The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-11
HARRY HARPER
IS PROBABLE
YANK CHOICE
MeGrew May Send Jess Barnes to
the Mound in the Sixth
Battle.

American leaguers now have lead
of three victories to two.
No one is sure they will start,
however. Even Miller Higgins,
manager of the Yankees, and John
McGraw, leader of the Giants, seem
ed undecided this morning. Hug
gins agreed it might be Harper
but surmised he would also give
thought or two to Shawkey or the
melIowed Jack Quinn. The Napo-
leon general of the Giants announ-
ced that he would select Jess
Barnes or Toney.
People who devote time to think
ing of Barnes generally consider
him a relief pitcher. That has been
his chief occupation this season,
but he still can be useful as early
as the first inning, without waiting
! to learn from the mistakes of 9TH
ers.
The commander-in-chief of the
Yankees contemplated the prospects
! of his men with optimism as ne
| breakfasted with one eye on a sport
page and the other watching the
tricky grape fruit. The team got
I back its fighting spirit while whip
ping the Giants, to /, yesterday,
he remarked, and predicted that the
Giants would never come back far
enough to beat the Yankees out of
the championship.
The only gloom on Higgins hor-
lion was the fact that Babe"
Ruths doctor again had ordered
him out of the series because of
his injured arm and leg. The Babe"
hoyerruled a similar order on Sun
day in his eagerness to see the ser
les through, but it appeared ne
might have to bow to the new edict.
/ He was obviously in bad shape aft
| er yesterdays exertions and his
doctor declared there was danger
of permanent injury if the big slug
| ger persisted further in using his
| infected arm.
Higgins declared the Yankees
could win without Ruth, however.
| asserting that the Bambino's game
spirit would go with the players
into today's struggle, whether ne
! was with them in the bulky flesh
or not.
''Hoyt was in great FORM" Hug
/ gins said. "All of US had conf
dence that the boy would win again
/ The whole team played vigorously
| behind him, and it was great after
the tough loss of Sunday.
! Wasn't our MeuSel wonderful in
/ the field and at bat?" he inquired.
| That was an easy one to answer
meusel was wonderful, even more
| so than the box score showed. The
hitting statistics gave him a two
| Dagger and single They didn't
even hint how close he came to
making another two-bagger. 1t
was in the ninth inning. The Yam
kee Meusel slammed a liner over
third base and galloped half way
/ around the diamond before some
one gently broke the news that the
ball had been adjudged foul. Stroll
ling back, he picked up his bat
again, feeling much the same as in
the first game of the series, when
| he whaled a three-bagger and was
! called out for snubbing first base
on his way To better roosting places.
This same Meusel, it was, who
stified a Giant hitting spell in the
second round with a beautiful
throw to second after Bancroft
! mauled one into right field while
/ Burns was on base. Again in the
eighth he eXtinguished the flaming
Giants hopes by fast fielding on
kelly's smash that caromed off a
! sign board and a whizzing throw
that tagged Kelly at second. Young
previously had singled and a run
! seemed imminent at the time.
Unlike Higgins, McGraw made
no fiowery forecast of the future
Nor had he any bouquets for the
best
Il believe Ruth was out at first
on that bunt," he said. This refer
red to the little surprise by the
enfant terrible" which started the
! 1anks toward triumph number
three McGraw also maintained the
| umpirlns behind the plate was bad.
We lost and We should have
won" was McGraw's retrospective
summary of the proceedings that
went on yesterday before the trib-
une assembled under the shadow
of Coogan's not unadvertised blur.
Ruth's bat devoted itself to swing
| ing in the breeZes of the afternoon.
on all occasions except one. when
he safely hunted. Ruth fooled ey-
erybody with that soft tap. He
behied his ample self to first base
in a manner not unlike that of a
runaway locomotive while all the
folks wondered what this betelgeuse
of baseball would do next. The next
thing he did was to run home on
Bob MeusePs two-base clout.
Until Babe" gave the ball his
little love tap, most everyone look
ed to him as the shining example
of going after everything or moth
ing. 1t was home run or a strike
out, and whatever singles, doubles
and triples befell his bat were re-
garded as failure to attain the
heights.
/ After that Babe" took up where
he had left off-he relapsed into the
habit of striking out This caused
almost as much applause as his
home run Of day before yesterday.
In the drama of the diamond Ruth
assumes the antithetic roles of
hero and villain, depending upon
whether the rooter is for the Yam
KEGS or the opponents. With the
sluggers Ruth and Meusel, the
sturdy Waite Hoyt completed the
heroes. He allowed ten hits-four
more than Nehf, and six of them
were evenly distributed among the
first three innings, but excepting
the first. which started by an err
ror of Burns poke toward third,
the Yankee BROOKLYN rixht-hander