The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-10-19
GIANTS
ARE WORLD
CHAMPIONS
Eighth and Deciding
Game Of Series Was
a Pitchers Battle
Between Nelf and
Hoyt

New York, Oct. 13 (By the As
sociatea Press word cham
opions, 1e21-the New York Nat
ional League Baseball club.
The Giants won the title, which
will be theirs for the next year, by
defeating the Yankees in the eighth
game Of the world series at the
Polo Grounds today. The Anaeri-
can league champions died fight
ing hard in classic twirlipg duel
between their pitching ace, Waite
Hoyt, and Art Nehf, the Giants
star left handler. However, they
lacked the necessary punch to
win, the National LeagEe team
taking the game by the esseore of l
to o. and the series, five games to
three.
The. Giants victory gives Man
ager John J. McGraw his second
worlds championship team. The
New York Nations, seven times
pennant winners under McGraw's
management, captured the worlds
series against the Athletics Of the
American league in 1905, but, al
though winning the bunting five
times since they have been baffled
every time until this year in their
guest for world honors, twice bow
ing to the Athletics, once to the
Red Sox- and once to the White
Scx in other combats. This year
with a National league entrant that
has shown its high class by COM
ing from behind late in the penHant
race and beating the Pittsburgh
Pirates to the hag, the worlds Sc
yies told a different story. fof to
"a poor start through their loss Of
the first two games Of the series,
the; Giants gamely came back,
speedily evened up the series and
then, with but a slight let up while
getting their second wind, rounded
into the stretch with rash and
pushed through with three straight
victories to their final triumph. In
every victory, except today's. they
came from behind to win.i Thus
one of the best and most hotly
contested series In the; history Of
the sport was won cleanly. and, in
the final analysis, decisively, by
club whose garneness and all
around abiGtv Of the highest grade
VIII be generally conceded.
AS for the underlying reason for
the success of the McGraw men the
experts may differ, but there seems
little cause to doubt that the most
widely propounded opinion will be
that it was because Of a preponder-
ance Of high class pitching ability.
The series showed but two Of
Manager Higgins twirlers capable
OF pitching winning ball-Mays
and Hoyt-while the Giants put
forward trio of master workmen
in Douglas, Barnes and Nehf.
Outait by the Giants in nearly
every game and by many points in
the series as a whole, the Yankees
none the less made hard fight Of
It by their smartness in manufac-
turing runs out of scant material
and the superb work done by Mays
and Hoyts in six of the eight bat
ties. Their championship craft
went down with flag flying and to-
night their supporters were ten
dering their condolences over the
loss of the series with congratula-
fions upon the showing the Yam
-kee players had made in the first
world series a New York Ameri-
can league team has ever earned
the right to compete. AS for the
final and decisive game of the Sc
ries, the winning of it was due to
the superb pitching of Nehf against
moundsaaan to whom he had
twice lost decision earlier in the Sc
ries. Allowing the American
league batsmen bat four hits, none
OF them better than singles and
three of them coming with two
men out, the crafty soutnpaw again
and again turned the Yankees back
in order or baffled their determined
efforts to put across the solitary run
for which they We're struggling all
through the contest.
Hardy a wit less creditab,e was
the performance Of Hoyt, the Yam
kee youngster. Hoyt was in trouble
in several innings, but except in
the fatal first when the Giants
scored their only tally on two pass
es and an error, he worked him
self out brilliantly. once with fine
running catch by Fewster to help
along. Toward the end he was go
ing stronger than ever, retiring the
Giants in order in the eighth and
ninth.
The game, won by the Giants in
the first inning, was probably sav
ed for them in the ninth by as
brilliant a fielding performance as
has been seen on the diamond in
many a day. One Yankee had
been retired in the final game.
This one was Babe" Ruth. again
in uniform, but confning his ac-
tivities heretofore in the game to
the coaching lines. The Yankee
fans, who had been for eight in
nings watching that one lonely tai
y of the Giants loom larger and
larger, picked up hope and cheered
wildly as the "Bambino" stepped
to plate to bat for Wally Pipp. The
home run king made a valiant try
but his injured arm had taken the
power from his swing and the best
he could do with Nehf's puZZling
delivery was to ground weakly to