New-York tribune., 1922-09-23

-Four and a half games now separate
the worlds champions from the raging
Buccaneers. Mathematiealiy, the Pirates
still have q chance 20 win the pen
nant, but if they tried TO market that
chance, q fair quotation would be II
Of per cent of an Austrian kronen.
The Giant pennant machine can go
along on square wheels now and limp
home ahead of the field.
The last struggle with the Corsairs
was blood-curdNng and hair raising.
The slaughter OF pitchers was terrific.
The pale corpses of six Giant hurlers
were laid END 10 end on the poop deck
of the S. S. McGraw. Only two
fingers worked for Bill McKechnie,
skipper of the Pirate craft, but they
took a terrible beating. The Giants
won the contest by outnumbering and
surrounding the Buccaneers. The mar
gin was not very wide. They used a
lot more men during the carnage and
got only one more run, but they got
that extra tally in the ninth inning
with the score tied, which is con-
sidered an opportune moment for run
getting in any league in the country.
A sizzling single by Long George
Kelly with one out in the ninth, sent
Irish Meusel over the pan with the
counter that told the tale. Some $4,000
palpitant persons were roofing rabidly
in the hnal stanza, when the Giants
came to bat on the short end of
to score. Johnny Morrison, the
Pittsburgh curve ball singer, had gone
down fighting in the fifth round, and
Babe Adams was directing the final
defense of the Pirate stronghold.
Wild Shot Nicks Frisch
wild shot by the veteran marks
man nicked Frankie Frisch on the
shoulder. Irish Meusel ducked few
more wild ones successfully and was
given pass to first. Then came the
break. Frish made dash for third as
Adams threw a low ball Meusel
broke for second at the same time and
both runners were safe. 1t looked as
though Skipper McKechnie wig
wagged from the bridge of the Pirate
ship that Young be passed to first, but
the signals were lost In the smoke of
battle. Young bounced an inheld hit
over second base, and the Fordhain
Flash had tied the score. Then came
Kelly with his single and the game
was over.
were tied at one run apiece, with Nor
rison working Tor the Pirates and Jess
BarAes dong the honors FOR the Giants
but that was ii long time ago When
the seventeenth or eighteenth hit had
been knocked off the fifth or sixth
finger the first two innings seemed
lost in the gloom of the Dark Ages. In
the fourth stanza Jess, of the Barnes
tribe. was knocked PROSTATE and car
ried off the field. Carmen Hill entered
the fray with his head down and ran
smack into an 1S-inch high explosive
shell. There was no way of carrying
him from the field of carnage He was
just swept up and thrown on the ash
heap. Rosy Ryan finished out the in
ming, and the Pirates hung up five runs
for the Giants to shoot at.
The funny thing was that the Giants
kept shooting aud finally hit the mark
Grimms single and Schmidt's double
of Ryan gave the Pirate their seventh
tally IN the fifth inning, but sharr
blows by Bancroft, Frisch Meusel anc
Kelly scored three for the Giants in
this same innrS and brought the score
TO to .. keil5's double toppled Nor,
rison off the mound, and Babe Adams
took charge Of the main deck. A sin.
gle by Earl Smith, batting for Ryan ir
the sixth, ultimately resulted in
81 tally for the Giants, aided by Ban
y erott's safety to left and a sacrifice fly
y by Frisch.
That brought the score to to 6
Jonnard, Virgil Barnes and Hugh Me
Qulllan pitched the seventh, eighth ant
ninth innings for the Giants and hele
the Corsairs scoreless until the fna
victory Of the Clan McGraw