The New York herald., 1922-09-27
YANKEES PREPARE
TO CLINCH PENNANT
Huggins Joins Team in Bos-
ton for First Of Series
Tomorrow.
by w. O. McGEEHAN.

The Yankee Expeditionary Forces re-
preparatory to making the final drive
70 the mathematical certainty in regard
10 the American League Pennant Of
1922. Col. Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Hus-
ton. vice-president OF the Yanks. win
move TO join the main body to-day.
Col. Jacob Rupert president of the
Yankees, will remain at the Forty
second street base until the Yankees
have cinched the pennant. When he gets
word from Col. Huston that the. mathe-
ma tical certainty has been attained, he
will order all the weeping willow trees
on lis estate cut down Immediately
1t will be recalled that more than
once during the feverish season which
Is waning. Col Rupert was found
broodiny under one of these trees at a
time when ii looked as though the
Yarks were about to be knocked silly
by ST. Louis. These occasions were
quite frequent
Harry III. Frazee, owner of the Red
Sox, which team now stands between
the Yanks and the mathematical GER
tainsy, will accompany Col. Huston to
Boston. Mr. Frazee. who has been exiled
from Boston Common since he sold
Babe Ruth and quite few other fine
specimens of the native ivory, has
visited Boston at rare occasions. and
fear of violence at the hands of the in
furiated populace.
Frazec Not at All Grateful.
In this trip Mr.. Frazee Will be travel
ing under the protection of Col. Huston,
who has offered him the sanctuary of
the famous iron hat IL he should be as
sailed by the people of Boston. Mr.
Frazee was not at all grateful for the
proffer of protection. He told Col. Hus-
ton that he would do all that he could
to keep the Yankees away from the
mathematical. certainty as long as pos
sible. The two magnates probably VIII
occupy separate ears and breathe de-
fiance at each other through the vesti-
bules.
In the meantime Cousin Egbert Bar
row. secretary of the Giants, is lodging
a shower of certified checks pending
the attainment of the mathematical GER
tainty Contracts for the tickets have
been let with the proviso that not one
is to be printed until 1t can be shown by
the actual arithmetic that the Yanks
are in.
Despite iugubrious predictions that the
series would not draw as well this year
as it did last the Indications are at the
Yankee offices that the demand for
tickets will be quite as brisk, II not
brisker than it was last year. John b.
Orr. the Newfoundland fan, who never
misses worlds series, already Is
camped outside the Yankee offices wait
ing the mathematical certainty and
clamoring for a box. Cousin Egbert
Barrow has received one wire order
from Alaska.
Huggins Joins Yankees.
Miller Huggins. the deml-tasse man
ager, Joined the Yanks yesterday and
relieved Charlie O'Leary of command
of the expedition. Huggins. although he
Is really q sick man. postponed an oper-
ton to be able to watch over his tenn
peramental and brittle flock of athletes
until he can deliver them safely at the
Polo Grounds for the series.
All players will be kept as far from
New York as the schedule will permit
until the pennant IL in. Somehow or
other Broadway. Fifth avenue and
other spots in this vicinity are not re-
garded as the best training places for a
worlds series, and this is not to be
taken by the local Chamber OF Com
merce as n knock at the salubrious cli-
mate of Manhattan either. Teams some
times suffer from clation after a mathe-
matical certainty IS achieved and ella
ton is serious complaint to become
epidemic among group of athletes.