Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-08

third. from where he tailed moment
later on the hit by Paschal, who bat
ted for Dugan.
Sherdel frightened here. getting three
putouts in a row as SEVERED, Pennock
aud Combs failed to knock the ball out
of the field, but it was only a lull in
the tide that turned toward the Yanks
Mark Koenig. whose erratic fielding
had previously proved costly, started
the 10th with a rousing single 70 left
and went TO second on a wild pitch
Sherdel took no chances with Ruth
and walked the Babe, but Bob Meusel
advanced both base runners with a
neat sacrifice bunt and Gehrig was
purposely passed to fill the bases.
This set the stage for Lazzeri's win
ming punch Ii was the second time
the young italian had come to bat with
the bases fun. The first time, in the
sixth, he walloped a towering fly to
right that might have gone for a home
run but for stiff breeze that held it
back and enabled Southworth TO catch
it up against the bleacher wall.
This time Lazzeri took another toe
hold and shot a long drive to Hafey in
deep left. Koenig raced across the
plate with the winning run after the
catch Gazella, next man up, was hit
by pitched ball, filling the bases
again, but SEVERED ended the inning
by popping to Hornsby.
1t was a heart breaking defeat
for the Cards, who had come back
TO put up a stirring battle after be-
ing put to rout by Ruth's sensational
home run hitting yesterday. 1t was
disheartening, too, for croWo
which shattered the record for
Sportsman's Park for the third day
in a row. The attendance was -, :
.552 and every nook of the PARK
was damned to the limit.
The crowd was whipped to high
pitch through the early part OF the
game as Sherdel effectually checked
the Yank heavy artillery. twirllng
superblv in the pinches and continu-
ing his effective work even after
suffering a bruised finger on MS
pitching hand while taking a return
throw from his catcher in the sixth
inning.
II was in this frame that Sherdel
Welded the first Yankee run, man
ufactured from Pennock's double
and A single by Koenig. Passes to
Combs and Gehrig helped fill the
bases but Sherdel got Lazzeri on the
latters high fly to right after strik-
ing out Ruth with two men on the
bags.
Ruth's big bat was completely ST.
fenced by Sherdel's battling curves.
The Babe failed to get the ball out
of the infield in three attempts and
was walked in his other trips to the
plate.
Pennock yielded only seven hits.
four more than he did in his first
game, and two less than Sherdel
but the Cardinals punched four of
their blows to produce their runs. A
double by Bottomley that bounced
off Koenigs glove in the fourth, fol-
lowed by Lester Bells single to cen
ter, scored one tally, while double
by Bell and a single by O'Farrell
that caromed off koenig's foot in
the seventh, accounted for the other
After the seventh Pennock settled
down and was never in danger. He
walked Holm in, the eighth but a
double play started by Lazzeri check
ed the Cardinals, who went out In
order in the ninth and We're retired
in the tenth after Thevenow had sin
gled with one out.
While the Yankee southpaw had
cratic support at several stages of
the game, particularly from Koenig,
he also was aided by several fine
plays. Combs robbed Hornsby of a
triple in the sixth with a fine running
catch and Ruth. after previously
failing in an attempt to bag Bot
tomley's two Dagger from his shoe
strings, came back to grab Hafey's
foul in the fourth with marvellous
one-hand catch up against the wire
screen in front of the field boxes.