The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-08
Pirates Helpless Before
Offerings of Yankees
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MEADOWS TO SHOWERS
And BAN Shows CvengroS
How It's Done!

81 EEEW tfeY9 o S5fRSs Oct. 8.-Tbe snectacle
of the greatest left-handed pitcher
of the day moving down all op-
| position inning after inning, added
to the spectacle of the greatest hit
ter of all time smashing out a
climactic home run with two men
on bases, sent $4,000 fans in Yankee
Stadium wild with enthusiasm
Friday and saved the world series of
1927 from mediocrity.
The New York Yankees won their
third straight game from the Pitts
burgh Pirates, to /, in the same
old hollow fashion, but the amazing
pitching of Slim Herbie Pennock and
the tremendous blow by Babe Ruth
into the right field bleachers in the
seventh inning made it a ball game
we'll worth while, for all that.
Meadows Weakens
Lee Meadows, after shaky start,
pitched for a time as though to
make a real world series battle of
it, and from the second to the sixth
innings, held the Yankees hitless.
But in the seventh, the be-
specialized one went the way of all
Pirate pitchers. A couple of singles
and a double produced three Yam
kee runs in the seventh before Man
ager Ownie Bush clattered up out of
the Pittsburgh dug-out, waving
frantically for Meadows to go to the
showers.
So Meadows retired, and young
Mike -Cvengros hitched up his
breeches and rubbed little resin
on the ball and looked over the
situation from the vantage point of
the pitching box.
Almost Immediately, Mike wishes
there was a cyclone cellar In the
vicinity, for there on third base
roasted Earl Combs and back on
second base was young Mark Koe-
mig, and who should lumber up to
the plate swinging an armful of
ash and hickory but the terrible
Babe Ruth himself.
Glorious Setting
1t was a pretty spot into which
to dump young pitcher. But it
provided glorious stage setting for
the Babes big act. Mike was eau
tious, and fed Ruth a couple of
wide ones, one inside and one out
side, which the Babe looked over
disdainfully. Then Ovengros had
to groove one, and Ruth fouled it
off.
There was feeble Pittsburgh
cheer when Mike followed this up
by fooling the Babe completely with
low curve.
The next pitch did it. There was
rhythmic swing of the Bambino's
big body and a crash heard
throughout the Branx as bat met
ball.
The Babe began the old, familiar
jog around the bases, and some
$4,000 fans sent up roar of tri-
umph to the clear, blue Indian
summer sky.
Which recalls the fact that the
world series thus far has been
blessed by perfect baseball weather
however inglorious the baseball
performances of one of the teams
may have been.
From then on Mike got along
right we'll. The Yankees had done
their stuff for the day.
Pirates Helpless
For seven innings today, while the
Yankees were romping away to a
commanding eight-run lead, not a
single player on the Pittsburgh
team reached first base.
For seven innings, the Pirates
went to bat and back to the bench,
helpless before the wizardy of
Herbie Pennock.
A cripple a day ago, Pennock by
nightfall had hurled his way to the
highest peak of world series fame
and had won his fifth straight vic
tory of these post-season champion
ships.
Three hits is all Herbie allowed
the National League champs, hits
which came late in the game when
the Yankees were leading 8 to 0
and which produced lone Pitts
burgh run.
Owniel Bush now has Carmen Hill
to try to stop the Yankees. Miller
Higgins will start either Wiley
Moore or Waite Hoyt. One more vic
tory for New York and it will be
all over.
Ask any member of the Yankees
! to name the man on the team who
is the "best fellow" and each will
choose Herb Pennock,, unreservedly.
He does not go out of his way to
make friends, but he is loyal and has
the power to retain the good will of
his associates.
The third game Of the current world
series was not The only s%pIed en-
three-hit game. He let down the St.
Louis Cardinals with that rumber in
the first game Of last years series. He
1926 classic was over, and, coupled with
the two triUmphs he scored against the
New York Giants in 1928, he now has a
world series record of five victories and
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