Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-09
COURAGE WON WORLD
SERIES FOR GIANTS,
REVERSED ALL DOPE
Baseball sharps Didn't Think
Nationals Had Ghost Of a
Show for Title.
AMERICANS PICKED TO WIN
AMERICANS PICKED TO WIN
BY Associated Press to Every Evening.

BY Associated Press TO Every Evening.
New York, Oct. a.--Iust before the
opening Of the worlds series last
Wednesday Johnson, some times call
ed Little Napoleon" said the club
with the most consistent fighters wins
the most ball games.
His statement has been indicated.
confirmed and sealed. His Giants.
rated even by the most conservative
OF experts. to have nothing more than
a faint, fighting chance Of winning
one game. battled through the finish
ed "super-plny' Of the Yankees. won
four games. tied one. lost none and
are still world champions.
From every approach that could he
made on paper, before the first game
was played. the Giants were consid-
ered a beaten badly beaten club. The
figures said the Giants had hut one
rhliahlc pitcher. that the Yanl>s had
/rothing else hut unbeat table hurers --
apd that pitching had won every world
series.
But the record hooks were remlss
= The index didn't even carry the cap
ton fighting ability"
Already II seems an old story. It's
been written every time men come in
combat. The score OF yesterdays
game that decided the series for the
Nationals was to 8. but that's only
one incident. Exactly how It was
done is matter OF detail. The Giants
won the game and all the others
they captured because they were the
most consistent fighters"
or course the Giants have ability
The Giants are giants. Courage
without skill in the last five days at
the Polo Grounds would have been as
useful as an unarmed doughboy col
umn marching against a battery Il
big Berthas. No mean foes were the
Yankees.
II was courage and skill TINT en-
nbled Long George Kelly to stra ghten
out a Joe Bush fork ball in the eighth
inning Of the game yesterday. when
the Giants were one run behind and
the bases were fun with two out. He
had just been belttled by Miller
Higgins, the Yankee manager, who
had ordered Bush to pass Young to
get a chance at the easy mark
That play was the climax of the
game and the series. and will remain
a matter of controversy. Some say
that Higgins was justified in having
Young walked To get al Kelly, many.
including McGraw himself, say II was
smart baseball. Long George was the
. weakest batter in the winning lineup
Young was an almost hitting GER
tainty.
But Higgins didn't figure the hu-
, man element that McGraw calls
courage. The Yankee manager had
expected his pitcher. Bush. Ia he a
soldier. But Joe is star and tenn
. peramental. Before the 10000 fans
he flouted his manager by plainly
, showing his disgust when the order
: - pass Young was given and shouted
''aw! let's play baseball"
At any rate, he was off his stride
when Kelly came to bat, He sent out
. wide one. Then he shot one OF his
fast ones. Kelly. awkward and gaunt
bent over the plate. His lips were set
He gripped his bat tightly. He ME,
the fast one squarely-the tying and
winning runs scored
AZ in the two first games the
. Yankees gained lead and then dis
sipated 1t.
The first three Americans scored
= once on Dugan's single to centre
Ruth's sacrifice bunt and Pipp's liner
To centre that went for a hit.
McGraw's men overcame this score
in The second when Emil Meuse
3. scratched hit to Dugan. Young
walked. Kelly sacrificed and Cunning
H.. ham sent both runners in with q
g single 10 centre. The Yankees TIED
: the count in the fifth. Ward walked
. Scott singled 10 right. Bush singled
To right and scored Ward.
q The Americans took the lead in III,
+. seventh when Meusel bounced hit L
Groh, went TO second on Schang':
Z. sacrifice, 10 third on. a wild pitch by
Nehf and home on Scott's sacrific,
;. fly to Cunningham.