Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-04
Cards Speeding Westward For The ST. Louis Series

| on the banner OF the AHleriCSu
League champions by the narrow
margin of 2 to /.
Fought out on hazy battle
ground, occasionally moistened by
| light showers. it was close and
tensely waged struggle from start
| to finish, even If it failed to reach
particularly thrilling heights.
1t was a convincing victory for
| the Yankees, nevertheless, for they
| outsteadied, outgeneraled and out
| played the first team that st. Louis
| ever has sent in quest of basebalfs
premier crown.
| Wonderful Exhibition of Pitching by
Pennocl1
Pennock, twirling with cool and
battling skill, held the smuggling Ma
tional League champions to three
| hits altogether, allowing not the
semblance of a safe hit over seven
| inning stretch from the first to the
ninth frames.
Registering his third triumph in
worlds series competition, Pennock
gave a masterful exhibition, yielding
his only run in the first inning on a
| double by Douthit and a scratch
single by Bottomley, then moving
down the Cardinals with machine
like regularity until the eighth when
the Yankee ace pulled himself to-
gether after a brief spell of wild
ness.
Willie Sherdell, portside star of
the Cardinals staff, matched his
slow ball against Pennock's cross
fire but contributed to his own down
fall by an erratic start in the first
inning. While Yankee bats got to
him for the winning run in the
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to Jess Haines after being replaced
at bat by pinch hitter.
Ruth Leads Victorious Sortie
Babe Ruth led the sortie that gave
the Yankee the winning run in the
sixth inning and brought about the
downfall of Sherdel. Singing sharp
| ly through third base, the Babe adj
vanced on Bob MeusePs neatly
| placed sacrifice bunt and raced home
on Lou Gehrig's rousing single to
right field.
When Lazzeri followed with an
other single, it looked as though
| the Yankees We're about TO stage
one of their characteristic batting
! explosions. Gehrig, however, was
| thrown out at third and SEVERED
| hit into a force-out after Lester
| Bell, Cardinal third sacker, had Jug
gled Dugan's smash, failing either
| to make the throw to first or tag
Lazzeri at the far corner
The first Yankee run, in the open
! ing inning, was a gift, for Sherdel,
unable TO control his slow ball,
walked Combs, Ruth and Meusel to
fill the bags with only one out.
! Combs crossed the plate on Gehrig's
| infield rap that forced Meusel at
second base.
Sherdel Checks Yankees
Sherdel settled down after this
spasm and successfully checked the
Yankees until the sixth, although he
was frequently on the border line
| of danger as the American Leaguers
got men as far as second base in
the second and third innings. A
snappy double play engineered by
Thevenow and Hornsby choked off
a Yankee squirt in the fifth.
Pennock meanwhile east a spell
over the Cardinal bats, His cross
fire had the Rational Leaguers'
heavy artillery completely silenced
| from the second inning on until the
ninth, when Bottomley gained his
second hit of the game, a single to
right that did no damage
Such big guns as Rogers Hornsby
Bob O'Farrell and Lester Bell failed
at any time TO get the range of Pen
nock's slants. Hornsby, st. Louis
leader, got the bali out of the IN
| field only once in four attempts.
Still visibly grief-stricken by the re-
cent death Of his mother, Hornsby
gamely battled for every advantage,
but the zest and dash so charaCteris-
tic of his individual play was miss
ing.
Yankee Fielding Dazzling
! Pennock had brilliant support, too
on the few occasions he needed it,
The famous Yankee kid" infeld
ment of play. Mark Koenig, young
shortstop, pulled the most dazzling
fielding stunt of the game in the
second inning, when he raced back
to bag Hafey's sharp hit and throw
the runner out at first with mar
vellous bullet-like throw.
| Columbia Lou Gehrig's bat
struck the blows that resulted in
both Yankee runs. while Tony Laz-
zeri, second baseman and third OF
the infield recruits handled himself
like a veteran.
Then again, when Herb Pennock,
in his only wavering moment, issued
two passes in the eighth, Earl
| COMBS, Meet young hentuCKla1
dashed in from centerfeld to make
a brilliant catch of short fly by
Holm, pinch hitting for Southworth.
Hornsby rushed reserves to the
front in rapid fire order but with
out avail-sought to take advantage
of this eighth inning opportunity
A pass to O'Farrell started the rally
and a sacrifice bunt by Thevenow
put the catcher on second. Flowers
batting for Sherdel, hit to Pennock
and O'Farrell was run down between
second and third. Douthit walked
but Combs catch of Holm's blow
ended the inning and blasted the
last real Cardinal hope. Outside OF
the first and eighth, the Cardinals
got men on base in only two other
innings. Bell walked. but got no
further than first base in the fourth
inning, while Bottomley, singing
with one out in the ninth. likewise
was stranded.
NEW YORK
alb h tb pc a e
Combs. CT ...... 3 l 2
Koenig So .... 4 0 0
Ruth rf ...... g 1 / 1 0
Meusel If .,.... l 0 0 0
Gehrig. 1b ...... o l IA
Lazzeri, 2b ..... 4 0 1 l 0
Dugan, 3b ...... 3 o l 1 l 3