San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-13
FEELING TENSE
BEFOREFOURTH
SERIES CLASH
Carefree Air of Fans and
Players Gone After
Friday Game. I'd.
PLAYERS ARE PEEVED
Teams Not Speaking, Be-
cause Of Snyder-Ward
Incident.
ARE PEEVED
by the Associated Press.


Polo Grounds, New York. Oct. 13.-
Back across the muddy Harlem today
came the New York Nationals and
New York Americans to do battle in
the fourth game of the 1923 worlds
series.
Awaiting at noon the appearance OF
the two teams on the field TO struggle
in the most crucial of the contests.
so far, were between $4,000 and 90
600 fans who completely filled the
small bleachers and more than half of
the reserved seats of the double-deck-
ed grandstand. Several hundred of
them stood in line part of the night
and when the gates were thrown open
the bleachers were quickly filled.
1t was the nearest approach to
summer weather that had been vouch-
safed the series. The sun was warm
but it had TO penetrate layers of
mist and murk that settled over the
oval enclosure in banks that obscured
one end of the playing field TO those
in the other. But it was warm aud
top-coats became superfluity; some
of the optimistic bleacherites got up
perspiration on imagination and sat
III SulIl SlttNtS.
Not Fridays Abandon.
There was not that feeling of
abandon about the early crowd that
prevailed among those who saw the
critical third game yesterday which
Casey Stengel won for the Giants with
soul-lifting home-run just beyond
the reach of Babe Ruth, his rival
among the current entries TO the
immortals. into the crowds of the
stadium right field.
The feeling was more tense than
on any other day for the fans felt
that il the Giants won today that
once again the Yankees would be
battling for a lost cause tomorrow.
Nick Altrock and Al Schacht
amused the fans until squad of
Giants under the care of Coach Cozy.
Dolan came on the field about quar-
ter after twelve. The ball players
went about their preparations listless-
ly' and spent most of their time watch
ing the comedians chase the rain
bow.
Where the atmosphere on opening
day was gay with anticipation that
of the second day sufiocating with
listlessncss and that of yesterday
charged with the most unbalancing of
excitement. that of today was heavy
with foreboding.
Yankees Get No Cheers.
Even when squad of Yankees
came on at l. 30 there was no cheer
ing. They began to toss the ball with
all the appearance of grim determine
ton in their faces. They didn't have
the elasticity of yesterday nor the
buoyancy of the first day, when the
greatest honors of the game Law UNI
picked for the best man in the lap
of the gods.
At II 80 Wally Pipp. the Yankee
first-baseman who was forced out of
yesterdays encounter when he injur-
ed n sprained ankle. came TO his
clubs dressing room to get into toys
but whether he would get into the
lineup was still question. He
wanted to get back in and Manager
Higgins felt the same way. Other
Yankee players on the field said that
Pipp was walking all right"
There was an appearance of strain
ed relations between the two teams.
partly over the ninth-inning episode
yesterday in which the Yankees ac-
cused Frank Snyder. the Giant catch
er. of tipping" the bat Of Aaron
Ward when Pitcher Nehf threw over
a clean strike on which the. Yankee
was called out. There
was no jovial bantering nor exchange
of mutual expressions of admira-
ton.
Ruth Arrives UnnOticed.
AS game time approached the sun
weavcd in and out of heavy clouds
and when it was submerged the sky
over the amphitheatre became dull
gray. The flags atop the second tier
Tapped lazily in light breeze that
wasn't felt on the playing field.
Babe Ruth came onto the field al
most unobserved and stopped to auto
graph a score card for a little boy.
He dropped into the Yankee dugout
and most of his teammates who had
been practicing went in to sit at his
side and discuss their woes. They
were delivering frequent bulletins on
Ilpp's condition and talking over
him among themselves. His ankle.
they said, was black and blue but
nevertheless he was coming out 10
practice and see if he could make the
grade. He was delayed while the
club surgeon rebound it with fresh
tape and applied liniment.