The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-10-11

Wetted down by night of intermit-
tent rainfall. the field at the Polo
Grounds where the battle Is to be re-
sumed today was ready to give the
athletes and the fans another day to
think over one OF the greatest games
ever played which opened the series.
The Giants are the home team to-
day, the two ball clubs moving over
from the Yankee stadium to the Polo
grounds.
Field in Good Condition
Commissioners Lands said this
morning he had received a report the
Held was in good condition and the
teams would play this afternoon If the
threatened rain held off.
One wise crack was made after the
game that no team in the world would
have lost a game like the opening con.
fiict but the Yankees. No other ma
jor league team Of first division class
could have acted so mentally sluggish
and SC mechanically uncertain.
Ruth tripled in the fifth with one
out; Schang doubled in the sixth with
two out; Dugan tripled IN the seventh
with one out and Pipp singled in the
eighth with one out-and the Yankees
didn't score.
Base Running Stupid
Stupid base running by Witt and
Pfpp and the over-daring OF Babe Ruth
In trying as Ruth always tries to win
cost the Yankees the game.
Jimmy o'Connell. the $4,000 Cali.
fornia beauty. remarked quietly after
the game:
THE best way to beat the Yankees
Is to let them get on base, because
they don't know what to do when
they get there"
The mental alertness and the me-
chanica! perfection Of the Giants
stopped every chance the Yankees had
to win. Stengels home run in the
ninth was the decisive punch that
caused the Yankees to take the count,
but 1t WIS George Kelly's miraculous
stop of Ruth's sure double in the sew
enth and his phenomenal throw to the
pate. cutting of Dugan, that stopped
winning rally by the Yanks.
No play In any series of any game
would compare with the brilliance.
quick thinking and spontaneous ac-
ton provided by Kelly-not even the
sensational Rawlings, Kelly and Groh
double play that made the last out In
the 1921 series.
The Giants figure they are in now.
THAT victory will be worth more
than If we had beaten them Is to
o." one Of the Giant players said TO-
day. IF they had gone down in a
one-sided game they would have
thought that fine pitching stopped
them, that they had all the bad
breaks or that they were In a slump
But they outhit us and we out
thought them and they know they
should have won the game. The
Yankees cant think. They know 1t
and they know that they can't learn
to think In a few days"
Pennock Stumbling Block
The Giant players feel that they
would take the series in straight
games If they had Herb Pennock out
OF the way in the opener.
The champions do not attempt to
deny that they regard the left handed
former Boston pitcher very seriously.
Pennock was groomed to pitch today
for the Yankees and it was almost
certain Art Nehf, the Giant south
paw, would oppose him. Nehf was
ready to go yesterday and was peeved
that he wasn't selected.
With Pennock in the box for the
Yankees the Giants were to make
switch in the outfield where Bill Cum
ningham was to replace Casey Stengel
The other positions on the defense
will be manned by the same agile
quick thinking athletes.
Think Same Way
left handed and right handed pitching
and they all think the same way
against all kinds of pitching AS long
as the Yanks refuse to exercise their
mental apparatus. the alleged weak
ness Of the Giant pitching staff will
be no factor IL the series.
The Giant players will probably tell
their pitchers-''let 'em get on base
and We'll take care of 'em for you.''
For spectacular playing yesterday,
Stengel and Kelly held the limelight,
but Frank Frisch, brilliant Fordham
star, had as much to do with the vic
tory as any one. He made two phe-
nomenal plays that cut off runs and
he was all over the field.
Official paid attendance Wednesday
55,307. which made a new series rec
ORD and the actual attendance prob
ably was $4,000. The receipts. which
also established few record were
s1s1.s12 which was divided as follows:
Advisory council S27.2s6.S0.