The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-11

! NdllV MES out 10 snort Iett. No runs,
no hits, no errors.
SIXTH INNING
Nationals-Bancroft singles to left
| Frisch walks. Bancroft goes to sec
ond, Young strikes out. bancroft out
stealing third. catcher to third
Frisch taking second. Kelly singled
to center scoring Frisch. e. Meusel
| flies out to left. One run. 9 hits. no
errors.
Americans--Schang singled to right
center. Shawkey grounds to short
forcing Schang, short to second Few.
Ster strikes out. Peckinpaugh flies
out to left field. No runs, l hit, no
errors.
SEVENTH INNING
MISUNDERSTANDING pops out to
short. Snyder grounds out third to
first. Burns out, second to first. No
runs, no hits, no errros.
Americans-Millerh flied out to right
field. r. Meusel strikes out. Pipp
out, second to first. No runs. no
hits, no errors.
EIGHTH INNING
Nationals-Burns flies out to left.
Bancroft flies out to second, who
made Il great catch in short left
Frisch strikes out No runs. no hits.
no errors.
Americans-Ward grounds out,
short to first, a great pickup by Kelly
of low throw. McNally pops out
to first. Schang walks. Baker bat
ting for Shawkey. out, second to first.
No runs. no hits, no errors.
NINTH INNING
Nationals-Piercey now pitching for
Americans. Young singled to left
field. Kelly struck out. Young dou-
bled catcher to short E. Meusel sin
gled to right field. Rawlings strikes
out. No runs, hits, no errors.
Americans-Fewster flies out to
second who made Il nice catch. Peck
inpaugh pops out to second. Miller
pops out to second. No runs, no
hits, no errors.
Time hours. 81 minutes.
Early Morning Dope
New York, Oct. Hilary IIar-
per, for the Yankees, and Jess Barnes
for the Giants were expected to re.
ceive the pitching assignments today
for the sixth clash for the worlds
series championship in which the
Yankees have lead of three game
TO two. No one is sure they will
start, however Even Miller Hug
gins, manager of the Yankees. and
John McGraw, leader of the Giants,
seemed undecided this morning. Hug
gins agreed it might be Harper but
surmised he would also give
thought or two to Shawkey or the
mellOwed Jack Quinn. The doughty
general Of the Giants said he would
select either Barnes or Toney.
+ The type Of fan who can't keep
his mind on Office work at all this
week, because of the engrossing bus
mess that is being conducted at the
Polo grounds, felt pretty sure it
would be Barnes and not Toney, who
would go forth to meet the Yankee
hitsmiths. He argued like this:
Toney was knocked out of the box
last Friday, but Barnes, who replaced
him, kept the Higgins clan subdued,
while his comrades punished an as
sortment Of fingers who followed one
another from the Yankee dugout to
pitchers mound and thence. per-
force, of Giant aggressiveness with
the big stick, to the soothing show
erS.
Higgins declared the Yankees
could win without Ruth. however, as
serting that the Bambino's game spir-
it would go with the players into to-
days struggle, whether he was with
them in the bulky flesh or not.
"Hoyt was in great FORM" said
Higgins. "All of us had confidence
the boy would win again. The whole
team played vigorously behind him
and it was great after the tough loss
of Sunday.
Wasn't our Meusel wonderful in
the field and at bat?" he inquired
That was an easy one to answer.
Meusel was wonderful, even more so
than the box score showed. The hit
ting statistics gave him a two Dagger
and single. They didn't even hint
how close he came to making another
two Dagger. 1t was in the ninth
inning. The Yankee Meusel slam
med liner over third base and fgal-
loped half way around the diamond
before someone gently broke the
news that the ball had been adjudged
foul. Strolling back, he picked up
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