New Britain herald., 1926-10-08
(RY Brian BelN


 3s year old Grover Cleveland Alex stands between the Red Birds and the losers share of the gold at the end Of the world series rainbow.
 As both teams moved out Of the west today. the series stood three games to two In favor of the New York Yankees with the American league entry needing single game 10 insure its election as world base ball champion. The Cardinals. as a result Of defeat In the fifth game of the series, are in a position where they cannot afford to lose another game.
 All of today was needed for travelling to get the contenders back to the Yankee Stadium for the sixth game Saturday. If the Cardinals win tomorrow a seventh game will be necessary In New York Sunday. Vic tery for the Yankees ends the an- nusl league test for baseball supremacy.
 Outcome of the fifth game was a shock 10 St. Louis supporters who esta ablished a new city record with 3s,552 paid admissions The Yankees had to come from behind to win, 3 to In ten innings. A battle of left handlers, Pennock and Sherdel was repetition of world series history, the same pair of southpaws starting the classic in New York last Satur- day. Pennock then won a one run decision, the score being to 1.
 Yesterdays game offered more ex- citement than was developed in the opener. Both teams were able to take advantage of frequent errors of Judgment by the opposition, a sun, which refused to shine during the early Innings. came out late in the gams to disquiet Cardinal felders Two of the three hits used to manu- facture the run that tied the score for the Yankees in the ninth inning were pop flies. The other hit of the inning was a safe bunt. Finding that home runs were not absolutely necessary to win baseball games, the Yankees proceeded to economize further with their regular safeties and tucked the game away with the needed run in the tenth through the medium of one hit, two bases on balls and a sacrifice fly.
 Tomorrow's game will find the Cardinals fighting desperately to prolong the series to seven games. Alexander" Is a magic word in the St. Louis camp and with wonder fully-pitched game behind him in the series, Rogers Hornsby and his men believe the old master of the team will be at his best in the sixth game. the most important money game thus far. Opposing the Ne braskan will be Bob ShsWkey, a curve ball pitcher, or Urban Shock CT, noted for his partiality to the deceptive spit ball. Shawkey is only three years younger than Alexan- der
 Shocker was Alexander's oppo- nent in the second game at the Yankee Stadium last Sunday, suffer ing defeat 6 to 2. when South WI LII hoiIt | ull plONcd lHS uNGi~ siye blow.
 The Yankees came to life In the ninth after playing possum for eight innings. A run was scored in the sixth but 1t came after the Car dinals had had a chance to retire the side and on the whole was not i'm pEessive.
 Three scoreless periods were re- corded before the Cardinals broke through to score the first run. Bot tomley hit into left and made two bases when the ball eludcd Ruth, attempting to a shoe-string catch, Lester Bell singled to center and Bottomley ran home. Babe Ruth then demonstrated that in addition 10 his offensive power he must be rated a defensive factor as well. The big fellow dashed across the left field foul line to make the feature catch of the series by dragging Hafey's foul with one hand from the front of the stands.
 Pennock won a battle Of wits with Sherdel In the sixth and started q drive resulting in a deadlocked score. The Cardinal ptcher tried to sneak strike over on the Yankee southpaw when he was not looking but the ball did not go where he expected and f. was ruled a ball" Pennock then hosted long fly 10 left. Hafey started on it, found he was going in the wrong direction and tried 10 make quick turn. He fell sprawlng and Pennock ran 10 sec ond. Combs walked and ko"nlg drove Pennock home with single,
 The 10000 persons present, count ing the cash customers and those who dropped in informally were recompeOsed iu a measure. for the shock Of seeing 'hn SCOT" tied when Babe Ruth struck out Shordel Eiy- ing him slow curve 10 end his time at bat.
 MouscI and Lazzorl ended the in- hing with Tremendous flies. with q base on balls 10 Gohris in between, ]. hitting drives 10 Southworth which 1. could not have gone farther and re- l msined in the park.
 The Cardinals made # tho "Iucky i seventh" by forging ahead In that . inning. Bell, whose batting ey" r"- !. turned after being misplaced, smash ! ed double 10 left and rode home . on O'Farrell's single the catcher's | third safety Of the rame.
 Gehrig started the ninth with ! fly that it seemed Thevcnow would . gobble up without any great effort . The ball. however. fell in short left field and Gchrig dashed to second, Lazzcri huntcd and easily beat Bells throw 70 first Huggins then sum moned the reserves In the perro1 Of Ben Paschal well known i