The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-03
GIANTS HURLING
STAFF MAY STAND
YANkS ON HEADS
Ruth and Company Down
in Hitting Slump; May
Not Recover
Nv nAVIs / WALsII-

NEW YORK. oct 2.--How good
do the Giant pitchers have TO bc
10 stop team that under the whip
scores exactly five times Aud gets
a. matter of 90 hits In the laet five
games? The answer f. iuFt IT.
Ne better than dowurIght bad.
The Yonks with their accus-
toned good taste. have selected the
few days preceding tho worlds
series 10 fall into their worst bat
ting slump Of tho year. In the
fivo games in queetion. they failed
70 score at all against Uhie and
Jack quinn, three times In one In
ming against Ferguson and not at
all during the remainder OF the
game against pennock and once
against Rip Collins In Boston ana
Warmuuth recruit. In Washing
ton yesterday
odds Against Them.
Uhie. Collins and the rest Of
them. barring Yarmouth. are rec
ognizod as flrst-class pitchers, when
right. hut the odds are against all
Of them being good at one aud the
same time. Anaemic hitting must
have had something to do with a..
Almost simultaneously McGraw
pitching from Nehf, Scott and Nc
Qulllan He has worked them a
few innings. here and thorc. and
they have done well. Nothing ex-
Ccptlonal. of course, because three
inninga make bail game no more
than a swallow makes a highball.
And the combination of fair
pitching by tho Giants and poor
hitting by the Yanks has prompted
many speculative gentlemen, who
once chhnced 7 10 6 on the Yanks
To- run TO cover. Bets are being
made NJ Doyles AZ 10 9 and some.
time before Wednesday, even money
very possibly viii bo the price Of
expressing ones opinion, openly ar
rived at.
a very sensible price. II any price
In sensible. As n matter OF fact bet
ting on the worlds series should be
listed with blasting, sword swnl-
lowing, wife beating and the like as
a precarious occupation.
May Slight barnes.
Tho fact that McGraw has been
Juggling Nchf, Scott and McQuil-
Ian In recent bail gamcs is taken
to mean that Jess Barnes, the
young man who curved -ballod the
Yanks into Mysteries in two games
Of the series OF last year, will not
he very prominent in the impend-
Ing games. 1t is likely that Nc
draw has decided TO risk all he
owns on tho three men In question
and to use Barnes for relief pitch
ing. an art which he has uncovered
with no little proficiency In 1921
IL la more than obvious that the
worthy Huggins win counter with
Bush, Shawkcy and Hoyt. lie has
no alternative what with Nays be-
ing consistently ineffective or un-
lucky as you wish. and Jones
yielding five runs to the Senators
In the first three innings, That in
ming, by tho way, Just about ellml-
uated samuel from participation in
the series. II was his hig chance
and he muffed II. Mays will do the
relief pitching. II there is any re-
lieving 10 be done.
The top three are better than any
trio McGraw can muster but they
arc not altogether fool-proor.
Shawkey. although pitching fine
ball, has hocu beaten. his last two
times out Rush also lost his last
start and had To go TO the rescue
OF Hoyt In the final inning Satur-
day.
The pitching has not Topped
however, II is the hitting II the
venerable Jack Quinn. the wild
eyed Collins and kid pitcher can
do II. there is hope yet for the
Giants staff. foolish looking though
1t may he.