Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-07
.rl Center Guardian Who Play Stellar Game Both at Bat
And In The Field

they yelled for Ruth to make a fourth
homer when he came to the plate in
the eighth and booed Hallahan. ST.
Louis pitcher, when the latter walk
ed the Yank slugger.
CIoutine Without Parallel
Nothing like the Babes clouting has
ever been seen before in basebalPs
classic. His first two circuit wallops
came in the first and third innings,
each time off the first ball pitched by
Flint Rhem. The young Cardinal
right handler tried fast curve in the
opening frame and the Babe lofted it
high over the upper deck of the right
field grandstand. In the third inning,
Rhem shifted to a slow ball of the
variety that had been poison to Ruth
previously in the series, but Babe
nailed it and drove it on line far
out over the roof of the right field
bleachers.
No one was on base to benefit from
either of these clouts but Earl CONS
was on first when Ruth slammed out
his third homer off Herman Bell In
the sixth inning, The count was
three and two this time as Bell
worked cautiously on the Yankee star
but the Cardinal twirler made the
mistake of trying to slip fast one
over the plate Ruth took toe hoiu
and smashed the ball on a line ana
high into the spectators in the center
field bleachers. 1t was the most re-
sounding whack of the three ana es-
tablished a long distance RECORD loi
Snortsman's Park.
statisticians Groegy
Never before has the Babe con-
nected for three hOmers in a single
game. where a pennant or Worio
series was involved, although ne mas
done it in exhibitions. He plckeu
dramatic and timely spot TO 40 the
trick this afternoon but he mace tle
>statisticians groggy trying 10 tdlly up
the records that tunbled as result
When the carnage was all over
Ruth was in full possession Oh INC
record home run total for world Sc
rice connection. His trio TO-DAY SET
q single game record and brought ms
. earegate UP to seven, eclipslng the
mark of made by Goslin OF WASH
ington, up to last year.
Tbere were other factors in the
Yankee victory and the Cardlilal
downfall beside Ruth's hitting, but
fine Babe so dominated the conf1lct
that little else remained consplcu-
Gus.
Waite Hoyt, twirling for the
Yanks. was also hit hard, yielding
as many blows as did five Cardlnal
ingers-14-but he was at his best
in the pinches and had easy SAILING
after the fifth inning when the 81:
Louis pitching staff, as represented
by Arthur Reinhart and Herman
Bell, collapsed.
Hoyt might have escaped with
less danger but for an error in the
fourth inning by Mark Koenig, err
ratio Yankee shortstop, who tumpleo
O'Farrelrs grounder with an easy
double play in sight that would
have ended the inning. Taking ad-
vantage of this break" the Cards
rallied to score three runs on dou-
bles by Thevenow and Douthit ana
a single by Southworth, wiplng out
the lead which the Yanks had gain
ed through Ruth's first two homers.
Flint Rhem. whose right handed
offerings had been pounded for four
innings, yielded to a pinch hitter In
the Cardinals big rally, but his sue
cessor, Arthur Remnant, immediate
ly tossed away his teams advantage
with as wild a brand of southpaw
singing as any series has ever seen.
Remnant walked four Yanks, in
Guiding Ruth, in the fifth, and per-
mitted a double by Koenig before
passing out of the picture. Two runs
rad crossed the plate and no one
was out when Hornsby hurriedly
summoned Herman Bell, who issued
another pass and contributed balk