San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-11
Not Keyed Up to
Match Those Of Their OPP
ponents--Wally Pipp Joins
"Bone Lodge" When He
Gets Caught Off Second
With What Might Have
Proved Winning Run.
BY JOHN II. FOSTER.

new SOrk. Oct. 1l.-Mlth the first
game of the world series won by the
Giants. the wobbly champions of the
American League found themselves on
the defensive, as usual. 1t was no
new experience for them. Ever since
the third game in 1921, the Yankees
have been repelling boarders and they
viii never get out Of their environ
ment until their wits are whetted 70
meet the keener sage Of the wits op-
posing them.
Hoyt and Bush and Watson and
Ryan have been eliminated from the
professional for the next As hours.
is quite improbable. Watson also
might be summoned, but he had so lit
tie on the ball in the opening game
that he Gould not possibly have ex-
erted himself. He was so ineffective
that McGraw may not wish to use
him again.
Forgetting that, make way for age !
A player smoked brown in many
clouds of baseball yapor won the first
game the Giants BY hitting home
run in the ninth inning. Old Casey
Stengel, one-legged and without the
arm that once helped him throw from
the ortfield, but with young heart
and the grit Of youth, with two strikes
on him and out in the ninth, hit
the ball to the outfield far beyond
Witt and Meusel., While the two
fielders were pursuing the ball like
hounds, Stengel, running all the bases,
staggered home from third, bringing
the first slice of bacon for his team.
Good Throw Lacking.
A good throw would have nailed
Stengel at the plate. He was none too
sure about making the haven, but
Wifi canot throw much, while Meu-
sci, who can throw a lot. heaved wild
as Casey tottered to the rubber and
flung his arms in the air in frenzy
of joy and exhaustion. 1t was the eli
max of a baseball life, but his legs
gave way beneath him and Cunning
ham had to finish the game in center
field.
1t was throwing that entered large
ly into the Giants victory. In the
fifth inning Frisch threw home and
got Ruth and the throw was one that
you would bet 10 to ! would not sue
coed. But it did. Then in the sew
enth, with Dugan on third, Ruth hit
past first base at express speed. Kelly
knocked down the ball and picking it
up with one hand, threw home so -ac-
curately that Dugan 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 Yankees by super play.
And now for the boner. Wallie Pipp
became a member of the gallery of i'm
mortals, joining Heinie Zimmerman,
who once chased the winning run
across the plate in world series
game, the base-runner who cost his
team a pennant by failing to touch
second and the fielder who lost his
club a worlds championship by muff-
ing n 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 experts.
Snyder "Fixed Him.,
The whining run on second base
with no one out is one of the great
moments of ball game.
Pipp stood away from second base.
1t was only 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 a rifle shot. Half para
lyzed Pipp started to move back to
second, but he was too late: The
umpire motioned violently that he was
out, then turned his back and bowed
his head, so sorry did he feel for the
royitiate in the "bone lodge"
1t is a dreadful thing in baseball
to be the w;Sping run on second base
with none out and TO be caught flat
footed off the isle of safety.
After that happened Ward hit safe
ly and Pipp would have scored with
east on the hit had he been on base
to score. There might easily have
been more runs after it, but. at any
rate. the Yanks would have been go
ing into the ninth a run in the lead
and with the psychological advantage
of being within three cuts OF victory.
Then Stengel's prodigious home-run. II
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tied instead of winning.
"Sprained ankle, nothing" fuoth 2
fan, referring TO Pipp's lapse. "Sprain-
cd noodle !"N>
But Pip 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 Worse Than Expected.
Hoyt did even worse than his de-
tractors hoped he would. He was
given three-run setup by his team
and in the fatal third with that 70
work upon he pitched with very poor
Judgment. He passed Gowdy, which
was bad baseball. Then he fed the
ball to Bentley where Bentley most
likes to hit it. In pitching to Groh,
who hit him for three bases. he was
wholly wrong. He gave Bancroft a
long lead 70 steal second. thereby max
ing it possible for the Giants captain
TO put the tying run on second. But
Bancroft did not stand off second base
and permit his mind to think OF dab
las and dewdads. He eventually
scored the tying run.
1t is true that the IanBs had less
luck than that Giants in the first
game of the world series, which means
that the Giants got the breaks. But
it is true also that the worlds ctam-
pjons produced the man when the cri,
Sis came, while their opponents did
not.
The play of the first game of the
1923 series that will always stand
forth above every play was the bone
run of ancient Casey Stensel. made