Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-09
BY JOHN II. KELLER.


NEW YORK, October S-There s
no doubt as TO whether the better
club won the world series. The
Yankees outhit. outtialled. outptchcd
and outsmartcd the Pirates all the
way. DOME Bush and his National
League champions have no holler
about anything that happened.
After each of the first three games
of this series that for brevity ties
that between the Braves and the
Athletics in 1914. there were yells
from the Pirate camp about the lack
of breaks coming its way. Well. the
Buc's certainly got all the breaks
they could ask for this afternoon and
still had to take a fourth successive
licking. to s.
- In the first place. they got a break
when Umpire Ernest Qugley appar-
emily was the only one in Col. Jake
Ruppert's big stadium believing young
Lloyd Waner beat Shortstop Mark
Koenig's heave to the initial sack.
Only through that tainted single did
the Pirates get their first run.
They got more breaks. too. in the
same inning after the first three
Yankees up had singled to run down
a tying score. for Lou Gehrig persist
ed in swinging at bad balls pitched by
Carmen Hill, while both Bob Meusel
and Tony LaZZeri. Stubbornly refused
to swing at anything.
Breaks Go Into Ninth.
And they carried the breaks with
them into the ninth that ended so dis
astrously for them when John Miljus,
who had succeeded Hill after the
q Pirates, with everything breaking
their way. had knotted the count in
the seventh.
With the bases filled and none gone
Milius never put the ball across the
plate while hurting to- Gehrig. He
had been wild from the start Of the
frame and only short time before
had uncorked a wild pitch. Yet Geh-
rig swung futilely three times, once
at a pitch just above the ground and
twice at outside pitches that he could
not have reached had his bat been
foot'longer. A little patience on LOUIS
part and he would have forced the
winning run over with a walk.
And again Meusel performed at bat
as though he were anywhere but III
base ball game. 1t did not hurt
the Pirates one whit to have fellow
who had been striking out consistently
for two days up at such a critical
moment.
But with all that they could not
win. Hills three successive strike
outs after the Yankee tying run went
over in the first inning, the 10 safeties
made off Wiley Moore. who was hit
In each ofSthe first eight innings; the
two walks issued by the home club
rurler. and Miljus' brace of strike-outs
after filling the bases in the ninth
all We're wasted when big John cut
loose with second wild pitch that let
Earl Coombs dash home with the most
important tally of the series.
Pirates Have No Squawk.
With so many opportunities thrown
their way the Pirates have no squawk
about their defeat. Had they been on
their toes, they might have made
enough of their chances today SO that
the wild pitch blasting what little
hope they had remaining of getting the
better end of the series would not
have mattered. The Pirates simply
We're not there. that's all.
The busting Bambino surely did his
part to grab the decisive encounter.
He knocked in the first three Yankee
runs The Babe singled behind Combs
and Koenig in the first frame to chase
over a marker matching that the Bucs
had registered with Lloyd Waner's
scratch single, Clyde Barnhart's in
field erasure and Glenn Wright's rap
to right.
In the fifth round. Ruth came up
with one out and Combs on first by
virtue of a single, and lifted the ball
into the bleachers back of right center
field. 1t was a tremendous drive, this
tenth homer the Bambino has made
in his world series tits, and for time
it seemed it was the winning punch
for the Yankees.
This was not to be- however, In the
seventh inning the New York defense
cracked wide open for the first time
in the series, and with this break
the Pirates showed over two runs for a
tie. Moore started the trouble him.
self when he ran over to cover first,
hut fooled a throw from Gehrig, who
had scooped up Earl Smiths easy
ygrounder. That gave Smith a life, but
Bush doesn't think much Of Smiths
speed on the hoof, so Emil Yde was
sent in to run for the catcher.
Lazzeri Too Eager.
1t looked as though Yde's life on the
runway would be short when Young
Fred Brickell, batting in place of Hill,
sent sharp grounder toward
Lazzeri. Tony had nifty double play
in sight, but was too eager TO get the
ball away. He started throwing il
before he picked it up, thereby making
mess of everything. Lloyd Waner
laid down a neat sacrifice, and that
put the issue squarely before Barn
hart. He met it nobly, lacing q single
to center.
That scored Yde, of course, and
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