New-York tribune., 1922-10-07
GameHeart and Good Arm
of Comeback Pitcher
Put McCraw Clan Two
Games in Lead i'm Series
Hugggins's sluggers
Held to Four Hits
Get to Hoyt in
Two Innings; Babe Ruth
Swings Big Bat in Vain
By Crantland Rice

weedy human gardens Of life might
consider the case Of one John william,
Scott, Of Ridgeway, N. c., and the New
York Giants.
only few months ago John Will
liam Scott was also broken blossom
IN the garden of game where Time
and Fate, the two ca.elakcrs, have but
little mercy on those who seem to be
dropping on the bush. When the spring
season opened Scott, at the age of
swenty-eight, was pitcher with a
lame shoulder, family to feed and
nothing left but wornout glove. The
lame shoulder was so far gone that Gin
clnnati turned him adrift upon drab
existence to let him learn another
siaoe: But 1T 50 happened that while
his right shoulder may have been full
OF knots and seamy trouble, there was
nothing the matter with John Scott's
heart. Not even CULVER.
Holds Yankees Helpless
Somewhere around midsummer the
willowy pitcher, six feet two and a
half above the sod, carried his lame
shoulder to the Polo Grounds and Of
tered it to McGraw, and McGraw took
chance. Yesterday afternoon, in the
presence Of $4,000 fans, a tall, stoop-
shouldered pitcher by the name Of John
William Scott, of Ridgeway, N. c.. and
the New York Giants, stepped out in
'front.' OF the once hard-hitting Yankees
and turned them inside out with one of
the greatest pitching exhibitions Of the
year.
Working away with all the GOODNESS
ifay NF
has whipped Fate to standstill, Scott
held the astonished Yankees to four
scattered hits, shut them out and
thereby lifted the Giants into com
manding position that overlooks the
fertile plains of another rich worlds
series harvest.
1t Was almost as il an abandoned
derelict had sailed in ard whipped a
battle cruiser, for Scott pitched the
eyeballs out of Waite Hoyt with an ex-
hibition of consistent sniping that
Scott won to Q, and he finished under
wraps. Having heard that the Giants
had no pitchers left with Nehf and
Barnes out of the way, the packed
stands peered out through the hazy
Indian summer afternoon to get q
closeup of the terrific slaughter about
to happen on Henry Fabians green
carpet below. They expected to see
the tall, gaunt Giant, in build almost
the haunting ghost Of ShufFlin' Phil
Douglas, hammered to a pulp that
knows neither shape nor form.
Giants Get to Hoyt
They. expected to see Yankee bats
pound him into sudden and quick sub
mission as Hoyt rolled back thu Gle ITS
as easily as he did year ago. Eut
as inning after inning went by, as the
light went out of the setting sun and
the October haze grew deeper, it bsgan
to look as il the impending slaughter
might be delayed. The savage Giant
attack got to Hoyt for two runs in the
third, but the Yankees never got to
Scott. Round after round they found
his cool, sedate delivery and his
battling curve ball blocking the high
way. And no one found the Ridgeway
wanderer harder to, reach than Babe
Ruth.
Scott held Ruth at his mercy,
marionette at the end Of string. The
big Babe took his old toe hold, scowled
each time with grim determination, and
Scott, still unruffled and unperturbed,
continued to do his stuff as the Babe
tried in vain to hit one out of the in
field. In four separate and distinct
trips to the plate the Bambino died the
death Of slugging shame on easy
grounders to first or second that child
might have caught In his cap. Scott
had him faded and. the Babes glory
again disappeared back of a hitless
cloud. The big boy gave the best he
had but Scott had more on the ball
than Ruth had on the bat--and when
this happens there is only one story
left to tell.
Nips Yanks Rally in Seventh
AS the game wore on and the stands
saw the ex-derelict of fate drawing
closer and closer to the kingdom of VIC
tory they began to wonder whether the
tall pitcher could go the route. The
$4,000 fans got their answer in the
seventh inning. Wally Pipp had
grounded out when Bob Meusel
pumped hit over the pitchers quiv-
ering reach. Schang followed with
line lash down the right field line
fCentlnusd on paes eisYsH)