Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-09
YANKEES WIN WORLD SERIES AS
MILJUS MAKES Wild HEAVE in
ninth, BREAKING ; TO 5 TIE


rates came to an inglorious climax
today when 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 championship with
a record-equalling streak of four sue
cesSive triunphS.
Miljus made a gift of the fourth
and final game to the American
league champions, spelling a cour-
ageouS comeback by the Buccaneers
and wrecking an otherwise sensa-
tional relief pitching performance.
The score was to 3.
Relieving the bespectacled 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,
NIiljuS had curved his way two
thirds of the distance to heroic
heights when he weakened, heaving
wild one past Johnny Gooch that
enabled Earle Combs to race across
the plate with the winning run.
It was an ar1ti-clinlax to an other
wise thrilling stand, for Miljus, see
ing the bases filled with none out,
had risen to brilliant heights to fan
two of the heaviest Yankee sIuggers,
Lou Gehrig and Bob Meusel.
The crowds of close to 10000 wild
ly cheering fans, knowing that the
outcome of a worlds series hinged on
every pitch, was nervouSly excited as
Tony 'Lazzeri strobe to the plate.
There was 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 hit by sKoenig, advancing both
with a Wild pitch and then pur-
posely walking Ruth. With Lazzeri
at bat, in the final game of the
series year ago, when Tony was
famed by Alexander with the bases
full.
This time, as year ago, Lazzeri
cut wicked drive that went foul IN
the left field stands. Then ball,
but the next pitch, getting out OF
control. flew wide of the plate. Gooch
made 1unge for it, but it only
fIicked his glove and bounced back
to the stands as Combs sped In,
standing up, with the winning run.
That single pitch broke up the
last, lingering hopes of the Pirates,
badly outclassed at nearly every
tur moi the series and sending them
down to the most decisive defeat any
National league team has ever srS-
tanned in worlds series competition.
This was the first time a worlds
series had been literally tossed away,
but it recalled, and took it's place
alongside the famous wild pitch OF
Jack Chesbro in 1904, that cost the
yankees the deciding game OF pen
nant race and enabled the Red Sox
to TOP the American league. 1t was,
therefore, a bit of poetic, if also
tragic, justice today for the New
Workers, % years later, to WIN a
baseballs premier title by the same
method they once lost a pennant,
In dashing, through four stralght
victories to climax the greatest ana
most spectacular season of their MS
tory. the Yankees equalled the rec
ord 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 de-
Gliding victory, but the master OF the
"sinker ball, twirling his first world
series game, was lucky to win the
duel he had with the combined
curves of Hill and Miljus.
Wiley was hit hard from the start.
He steadied usually when 1T came 10
the pinches, but only the sensatlon-
al support of his infield saved him
from heavy damage through the first
half Of the. game and when that de-
Tense sagged in the seventh inning,
the Pirates surged through to tie
the score.
Each team scored a run in the
opening inning, but Ruth caught one
of Hills slow curves in the fifth and
sent it high and far into the right
field bleachers, scoring Earl Combs
ahead of him with brace of runs
that looked big enough to settle the
game.
It was :, towering drive, not as
much of the rifle-shot variety that
the Babe fired into the same stands
yesterday, but still typical Ruthlan
smash and one that aroused the
widest sort of a demonstration.
The Pirates, meanwhile, were lac
ing Moore's sinker ball consistently,
but also as consistently getting no
where because of stonewall iz1field
defense put up by Dugan, Koeniz,
Lazzeri and Gehrig. Twice double
plays choked off Pirate threats, in
the third and fifth innings, but for
no apparent reason whatever, the
Yankees lost their surefier fielding
skill in the seventh.
Moore himself paved the way for
the Pirate rally in this inning, when,
on Smiths roller to Gehrig, he rnuf-
fled the first gaseman's throw as he
stepped on the bag. Instantly there
was commotion on the Pirate bench
and reinforcements were rushed in.
The fans, like those in Pittsburgh,
yelled voiciferously for Xxi Cuyler,
exiled outfielder, Emil Yde, reserve
pitcher, was sent in to run for Smith
and Freddie Brickell substituted for