New-York tribune., 1922-10-09

Boston Red Sox cane iioiai psiiitiu
burgh Pirates.
The Giants never were behind the
Yankees In the present series, never in
games, but they never were without
fight on their hands and several times
usre beh;nd III runs. Their strength
,,nnxnsllv we'll distributed; their
49,, sIsv. spirit Of the corps and
saadwart combination seldom
aeaaiIsd' and their pitchers one and
III heIned out Unexpectedly we'll and
r.f,,tsd charges that they were second
s,.ss il brilliant success for McGraw
and his players, and they deserved it
aii.
I'VE played like second division
club,y one of the Yankee players OBJ
served after the game. "They played
rings around US" True, nevertheless.
the Yankees, outdone tactically. in
strategy, in batting. in ability to rally.
in the know-how of the right thing at
the right time. in coming through and
In able management, played hard and
we're hard to beat. 1t was NO easv Vic
tory if It was four straight.
The Giants are the best team in
baseball. Their faculty of being thera
in every crisis of fielding, batting and
pitching against faulty, but stiff, onno-
sition, proved their sunremaey
Whether or not their league be
stronger than the other, thew. as an
individual team, head the major LEAGUE
heap.
They played the best worlds series
baseball, with the ablest guidance. I'VE
ever seen. and it was no slouch Of on
position they met, even if the Yankee
playing did suffer grievoasly from
blunders. The losers hung on in spite
81 numerous adverse breaks and made
the Giants go. 1t is easy to abuse
loser, but any other team against it
IS the Yankees were, might easily
have become demoralized, which the
Yankees did not. s-e
Yankees Worked Hard
Inc Yankees worked as hard for vic
tory Yesterday as if they had had
COOS chance to win the series. A team
aemoralized does not do that The
1lants won because they had that same
se1e,hfe ileldlng at critical times
taeyye mad right along; because thew
eSuiant be prevented from 1ushine
uelr daiiy rally for runs in a cluster:
because Nehf pitched better than Bush.
theirs Of breaking down onnosition
lney can hit hard and hustle and ali
tlat, that but part Of the explanation Of
.nis saiiying custom of theirs takes
Us INTO the realm of the psychic-such
Us commence and having the edge.
lessefdey's game had clearly de-
nnea .N, turning point, and it was in the
egaia inning. Joe Bush, pitching well
eaoagh % make him look line a win
., IT,, .aced Groh, very devil with the
s s.apsnek all through the series. Ban
slolt mad been retired on superb
stop by Pipp, the best of tho Yankee
players in the series.
Groh singled through to center.
fnsch, the second base star of tha
sountry, pounded two-bagger to CEN
yer. Meusel grounded to Scott and
sroh was caught between third and
nome. Pep Young came up and Bush
pitched one bali to him, being careful
70 give him one he couldn't hit. Per-
emptory orders came from Higgins To
Bush to pass Young.
Bush acted as If he didn't want to.
but obeyed orders. He didn't put an.
other one near Pops pestIe. He filIad
the bases and took chance on Kelly,
mats what Higgins wantd him to do.
Inc Glants were one run behind. but
the second ball pitched was a fast one
right over. and Kelly singled hard to
center, and the Giants were one run
Snead. Two runs came in. and Lee
Kings scratch hit added another run.
mere was good reason for Huggins's
move IN walking Young. The latter had
Deen hitting we'll and dangerously all
shrough the series, and Kelly had not.
Kelly, too, is right handed batter and
Young Is not. Putting Kelly on per-
mitted force play at any Of three
1ases and, in any event, single by
Aehy could do no more damage than
one by Young. ~
Question Of Beans and Bones
II Higgins could have fe]t Il in his
bones that Kelly was due and would
come through, flne and dandy: but man
ayers IN the long run find it is better
70 pc guided by their beans and not
snelr oones. Then again Hug might
nave diagnosed any such osseous hunch
" nF sensation as rheumatism and passed
u up, anyway. He GUESSED" wrong
ana herewith his hopes Of winning the
ssslies' or even one game, went sky
Bush was pulled out Of some tight
PAGES. His foot hadn't healed from
y stone bruise and his control wasn't
VINE best. He passed batter with a
sah on and nobody out; he passed
pHcher and the latter the first man up,
sad such doings aren't good pitching,
@ough they cost him nothing. The
iankees shook up Nehf in the first in
we, then he settled right down to
S'od work and the job of suppressing
tthem, including Ruth all the time, and
nc carnc through summum cum laude
Notwithstanding few speckled spells
"a the shape Of wildness.
The Yankees were spry on double
piays-stouchea off three, the first in
the first inning. They opened with
run. Dugan singled, Ruth bunted-
not so much to sacrifice as to catch
.ne infeld off its guard--and Pipp
nsnanked single to center and scored
yugan. Then history repeated. The
ssaakees couldn't keep on hitting. In
TACT, neither team did that in the
ssries. The pitching was too good and
swa.uesy ~ by every man that appeared on
4 ne Yankees didn't blare again until
sIe me, nth inning. and then Ward walked
s.Ii Mitn one out. Scott hit behind him to
sagns, hit cleverly placed, but Young
"as on 1T SO quickly Ward was held at |
sss0nd. Bush hit line fly to right |
ana o ioung cub across like streak and |
Sot It on the bound. Ward tailed, but |
su sgss turned third despite Huggins's |
hsu NJ meant effort to hold him at the |
], s9ung's instant relay to Frisch and |
s.s s.s iasfer's lightning flip to Groh pre- |
bsrs b.sa scott from getting back. He'd I