Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-06
COLORFUL CROWD OF $4,000 See
EXCITING, But LOOSELY PLAYED
GAME IN 1877 WORLD B. B. SERIES
(BY ALAN j. COULD
associated Press Sports Editor)


FORBES FIELD, Pittsburgh, Oct. 5,
R9-In close and exciting but
loosely played battle that was con-
siderably below the best standings
of either team, the New York
Yankees wreSted a 5 to 4 victory
from an erractiC crew of Pittsburgh
Pirates today in the opening game
of the 1927 worlds series.
A colorfll crowd of close to $4,000
iannning Forbes field to the edges,
came out to see battle of Yankee
siege guns and Pirate Sharpshooters,
but its expectations were completely
upset. Instead they saw Ruth lead
the Yankee attack with singles in
stead of home runs, watched the
Pirate defense crack wide open in
the third inning to permit the
American League champions to gain
a commanding lead and witnessed
the bOrnbardment of the rival right
handed pitching aceS-Waite Hoyt
and Ray Kremer- into retirement.
The Pirates outhit the Yankees
to 6. They constantly threatened
Hoyt and finally drove him from the
box in the eighth inning but game
as was their uphill fight, the Cor
Sairs lacked the punch to win after
their own mistakes, plus Krerners
wildneSs had virtually tossed away
the game in the third inning.
Wiley Moore and his "sinker ball'
came to the rescue in the eighth as
Hoyt fast was weakening and checked
what little remained of Pirate hopes
by retiring Earl Smith with runners
on first and third.
There were two out in the eighth
when Joe Harris drove in Glenn
Wright with the fourth Pirate run.
but Moore, big and ungainly hitched
his trousers, adjusted his cap and
tossed one that Smith spanked into
Lou Gehrig's glove for the final out
of the inning and the end of Pitts
burgh's last scoring opportunity.
It was bitter dose of defeat for
the Pirates to take though they had
none to blame but themselves Their
crack highlander Kremer, good in
spots but not up to his usual stead
mess, was knocked out in. the sixth
after which John MiljuS completely
stopped the Yankees, holding them
to a single hit in four innings. The
famous Waner brothers, Paul and
Lloyd, were mainsprings of the at
tack, sharing the days batting spot
light with their equally well known
rivals, Ruth and Gehrig. But shaki-
ness in the field during the early
innings and costly errors by George
Grantham and Earl Smith gave the
vov,lyooc ny,,1oYtIIYoitiaS they seized
quickly.
The first Yankee run in the OPEN
ing inning was manufactured out OF
single by Ruth and flukey triple
by Gehrig, short fly that Paul
Waner handled badly by trying to
catch but failing in the attempt the
ball rolling to the rightfield fence.
Ruths bat was in the midst OF
every Yankee rally. The big fellow
out-guessed the Pirates and upset
expectations by shortening his swing
and deliberately placing his one base
drives, three of them, while Pirate
outfielders were backed up against
the fences prepared for long shots.
After scoring the first Yankee run
personally and aiding in the Pirate
debacle in the third, Ruth was finally
retired on a grounder to Harris, in
the fifth, but this put Koenig, who
had doubled, on third base and in
poStion to score a moment later on
Gehrig's sacrifice fly. This was the
last Yankee run and, as it turned
out. the Yankee margin, for MliJuS,
the big right handler from Seattle,
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