The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-10-04
Start World Series With
Pitching Advantage
Over Giants
BULLET JOE" BUSH
ACE OF THE LOT
Baseball Enthusiasts Have.
Been Flocking To
New York

New York, Oct. 4 tBy the Associ-
ated Press In the horseshoe shaped
stadium, under the lee of rocky bluff
named after man called Coogan,
John McGraw's Giants, National
league pennant winners, were ready
to-day to engage Miller Higgins
American league champion Yankees in
the first game Of series for world
baseball honors.
The Yankees, because Of great
pitching staff. composed of BULLET
Joe" Bush, "Sailor Bob" Shawkey, the
red undermined finger; the youthful
Waite Hoyt and the dependable Jones,
are rated best by majority Of the
experts.
But the Nationals, as ever the fight
ers, at their best when against odds,
and though their pitchers on paper do
not appear so well as those Of Hug
gins, they are dangerous lot. Arthur
Nehf, the young left-handed pitching
star of the Giants, was in shape for
mound duty, while Miller Higgins an
nounced he had selected Bush to OPP
pose him. Wallie Schang was to work
behind the bat for the Yankees and
Snyder was McGraw's backstop Sc
lection
Klein, the chief Of National league
umpires, was assigned to call strikes
and balls, as the National league club,
having won the toss, will be the home
team. HiIdebrand of the American
league was assigned to duty at the
initial sack; Mccormick of the Ma
tionaIs had the job at the keystone
station and Brick" Owens of the
Americans was named to officiate at
third
Club officials expected capacity
crowd. The Polo grounds is large
enough to accommodate forty thou
sand spectators. The lower tier of
the great horseshoe stands have been
reserved and all seats are sold. The
upper tier, with room for $4,000 of
the fans, had been left open for those
buying tickets at the gate to-day.
Despite the fact that the series
principals are both Manhattan teams,
the games have attracted baseball en-
thusiasts from the hooks and crannies
Of the continent.
Men Of finance, here attending the
American Bankers association con-
vention. decided to postpone their talk
on nickels and dimes and enjoy the
sport. They will mingle with num-
Der of governors and former Cover
nors, score or more of mayors and |
lesser lights of officialdom and some
Of the country's leading sportsmen.
These fellows waited until almost |
game time before leaving for the Polo |
grounds, but others. not so well pro-
vided with coin Of the realm, took up |
an early stand in crooked line that
ran from the ticket windows down
the square. There is always this line
at world series games. IL Is made up
of fans who are willing to take
chance on getting tickets in the cheap
err unreserved sections. They stood
patiently until the ticket windows
opened at 10 o'clock, then as the paste
boards were placed in their hands,
found places in the upper stands and
lunched on frankfurters and peanuts,
of which there seems to be an ever
increasing supply.
And while luuching they started
the usual arguments on the game,
weighed the ability of the opposing
players and fought the best known
games of the season over again. They
had learned that Hugh McQuillan, one
Of the Giant hurlers had been hit in
the leg by ball during practice yes
terday afternoon, but that injury was
not regarded as serious and McQuil-
Ian would be available for duty if
needed.
Some of them declared that the
Yankee infeld, Dugan, Scott, Ward
and Pipp, was the greatest in base
ball, and that il would stop anything
the Giants put on the ground. 9th
ers asserted that McGsaw's infeld
keepers. Groh, Bancroft, Frisch and
Kelly, were equally az good.
They started specializing about the
nome runs. Somebody opined that
Babe Ruth would gather at least three
turing the series, and maybe first
Dssemsn Pipp would garner a few. too.
But what, another said, about Irish
Meusel, Long George Kelly, Snyder
md Stengel, Of the Giants. They are !
lble to send a ball far enough to run
lround the bases. :
And so il went, until the teams
we're ready to parade across the field !
md engage in the usual limbering up
xercises. Then the parade of the Off
ials. including Mayor Hyland. and the
governors, the former governors, Com
missioner Lands, the white-headed J.
'oss of the national psstime, and band T
nd the announcement OF the batting \
rider: y
Nationals Americans :
Bancroft. Is. Witt, Ct.
Groh. 81. Durgan, 3b. r
Frisch, %. Ruth, If.
Meusel. H. Pipp, ID.