San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-15
YANKOFFENSE
SUPERIOR TO .
GIANTS, TOO
That's the Way It's Been
in This Series, De-
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GIANTS RUNS SCARCE
Unable to Make Hits
Count when They
Get 'Em) Yanks.
GIANTS RUNS SCARCE
By JOHN Il. FOSTER.

Copyright. by The San Antonio Lisht.
New York, Oct. 15.-Not only bet
ter pitching but, better hitting pro-
vided the Yankees with the three
game advantage with which they
went.into Mondays world series game.
The .Yanks hit hard and made their
hits count. The Giants hit now
and then and didn't make their hits
count. except the notable exceptions
of Stengers home-runs.
In three games the Giants have
scored six runs. Casey Stengel hit the
first on Columbus Day when he looped
a fly into the right field stand for a
home run. Next day Stengel again
batted the first run home for the
Giants. Others were added on an err
ror and two outs but none by clean
base hits. On Sunday the Giants made
one run on Meusel's three-base hit
and an out.
Meanwhile, the other team has been
piling up hits and runs all the time.
Joe Bush had long sought to return
the wallop the Giants gave them in
1922. 1t will be recalled that he
pitched the first game last year and
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ground hit struck his glove and was
DETECTED into right field. 1t gave the
Giants victory. Bush never got
credit for the skill he showed. He was
not chosen to start this year. but he
had to 60 TO the relief of Hoyt and
when he had the game fairly well in
hand. Pipp played bone solo on his
ukelele and Stcngel finished up by
his home run drive to center field.
Sunday Game Masterpiece.
Bush finished the game pitched by
Jones when the latter was taken oui
TO permit a player TO hit for him. III,
started the Sunday game and he fin
ishcd the Giants. He has been a bus!
Bush and no raspberry Bush thi
year.
Thirteen players took part in Sun
days game for the Giants. Twelve o
them dill not make hit. The thir
teenth man. Irish Meusel, made tire,
hits. Some pitching that.
The Giants looked bad. That's tn,
vernacular of the sporting critic wher
he wishes to say that the patient has
water on the brain, petrification OF
the muscular tissue and an indisposi
ton that causes him to see strange
things and move as though lead circu-
lated in his veins. When team cannot
bat in baseball, it always looks bad
Men who had not rubbed it in
against the Giants have suddenly dis
covered what an ordinary lot of ball
players they are and today they are
rendering their congratulations to
Colonel Rupert in anticipation OF
being put on the free list for 1924
If the Giants should win the sixth
game. they would not know what to
do. They would have to shake hands
on both sides.
Giants Not Hitting.
The reason the Giants look so bad
is that they have not hit tuppence
worth with runners on the bases in
two games and the Yanks have de-
veloped an attack that has crushed
the National Leaguers.
In six innings out of the nine on
Sunday the Giants went out in order.
All of their big batters were stopped
as they had been stopped in the game
Saturday.
The Giants were saved by the field
ers early in the series. Had it not
been for the extraordinary fielding OF
Kelly and Groh and Bancroft this
thing would have been ever in four
straight for the Yanks.
The terrific slump of the team in
batting is unexpected. Discountine
their pitchers who never were rated
at par, the Giants have fallen off SO
as batters that no amount of defense
can overcome their impotent hitting