Evening star., 1923-10-11

bled down to first, leisurely overran
the bag and then. turning to size
up the situation, made u belated at
tempt to reach second, and conse-
quently was, doubled up by Groh's
| heave to Frisch.
AS a result of Whitey's stupid work
the rally was abruptly nipped. in
stead Of third and second both being
| occupied with Dugan having a chance
4 to cash them.
| Brilliant work by both Ruth and
Frisch marked the Yank end Of
round five, when Babe put the Hug
men in a position to tally and Frank
snuffed the bid. Dugan had died
| when Ruth poled what appeared to be
a. double to left To the surprise of
the Giants and spectators alike. Ruth
| beautiful hook slide got hair-line
! decision on Irish Meusers heave to
Groh. Then Frisch injected himself
! into the proceedings. The fash ran
Meusers Texas Lacquer over his
| shoulder. and from an awkward posi-
tion got of a line heave to Snyder.
! Ruth crashed into the burly back
stop with all the force of his. 210
! pounds, but Snyder chung to the
! killing had prevented the Yanks from
( knotting the count
Frisch I'm Limelight a gain.
! Frisch again horned into the lime
light in the following frame with a
fancy bit of fielding that proved a
great factor in nipping an incipieht
Yankee threaten. With Pipp and
! Ward disposed of. Schang stretched
/, a safety to right into a double by
nervy running. Scott then poked a
| dinky roller beyond Kelly's reach, but
Frisch sprinted over far to his left.
| scooped up the ,horsehide with one
! fin and ferried it to Kelly in time to
! erase Scott.
Bush and Dugan. teamed up, put the
| Yanks on even terms with their rivals
in the seventh. and Kelly operated to
prevent them from again forging to
the front. Bush started it with his
second safety of the afternoon, rip
ping single to center, and. after Witt
had lofted. Dugan cashed his mate
| with drive far over 1oung'S head
| for three bases Then Kelly sidled
into focus. Ruths response to a mix
ture of thunderous cheers and booes
was sharp crack that Kelly was
lucky to knock down. The. first
sacker had no chance to beat Ruth in
q race to the initial corner. and the
Babe was leading Ryan by a fun
Flength. but kellys IfeGer- hesitated
I Recovering the ball. he idinined away
Ito Snyder at the plate, who wheeled in
| time to flag Dugan coming in from
u
| the menace. -. = "a.
| Smart Giant teamwork turned the
Yankees back in the eighth when 1t
appeared for a thrice that Ryan was
| faltering, but it would have availed
| nothing If Pipp had not indulged in
! a snooze. Wally scratched a single
on his swinging bunt. when he beat
the slow-hoofed Snyder's peg, and
! he promptly moved to the next sta
| tion as Ryan uncorked a wild pitch
| The lanky first sacker took the orth-
| odox lead off second to await eventu-
| alities with Ward up. He didn't have
| to wait long. Ryan'S delivery to
| Snyder was peged on a line to Ban
| croft, who timed his arrival at the
keystone to nicely and snapped the
! ball onto Pipp as the latter scrambled
to regain the cushion.
Yankee Followers Groan.
| The concerted groans of Yankee ad-
| herents could be heard even above
| the delighted yelps of National
F, League followers. The groans de-
veIoped into walls when Ward fol-
| lowed with a clean-cut smack to CEN
ter that would have put the Hugmen
! ahead Ward moved up on Shang s
! dnky roller to the box. Huggins
here lifted the light-batting Scott in
favor of Harvey Hendrfck, but the
| youngster. who boasts quite a reputa.
| tion as stfcksmith, could accomplish
Stengel easily got under, 81 .. -
| The Yanks were through then.
| With the sound of StengeFs bat
against the ball still ringing in their
ears they weakly succumbed in the
ninth. Groh handled Bush's swinging
bunt in sparkling style and both Witt
and Dugan raised easy flies.