The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-13
YANKEES BACK
AGAINST WALL
IN 9TH CAME
Giants France Into Lead In Big
Series by Getting Advantage
of Break.

New York, Oct. 13.-The worlds
series may end today in a victory
for the New York Giants. But they
will have to break themselves of the
habit of getting whipped by Waite
Hoyt. the amazing young man who
earns his living pitching for the
Yankees. Twice already he has out
witted the McGraw men, permitting
them no runs, the first time and
only one score last Monday.
Artie Nehf, left-handed but
trustworthy, probably will pitch fo-
the Giants. He was their finger OH
both other days when Hoyt worked
and he pitched we'll, his main
trouble being the failure of his col
leagues to give substantial encour-
agement with their bats.
The Giants moved to within one
game of baseball's highest honors
yesterday when Shufflin' Douglas
arm secured a 2 to l verdict over
Carl Mays, who pitched like a ten
pin player, but gets there just the
same.
The Yankees have won three. It
was the first time since the vendetta
began at the Polo Grounds last
week that the Giants pranced ahead
of the Higgins pack. Also it was
the fourth triumph for the National
leaguers in the last five games. If
the Giants win today the champion
ship is theirs, while the Yankees,
to wear the crown, must go forward
this afternoon and repeat in the
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that they now tenant an unenviable
position, sometimes described as
having their backs to the wall"
For the present, they can hitch
their wagon to Waite Hoyt. But
one star cannot pull a team around
every day, at least not in baseball,
and the Yankee supply is limited,
compared to McGraw's constella-
ton Mays is the only other box
man who has shown a capacity to
befuddle the Giant batsmen. NC
Graw has Slim Sallee, Pat Shea and
Jess Barnes to pit against the
Yankees in a ninth game.
The Yankees begin the eighth
battle still bereft of their most
powerful offensive weapon, the in
comparable Babe" Ruth. His sun
dry sore sports compel him to re-
frain from the combat, and it NAV
be that they will have to get along
without the services of Third Base
man McNally. His shoulder was
hurt yesterday in sliding to second
base and he had to rest it. Frank
Baker replaced McNally and got
two hits, but the old time home
run king has neither the speed nor
the dash of his younger rival
People who believe in the exist
ence on fate and the finger of des-
tiny, which compose the battery of
the Gods, came right out today and
said the Giants were sure to win
the championship. The breaks"
looked for in every sporting contest
came yesterday and indicated that
the Goose of the Yankees was in
the ice box and soon would be
cooked.
Fate picked out the seventh in
ming to do the Yankees a mean
trick There is a cult of fans and
writer's, who still hold the seventh
inning when such things almost al
ways happen and that usually they
rebound to the greater glory of the
home team. The Giants were the
home team yesterday. They wore
white uniforms while the Yankees
made believe they were out in the
country and had on their road
clothes. The aforementioned cult
Joined the 81 told you so" club last
night. They had seen Mays and
Douglas battling on even terms
until IN the seventh Rawlings got
to first on a hard roller that Ward
muffed- Right there was the break.
while Ward WIS thinking unkind
things or his luck. And sure enough
the thing had come. Before one
could say Jack Robinson more than
half dozen times, this Rawlings