The Washington times., 1922-10-10

Since the latter may be accom-
plished with considerably less trou-
BILE and money than the former. 1t is
to be assumed that Miller Higgins
will go and the majority of his self
centered morons will stay.
Indeed, Til Huston, part owner of
the club. has been cunning for Hug
gins these several years. 1t is prob
able that Til will score a bullseye
now that Higgins has demonstrated
that he can get only minimum Of
baseball out of those discontented
prima donnas.
The Yankees need a two-fisted, yet
commanding individual. who will
kick them all the way from the
bench into the field and back again.
They would play good baseball for a
man like that.
Huggins Is neither twO-fisted nor
commanding. He has all the dig.
nifty Of a flannel nightshirt. The
Yankees have little respect or ad-
miration for him, and. no doubt,
are laying their defeat upon his
warped little shoulders.
Many critics are doing likewise,
but they are not altogether right.
Out-smarted though he was by Nc
Graw, the Yankee leader Is only
indirectly responsible for the fact
that his club played the worst base
ball OF any world series entry with
in recent years.
The indirect responsibility lies in
the fact that they played that way
under his leadership. But he
couldn't go out and run bases Tor
them; neither could he make them
cover more ground in the field' nor
hit better in the pinches.
He is being reviled today Tor or
dering Bush to pass Young with
two on and two out in the eighth
Sunday. Yet that was sound base
ball. Young Is a better hitter than
Kelly, and the intentional pass
filled the bases and made a force
play possible at every one OF them.
Kelly. however. singled over sec
ond and today HugGins Is a bigger
tramp than ever.
As n matter of fact, he Is pretty
shrewd little baseball man who hap.
pens TO be hooked up with a oaii
club that he cannot handle. There
fore he will go, in spite or the
friendship of Jake Rupert. That
is almost inevitable.
Many, in their animOsity 10
Huggins, go so far as TO say that
he couldn't have won with the
Giants. As one critic put 1t, He
couldn't win with any anybody
That Is unfair and untrue. The
Giants are just the type OF ball
cIub that Huggins would handle
admirably.
No player on the Yankees was re-
| sponsible for the loss of the series.
The Giants won it. They are by
| long odds the better ball club, one
of the best that ever took part in
the fall classic, and the fact that
they got wonderful pitching from
Nehf, Barnes, McQuillan, and Scott,
made the taking n cakewalk. The
Yankees were favored at the outset
only because they were supposed TO
have superior pitching.
or course, the Yanks played stupid
| baseball.
At least. ii appeared so TO the
stands. Yet this may have been
more case Of the hair trigger
smartness of that wonderful Giant
| infield. That il the charitable thlng
to say about the base running Of
Schang and Pipp in the final inning
of Saturdays game.
All of the Giants played bang-up
| baseball. Joe Dugan was the only
Yank to stand up under fire. Bob
| Meusel batted an even 800 and led
the club in hitting but he was dere-
lict both in fielding and base run.
/ ming.
The rest of the club was derelict
| in everything. Scott Icing the
greatest disappointment of the lot.
He could range neither TO his left
nor right and couldn't go back for
balls hit over his head. Yet the
club made only one error against
! six for the Giants. the answer be.
| ing that the Yankees played safety
first baseball and the Giants tried
for everything.
In ali other departments the
Giants were far in front. They
got fifty hits to the Ysnks thirty
two. They batted .309 to the ianks
215 and they handled 207 chances
to the Yanks 1S9.
Figures, however, take no heed