The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-12
YANKEES TAKE
HEART AFTER
RUTH'S WORK
Two HCme Runs in Second
Game of Series Hearten
the Yankee Team


New YORK, oct IL Babe Ruth
crossed with mighty tread yesterday
the threshold of worlds series glory
that has been barred to him for
two years.
Driving out two laundering home
run thrusts in successive innings,
feat unparalleled in championship
baseball history, Ruth was the dyn-
amo in the powerful attack that
enabled the New York Yankees to
turn the tables on the Giants, cap
ture the second game Of the series
by a score Of to 2 and square
the count with the worlds title
holders in the 1923 struggle for
diamond supremacy.
Two in two Innings
First up in the fourth inning,
with the score tied at onc-all, the
great slugger put the Yankees into
the lead with a terrific, towering
blow that landed atop the second
tier of the right field grandstand
and started the downfall of Hugh
McQuillan, Giant ace. Another run
was scored in that hectic inning
but on his next turn to bat, in the
fifth, the babe crashed che of Jack
Bentley's southpaw slants into the
lower right field stands. That blow
was the climax Of the game; Yam
kee victory was clinchcd then and
therefore it proved merely formal
ity to carry on to the finish.
it was a spectacular triumph for
the Yankees whose punch mastered
John McGraw's strategy and gave
them the first worlds series victory
they have known since the fifth
game of the 1921 championship
span over which eight defeats and
one tie have been the disastrous
portion of the American League
champions. 1t was a brilliant day
for Herb Pcnnock, fragile left
handler, who twirled the Giants into
subsection in masterful fashion, and
Joe Dugan, fleet footed third sackcr;
whose marvellous defensive play
brought him repeatedly into the
limelight.
Triumph for Babe
But, over and above the mere
outcome of the game, the brilliant
cogs that fitted into the winning
Yankee machine, it was the day for
Ruth, bascball's star of stars, who
had come into his own and found
the end of the rainbow of worlds
series fame for which he had
sought before in vain. True, Babe
earned his spurs as pitcher, hang
Jig up record of 20 scoreless
innings in championship play that
still stands, but it was batting
lpurels that the greatest home rur
hitter of all time was seeking and
he gained them today. No matter
what he does the rest of the series,
his place among series immortals is
secure.
Thus it was triumph even
greater for Ruth than for the Yam
KEGS; the ascendhncy of brute force,
the power of the wallop over the
tactical genius Of John McGraw,
basebals "rnaster mind. For be-
hind the struggle for premier dia-
mond honors from the start has
been the greatest drama of all, the
matching of Ruth's dynamic indi-
viduality against the strategy of
the grey haired, silent leader of
the Giants.
Rut, Against McGraw
Two years ago, Ruth was handli-
capped in the series by injuries;
last year he was a Dust, out
P.essed, baffled by the tactics of
the "Little Napoleon. But tonight
he is triumphant figure, a vital
force that upset, with sheer might
the best laid calculations of his
opponent. And knowing the con-
fidence that his great achievement
yesterday has inspired, he may prove
the deciding. factor in the outcome
of the third straight battle between
Gotham's rival clubs and spoil Nc
Graws goal Of third successive
championship.
Ruth's feat of two home runs la
single worlds series game has
been done thrice in two decades
Of championship history, but
in none of these instances were
the circuit blows made in successive
innings and successive times at bat,
FL. Dougherty, of the Boston
americans, was the first to accom-
ulish. the trick, in 1908. 1t was dup
heated in 1915, by Harry Hooper,
also of the Boston Americans; who
drove out home runs in the third
and ninth innings of the fifth game
of, the series with the Philadelphia
Nationals; and again in 1917, by
Benny Knauff of the Giants, who
hit for thA circuit in the fourth and
eighth innings of the fourth game
Of the series with the Chicago White
Soxx
Giants Miss Chances
The first day the story of victory
was one Of Giant smartness, alert
ness and generalship, plus the .le-
sisive ninth inning home run ~
Casey Stengel. Yesterday the situa-
: ton was reversed, and it was punch,
typified by Ruth, that decided the
issue. And the Yankees won, be.
rause they carried their hains in
their bats.
5: The first day it was the Yankee
who knocked at, but could not open,
Ahes dSor Of opportunity; the second
day ii was a tale Of missed chances
blythe Giants, though they were few
er than their opponents had in the
opening s.me.
Vote YES Twice at the
bond Elk ton Saturday. Polls
unen ~ 3 Z. II. and close at q