Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-16
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eighth inning with the bases full,
two out and the score deadlocked,
bringing over Carson Bigbee ana
Eddie Moore with the deciding runs
and frustrating the greatest goal or
the old master, Johnson.
Cuyler's smash-a drive that at
first seemed labelled a home rum
then was held to two bases under
ground rules because the ball buried
itself in a pile of parpaulin IN deep
rirfae. field-came at the crucial mo-
ment Of the conflict. 1t was the
climax of a succession of battering
onslaughts against Johnson that nao
pulled the Pirates back TO even
terms after it seemed they had al
most thrown the game away III
hectic first inning through the COZ
lapse of their pitching star, VIC Al
bridge, and loopholes IN their de-
tense.
Oncs thew had survived that dis
astrous first, in which Washington
gained a four-run lead and Aldridge
had given way to Johnny MORRISON
the Pirates fought ahead with ev-
ery weapon at their command. Trail
ing but always fighting back as
steady barrage enveloped Johnson,
the buccaneers tied the score in the
seventh inning. then fought their
way to the front in the decisive
eighth after Peckinpaugh's home
run had put the Senators back into
the lead.
This terrific attack, with the
youthful Cuyler and the veteran Max
Carey as it's foremost figures, was
the chief reason of the downfall or
johnson and the Senators but In the
final analysis it was also due to the
fielding weakness of Peckingpaugh,
whose two errors came at critical
junctures of Pirate rallies In the sew
enth and eighth, as well as to the
relief pitching by Ray Kremer, VINO
held the Senators to one hit In TOUR
innings after relieving Morrison AMI
Rube Oldham, who BANKED the tor-
mer champions in the ninth. striking
ont Rice and Goslin in a flourish
ing finish that sent the big crowd
onto the muddy field in ecstasies.
These were the high spots OF a
battle damned with thrills from start
to finish, the major elements of d
struggle that flashed in relief against
a murky, rain-drenched background
while the champions of two major
leagues fought 1t out for supremacy
in the mud and a drizzling shower
that fell almost continuously.
It was in such a setting that the
Pirates battered out their third
straight victory over the Senators,
completing their startling comeback
after it seemed their cause was hope
less.
Against the heaviest sort of odds
and always lighting uphill, the Pr
rates outplayed and outsteadied
their more experienced rivals in a
closing rush that knew no obstacles.
Perhaps it was due largely to the
steadying influence of the veteran
first sacker, Stuffy McInnis. for the
tide turned when he first took his
place in the lineup in the fifth game
at Washington last Monday, but 1t
was fierceness of attack that had
the most to do with the victorious
Pirate march.
Never before in worlds series his
tory where the decision had gone to
the best four out Of seven games,
has any team pulled out triumph
as the Pirates. Back in 1908 in the
first modern championship, the Bos-
ton Red Sox won four straight from
the old Pittsburgh club after losing
three out of the first four, but that
series was on a nine-game basis and
Boston could have lost one more
while still winning out.
Here, however, the Pirates won
the last three games with the know
ledge that defeat in any one OF them
would mean elimination. While no
more spectacular when all elements
are considered, it was an even great
err comebclz than Washington staged
year ago in taking the last two
games from the Giants.
Today's battle was expected to be
a duel between the two moundsmen,
who had each won two games in the
series, with johnson and Aldridge
seeking the victory that would give
either imperishable fame and glory.
But instead it turned out to be a
free-slugging drama.
Aldridge wild and erratic, passed
out Of the picture in the first inning
after issuing three passes and maxi
ing two wild pitches. while john
son was battered for fifteen hits and
,, nearly always in trouble. The big
Train had held the smuggling Buc-
cancers to one run and eleven hits
in his first two games but he had
nothing with which to check his op-
ponents today. His greatest speed
held no terrors for the Pirates and
his curves had no battling stuff on
them.
Johnson. however, courageous and
gallant even in defeat, took his Bit
ter medicine to the finish, while the
Pirates used four moundsmen In
their triumphant sally. Morrison,
temporarily checking the Senators
after relieving Aldridge, was with
drawn for a pinch hitter after Joe
Harris had combed him for double
and driven in two runs in the fourth.
Kremer, back after a days rest, and
Oldham, twirling the ninth, were the
final choices and the most effective
ones. permitting only one safe blow,
Peck's homer, in a stretch of five
innings and holding Washington at
bay while the Pirate bats were ram
pant.
It was apparent from the start
that johnson faced trouble but he
might have pulled out the game had
it not been for the damaging mis-
plays by Peckinpaugh that figured
largely in the Pirate offensives of the
seventh and eighth innings. Hard
and timely hitting, with Max Carey's
bludgeon most prominent, gave the
Pirates three runs in the third, an
other in the fifth, but their next big
squirt, in the seventh, started when
Peck dropped Eddie Moore's high
fly and their decisive rally came in
the eighth, after a wild throw to
second by the veteran shortstop
with third out in sight that would
have prevented any scoring.
But for that bad toss to Harris
on Carey's grounder, Peckinpaugh
might have been the hero instead of
the goat" of the final game, for in
the first half of the eighth he had
driven the ball over the barrier in
front of the scoreboard for a home