The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-16
GIANT PITCHERS BLOW UP IN EIGHTH INNING AND YANKEES RUN FIVE MEN OVER PLATE
Arthur Nehf Pitches Good Game Up To Eighth Inning, Then CrackS-Ruth Hits Home Run In First

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-(By Asso- ciated Press )-Beaten, crushed after one of the most spectacular Worlds series fights in history, the New York Giants today surrendered to the Yankees the worlds championship banner they have flown for the past two years. And tonight with this record shattering million dollars title battle at an end, the emblem ot supremacy fiutters atop the Yankee stadium, greatest and costGest monu- ment of the diamond.
 The Yankees won the sixth and final game this afternoon at the Pole cirounds lair If the Giants. by com f1ig from behind ana scoring five runs m dramatic pulse-grippinG eighth inning rally, just when 1t seem d that the McGTaw men. fight ing desperately, with their backs to the wall, would tie the series and orcc d seventh contest to decide the struggle. The final score was to 4.
 Thus the American league cham pions swept to their third successive triumph. completed the rout of the once proud and mighty Giant machine and by the decisive margin of four games to two, gained their first Worlds title in more than two de- cades of embattled history.
 Thus, too, was written into the annals of the national game a struggle for the highest stakes it has ever known. gigantic spectacle eclipsing all previous records and Witnessed by more than 100000 fans who paid more than S1,063,00O in gate receipts.
 The story of that eighth inning to- day, coming when it appeared that the deadly southpaw arm of Arthur Nehf and the inspired play of Frank Frisch had checked the head long lush of the Yankees. will go down us one of the most startling de- cisive championship turns of all time.
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 sudden Victory.
 That brief, thrilling, yet tragic span witnessed with amazing suddenness inc ascendancy of the Yankees to the pinnacle of their career, and, simul- taneously, the utter collapse Of the Giants, the crushed hopes of John McGraw for three successive world S titles-a debacle so stunning that to- night it seems to have marked the Dassing for all time from champion ship heights of the Giant machine as it emerged, broken, from the test
 It witnessed, too, the failure of the asame's idol of idols to answer call to fame that would have raised hlm to greater heights than any he has ever touched. For Babe Ruth, star of stars, the mightest hitter ever, while he had started the Yankes ott in the first inning with his third home run of the series, fell down yretchedly in the eighth inning pinch, striking out with the bases fun and the Yankees yet one run be- hind.
 In his place new hero was lifted up-Bcb Meusel who stepped in the breach that Babe had left and deiiY- cred the blow that resulted in three runs and clinehed the Yankee trl- umph.
 Nehf Good For seven.
 For seven innings, Nehf, hero Of the Giants l to o victory in the third game, waved a magic wand over the Yankee bats and it seemed that his portside slants would again restore Giant hopes and keep them in the fight Backed by the spectacular defensive work of his teammates, particularly the dynamic Frisch, he allowed but one other hit outside of Ruths circuit clout, while the Giants were hammering Herb Pennock, Higgins southpaw ace, for nine hits and four runs
 But out of the clear sky of appar- cnt Giant triumph came the collapse .eof Nehf, and with him the last break in the shattered chain of McGraw's s ; pitching staff. From the highest reak of effectiveness, from brilliant -,control. Nehf suddenly went to pieces .s,and "Rosy' Ryan. who succeeded syh i'm, failed in a valiant effort to sastem the tide.
 - Ward started the, fatal eighth