The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-09
GIANTS KEEP FLAG
McGraw Men Triumphed Over
>Yanks in Easy Fashion.
Made 1t Four Straight by Cop
Fing Sunday, 5 to 8.

New York. Oct e.-Just before the
opening of the worlds series last We'd
nesday John Joseph McGraw said the
RlVb with the most consistent fighters
tsfns the most ball games. His state
ment was indicated.
His Giants, rated, even by the most
conservative of experts to have moth
ing more than a faint, fighting chance
Of winning one game. battled thru the
1lnlshed "super-play" of the Yankees,
won four games, tied one. lost none.
and are still world champions.
From every approach that could be
made on paper before the first game
was played, the Giants were consid-
cred beaten, badly beaten club. The
figures said the Giants had but one
reliable pitcher; that the Yanks had
nothing else but unbeatable hurlers-
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 McGraw know how
it's doped But he had found that
quality in his ball players, and he
staked his pride that he could recog-
nize it when he saw it.
Already it seems an old story. It's
been written every time men meet in
combat. The score of yesterday S
game that decided the series for the
Nationals was to 3. but that's only
is a matter detah. The Giants won
T. game and all the others they
~ tured because they were the most
y sistent fighters
of course the Giants have ability.
Courage without skill in the last five
days at the Polo Grounds would have
been as useful as an unframed dough-
boy marching against battery of big
Berthas. No mean foes We're the
Yankees. It was courage and skill
that enabled long George Kelly to
straighten out Joe Bush fork-ball in
the eighth inning of the game yester-
day when the Giants-were one run be-
hind and the bases were full with two
out. He had just been belittled by
Miller Higgins, the Yankee manager,
who had ordered Bush to pass pep"
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
Higgins was justified in having Young
walked to get at Kelly. Many, includ-
ing McGraw himself, say it was smart
baseball. Long George was the weak
est batter in the winning lineup.
Young was an almost hitting certainty.
But Higgins did not figure the
. human element McGraw calls courage.
The Yankee manager had expected his
pitcher, Bush. to be a soldier. But
fore the 10000 fans he flouted his
manager by plainly showing his dis
gust when the order to- pass Young
was given, and shouted, Jaw, let's play
baseball"
Then Kelly Hit.
At any rate he was off his stride
when Kelly came to bat. He sent over
a wide one. Then shot one of his
fast ones. Kelly, awkward and gaunt,
bent over the plate. His lips were set.
He gripped his bat tightly. He met
the fast one squarely-the tying and
I winning runs scored.
AS in two of the preceding games,
the Yankees gained a lead and then
d! spated it.
In the first the Americans scored
once on Dugans single to center,
Rutn's sacrifice bunt and Pipp's liner
to center that went for a hit.
McGraw's men overcame this score
in the second when EMIL Meusel
scratched a hit to Dugan, Young
walked. Kelly sacrificed and Cunning
ham sent both runners in with a sin
gle to center. The Yankees tied the
count in the fifth. Ward walked,
Scott singled to right. Bush singled
to right and scored Ward. The Amer
leans took the lead m the seventh,
when MeuseI bounded hit to Groh.
went second on Schang's sacrifice.
to third on a wild pitch by Nehf and
home on Scott's sacrifice fly to Cum
ningham.
Then the Giants staged their eighth
inning rally and by scoring three runs
not only Won the game but made it
four straight, save one tie game, and
retained the championship honors
which t won from the Yankees a
year ago. The score of the final
game: