The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-10-08
Hugh hlcQuillan
Goes Route for
lIcGraw's Team
Americans Hit Hard Enough
10 Win Dozen Games. but
Throw Away Most
of Results.
ily HIGH FULLERTON,
Omaha Zee I.sasfd Wire.

New York. ocl. T-Stw York;
t4Bksta thre WaNay hail game
threw away their chances ~ the 80
RIGS aud, IN enc " The worst rkh.hi
TONS IT baseball .n the history II d
world sfF.ss, were three down at lhJ
rHd II d Wrstrh,d day ot play, the
GaHts winning, too,
fIY ns in q rain varying from q
dr.asla Ia a d0Wnpour the rushuf
Gaut8 simply rumPed or with the
hattie. a clear present, The GnulH
didn't Wsn-tha Yankees lost, They
laht tYfn the friends they had. and
JHn fact that lutl wns against them
counts little against the fact that
Their own bonchnded, laHg.uR style
Uf baseball prevented them from win.
min" Ia spite ~ the luck.
Poor Exhibition.
They gave the worst Cxhlbt.nn al
has" running. Of taking advantage Of
opportunities ever seen on "a hall field
ln Ep.te 81 that, they made three
rgus. The Giants deserved nothing,
but They got four runs In an inning
which WIS all luck A lucky hit.
which bounced, jumped and hurtled
I've feet over Wards head, aud a slow
hlundrF. which let home another run.
gave them four almost undcserYcd
runs.
Tie fankH, meantime. threw away
90 logsl xix runs by sheer bouhiah,
nosl an the lasgg In the fret in
ming they got just two runs of four
h,la. a Steal. and smash which or.
dinaHly woUid have been home
yGn. But tho star exhibition Of bone
and boobigbnes8 was given by Bob
Mcuael in the seventh when. instead
81 running out q hit toward short,
he lo1fed and was out. In spite Of the
fact iha< the ball was thrown Wild.
lie wea ont by an inch, and Ward !
followed with Nome run. which |
would have tied the ball game.
Should Have Won.
Tho Yankees ought 10 have won /
this game by a score Of at least Z /
70 4. even allowing that the Giants |
would have had the luck they did |
have. Had they been trying TO throw
The game they wouldn' have done bet.
Ter. Even the elements were against
Inc American leaguers. They opened
against Hugh NcQulllan as IL to an.
initiate him and slammed the ball
III over the lot in the first inning,
hen suhaldcd suddenly and tried to
hurry play. They were afraid that
he rain which poured, then sprinklcd,
hen poured again. would rob them
# te victory which they already had
lcColylted rs won.
II Is probable that they would have
won but for the rain, and even that
seemed against them, for it appeared
o slacken when the Giants were on
defensive and pour when the Ianks
we're in the field II was pouring
hardest during that inning in which,
lidcl by uncanny luck, McGraw's 1
non scored tho four runs which as,
'ured them the game and probably
he series.
Blame Coaclicrs.
The Yankees may cry luclt--and
uck-but there is no luck when run
lfter run is thrown away by sheer
stupidity. Bob Meusel. because his
vas the most glazing case probably,
viii be selected as the goat, but the {
oachers sent no fewer than four run. {
icrs to death, and In the ninth inning |
When they were assaulting McQuillan ,
md seemed certain of victory, with
ne run practically certain they sent /
70 men to hopeless death on the 8
asses, without rhyme or reason. /
On baseball sense generalship and ,
rains, the Giants deserve this series. e
he Ianks hit hard enough today to
'n dozen ball games-and threw s
way most of the results, Mays. de i
CRYING n shutout victory, reg stored
defeat. McQu.llan hit vc.ously in G
hree innings and escaping in some c
theirs because the Yanks thought !
hey had it won and were trying TO {
cat the rain, joins the heroes. |
II locks as II the dope was all wrong. 4
he element of brains and baseball
ense cannot be doped, Today the
ope as to hitting, fielding. pitching.
as all right. but the battle was the
nest proof that mind triumphs over =
lattpr we have seen In a Iopfr TINA y