The Washington herald., 1921-10-13
Douglas Triumphs Over
Mays In Critical Battle
Game Deadlock Until Second Sacker Boots
E. Meusers Grounder in Seventh and
Snyder Doubles-Giants Now Over
whelming Favorites.
ny WILLIAM sLAvENs M'NUTT.
UNITED News stsh Corrsspondsnt.)


POLO GROUNDS. NEW YORK. Oct
1.-Two great baseball machines came
racing down the stretch In the seventh
heat OF the world series at the Polo
Grounds today. The drivers for the
day, Mays and Douglas. combined dar
ing and skill in the highest possible
iegree. Faster and faster they drove
neck and neck. for the greatest prize
hat baseball has to offer. For a little
Mays pulled ahead, but Douglas
,aught him, and on they went on even
terms again. Harder and harder they
irove. The dramatic tension Of the
struggle gripped the huge crowd and
$4,000 people sat thrilled through as
the furious struggle grew yet more
fierce. Mays was perfect. So was
Douglas. Both were driving un-
oeatable races in their efforts for vic
tory.
But both were driving machines and
when a racers machine goes bad on
him no effort can avail. In the
seventh inning Carl Mays machine
went bad. Not the whole machine. but
a cog. The cog was at second base
The man who plays the part OF that
cog is Aaron Ward. On Aaron Ward S
baseball record there is wide black
mark. which translated tells the story
Of how the young man. in his position
OF a cog at second base in the New
York Yankees baseball machine
cracked under the strain Of the speed
and became Directly responsible for
the loss OF a ball game. and in all
oh n rnninn lhfn a
well.
Tied as seventh BeEins.
The score at the beginning OF the
last half OF the seventh was l and /.
Both Mays and Douglas were get
ting better as the tension increased
Shuffin' Phil. big and stolid and pow
erful. was feeding them across the
plate true and swift and with a sharp
break that had the Yankee batters
bewildered.
Nays. the big blond. was whipping
them across. the ball coming magic
like from the queer pitching position
that he assumes and swapping across
the plate like the snap Of a lash on
an old-time mule drivers lash. The
Giants were marching up to the plate
and marching back again in almost
regular order. Getting an earned run
OF Nays was about equivalent 10 get
ling SO 900 year from hard boiled
contractor for swinging a pick on an
excavation job. II was simply one OF
those things which are not being done.
as tbey saw in our best families.
Kelly. the long. lean Giant FIST
sacker. who bats in the pinches for
,ercsntage that looks like a true
Stat.uent Of what the late Kaiser won
for himself in the world war, came 10
The Dlate and did his customary days
work. He grounded out 10 PiPp and
went back and sat on the bench He
sits gracefully on the bench
Irish Meusel. as dangerous man
as Kelly IS futile. did his best
against Mays trick delivery and
discovered that his best was far from
coed enough to be Of any avail 20
himself personally or 10 the team on
which he plays. TTTussI struck out
and went back and sat down on the
bench alongside Of Kelly KClly
ans Meusel are Just alike in that
hey sit. On the same bench. Also
they are both tall
Two were out and RsAlinEs was
- the bat He corrected with the
-.r6 raII pitched and rnIled an easy
-roun6er 10 Ward Ward was di-
-eCIy IN front Of the ball He
-rabbed for il and dropped il Raw
fr= wGs AyinE toward first. Ward
.-sbbed for the ball. again and Jug
.I-d il Finally he got a secure
I0Id @nd threw 70 8iDp- The play
Eas close. but Rawlings was safe
safe on an easy RToEndeT that a
sub on = sandIot grammar school
cam would have been ashamed to
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