The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-08
Alexander Likely Choice of
St. Louis in Next Game
Higgins in Doubt.
BY HENRY l.. FARRELL

ABOARD THE BASEBALL SPE-
CIAL, ENROUTE TO NEW YORK,
Oct. S.-With a 8 to 2 game margin
on the st. Louis Cardinals, and only
one game needed to win the worlds
baseball championship and its rich
prize, the New York Yankees were
speeding East today, jubilant and
confident that they will win the 1925
world series. Their edge was the re-
suit Of 3 to 2 victory, won in the
tenth inning Thursday at st. Louis.
The Yank players admitted that
the baseball gods, If there are any,
and the breaks, which all baseball
players know there are, gave them
the fifth game Of the series.
The New York players, in better
spirits than they were on their trip
to st. Louis after last Sundays
game in New York, were exultant,
not only because they earned what is
considered by baseball men to be the
big jump, but because they beat Wee
Willie Sherdel, ace soutnpaw of the
Cardinals, for the second time in the
series.
Sherdel throws slow balls and
Blenders, and the Yanks do not like
slow balls They won the American
League pennant against fast ball
pitchers and they are all clouters.
Babe Elated
Babe Ruth, who made worlds Sc
ries history by hitting three home
runs in the fourth game Of the clas-
sic, admitted that he was elated
that Sherdel was through for the
series.
IT can't hit those soft ones. and
Sherdel is one fellow who will not
give you any kind of a good ball
to work on" the Babe said on the
train.
st. Louis was distinctly down In
the mouth" when the players left
on special trains for New York. The
banners were still hanging from the
buildings in the main business sec
ton, the automobiles still had wind
shield banners exhorting the Cardi-
nails to beat the Yanks" and come
on Cardinals" but the st. Louis
team left home for the rest Of the
battle in New York without any
civic demonstration.
No Ceremony
There was no ceremony such as
greeted the National League cham
pions after they had won the pen.
nant and when they returned from
the first two games in New York rs
a to favorite to win the pennart.
After a close game, such as the
final one in st. Louis and after a
battle in which the breaks play
prominently, the losing manager is
always criticised by the grand stano
managers and the grizzled experts.
And today on the train, Rogers
Hornsby was being criticised be-
cause he allowed Sherdel to remain
in the box too long. 1t was pointed
out that Sherdel committed every
pitching blunder except a balk in
the tenth anB decisive inning. and
lie may nave DCCll wv III ON W I'm
NIT a balk.
The Yankees certainly played much
more spirited ball in the final St.
Louis battle. The base runners
didn't loaf as they did in the fourth
game aad the players all seemed to
be popped up like college football
apparently because of the
Babes great demonstration in the
previous game.
Bad Breaks
st. Louis had all the bad breaks
in the fifth game. There were hits
over third base that dropped be-
tween Thevenow, Bell and Hafey;
there were reversed decisions by the
umpires and there was the erratic
pitching of Sherdel after a bad
break when Bob O'Farrell hit him
on the end Of the index finger Of
his pitching hand.
Miller Higgins, manager Of the
Yankees, showed the first real senti-
ment he has displayed in the series
when he was riding back on the
train.
"Iow about my old army gamer"
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