San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-16
PIRATE RANDOM.
GOES CRAZY
OVER WIN
Rain-soaked Citizenry of
Pittsburgh in De-
lirious State.
By DAMON RUNYON
Copyright, 1895. by Universal Service.

| forbes FIELD, PITTSBURGH
Oct. 1G.-In the widest and certainly
the wettest finish ever seen in q
worlds series. the Pittsburgh Pirates
have struggled through to victory and
the baseball championship over the
Washington Senators.
These pallid lines cannot hope to
inform the reader of the scene that
befell when young Hazen Cuyler. out
fielder of the Pirates, came up in the
eighth inning with the score tied.
two out. and the bases full. and
slugged one of old Walter Johnson's
fast shoots down the first base line,
driving home the winning runs.
1t was equalled only by scene
produced moment before when Car
son Bigbee, utility outfielder of
the Pirates, batting for Ray Kremer.
the Pirate pitcher, knocked in the
tying run with two-bagger.
Both scenes were presented by 49,
600 spectators, most of them exposed
to a driving rain.
HOT TINE IN OLD TOWN.
As the game ended. at least 10000
of these well-soaked spectators poured
out into the muddy field, and sur
rounded the relocated bandsmen,
who shook the water out of their in
struments. and blared "There'n BE
a Hot Time in the Old Town To-
night which there undoubtedly was.
The crowd chased the Pittsburgh
Pirates off the field trying to capture
some member of the valiant baseball
crew that has brought a worlds
championship TO this city. The fans
desired to make someone an object
Of boisterous adulation. and they
didn't care much who it might be.
They would have preferred Hazen
Cuyler, or Carson Bigbee, or "Onr
Smith, the Arkansas man and the
talkiest citizen the game of baseball
has ever known, whose twO-bagger in
the eighth after two were out, started
the Pirates on their way TO victory.
They would have been satisfied even
with Red Oldham. the left-hander,
whose pitching in the final inning
held the Senator's helpless. Rice and
Goslin tanning, or Max Carey, cap
tam Of the Pirates, who was n pow
erful figure in the general assault.
All the Pirates escaped to their
clubhouse, however, and the crowd
marched behind the band to the Wash
ington bench. and stood with the rain
sprinkling their bare heads while the
band played "The Star pangled Ban
ner." Then they all marched over to
the Pittsburgh bench, and the anthem
was repeated. with lady singing the
words in n high soprano.
STAYED AN HOUR.
1t was an hour after the game be-
fore the crowd finally headed out OF
the ball yard, many Of them jamming
the streets outside the premises for a
peek at the triumphant Pirates as they
emerged from their clubhouse in street
apparel.
Last night, the hotels and cafes OF
the downtown district resounded to
the JOY Of Pittsbur...
1t was the seventh and deciding
game Of the series, with each club
having won three games. Before it
was over. the spectators could scarce
~ see the ball Though the curtain of
misty rain, and the outfielders were
mere outlines, vague and shadowy.
Time and again the game was halted
while the ball and bats were wiped
dry with towels. and twice Walter
johnson asked for a delay that he
might get sawdust to scatter around
the pitching mound 70 give his slid
ing feet a firrner hold.
Inc base-lincs were channels OF
mud. The base runners had to keep
Kicking their cleats free of the wet
ana clinGng earth. Meantime. the
spectators were gradually sopping up
rainwater as they sat in the exposed
seats.
The Washington club got off 20 a
iour-run lead off Vic Aidridgc, who
was very wild, in the first inning,
which seemed TO put the Pirates at a
hopeless disadvantage. especially
against the pitching of the mighty
Johnson, who HAD held them as help
Ir.s as 50 many mannikens in two
other games.
Tut % Is fighting crew that Bill
Mchechnie has assembled here in
fIttSDurgh. and they kept on fighting
uh'll a forlorn hope carried through.
Odaly enough. il seemed 10 me that
az no time did the spectators seem
10 regard the cause as lost. Even
when Roger Peckinpaugb broke up
6-to-G tie in the first of the eighth
inning by knocking a home-run over
the left field wall. and with but two
innings left to the Pirates, the crowd
kept bawling encouragement 10 the
home club.
MAKES EIGHT ERRORS.
Poor Peckinpaugh's eighth error Of
Inc series, which is a new worlds
record. contributed no little 10 the
iaSi-mInute shove by the Pirates. His
BAD toss during the melee Of the
eighth inning filled the bases. Had
the toss been accurate it would have
Dcen the third out Of the inning, and
would have left the score tied. Let
me briefly sum up that Pirates