The New York herald., 1922-10-09

hemisphere snapped back to normalcy,
as Warren used to say. At that pune
tuation OF time precisely the Giants OF
the National League ran Off the soggy
field OF the Polo Grounds trailing after
them the world series honors OF 1922
and Immediately feverish brains cooled
and steadied to normal temperature and
normal thoughts
Thousands OF persons-more thou
sands than you might suspect--were
suddenly able to recall that q man
named Miller is running for Governor
against man named Smith, that the
Turks are In again In spite Of the police.
that the Kaiser Is an optimist after ALI
and that the United Shipping Board, to
its immense surprise, has gone dry.
Thousands and thousands OF Just ordi-
nary folk began to remember that life
Is real. life Is earnest and so forth, and
that bills can't be paid with baseball
chatter.
The mental transition was swift and
complete, and you could see 1t translsh
as the $4,000 spectators OF the final
game flowed In a great tide out upon
the field OF conflict and washed through
the spillways. AS the towering fly that
Ward hit thudded into the glove of
Young I'm distant right field life assumed
its correct and natural proportions.
Lads recently better advertised than
Lloyd George were seen to be just young
men playing baseball for a living. Mr..
McGraw ceased to be the intellectual
wonder OF the age and returned to his
small niche In the scheme of things.
All snatehed away was the singular
veil which real interest in sport, plus
interest In spectacles. plus clever adver-
tising, had drawn between the real and
the makebelieve.
Fans Glad It's All Over.
Probably most people were glad that
the annual series was over and done
with, and that contest over which the
trail of the dollar runs so broadly was
eliminated without obvious scandal
Probably most people sighed in relief at
the thought that they would not have to
keep their nerves strung another twen-
ty-four hours, and undoubtedly great
many more were relieved at the thought
that they wouldn't have to watch the
Yankees play again for many a day.
1t had grown increasingly difficult to
watch them without using language that
is not considered gentlemanly-or lady
like.
When 1t comes to making the judici-
Gus grieve the Yankees are in class by
themselves. They stand all alone. No
other human beings at present inhabit-
ing the earth can be-were--so in
credibly disappointing. Watching them
play the final and for them disastrous
game was very like being hit in the pit
of the stomach. In the smooth tech
nique of the game the experts of this
ht,n al
and Brookman, will explain just why
this was, This writer hastily passes to
pleasanter things after modestly offer
ing the suggestion that the Yankees lost
Yesterdays game and the game of the
day before and the whole series because
they clung to belief that was dis
carded at least 10000 years ago. that
heads are only good to put caps on.
Apparently the greatest crowd of the
whole series visited the Polo Grounds
on a threatening Sunday In hope that
the American League champions would
stage an interesting version of "Ishmael.
or Up From the Depths" Not even
the Giants partisans actually believed
that there was no resliency whatever
in the battered team of Higgins. They
thought there must be a kick some
where, that Ruth couldn't strike out
all the time and that some one of the
pitchers would shine brilliantly.
SO they piled In by the thousand and
the ten thousand. these persistent lovers
of baseball, with fully 5000 turned
away, and by 1880 had filled every
seat which had not been reserved. Even
that early. when the sky was ominous
and the air was sultry as a mean day
in August. they were on hand. content
to sit for three hours and a half and
to take their chance on a wetting. A
few drops OF rain came spattering down
from time to time, but the downpour
held off and there was nothing to cause
discomfort except the Turkish bath feel
OF the unreasonable atmosphere.
Hard Work Saves Field.
The field looked playable because a
good deal of care and work had been
exerted to make play possible. The
base lines had been covered with tar
paulin and had not suffered In the hard
rain of the night The muddy stretches
between base lines and players benches
had been sprinkled thickly with saw
dust. Va2rant sunshine and lazy breezes
had dried the turf little bit. These
things were observed by the patrons
with considerable satisfaction as they
glanced at the puzzlng sky and won
dered what was in store for them. The
an~wer meant a good deal. because
OF yesterdays crowd could
take in a ball game on Sunday only.
The Giants came on the field at 1880
and they showed a confident. merry
crew There was a swing 10 them and
a snap TO them that spelled the victor.
The crowd seemed to perceive this. for
a great shout OF greeting arose from
the bleachers' and roared around the
oval the best salute that any team
received during the series. The cheer
ing continued as they began their prac-
tice. with Jack Scott. winner OF Fri
days game. throwing balls to the prac-
tice batters.
Messrs. AItroclx and Schacht. clowns,
languidly. as II WEAKNESS
had entered their bones. and there was
less than usual TO divert the early
comers Nor was there much noise
Excuses for yelling we're hard 70 find.
When the Yankees appeared at ten
minutes after one there was applause
that was scarcely decent. feeble
chorus and spatter of handclaps
Woe TO the vanquished! They walked
from their clubhouse to the visitors
bench like men who had abandoned the
fight. as ~ the best to be expected was
the worst. They acted like beaten men
II they had. had tails the tails would
have been dragging or between their
hindIegs.
LuckIess Babe Jecred.
Almost Immediately the crowd began
to boo and jeer Babe Ruth, the majority
of the crowd, that Is, for there were
always fair-mindcd souls to applaud
Justify Mt such times. Groans and boos
H. I'LL