San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-13
CASEY S5T|CK
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!. THAT OF RUTH
Babe Expected to Star But
Stensel Considered Sort
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M'GRAW BOOSTS NEHF
Does Not Detract From
Stengel But Wants Pitch
er to Get Credit.
M'GRAW BOOSTS NEHF

New York, Oct. 1S.-It often hap
pens ON the stage that an unknown
actor given a small part to play. does
80 well he makes the stars looks like
''supers.r
Casey Stengel Of Missouri, a wealth
erbeaten veteran of the diamond.
kicked and cuffed from bush to bush,
was boisted by the fates 10 the sight
of John McGraw. basebalrs master
mind, and given a job, a small part 10
play in great drama.
AFTER a long run, successful sea-
son, the Giants won glory and entered
the big time" the worlds series.
Casey had played his small part we'll
and was kept on. In the first day.
. the first game of the worlds series.
Casey Won fame. He made a great
mt, home run that won the game.
And Casey was talked about. His
name appeared in the bright lights.
On the second day Casey's small
part was played by another player.
Those who went TO see shouted for
casey, but it was not Casey's day.
Casey was back on the job yesterday
and he made his great hit again. an
other homer that won the game for the
GIANTS. 1t was the only run of n
contest between two great pitchers.
% Jones OF the Yankees and Nehf of the
Giants, and Nehf, thanks to Casey,
won. -'.
Dwarfs Ruth's Work.
The series thus stood two games
. for the Giants, one for the Yankees.
s. Babe Ruth having won the second
game for the American League team
with his brace of home runs. But
Ruth is a great star. His name has
long been on the boards and his per-
formance. while great, is dwarfed by
that OF Stengel, the unknown, the new
star
Until the cue for Casey to take his
place on the stage was given, the third
game of the series kad been a mag
nificent struggle between star pitchers.
There was the marvellous .oltrol and
the queer hoaters and fade-aways of
Sam Jones. the Yankee, and the fast
breaking curves of Nehf. the Giant left.
handler. Both had held the rival bat
ters at bay, being aided at times BY
the smart, snapDy work of the men be-
hind, them.
Jones seemed to have the edge un-
III That seventh inning when the now
famous Missourian went to bat. Casey.
as usual, strolled to the plate harmless
ike and docile, with a friendly grin
on his sun-wrinkled countent Q.
There was no aggressiveness in the
stance. he took in the batter's box, and
the crowd, sensing nothing sensational.
jabbered and waited for the easy nut.
out they thought would come. Then
the crack OF the bat against the ball.
Out in right field, Ruth. seeing the
White spheroid sail high. turned and
ran 10 the, far reaches of. the grounds
and stretched his arm over the bleach
er rail. But the ball went farther than
that. dropping high up in the crowd
while Casey trotted around. grinning
his appreciation of the cheers Of the
$4,000. -
McGraw Praises Nehf.
1T was one of the best-pitched
games ever played in any worlds
SERIES" Manager John McGraw of the
Giants said today. 1T was great
pitching right from the start. and
along about the fourth we figured that
one run would be enough to win.
'Stengel. of course. is the hero of
the third game as he was the man who
gave us the victory, with his biz smash
into the rightfield bleachers off Jones
in the seventh inning. All the PLAYERS
are proud OF Casey. and we'll they
might be. for he already has won two
series games for US with home run
wallops.
But don't overlook NeLfj mastery
pitching or that play that Heine Groh
made in the seventh inning in tagging
Ward out at his base. Nehf again
showed that he was a great pitcher by
turning back the Yankees without a
run.
We are sure that we're going to
win the series. more so now after
Nehfs great pitching"
Higgins had little to say after the
game.
Sam Jones pitched a wonderful
game today" said the litt,. manager.
1T was hard to see such a weil-pitched
game 90 to waste. But my players
couldn't get run for him and |
was forced to take him out of the game
in the eighth inning for a pinch-hit-
ter.
I'VE are fighting harl al this series
and we are going to win il yet. Ny
players disappointed me bit BY not
hitting Nebf harder"