The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-04
the first game of the worlds series
would be played under q fair sky.
(By the Associated Press)


would be played under a fair sky.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Oct. An the horse
shoe shaped stadium under the lee of
a rocky bluff named after a man
called Coogan, John McGraw's Giants,
National league pennant winners.
were ready today to engage Miller
Huggins's American ieague champion
Yankees in the first game of a series
for world baseball honors.
1t is the second time these Man
haitian teams have battled for the til
tie. McGraw's relentless fightinr ma
chine brushed aside the trim Yankees
after getting away to poor start last
year. The Giants were ravorites then
and came thru, tho the battle lasted
thru eight games.
This year the Yankees because of
great pitching staff composed OF
Bullet Joe" Bush. Sailor Bob"
Shawkey. the -red-undershirted fling
er,-the youthful Waite Hoyt and the
dependable Jones, are rated best by 4
majority of the experts.
Giants Are Fighters.
But the Nationals are as ever the
fighters, at their best when against
odds, and tho their pitchers on paper
do not appear so well as those of
Higgins, they are a dangerous lot
Arthur Nehf, the young left-handed
pitching star of the Giants, was in
announced he had selected Bush to
oppose him. Wallie Schang was to
work behind the bat for the Yankees
and Snyder was McGraw's- backstop
selection.
Klein, the chief of National league
umpires. was assigned to call strikes
and balls. as the National league club
having won the toss will be the home
team" Hildebrand, of the American
league, was assigned to duty at the
initial sack; Mccormick, of the Ma
tionals, had the job at the keystone
Americans. was named to officiate at
third. 70
Hold crowd of 10000.
Club officials expected a capacity
crowd. The Polo grounds is large
enough to accommodate 10000 Spec
tators., The lower tier of the great
horseshoe stands have been reserved
and all seats are sold. The upper tier,
with room for 1000 fans, has been
left open for those buying tickets at
the gate.
The announcement of batting order:
NATIONALS: AMERICANS:
Bancroft, SIS. Wit ST.
Groh, 3b. Dugan, 3b.
Frisch,, 2b. Ruth, H.
Meusel, Il. Pipp, ID.
Young, IF. Meusel, RI.
- Kelly, ID Schang,
Stengel, #. Ward, 2b.
Snyder, C. Scott, SIS.
Nehf, p. Bush, p.
Despite the fact that both principals
are Manhattan teams, the games have
attracted baseball enthusiasts from the
hooks and crannies of the continent.
Bankers to Game. -
Men of finance. here attending the
American Bankers association conven-
ton, decided to postpone their talk on
nickels and dimes and enjoy the sport.
They will mingle with a number of
governors and former governors,
score or more of mayors and lesser
lights of officiafdom and some Of the
countrys leading sportsmen.
Governor Miller of New York, Gov
ernor Edwards, of New Jersey; Gov
ernor Davis, of Ohio and Governor
Allen of Kansas have reserved seats.
]. P. Morgan. Harry Payne Whitney.
Charles Sabine. Harry F. Sinclair. and
Finley ]. Shepard are among the box
holders.
These fellows waited until almost
game time before leaving for the polo
ground, but others not so well pro-
vided with coin of the realm, took up
an early stand in crooked line that
ran from the ticket windows down the
square.
There is always this line at world
series games. 1t is made up of fans
who are willing to take a chance on
getting tickets in the cheaper unre-
served sections. They stood pa
tiently until the ticket window was
opened at 10 o'clock, then when the
pasteboards were placed in their
hands, found places in the upper
stands and lunched on Frankfurters
and peanuts.
Then They Argue.
And while lunching they started the
usual arguments on the game
weighed the ability Of the opposing
players and fought the best known
games of the season over again. They
had learned that Hugh McQuillan, one
of the Giants hurlers, had been hit
in the leg by a ball during practice
yesterday but that the injury was not
regarded as serious and McQuillan
would be available for duty If needed.
Some of them declared that the
Yankee infield, Dugan, Scott, Ward
and Pipp, was the greatest in base
ball and that 1T would stop anything
the Giants put on the ground. Others
asserted that McGraw's infield keepers,
Groh, Bancroft, Frish and Kelly, were
equally as good. They started specu-
lating about home runs. Somebody
opined that Babe Ruth would gather
at least three during the series, and
that his team mates, Bob Meusel and
Whitley Witt and may be first base
man Pipp, would garner a few. too.
But what" anpther said, about
Irish Meusel, long George Kelly. Sny-
der and Stengel of the Giants?"
And so it went until the teams
were ready to parade across the field
and engage in the Usual limbering up
exercises. Then the parade of the Of
ficials, including Mayor Hylan, and
the governors, the former governors,
Commissioner Lands, the white