Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-10-11
Babe Ruth Startles Crowd
By Bunting in Front Of
Plate. Giants Outguessed
FINAL SCORE 3 to |
Bob" Meusel'S Double Scores Ruth
With First Run. Hits 500 for the
Day and Fields Brilliantly.

New York, Oct. IA bunt in n
baseball game doesn't hold candle
to home run as spectacular feat,
but a little bunt which Babe" Ruth
laid down on the grass at the Polo
Grounds today showed how much
Importance sometimes is attached to
the less sensational performance.
The Babes" home run in the
ninth inning OF Sundays game was
for the Yankees as 4 team just one
more run and nothing more. HIS
bunt in the fourth inning Of today's
game, the fifth in the 1921 world
series, proved the turning point OF
the contest, which was won by the
American Leaguers by the score Of
:: to | over their National League
opponents.
Waite Hoyt, the boy wonder from
the Flatbush section, of Brooklyn,
pitched the Yankees to their third
lIstory in the series, his potent right
arm being aided by some great de-
fcHSive work on the part OF his team
mates in holding the Giants scoring
proclivities to a minimum. He had
been scored upon in the first inning,
Il nerror by McNalIy paving the way
to the Giants only tally, but the
Yankees tied the score in the third
wnln Mike" McNally was passed by
Art Nehf, the Giants crack lett
hander, went to third on Wally
Schang's double and came home or
Timer Miller's sacrifice fly.
Then to start the fourth for the
Yankees, Ruth, who had struck out
lis first time up. did the unexpected
and laid down a bunt. The Giant
irfield was taken completely by sur
prise and Ruth landed safely on first
The way had been opened for tally.
and Ruth scored it a moment later
on Bob" Meusel's hot double to left,
which his brother Emil on the Giant
team, seemed somewhat slow in
handling. This ultimately proved TO
BE- the winning run for the Yankees,
bet another was speedily added when
Meusel scored an Aaron Wards sal
l;iIce fly.
That ended the scoring for the
day. Hoyt, who had seemed
bit unsteady, in the early innings,
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and pitched a heady game, which had
the big guns in the Giant lineup
guessing when safe blows were ne
ccssary to put runs across. Inc
Youthful Yankee twirler was hit
more freely than in his shut out
game of last Thursday, as the ten
safeties for the National Leaguera
attest, but he would have had an
ctner scoreless game to his credl1
With a little better luck in the first
inning. which witnessed the Yam KEGS
only fielding hobblc, a mess made by
McNally of George Burns hard
bol,nder. AS it was, the Flatbush boy
won the honor of being the first box
mar to win two games in the present
series and of holding teh heavy hit
ting men Of the McGraw clan to one
solitary run in eighteen innings.
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Both on the offensive and defen'
&ive sides Of the Yankees play, the
work of Bob" Meusel stood out con-
spicuously. The lanky hight fielder
of the Hugman hit 500 for the day,
with single and a double in four
times up, his double, as related,
scoring Ruth with the run needed TO
wn the game, and his own crossing
of the plate directly afterward, max
ing the Yankees two up on their op-
p2nents.
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