The New York herald., 1922-10-08
MANAGER HUGGINS \
! IS NOT TO BLAMl
American Leaguers Ran Bas
Like individuals Leavingl
Burning Building.
DUGAN PULLS A BON
Probably They Develop
Water on the Brain From
Downpour of Rain.
DUGAN PULLS A BON
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Won. Lost. Tied.
By WALTER TRUMBULL!


By WALTER TRUMBULL!
The Winged Victory is a her
figure, full of action and with flow
draperies, but it's arms are broken
and it's head is missing. We have
covered how it got that way.
Yankees kicked it out of'the windo1
If ever there was stupid basd
played in the vicinity of the
. Grounds 1t was yesterday by the
fresentatives of the American Lea
We can find just one alibi for
In that steady downpour it ma
that their caps leaked and that
got water on the brain.
It Is true that the majority o.
breaks went badly against the Yam
but 1t also is true they just about
to use violence to get rid Of importu
Victory. AS matter Of fact someN
should tell them that after all 1t is
ali right for them to beat the q
The players led by Miller Huggins
bases good deal in the calm. tho
full manner OF guests in the midd
the night leaving burning hotel
On. the other hand the Giants p
a confident and highly intelligent
of baseball. We doub. whethera
shortstop IN a world series ever
better exhibition of manual and nj
dexterity than Bancroft did yeste
And Groh, Frisch and Kelly perfe
in their usual competent manner.
fore this series opened we are told
the Yankees were to favorit4s:--Ir
any thinking contest those odds Shoult
be heightened and reversed.
Perhaps we are little hard On tn,
Yanks II so 1t is because 1t makes u.
impatient to see a team of such poss
biIitias and as capable as that team II
play the baseball II has played In thes,
games. We never did think that tn,
American League would win this series
because we considered the Giants &
much stronger club than most person.
supposed, but we did think that 1t wa.
series which would be bitterly fought
n The Giants have played up to worlC
series FORM. The Yankees have not
Somebody ought to tell their mothers OF
them,
AS the series now stands all the yam
KEGS have to do is to win four game.
straight. So far as we know, the only
4 persons who believe that they can do 4
are their owners--the two Colonels. J
Rupert and TIL L. Huston are 4 couple
OF game gentlemen. win or draw. but
unfortunately all they can do is to pro-
vide balls and bats. They cannot per.
sonaliy make use Of them.
Mays was pitching good baseball yes.
terday when he got a very bad break
Il In the fifth inning bounder from Ban.
Il crofts bat hoped over the head oi
n Ward. and right there the game slippeS
fromsthe clutching fingers Of the Yanks
n They had several chances to grasp II
again. but went after it much as If they
n thought II was a creased pig. The
\ power OF thought is wonderful
\ Wd suppose many persons will be in
\ clined to blame Miller Higgins for the
showing made by his team, but this Is
not Just. He has won two pennants with
that team. And we doubt whether he
could be blamed when Dugan. In the
first Inning, failed to go to second while
Cunningham was doing a head spiu
after catching Ruth's ny. Nor In that
same inning could you blame Miller
\ when. Pipp got himself caught between
first and second.
And Huggins was only spectator
and one run needed to tie cut for third
before he looked to see where Bob
Meusel had hit the ball. and thereby got
himself erased by Groh and Bancroft.
And with one out in that ninth and the
Il tying run safely on third, where a fly
1 such as Wards would have brought II
home, we doubt whether Miller entirely
approved of Schang's taking a desperate
chance of stretching single into a
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| the Giants would make the play to
third. but Bancroft. being far from
simple. decided otherwise.
We still retain our opinion that
Il Schang is one of the most valuable men
In baseball and Pipp> n great first base
man. but both of them got little over
eager yesterday. Still. those two at
\ least erred on the side of fighting
\ spirit.
YOU. came doggone near dropping that
\ baseball in the center field bleachcrs.
n How he did clout that one In the first
I inning! 1t is no wonder that Cum
III ningham sat down on the back of his
neck after catching that drive. It was
Il corklng good catch any way he
made Il.
We don't exactly see Just why Hug
rims persists in using Elmer Smith as
first string pinch hitter when Frank
Baker Is sitting on the bench. To our
mind Baker is still a dangerous batter,
end no pitcher Is any too pleased to see
him up there at the plate.
It Is our sincere hope that somebody
will write or say something which will
annoy the Yankees. If SO, they may
get out to-day fighting mad. and in that
case wc'll see a regular ball game.
Somehow or other the Giants gave the
\ impression yesterday that they knew
they were going to step out and win
and were not much worried by a couple
\ of runs lead. We'd like to see them ex-
n tended to the last notch. That team
is capable of travelling some when IL
has to- It's quite ball club.