The Washington times., 1922-10-09

our sluggers are not in form.
The Giants made a clean sweep OF
the series. proving they have the
best balanced as well as the strong.
est team.
Yet few things seem not to have
been considered in seeking the real
reason for the Yankees defeat.
The Giants hurlers pitched beau
tiful ball, OF course, and Jack Scott
performed a wonderful feat when he
was in the box. But l truly believe
that had those moundsmen pitched
for us against the Giants, the Ma
tional Leaguers would have gotten
MANY more hits than we did, and
probably scored more runs.
In other words, It Is possible to
have good pitching merely because
the other sides hitting Is weak.
That was our case, for we certain.
ly did not come out Of our hitting
slump in the series, though once or
twice we seemed to get started.
The danger of this slump lies In
the fact that IT is heavy smuggling or
nothing with US. We batter our way
through, or we lose. We play, In
general sense. one style baseball. and
when in form, that style IL devastat-
Ing. :.
In the final game yesterday 1t
looked like a Yankee victory until
the eighth inning. the score being
8 to 2. Then the Giants went on a
batting spree and scored three runs.
There was a break in this Inning
that went against us. 1t was the
passing OF Pep Young. filling the
bases; to take a chance on a right
handed hitter. Bush had pitched out
q ball to Young when he got the
signal from Huggins purposely to
walk Joe. Joe didn't want to do that.
but followed instructions, and Kelly
broke up the game with a terrific
drive to center field.
Huggins probably figured the
percentage was in favor OF having
. right handed hitter face q right.
hand pitcher, and II seemed good
chance to take.
One other break, in which / was
involved on the wrong end, o.
CURED. In the fifth. Ward walked;
I singled to right and Bush
doubled to right center. Ward
scored and I, believing the hall
Bush hit would roll to the fence
ran to third and made the turn
for the plate, stopping few faet
past third base.
Looking around, saw Frisch
with the ball back Of second, 2rn-
pairing to throw to third. I had
plenty of time to get back. but 70
my dismay my spikes slipped on
the muddy ground. and l all but
fell.
Seeing I no longer had chance
to get back safely to third. broke
for home, with Groh after me.
Groh threw to Snyder, who ran
me back toward third, throwing
again to Groh, who returned the
throw to Snyder.
Snyder caught the ball above his
head and hit me with his elbc W.
Before he could get his hands down.
was by him with clear path
to the. plate, crossing It.
was surprised to hear Umptrc
KLEIN call me out. 1t was raw
decision, and I don't know how he
missed It, Snyder showing he had
missed me by drawing back for a
throw to the plate after l passed
him. AS it happened, no one was
guarding the plate.
The Yanks played good ball In the
field, making three lightning double
plays. that helped us a lot. A
particularly fine bit Of work was the
barehanded stop Of grounder by
Pipp that robbed the hitter Of a two
bagger.
On the whole. our team yesterday
played good enough ball to win, were
II not that the failure OF the heavy
hitters to come through kept our
runs down below the usual amount,
losing us both the game and the
world series.