Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-12
NINE GAMES MAY Be
NECESSARY TO FIND
WORLD CHAMPIONS
Advantage of Power in the Box
Has Shifted to Big
Leaguers.
GREAT PLAYS YESTERDAY
By Associated press 70 Every Evening
YANKEES'.GIANTs' LINEUP
FOR T0DAY's SERIES GAME

1
Yankees. Giants.
Fewster, r. Burns, eff
Peckinpaugb, SIS. Bancroft, So.
Miller, CT. Frlsch, 9b.
II. Meusel, RI. Young. rf.
PlpD, ib. Kelly, ID.
Ward, 2b. r.. Meusel. n.
McNally, 3b. Rawlings. %.
Schang, c. SNYDER. r.
Mays, y. Douglas. n.
Umpires ouigley, az the plate
Chill, at first base: Rigler. ct second:
/ Nlorlarty at third
New York. Oct 12.--The Giants and
/ Yankees were keyed UP a semi-tone
or so above normal today for the sew
enth game OF the world series. tied al
three games all, by the Giants to 6
victory yesterday, after a week Of
warfare at the Polo Grounds.
Carl Mays win be sent against the
awakened Giants today. Manager
Huggins said, to be followed tomorrow
by Waite Hoyt, who permitted the
National Leaguers only one run in IS
innings. shufTlin' Phil Douglas is The
likely choice Of McGraw
Should this big spltball artist be
put to work this afternoon. II VIII bo
the third time he has opposed Mays.
They pitched the starter last We'd
nesday and the Yankees won 1t. z 10
0. When they met again Sunday. the
Giants won. to 2. Douglas viii carry
ia handkerchief with him to the FRAY.
He has bad cold, Il was noised about
oy his comrades. Perhaps it win keep
him from pitching. II SO, McCsraw
said he would select either the aged
and slender Sallee or Pat Shea. a new
corner. Shea in his few weeks Of
active duty with the Giants This pa n
season won five games and was beaten
only twice. McGraw said he would like
to give the youngster a chance in the
series.
Metropolitan fandom believes the
rumpus at the Polo Grounds viii go
the full nine games. The Yankees
took the first two, then the Giants
won pair, after which the Yanks
forged ahead, only to have the Giants
catch up with them yesterday by
pummeling the service of Harper and
shawlsey for 10 hits and eight runs.
The advantage Of power In the box
now lies with the Giants. Douglas
and Barnes have shown they can halt
the rush -of Yankee bats. Douglas is
booked to pitch today and Nehf to-
morrow. Nehf lost two games to the
Yankees, largely because his team
mates made but one run in Is innings
they labored with him. This would
leave for the possible ninth game as
signment, Barnes, who twice has res
cued Toney from the fury Of a Yank
attack, and then held them while the
Giants pounded out victories Besides.
there are the second string Fingers as
yet untested.
On the other hand. Higgins has
trotted out only two successful pitch
ers-Hoyt and Mays-and the Giants
vow they no longer dread the under
hand shoots Of Mays, having beaten
him on his second start. It is Mays
who may have TO pitch a fourth time
II the series goes the limit.
Yesterdays game was exciting. the
first four innings so crisp and full of
thrills that what followed seemed
drowsy though the closing rounds pro-
duced as much Of interest as the aver
age contest.
Nobody may remember those last
innings year hence. but even the
most calloused folk do not expect to
stop talking about the three home
runs in less than ten minutes. the
three occasions when fielders stopped
terrific clouts they could not catch.
by hurting themselves in front of the
flying sphere, the long run of Chick
Fewster TO absorb Young's foul, hard
by the bleachers in the first inning.
the undaunted spirit that carried the
Giants TO victory after the Yanks had
twice gone ahead of them, and the
manner in. which Barnes curbed the
Yankees when their bats We're merrily
swinging with the Joy that Toney fur
nished.
There was a big hubub by the root
crs over the three home runs IN the
second inning. But the players were
surprisingly calm in their reaction
TO these wallops. just as II banging
the ball into the outlying sections Of
The amphitheatre was nothing to make
fuss over. When Emil Meusel pro
PEELED one into the lower right field
stand with Kelly on base not a per
son grasped his palm as he crossed
the plate and walked to the dugout
Rawlings. going up to the front with
his heavy artillery, passed the return
ing hero in silence. without so much
as Offering a salute Of recognition.
II used to be that play couldn't 20 on
until the home run maker had been
by all his team mates
but that simply isn't being done these
days The homer that Snyder poled.
a moment later, the players appeared
10 accept without particular enthusi-
asnl and this also was the case inn
nediately arterward when Fewster
put the 2anks ahead once more by
aoisting one into the bleachers with
shawiSey on base. Styles change.
Perhaps major league players say.
Pshawl What's a home run. We
know a fellow who hits one every
two or three days"
That fellow--Babe Ruth--sat In the
grandstand yesterday. AIayhap it was
inst as well His Substitute. Fewster.
ait q homer. which Babe probably
couldn't have done with his sore arm.
and the substitute got several long
flies far from his position that BABE
might not have reached because Of his
game leg.
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