The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
Yankees JubiIant as They
Speed West for Third
Fray of Series.
HAINES is LAST HOPE
HugginS May Pitch Hoyt,
Zachary or Johnson in
Sunday FraCaS.
BY FRANK GETTY
Trftod D.o.- CaA. vnFsa

EN- ROUTE TO ST. LOUIS WITH
THE WORLD SERIES BALL
CLUBS, Oct. 6.-The Cards can't
lose today, anyhow.
There won't be another world
series game until tomorrow after
noon, when the National League
champions resume their thus far
most distressing engagement with
the New York Yankees at Sports
mans Park, st. Louis.
The world series contenders, if one
still admits there are two of them,
we're speeding westward today
across Ohio, Indiana and the broad
Mississippi valley, with the Yanks
riding high and happy on the
strength of two successive victories.
Cards in Bad Way
Hospital appurtenances and Red
Cross equipment, which had been
prepared for the American League
champions in anticipation of their
collapse, simply were switched over
to the Cardinals special train.
Baseball history doesn't insist that
the team which wins the first two
games shall win the worlds series.
The Yankees themselves know this
from past experience.
After making only seven hits in
two games and seeing their pitching
ace, Grover Alexander, trumped by
Yankee bats, the Cardinals hardly
could help being downcaSt today.
Bill McKechnie, hunched in the
corner of a drawing room, dealt out
criticism TO his athletes in no un-
certain terms. Bill ordinarily is the
mildest Of men Cullen Cain, popu-
lar press representative of the Ma
tional League, says that If Bill has
weakness it is that he is too kind.
No More Kindness
THE time for kindness" said Mr..
NIcKechnie, "is no more. You boys
have got to get out there and make
some base hits tomorrow, or I'll use
the Oakland (Cal) Boys Club in
the fourth game"
The failure of pete" Alexander,
who was knocked from the box yes
terday at the climax of the Yankees
9-to-3 victory, marks another of
those turning points with which the
national pastime, like the rest of
life, inevitably must be Sprinkled.
Long after the fact that the st.
Louis Cardinals were beaten in the
second game of the 1923 worlds
series is forgotten, fans will recall
the sunny afternoon when old
Pete" beloved reprobate that he is,
had to shuttle from the pitching
box, not only beaten, but knocked
out.
Alex had his day on the diamond,
just as his historical predecessor,
also called "the great" had upon the
battlef1elds of Asia Minor. Both had
to lose some day or other. Yester-
day was "Pete's" day.
Recalls big Trains" Fate
When Bill McKechnie waved old
Alex to the bench in that blistering
third inning back at Yankee Sta
dium yesterday afternoon, / re-
called another world series day, just |
three years ago, when another |
pitching hero was being battered.
That hero of 1926 was old Walter
johnson, then with the Washington |
Senators. To diSgreSs for moment,
Walter was at the game today,
joStled by departing fans. un-
recognized.
Three years ago, johnson was
by the Pittsburgh
Pirates in a world series game at |
Pittsburgh, but Bucky Harris, man
ager of the Senators, kept Walter
in the box and didn't send him on
that long, painful trek to the Show
ers, sacrificing ball game to spare
man who was hero to his youth
ful boss no less than to the crowd. |
That gesture of Bucky was one of
the most memorable in baseball.
Bill McKechnie, of course, would !
have been foolish to leave Alexan-
der in yesterday. 1t would have
possibly, an even worse
route
Jess Haines will face the Yankees
tomorrow, and Jess Haines, be it re-
membered beat them twice in the
1926 world series. But then, so did |
Alexander. The Cardinals do not |
know whom they will face at Sports
mans Park. Perhaps it will be old
Tom Zachary, possibly Henry John
son, maybe Waite Hoyt again.