Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-09-29
BETTER
BALL IN SERIES
Generally Better Than During
Season. Marvellous and
Incredible Plays

NEW YORK, Sept. 29-Baseball
fans expect a better brand OF play
ing in the Worlds series than is
displayed throughout the season
and as a general rule their anticipa-
tions are realized, excepting the
freak incidents that develop a few
marvellous plays and a few incred-
ible misplays.
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 a masterful "heady" game.
The hitting is supposed in advance
to be sharp and devastating when
a battery of of swatters opens up
but above all the fielding is expect
ed to be flawless.
Last year there was an average
Of only one and three-eights errors
a game-ive Fights for the New
York Nationals, who won, and three
fourths of n error a game for the
Yankees. who lost-which 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 the Yankees in five of
the eight, three players on each
team accounting for all the errors
Frank Frisch, the Giant second
baseman, made the majority of the
Nationals misplays-three out of
the five, and Earl Smith. a catcher,
and Arthur Nehf, a pitcher, each
made n of the other two. Frisch's
errors were distributed over three
days.
Mike Mentally, Yankee third base
man. made as many errors as
Frisch, though as the series was
summed up. both were bulwarks for
their teams. Like the Giant second
sacker his three missteps were
spread over three days. Aaron
Ward, the Yankee second baseman,
made two errors in two days and
Roger Peckinpaugh, who played
shortstop, accounted for the other.
The third was the only game of
the series in which neither side was
credited with an error.
Ward made a fatal misplay for
the Yankees in the crucial sew
enth game after both teams had
won three games each. 1t was in
the fourth inning when the score
was tied and the Worlds cham
pion ship was still reposlng in the
palm of the gods. The play was
not credited as an official error but
the chance for an assist and putout
was so palpably easy that virtually
every description of the game class
fed the play as Wards failure.
Frisch, the first man up 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 juggled the ball,
permitted it to roll about his arm,
and Young was safe. stealing Sec
but Emil Irish Meusel came
through with the hit that meant a
run
IT was a similar incident that fl
nally decided the championship in
the next game, which was won and
lost in the first half of the first in
ming, the first fifteen minutes of
play. Burns, lead off man of the
Giants, was easy picking, hut Ban
croft and Young were walked, the
latter against the protest of Hoyt
who claimed the last ball he pitch
ed was a strickland many agreed
with him.
At any rate Kelly sent an easy
erounder to Doger Pecllinpaugh.
the Yankee shortstop and captain
who permitted the ball to wriggle
through his legs and then became
so concerned by his own errors that
he did not go after the ball quickly
and the feet-footed Bancroft scor-
ed. 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 career. As a matter of fact the
last two games were pitching duels. |
the latter between Hoyn and Nehf
and the previous n between Mays
and Douglas. The scores were two
to one in the seventh game and one |
to nothing in the eighth.