The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-10
"ShutfIin' Phil" Douglas Holds Yankees In Subiec- tion as Team Mates Slug Out Four to Two Victory In Fourth Game
By Associated Press


 New York, October 9.--'BabeN Ruth made home run at the Polo Grounds today, but the hit, a tre- mendous wallop into the right field bleachers, came in the ninth inning with nobody on base, and failed to save the Yankees from defeat in the fourth game of the World series.
 The Giants, by the score of to 2, evened the count of the series, which now stands al two victories each
 Large Crowd on Hand The game, Il snappy, quickly played 1 contest. was witnessed by more than | 36,0o0 persons. x few hundred less than tho record crowd of last Friday For seven innings 1t looked like q repetition of last Wednesdays pitch er's battle between Carl Mays ana Phil Douglas, these two twirlers 1 again being pitIted against one an other. Then, In the eighth, the Giants broke through Mays guard and scored three runs, enough to win. by pret- ! ty exhibition of consecutive batting The Giants added another. but, as it turned out. unnecessary run, in the eighth The Yankees were able to hit Douglas consecutively only In the fifth. and when they scored once their other tally being accounted for by Ruth with his four base blow.
 Babe Surprises Pans l That the Babe" appeared in the game at all was big surprise to tho fans It had been feared his Injured arm would keep him out of the play for the remainder of the series and even Manager Miller Huggins of the l Yankees did not expect up to an hour 1 before game time that Ruth would he l in the lineup today, announcing that 1 Chick" Fewster would take his place l in left field.
 i It developed, however, that Ruth. determined to play, had had his artr { well plastered up. and shortly after l 1:30 o'clock he came on the field ii uniform and to all appearance as nt ! as ever.
 The sight of the "Bambino's" bulky 1 figure drew forth q big shout of wei come from the crowd, which was ra- peated many fold when he made his circuit hit in the ninth He handled his two fielding chances cleanly. ! There was nothing in his work at tho bat to indicate that hfs injured rb, Nas .-lfAndicapping hjns klf ~the least He did not. however, try ;o steal any more bases.
 Realizes Ambition
 VI have realized one of my great ambitions-to make a home-run in the worlds series" Ruth said after the game, "but Pm sorry it didn't come with men on the bases. It might have meant the winning of the game.
 The real honors of the day, despite the spectacular feat of Ruth in mak- ing his first world series home-run-- which, by the way, was the first homer of the 1921 tilt--was the Ianky man who occupied tho mound for the National leaguers. 'Shufflln" Phil | Douglas ambition was a work sf baseball art that was pretty thing to watch. He held the heavy hitting Yankees, with the exception of Ruth and Schang, almost in complete sub | jection when hits meant runs. and grew better as the game drew to- wards It's close, only Ruth being able to reach him to any effect in the last three innings.
 Yanxs First Run
 The Yankees first run, In the fifth, was scored when Wally Schang cut loose with a ce-breaker to left for three bases, scoring McNally, who had reached first on a fielders choice. Schang was left when Mays grounded to Rawlings for the third out
 The break of the game came In the eighth. The lively Yankee in- i field had broken up an inclpient Giant rally Tn the previous inning by q fast double play. but in their next turn at bat Manager McGraw's men went at 1t again with q determine ! ton that wouldn't be broken down. | MeuseI starts It
 Irish" Meusel started 1t by hit- ting the first ball pitched to far lief; center for three bases. This set tho Giant rooters cheering, and they went wild when Rawlings speedily singled to center. scoring Meusel with the tieing tally. Mays was in rather bad way here, for a run was in ana man was on first with none out Matters became worse for him when he missed Snyders bunt in head long dive for 1t, with the result Shy der landed safely on first and Raw lings on second They both moved up on Douglas sacrifice. which Mays threw to Ward, barely getting the batter.
 Burns Sends Two Across
 Then up stepped George Burns. who previously had found the range with single off Mays in the sixth. Burns aim was even better this time for he drove a sIashing double to left. SCOT ing Snyder and Rawlings and put ting the Giants two runs to the good There was still only one man out, but Mays put on more steam at th!s point, causing Bancroft to fly to Ruth and Frisch to foul to Schang. The Giants final run, in the ninth. came when George Kelly broke the Ice for his first hit of the series. smart double to left. and scored on Emil Meusels single.
 The official figures gave tho at tendance as 36,372. The gate receipts were $11s,527, of which the share Of the advisory board of baseball is s17,Ys; the players $60.44s.z7 and the 1 two clubs share s40,2s9.1S.