The New York herald., 1922-09-23
kelly's Hit Settles 1t With
Babe Adams i'm Box
Score, 8 to z.
BY DANIEL.

AS the shadows were cnveloping the
Polo Grounds last evening and be-
sceching roar from 1900 throats echoed
against Coogans Bluff. Long George
Kelly broke the back of the Pittsburgh
offensive. With the winning run on
third base and one out In the ninth
inning Kelly crashed one of Babe
Adams's shoots TO right field and drove
in Irish Meusel with the tally which
gave to the Giants that all important
triumph over the Pirates in their final
meeting of the season. The score was
TO Z.
That Berserker rally in which the
New Yorhs tied and won in the ninth
was the climax of the most stirring
uphill battle waged by John McGraw's s
men this season. Victory meant lead
of four and half games and the PEN
rant practically assured. Defeat would
Lave meant fighting. snarling crew
OF Corsairs only two and half games
behind-a virile menace still.
The venerable Adams. facing tho
Giants for perhaps the last time in his
long, honorable and brilliant career I'm
the National League. had checked the
New Yorks in the fifth inning after
they had knocked out Johnny Morrison
and scored three runs. The champions
had got to Adams for a tally I'm the
sixth-had crept UP to within one run
of the Buccaneers. In the seventh and
eighth he kept the straining. anxious
Giants at bay.
Adams Fails at Finish.
But in the ninth the old right arm Of
the veteran failed him. Heinie Groh
opened tho home half dismally with an
easy fly to Scoops Carey. Frankie
Frlsch, with his eye on the right field
stand, had TO be dealt with cautiously.
Adams felt out his man with a couple
of bad ones. but Frisch would not bite.
Then when he most wanted that great
est OF all his assets-supreme control
Adams found that IL had failed. lie
nicked Frisch with pitched ball.
Up came Meusel, a greater menace
still. Again did Adams pit his headwork
against the eye of the hard hitting Irish
but again Adams found that the
Giants were not 20 be fooled. A third
hall slipped from him and then, not dar-
ing 90 groove the leather for Meusel,
Adams tried "A low curve. Meusel, stolid,
cool, watched Il slido 10 Schmidt and
walked. Here we're two men on the
paths, only ono out--and tho rally In
full cry.
Now Ross Young toted his bat to the
plate. As Adams worked on tho left
handed hitter McGraw made a daring
move. The signal went out 10 Frisch
and Mcusel 20 try a double steal and
the Pirates. amazed, wero caught fiat
footed. While Schmidt stood with fho
ball AZ his feet. his mouth wide open
and his eyes staring wildly. tho daring
theft was contaminated. The tying run
was on third. tho winning tally was on
second.
That double eteal---the swiftness and
sheer daring of it--Eent the Pittsburgh
structure topplirg. Adams, veteran OF
r1any hard battle though no was. fall
tered. Tho Pirates went stamping about
shaking their heads and swapping their
fingers in that old recognition of hard
luck. Adams simply could not hold his
opposition. Young sent mean twister
bounding away from Cotton Ticrney,
while Fr1sch dartcd In with the tying
tally.
Kelly, smiling as ever, brought him
self to the plate and the stadium be-
came a bedlam. Most OF those in tho
stands seemed 10 forget that all that was
needed was a single. "fIit II into the
bleachers. Gcorge!" they howled. Tho
Pittsburgh infieiders gathered around
Adams, heads close together llkc foot
ball players In the shadow OF their own
goal posts. They scattered back to their
positions--and up came wide curve 20
Kelly George smiled, his bat resting on
his shoulder.
Then bid for strickland Kelly
struck for victory. As the ball took q
rise George crashed II TO right. Mcusei