Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-11
CARDINALS WIN
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from rage Onel
dramatic moment Of the game, Alex
! snder easily subdued the Yanks in
the closing two innings, yielding only
pass to Babe Ruth in the ninth, as
he completed one of the greatest
pitching exploits in worlds series
history.
Twice before Alexander had stop
ped the American League champion,
going the full route to gain victories
that pulled the fighting Cardinals
each time back to even terms. 1t
was only yesterday that his MASTER
full box work led the National leag-
uers to the triumph that forced the
series to the limit, yet he was ready
again today, as strong and effective
as ever to cap the climax of his. her
ole role.
Not since the famous right arm of
Walter johnson pulled the Senators
to their first worlds championship in
1924, has there been anything so
colorful as this finish of Alexander's.
Two years ago. however, the Big
Train came back VIGOROUSLY after
being twice defeated while this time
the stalwart Nebraskan stepped in
the breach with two victories already
behind him.
Game Goes to Haines
Alexander did not get official
credit today for victory that would
have put him on the honor roll with
men who have won three world series
games The verdict goes down on the
books in Haines' name, but the glory
belongs to Alexander. the SO year old
who was sold down the river
short time ago as Chicago Cub dis
card.
Thwarted as they were by Alex
anders great stand ii was never
theless a heart breaking defeat tor
the Yanks, who battled desperately
to overcome a margin they hau
Welded in the fourth inning wheh
, the Cards, aided by two errors, py
Koenig and Meusel, scored all their
three runs. 1t was eart-breaklhg
for Waite Hoyt, young right handler
who had twirled brilliantly, even
when his support sagged. And it
was eart-breaking for Babe Ruth,
whose fourth home run of the Sc
ries. again shattering all world S
championship records, had put the
Yanks in the lead and upset the con-
fidence of Haines, hero of shut
out victory over the American
League champions in st. Louis.
Exhibition of Piuckiness
But it was thrilling just the same
for the Cards, themselves victims of
unfortunate breaks" in previous
games, yet possessed of the fighting
spirit and pluck to come back when
their cause seemed lost, and cap
tured, on foreign soil, the final two
games that carried them TO the
worlds championship.
Forty years is long time between
titles, but this conquering clan, the
first National League pennant Win
ner st. Louis has ever had, came
through under fire to establish its
right to the peak. Back in 1886,
when St. Louis, then in the old
American Association, was in the
throes of it's first and last pennant
winning streak, its representatives
triumphed over the Detroit Nation
ais in the ancient equivalent of the
modern world series.
But those days have almost been
forgotten in the long and barren
stretch in between. The triumphs of
ancient times carried no such glory
and gold as goes with victory in the
modern classic of the diamond. And
so today's triumph marks the end
of a long train of hope, with the
dreams of two years come true.
Yet it was not by an overwhelm-
ing margin that the Cardinals cap
tured the games biggest prize in a
drab, rain-soaked setting that found
only $4,000 fans, the smallest crowd
Of any of the four games in New
York, looking on, chilled and bun
died in coats. But for the errors
of Koenig and Meusel, the Cards
would not have scored in the fourth
and Ruth and Hoyt might tonight be
occupying inches in the hall of fame
that opened its portals instead to
the heroic figure of Alexander.
The Yanks fought desperately to
overcome the advantage they had
handed to theff foes. They drew up
within run of the Cardinals in the
SIXTH when Hoyt was withdrawn as
reserve forces were tossed into the
battle, but they were baked then
by Haines and again in the seventh
by Alexander, as the Cards put up
stonewall defense behind the gall
lai1t work of their box men.
Tommy Thevenow, gallant little
shortstop, shared the 1aurels of the
Cards final triumph with Alexander
for it was his fielding that repeated
ly checked the Yankee attack and
his bat that supplied the decisive
blow in the fourth inning. The way
for him was paved in this frame by
Yankee errors, the first Cardinal run
registering when Meusel muffed o.
Farrell's long fly in his haste to
make the throw to the plates but
it was a clean hit from Thevenow's
bat, smoking shot to right, that
scored Bell and Hafey with the runs
that turned out to be decisive.
Hornsby had been retired in this
inning when Bottomley started the
fireworks with a single. Koenig let
Bells hot smash slip through his
hands for the first Yankee error and
then the bases were filled when Ha-
fey's Texas Lacquer dropped safely
in left, misjudged both by Meusel
and Koenig. Even in the face of
these bad breaks Hoyt might have
escaped unscathed but Meusel drop
ped O'FarrelIs drive, while Bottom.
ley scored, and Thevenow's hit COM
pleted the attack. Haines and Holm
retired easily, but the damage had
been done and Hoyt's brilliant work
offset.