The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-05
HOME RUNS
TO STANDS
AREBLAMED
Worlds Record For Strike
Outs Equalled BY
Veteran
TERRIBLE TWELFTH
WAS NOT HOPELESS
Relief Credited With No
bic Effort-Sympathy
Goes To Kansan

WASHINGTON, Oct. A.
Walter johnson lost a ball
game here Saturday, three to
four, but won the. hard luck
championship of the world a
million to nothing with no
contenders in the field.
For eighteen years this
headliner of the pitching
mound did his brilliant stuff
for a rear guard team. Satur-
day he got his chance at a
world series, famed twelve
Giants, equalIing the worlds
record for world series strike
outs established by Ed Walsh
of the White Sox in 1906, and
saw two long flies 60 for
home runs that would have
been fairly easy outs except
for the fact that the manage
.ment had added to the bleach
ers to accommodate the extra
crowd. The two home runs fell
safe by q few feet In those adj
ditional bieachers, and John
son was butchered iii cepse-
|quence TO make D world series
holiday for the box office.
THOSE two home runs we're the only
tallies the Giants made up to and IN
Guiding the ninth inning. Throw them
out and johnson would have won his
game, / to o. If that isn't hard luck
then Job was happy-go-lucky favorite
OF fortune. Kelly accounted for one
Of the homers In the second and Terry
socked one to the same spot In the
fourth johnson famed all the other
three men in that inning.
Hope In The Ninth
Pcckinpaugh intoxicated the Wash.
ingt0n fans with hope In the last Of
the ninth, when, with Bluege on, one
out and the Giants leading 2 to ], be
pasted double to left, scoring Bluege
and tying the score. Washington had
picked up one run in the sixth when
McNeeiy, the first man up, doubled to
left, Harris advanced him to third on
a sacrifice and Rice brought him In OIL
a grass cutter to second.
johnson then inaugurated the tenth
inning by striking out Lindstrom, the
head Of the batting and the first Giant
up. The old bos was going strong IN
spite of his handicap Of years and Ions
service, and 1t looked as though be
would get away with his first desperate
grab for world series fame. Erisch
shortened the life of many a Washing
ton fan by singing to left. Young
brought a sigh Of relief from the tense
crowd by popping out to Harris back
of second. Frisch stole second and KEEL
ly earned himself lifelong welcome In
Washington by tanning out.
With McNeely, the first man up for
the Senators in Washington's half OF
the tenth accounted for by fly 10
Terry, Harris got a life at first on
LindstFom's tumble Of his sharp
grounder and Rice singled past first,
Harris TO second. Two on and
one down. 1t began to look as though
johnson had really shaken the hoodoo
that has logged throughout his baseball
career. But 1t was not 20 be. Gosiln
popped out to jackson and Judge def
nitely nullified the two hits that had
been made in the inning by flying to
Young for the third out.
e-Two. Three
The Giants came to the plate and
went back 10 the dusout one, two. three,
in the eleventh. Terry flying to Nc
Nicely, Wilson adding his bit to the
Johnson strikeout record. and jackson
committing suicide, Peck to Judge.
Not to be outdone by this speedy
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