The Washington herald., 1921-10-12
Relieves Toney When
Yanks Gain Lead, Pock-
citing Game BY s to 5.
THREE HOME RUNS
IN SECOND INNING
E. Meusel, Snyder, and
Fewster Go on Batting
Rampage.
by GRANTLAND RICE.

Have you ever seen a Kansas cy-
clone in midseason> form with a hon
10 its fast one7
The stage setting Is usually A
cloudless heaven where a harrow
ing moment of windless silence ts
followed by a grinding, crashing
roar which indicates the passage Of
houses and barns from one county
TO another with the air full Of trses
ana people leaving the scene AZ
Iotty attitudes much after the man
ner Of wind-blown leaves.
Just as the ambitious Ysnks we-e
IN the act Of reaching for their fourfn
victory. one Of these funneI-shaped
cyclones from Circlevine. KsnS
came believing out of an azure au-
tumn sky and blew the red tin roof
from above their aching heads. Ieay-
ing them TO the mercy Of the pIti-
less elements that ragged without
Inc cyclone in question goes under
tne pitching name OF Jess Barnes.
VINO ior the second time in the series
Caune 10 FRED Toney's relief and tied
,ne ranks up In sack at the de-
llriouS moment when they were bc-
ginning 10 look like money in a..
bank with the rent. the cook and
the butcher squared
Three Games Possible.
50 1t happens, with the Giants
winning TO 5, the two clubs stand
IeVel at the sixth hole with three L.
pIay-three TO play unless Mays aad
Dougias or Nehf can win two in a
row which is nothing TO bet q lot
the number Of unseemly twists tbat
have haunted the reries IN 10 a..
whoever wins. Giants ana Van
KEGS have proved at last thar Won
can put on Hamlet without Ham
let Othello minus the Moor, Hor.-
Iius without the bridge. or Uncle
Toms Cabin without an Uncle Tom
or bloodhound in the cast
You can put EN- on and get EN-
over, but the big thrill fades. For
two or three innings today the as
Sembled flock may have fo-gortsu
huth IN the dizzy w1irl OF home
runs that bubbled or dribbIci Over
one fence or anothcr IN record nrc-
cession with E. Meusel, Snyder and
Fewster working at the guns
But after the lull had arrived tnr
crowd missed the familiar limp ani
tine bandaged arm and the vast
shadow that fell athwart home
Plate or the left-feld spaces
Ruth wns Missed.
They missed the man who ran
hammer a home run one day. be-.
a bunt the next and then score from
hrst on two-base hit while reel
ing along on half a leg. CARRYING.
more weight than Man o. War coulI
handle
How would the Prussisns have
felt while storming Liego or Msrne
10 hnd when Action front" was or
dered that big Bertha had rollrl
into ditch with its breech-lock
blown apart? II we hadn't been
fed up on the Ruthian thrill Il
would have all been different bur
the crowd. through the closing in
nings, realized at last that another
cast an alien shadow upon the scene.
For all that. Chick Fewster h
| remarkable impersonator. Chick
was sent in for the mangled Babe,
and to carry out the idea he hit a
home run. walked twice and thor
struck out. II this isn't initiating
the Bambino's mode OF life down 20
the final gesture we pause for a
reply
1t was all than anyone could d.
Mheh caileo upon TO step in and
nil the hugeTspoor left upon the
sands OF time and fame. But insofar
as the crowd was concerned a
wasn't Ruth. not only the createst
hitter. but the greatest Snowman
that ever forced the acclaim OF all
in sight.
Ruth In stand.
The Babe was in the stands nurs-.
49,
elephants thigh. Did the Babe
mind? Not any more than yelling
ton would have cared IL he had been
called back the AFTERNOON before
Waterloo.
With the Yankees leading by a
game, Huggins faced the sixth con-
test with a guess and q prayer He
knew what had happensd to Shaw
Key. Quinn and Collins. Il had been
qIite enough. His sole hope was
Harry Harper, the HackensacR left
nander. and he took the only chance
in sight.
MSGraw promptly countered with
Fred Toney, and for a brief spell
the Nanks looked to be within one
game of the purple toga that drapes
the shoulders of the conauering
great. For without wasting any
! precious time the American League
entry lit upon the back OF Toneys
, broad neck and hammered the top
, OF his dome away.
, They scored three runs and drove
him from the plain before he1new
that the bell had runG.
Barnes Rushed 60 Rescue.
With Toney in full flight, Nc
Graw again rushed Jess Barnes 20
the open gap and after facing a
sock over the heart from Fewster's
home-run in the second. the Cir
cleville cyclone settled down TO the
main business Of grinding the Yam
, KEGS into a powdered pulp.
Through the last seven innings
the Kansan led them to the edge
E Of the precipice by the ear and
5 pushed them over one by one. He
: not only held them to a brace Of
E singles in these seven closing reels.
4 but famed ten of them without
, overlooking a member OF the cast
He struck out Ward twice To-
leave the CONT at even figures In
the meanwhile Harper. after
n breezy start lost his noorings ami
D stumbled into a bog that was soon
| oozing up around his ears Re