Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-07
HUCCINS SAYS
I TOLD YOU
So" OF GAME
BY CHARLES W. DUNKLEY.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 6. - (AP) - There
were no means and groans seeping un-
der the door of the Yankees dressing
room after today's victory. Instead,
there was much hilarity and back slap
ping, with Babe Ruth enjoying the
whacks on his shoulders
Miller Huggins, the Yankees leader,
broke down and confessed that he made
perfectly sensible prediction yester-
day to the effect that when the Yanks
started hitting, things. would be dif~
ferent.
Z AS the Yankees collected IA hits to-
day, within one of the total they man
aged to collect in the thrse previous
games, Huggins considers that his pre-
diction was absolutely right.
Furthermore, he feels the lacing the
Cardinals assimilated today has broken
their spirit and that the Yanks will
breeze into the championships The
edge, he believes, now belong to the
Yankees.
my statement that when our club
started to hit we'd start to win seems
to have come true" Huggins said. IL
look to see the boys keep the hitting.
up in the next two or three games. If
they do, we can't miss winning the
/ championship. I shall send Herb Pen :
mock at them tomorrow. He is right
after a good rest since beating the
Cardinals in New York last Saturday.
He held them to three hits in that game
look for him to repeat tomorrow"
Ruth whistled a snatch from "By y-by
Blackbrd'' while climbing intp his
oIo al har nj
joined in the whistling. The Bambino
was as happy as boy. He was proud
of his performance of smacking out
three h o m e S, feat never before
equalled in a worlds series.
Someone called attention to the third
homer, saying that it travelled record
breaking distance of nearly 600 feet.
boy, that was a darling" Ruth
proudly exclaimed. His face broke into
a huge grin.
The Babe was so busy autogrophing
the three balls he hit for homers and
other balls showed at him that he was
unable to get any farther in dressing
than pulling on his underwear. Ruth
wrote his signature on the three balls,
labelling them Number 1, Number and
Number 8, in the order in which they
were hit
Cards MOrOSe
In the Cardinal dressing room it was
| like a morgue. The players dressed
| in silence. Rogers Hornsby, the Car
dinal pilot, was off in corner by him
self. Bill Killefer, his right hand man,
dressed q vi c k ly and hurried out.
Hornsby had no excuse to offer except
| to say that it was badly pitched ball
game. He was referring to Reinhart,
who went in at the start of the fourth
/ inning and walked four and was touch
!, ed for two bagger before he was
T. yanked.
/ "The only. thing can say is to admit
that it was a badly pitched game
, has wonderful control. Something was
wrong with him in gthere today. He
didntehave a thing.
/ "The Cardinals played good ball
otherwise. We were on even terms
with the Yankees in hitting. In field
ing we were sharper. It was tough
break for Douthit and Hafey to come
/ together. I consider our club lucky
| that both of them were not seriously
hurt That licking we got won't dis
I turb us. We are hardened to defeats
and are not discouraged. Didn't Gin
/ cinnati knock us out of the league
Leadership right at the end of the sea-
| son, and didn't we come back?'
] well, we'll come back tomorrow.
! "I expect to pitch Alexander or Sher-
del. Alexander came through for us
1 last Sunday. He also put us back in
the race after Cincinnati stopped US
and beat the Reds after resting only
three days.