Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-29
Better Brand Ball
Eager Fans Expect

New York, Sept. SS.--Bascbail fans
expect a better brand Of playing in
the Worlds Series than is displayed
throughout the season and as gem
cral rule their antiCipations are real
lied, excepting the freak incidents
that develop a few marvellous plays
and a few incredible misplaEs.
Alright pitching is expected Of
the pitchers They are supposed to
give few bases on balls, to have alb
solute control of the ball. and to
pitch mastorful. "hcady' game
The hitting is supposed in advance
TO be sharp and devastating when a
battery of swatters opens up--but
above all the fielding is expected to
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Last year there was an average oil
only one and three eighths errors a
g me-ive-e Fights for the New York
Nationals. who wt>> and three
fourths OF one error a game for the
Yankees, Who lc,t--VilCh is very
close to perfect baseball, Yet the
series was decided by mispiays on
the defense; the Giants won the last
two games on errors.
The Giants offended in only three
games and tho Yankees in five OF
the eight. three players on each team
accounting for all the errors. Frank
tri.cl. the Giant second baseman
made the ma jority OF the Nationals
m!splays-thrce out Of the five, and
tp.7 Art l0Ilr
Nehf, a pitcher, each made one of
the other two. Frischs errors were
distributed over three days.
Mike McNHlly. Yankee third base
man. made rs many errors as Frlsch.
though as the series was summed up.
both We're bu!warhs FOR their teams.
Like the Giant second sacker his
three missteps We're spread over
three days. Aaron Ward, the Yankee
second haseman made two errors in
two days and Roger PeckinpauGh.
who played shortstop. accounted for
tho other.
The third WAS the only game Of
the series in which neither side was
credited with an error.
Ward made a fatal m!Splay for the
Yankees in the crucial seventh game
after both teams had won three
LameS each. 1t was in the fourth
inning when the score was tied and
the Worlds Championship was still
reposin- in the palm of the gods.
The play was not credited as an Off
cial error hat the chance for an
as-ict and putout WIS so p1!pably
easy that virtually every description
of the game classified the play as
Wards failure.
F'risch. the first man ur. was out
easily at first. Young hit a hard
ball toward right field, 1t appeared
that the play would be an easy one
for Ward but he jucgled the ball,
permitted it to roll about his arm,
and Young was safe. stealing second
= moment later. Kelly famed but
Emil Irish" Meusel came through
with the hit that meant a run.
1t was a similar incident that fin
ally decided the championship in the
next game, which was won and lost
in the first half Of the first inning,
the first Is minutes of play. Burns.
lead off man OF the Giants. was easy
picking. but Bancroft and 1Uung
were walked. the latter against the
protest of Hoyt who claimed the last
ball he pitched was a strickland
many agreed with him.
At any rate Kelly sent an easy
grounder to Roger Pecklnpaugh, the
Yankee shortstop and Captain, who
permitted the ball to wriggle through
his legs and then became so con-
cerned by his own errors that he did
not go after the ball quickly and
the fleet-footed Bancroft scored.
Young nearly scored from first.
Despite those two bases on balls a
number of the critics credited Hoyt
with pitching the best game of the
series, and the best game of his ca
reer. AS a matter of fact the last
two games were pitching duels, the
latter between Hoyt and Nehf and
the previous one between Hays and
Douglas. The scores were two TO
one in the seventh game and one
to nothing in the eighth.