The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-15
BULLET JOE'' BUSH TURNS LN MARVELLOUS PITCHING FEAT N THIRD VICTORY OF TANKS
HugginS' Pitcher Allows The Giants Only Three Hits, All Of Which Are Gotten By Irish" MeuSeI

Giants into subjection today for the second successive time and took a formidable lead of three games to two in the 1923 struggle for diamond supremacy.
 Baffled at every turn by the mar vicious, almost flawless mound work of Bullet Joe" Bush, reeling under the terrific force of the Yankee bombardment the Giants were sub merged by a score of s to 1, put to a rout as complete as it was deVas- tating.
 Bush, hero of the red flannel shirt and puzzling fork ball, held the Giants at bay with three hits, all ot which were made by Irish Meusel. whose triple in the second inning led to his teams only score.
 Except for this brief furry, Bush was invincible dominating the game with his masterful hurling, while the Yankees, swinging their big guns into action without delay, won the battle with barrage of runs in the first two innings.
 Two of McGraw's aces, Jack Bent lev and Jack Scott, were shelled into retirement in less than three m, nings and two others were called into the fray before the echoes or the last fusillade died down.
 Another massive crowd of approXi- ately 66,000 filled the stands to over flowing, while 50,000 fought in Valn to gain entrance, witnessed the Giant debacle and the Yankee star at US greatest point of aseendency. ,Ao
 Led by Jumping Joe Dugan, who added batting glory to his al ready marvellous fielding record for the series and Bob Meusel. The Yan- kees concentrated their attack in the first two innings. Thereafter with formidable lead behind Bush, they ls. down in their offensive.
 DuEan gathering four hits, inc! ud- ing home run in the second inning and scored three runs, while Meusel slugged out three safe blows, lncldd- ing a triple. Fourten safe hits Tn ali were collected off the Giant moundsmen and every player except Pipp added to his batting average.
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 Bentley Knocked Out.
 Jack Bentley. S65.000 southpaw. started the game for the Giants, but was driven to cover in the second inning. Jack Scott who had been knocked out in less than two innings yesterday, attempted comeback. hut lasted until the fourth, when lie was replaced by Virgil Barnes. Barnes stopped further scoring, but was re- lieved for pinch hitter in the eighth and Claude Jonnard retired the Gan- kees in order in their last time at bat. Two hits, a base on balls and sacrifice fly gave the Yankees their initial trio of runs. With Witt out, Dugan singled to right and Ruth was walked. This strategy which failed yesterday, went away again today for Meusel clubbed out three bagger to left center. SCOT ing Dugan and Ruth. Pipp drove a liner toward the right field bleachers that Young caught with jumping one-hand stab, after q hard run, but Meusel trotted home after the catch. Young's brilliant play, however, prevented possible further damage, for Ward singled and stole second, but was stranded when Schang struck out.
 Three hits, another walk and two errors gave the Yankees four more runs in the second. Bush singled, with one out, Witt walked and both scored on Dugan's home run, a drive that bounded between Stengel and Young. Bentley was waving distress signals, but he was kept in until Ruth hit a sharp grounder to Kelly. that the first baseman failed to handle. The Babe got to first on the error and Bentley went to the showers. Meusel greeted Scotts first pitch with wallop to right. Ruth sprinted to third on the hit and scored when Frisch threw wildly to the plate on Pipp's blow. Ward lined to Bancroft, who tossed to Frisch, forcing Meusel to complete a double play and end the inning
 Successive hits by Dugan, Ruth and Meusel resulted in the eighth run in the fourth inning and when Scott walked Pipp, he was taken out in favor of Barnes, who quickly stopped the rally.
 New Attendance Record.
 The paid attendance of 62Sl7 eclipsed by nearly 400 the previous record, set in the third game of the series at the Stadium two days ago, na CCin ha 900 mark for the second time brought the total gate" of the series to within $75,0O0 of the million dollar mark.
 Realizing that they have their first worlds title within their grasp, the Yankees played like champions and as though inspired to wipe out the memory of two bitter defeats at the hands of the Giants. Behind the wonderbul box work of Bush, the team displayed all the dash and pow CT of attack that carried it to record breaking victory in the American league.
 For two days, John McGraw, si- lent, gray leader of the Giants, has thrown in endorsements without avail. Five of his moundsmen were bombarded yesterday and four were rushed in without effect today. He has found that brilliant strategy, the generalship of the master mind can not withstand, without effective pitching, the onslaughts of brute force" fortified, on the other hand, by sterling sharpshooting. Today's triumph must be set down to the credit of brute force," but even so the theory that this monumental classic of 1923 is a struggle between power and tactics alone must now be cast aside, shattered by the re- morseless facts of the last two days of Yankee triumph.
 For today, the clan of Miller Hug gins not only applied sufficient brute force" to beat down the Giants but out-played and out-gen- eralled the champions at their own game. The "smartest team in base ball' was outsmarted, out-played In the field and ort-thought in the pinches. The mental lapses and me chine today played almost as great a part in it's downfall as the sad col lapse of it's twirling staff.
 Nehf Giants Last Hope.
 N Tonight only the slight, vet for midable figure of Arthur Nehf south paw ace of McGraw's club, stands in the way of smashing victory for the Yankees. unless all the signs and portents of the diamond are at fault. Nehf, who shut out the Yankees l to 0 in the third game of the series, is the only regular among the Giant boxmen who has not been pounded into submission. Alone he stands out as the last hope of the champions and McGraw will send him to the ramparts tomorrow in desperte er- fort to stem the tide of the remorse- less Yankee machine.
 But even if Nehf is returned vic- torious in his second appearance, the odds will be all in favor of the Amer ican league champions. McGraw Will a wins with his ace, while Huggins is strongly entrenched with Sam Jones,