The Washington herald., 1922-10-07
BABE IS HELPLESS
BEFORESHOOTSOF
GIANT M0UNDSMAN
Three Round, Yawning
Zeroes Is Record of the
Battering Bambino.
BY wEsTBRooK PEGLER.

NEW YORK. Oct. ss.LFor Jack
Scott and the New York Giants II Is
fortunate that dead men aren't
buried unit. they're totally dead ~
oterN II partial defunctitude had
any standing in the coroner's Of
fee, Jack Scott would have his
name on the sections roll of some
quietNorth Carolina buryins ground.
not where II In this day. on the win
ming side of a world series 3-to-0
shutout that puts the Giants two
up on the Yankees.
Jack Scott. the man who got some
sort OF a gum boil inside his right
elbow while pitching for the Boston
Braves a year ago, was David Ha-
ruined into Garry Hermann's box
stalls out in Cincinnati during the
winter trading season, exchange ter
Rube Marqusrd. Larry kopf and a
modest roll of sausage. Sausage
pumper-nickef and such items of the
Cincinnatiac diet made no percepti-
BILE Improvement in Jack Scott's arm
so Hermann wrote to Judge Lands
demanding to know what kind OF
monkey gescheft the Braves had
played on him. selling him a pitcher
with a dead arm, and wouldn't the
judge please send him a burial
certificate before the arm became
obnoxious to the neighbOrs.
Life After Death.
But there was life after dead in
Jack Scott's arm. Last winter down
in North Carolina his kinfolks won
dered what they were supposed to
do with a dead arm pitcher around
the house. Should they. administer
a hrm but effectionste sock with
broad axe over the insteps where
pitchers are reputed to keep their
legendary brains and thus put an
end to this anomalous and embar-
RAISING situation: Or should they
enbalm the arm and let the rest of
him live on toward the dissolution
which fate and the laws OF nature
had planned for Jack Scott?
Jack solved their perplexity by
COMING ia New York, and, after
summer of torture, worry and work,
landing with the New York Giants
Scott is a tall. tanned Democrat with
prominent ears. big nose and a run
ming stride like that Of a drunken
dremedary on roller skates. He was a
desperate choice in a world series
game. but John McGraw had used
UpaArt Sehf and Jess Barnes in the
FIRST two starts and al was des
peratIon in the Giants pitching dc.
psTtment.
Babe's Average Il Nil.
of large Importance among the
days wonders issuing from the dead
arm which had risen Is Babe Rurh's
batting average for the afternoon.
consisting as II does. Of three rouni,
yawninS zeros in three times at bas.
which is not the sort of batting
average that buys shoes for the
Bans bambino. Papa Ruth famed
vehementIy in the first inning aId
twice went out with doeility and
dispatch on short hits dumped In
the nelghborhood Of first base. AL
together. the troubled home run
yirtuoso had a most uncomfortable
afternoon. for he aroused the stands
10 booming BronXonian vivas,
which arc the fattest raspberr'es
srw min tie gardens of American
sport. BY dumping Hcinie Groh into
thu dust in a col'ision n at third.
Ruth had taken his base after a
slight beaninE and was gaIloplnE
TO third on an error by frankie
Frsch. when Groh took the throw.
touched him out and was sent spin
ming fve feet into HuGhie Jen-
ninEs' private and personal grazing
ground.
scott. Great Record.
In Ave Of the innings. Jack Scott
faced only three hitters. In the
second. fourth and sixth he had to
work on four men and only once
In the seventh-when Bob Meusel
beat out an infield hit and when
wally SchanE doubled to right
did the lately risen dead arm have
to work on five batters. In the
seventh-with Meusel on third and
SchanE on second and only ono man
out-SCott called on all the Swed-
ish fortitude which had been rubbe d
into his wing by a Swedish masseur
during the summer.