Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-08
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\Sontinueo from rage One)
howitzers of the Pirate batteries.
were nowhere available against the
crafty defense Of johnson this after
noon. Smoke is a familiar hometown
product on Pittsburgh's fields Of bat
ties. but the buccaneers found that the
big Train" had a variety they
couldn't penetrate when there was any
prospect that hits would produce
much-needed runs.
Displayed "Smoke"
For Johnson today had all the
Smoke" of his famous speed ball as
we'll as the battling change Of pace
that has helped him keep the peak and
rule as one of the marvels Of the ma
tional game despite nearly a score of
years in big league service.
The Pirates trained their biggest
guns on "Old Barney but they couldn't
find the range except for the one
stroke put through by Traynor. who
altogether got two of the five safe
blows obtained off Johnson and fig
ured as the only successful gunner of
the Pittsburgh firing line. The 9TH
ers found a mark occasionally but
their aim was not true. More often
they punched in vain at the air. for
Johnson, among his 10 strikeout vic
tins, twice numbered "Kikf' Cuyler,
Clyde Barnhart and Glenn Wright
Three of the heaviest weapons in the
Pittsburgh attack.
Trouble in Ninth
johnson occasionally faced prospec-
tive trouble He was a bit wild at
times, but he was always mightiest
in the pinches. He faced his biggest
threat in the ninth inning, when the
Pirates got two men on base with only
one out, but Traynor and Wright could
do nothing but lift his shoots aloft Tor
easy outs.
Johnson's brilliant triumph was
all the greater for him, for 1t mark
ed the first full game he had pitched
to victory In a worlds series. Last
fall, after eighteen long years OF
waiting, it, seemed that this was to
be denied to Barney" when the
Giants beat him in his first two
| starts, after which he came back
to gain his glory by pitching the
decisive part of the final game. 10
day Johnson carried on where ne
| left off last October, but this time
he had his full measure of trium.
phant achievement. The years had
rolled back for his good right arm
and he was the Barney of old. a
bit seasoned and. more resourceful,
but showing the same effectiveness
of his prime.
Johnson lowered above everything
else in tcday's game. The courage
Gus pitching of his rival, Meadows;
the sparkling fielding of the Pirates
particular by Traynor and Grant
ham. the heavy hitting of Rice, Joe
Harris and Bluege; the colorful en-
thusiasm of the vast crowd, witness
ing his first home world series
, struggle in 16 years; the return oil
the old stars of those halcyon days
Wagner. Fred Clark, Babe Adams
all this paled beside the dominat-
ing force of Johnson.
Harris Gets Homer
Joe Harris, whose bat was added
this season to the Washington at
tack. would have shared almost
equally with Johnson in the days
honors had Barney" been able to
avert Traynor's homer and the only
Pirate run. For it was Harris, sue
7 ceeding Earl McNeely in the out
field. who banged out a homer that
mt the Senators in the lead and It
was the same Harris who started the
fifth inning rally and paved the way
for the decisive battling stroke o.
the game-a slashing single by sam
Rice with the bases full and two
out, that brought over brace OF
runs and clinched the battle.
Rice's smash was the climax OF
the games most dramatic moment
and came just as 1t seemed that
Meadows, twirling with all the skill
at his command, seemed about 10
pitch himself out of his worst mole.
Meadows Peppcred
It looked like Meadows finish In
this inning when Joe Harris, Bluege
and Peck ratified off singles in quick
,, succession to fill the bases with none
out. but the be-spectacled veteran
steadied In the crisis and famed
Ruel and Johnson in quick order
There was deafening roar from
the crowd when Rice swung ana
missed the first pitch, marking the
seventh successive strike scored by
Meadows. A wide one, then sec
ond strike came over but Rlce
caught the next one and shot 1t
over second, just out OF the nylng
reach of Eddie Moore.
Joe Harris and Bluege crossed the
plate and although Meadows quickly
retired Stan Harris for the third out,
then turned the Senators back In
order through the next three innings,
the big damage had been done. There
was a final sortie in the 9Th, when
Goose Goslin, facing Morrison, sim
gled. was sacrificed by Judge ana
scored on Bluege's second hit, put
this was an climax.
Except for Traynor's homer In the
eth and their 18th hour threat in the
9th, the Pirates were easily subdued.
The National Leaguers had their
chances to break through, for Carey
twice got to base after being hit by
pitched balls, Meadows walked on
Johnson's only pass and Grantham
got to first on a wild throw by Peck
in the 9Th, but Johnson and his mates
nut up an insurmountable barrier.
Defensive laurels, however, for the
most part, belonged to the Pirates,
with attacking ..onors going 10
Washington where pre-series preolc-
tions had largely been based on
reverse situation. Traynor anu
Grantham, particularly, shone In the
field. for the buccaneers, the former
making a remarkable diving eaten OF
a line drive by Ruel that cut OIL at
least a two base hit, while Grant
ham speared Goslin's smoking Waiiop
in the fourth and converted it into a
double play with Stan Harris far on
base. The Pirates much Wanted
sneed. too, was mostly checked, al
though Grantham did steal second IN
the 5th. But Carey was nipped by
Ruel trying to pilfer in the LIST In
ming. and Cuyler, another speed mer-
chant. was trapped and run down OIL
first in : 4th inning.
Tomorrow Washington Will SEND its
other right handed ace. Stanley Co
veleskie, to the mound, in an eifort 10
make II two straight while the Fl
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