The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-16
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Fielding Support Would Have
Saved Barney Despite
Foes Smuggling
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER
j SpOrts Editor. The Times.

sports Editor, The Times.
The Pittsburgh Pirates are the
world champions Of 1925. They
won their title by defeating the
Washington Griffmen, 9 to Z in
the mud and the mist and the
gathering gloom Of Forbes Field
before $4,000 rain-soaked fans
After winning three of the first
four games the American leaguers
were unable to hold off the raw
enous Corsairs, who won the last
three games in a row. Bucky
Harris drove his machine to it's
limit. The Pirates had just a
little more stuff and 'nosed out
the Griffs in the deciding contest.
Walter Johnson, begging to enter
his third game, went the route.
Under some conditions he might
have won. Indeed. but for bad
breaks and mispIays behind him,
he might have won yesterday. He
was leading until the Pirates tied
the count in the seventh Roger
Peckinpaugh's home run gave him
the lead again in the eighth and
inpaugh, mixed with some real
Pittsburgh. bingles, stole. the honor
away from Washington's great
pitcher.
The Griffmen drove Vic Aldridge
from the box in the opening frame.
He yielded two hits, walked three
and turned in two wild pitches
before Johnny Morrison relieved
him. Four Washington runs
seemed to foreshadow an American
League victory.
The Pirates beat a tattoo upon
the speedy benders of the great
johnson i'm the third, three sin.
giles and a double giving the Ma
tiOnal Leaguers three runs.
Singles by Rice and Goslin, with
a double by Joe Harris, added two
more Washington runs in the
fourth frame and brought Ray
Kremer into action.
A couple of doubles by Carey and
Cuyler scored a Pirate tally in the
fifth, and in the seventh the Buc-
cancers tied the count. Peck 8
error, dropping a fly ball, put
Moore on second, from where he
tailed when Carey raised Texas
league single to left. Traynor
Earring triple to right center sent
Carey over with the tying run.
Quickly came Roger Peckinpaugh' 8
home run into the rainy darkness
in left field and the Griffs were
once more in front. But that was
a mere gesture compared with the
savage drive of the Pirates in the
eighth when they won the victory
and the world title for 1926.
johnson had disposed Of Wright
and McInnis when the earthquake
broke loose, started by Earl
Smiths double. Emil Yde Ean
for the slow. footed Smith and ran
iTk when Bigbee, hitting for
Kremer, doubled to center.
The huge throng went wild, see
ing the winning run on second ana
sensing what was to come. john
son was taking his time, wiping Off
the ball with sawdust while Moore
wiped off his bat handle with
towel from the bench. Then Moore
coaxed a pass and the stand be-
came a bedlam.
Now for the break costing the
Griffs at least tie. Carey bound.
ed to Peck. It might have caused
double play with clean handling
of the ball. It should have been a
force out, but Peck's throw was
high, pulling Bucky Harris off the
bag. The bases were loaded.
Kiki Cuyler, whose hitting had
not been up to snuff during the
series, produced the telling punch
He poled a liner to right. For a
moment it looked like a home run
but the umpires decided it was a
dagger, scoring Bigbee and
Moore. That's all. A grand old
man swayed and swung in the rain
and the fog. He was taking a
beating with his head up, but II
was a beating, make no mlstaks
about that. His supporters failed
him in tight places, but the Pirates
were cutting and slashing at his
delivery until he faitered and went
down, to glorious defeat.