Evening star., 1926-10-08

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glove, but there were two gone at the
time and Thevenow hoisted harm
lessly.
Completely halked in the third.
Hornsby's huskies contrived to initiate
run scoring for the afternoon in the
next chapter after their leader had
bounded weakly to Pennock. Bot
,omlev paved the way with low liner
to left, on which Ruth failed to exc
cute a shoestring catch, despite his
detrmined effort. The hall trickled
on past him, and but for Combs
quickly backing up the play. the hit
would have neted three bases instead
of being limited to double.
This was distance enough as 1t
turned out for Lester He'll promptly
evolved clean single to right center
that Cashed his mate. Ruth then dis
tinguished himself hy crashing into
the left field box railing TO grab
llafev's foul with one han and Bell
died stealing.
Hugmfn Tie II Up.
lone pass to Ruth was all the
Yanks could obtain after the second
inning until round SIN when couple
of lucky breaks enabled the HuSmen
to tie up the proceedings and fur
nished plentv of excitement for the
huge thronG.
Pennock started hv lifting an ordi-
nary fly that Hafey first misjudged
and then slipped in trying to field,
with the result that ii carried over
his head for a double. OFarrell
then fred in to Thevenow. who made
a fine stop of the low. wide throw
and got the decision from Tmps
Hildebrand. who, however. reversed
il when il WAS seen that the short
stopper had dropped the ball, Theve-
now rather unluStly being charged
with an error when. AS a matter
of fact. he had saved oFarrell one
Combs drew a pass and when koenie
rified single To left Penn"Ck beat
Hafeys throw Ia the platter with
the tying tally,
With Ruth. whose trio az homerS
the preceding day never Will he for
gotten by Mound city fans. at bat.
excitement hushed the crowd. Sher
del slipped a strike over on the Babe.
Slipping on the rubber just as he
was taking the return throw. Sherdel
injured his pitching hand IN catching
the ball. but resumed after visiting
the clubhouse for first aid treatment.
The crowd applauded As he made
Babe bite at slow one and roared
when he famed the Babe 10y switch
ing his tactics and busting fast
one through.
IaIyeri Tries Hard.
Neusel's deep fly enabled Combs 70
take third and when Sherlel walked
Gehrig in trying to work the corners
of the plate The ha Mere loaded.
Sherdel started to work ON l-aZ2eri
and the count was two and two When
Tony walopCd high and far To right.
1t seemed the ball was destined 10
carry into the stands and enable IaZ-
zeri Ia tie Elmer smiths 1920 record
uf polling homer with the bases
hled. but y lacked foot or So of
the necessary distance and when
Southworth backed sQuarely against
the barrier and clutched the bail the
crowd raved in frenzled delight.
OFarrel could attain no farther
than the midway when he started the
fifth with a safety ami the Cards
were set down in order in the next
round. hut the lucky seventh"
proved Just that for them as it was
then they put over The marker that
once more sent them TO the ii ont. and
Bell again had n hand in il. re
opened the frame with line double
near the left field line. waited While
Hafey was lofting To Ruth and ;hen
raced 70 the pan when O'f'arrel con
nected for his third straight hjt. "a
singing liner that carried over h oe.
nigs head.
Sherdel stymied the Yanks in the
seventh and yielded an unsupported
single to Combs in the next inning.
hlit again suffered at the hands nf fate
in the ninth, when Gehric opened
with a little looper that Thevenow
could not quite reach close 10 the foul
line In short left and which was good
for two bases. Bell appeared slow in