Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-09

Irish Meusel shot q roller to short.
Scott hur1ing the ball home so fast
that Groh could not safely reach the
plate. He started to return to third.
but was run down by Schang.
When the ball was thrown back TO
the box. Bush found himself in trou
BILE Frisch. the fastest runner on
either team. stood perched on third
base and Irish Meusel was on second.
| At the plate, swinging his bat left
handed. stood Pep Young. who
usually drops his hits in right field.
At this moment there popped into
| the mind OF Miller Higgins the
| thought that the best way out of the
difficulty would be to let Young walk
| to first. filling the bases SO that a force
| ing to take chance that Kelly. who
| has been weak in his recent batting.
would continue to be weak. SO he Or
| dercd Bush to walk Young. Later both
| Giant and Yankee players said it was
| a splendid example Of real inside base
| ball strategy. The break Of the game
ruined it nevertheless.
The sudden command plainly dis
pleased Bush. He wanted TO work
| things out in his own way. He warmed
up his tongue with a couple Of hot
| words and then shouted at Higgins,
! Lets play baseball" Higgins was in
| sistent and repeated his signal to pass
| Young. Bush obeyed. His face showed
his disgust at each of the four wide
| throws he hurled to the catcher.
| And then Kelly, who bats right
| handed. appeared at the plate. Bush's
| first pitch to him was ball. The next
was a speedy curve. 1t cracked off
kelly's bat and into center field at a
fast clip, scoring Frisch and Meusel.
| higgins had guessed wrong. Bush
! perhaps had won moral victory but
| everything else was lost.
Still apparently bereft of his temper,
Bush lobbed a lazy throw up to the
plate and King hit it, but the ball fell
foul near the left field blcachers. He
swung easier the next time and
| dropped a Texas Lacquer back of short.
scoring Young.
| For time this afternoon It seemed
| that the Yankees had awakened from
the spell Of dullness which tossed
! away every opportunity to win that
came to them yesterday. They never
| appeared SO much awake as did the
bright and snappy Giants, who seemed
day by day. in every way, to grow bet
as well as he did for two-thirds of the
distance TO the end. A little sickness
now and then did noe matter much at
the time.
The Yankees simply could not run
| the bases Well. Their experiences on
Saturday loft them saddcr but appar-
! entity no wiser in that branch of the
game. This at least was the impress
sion they gave in the fifth inning
when. after making one run. they
tossed away the hope Of another when
scott was boxed on the third base line
| after Bush had singled.
The single by Bush was stopped in
center field and Ward scored on 1t.
Scott. who had singled just before
Bush, went to third safely.
! Hugsins was coaching there. Some
! thought the Yanks had learned a les
son yesterday when McGraw's out
feeders twice returned hits so speedily
| that runners were tagged between
bases. Today was another day with
Scott. however. lie oyerran the bag
and was caught.
Facing the fast-breaking curves of
Nehf. the Yanks, as has been their
custom through all the series, plugged
along for one run at time, while the
| Giants stuck to their worth while hab-
it of letting the hits where they might
in the hope of rushing several run
ners over the plate. The Yanks were
held to five hits by Nehf
| A single by Dugan, a sacrifice by
Ruth and Pipp's single gave Bush
one run to start with in the first
inning. The Giants took the lead in
the second. getting two runs on Meu-
sells singles, Young's walk, Kcllcy's
sacrifice, and a one Dagger by Cum
bingham. The Yanks tied the count
at two all in the fifth, Ward walked
and was sent around the circuit by
singles hit by Scott and Bush. Again
in the seventh, the Yankees forged
| ahead. MeuseI scratched q hit that
Groh fumbled. lie was sacrificed to
| second by Schang and given a trip
to third on wild pitch. SCOTS
| sacrifice fly sent hi mhome.
There were occasions for Babe Ruth
to rise from his slump and regain
heroic stature. but he could not smite
! the curves that Nehf hurled so care
fully. After his sacrifice in the first
inning, his bat produced nothing
but a strikeout and two Founders to
| Kelly.
| Pipp's play on Bancroft's hopper
in the eighth was but one Of several
| bright bits of fielding in the final
game. 1t seemed piece of retribu-
ton, for Groh had robbed Pipp of a
hit in the sixth. The most valuable
catch of the game was made by
| Ward. He leaped and stopped hard
| line drive that came off Bancroft's
| bat in the second inning when the
| Giants had men on every base flush
cd by the rally that had already sent
J two of their comrades over the rub
!, Der Bancroft also got revenge.
| When the Yankees came to bat for a
| last chance rally in the ninth, he
crushed their hopes by running far
beyond the diamond to catch Meu-
J sells sky scraping fly. Young took
care of the next two batters and an
other worlds series was ready for