balls.
Hoyts nerve won the game for
the Yanks and nothing else. 1t made
me stay in the game, although my
arm was throbbing worse than at
any time during the series. The
strain Of Sundays game was very
bad and the wound seems to have
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on my elbow, but until they take
my uniform away from me I'll be
IN that lineup.
Hopeless for Homers.
There was no use trying to drive
any homers today. 1t was painful
and I realized somewhat hopeless to
attempt 1t. The Giants didn't know
this, SO I tried to fool them with
\ bunt in the fourth inning, and got
away with 1t. 1t crossed the Giants
and eventually turned out to be the
run that won the game.
II my bunting won the game, Bob
Meusel. with his miraculous. throw
whipped the ball ahead of the
Giant bass-runners, but he COM
pletely outwitted and bawled UP the
entire Mc0raw machine.
Billy Evans. the famous American
League umpire, stopped in the club
house after the game. Evans, who
is considered one of the best authori-
tiee IN baseball, says that MeusePs
play that so demoralized the Giants
has never happened in a world series
and he has only seen 1t once in six
teen years OF umpiring.
After the first inning, when we
went one run behind, 1t looked bad
in the second with the fleet-footed
Burns on first base and Bancroft
At the bat. The Giant captain drove
. terrific single to deep right and
Bob Meusel gathered 1t in. The hit
and-run play seemed to have worked
TO perfection as Burns started for
second. But at this point long Bob
made the Giant runners. coaches and
entire board of strategy look like
minor leaguers.
Meusel's Great Play.
Pretending to return the ball to sec
ond base, Meusel trapped Bancroft off
first and then shot the ball to Pfpp.
BY this time Burns was rounding third
and as he started for home Ward
whipped the ball to Schang and Burns
was out. The trick was completed.
The Giants were dumb-founded and
the game was sewed up for the Yam
KEGS.
Yankee fans ought to feel relieved,
Yankee players are only disappointed.
We should now have four games
sewed up but for the breaks. We have