Evening star., 1921-10-10

AS II WASs the OHiy Casualty OIL tuo
day was Carl Mays. who the Giants
finally got to In the eighth innings
a man size job Of 1t. Before the game
Carl was a good bet to shut them out
again like he done the other day, as
the first 100 times you bat against
him is supposed to be the hardest
chance. And for seven innings today
he held them to two clean hits and
scratch single by Snyder which l call
a scratch because the official scorers
scratched it or the records. But be-
fore they was a man out in the eighth.
the tail-end Of McGraw's batting
order had earned the run that tied
the count and had two men In posi-
ton to score on George Burns dou-
BILE. Carl was socked for three hard
wallops and safe bunt in this frame
and in the ninth his defeat was
guys plastered him and one of these
was George Kelly.
Instead of taking his place in the
world series Hall of Fame along with
Ed Walsh. Christy Mathewson, Chief
Will now go down in history as the
pitcher who Bill Langes grandson
got base hit of Of in the series of
os62 New York time. Saturdays rain
was supposed to be soup for Carl
as 1t gave him an unexpected day of
rest. 1t looks now like he ought to
OF took another one.
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The real heroes Of the battle was
Emil Meusel, who the Yankee nuts
speak of as that brother of Bob Meu-
sci s. and Johnny Rawlings. the weak
sister of the series according to the
boys that play the games a few days
ahead Of the athletes. An explana-
tion of EmiTs conduct may be found
In the fact that he was with the Phil
lies up to two months ago and never
knew they was one big league let
alone alone that Carl Mays was the star
has been a busher. too, but you'd
think he had been around long
enough to hear OF Carl. Rawlings
work SO far can't be explained in no
legitimate way and it seems to me
out OF an important series. All he
does is make sucker out of the law
and the prophets.
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People that thronged the Polo
Grounds yesterday went there with
out no expectations of seeing Babe
Ruth. as the Babe was alleged to be
out OF 1t for this game at least. and
maybe for the whole series on account
OF Il poisoned arm. But the Babe fool
ed everybody and got in the game
after telling his doctor to go to a
place which Is said to be already
overcrowded with the medical pro-
fession. Babe played with his souper
all bound round, and it seemed to
bother him in throwing. But he grab
bed himself of another single and
made a new world record by hitting
the most useless home run in the his
tory Of organised base ball. The Giant
intield played for Ruth pretty near
the same way that National League
infields play for Cy Williams of the
Phillies. Bancroft moved over to the
right field side of second base, Raw
lings camped in short right field and
Kelly hugged the foul line. The whole
left side of the infleld was left to
frankie Frisch.
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Babes first effort was a roller that
went right where Kelly was playing
His second was q single to right field.
which. by the way, George Burns. the
center fielder. was set just right to
stop. When he come up the third
time he whitfield. and as luck would
have 1t Snyder was playing right
where he could catch the third strike.
And If Ross Young had only been
setting UP in the right field seats he
could OF catched the one Babe hit in