Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-13

crymblcd to yellow dust. D'Artagnan
bas hacked out Of Il quarrel and history
is upside down
FOR the Chants won their fourth vie
torv BY surging through two wide gaps
onened BY Aaron Ward, the strongest
SECTOR in the Nnne defense. Fate at
Zines has murkiug way of leading
son,e hap,es. human to within a str. de
n thc far summit and then suddenly
rolling his lrokpn Dody down the rocky
slope TO tho deep ravine below. There
iies the Promised Land of glory and as
you turn to look again there Is nothing
in sight but the gray desert of de-
ppair. The mirage passes. but the wait
inc vultnre still circles over the endless
waste Of sand.
In TO yesterdays seventh battle,
Ward, The brilliant. had run down
forty six chances with only one excus-
able miap0y and those cheering be :
meath the banner of the Yankees had
looked upon him rs n barricadC that was
more mprcgnabIe than death.
He had been covering his territory
With both eet and both hands, block
inc the road for each Giant attack with
q consistent atanchness that was not
IN be cuualed by any member Of either
team, He had been all over the lot.
usIug the single and double grab after
the manner of Lajoie. Co Inns and
Johnny Evers in triple blend of armor-
plate resistance.
Two Misplays Beat Mays
And then. in the vital game of the
series. before the greatest crowd of
the merry carnival. he paints across
the golden gov of promised Ganke"
triumph the sable coat pg of u Yankee
defeat. Through Wards two misplays
the Giants pushed the two runs needed
% beat Carl Mays in the greatest game
the big boy with the undertow delivery
has yet pitched.
But or these two gaps at the stoutest
point Of his defensive support Mays
would have beaten the Giants and the
brilliant pitching of Phi! Douglas by the
score of I to o. leaving tho Yankees
within lone game Of collecting the win
ner's end
T~as err thus. since youth'S first
bipnder
IN days forgotten nude Us fiHoh.
We ncrcr wrote--''This gVy'S tcOR-
der
But rChat he crossed US im pincb.
y re had penned, "Youmg Alexander
Has made the Persidns look like
joys,'
0, uhat flop os commander
He would hare been tCtthm too days!
The difference between being hero
and q goat in this tickle. pallid exist
snce IS frequently a matter Of ten or
twenty minutes. where there is no head
AL.A L..
may not be resting upon kennel straw
his romDing ileas. We are al wards of
Fate, hut the fate Of Ward has been
IN even hurdcr blow than tho tragedy
Of the crippled Ruth.
Yankees Near Fogs
As o result of Ward one bad after
noon after a week of singular triumph,
the Nanks today are on the verge OF
disappearing into the ghostly fogs Of woe
aud sorrow. With Mays victorious. as
70 would have been, Waite Hoyt this
afternoon might have carried them
gafely 10 the mOunta in top with a firm
grip upon a LOT of extra change at the
'dge Of cold and cruel winter.
As il Is. the GiNnts, leading by q
game, are now poised for the death
'hyuSt with Art Ncht and Jess Barnes
anchored iu the rife pit. eager to open
'irs on Il moments notice. For even
2 Hoyt stops Nehf today for the third
time of the seventh punic war. vi no is
here 20 stop in front Of the Kansas
"rc.ono IN the final and deciding game?
We pause briefly for some reply. unless
faint echo answers, mays again"
With MHys' defeat, the final burden
1ow falls upon the youthful shoulders
u the Brooklyn "kid" who SO far
nss been another Atlas holding up tho
Yankee world. He now has his chance
% step up with MattheWson, Babe"
Adams and the spectacular few who
nave Won three sets Of coronals in one
post season test.
Crowd Sot> Series Record
Nh"9 May and D"uclus stepped out
'or their third Joust in the seventh
k3lne, 'le greatest crowd Of the hcrics
aed either poured in through the vhrl-
""s u lrll!"a or else had completely
surrounded N" park. There we're rs
many thousands dashinc about in dizzy
"lrc!Ns outside as there we're packed in
stands and blcachers waiting for tho
critical moment to break.
Shutfin Phil and OzarE Carl, both
Prominent heroes OF the Seventh Punic
War, reported with their complete
yepertoirc intact knowing with the
&issad!ock "a that the winning team Of
wednesday s battle would mUro than
'kcly collect the main chunk Of bullion
'oW on deposit In 1t well known bauk.
When PIpp'a double aud McNally's /
umely single showed the Nauks in front
as early as the second round. their uu.
utrouS Hupp"rtcrs we're as full Of pep
10 Tue ar at dawn. NayS WnS on the