Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-08

ated Press).-Raindrops and brain
flops sent the New York Americans
down to another defeat Saturday in
their almost hopeless fight with the
local National leaguers for the baseball
championship of the world
The Giants made four runs, barely
enough to win, because they were
bright boys and fast on the muddy base
paths, pelted with rain during every
minute of the battle. The Yankees got
only three runs because they thought
and moved slowly, or not at all, in the
high moments of their attacks.
Such breaks in luck as had been
blamed upon the sloppy weather fa-
vored the Giants, who took quick ad-
vantage of them in sudden fifth IN
ming spurt, and produced all of their
runs. But the Yankees could have won
the game in spite of the adverse for
tune. had they made use of their legs
and heads with as much vigor as they
put into swinging their heavy bats. Sat
urday night the National league pennant
winners needed only one more victory
to renew the 1921 lease on the
title of worlds baseball champions. The
depressed Yankees find themselves up
against a barrier that few think they
can surmount. They must win four
games in quick succession to escape
another downfall at the hands of the
McGraw men.
Yanks Start With Rush
The Yankees started off with a rush
and a furious pounding of the ball IN
\ their first inning and gave their under
hand pitcher, Carl Mays, two-run
lead. In the fifth the Giants began
hit-and-run attack. Helped along by
freakish bounds of the muddy ball, this
rally sent four runs across the plate.
Aaron Ward, the Yankees second
baseman. got his second home run of
the series in the seventh, but there was
no one on base, as there would have
been had Bob Meusel used better dis
cretion in running to first, moment
before. and the Giants remained in the
lead. Once more in the ninth, the
Yankees were able TO hit Hugh Nc
Quillan hard enough to warrant
score, but they went down without any
further faulty base running.
Fate stuck out a mean, wet and slip
perry finger at Carl Mays in the fifth
inning and marked him for defeat. Had
the day been dry and the infield soil
Trustworthy, the underhand twirler
probably would have shut out the
Giants in that inning, as he did in all
the rest.
But luck turned against him from the
very start of the inning. Snyder, the
first Giant at bat, sent roller to
shortstop. Touching the mud, the
ball took queer bound and Scott could
only knock it down, giving Snyder an
infield hit McQuillan then struck
two-bagger into left field.
Ball Behaves Badly
Bancroft. the next batter, hit a short
bounder toward Ward, who raced IN
SO that it seemed Snyder surely would
be thrown out at the plate. But this
ball, too, hoped in an unusual manner
and went over Wards head, so that
both Snyder and McQuillan reached
home.
The score should have been tied and
there was no one out. Mays began
pitching hard to Groh. On the third
pitch, Groh also hit a light infield
! bounder that looked sure to be putout,
but the ball glanced off the pitchers
glove for another scratch hit. Frlsch
then sacrificed. Bancroft to third and
Groh to second.
Irish Meusel, the next batter, slapped
the ball toward second. An ordinary
bounce would have permitted a try
for putOut at the plate, but the ball
jumped high into the air and by the
time it came down into Wards glove,
it was too late to do anything but snuff
out the batter at first base, Bancroft
already having reached home. Next
came clean single to left field from
the bat of Pep Young, scoring Groh
The rally ended when Young was nipped
off first.
The Giants got only two hits after
that, and never threatened to score
again. Right after the Giants made
their cluster of scores, the Yankees
slapped the ball upon the infield turf,
but as luck would have it, all these
blows bounced in the orthodox way,
and Sthe batters were thrown out.
Yanks Ignore Chances
The Yanks were always making op-
portunities for themselves only to turn
them down in some careless manner
They might have scored three runs in
the first inning instead of two with
little more audacity in going around
the diamond.
They started off as though they had
found their long lost hitting punch
Witt hit a single straight through the
diamond into center field and Dugan
quickly followed with single to left.
Babe Ruth took a mighty swat at the
ball and drove one of the longest flies
that ever dropped into an outfielder's
glove. Cunningham caught it in deep
center field, just step or two from
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the balls descent knocked him against
the boards. He was so far away from
the plate that there seemed to be
plenty of time for Witt to come home
from second But Manager Huggins,
who was coaching at third, stopped him
there. He scored later on Pipp's sin
gle.
Pipp tried to run too far rather than
not far eSough, and was caught at
second. Meusel sent Dugan home with