The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-14
TANKS. OPEN HEAVY HITTING
 BARRAGE AND SCORE 6 RUNS IN SECOND INNING SATURDAY
McGraW Uses Many Pitchers In Futile Effort To Check SIugging Yankees

cruiser in the latter s own harbor, the Polo Grounds. in the fourth and most sangunary engagement of the epoch 1923 worlds series.
 Another record gathering, crowd Of 46,000, which set a new high mark for the National League park, saw the Yankees gunners, aroused to their keenest fighting piteh smash out an to victory over the worlds champions and once more square the series score.
 Each club now has two victories in this, record -shattering duel for the highest stakes baseball has ever known.
 The heavy artillery of the Yam kees-"Murderers' Row." in all It's primitive glory-clinched the game with bombardment in the second inning that netted six runs and drove two of John McGraw's sharp shooters, Jack Scott and Rosy" Ryan, to cover.
 Two more runs were hammered in before the momentum of this at tack was spent, but the Giants saved themselves from complete rout with last desperate stand that resulted In four runs in the last two innings and for time threatened to assume menacinS proportions. For seven in- nings, Bob Shawkey-"Sailor Bob" of the red flannel shirt--held the ct Ddyy DdlIlSQ them aI every turn and with the aid of brilliant supporting cast in which Jumping Joe" Dugan was the star of stars. But just when it seemed that Bob was to come into the greatest of worlds series glory, he weakened.
 The Giant shelled him into re- tirement with a fusillade of hits in the eight but with three runs in. the bases filled and Frank Frisch swinging his dangerous war club in the punch, Herb Pennock stepped into the breach and checked the rally. The fragile southpaw, who had twirled the Tanks in the second game tos their only other victory, forced Frisch to pop up for the final out. There was a final flareup in with booming liner to far right center that enabled him to circle the bases for the Giants final score. put Pennock extinguished the next three batters in order.
 Base hltS Of every caliber rattled to all corners of the field in this hec- JIG battle. Each team amassed thir- teen safe blows, but nine of the Yan- kee shots Were punched in three in | nlngs Of scoring, while the Giants attack except for the last two in- NlnSs, was wasted in desultory firing | Ahef Giants registered safe hits in l eiSht and the Tanks in seven of the nlne innings, while all but three iesulars, DuSan, Groh and Snyder, 1attened their biting averages.
 Ross Young, with three singles and home run, led the Giant marks men, while Whitey Witt, who set a new worlds series record with single and two doubles in three sue | cessive times at bat in as many suc- cessive innings, was the main how itzer in the Huggins battery.
 The Big Berthas"-Babe Ruth and | Casey Srengel, home run heroes of the first three games-were largely | silenced by the intentional pass | method employed by both sides, but | Babe managed to insert a two-base | hit on his last turn at bat while SteHSel showed his hitting mood by lacing ort two singles. With left handler in the box, Casey was with drawn in the ninth in favor of Gun ningham, and there was a bit Of irony in the situation when the lat ter whiffed.
 Five of his pitching guns were called into action by McGrSw and all | underwent baptism of fire. except Virgil Barnes, who retired the Tanks in order in the ninth, striking out Schang and Pennock.
 Jack Scott, comeback hero of the | series of last year. who shut out the | Tanks with four hits m the third | game, was McGraw's first choice to- day, but after escaping trouble in the first inning, he met his Waterloo in | the second. Ryan, credited with the I first triumph of the present struggle, | essayed rescue role but he, too, | was battered into subjection and | Hugh McQuillan finally checked the barrage. McQuillan was under fire for two more innings, but lasted | through the seventh, when he was relieved in favor of pinch hitter | the eighth but he was also with drawn for a substitute batsman and | Barnes finished the game.
 The story of the games lies in that | second inning of the Yankees. for all | after that was anti-climaX. The en- | tire team batted around and Wally | Pipp, who cambesback to play a bril- liant ail-round game after it was be- lieved fresh injury to his weakened right angle yesterday had eliminated him from the rest of the fray, swung his club twice in the melee.
 Giant miscues, however, played a prominent part in the total damage, though nothing could have checked the Yankee steam roller today. Scott contributed to his own downfall with an error. while Emil Meusel. Frank Snyder and Casey Stengel were guilty of cratic defensive work that did not show in the box score. All told, five hits, an error, a base on balls and a sacrifice figured in the rally.
 Pipp and Ward opened the inning with sharp singles ito center and when Scott scrambled Shang's at filled. Everett Scott, who has taken l on a new lease of batting life in the | series. drove in Pipp and Ward with | a line drive to left that Meusel jug gled. Ryan replaced Scott and shaw key caught one of his first pitches for a long wallop to Stengel, on | which SchanS crossed the place, aided l by the outfielde-'s poor throw and Snyders equally poor. catch. Witt | followed with d two-bagger to the l left field fence that scored Scott, but was tagged out by Groh after the lat ter scooped in Dugan's grounder
 Employing the same strategy that worked twice yesterday, McGraw or dered Ruth purposely walked to get Meusel, but this time Bob spoiled the tactics with long triple over his brother Emil's head in left field and NDugan and Ruth cantered home with the fifth and sixth runs. That blow Knocked out Ryan, and McQuiilan ended the inning by causing Plpp to fly out to Stengel
 Wits double in the third, his third straight hit, scored Ward, who had walked and advanced on Scotts sin gle. with the seventh Yankee run.
 The eighth and last came in the fourth, when Ruth walked and tal lied on hits by Pipp and Ward, Only twice thereafter did the Tanks get a man as far as second, Shawkey reaching the keystone sack in the fifth on his single and Wits sacri- flee, while Ruth doubled in the eighth.
 Meanwhile the Giants were hitting Shawkey freely, but not in the pinch es Twice they were checked by double plays, one engineered by Du- gan in the seventh that stands out among the most sparkling defensive -l.. xs<xSe -t.f