The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-10
COREY FIGURES
 BUCKS ON EDGE Senators Should Win Final Game And Se-
 ries Today .,

WASHINGTON, D. o., Oct. g. (Sneciall-The year of the big wind has been forgotten. Hereafter our chronology starts with the year the Bucks fought the Giants to an eyelash finish for the worlds stakes. There may have been better baseball at other mes-possibly-but there never can have been more wild-eyed melodrama, the heroine has forever been lashed to the rails with the lightning express run ming loose-the hero has always been tied to the-sawlog. The william through out has kept his hand on the lever ana hissed and hissed. In each game the climax has come in the ninth frame, just where climaxes should come, ana always it came with crash.
 Take Thursdays game for example, in which the Bucks tied up the series, licked McGraw's best pitcher and once more lsmed Roger Pecklnpaugh. Zachary sand Nehf had been pitching brilliant ball. Nehf's score sheet was better, for he had allowed but four hts against Zach's seven, but then two had been punched in the fifth inning, and soaped in two runs. Sometimes Zacnary seemed to be on the verse of wabbllng |-he never actually wabbled and at the next moment reliable Nehf would seem ready to soar without ever leaving the earth. The allies stood one-two at the beginning of the ninth inning. Just little luck would tie the score. A httie more might win the game. Washington abandoned that attitude of aristocratic aloofness which marked the earlier games and yowled clamored and stamped.
 For the first three to face Zachary are dangerous with a bat as Moro with knife, Young, Kelly and Meusel.. Not always reliable, but always dangerous. And they were followed by Wilson, who only the other day tore off one of the longest hits ever heard tell of on the Polo grounds-just little luck would do it. There was delirium in the stands. Ii lasted until Wilson famed and then it ended with that sharp cut notable Tn baseball, cheering--as though, the wire had been broken.
 It was in this inning that Peckinpa augh's bad leg went back on fIim again, and that is a pity, for he can hardly return to the game tomorrow, game as he is. It's queer, this series. Lindstron has been the undoubted star, just as Walter Johnson for all of his two defeats, has been the undoubted hero. Now Peck shows up as the legitimate martyr. He was not fit to get back today and he knew it and every one else knew it, but he was so sadly needed that he got back anyhow. The effect of his presence was immediate. Relieving of wet.nursing that third corner. the Bucks played their most brilliant ball of the series, and now Peck is out again.
 Dope Is Even
 Prophecy has been shown to be mere folly in this series, in which the issue at any moment may turh up on some. such trifle as a torn shoe-lace, so close ly are the teams matched. Yet, it seems to me, the reasonable as it may seem to say it, that if Walter Johnson lad not been pitched in any game the, Bucks might have won by now, even, with Peckinpaugh out. It has not been possible, of course, the baseball world would have resented it, even if Bucky, Harris had ever thought of it. But if that ingenerOus thought is well founded then on Friday Buickie's men should have a shade the best of it. They are on their grounds with no cusion caroms against the field stands to worry them as in New York, and McGraw's pitch CTS seem to be running out of the little end of the horn.
 But the best thing about baseball is that you never know.