Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-10-08
(By ALAN j. GOULD)
ASSOCIATED Press Sports Editor)


YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORK
Oct. A1-The Yankee tornado, stead.
lily gathering force and fury in it.
sweep to the worlds baseball cham.
pionShip swirled about the Pirates to.
day and all but blew them from the
series. Behind the almost ,nawIess
pitching of Herb Pepnock, southpav
star, and with. a crushing attack
brought to a climax by Babe Ruth'S
first home run of the series, the Amer
lean league champions won their thirc
straight game from Pittsburgh's Grip
pied and wobbly crew, to /, while
more than 10000 bowling fans looked
on.
The Yankees need only one MOT
victory to clinch the series and base
balls 1927 crown. AT the pace they
Travelled today behind Pennock'S daz-
zling twirling, they seem altogether
likely to end the battle tomorrow
The Pirates, outclaSSed so far by a
wide margin, must win four straight
to win, but it would be the biggest
kind of a baseball miracle if they did
it.
For seven innings today the Pirates
were held in the hollow of Pennock's
marvellous left hand. Bewildered
baffled and impotent before the sharp
breaking curves and puzzling change
of pace of a veteran who was Grip
pie, with a badly hurt knee only three
days ago. Through this strength not
a Pirate got the Sernb1arlce of hit
nor did Corsair foot tread first base
safely by any route as the Yankees
gave their star brilliant support.
With no-hit game and worlds
series record in sight, as the crowd
cheered him on, the slender southpaW
weakened bit in the eighth. Twenty
two of the Buccaneers had walked the
plank in a row when Pie Traynor,
their captain, broke through the in
field defense with single to left and
scored the one and only Pirate run on
double by Clyde Barnhart. Pen
mock was nicked for the last hit in the
ninth, scratchy single by Lloyd
Waner, but in thus letting the Cor
sairs down with only three safe blows,
the Yankees veteran furnished one of
the greatest world series twirling per-
formanceS of all time.
This was PennockS fifth series
triumph, without a single defeat to
mar his wonderful record, thus tying
the long standing mark of great
right handler, John Wesley Combs, who
scored four victories for Connie
Nack's Athletics in 191O-11, and an
other for Brooklyn in 1916. All of
Pennock's victories have been made in
q Yankee uniform, two others over
the Giants in 1928 and another pair
last fall against the Cardinals.
q Pennock's performance was all the
more remarkable because he had been
limping in pain for three days as a
result of being hit and severely bruised
about the left knee in practice last
Tuesday by a line drive from Cedric
bursts bat It had been regarded as
doubtful whether Herb, not ovely ro-
bust anyway, would recover sufficient
" to stand the gaff of a full game.
For seven innings today that doubt was
completely removed. Although he
slipped trifle in the last two innings,
tired perhaps by the. strain of his
perfect pace, there was no substantial
let-doWn.
= If his stamina had not been put to
some extra exertion in the eighth in
ming rally by the YankeeSl as he
circled the bases with one OF the six
runs scored in that frame, Pennock
might have had the extra endurance
sufficient to have completed no-hit
game. SKIS
Pennock'S mound work added lustre
to the Yankee triumph but the Amer
lean leaguers, out-playillg their rivals
once more in every department of the
game, iddn't need any perfect pitching
feats to accomplish the downfall OF
tn Buccaneers for the third time in a
row.
The Yankee batting avalanche, pro-
ducing two runs in the first inning to
give enough margin for victory, swept
over the PROSTATE Pirates in the
seventh with a terrific crash, six runs
being piled up as Lee Meadows, be-
specialized right handler, was driven
from the mound, and Mike Cvengros,
little southpaw, greeted by Ruth's
homer with two runners on the paths.
Ruth'S smash, q tremendous drive
that landed far up in his favorite
sector of the right field bleachers, was
a fitting final touch to the Yankee
victory.
The vast crowd, jamming the big
park, had witnessed and cileered PEN
nock's dazzling work, the flashy de-
Tense of the Yankees and the sustain
ed hitting power that had already pill
ed up a commanding lead. But the
one big act was missing from the
drama until Ruth, with the count 2
and 2, dashed into slow curve and
hoisted it far out Of the playing field.
It was the first home run of the
series and since it was made by the
clouter of all it aroused a
tremendous din, swirling shower OF
papers and demonstration that con-
tinued for several minutes, as the
Bambino, his face wreathed in smiles,
trotted out in front of his own par
bicular crowd-the right field bleachers
fans.
Meadows exploded in this hectic
Yankees seventh inning with a report
hat was even louder than that of the
previous two Pirate stars that had been
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