The New York herald., 1922-10-09
Braves Swamped Athletics in
1914-Cubs Smothered
Tigers in 1907.
CHAMPIONS EARN TITLE
Underestimated Before Series,
While Yankees Play Far
Below Real Form.
FINAL STANDING OF THE Gu
Won. Lost. Tied.
Giants .........
Yankees .......O
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.

The Giants won from tne IAN
because they deserved to win.
played smarter, better. more agd
sive baseball and are amply entitN
call themselves champions of
world.
Only twice before in the histoi
the series has team failed to WI
least one game The Boston Bt
beat the Philadelphia Athletics
consecutive times in 1914, and in
Detroit failed to win a game fror
Chicago Cubs. In that series,
this, there was one tie.
Probably never in these posts
games has a team played so fl
low its supposed form as the Ya
did in the last five days. An9
likely that never was there
more generally underestimated
the Giants. AS it played in this
McGraw has one of the greatest
of all time.
There have been at least three
infields. Boston had Tenney,l
Long and Collins. Chicago had
Evers. Tinker and Steinfeldt. ri
phia had McInnis, Collins, Bari
Baker. Well. we are here to
that Kelly. Frisch, Bancroft and
class with the best of them.
Never was the fact better d
. strated than by yesterdays game
team makes it's own luck For
it looked as if the breaks of the 4
were to be with the Yankees. They
taken the lead. lost it and then dra
even again. Time was speeding aloi
and 1t looked as if the first team which
got a break would win the ball game.
The Yanks got it. That was a cheaI
run they made in the seventh, with {
scratch hit, wild pitch and lot ot
luck on a sacrifice fly mixed up in II
All the same, with only two innings to &C
that tally loomed mountain high tc
every one except the Giants. They hae
scored off Bush in just one inning before
that but in the eighth they came charg-
ing UP and battled their way to victory
They are a collection of two handed
fighting men.
Many will question the Judgment oi
passing Young to get Kelly with the
tying and winning run on the bases. O
course hind sight is easy. Kelly GER
tainly busted up the ball game. Bu
there were two sides to the question
Young was a left handed batter facing
right handed pitcher. and batter who
had been hitting well over 400 for the
series. Kelly had been hitting around
200. There were two out and by filling
the bags it gave a chance for a force
play at any station.
But here is why we personally would
not have passed Young. Counting the
first and last games Young had faced
Bush seven times without getting a hit
Once he had struck out. once he had
walked. three times he had hit to tbs
infield and twice he had gone out OF
flies. Kelly also had faced Bush sever
times. Twice he had struck out, once
he had sacrificed, once he had hit to the
infield and three times he had singled
No matter what his average may be
Kelly is a big slugger who always Is
dangerous. All things considered, We
should have preferred to take chance
on Young.
With men on second and third and
one out in the second inning, it seemed
to us that the Yankee infield played
pretty far in. Huggins and his men
were one run ahead at the time and II
the infield had been playing back it is
Just barely possible that Cunningham
hit could have been fielded. That, how
ever, is a matter of opinion. The YanlS:
evidently wanted to keep that one rur
lead at all costs, even though il was
early in the game.
The fielding of the Yankees wa,
pretty snappy. They made no less thar
four double plays and Pipp made a stol
on Bancroft which was a beauty. Theii
base running again left something II
be desired. They threw away at leas
one run in the fifth inning when Scot
tried to score. He had about as mucl
chance as small drink at a larg
party.
The Yankees base runners in thi
series really should have been member
OF that famous cavalry outfit known
as the Light Brigade. It seemed tina
II was Theirs not TO reason why
theirs but to do and die" Certainl,
there was no sign Of stopping 10 rea
son and frequently they pulled STUFF
at which "all the world wondered.
Yes. the resemblance was there
Any analysis Of the series will shov
that II was pretty much "A case Of tn,
Yankees failing to hit and the Giant
hitting when hits meant runs. Tn,
Giant pitchers stopped Ruth in hi
tracks, and when the Babe isn't httiny
Il makes a lot OF difference to his team
We felt rather sorry for the big fel
low. He was in there playing his hard
est at all times and did some prett,
work in the field but he just could no
get hold of the ball with his bat n
had plenty of chances. The Giant pitch
ers were cutting the ball across 10
him, but he just couldn't connect
Irish Meusel was the most valuabl.
hitter on either team in the pinches
He batted in six runs while Kelly
Cunningham. Frisch, Young and Ban
croft batted in two each and Groh arr
King one apiece. In the number Of he
Groh was the leader
For the Yankees Pipp sent three run
across, Ruth. Bob Meusel and Ware
two each and Scott and Bush one each
Bob Meusel was the only Yankee VIII,
really hit 10 form.
The Giants made a total Of eighteei
runs and the Yankees eleven. OF thes,
seven were scored In the first inning
two in the second. two In the third. fv,
in the fourth one In the nth. one II
the sixth. four in the seventh and sever
Ia the eighth. The best inning for IN,
Yankees was the first and the best fo
the Giants the eighth
None of the pitchers twirled really
bad baseball. but the game pitched b!
Jack Scott was the highwater mark o.
the series.
Col. Huston summed the series M
pretty well just after yesterdays game
n like TO win" he asserted, "as well a,
any man, but we we're fairly and badly
I beaten, and that's all there il to b.
said"