The New York herald., 1921-10-11
Very Simple, the Way National
League Rooters Figure
1t Out.
ny SAMUEL J. BRookMAN.

all that. but do you realize that the
Giants must win three out OF four to
beat their world series hoodoo: Looks
like tough assignment.
When this series Is over every bit OF
preliminary dope will emerge from II
shattered and torn II it isn't pulverlsed
before the final game.
The only baseball critic who 10 hold
ing his head up Is the fellow who said
This is a tough series TO figure right" ("
Going home on the IT, we overheard
fourteen different ways in which the
Giants might have won yesterdays game
had just plain ordinary fan directed
the team instead Of McGraw.
| Although not cent Of the gate re-
ceipts from now on goes to the players
the latter have not lost their financial
interest in the series. Oh, no! There
is difference of more than $4,000 be-
tween the size of the check winning
player and losing player viii get, and
that prize is sufficient in itself to keep
the combatants on their toes until the
last ball is ba.ted and the last man re-
tired.
Eut are the Giant fans dowahearted? =?
Not so you could notice II. Here's how
they have the thing figured out: "Toney
heats Shewkey or Harper tomorrow.
n en- Douglas repeats over Mays. Hoyt
wins the next game and ties the series,
after which Toney beats Shawkey or
Harper again in the ninth and final
game Of the SERIES" Simple enough.
Never take anything FOR granted in
baseball" said the late Harry Pullian.
Evidently Bancroft has never heard Of
that axiom or has cie1n forgotten 1t.
Anyway, he took it for granted that
Miller would reach second without any
trouble on his long hit to centre. and
after retrieving the ball that Burns
| throw In did not deign to look around
| and see whether the runner was any
| where near the base or not Looked as
| though little mental and physical
| agility on Bancroft's par: might have
retired Miller then and there.
| II il could bring lost game back to
| their favorites hundreds Of Giant fans
| in the stands back of first base would
| give tnelr OdLn Luat fSuui WdS Vut at
! first on his bunt In the fourth inning.
| Hoyt started ragged and finished gilt
edged.
| One Giant rooser opincd that II Nc
! Craw's batsmen did not cast so many
| Rlances toward the dugout for instruc-
tions but kept their gaze riveted on the
| pitcher they might accomplish more. 1t
would be just as wise to say that the
| hest way to manage a team is to have
| ro manager.
| Thus far in the series the Yankees
have scored only Is runs to 1S for the
Giants. but that fact Is not disturbing
the sangfroid Of the American League
champions this morning.
| On two occasions---in the first inning
| and again in the sixtll--Miller played so
| deep for Kelly that f1y that ordinarily
would have been caught fell safe for a
hit. Incidentally Kelly made three times
as many safe hits in this game as in
the first four games com bincd.
| Predictions were made freely in the
| early INNINGS that neither Hoyt nor
| Nehf would go the route, and then like
most baseball predictions they proved to
be all wrong.
Nehfs pitching really deserved bet
ter fate. He yielded four hits less than
his rival. famed Babe Ruth three times.
and in the last four innings allowed just
one scratch single that did no damage
and that might properly have been
| called an error.
No umpire can shake forefinger at
| a players bench quite as convincingly
as George Moriarty. And when George
gives his warnings he walks right into
the dugout and shakes said forefinger
right under the culprit's nose.
Funny tings about this series is that
| every time team looks as though it's
out licking.
The only sure thing bet in this series
| Is that three players on each team will
be retired every inning unless rain calls
q halt before the third man is out.
| At the rate the Giants were scoring
| runs yesterday 1t would have taken forty
hits. including eight two baggers. for the
Giants to have beaten the Yankees. II
required ten hits, including two doubles,
to chalk UP one run.
| Nehf yielded only one base on balls
| and that proved costly one. After
| McNaily had walked in the third inning
| Scharg doubled and Miller brought in
| the tying run with sacrifice fly.
| Twice in this series "Oil"Snlith has
| swung so hard at curve ball that the
| bat has flown out Of his hands clean
across to second base.
Said an actor in the press stand as
| Bancroft set himself to catch Wards
skyscrapcr in the seventh inning: THAT
ball is like a subtle joke" 'Wadday'-
mean, subtle joker" inquired his neigh
bor" why, It's over his head !" Help!