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

YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORK
October S.-The last stand of daZed
and battered crew of Pittsburgh Pi-
rates came to an inglorious china X
today when wild pitch by Long Jim
Miljus in the ninth inning, with two
out and the bases full, gave the New
York Yankees the winning run and
the world championship with rec.
ord-equaling streak of four successive
triumphs.
Miljus made a gift Of the fourth
and final game to the American
League champions, spelling coura-
geous comeback by the Buccaneers
and wrecking an otherwise sensational
relief pitching performance. The
score was 4 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, Mil
jus had curved his way two-thrds of
the distance to heroic heights when
he weakened. heaving a wild one
past Johnny GoOch that enabled Earl
Combs to race across the plate with
the winning run.
Anti Climax to Thrilling Stand.
1t was an anti-climax to an other
wise thrilling stand, for Mijus, see-
ing the bases filled with none out, had
risen to brilliant heights to fan two
of the heaviest Yankee sluggers, Lou
Gehrig and Bob Meusel.
The crowd of close to 60 900 wildly
cheering fans. knowing that the out
come Of world series hinged on
every pitch, was nervously excited
as Tony LaZZeri strobe to the plate.
There was feeling that Miljus with
two thirds of the danger past, would
ge. out of the hole he had dug for
himself by passing Combs. permitting
q hit by Koenig, advancing both with
a wild pitch and then purposely
walking Ruth. With Lazzeri at bat,
there arose in the minds of on
lockers parallel situation in the
final game of the series a year ago
when Tony was famed by Alexander
with the bases full.
> Tbs time. as year ago, LaZze-i
cut d wicked drive that went foul in
the left field stands. Then a ball but
the next pitch, getting out of con.
troll. few wide of the plate. Cooch
made d luHSe 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
outciassCd at nearly every turn of the
series and sent them down to the
most decisive defeat any National
League team has ever sustained il
worlds series competition.
Once Lost Pennant Same Way.
This was the first time a worid's
series had been literally tossed ;.wav
but it recalled and took it's place
alongside the famous wild pitch of
Jack Chesbro in 1904 that cost t =,
Yankees the deciding game of a 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, twenty-three years later, to
win 4 basebalis premier title by the
same method they once lost a pen
nant.
In dashing through four straight w.
tories to climax the greatest and mo t
SPECTACULAR season (: their history.
the Yankees equaled the record of
the Boston Braves. who scored the
only other series clean sweep in four
q mes when they trounced the Ath-
letics in 1914.
Nllcy Moore, the Dig OkldHO1iid
farmer, received credit for the decid-
ing Yankee victory, but the master of
the "sinker ball." twirling his first
worlds series game. was lucky to win
the duel he had with the combined
curves of Hill and Miljus.
Moore Steady In Pinches.
Wiley was hit hard from the start.
He steadied usually when it came to
the pinches, but only the sensational
support of his infield saved him from
heavy damage through the first half
of the game and when that defense
saSged in the seventh inning the
Pirates surged through to tie the score.
Each team scored a run in the open
ing inning. but Ruth caught one of
Hills slow curves in the fifth and
sent it high and far into the right
field bleachers, scoring Earle Combs
ahead of him with a brace of runs
that looked big enough to settle the
game.
1t was towering drive, not as
much of the rif1e-shot variety that
the Babe fired into the same stands
yesterday. but still typical Ruthian
and one that aroused the wild
est sort of demonstration.
The Pirates meanwhile were lacing
Moore's sinker ball consistently but
also. as consistently getting nowhere
because OF the stonewall inf1eld defense
put up by Dugan, Koenig, Lazzeri and