The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-06
BIRMNGHAM AGE.HERALD FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 1872


to his first base and no one may put
him out while he is walking.
This man at bat is Iron Man"
Scott. so called because he never has
anything the matter with him. He
has played in almost 1000 consecu-
tive games.
But he is out on double play and
the Yankees are through the fifth
with no runs. Giants come in fer
their fifth. That double play was
very fine. Ross Young, from Texas.
caught the ball, in the air. fell down,
but held to the ball, got up and threw
it to second base, toward which a
man was running, Catching the ball
put out the batter, throwing it TO-
second in time, put out that runner
and the whole team. A Mr.. Larduer
says. ball player must have a good
brain, boy ball playing.
Runyon has bet $50 on this first
game with Ring Lardner. Runycn
bet on the Giants, because he trusts
Nehf. Lardner bet on the Yankees.
He probably has a reason also, and
will print tiff the Yankees win.
There is a hydroplane overhead and
ii can outroar this crowd very easily.
Some Voltalrean asked how can men,
with brains enough to make a watch.
still believe in miracles? You might
ask, How can man, able to build
flying machine and work it, still play
baseball?' The money that men have
paid to sit here and howl would take
them to see sunset in the noun
tains.
That flying machine, practicing
above, will carry photographs of this
game to western newspapers That IS
degrading to science, like using i'm
prisoned lightning to electrocute
murderers.
It's an aluminium flying machine.
Five innings are over and no runs.
That's pretty good bet of mine"
Runyon says.
Lardner is saying the same in his
corner of space. Man at heart -
timid and welcomes IAN even break"
The YanlSs also have a boy mascot.
slightly deformed in the spine. DR.
Hibbs probably could help him. The
players would rejoice but seek an
other mascot This one, as he is. is
lucky. He was not observed by your
careful reporter, at first, in his dark
gray uniform.
There is not vacant seat among
all the tens of thousands. That was
not so last year. Times are better.
probably.
Mr.. Witt for the Yanks has male
three base hit. He is called
Whitley" because he happens to he
an albino. Lack of pigment in hair,
skin and retina seems not to diminish
his power. But he's out now. And
one strike for Ruth What came
they out for to see? Certainly not
Babe Ruth tanning.
Strike two and the Babe is petulant.
Nehf Is pitching to him There he
goes, safe on second That was not
exactly all they came out for to see
but it's better than nothing. They
howl and Babe. worthy successor of
the left handed dinosaur, is mollifi ed.
He's on third but he's out also. Fig
IRE that out, If you can. The expla-
nation is that another man wss
caught out and being No. 3, Ruth had
to go with him.
It's now one run for the Yanks.
Ruth's two-base hit brought in Du-
gan. That's the first run and in his
corner Lardner is deciding how to
spend Runyons $50 1t is folly for
those young men to bet, for money
thus gained, discourages real effort
4 philosopher, sitting by Runyon,
makes him this proposition, which s
accepted. IF you lose | will pay haif
o. your loss, s25; and IL Lardner loses
lie will pay the entire $50 to me-" The
theory of the philosopher making this
offer is that it's bad luck to make
the first score. Even philosophers
are superstitious.
The umpire rebukes Bush. the
Yankee pitcher, for not standing in
the right spot on the mound. All
the Yankees run UP to give Bush
moral support. The crowd boes and
kisses the umpire, who is only doing
his duty. No wonder he chews.
There is an umpire on every base,
you know, the umpire-in- chief-who-
chews. standing behind the batter.
Thus four umpires watch the game.
That is the end of the sixth inning.
Cne run for the Yankees.
Beginning of the seventh inning.
The 10000 get up and stretch be-
cause that is expected of them. They
look around, and sit down. That is
all the exercise they get out of it,
Eighteen men exercise too hard AMI
$4,000 don't exercise at all, That's
professional baseball But it's good
for the club owners. If the $4,000
were exercising they could not be
sitting here.
Bob Meusel comes in on a sacrifice
fly and that makes two runs for the
Yankees. All right for Lardner, who
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