Evening star., 1926-10-04
YANKEES INVADING TOWN
RED HOT AGAINST THEM
Veterans Like Hoyt and Ruether However, Thrive
Jeers and Jokes of Hostile Fans-Tilt
Real East.West Affair Now.
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

BY ROBER'
I'm ROUTE TO ST. LOUIS. {
- realizing today that the world
West affair. Tomorrow the
- west of the Mississippi River
St. Louis, and there is every reason
of one of the greatest demonstration
The ST. Louis Cardinals, after their
bad STRAIT in New York on Saturday,
came back with such rush on Sun
day that the impetus of that inspir-
ing victory behind the steady and
crafty pitching of old Grover Cleve-
and Alexander is expected to carry
them forward to further deeds of
valor on their home grounds. The st.
Louis fans, and base ball followers
from all the Western country, are
waiting impatiently for the team
which won it's pennant away from
home. St. Louis has not seen the
Cardinals since that happy event, and
now that they are returning, even
upon the series, there is no way of
appraising the real enthusiasm in
store for them. st. Louis waited 38
long years for pennant. 1t is now
ready to make q Roman holiday OF It's
first world series.
Other EaSt-WeSt Affairs.
There have been East and West af-
fairs before in the base ball classic.
Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati and
Chicago have figured in them, but it
is difficult to think Of the fist three
as typcai Of the West. St. Louis is
truly out where the West begins.
The New York Yankees, it is diff
cult to believe, will be playing tomor-
row their first world series game away
from the metropolis. This is their
fourth series, but the first three were
played with the New York Giants of
the National League and no travel
was involved. This year the Yankees
are making the greatest hop ever
made in a series, and they are accom-
panied by quite a marvellous travelling
base ball circus. St. Louis will be
swamped during the next three days
to take care of the throng.
Beginning tomorrow. the next three
games of the series will be played in
an entirely different atmosphere. 1t
was difficult in New York to realize
that an alien team was being played.
The vast crowds. among the biggest
ever inside a ball park, were at least
evenly divided between Yanks and
Cards.
Glad Babe Struck Out.
AS matter of fact when Babe
Ruth struck out on Sunday there was
a howl Of glee from the mob which
sounded more like the st. Louis levee
than the banks of the placid Harlem.
The Cardinals have no complaint
to make of the treatment accorded
them in New York. They were among
friends. Their winning rally in the sec
ond game swept the New York crowd
to it's feet The pitching Of old Alex
called forth round after round OF APP
plause. The Cardinals at no time were
conscious of "A hostile feeling. The
New York crowd was out to see ac-
ton. The Cardinals gave 1t TO them
and the Cardinals got the hand which
goes to the successful entertainer:
ST. Louis is different. st. Louis is
intensely partisan 1t takes its base
ball with particular seriousness. 1t
hates" the umpire with white not
hate It regards every visiting ball
plaver as a potential if not an active
enemy. st. Louis has the hometown
spirit which really makes base ball
the national game. 1t is "A strange
thing about New York that the l':.-
terest base ball feeling you encounlrf
there is when the Yankees ana the
Giants, the two home teams, nook
m i'm A series. Then the fans are out
for blood. But let a team come from
another CITY and it gets a big vel
come and plenty of sympathy ana
s,Ipport. The Yanks are prepared lot
the st. Louis campaign. They are
LOT Of veterans, and pltchers IKE
Waite Hoyt and Dutch Ruether ana
some Of the other old timers thrive
on The jeers of the stands and the
hcaCherS.
Full of Good Base Ball.
OF the second game of the series
there is much to be said. 1t was Jam
full of good base ball, with the youth
full Cardinals supplying the two cardl-
nal elements of good pitching ana
timely batting. The kids found their
hatting eyes and they batted with
rlee which was good to watch. But
the kids were led to victory by TWO
cooI.headed old veterans. There was
old q G.. Alexander out there on the
firing line, with the years seeming 10
fan from his shoulders and to lehu
strength to his good right arm. AleA
always was the master.
ONLY one run should have beeh
scored off him. The kids got eN-
cited in the one inning ana toSseu lne
han around a bit Alex had the mur,
.1erars of the New York team lashed
10 the electric chair. Babe Ru'h'
Rob Meusel. Lou Gehrig and the resi-
we're breaking their backs at ms
curves. The strike
o,,t record of 10 shows the callbef OF
ball the old man was hurting. Let on!
by the cubs in mldseaSon. EFdt'peo
Nv the Cardinals for the warner
nrice of $4,000 in paltry coin or me
realm. old Alex pitched sunday IKE
n million dollars.
Other Cast-off Is Good.
And ,hen there was that other cast.
off Billy Southworth, batting secolu
in the Cardinal list. He WASH soo9
enough for the Giants; WI" i'ia
{, tho dust this year. but st. Louis
tnol. him and ne became new man.
1Ie was the second veteran TO blaZs
the way for the kids on sunday ana
when he poked the old ball into tne
rirht.ffel bleachers with two on IN
,he seventh It was curtains for tiie
Yanks and it gave his little playmates
from the Mississippi a new Splrlt anu
raw courage which will take them
far. e..
Poor old Babe Ruth saw that hrst
homer of the series WnlZZlng over l.9
head. II was bad enough Tor Soulh-
worth TO steal the Babes stuff, but 10
carry the flight right TO the Baoe
territory was rubbing 1t in.
The way the kids hit was a eau
tion. In the two games played thus
far the kids have made the only extra
base hits-two homers and three dou-
hles. The murderous Ianks have
been limited TO singles. and mighty
few Of them. Pitching. however, Is
winning this year, as II always has
won before.