The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-09
ROC RANTS
AGAINST
LUCK
By Rogers Hornsby
Manager of the st. Louis Cardinals

Manager of the st. Louis Cardinals
NEW YORK. Oct. 9.-There isn't
much for us to say tonlght'
words won't do us any good.
3 Wen lust have to cut out all the
generosity and sloppy fielding and
go out there and play the way we
should play and get some runs
We must take two games TO pre-
vent the Yankees from winning TINS
series and that's what we lntenu
TO do. .. +,,r,,
hack Higgins men again, put
we'll have to give him better sup
mort than we gave Bill Sherdel IN
his last game. That game proved
that the best pitching in the world
can't win a ball game, unless the
infielders and outfielders do their
share OF the work. If the pitcher
naralvzes the batters so they can
not get a foot hold and cannot rap
ont any solid hits he has done his
share. but IL the fielders let little
dinky pop flies fall safe. pitchlng
becomes an unimportant part or
the game.
When the Yankees pounded
Our DitcIIerS Wednesday our team
DIayed a great game i'll the field.
but when our pitching was gOOd
and SherdeI certainly was a GOOD
pitcher-we slipped OH the de-
fensive.
We don't want to alibi or appear
20 be singing the blues, but the
world knows that the Yankees are
~
wrapped up game and handed Il
20 them. Sherdel is the hard-iuck
chan of the series and Pennock
certainly can thank his lucky stars.
He has had horse shoes dangling
from every pocket during THIS
series and 1 guess he knows II.
The boy who makes a specially
Of figuring up all the averages will
tell YOU that we have out-batted
and out-scored the Yankees. We've
made more hits than they have.
and we're Is points ahead OF them
i'm our batting average. The mar
gin in our fielding isn't anything
10 speak of. but we're one point
ahead Of them. and that helps |
TO bear out the statement that |
we're doing everything better, bat |
ting. fielding and pitching and
everything except winning games
With all that in our favor it's
natural for us to be a bit sore
over being one game behlnO. II
our pitching had been terrible
and IL we had booted the ball
around and had been helpless at
the plate we could take our hats
off and say that the Nanks de-
served 10 be ahead. But we don't
relish the idea of having excel
lent i'm all departments and yet
being one game behind.
We've pitched to Ruth all through
the series. and we're going TO pitch
90 him tomorrow and Sunday. Ruth
didn't do anything when he faced
...xander. Haines and Sherdel.
Sherry made him behave in two
games and we expect to 90 through
the remaining two games without
his causing any more trouble. Ot
course he's a dangerous batter If
you pitch badly to him. We don't
Underrate Ruth. We all know that
you give him a ball where he likes
/; he's liable TO put it out of the
park. But even in the last game,
when the score was close all the
time, we pitched to him even with
men on the bases and we stopped
him.
Thevenow. O'Farrell, Dugan and
IaZzeri have stood out in this
series. SEVERED. also has done
good work behind the bat but he's
at a disadvantage because his
work must be compared 10 that
OF the best catcher in baseball.
O'Farrell. l would say. has been
our mainstay and | guess the ex-
perts will agree with US now that
he is entitled 10 the most vaiuabl-
player prize.
Summing up the situation it has
taken a whole carload Of bad
breaks for US TO put the Yanks
ahead. Wen have to finish out
The series without Douthit. He
knows that centerfield job and he
probably would have caught thu;
pop fly Of Paschals that drove il
the tying run in the ninth inning
But our team has the courage. IT
will stand up and fight in the face
Of all the bad breaks and ii will !'e
all the more TO our credit if we
beat them on their own field. That
can overcome the Yankee lead and
is exactly what we expect to do.
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