Evening star., 1922-10-05

should actually mean no more to the
Yankees this year than it meant to
the Giants last year. The so-called
moral effect Of being beaten leaves
only the mental impression Of failure
to win. The manner. however, OF being
beaten often eats into the brain like
acid into metal
Beat Nehf ON Three Hits.
Last year in the world series the
Yankees never batted Nehf as effec-
lively as they did yesterday. Once in
1921 the Yankees defeated Nehf when
they made only three hits. but the
Giants made only two in the same
game. They scored enough runs on
Nehf yesterday to have won any ordi-
harry affair of nine innings. when
seven of those innings are scoreless
for the other side-as was the case.
Then came the reversal OF what
happened in 1921. Instead of passing
Out passively with their jaws 1allen
and hanging loosely. the Giants jump
ed in from behind. and with one or
those batting rallies in which every
thing seems to break for the batting
side they banged out three runs and
won.
give the Yankees any superconn-
dence with which to continue. AS
team they are not attuned to inspira-
ton. except as they attain II by their
own deeds, and they have SHOWN an
occasional tendency in series TO
mutter when they should nave oeeh
singing.
Criticism has been made already OF
Huceius for using Bush in the f1rst
game. That can be thrown into the
Wastebasket, for had Huggins not used
Bush. but instead one of his other
pitchers had been beaten ne Mou.o
have been criticized for failure TO
pifch PuSh
Had Huggins not been SO cocksure
of Bush the chances are that ne
would have opened the series win
Mays, but he, like all the board or
strategy which matches its OPINIONS
around the Yankees. was positive
that Bush could not be outdone by
the Giants. 1t looked very much like
the board of strategy was correct
until the seventh inning. when Bush
was unquestionably touched. but as
he got out of it cleverly Huggins let
him go on. Then came the free hit
ting of four Giants in succession in
the eighth. and Bush went overheard
with three runs charged against him.
The second guessers are insisting
that Huggins should have taken Bush
out of the game after the first hit in
the eighth. What cowardly game
base bali has come to be when all
that you hear in regard to it is. why
didn't he take him out?' It's no
mans game which permits of all this
substitution whenever a player hap
pens to be well met by q rival. and
particularly so a pitcher. The fact
that players can be taken out has
made the national pastime" nothing
but a defensive contest in which the
manager who does take them out is
carpeted If he does and the manager
who doesn't take them out is blow
ed around the block"
Makes Players Uncertain.
1t has made all the players uncer-
tain of themselves and uncertain of
their fellows and that is why. in the
case of a team like the Yanks, the
particular manner in which Bush was
beaten will bore into their craniums
with poisonous effect because it will
leave them with the idea that their
best man got it, and may get it
Physically. Shawkey is all right
enough to go ahead. The Giants have
no fear whatever of him. They have
always held that he is nervous.
oyeranxious pitcher, not able to
control to the best the big curves
which he can pitch, and too high
strung to pitch in the big series.
They got that impression from play
ers in Philadelphia. Perhaps a GER
tain manager helped it along when
he had no idea that Shawkey would