Evening star., 1923-10-11

With due respect to the ability pos
sessed by Pennock, 1T would have
been better for him had his team
won the first game: Nehf has the ad-
the Yankees and having defeated
them.
Age Has Its Day.
Make way for age! A player.
smoked brown in many clouds of base
ball vapor, won the first game for
the Giants by hitting home run In
the ninth inning. Old Casey Stengel,
90 one-legged, without the arm that
once helped him throw from the out
field, but with young heart ana the
grit of youth, with two strikes on
him and two out in the ninth, hit
the ball to center field. far beyond
Witt and Meusel. While the two
fielders were pursuing the ball ike
hounds, Stengel, running all the
bases, staggered home from third,
bringing the first slice of bacon for
his team.
A good throw would have nailed
Stengel at the plate. He was none
too sure about making the haven, out
Witt cannot throw much, while Meu, !,
sci. who can throw a lot, heaved wild
as Casey tottered to the rubber and
flung his arms in frenzy OF JOY.
1t was the climax of base ball NE
and Cunningham had 10 1inish the
game in center field. :,
1t was throwing that entered larg"'y
into the Giants victory. In the nilh
inning Frisch threw home and got KUN
and the throw was one that you wouiu
bet 10 to l would not succeed. But II
did. Then in the seventh. with Dugan
on third, Ruth hit past f1rst-base at ex-
press speed Kelly knocked down the
ball and. picking it up with one hand
threw home so accurately that Dugdn
was caught at the plate.
No infielder in either league except
Kelly could have made that throw. TWO
runs were thus wiped out for the yam
KEGS by super play.
Pipp Gets Limciight.
And now for the boner. Wallie Pipp
became a member of the gallery of inn
mortals, joining Heinie Zimmerman,
who once chased the winning run across
the plate in world series game, the
base runner who cost him-team pen
nant by failing to touch second and the
fielder who lost his club world cham-
pionship by muffing fly.
In the eighth inning, Pipp got a
scratch hit to the infield. A wild pitch
put him on second. No one was out:
"This is where the Giants go blooey,
said the Yankee rooters and the ex-
perts. The winning run on second base
with no one out is one of the great
moments of a ball game.
Pipp stood away from second base.
1t was only a few feet, but he stood
there with his thoughts in the clouds
and Snyder. who had been given the
sign by Bancroft, snapped the ball to
second like rifle shot. Half para
1yzed. Pipp started TO move back TO
second but he was too late. The um-
pire motioned violently that he was
out, then turned his back and bowed
his head, so sorry did he feel for the
novitiate in the bone lodge.
It is a dreadful thing in base ball
to be the winning run on second base
with none out and to be caught fat-
footed off the isle of safety.
After that happened Ward hit safe
ly and Pipp would have scored with
ease on the hit had he not been
more runs after it. but, at any rate.
the Yankees would have been going
into the ninth run in the lead and
with the psychological advantage OF
being within three outs of victory:
Then Stengers prodigious homer. If
it had been made, would have only
tied instead of winning.
"Sprained ankle?" quoth a fan, re-
ferring to Pipp's lapse. Sprained
noodle."
But Pipp may be glorified yet and
all good sportsmen who regret to see
any capable player made the goat
would be glad to see him redeem him.
self.
Hoyt Proves Failure.
Hoyt did even worse than his de-
tractors hoped he weuld. He was
given a three-run set-up by his team.
and in the fatal third, with that to
work upon, he pitched with very poor
judgment. He passed Gowdy, which
was bad base ball Then he fed the
ball to Bentley where Jack most likes
to hit it. In pitching to Groh. who
hit him for three bases. he was wholly
wrong, He gave Bancroft long lead
to steal second, thereby making II
possible for the Giants captain to put
the tying run on second.
But Bancroft did not stand off sec
ond base and permit his mind to
think of dahlias and doodads. He
eventually scored the tying run.
. 1t is true that the Yanks had less
luck than the Giants But it is true
also that the worlds champions pro-
duced the man when the crisis came
while their opponents did not.
The play of the first game of the
1923 series that will always stand
forth above every other play was the
home run of the ancient Casey Stem
gel, made on a pitched ball that was
grooved.
Copyright 1923.