Arizona republican., 1921-10-10
BABE RUTH HITS FIRST HOME RUN IN NINTH FRAME
Masterly Pitching Of Phil
 Douglas And Heavy Hit
 ting Of Giant Batsmen
 Beats New York Yankees
IRepubIican A. p. Leased wirel

' NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-"Babes Ruth made home run at the Polo Grounds. but the hit, a tremendous wallop into the right field bleachers. came in the ninth inning with nobody on base and failed to save the Yan- kees from defeat in the fourth game of the world series. The Giants won by score of to 2. evening the count of the series which now stands at two victories each.
 The game, snapDy, quickly played contest, was witnessed by more than 36,0O0 persons, a few hundred less than the record crowd of last Friday. For seven innings it looked like a repitition of last Wednesdays pitch CTS battle between Carl Mays and Phil Douglas. these two twirlers again being pitted against one another Then. in the eighth. the Giants broke through Mays guard and scored three runs-enough to win-by a pretty exhibition of consecutive bat ting
 The Giants added another but. as it turned out, unnecessary run in the ninth.
 The Yankees were able to hit fifth. when they scored once. their other tally being accounted for by Ruth with his four base blow. l That the Babe" appeared in the 1 game at all was a big surprise to ! the fans. It had been feared his in jured arm would keep him out of the play for the remainder of the series and even Manager Miller Huggins of i the Yankees did not expect up to an hour before game time that Ruth would be in the line up today, an- nouncing that -Chick' Fewster would take his place in the left field It developed. however. that Ruth, determined to play. had had his arm well piastered up. and shortly after uniform and to all appearances as | fit as ever
 Ruth Draws Applause
 The sight of the ~Bambinosr bulky l figure drew forth a big shout of well come from the crowd. which was re- peated many fold. when he made his circuit hit in the ninth. He handled I his two fielding chances cleanly- There was nothing in his work at bat to indicate that his injured arm was handicapping him in the least He did not, however, try to steal any more bases.
 T have realized one of my great ambitions-to make a home run in the worlds series.- Ruth said after | come with men on the bases. Ii 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 l of the 1921 tilt-went to the lani<y man who occupied the mound of the 1 National leaguers. ''Shufflin' Phil ! Douglas exhibition was a work of baseball art that was a pretty thing l to watch. He held the heavy hitting | Yankees. with the exception of Ruth and Schang amlost in complete sub l jection when hits meant runs. and grew better as the game drew to- wards it's close. only Ruth being able to neach him in any effect in the last three innings.
 The Yankees first run. in the fifth. was scored when Wally Schang cut loose with fence breaker to left for three bases. scoring McNally who had reached first on a fielder's choice Schang was left when Mays out
 The break of the game in the eighth. The lively Yankee infieid had broken up an incipient Giant rally in the previous inning by fast double play. but in their next turn at bat, Manager McGraw's men went af it again with a determination that
 wouldn't be broken down.
 Irish Meusei Stars
 Irish Meusel started in by hitting the first ball pitched to far left cen
 ter for three bases. This set the
 Giant rooters cheering and they went
 wild when Rawlings speedily singled
 to center. scoring Meusel with the
 tying tally. Mays was in rather
 bad way here. for a run was in, and man was on first with none out
 Matters became worse for him when
 he missed Snyder's bunt in head
 long dive for it, with the result that
 Snyder landed safely on first and Rawlings on second. They both moved up on Douglas sacrifice which Mays threw to Ward, barely getting
 the batter. . Then up stepped George Burns.
 who previously had found the range l. with a single off Mays in the sixth Burns aim was even better this timt l for he drove a slashing double to left scoring Snyder and Rawlings ans D putting the Giants two runs to the
 good.
 There was still only one man out.
 but Mays put up more steam at this Q point causing Bancroft to fly to Ruth 9 and F-irsch to four to Schang- f The Giants final run. in the ninth came when George Kelly broke the ice - for his first hit Of the series. smart