New-York tribune., 1921-10-10

eateSt crowd of the series. knocked
: between the fifth and seventh ribs.
For after this intercostal lab Carl oq
the Ozarks WIS no longer in the same
frame OF mind. His goat was bleating
Tar from home rs Giant after Giant
stepped up with a toehold ard took q
running slam at his waning stuff. Ii
vas bing-hing- BAN with Shutting Phil
Douglas, Of Tennessee. proudly pro-
Claiming the superior contours Of the
blue Ridge Mountains to anything the
Ozarks had to offer. For Shutting
Phil, with his slight stoop and his
whlrling splitter, was on the crest Of Il
conquering wave. He had everything
but d kind word from Miller Huprins e
and the Yanks as he whitfield eight of
the enemy and held them N easy check.
Ruth Defes Doctors, Gets Homer
Il is at this point that the big heart
interest drama OF the series steps in
and crowds out the salient facts Short
iy after high noon there was & terrific
uproar In certain sanatorium as a
burly figure overpowcred four doctors
and i've guards, tore the big iron door
from its hinges and bolted in the tlirec-
Tlon OF the Polo Grounds. "Stone walls
do not prison make nor iron bars a
cage" Not with the great Mandarin of
Maui hearing from FAR away the plain
tive call Of his clan crying aloud in the
wilderness for the Big Mace to report.
Ana so it came about that shortly
before game time there went up from,
packed stands the rolling thtndcr Of
1orty Thousand human voices. below
ing, barking, bounding from pillar to
post, as the Mandarin, with his right
elbow swathed in tape ard rubber,
stalkcd upon the field.
You GUESSED it, IN defiance OF all
orders Rabo Ruth had returned to bis
psoplc for one OF the greatest ovations
tnat ever thundercd its tribute over
the field: If the guillotine had re-
moved his head, his vast torso would
still, IN the act Of falling. have turned
and whirled in the direction Of the
game that to him is 100 per cent Of all
existence. And having broken bondage
and arrived, it then fell to Ruth's lot
IN the final inning TO establish a record
tnat has never been approached You
nave heard before of sluggers hitting
nome runs to the left field bleachers,
the center field blcachers, the right
IpnCS.
Hits Crandstand and Bleacher.
But Ruth is the only man in baseball
tnat ever nit single home run into
both grandstand and bleachers, cover
ing Two sectors through the tremen-
dous power Of his blow. The Giants
were leading, to I, through their clos
ing rallies against Mays, with one out
IN the ninth, as the Observation-Disclosures
up. Douglas cut low curve over the
plate and, IN spite of MS bandagcd
eibow and its two-inch slit, the Babe
let fly with everything he had. The
bali, winging its way to right center.
struck the far right field tier of the
upper stands with such astonishing
force that it bounded far over into the
right field bleachers, as 10000 male and
female lungs sodnded the tribute of the
tribe to the old-fasnioned qualities Of
gameness and Drawn, about all that
counted in early days when to be
'thewed like an Auroch bull" counted
lor more than writing "a Midsummer
Nights Dream"
First Four-Bagger of Series
In spite of his mangled elbow, that
looked like veal outlet, Dreaded the
Big Babe had delivered the stuff for
which the multitude clamored. He had
socked the only home run of the series,
and he socked it so hard that the upper
grandstand quivered for n moment az
if one Of the new disarmament bombs
had exploded under its main post. lie
rad hit home run into all the stands
there were in that part of the field, and
the only wonder js how the ball kept
from bounding again over into the left
field seats. If things keep going this
way the Babe expects to have his left
elbow cut open tomorrow with q chunk
taken out Of his right thigh.
For the first four innings Of the
fourth game Mays and Douglas held
rival batsmen at bay. Mays hadn't per
mitted clean hit, as the helpless
Giants paved away at his underground
ball as helpless and bewidcred rs a
Polish wrestler making out m income
tax. Douglas had been almost as ef-
fectige, With only singles by McNally
and Ruth marked up against his baf-
fling splitter. Then in the fifth, after
Pipp's single had opened the gap, Wally
Schang leaned abruptly against fast
one and fired it against the top Of the
left field fence. Another six inches
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