Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-12

another duel with his veteran rival,
Coveleskie.
SATURDAYS GAME
Washington, Oct. 10-(AP)-9
A shivering gale that swept with Arc
tic fury across Griffith Stadium to-
day, left in it's wake as wild and
woody a World Series battle as has
ever been waged.
I Out of this maelstrom OF excite
ment and thrills that left spectators
and players alike dizzy as well as
chilled, Washington's inspired bat
talions left the wind swept field VIC
/ torious by margin of to 3, in the
! third game of the championship
fray, gaining a commanding lead OF
. two games to one in the fight for
basebalrs greatest honors.
Senators Come From Behind
In this ebbing and flowing conflict,
| the Senators came from behind to
win with a closing burst of combined
attacking and defensive brilliance,
| but only after a twisting and shift
| ing struggle filled with pulse-stirring
plays and bad ones, sensational hit
ting as well as impotency at the bat
| consummate strategy as we'll as bad
! generalship.
Joe Harris, bulky right fielder of
| the Senators, won the game when
! his smashing hit scored Stan Harris
| in the seventh with what proved to
| be the deciding run and furnished
| the climax of a two-run rally that
| put the champions in front for the
| first time, but it was saved by Sam
| Rice and Fred Marberry in the clos
| ing two innings of drama.
Rice, in the eighth, robbed Earl
! Smith of a home run with marvel
| Gus one-hand catch as he toppled
over the centerfield bleacher barrier
| into the laps of spectators while
! Marberry, giant relief hurler who
| had replaced Alex Ferguson, stopped
| the last desperate. charge of the
! Pirates in the ninth after filling the
bases with only one out and pitching
| three straight balls to the last bats
man, the dangerous Pie" Traynor
! before fly to Earl McNeely ended
| the threat.
Pittsburgh May Protest
To cap the climax of all this, pos
7 sibility of protest from Pittsburgh
came after the game on the ground
that Rice had not made a, fair catch
of Smiths drive, but dropped the
ball then picked it up again inside
the bleachers.
Tho iSc1,a of {bic far
! Bill McKechnie took up with Com
| missioner Lands the possibility of
making formal complaint based up
on affidavits of spectators who vol
| unteered to testify that Rice had
missed the catch. butsthis move was
abandoned when Lands made it
clear that no reversal off the field.
of combat could be made on a ques-
ton of an umpire's judgment and
in this case, Charley Rigler, making
| decisions from his second base post,
had ruled the catch fair and legal.
1t was such a struggle, fought out
in a swirling gust that often clouded
/ the in field and in frigid Temperature,
that marked the first of three games
on Washingtons soil and was wit
messed by a crowd of $4,000, with.
President and Mrs. Coolidge occupy
ing a box behind the dugout of the
Senators and other notables in gov
ernnient life Drawing the wintry
blasts to cheer the champions on to
victory.
1t was battle that contained ev-
cry element of baseball and at times
even had the umpires scratching
their heads to unravel disputed situa-
tons. 1t was a scramble of oppor-
tunities won and lost in which the
Senators seized the greater advan-
tage with their bets ana arms, while
the Pirates fell down woefully in the
pinches. checked three times in their
rush with the bases full-twice by
Ferguson and once by Marberry. 1t
was a duel Of twirling skill in which
the combined effectiveness of the
Washington pair outshone even the
brilliant work of Ray Kremer. who
went the full route for the Bucca-
neers.
Lastly. 1t was test Of wits in
which the youthful Bucky Harris.
fighting for his second straight
worlds championship at the age of
%, outgeneralled and outguessed his
veteran rivals, Mckechnie and Fred
Clarke, at every turn.
Through the earlier stages of the
game, the Pirates played with dash
ing confidence behind Krerners
steady twirling. They got off to a
lead in the second inning when Tray
nor, after tripling through Joe Har
ris. scored on Wright's sacrifice fly
and they regained it In the fourth
when Cuyler doubled and tailed on
Barnhart's single after Sam Rice's
single and Joe Judges double had
tied 1t up in the third
Ferguson. unsteady at the start
but tight In the pinches, famed Kre
mer in the fourth for the final out
with the bases full. Again in the
sixth, he struck out Carey with the
bases full to check the Pirates after
Peck's error on Wright's blow and
hits by Smith and Kremer had pro-
duced the third and last Pirate tally.
Marberry, taking up the hurting
after the hectic seventh, swung off
at express train speed when he re-
tired the first two ment to face him.
Wright and Grantham, on strikes but
only Rice's great play on the next
batter Smith, saved him in the eighth,
while his own steadiness pulled him
out safely in the ninth after success
sive hits by Moore and Carey. and a
wild toss that hit Cuyler in the arm
filled the bases.
In the final analysis it was this
brilliant strategy employed by Har- !
ris that decided the tense and
tingling conflict. 1t was successful
first in the 7th inning rally of the
Senators. when Liebold sent In
to bat for Ferguson, got the squirt |
under way working Kremer for a
pass and Goslin, who had ramfned |
out terrific home run to the far
centerfield bleachers in the proceed