The Washington times., 1928-10-08
DOPE
REVERSED
BY Louis A. Dougher

ST. LOUIS, Oct. Sit now
looks like Grover Cleveland S
famous ragtime band, with the
great Alexander himself in the
cast.
If Waite IIoyt and the Yanlls
don't clean up tomorrow it Will
merely prove that the age of mira
cIes is still with us.
1t is truly a rag.time band rep
resenting, or nisrepresenting the
National League in this world
series OF 1928. When they dropped
the first two games in New York
last week the explanation was that
their hitters weren't hitting. They
outhit the Yankees in the third
game and still they lost, proving
nothing whatever.
One ingenious writer on a st.
Louis paper explained the lack
of hitting by the Cardinals,
blaming the fans white shirts
i'm center field at the Yankee
Stadium. He must have crawled
into an extremely small hole here
yesterday when, under identical
conditions at SpOrtsman's Park,
those same Cardinals Outhit the
Yanks and still lost. His ex-
PLANTATION must be declared out
from every angle.
Before the series opened the Car
dinals' pitching staff was lauded to
the skies. 1t contained at least four
stars as compared with the lone
Waite Hoyt Well, Hoyt delivered
at the expense of Bill Sherdel Then
came George Pipgras, who was ex-
pected to bow before the peerless
Grover Alexander. 1t was Alex
who was beaten
Yesterday, when 1t was known
definitely that OF Tom Zachary
would start for the Yankees against
Jesse Haines, the wise ones said,
Well, here's where the Cardinals
get into the running. But or Tom
waved and wiggled his way 10 a
one-sided victory and like Alexan-
der, it was Haines who sur
rendered.
And tomorrow Waite Hoyt is due
to come back and make it one grand
clean-ups for the American League
standard bearers, who are outplay-
ing the Cardinals in every particu-
lar, both mentally and physically.
The National Leaguers are ter
rible disappointment and those ex.
perts who picked them to win are
keeping closed mouths today. At
that baseball is ever too indefinite
for close reasoning and this series
is merely added proof.
Cedric burst handed the Cardi-
nails two runs in the opening
inning by misjudging Bottom
Iey's fly ball, first coming in, .
hesitating and then streaI6ing it.
for the wall behind him at top
speed. That cheap triple scored
High and FriSch, both of whom
had reached first base on more
or less doubtful infield hits.
The one run the Cardinals earned
honestly came in the fifth when
Zach hit Douthit to start. and Andy
High followed with a juicy two bag
ger to the corner in right field.
For the Yanks it was the same
old bang. bang game. familiar to
Washington fans. Gehrig iolted n
home run over the right field
stand out upon Grand Avenue for
the first run, and slammed dnother
homer to the wall in center with
Ruth on. putting the Yankees
ahead in the fourth.
Haines had not looked so bad
from the start, but he showed the
/ clay dogs in the sixth when the
Yanks scored three runs on a couple
of hits, two passes, a double steal
and two errors he Wilson.
sylvester johnson, far from in
vincible in the opener, looked. no
better yesterday when he appeared
as a relief Finger and so the Yanks
| picked up another tally on Hafey' S
errors and Ruth's single.
The final count of Z to 3 does
not show the difference between the
teams. 1T might better have been
T to 0, the Cardinals zero being in
| the smallest of type, too.