Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-09
YANKS
SWEEP FIRST
IN II YEARS
Miljus, After Valiant
Stand In Two Pinch
es, Presents Game on
Platter
BY ALLAN ]. GOULD
ASSOCIATED Press Sports Writer)

ASSOCIATED Press Sports Writer)
YANKEE STADIUM, New York, N.
T., Oct. s.-R-The last stand of
dazed and battered crew Of Pitts
burgh Pirates came to an inglorious
climax today when a wild pitch by
Long John Miljus in the ninth inning,
with two out and the bases full.
gave the New York Yankees the
winning run and the worlds cham
pionship with a record equalling
streak of four successive triumphs.
Miljus made a gift Of the fourth
and final game TO the American
league champions, spelling a eour-
ageous comeback by the Buccaneers
and wrecking an otherwise sensation
al relief pitching performance. The
score was 4 to g..
Relieving the bespectEcled Carmen
Hill after the Yankee defense had
cracked TO help the Pirates tie the
score and offset the lead provided
by Babe Ruth's second home run
Of the series Miljus had curved his
way two thirds of the distance 70
heroic heights when he weakened,
heaving a wild one past Johnny
Gooeh that enabled Earl Combs 10
race across the plate with the win
ming run.
Ends Thrilling Stand
II was an anti-climax to an other
wise thrilling stand, for Miljus, see
ing the bases filled with none out,
had risen TO the brilliant heights TO
fan two Of the heaviest Yankee slug
gers, Lou Gehrig and Bob Meusel.
The crowd Of close to $4,000 wild
~ cheering fans, knowing that the
outcome Of a worlds serise hinged
on every pitch, was neryously excit-
ed as Tony Lazzeri STROBE TO the
plate.
There was a feeling that Miljus
two thirds Of the danger past, would
get out Of the hole he had dug for
himself by passing Combs, permit
ting a fluke hit by Koenig, advanc-
ing both with a wild pitch and then
purposely walking Ruth with Laz-
Eeri at bat, there arose in the minds
Of ~onlookers a parallel situation in
the final game of the series a year
ago when Tony was famed by Alex
ander with the bases full
This time, as a year ago, Lazzeri
cut a wicked drive that went foul
in the left field stands. Then a ball,
but the next pitch, getting out OF
control, flew wide Of the plate.
Gooch made a lunge for il but il
only flicked his glove and bounced
back to the stands as Combs sped
In, standing up, with the winning
run.
That single pitch broke up the
- ---- 1~rau 80 tk- DfNafng
badly outclassed at nearly every
turn of the series and sending them
down to the most decisive defeat
any national league team has ever
sustained in worlds series competi-
tion.
First Tossed Away
This was the first time a worlds
series had been literally tossed away
but IL recalled. and took its place
alongside the famous wild pitch OF
, Jack Chesbro in 1904 that cost the
Yankees the deciding game Of q
pennant race and enabled the Red
Sox TO top the American League. II
was therefore a bit Of poetic. If also
tragic, justice today for the New
Workers, twenty-three years later 20
win a baseball's premier title by the
same method they once lost a pen
nant.
In dashing through four straight
victories TO climax the greatest and
most spectacular season OF their his
tory, the Yankees equalled the record
of the Boston Braves, who scored
the only other series clean sweep in
four games when they trounced the
Athletics in 1914.
Wiley Moore, the big Oklahoma
farmer, received credit for the Yam
kee victory. but the master Of the
"sinker ball" twirling his first
worlds series game. was lucky "a
win the duel he had with the COM
hined curves Of Hill and Miljus.
Moore Hit Hard
Wiley was hit hard from the start.
He steadied when II came to the