The Washington times., 1926-10-07
81, LOUIS IS
QUIET BUT
HOPEFUL
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terday and today the boys thought
40 well of their chances that they
wouldn't lay one dollar against
ninety-nine cents that the Yankees
would finish where everyone had
consigned them only "a hours be-
fore.
For todays game, in fact, they
ruled a 6-toa5 favorite, largely be-
cause the pnissant Mr.. PennoclI
was due to labor in the vineyard
of the Tanks. Herbert left handed
the Cards wonderfully in the first
game Of the series. so that the
boys can't see anything else but
that he must and will repeat. The
boys get that way only after long
and tedious experience.
1t is all so very elementary;
Dempsey beat Willard at Toledo.
Therefore he couldn't lose to Tun-
ney at Philadelphia seven years
later.
Pennock. in consequence, was
esteemed over Bill SherdeI, the man
he bested in the premiere OF the
series. Otherwise everything was as
level as a ball room floor. The
Yanks won the first game, TIE
Cards took the second and third
and the YankS won the fourth by
large majority.
Natives Slow Down
1t was this latter circumstance
that brought the natives down On
their fiat feet and caused them 10
desist from making the night
hideous with sound. They still had
confidence in their ball club, but it
was that quiet confidence usually
attributed TO the capable young
man who starts bIithely at the bot
tom of the ladder and climbs rapid
Iy 10 the hand of the beautiful
heiress. Anyhow, it was quiet, prov
ing that there is justice in this
world, after all.
What really made the Yanks a
hot bet so suddenly was the fact
that our Mr. Ruth suddenly became
the fearsOme hitter that popular inn
preston had seen fit to make him.
His performance yesterday estab
lished this fact, even if he never tips
another foul
Among the records he established
in the estimation Of our most IT.
Titatingly correct statisticians, were
these:
The first man to hit three home
runs in one game of a world series;
the first man to hit two home runs
on two pitched balls; the first man
TO score four runs in one world
series game; the first man to hit
seven home runs as a world series
lifetime REGARD; scored the most
total bases and extra bases in one
G",Ge; scored the most total bases
and extra bases as a lifetime world
series record; the first man TO tie
the home run record for an entire
series by his performance in one
game
The game not only established
Mr.. Ruth as man who hits a
baseball with frequency and some
Vehemence, but completely elm
mated Messrs. Rhem, Reinhart,
Jiallahan and Herman Bell from
further consideration as pitchers in
this series. Sherdel. d commend
able loser in the first game. was
an almost inevitable choice today.
Alexander, having pitched one Of
the greatest world series games on
record, was due when the teams
jumped to New York for Saturday -
game and the final game, if any,
on Sunday, was expected to bring
Jess Haines, another winner, back
to the races.
In other words, the Cards didn't
look the part of a bad bet, in spite
of the fact that they lost by an
overwhelming majority yesterday.
The Yanks. in fact, had one win
ner, Pennock, and two losers.
Shocker and Ruether, to muster for
their dash to the wire, although it
was thought possible that Bob Shaw
key might slip lis collar in time t.
join the general hilarity in New
York.
But however one cared to figure