Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-10
By, FRANK GETTY
United Press Sports Editor)


ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. 10.-Therc
is well founded conviction in base
ball circles today that the New
York Yankees are champions of the
world in fact as well as in name.
Their smashing triumph over the
st. Louis Cardinals in four straight
games, a triumph based on sound
pitching and built up by the greatest
exhibition of extra base hits ever
| displayed by any ball club in Il
world series, stamp the Yankees as
easily the best baseball team of all
. time.
And standing out today as by far
! the greatest Of players is our old
! friend, Babe Ruth.
The 1923 world series, which end
ed so abruptly at Sportsman S Park
Yesterday afternoon with the 7 to.
3 victory of the new champions
might easily have passed on into.
baseball history as one of the worst
and most farcial ever played. The
st. Louis Cardinals, who entered the
FNoh otdpoh p
favorites to defeat supposedly
crippled opponent, did their best TO
make it so. Their failure was even
more startling, more complete and
more dismal, than that of the Pitts
burgh Pirates, who went down to de-
feat in four straight games before
these same Yankees Il year ago. The
series was in fair way to dcgcncr.
ate into one of the saddest jokes in
the history of the national
pastimc.
Ruth Is Star
Babe Ruth changed all that.
Singlchandcd, he was a ball team,
nay, whole ball game, in himself.
lie was just about II whole world
series.
There was only one thing that
could have saved this sad serious,
and the Babe had IT, Supcrlativc
baseball, offensive, and defensive,
brave display Of team spirit and
spectacular burst of individual eff
fort, the gay spirit of boy when
il was appropriate and the grim
spirit of relentless fight when it
was needed, Babe Ruth had all
these ready in the emergency.
The New York Yankees are speed
ing homcward in triumph, planning
ways and means to get rid of the
largest share of world series booty
ever divided by "A winning ball club.
The St Louis Cardinals are figura-
lively licking their wounds, repeat
ing their alibis and finding what
solacc they can in some SUCH plati-
tudc as the fact that the best club
wOH
I(ttic Willie Shcrdel, once more
theNictiii of irresistible Yankee,
bats, tried 20 win an argument and
That was the story of the fourth
game, in nutshell.
Out here in ST. Louis they still
-.arc protesting bitterly that Umpire
in-chicf Pfirman decided wrongly
when he refused to allow Shcrdcl s
third pitch to Ruth in the fatal
seventh inning to count. The Card
inals plucky little southpaw had
floated over two perfect strikes on
lHf Ibdbts Win but puA anu li'
National League champions hugging
y one run lead as tightly as a miser
hugs "A nickel.
Seeing what he thought was a
chance to slip third strike pas:
Ruth, Shcrdel shot back Smith $ re.
turn without allowing sufficient
time to elapse according to Ameri-
can League rules The ball may or
may not have been another perfect
strike, but Pfirman refused to allow
the pitch to get into the record,
calling time.
Argument Follows
One of the loudest and most pie
turesquc arguments that ever in
tcrruptcd world series cnsucd.
Shcrdel put everything he had into
the argument, and lost. When he had
TO go back and pitch, he was lost,
and the Yankees knocked him OUT