Evening star., 1926-10-10


In 1923 Pennock pitched tho last
game after a two day rest and won
Il with the aid of a late inning drive
on the part Of the Yankees TIE
Giants hit him fairly hard and he
was lucky to bring it in by a score
Of To :.
Averages Against Cards.
On the other hand, the law. Of
svera ges is against ST. Louis Prior
to 1924 only one club overcarn>
3to-2 handicap, the Boston Red Sox
of 1903. Then 1t was done twice in
succession, by Washington 1924 and
by Pittsburgh in 1925. Therefore
the dope would indicate that it will
not happen three times in success
sion. Then the team which has been
the home club has run off with the
deciding games in former series. In
1912 the Red Sox were the home
club and they won In extra innings
on Snodgrass' muff and Merk es
failure to catch foul.
In 1921 the plaN-Of was in Wash
fnEton and those trick bounderS over
Lindstrom head made it possible
for the Nationals to first tie the score
In the eighth and then beat the
flantS IN the twelfth.
Last year the play-of was in Pitts-
hurgh, when the rain and Rucky
Harris refusal to remove Walter
Johnson gave the Pirates the victory
despite The fact that Washington
knocked out four runs in the first in
ming.
It will he observed that always
something unforeseen, something ont
of the ordinary has come to the res
cue Of the home club and has thrown
the big world series plum into it's lap.
Therefore. | expect another crazy
unforeseen incident to decide tomor-
rows game, and if history repeats
II will be to the advantage of the
Yankees.
History repeated itself here today.
as far as Bob Shawkey is concerned
Bob has been a successful American
League pitcher but poor world
series performer. This is his fifth
world series. and he has won only
one game and then Pennock had to
protect his lead
One of the Worst Larlbastinss.
Ry an odd coincidence. st. Louis
10-to>2 victory is the worst lam
basting handed to any team since
ShaWkey was knocked out in the
third game of the 1921 series That
WAS the series in which Bob blew y
four-run lead which his team ha ntled
him in the first inning. He and other
pitchers then suffered a 13-to-1 de-
feat.
The Yanks played had bali today
and appeared bad in all departments.
It was a typical late season Yankee
team defeat In some Of the games
which this paradoXical team lost this
year ii was necessary to pinch one );
self to be sure whether this was tne
Yankee team which was in first place
All credit must be given to that
thrifty nine-year wonder, Grover
Alexander. His game today was al.
most as good as his remarkable per
formance at Yankee Stadium last Sun.
day. In that game he yielded four
hits and famed 10. Today he was
prodded for eight hits and struck out
six. Ruth and other Yanks thought
they would get Alexander this time,
but they didn't.
Alex Pitches TO Ruth.
Ruth hasn't knocked a ball out of
the intield in the last two gameS.
Alexander pitched to him. too. and
gave him plenty of chances to lift it.
Rut tho Babes best was three infield
pokes., two 10 Bottomley and one to
TheVenoW. once he walked. There
was some criticism because Huggins
started ShaWkey. However, | think
il was unWarranted. 1t was gamble
hetween Shavkey and Shocker. and
Shockor looked bad enough in the
twothirds Of an inning that he
pitched, being touched up for homer
and two singles.
The homer by Bell was beauty.
and enabled him to tie the record for
runs batted in in one world series
me with four.
Elmer Smith knocked in four with
one siam in the 1920 Cleveland. Brook
lyn series. hitting a homer off Grimes
with the ha ses full. Ruths three
homers Knocked in four runs last
Wednesday. Bell sent in two runs
with a single off Shawkey in the first
inning today and two more in the
rn,-nnth ,,.ifh hiS homer off Sh0Cker.