New-York tribune., 1922-10-09
keny's Single
IN the Eighth,
Settles Issue
Long George Sends Frisch
and Meusel Home With
wing and Winning Runs
By John kieran

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The Yankee corpse got its Anal pat
iE the physiognomy yesterday. Long
Gserge Kelly did it. Thousands of
ntcurners attended the insarment,
which was public Three times in the
distressing series the joyful Giants
battered the hapless Hugmen to hori-
xontal position. The fourth time was
yesterday. and the recumbent posture
OF the Yankees was naade permanent
affair. In spite of Poliyanna and the
Salvation Army, the Yanks are not
only down. but out.
There has been no catastrophe like
this since the Slaughter of the limo
cents. The American Leaguers romped
into this series as odds-on favoritcs
Representative citizens were stopping
fetal strangers on the boulevards of this
metropolis and asking such pertinent
questions as "Did you ever know any
team to take worlds series without
pitching staff :" 1t was taken for
granted that John Joseph McGraw was
entering the autumn baseball classic
minus this important cog of any dia-
naond busting machine, The unhappy
gentlemen who answered that question
anent the pitching staff in the negative
have asked for a recount. They have
uncovered additional testimony in the
last four days which has influenced
their opinions.
Furthermore, the yodeling yawpers
in "Finneganville,~ which is located
high up in the leftfield bleachers sec
ton Of the Polo Grounds, are growing
with might and main over the figure
hounds and series dopesters who proved
about week ago that theIYankee hurl-
ers would do a wholesale kalsomining
business during the coming fray, that
the Giant defense would far outshine
that of the enemy, and that the Hug
gins hitters would be delivering two
baggers in gross lots against the ghost
" and ghastly twirling Of the National
League team.
Mean Series for Experts
This has been a mean series for
the experts. 1t has proved that figures
will lie fuently and that liars will
figure remorseiessly. Not single
Yankee hurler produced as much as
one cubic centimeter of whitewash in
Ave consecutive games for the haunt-
ing flag. When an American Lacquer
talks about holding the Giants runless
the rabid rooters of the Clan McGraw
come back with the query "In what
inning?' Nothing quite as insulting
has been, hurled at the Yankee pitch
ing staff since the afternoon that Bob
Shawkey remarked that he got 10
over the Knickerbocker links and Nick
Altrock asked him son what hole?"
The Yankee hurlers failed, but their
defense--on figures, at least-was bet
ter than that of the Giants. The gods
ct baseball probably arranged it this
way SO that the upsetting of the pre-
series dope would be complete, final
and unanimous. The collapsible pitch
ing staff of J. J. McGraw refused even
10 bend under the stoutest pressure.
The Giant fingers rose up in their
might and pushed the entire Yankee
team into the 200 hitting class for
further instruction.
All in all, the last battle of the short
campaign was the most bitterly fought
of the five encounters. Bullet Joe
Bush, having been tossed from the bat
Elements in the opening engagement,
more-and got it. 1t would be useless
to deny that Sir Leslie was smacked
right Justify by the galloping Giants
in the eighth inning when the worlds
championship pennant was being
cinched by the National League entry.
Thirty-nine thousand souls were eye
witness to the fact and will testify
to the truthfulness of the statement,
though some may do so with much re-
gret.
II was a personal matter between Joe
Bush and George Kelly. Joe did not
pick on George; Miller Higgins at
tended to that and decided that the
lanky first sacker of the Stoneham
Brigade should be the man Of the hour.
It was in the eighth inning. Two men
were out, Frisch was on third and
Irish Meusel was on first. Ross Young
appeared at the plate. The Giants
needed run to tie the score at all,
and Higgins was determined to cheat
~ McGraw out of that tally if he never
kdid another good days work in his life.
This Ross Young person had been a
pernicious thorn in the side of the
Yankee hurting staff all through the
series. He was as hard to put out as
= gasoline fire with a scrubbing brush
In addition, he is left-handed by trade
and as Bush fires from the starboard
battery the strategists of baseball
have decided that the moment was
doubly dangerous. A. left handed hit
ter who had been hitting faced 6
right-handed hurler who had been hit
Miller Higgins ordered Bush to wall
the, obnoxious little Texan. In this
connection there is this to be said foi
the midget manager of the Rupert.
Huston forces--he made the right
move from a technical standpoint.
Kelly to the Plate
That brought Kelly to the plate
Long George leads the Giants in
strike outs He had heen known Re
fan the air industriously in the tight.
est of pinches. II he had famed this
time Huggins would have been ac-
claimed as ga great little guy In
stead Of that, Kelly crashed the bal
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