Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-09

New York, Oct. S.-(By The Asso-
cated Press THE New York Giants
once more are champions of the world.
They reached that pinnacle of success
for the second consecutive year IN
furious uphill rush Sunday afternoon
that flung the Yanks to defeat, to 3,
and crushed disgusted pitcher, "Bui-
let joe Bush.
1t was the second successive time
that the Yankees have bucked the
Giants in a worlds series and failed.
This year they went down inglOriously,
without the solace of having captured
even one of the five games that com
prised the battle for the title. The
best the Yanks could do was to tie the
second game of the series. The Giants
won the other four.
In all the annals of the game, only
two clubs ever triumphed in a world
series in such a decisive fashion. In
1907 the Chicago Nationals won four
straight victories over the Detroit
Americans after fighting a thinning
first game tie at 3-3 in runs. Seven
years later the Boston Braves sur
prised the fans of the entire nation by
wrecking Connie Mack's superb Ath-
letics four games in a row.
"A House Divided
The final downfall of the Yanks was
that of a house momentarily divided.
Miller Higgins, the head of the house
hold which was then enjoying to
: lead over the Giants, differed with his
pitcher, Joe Bush, in his strategic
program for blocking the onslaught of
the champions in the eighth inning.
Bush became angry, and before he
could calm himself Long George Kelly
smacked one of his curves so hard and
so far that one Giant raced across the
plate with the run that tied the score
and another Giant trotted in with the
tally that beat them.
The Yanks enjoyed the prospect OF
a victory for only 10 minutes. When
they came to bat in the seventh the
score was deadlocked at two all. They
made Il run on Meusels scratch hit,
Schang's sacrifice bunt, wild pitch by
Art Nehf, the Giants southpaw, and
short sacrifice fly to center field from
the bat of Everett Scott. The throw
home of this fly almost caught Meu-
sci as he slid for home. 1t seemed
the Yanks barely had squeezed out
victory
And then, in the eighth, the coura-
geous Giants flung out their challenge.
Pipp, the Yanks' first baseman, halted
them for moment by stopping Ban
crofts hard blow back of first base
to beat the runner. But the fighting
Giants would not be denied victory.
Groh cut the diamond squarely in half
with a single that ripped along the
turf into center field. Frisch hit a
liner that bounded to Mcmillan in CEN
ter field. who juggled it, and the bat
ter was credited with a twO-bagger,
while Groh went on to third. Irish
Meusel shot roller to short, Scott
r. LolI crxy1f h0
Groh could not safely reach the plate.
He started to return to third but was
run down by Schang.
Yanks in Bad Hole
When the ball was thrown back to
the box, Bush found himself in trouble.
Frisch. the fastest runner on either
, team. stood perched on third base and
Irish Meusel 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, SIS that a
force out would be facilitated. He
Kelly. who has been weak in his re-
cent batting, would continue to be |
weak So he ordered Bush to walk |
Young. Later both Giant and Yank |
players said it was splendid exam
pie of real inside baseball strategy |
The sudden command plainly dis
pleased Bush. He wanted to work |
things out his own way. He warmed
up his Tongue with couple of hot
words and then shouted at Higgins:
Lets play baseball" higgins was
insistent, 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 plat Bush's
first pitch to him was a ball. The
next was speedy curve. 1t cracked
off Kelly's bat and into center field
at q fast clip, scoring Frisch and
Bush perhaps won moral victory
but everything else was lost
Pitcher Much Peeved
Still apparently bereft of his tenn
per. Bush lobbed lazy throw up to
the ball fell foul near the left field
bleachers. He swung easier the next
time and dropped a. Texas Lacquer
back of short, scoring Young.
For time, Sunday afternoon, it
seemed the Yankees had awakened
from the spell of dumbness in which
they tossed away every opportunity
to win that came to them Saturday.
But they never appeared to be much
Giants. who, like the addicts of auto
suggestion, seemed day by day, in
every way. to grow better and bet
ter. But with Bush pitching as well