Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-06


Nor were the innings that brough
scores, the only ones of high endeav'
or. Several times the crowd had thu
| fine thrill of watching an infeldel
! hurl himself at a hard hit ball, to b.
| knocked to the ground by the force
! of it. and then jump up and throw
| out the batsman at first base. Thl!
experience came three times to Frank
lie Frisch, the fast second basemar
| for the Giants. Another time n
went far back of second base ant
pulled down drive from Everett
SCOTS bat with his bare hand. l
| bowled him over, but he came VI
with his grip still tight on the ball
Once Heine Groh, the Giants
third baseman. leaped after bal
and caught 1t while sliding in TIT
| dirt 1t was in the first inning, from
! the bat Of Whitley Witt. Groh hop
, ped up from the dust and threw
/ Witt out at first. This may have
saved the Giants from defeat, for ;
| moment later, through an error b.
Bancroft and a single off Pipps bat
| the Yankees scored a run.
| The game was pitchers battl'
! between Jesse Barnes, the tall Clan
| right handler, who twice defeated thu
i Yankees during the 1921 world ser
les. and Shawkey, one of the stellar
Yankee veterans. Shawkey, aftei
the second inning, improved steadily
and the Giants made but three hits
off his service in the last eight inn
ings.
Barnes, spotted to three run lead
before he even walked into the box,
was often in trouble. But with per
feet support at all times, he would
have won as the Yankees earned but
two of their runs while the Giants
clcanly hammered all three of their
counters across the plate. Both Groh
and Frisch had got on base win
singles before Meusol's homer sent
them across the plate.
1t would have been a heart break
ing game for either Shawkey or
Barnes to lose. Each was found 1of
eight hits, although four Off Barnes
went for extra bases each issued Two
passes, and the detailed pitching an
alysis reveals that Shawkey pitched
146 balls while Barnes threw only
one more to the plate.
But Shawkey, hit hard in the hrst
inning when the Giants scored all
their runs on Meusefs homer, and
wobbly for the next two frames,
steadicd and was practically invincl-
BILE for the remaining seven innings.
\ double play. Scott to Ward TO
Pipp. killed off a Giant rally IN the
second. after Stongel who retired
because of a Charley horse, was LETT
or, third when Bancroft flied out
Shawkey passed Groh and Young
in the third. but whitfield Kelly for
the final out. Thereafter for seven
innings. only four Giants reached
first base, three on hits and but one
of them got as Tar as third base.
Frisch beat out hunt in the fifth,
stole second with the aid Of wild
pitch and got to the far corner on
another wild toss. but Scott grabbed
Irish Meusels smash and threw him
out to end the inning. Only three
! battcrs faced Shawkey in each of the
last four innings and the Giants last
faint chance to win went slimmer-
ing in the tenth, when Bancroft was
thrown out at second trying to
stretch his hit to center.
+ Barnes, on the other hand, pulled
himself out Of several tight places
by his skillful change of pace. Mix
/ ing his tantalzng slow ball with
curve that cut the corners sharply,
he chokcd off several budding rallies,
whiting Ward in the sixth and Dug
! an in the ninth with a man on sec
ond each time
Jess was hit harder thaR Shawkey
toward the close Of the game. But
except for the fourth, when Ward
belted his homer and a brace Of doub-
les by Ruth and Bob Meusel in the
eighth that tied the score, he held
his rivals in check
Barnes pulled himself together in
the sixth after apparently losing con-
troll. He issued three straight balls
to Pipp before forcing Wally to fly
out, walked Meuscl and famed Ward
on called strike aftor the count had
reached two and three.
~ I1AhttS lIlICdlCUtu III tllC Iliilii,
hut again Barnes rose to the emer-
gencE. Scott singled after Ward fan
ned, but was forced by Shawkey. Witt
th'n singled to left and Yankee hopes
were high until Dugan famed with the
count two and three.
The Giants made a strong threat in
the 10th when Bancroft drove to cen
tor fIO1I No. tbo hal the
hrst bounce and with fine throw /
caught Bancroft as he tried to make |
TWO bases on the hit. Then the Yanks !
went out one. two, three, and the UNI !
pres called off the fight
1t was just the day for pitchers |
battle, hot and sultry as midsummer. !
Almost every rooter in the bloachers !
PEELED off his coat and so did the fans
N the upper grandstand. But those !
n the more select seats down below !
sept their coats on.
The crowd was bigger than on any |
lay during the 1921 series. and the !
money paid to sit in on today's session |
-$lo6.55i was the highest sum ever !
deposited into basebalrs Golfers for /
no game. 1t was the third crowd |
hat has seen tied worlds series I
,ame The first was in 1907 when the |
thicago Nationals and Detroit Ameri-
ans quit fighting after - innings had |
PRODUCED a three to three deadlock in
he first game Of the series. In 1912 |
he Giants and the Boston Americans |
played their second clash to a six to |
tx tin in II innings
Both Shawkey and Barnes took their |
ime this afternoon and the game
ragged along for holrs and Al min