The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-09
COURAGE OF GIANTS, Combined WITH SKILL,
BRINGS CHAMPION ship To FIGHTING CLUB

NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Just before the
opening of the worlds series last
Wednesday John Joseph McGraw,
sometimes called Little Napoleon"
said: 1.-THE club with the most consist
ent 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
faint, fighting chance of winning
one game, battled through the fin
ished "super-play" of the Yankees, won
four games, tied one, lost none and
are still worlds champions
From every approach that could be
made on paper before the first game
was played the Giants were considered
beaten, badly beaten club. The fig
ures said the Giants had but one re-
liable pitcher, that the Yanks had
nothing else but unbeatable pitchers,
and that pitching had won every world
series.
But the record books were remiss.
The index did not even carry the cap
ton Fighting Ability" Few men in
baseball, besides Little Napoleon
know how it's doped. But he had
found that quality in his ball players
and he stated his pride that he could
recognize it when he saw it.
Already it seems an old story. It's
been written every time men met in
combat. The score of yesterdays
game, that decided the series for the
Nationals, was to 8, but that's only
an incident Exactly how it was done
is a matter of detail. The Giants won
that game and all the others they cap
tured because they were the most
consistent fighters"
Also Have Skill
OF course the Giants have ability
The Giants are giants Courage with.
out skill in the last five days at the
Polo grounds would have been as use.
full as an unarmed doughboy column
marching against a battery of big
| berthas. No mean foes were the
4 Yankees.
1t was courage and skill that en-.
abled Long George" Kelly to straigh.
/ ten out Joe Bush fork-ball in the
| eighth inning of the game yesterday
when the Giants were one run behind
and the bases were full and two out
He had just been belittled by Miller
Higgins, the Yankee manager. who
had ordered Bush to pass Pep" YOUNG
4 to get a chance at the Easy Mark.
Climax of Series.
The play was the climax of the
/ game of the series, and will remain
q matter of controversy. Some say
that Higgins was justified in havine
Young walked to get at Kelly. Many
including McGraw himself, say it was
smart baseball Long George was the
weakest batter in the winning lineup
4 Young was an almost hitting certainty
/ But Higgins did not figure the hu
man element that McGraw call:
j courage. The Yankee manager haC
expected his pitcher, Bush, to be ;
soldier But Joe is star and tenn
/. permental Before the 10000 fans h.
|, flouted his manager by plainly show
ing his disgust when the order t.
pass Young was given, and shouted
"Awi Let's play baseball"
Kelley Connects.
i At any rate he was off his stride
when Kelley came to bat. He sen
over a wide one. Then he shot on
of his fast ones. Kelly, awkward ant
gaunt, bent over the plate. His lip
were set. He gripped his bat tightly
81 He met the fast one squarely-th
j tying and winning runs scored.
/ As in two of the preceding game
the Yankees gained a lead and the
dissipated it.
/ In the first the Americans score
once on Dugans single to center
J Ruth's sacrifice bunt and Pipp's line
to center that went for hit.
McGraw's men overcame this scor
in the second when Emil Meuse
|, scratched hit to Dugan, Young walk
ed, Kelly sacrificed and Cunningham
) sent both runners in with single t
| center. The Yankees tied the coun
{ in the fifth. Ward walked. Scott sir
gled to right, Bush singled to tn
5 right and scored Ward.
: The Americans took the lead in tn
: seventh, when Meusel bounded hi
t to Groh, went to second on Schang'
} sacrifice, to third on wild pitch b
, Nehf, and home on SCOTS sacrific
r fly to Cunningham.
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