The Washington herald., 1921-10-09
Huggins Welcomes Chance
To Rest Mays and Hoyt
Yank Managers Relief Pitching Below Par
And Two Stars Must Bear Brunt of Battle.
Barnes May Aid McGraw
By C. A. LoyErr.
By z. A. LONETT,
NNaninsten Herald and Chicago Tribune
Correspohdsnt.l

usNeiJ new York world series
Is on the side of the Yankees, al
ready out in front with two vic
tories. to the Giants one. The
Ihree-hour rain which started a
IuiI hour before game time this
&tternoon and the consequent defer
ring Of the contest until tomorrow
should prove of greater benefit to
miller Huggins' ill-balanced pitch
ing STAN whose reserves have
SHOWN themselves to be impotent,
Shereas the hurllng corps of the
Nalonal League champions has dis
appointed mainly in the ineffective
ness OF its first-string men, The
relief pitching for Muggsy McGraw's
cluo has been of highest order, and
supplied by Jesse Barnes entirely.
Despite the Yanks' present lead
IN the game count, Manager Hug
gins position in assigning his
pitchers for the balance of the Sc
rles would have been difficult
one had the world title battles been
consecutive days. In yesterdays
third game, one sided as a mirror,
Just four of the Yankees secondary
twirlers were revealed as incapable
or checking the Giant assault and
rew days at least, Huggins was
reduced to the fiighty southpaw,
Harry Harper, and the young and
untried Ferguson and Piercy. The
latter pair are unlikely to be called
upon except as a last resort.
Parker an Uncertainty.
In order that Carl Mays and
Waite Hoyt. who pitched the Amer
lean League entry to shutout tri-
umphs in the irst two games,
might have the necessary rest, the
astute Higgins possibly would have
experimented with Harper in the
fourth game, had it been played
today. Harper turned in a splen-
did game against Cleveland in the
closing days of the pennant cam
paign and should he master con-
troll, might turn back the Giants,
who have no fondness for left
handlers, as neatly as did Mays
and Hoyt, both righthanders. But
today's idleness enables Higgins
TO come back with Mays and Hoyt
tomorrow and Monday and the
probabilities are they will draw
the same opponents in the box as
In their previous battles, Douglas
and Nehf. respectively. And, mean
while the lesser Yank twirlers will
be recuperating from their vain
labors and Shawkey or Quinn may
get another chance at the foemen
II either Of the Yanks' star mounds
men faltet or Harper, likely to be
given duty as a starting pitcher
in the sixth game, goes wild and
has to be removed
Douglas would have started for
the Giants today beyond a doubt.
The McGraw-Jennings-E stra-
tegical triumvirate had no other
choice, and even now must start
in turn the three defeated slab
artists, "Shufflin' Phil" Nehf and
Fred Toney. And two, at least, of
these three must come through in
their second starts, or the Yankees
will be crowned world champions.
Pitching Chief Problem.
Indeed. handling Of the pitchers
the team leaders of both camps.
The series may very well be won
or lost by the judicious assign
ment or the unwise juggling of the
pitching talent, such as 1t is, of the
two teams. Considering the hurl-
ing departments in their entirety
the Giants have the edge there now
lust as before the series got un-
der way. McGraw still has in re-
serve for emergency utilization, the
sage, old port-sider Slim Salee. and
Shea and Ryan, youngsters class
ing above Ferguson and Piercy, of
the Yankee staff. With such re-
lief pitching strength, McGraw
and his advisers will not benefit
as greatly as Huggins from to-
DAVIS postponement and the added
day of rest it gives to Douglas and
Nehf on the one hand and to Mays
and Hoyt on the other.
The postponement further favors
the troupe of Higgins in that it
gives Babe Ruth an additional
twenty-four hours to nurse bis in
fected left arm, which was 1anced
bv a surgeon last night and would
have kept the sultan of swat out
of the game had there been one
today. 1t is possible Ruth may
heed his physicians advice and
remain out of action for several
days, even for the remainder. of the
series. il his condition requires 1t,
and il is considered improbable to-
night that he will be able to get
i,to tomorrow's important strug-
gle. .
sist upon getting into the fray and
nIaying ION his nerve" II the swell
in from the Infection, resulting
from an abrasion in sliding when
he stole two bases on Catcher Earl
smith of the Giants, Thursday, has
roceded and the resultant soreness
hated sufficiently by tomorrow af-
t.rnoon. Babe was in civilian at
ire on the Yankee bench during
,be Yankees batting practice pre-
rading the rain which set in this
oFternoon. Fewster was delegated
~ Huggins to lead Off the battina
arrav and Elmer Miller was dropped
20 third position in the homerun
kings absence.
Ruth's Loss Not Fatal.
should the services of Ruth be
,ost TO the team henceforth it will
nroye a considerable. but not neces-
SariIy fatal handicap to the Yam
ices. Fewster is a good fielder and
Tcad-off man and hit .2S7 in sixty
Sour games in the league season.
d,ring the early part of which he
Sras convalescing from a fractured
sluu sustained when he was
..bsaned" in a preseason exhibitioni
,,ame. Huggins has also Bobby
both. a slugger of parts when he
,rore the Cleveland raiment, and
nav give both Roth and Fewster
a shet at Giant pitching il Ruth
"a his mace remain for long out
of the fight In considering the
erect of Ruth's loss to the team,
a. II comes to that, it should be re-
.ar,hered he has not contributed