The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-08
YANKEES MAY
REPEAT DRIVE
OF LAST YEAR
American Loop Champs Beat
the Red Birds at st.
Louis, Z to 3
BABE RUTH GOING BIG
Cardinals Say a Man Can Be
Down But Never Out; Hope
for Comeback
BABE RUTH GOING BIG

brought over from the last world
series, the New York Yankees came
to the fourth game Of the 1928 Sc
ries today, needing but one victory
to make them baseball immortals.
If the New Workers. can stop the
st. Louis Cardinals once more as
they have halted them three times
since last Thursday they will carve
a new record in the archives of the
game. The Yankees won from tn.
Pittsburgh Pirates in four straight
games last year but this feat had
been performed before-by the Bos-
ton Braves as far back as 1914. No
team has won two world series with
out wasting motion.
The American Leaguers in maxi
ing it three straight over the Ma
tional League champions have al
ready made one record in this series
by winning seven successful world
series contests.
The Cardinals have been forced
back to their last line of defense
and cannot retreat farther. They
have found solace in the Salvation
Army cry that man may be down
but is never out. They realize now,
however, that they are down in this
series and if they stumble again
they will be out.
Hundreds of cardboard Cardinals
in store windows, declaring the pride
OF st. Louis in the National League
champions, seem to have wilted from
day to day as the feathers of the
Red Birds have dropped on the field
before the onslaught Of the sup
posedly ali but invalid Yankees
series of attacks as mercilcss as
they have been surprising.
The Cardinals are not vet re.
moved from the picture for they
have chance to win the series-by
taking four straight games, a good
trick if they can do it. All the more
honor would follow such a baseball
miracle for it never has been done.
Not in the % years of inter-league
competition under the rules of ex-
istence today has q team won four
world series games after losing
three.
The Yankees were confident that
they could not be stopped after they
won the third game when they got
by Jessie j. Haines, who won two of
the games the Cardinals captured in
the 1926 world series. The big Ohio
farmer saw his hopes crumple about
him in two heart-rending innings Of
the third game. He pitched good
ball for six innings, but left the
mound with six runs counted against
him OH six hits when under a kinder
fate he might have gone on with only
one charged to him.
The big fellow made the same
mistake Alexander did in New York:
gave Lou Gehrig a balr he could hit.
Alexander threw one down the
Busters alley in the first inning Fri
day, and Haines in the second yes
terday. In both cases the ball sailed
out Of the park.
Ruth singled with one out in the
fourth, and Gehrig crashed another
Haines pitch hard, but not over the
bleachers. This ball went on q line
to center and Douthit, forgetting
that discretion has been shown to
be the better part of valor, charged
in on it and tried to pick it off his
shoetops. The speed of the flying
ball was not arrested an iota by the
outfielder's effort, and when it
rolled to the centerfield fence Gehrig
followed Ruth home to put the
world champions ahead.
Later Sylvestr johnson came in to
try and stop the Yanks, but turned
the job over in the eighth to Rheim,
who finished.
Miller Higgins one man pitching
staff grew to two wheT Pipgras fol-
lowed Hoyt's spectacular opening
with q performance hardly less bril-
liant. Yesterday Tom Zachary, a
North Carolina tarheel with control
and uncanny ability to keep the ball
out Of the groove, ran the total of
able pitchers to three. In the face
OF w0bbly support the former Wash
ington and st. Louis pitcher baffled
his opposition in all but two innings,
and in one Of these two runs scored
through no fault Of his.
In the game that may make base.
ball history today, Manager Hugeins
WnA 8AtS ~ 0ANS A1OyL u Cu8UCe TO
win his sixth world series game and
tie the record established by Chief
Bender over long stretch of classic
pitching from 1906 to 1913. Hoyt
has won five and lost three games
in the blue ribbon event.
Against the Yankee ace Manager
Mckechnie will ask Bill Sherdel to
keep the series going. Sherdel, m
admittedly great pitcher, has had no
luck in the world series, losing his
three starts, all by close scores, when
he pitched good ball but not quite
good enough. The st. Louis left
handler may be cheered by the per-
centage-he is due.
The probable batting order today:
New York st. Louis
Paschal. Ct Douthit. Ct