The New York herald., 1921-10-10
Series Is Even, but Where Is
the Psychological Ad-
vantage Now?
nv SAMUEL ). BRooKMAN.

4 o.
The mysterious Submarine" bali is
not quite SO mysterious, now. 1t took
the Giants a long time to solve II but
apparently 1t is solved. How far will
Carl Mays travel with 1t the next time
he faces the Giants?
The series Is even but the Giants
lead. The psychological advantage is
always with the team that has come
from behind.
One furry of hitting and a game ap-
parently won is lost. or apparently lost
Is won That's what makes baseball
what II Is.
Problem In mathematics: If Babe
Ruth can pole one home run and one
single with one infected arm how many
home runs and singles can he pole with
two infected arms? There's a tip for
Miller Huggins.
A lot Of fans who have been coming
day after day in the hope OF seeing
Babe slam one over the stands for a
homer didn't see the Bambino's circuit
drive in the last inning. They were on
their way to the exits or had passed
out of the grounds ut the time. Each
and every one os them could have
kicked himself when he learned the
truth.
For seven inni-gs a lot of sympathy
was wasted on Phil Douglas and the
Giant ensemble. Pretty tough" was
the way the Yankee rooters put it,
Douglas Is fine pitcher and the rest
OF the Giants are not such bad fellows.
but they might have known they
couldn't hit Mays. Never faced such
pitching in the National Leagre, you
know. All the Yanks have to do is to
pitch Mays every day and the series Is
theirs" Yes, and then came the fire.
works.
At that Mays held the Giants runless
for sixteen innings.
Tap, tap tap--the Giants went out
just that easily for seven innings.
Couldn't seem to lift the ball out OF the
infield Nearly every swing of the bat
produced g. grounder that the Yankee
inner defence gobbled up ravenously.
Not safe hit until the sixth because
the crash in the eighth came with
doubly startling effect.
George Burns one OF the heroes Of
the first Giant victory. played one of
the hero roles again. He was the first
to solve the submarine ball in the sixth
when he singled 10 centre. In the
eventful eighth his devastating double
to left brought the winning run across.
In the fourth inning Elmer Miller
cavght his own foul tip. just rs the
Yankee centre fielder turned around
after the foul the ball bound d off Sny-
der's chest protector into Miller's hand.
just minute or two before game time
a passing cloud sprinkled the scene and
scared the gathering into thinking that
there was the possibility Of the game
being called before theA ninth. But the
sup broke through almost Immediately
the players took the field and never quit
smiling the rest Of the day.
Douglass splitter" was cracking and
snarping as though expressing It's own
er's feelings over having been beaten
in the opening game, and incidentally
his determination not to be beaten
again II he could help 1t.
Not few fans were convinced that
Douglas did not try to puzzle Babe
Ruth In the last inning--that he grooved
the ball to give Ruth chance to pole
a homer and give the fans n treat. II
was hardly that. Douglas probably was
not so intent at that stage at making
Ruth bite at bad balls. Til, Giants
were three runs ahead, there was no.
body on base and one out. But there
was plenty of stuff on the ball that
Ruth crashed although Il was heoded
clean for the centre OF the plate.
"Ice cream cones Cold bottle u
Soda" Br-r-r-r! Fans who left their
heavy wraps home yesterday won't
make the mistake again.
Ward was only one one-hundredth of
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