The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-15
By WILLIAM sLAvENS M'NUTT
 Leased Wire to The AEe-Herald)


 NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-The Tanks won the fifth game 8 to 1 and now lead the Giants by three games to two.
 Astronomers interpret this phe- nomenon variously, but all agree that it augurs cold, hard winter, a late spring and probable volcanic activity brute force sits enthroned on a dais of dividends built of the winners end of the dough, while the pale brow of mere mind Is ringed about with a crown of wild raspberry brambles, thorny side in. The dumb but powerful Yankee sluggers are riding high and handsome, while the intellectual McGraw and his studious albeit pallid and physically puny men of action trudge wearily behind in the dust of defeat.
 The Yankees were impatient Sun day. It is not going too far to say that they were greedy of victory to the point of vulgarity. Anyone hav- ing personal knowledge of the social standards prevailing in the world of major league baseball will realize how pained the meticulously polite Giants were when the impetuous Tanks, hosts for the day, too, mind you, jumped aboard Pitcher Bentley in the very first inning right before the very eyes of sixty thousand some odd perfect strangers and rubbed the rouge off his cheeks until he became enraged and gave them three runs just to prove that he was at least gentleman.
 How It Happened.
 It came about in this wise. With one down, Dugan singled to right. Pitcher Bentley refused to associate with rude Ruth and scornfully gave him four balls to be rid of him. Two on and one down. Bob Meusel made a face at Bentley and banged one of his nice shoots to center for a triple. scoring Dugan and Ruth. Pipp banged a high one to Young in right field and Meusel scored from third after the catch. Ward singled to left and stole second, but Schang remem- bered that after all Bentley was a visitor in the Tank park and should not be treated so nearly like one of the family so soon in the fray-so Schang struck out.
 In the first half of the second the Giant member of the Meusel family came to bat and following his broth- er's example tripled to left. Stengel was out, Pipp to Bush, but Meusel scored on the play, coming over the plate with what was destined to be the lone Giant tally of the afternoon. Incidentally, Meusel got the only three hits that were made off Bush in the short interims between the inning by inning Yankee slaughter of the Giant innocents. Kelly then flied out to Witt and the Tanks got out their knives and shotguns and took up their proper business of murder once more.
 Bush Opens Massacre.
 Bush opened the massacre by fnc lir,cr 1nI I flied to Stengel. Then Witt walked. Two Cn and one down. Dugan re- called that his father and mother and several uncles and aunts were sit ting In the press box wondering If he amounted to anything and he banged out a home run for the glory of his immediate family and the Irish race In general.
 Three rude runs came in and it was bruited about that McGraw in tended to lodge a protest with the editor of the book of etiquette. Ruth sneered at the whole Giant team and smashed a liner at Kelly. Kelly is reported to have said later that he was so unnerved by the rough ex- pression on Ruth's face that he was unable to handle the liner with his accustomed skill. He juggled it around like a man at stand-up picnic lunch trying to keep a hot potato off the ground until cooled. While he was practicing his juggling act Ruth got to first.
 Pitcher Bentley then went away from where he was. Some say that he explained that he couldn't stop to pitch any longer, because McGraw wanted to talk to him. Others say that McGraw said later he didn't want tC' talk to Bentley. They say that McGraw said he not only didn't want to talk to Bentley, but that he didn't want to look at him any longer. and that was why he called him off the pitchers mound. Me Graw and Bentley both came from Baltimore. MT. McGraw came first. but from the way things went Sun day one gathers that MT. Bentley will probably go back first. O O O
 Jack Scott Next.
 ,Old Jack Scott replaced MT. Bent ley and Bob Meusel made him feel at home by banging a single to right, on which Ruth went to third. Pipp then smacked a swift grounder to Frisch. who threw wide to the plate in the attempt to cut down Ruth. Error for MT. Frisch and run for MT. Ruth.
 Ward then hit into a double play whicn retired the side and Huggins | apologized to McGraw, explaining tha. his boys didn't really mean any