The New York herald., 1921-10-11

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Giants .................... E 8 400
The Yankees once more are at the
top Of that animated fever chart, the
world series. With Waite Hoyt, the
Flatbush prodigy, pitching again and
his mates operating serenely. they
beat the Giants, to 1, yesterday.
Thus the tie was broken and games
now stand Yankees 8, Giants 2.
The New York Americans having
a decided advantage in the baseball
classic now approaching its climax, it
Is indicated that their manager. Mil
ler Huggins, will continue his STRAIT
egy to-day by trotting out the left
handler Harper, whom the crowd has
not yet seen, to do combat with
Toney, chosen of McGraw, who was
batted out of Fridays contest.
The youthful Hoyt was not as un.
yielding yesterday as he was last
Thursday, when he penned the smart
ing Giants within the compass Of two
hits. The fact is that the Giants got
more hits of him yesterday than the
Yankees got off Arthur Nehf. who, as
in last weeks duel, was the opposing
Thor. The Giant losers larruped the
ball safely ten times; the Yankee
winners only six times. AS the er-
rors were only one for each side, the
story of the Yankee superiority is not
to be drawn from those figures.
Hits on Hoyt Scattered.
But there is the old story to tell Of
a team which hit in run producing
sequence and of another which didn't.
The reason why the Giants, keen as
they were to continue their batting
drives of Friday and Sunday, we're
incapable of punching hits at the
proper moments lies, of course, in
the supple right arm, the gifted
fingers and the cool, adequate brain
of Waite Hoyt, the Giant castoff,
who has come back to ha'nt McGraw.
With Hoyt as impenetrable in the
crises as the concrete wall Of the
stadium itself, his mates with their
bats gave him that positive support
which such pitching deserves but does
not always get.
The Giants registered their only run
in the first inning. 1t seemed from
L. =. In.
auspicious for the Yankees. that they
! purposed to make short shrift Of Mr.
Hoyt. Thereafter. however, whenever
Hoyt felt himself squeezed he resisted
and in several tormenting innings he
nullifled the threat of the pressing
Giants by rising to such heights that
| not a few spectators were comparing
him with the ever memorable Mathew
son.
Game CIinched In Fourth.
Meanwhile the Yankees tied the
score in the third inning. and in the
fourth sailed forth to clinch the game
and did so with two more runs After
the fourth there was no scoring. Now
and tben the Giants flashed UP danger
ously but were quenched either by
Hoyt or by fast fielding on the part
| of his comrades. SO battling was Hoyt.
so good his support. that there was
| feeling on the part of the crowd after
the third inning that the Giants were
through for the day. which proved TO
be the case.
Babe Ruth struck out three times.
In the series this monumental slugger
has struck out eight times. But the
wonder yesterday was that the Babe
was on the field at ALL and that. being
on the field, he was so good that his
failures at the bat counted for nothing
in the result and his accomplishment
helped nightly toward victory. In
the fourth inning he made a single
and then, on a two bagger by Dutch
Meusel, shufied home with the Yam
kees' second run.
Two OF his Yankee pals caught Ruth
as he staggered into the dugout after
ringing up this tally. He stretched
himself on a bench and lay there with
eyes closed When his team took the
field again his place in left field was
vacant for little while. a report
reached the grand stand that Ruth
had tainted and had been carried out
and sent to n hospital
It was not as bad as that. for pres
entity no was seen emerging from the
dugout and moving to his position.
He limped That was his strained
right knee. with finger hooked into
his belt he held his left arm as II in a
sling. That was because OF the swell